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       Daniel/2 Cooley was born 2 May 1651 at Longmeadow, then a section of Springfield, MA.^3,1 He was a cooper, husbandman, and selectman of Longmeadow.² He married (1), 8 Dec 1680, Elizabeth/4 Wolcott of Windsor, CT, daughter of Simon/3 Wolcott and Martha Pitkin, with whom he had 7 children.⁴ She died at Longmeadow 31 Jan 1706/7.⁴ He married (2), as her 2d husband, 17 Jun 1709, Lydia/2 Dumbleton, daughter of John/1 Dumbleton and Mercy (–?–), and widow of Jonathan/3 Burt Jr.⁴ He died at Longmeadow 9 Feb 1727 at age 75.² His widow Lydia died 31 Jan 1739.⁴

       Elizabeth/4 Wolcott was born 19 Aug 1662 at Windsor, CT.¹ She married, as his 1st wife, 8 Dec 1680, Daniel/2 Cooley of Longmeadow, MA, son of Ens. Benjamin/1 Cooley and Sarah (–?–), with whom she had 7 children.² She died at Longmeadow 31 Jan 1706/7 at age 44.² He married (2) Lydia/2 Dumbleton, and died 9 Feb 1727.³

       Lydia/2 Dumbleton was born 16 Apr 1661 at Springfield, MA.¹ There she married (1), 8 Dec 1681, Jonathan/3 Burt Jr. of Springfield, son of Dea. Jonathan/2 Burt and Elizabeth/2 Lobdell.^2,3 Widowed, she married (2), as his 2d wife, 17 Jun 1709, Daniel/2 Cooley of Longmeadow, son of Ens. Benjamin/1 Cooley and Sarah (–?–).⁴ He died at Longmeadow 9 Feb 1727.⁵ She died his widow 31 Jan 1739 at age 77.⁴

       Henry/3 Wolcott III was baptised 8 Jan 1642 at Windsor, CT.¹ There he married, 12 Oct 1664, Abiah Goff.² He served in Philip's War in Capt. Marshall’s company, Maj. Robert Treat's Connecticut regt.³ He died at Windsor 15/18 Feb 1709.³ There she died 15/16 Jun 1717.⁴ They are buried in Palisado Cemetery.⁵

       Abiah Goff was born circa 1646.¹ She married, 12 Oct 1664 at Windsor, CT, Henry/3 Wolcott III of Windsor, son of Henry/2 Wolcott and Sarah Newberry.² There he died Feb 1709.³ There she died 15/16 Jun 1717, "ae. 72."¹ They are buried in Palisado Cemetery.⁴

       Sgt. Samuel/2 Wright Jr. may have been born 30 Oct 1632 at Wrightsbridge, Essex, England.² He came with his parents to New England, where he married, 24 Nov 1653 at Springfield, MA, Elizabeth/2 Burt, daughter of Henry/1 Burt and Ulalia/1 Marche.^1,3 (Their siblings Judah Wright and Mercy Burt also married.).
     Some months prior to marriage, Samuel Wright had conceived a daughter, born probably early 1654, with his future wife's younger sister Mary, who married William/1 Brooks the following October.⁴ Charged by Mary/2 Burt as the father of her child, Samuel requested a jury trial, held 24 Mar 1654. The verdict of the Jury: Wee fynd Samuel Wright Junior guilty of committinge wickedness with Mary Burt in having the use of her body 3 severall tymes, whereby wee fynd him to be the father of the said child: Whereuppon the said Samuell Wright was ordered and adjudged to be the reputed father of the said child: And for his evill behaviour therein to be whipped with 12. stripes on the naked body well layd on: And to pay the charges of the Court, and towards the mayntenance of the said child to pay after the rate of One shillinge four pence per week makeing payment every month, dureinge the tearme of Seaven yeares, and at the end of Seaven yeares to pay Forty shillings towards the putting of the child forth to be an apprentice and in the meane while to give good Security vizt a bond for 4£ with Sufficient Suretyes to perform this Order.⁴ Samuel's punishment took place 28 May 1654. Mary Burt, who was sentenced to 12 lashes for fornication with Samuel Wright, and a further 10 lashes for the same offense with Joseph Bond, was ordered to keep the child, who was raised as Remembrance Brooks and married James Brown.⁴
     Samuel Wright was one of 30 Northampton residents who, in 1671, petitioned the General Court for leave to establish a plantation at Squakheag (later Northfield), having already purchased the land from the Indians.⁵ The following year, he was one of those who successfully re-petitioned for the grant of Squakheag.⁶
     Upon the outbreak of hostilities in Philip's War, Major John Pynchon sent a squad of 20 soldiers to garrison Northfield, under Samuel Wright's command. But as Pynchon wrote the Connecticut council on 22 Aug 1675, "a guard of 20 left at Squakeak is too weak."⁷ Samuel Wright and seven other men were killed in the first Indian attack on Squakheag, 2 Sep 1675. "It was the season for drying their flax; and ignorant of what had happened the day before to their neighbors at Deerfield, our people went about their work as usual on that morning. Both the soldiers and settlers appear to have been scattered in the meadows and homelots, when the assault was made."⁸
     He "left eight children, one born ten days after his death" (who was named Benoni).^9,10 His widow married (2), 1684, Nathaniel/2 Dickinson Jr. of Hatfield, who survived her.¹

