Humility Cooper
Humility Cooper (1619 – c. 1651) was one of the Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower. She was the youngest girl - only about one year old.[1]
Cooper, who was probably an orphan, came with her aunt and uncle, Edward Tilley and Ann Cooper Tilley.[2] William Bradford wrote that among the passengers were Edward Tilley and Ann his wife, and two children that were their cousins, Henry Sampson and Humility Cooper.[3] She was the daughter of Robert Cooper and was baptized in 1638-9 at the Holy Trinity Church in London, England, at the age of nineteen.[4]
By spring of the first year, out of the 102 Mayflower passengers who arrived in Plymouth Colony, 52 of them had died.[5] This included both Edward and Ann Tilley, Edward's brother John Tilley and his wife Joan, who came with them. Of all the Tilley family and their relatives who came on the Mayflower, only three were still living. They were the youngest members of the family, Humility Cooper, Henry Sampson, and Elizabeth Tilley who was about age thirteen.[6]
Bradford wrote that after Edward Tilley and his wife both died, the young girl, Humility, was sent to England. She died there sometime before 1651.[7][8]
[edit] References
- ^ "Girls on the Mayflower," MayflowerHistory.com (http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/History/girls.php), Retrieved 15 Feb. 2011.
- ^ Ward, R. L. "The Baronial Ancestry of Henry Sampson, Humility Cooper, and Ann (Cooper) Tilley," The Genealogist 6:166-186.
- ^ Stratton, E. A. Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620-1691 (Salt Lake City : Ancestry Publishing, 1986), p. 273.
- ^ Bradford, W. Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647.
- ^ Philbrick, Nathaniel, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, pp. 89-90, Viking, New York, NY, 2006.
- ^ Pilgrim Hall Museum. (n.d.). Humility Cooper in 17th Century Records, Available: http://www.pilgrimhall.org/cooperh.htm.
- ^ Complete Mayflower Passenger List. (n.d.) Francis Cooke, Available: http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/Passengers/FrancisCooke.php,la.
- ^ Ward, Robert Leigh, "The Baronial Ancestry of Henry Sampson, Humility Cooper, and Ann (Cooper) Tilley," The Genealogist 6:166.
[edit] Sources
- Morrison, S. E. (1976). Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647 by William Bradford, New York: Alfred Knopf.
