John Cooper SMITH

22 Aug 1754 - 26 Aug 1826

• OCCUPATION: Cooper
  
• BIRTH: 22 Aug 1754, Sussex, NJ
• EMIGRATION: 1787, "The Forty", Ontario, Canada
• DEATH: 26 Aug 1826, Grimsby, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada
• BURIAL: Fifty Burying Ground, Winona, Saltfleet Twp., Wentworth, Ontario, Canada

• MARRIAGE: NJ

1.  Isaac SMITH
2.  Joseph SMITH
3.  Benjamin SMITH
4.  Lavinah SMITH
5.  Infant SMITH
6. +Absalom SMITH
7.  Daniel SMITH
8.  Caleb SMITH
9.  Levi SMITH
10.  Elsie ELSEA Smith
11.  Hannah SMITH
12.  John Wilcox SMITH
13.  Ezekiel SMITH

                                 _Samuel SMITH __+
                 _Samuel SMITH _|
                |               |_Esther DUNHAM _+
 _Joseph SMITH _|
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|               |_Rebecca ______|
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|--John Cooper SMITH 
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|_Rachel ALRED _|
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[1165] Smith and associated lines from a GEDCOM at RootsWeb by Ronald Cox [roncox@cam.org].

There was a John Smith as part of the1787 party; a married man, horse and cow, no children.
Hence would suggest either before 1787.
[Willard Tottle claims 1778- email 2 Jun 2001. Othneil, Silas, John & 11 other families incl. John Kelly b. 1748 made up party.]
Question as to name- was it Cooper, or was he called "Cooper" because of his trade?
Settled Grimsby Lot 17 Con I & II

"Smith Genealogy (Absalom Smith)"
Jesse Smith Lowe, Highland Park, IL (1933)
Blanche Beal Lowe, Newark, OH (1966)

"People & Places From Grimsby's Past"
Dorothy Turcotte, Grimsby, ON, 1995
Smith, pp. 69-70
"...John, lived in Sussex, New Jersey near Jonathan Pettit's Log Gaol.
As a Loyalist, he came to The Forty in 1787 with the other families
from that community."

"Annals of the Forty"
R. Janet Powell
Grimsby Historical Society, 1950-1959
Volume 8, p. 41

Brant County, Ontario Biographical Sketches: Burford Township
from "History of Brant County, 1883"
Warner and Beers, p. 621
http://www.rootsweb.com/~onbrant/biosburf.htm
(This sketch only lists eight of John's twelve children.)

[1166] [S88] The Smith Family History, a compendium prepared in the 1980s b