Guillmus (William) Peirson, son of Thomas Pearson, was baptised 19 September 1577 in Howden, Yorkshire, England. He married Wyborro Griggs on 25 July 1609 at Olney, Buckinghamshire, England.
They had one child:
He died 28 July 1616 in Lavendon Parish, Buckinghamshire, England.
Wyborro Griggs married John Cowper (Cooper) on 18 October 1618 at Olney, Buckinghamshire, England. In April 1635 they, with their children Mary (13), Jon (10), Tho. (7), and Martha (5), departed from the port of London aboard the ship Hopewell arriving in Boston, Massachusetts in June.
After John Cooper arrivd a Boston with his family on the Hopewell in 1635, he was made a freeman at Boston 6 Dec 1636, was an elder of the chruch at Saugus (Lynn, Massachusetts), when it was formed in 1638, and owned 200 acres in Lynn. Near Boston, Massachusetts, at Lynn in 1640, eight men formed a company with the intention of establishing their own town. These men were Edward Howell, Edmond Farrington, Edmund Needham, Thomas Sayre, Josiah Stanborough, George Welbe, Henry Walton, and Job Sayre, Before the company depared Lynn, twelve more families were added: Daniel How (ship's Captain), John Cooper, Allen Breed, William Harker, Thomas Halsey, Thomas Newell, John Farrington, Richard Odell, Philip Kyrtland, Nathaniel Kirtland, Thomas Farrington, and Thomas Terry. Edward Howell & Company purchased eight square miles on Long Islaned from James Farrett for 400 pounds, approved June 12, 1640. The rights to settle a town were said, in the agreement from James Farrett, to be commensurate with those rights enjoyed by "other Plantations of the Massachusetts Bay under its governor, John Winthrop, Esquire". After a false start on the western end of Long Island, the ship, with the Company aboard headed south from Boston toward the eastern end of Long Island and entered the interior of Long Island by sailing up the Great Peconic Bay landing at what is now called North Sea about three miles north of where they settled and named it Southampton. Read more about the founding and histories of Long Island, and Southampton.
7 March 1644/45: John and his son John, Jr. were listed in the fourth
Ward for the work of cutting up any whales which washed up on the beaches near
the town. His other son, Thomas, was listed in the first Ward.
10 May 1649: John Cooper was not mentioned on a list of all Townsmen of Southampton,
Suffolk Co., NY, although his two sons, John and Thomas, were mentioned.
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