Born in Springfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Ancestors 
Daughter of Ebenezer Cooley
and Mary (Barnes) Cooley
Sister of
Ebenezer Cooley II, Mary (Cooley) Lamb, Benjamin Cooley, Margaret Cooley, Samuel Cooley, Barnes Cooley, Moses Cooley and Aaron Cooley
Wife of
David Wright
— married
[date unknown] in ,, Massachusetts
[children unknown]
Died
at age 56
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 20 Jun 2011
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Biography
Mercy Cooley, not to be confused with her sister Mary Cooley Lamb, was born on 12 April 1751 in Springfield, Massachusetts, to Ebenezer Cooley (1716-1753) and Mary (Barnes) Cooley (1718-1789). Mercy's father died two years after her birth. Mercy married David Wright.[1][2]
Sources
- ↑ Cooley, Mortimer E. The Cooley Genealogy: the Descendants of Ensign Benjamin Cooley. (Rutland, VT., M. E. Cooley, 1941). Page 476
- ↑ Barber, Eunice Miena . Wright-Chamberlin Genealogy (Vail-Ballou Company, 1914) Page 23
- WikiTree profile Cooley-513 created through the import of Shurtliff Family.ged on Jun 20, 2011
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mercy by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mercy:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mercy by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mercy:
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~0.78%
Mary (Furey) Wilkes
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