Marguerite (Coore) Cooper (abt. 1725 - bef. 1795)

Born about 1725 in Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of Fleet Cooper Sr. — married 1747 in Virginia

Descendants

Died before 1795 before about age 70 in Sampson, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Marguerite Coore was born about 1724. There seems to be question as to where she was born; possibly Loudoun County, Virginia per this article.^[1] Others believe she was born in Northampton, North Carolina. A more definitive source is needed for her birthplace. In 1747, she married Fleet Cooper, likely in Nansemond County, VA.

According to John Croom "there is no evidence that this Coore (Core) family ever lived in Loudoun County, certainly not in the time frame of the approximate dates of birth and marriage of Fleet Cooper, later of Sampson County, NC. To the contrary, records clearly show the ownership of lands in Nansemond County, VA, only one-half mile from the NC border by several Core familes, including a Henry Core on the 1704 Nansemond Quit Rent Rolls and one Thomas Core who later purchased land in 1750 in Northampton County, NC. . . it is more likely that Fleet Cooper married Marguerite about 1747 in Nansemond County, VA, a county that records clearly reveal was the home of Thomas Core (Coore) and several other members of the Core fmaily for a number of years. Nansemond County, VA, records reveal that Thomas Core, Senior, and Junior, lived near Henry Core, about two and one-half miles east of the Blackwater River and only one-half mile from the VA border with Northampton County, NC. Henry Core very likely was the father of Thomas and records show that he had owned land in Nansemond as far back as 1704. (Note: In 1749 Southampton County was formed largely from Isle of Wight. Later a small piece of the extreme southwestern corner of Nansemond was annexed by Southampton. It was in this annexed area that the Core families lived.) Further buttressing the likelihood that Thomas was a son of Henry Core is the fact that his son, Thomas Core (Coore), Junior, named a son, Henry Coore. Thomas Core (Coore), Senior, lived in Nansemond County Virginia as late as 1746, purchased land a few miles south in Northampton County, NC, in 1750 and was a resident there when he died between 26 Oct 1751 and May 1752."^[2]

Died Y. 1795 Sampson County, North Carolina, USA. Age: 69-70.

Sources

1. ↑ Fleet Cooper, Sr. article
2. ↑ Croom, John H. (1995-2017). Fleet Cooper, Sr, & Descendants of Sampson County, North Carolina.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Ivan Ogburn, Janet Dabney and Kitty Smith for contributions to this profile.

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