Ann Cooper1

F, #1228, b. 23 June 1716, d. 22 September 1797
Last Edited: 18 Feb 2011
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Pedigree of Josephine Bailey
Descendants of James Whitall

Parents:

Father: John Cooper1 b. 22 Nov 1683, d. 22 Nov 1730
Mother: Ann Clarke1 b. 18 Apr 1691, d. a 16 Feb 1730/31

Family:

James Whitall b. 4 Nov 1717, d. 29 Sep 1808
  • Marriage*: 23 November 1739; <9th mo 23 day 1739>
    Stewart, Intentions: 8th mo 1739
    Smith's book: 9th month, 23d, 1739
    Asa Matlack: 9 mo 1739
    Hinshaw Index: 10-10-1739 reported married; Spouse:James Whitall2,3,4,5

Children:

Zathu Whitall12,3 b. 27 Oct 1740
James Whitall+12,3 b. 22 Feb 1741/42
Job Whitall+12,3 b. 27 Mar 1743, d. 11 Sep 1797
Hannah Whitall12 b. 5 Dec 1744, d. b 1752
Benjamin Whitall+ 12,3 b. 3 Dec 1747, d. 13 Sep 1797
Joseph Whitall12 b. 9 Mar 1750, d. 6 Dec 1779
Hannah Whitall12,3 b. 16 Aug 1752, d. 20 Jan 1797
Sarah Whitall12,3 b. 6 Dec 1754, d. 22 Dec 1796
John S. Whitall+12,3 b. 31 May 1757, d. 13 Dec 1843

Notes

  • Note*: DAR Patriot: "Ann Cooper: b 4-23-1716 NJ d 9-27-1797 NJ m James Whitall Nurse NJ"

    The Woodbury Chapter of the DAR is named after her.8
  • Note: On 22 Oct 1777 Hessians attacked Fort Mercer located on the Whitall's Red Bank property, 100 yards from the house. Ann Cooper Whitall, as a statement of her fervent anti-war beliefs, remained in her house spinning, retreating to the basement only after a cannon ball shattered through several rooms. Her house converted to a Hessian hospital, she helped nurse the wounded.9
  • Note: In 1797 yellow fever decimated the Whitall family - eight were lost from three households: Ann Cooper Whitall (81 yrs), her sons Job (54 yrs) & Benjamin (50 yrs), her deceased son James' wife Rebecca (Matlack) (51 yrs), Job's children Job (24 yrs), Aaron (14 yrs) & Sarah (18 yrs), and Benjamin's son Dr. Benjamin (25 yrs).

    Rebecca (Matlack), widow of James, left four minor children; Sarah (Gill), widow of Job, was left with six minor children - she remarried; Elizabeth (Hopper), widow of Benjamin Sr., was left with at least three minor children - she did not remarry.

    Isabella McGeorge relates:

    "In 1797, when yellow fever appeared in Philadelphia, a quarantine station was established just opposite the Whitall residence, on the Delaware, near the former location of Fort Mifflin. Despite all precautions taken for safety a discarded bed from an infected ship floated into the Whitall cove and the family was seized with the dreaded Yellow Jack. There were six victims: Ann's sons, Job and Benjamin, and grandchildren, Sarah and Aaron, died within the days intervening between September 11 - 19. Ann C. Whitall was in her eighty-second year...she succumbed to the fever, Sunday, September 23, 1797."

    Two newspaper items relate the deaths. In the first "Job" should be read as "James":

    "The State Gazette, Tuesday, October 3, 1797 (3x1)
    Philadelphia, Sep. 27.
    Died. - On Sunday evening at the house of Job Whitall, at Red Bank, his wife, son, grandson and granddaughter, Sarah Whitall: Also, at the farm adjoining, Rebecca Whitall, widow of his late son James Whitall, and a young woman who is said lately to have left the city.
    In the same neighborhood, Benjamin Whitall, another son of the first named Job Whitall; and several other persons are yet sick in those families.
    The deceased are supposed to have fallen a sacrifice to the prevailing fever."

