Person:James Cooper (53)

James owned, by bequest, under the will of his uncle, Samuel Cooper, probated November 24, 1750, "the plantation st Buckingham, in Bucks county, that Nathan Preston did clear out of the woods," but did not take possession, as in September 1753, James is recorded a resident of Moreland township, now Montgomery county, Pa. Soon after he returned to the vicinity of the homestead in Byberry. There his son William was born in December 1754, and doubtless the later born sons and daughters by his wife, Hannah, who died in Byberry, April 22, 1777.