       Jonathan/1? Taylor took the oath of fidelity 6 Feb 1648/49 at Springfield, MA.¹ He married, by 1649, Mary/2 Wright, daughter of Dea. Samuel/1 Wright and Margaret Stratton.² Presented, with Anthony Dorchester, to the court at Springfield, 2 Mar 1653/54, for absenting themselves from worship on the 9th of the previous month. "Jonathan Taylor pleadinge his inability of body at that tyme for the service was freed…."³ Assigned, in lists of 23 Dec 1659 and 23 Feb 1662/3, to the 7th Seate (pew) at the meetinghouse with 5 others, including William/1s Brooks.^4,5 A neighbor and later in-law of William Brooks, Jonathan Taylor was one of a number of proprietors named in an agreement, 20 Feb 1667, to properly stake and maintain their fences henceforth.⁶ Granted land, 1680, on the Springfield road, Suffield, CT, where two sons settled.⁷ His wife died at Springfield 9 Sep 1683.² He died at Suffield 12 Oct following.⁸

       Reice/1 Bodurtha was born in Wales.^2,1 He perhaps married (1?), by 1646, Ruth (Bedortha), who had a son at Springfield, MA, in May of that year.³ If so, she must have died soon after the birth, as he married (2?), the same year, Blanche Lewis.⁴ Took the oath of fidelity at Springfield 6 Feb 1648/49.⁵ Chosen 3d corporal of the training band, 1662.⁶ A neighbor of William/1s Brooks, he is one of a number of Springfield proprietors named in an agreement, 20 Feb 1667, to properly stake and maintain their fences henceforth.⁷
     16 Sep 1670, Reice Bodurtha complained against William Brookes and Mary his wife for theire abusing of his son Joseph Bedortha by Bad language flinging a stick at him and using Reproachfull words Threatning expreshons and Taunting speeches. William Brooke and Mary his wife appeared, and though they partly denied the charges, magistrate Pynchon found them "both guilty of a very great Misdemeanor Touching that Busyness," and fined them.⁸
     Reice Bodurtha drowned, with his son John and daughter-in-law Lydia (Leonard), 18 Mar 1682/83.⁹

       Joseph/2 Bodurtha was born 15 Mar 1648/49 at Springfield, MA.^2,1
     16 Sep 1670, Reice Bodurtha complained against William Brookes and Mary his wife for theire abusing of his son Joseph Bedortha by Bad language flinging a stick at him and using Reproachfull words Threatning expreshons and Taunting speeches. William Brooke and Mary his wife appeared, and though they partly denied the charges, magistrate Pynchon found them "both guilty of a very great Misdemeanor Touching that Busyness," and fined them.³
     Joseph Bodurtha married (1), 30 Jan 1672, Mary/2 Dumbleton of Springfield, daughter of John/1 Dumbleton and Mercy (–?–).^4,5,6 She died at Springfield 3 Feb 1675.⁷ There he married (2), 2 Oct 1678, Lydia/2 Leonard, daughter of John/1 Leonard and Sarah Heald, and widow of John/2 Dumbleton Jr. (She was the sister-in-law of his 1st wife; his brother Samuel also married a sister of his 1st wife.).^8,9 His 2d wife, father, and brother John all drowned 18 Mar 1682/83.¹⁰ He married (3), 24 Jul 1684 at Springfield, Hannah/3 Marshfield of Springfield, daughter of Samuel/2 Marshfield and Esther/2 Wright.^11,12