    The State Gazette, Tuesday, November 7, 1797 (3x1)
    Two persons more of the Whitall Family have deceased of the prevailing fever that have been mentioned in the papers, viz. Doctor Benjamin Whitall, a respectable physician of Woodbury, and Job Whitall, eldest son of Job Whitall deceased, of Red Bank, making ten in all, in three families of the Whitalls - in the same neighborhood, 8 of whom died of fever."10,9,11

Citations

  1. [S454] Society of Friends, Haddonfield Monthly Meeting, N.J. , filmed at Dept of Friends Records, 302 Arch St, Phila. FHL microfilm 20,463. Original records. I Record of Births & Deaths 1690-1820, p. 5, children of John & Ann Cooper.
  2. [S432] Smith, Hannah Whitall, John M. Whitall, the story of his life; written for the grandchildren; by his daughter, H. W. S. (Philadelphia, printed for the family, 1879. (Available on books.google.com), ), p. 5.
  3. [S277] Matlack, Asa, 'Miscellaneous Notes Collected by Asa Matlack', transcribed by Asa Matlack Stackhouse. FHL 441,459, Item 2. [Notes: Asa Matlack lived 1783-1851. Manuscript includes in part: Old Coles Church register of deaths, p. 12-72; St Mary's Church burials, p. 73-119; Book 1 - William Matlack descendants; Book 8 - William Matlack descendants; Book 9 - Various families, including Whitall.] Book 9, p. 863.   Matlack-Asa--Notes--books-1-8-9--441459.pdf   Matlack-Asa--Notes--Old-Cole-Church-index--441459.pdf   Matlack-Asa--Notes--pp-366-371--441459.pdf
  4. [S202] Hinshaw, William Wade, The William Wade Hinshaw Index to New Jersey Quaker Meeting Records, Vol I Haddonfield Monthly Meeting (Kokomo Indiana: Selby Publ., 1990), p. 78, 314.
  5. [S155] Frank H. Stewart, 'Records of Newton and Haddonfield Monthly Meetings', The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey. series vol 3 (1929) to vol 5. 3 (Oct 1927):69.   Stewart--Haddonfield-Mtg.pdf
  6. [S472] Society of Friends, Woodbury Monthly Meeting, NJ. Filmed at Dept of Friends Records, 302 Arch St, Phila. FHL microfilm 20,486. I Record of Births & Deaths 1702-1887, p. 10.
  7. [S30] Boedker, Mrs William F, Mrs William F Boedker, compiler, 'Woodbury Friends Burial Ground, Alphabetic Index'. FHL microfilm 1,005,020 Item 4. p. 13.   Boedker--WoodburyFriendsBurialGround-1005020-Whitalls.pdf
  8. [S110] DAR Patriot Index; Centennial Edition, Washington 1990. [See url: https://www.dar.org/national-society/genealogy/…] Part 3, p. 3177.
  9. [S283] McGeorge, 'The Heroine of Red Bank', as read before the Gloucester County Historical Society, January 11, 1904; p. 1-7 within pamphlet: Ann C. Whitall, the Heroine of Red Bank; The Battle of Gloucester; Lost Towns and Hamlets in Old Gloucester County; Prepared for and read before the Gloucester County Historical Society, Woodbury, New Jersey, 1904'. Reprinted by the same society 2001
  10. [S472] Woodbury MM, I Record of Births & Deaths 1702-1887, p. 3, 6.
  11. [S317] Newspaper articles: Whitall death notices. Three newspaper clippings on a one page photocopy obtained from the 'Whitall' surname vertical files of the Gloucester Co. N.J. Historical Society: 1) 'John Gill Whitall', with handwritten annotation 'G.C.D. Sept. 1, 1921'. 2) The State Gazette, Tuesday October 3, 1797 (3x1). & 3) The State Gazette, Tuesday, November 7, 1797 (3x1). Below the third is the notation "From Constitution of May 6, 1931. Also on the page is a note signed Ann L. Nicholson 5/13/1972, who contributed other Whitall materials.
  12. [S554] 'Woodbury New Jersey Miscellany; Genealogical. Compiled by members of D.A.R. and read at a series of meeting.' FHL microfilm 848,548. p. 55.   DAR--Woodbury-Misc-848548.pdf