Thomas Cooper (1696) / Desire (Lamberton) Cooper

Name: Thomas Cooper

Birth: July 3, 1646, Springfield, Mass. (Hale, House and Related Families/Jacobus)

Emigration: To Middletown c. 1696. (HMC)

Death: September 11, 1722, Middletown, Conn. (BCVR)

Occupation & Public Service: Unknown

Marriage: m. Desire Lamberton, August 1669, prob. New Haven, Conn. (b. March 13, 1642, New Haven, Conn.; d. aft. 1708, Middletown, Conn.) She was the daughter of George Lamberton and Margaret (Lewen) Lamberton of New Haven, Conn. (Hale, House and Related Families/Jacobus)

Children: 4 children between 1673-1686. (Hale, House and Related Families/Jacobus) (See in-depth profile in Member Area for details.)

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The First Meeting House, Middletown, Conn. The engraving below by W.C. Butler was a fanciful illustration for David Field's Centennial Address published in 1853. In 1939 the image was used on the title page of The Log Cabin Myth by Harold R. Shurtleff. Surrounding the engraving are signatures of some of the first settlers as found on wills and deeds by Charles C. Adams in preparation of Middletown Upper Houses (1908).