The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-15
5. Polly married (JohnO Waller.
 c. Penelope married Dr. James Nisbet (father of Justice E. A. Nisbet of Geor-
lrried Weeks.

gla)
 !. John married - Weeks.
 B. Sarah married - Lancaster. g. Micajah married -?
 Captain Thomas Cooper t2) and his brothers had been taught trade and after he returned from the Revolution he took up his trade, which was cabinet making in order to support his family In 17SS he went to the Assembly and his son, Thomas, Jr., (S) who was his part ner, was left in charge. The plant and on his return he found Thomas, Jr.. had rebuilt the building, duplicated the stock and made rev toClS. The son en- ergy greatly delighted the father. Soon after this in 1793 Thomas Cooper, Jr:. came to Georgia, the father soon fol- lowed. He died in Hancock County, Georgia, about 1799. He was a devoted Baptist. being a communicant in the Powelton Baptist Church.
 Thomas Cooper C3) was born in l1n in Henry County, Virginia. The epitaph on Eatonton, Ga. says he died July 5, 174S aged = years. His only son was Major Mark A Cooper, that prince among men; his eldest daughter Harriet, married John Nisbet brother of Dr. James Nisbet who married Penelope Cooper. So aunt ana niece married brothers. GA daughter named Narcissa married pr. Samuel Boykin of Columbus. .-Editor) Thomas Cooper (3) was great student, quite fnancier, an inventor of some ability, devout lover of philosophy. quite an as- | trOnomer and without his superior Tn the knowledge of the Bible Baptist dea- | con- his two absorbing interests were missions and education.
 | Mir C. B. Bryant of Martinsville, va, a very competent geueaolosist says that Thomas Cooper t2) was a Captain, but he fears that the commission or its his torcal verification was lost or burned in a great fire in Richmond many years ago. The land given him for his services was located in Ohio. l have understood that one of his descendants, Rev. Y. (. Boykin. has copy of his commissi6n;
 36. HALL-BOLLING.- have an old manuscript of family records written by my great-uncle Yelverton De Mallett Boiling of BollingbrOok House feters- burg, Va. This copy states that Arns Elizabeth Merriwether, married John Hall and moved to Georgia; their son Boiling Hall was in Congress from tnat State. Possibly Hugh Hall of North Car | olina was brother of Boiling Hall ana son of John Hall since the same manu- l script records that sister of Anne Boil | ing, Jane Boiling married Hugh Miller. q scotch gentleman hence the name or | Hugh.
 Drury Boiling, fifth child of Robert | Boiling Q married about TIPS. Elizabeth Merriwether, issne as follows:
 | l. Mary, married William Starke. 9 Eliza, married James Munford.
 3. Anne, married John Hall and moved to Georgia. | I. Lucy, married Peter ittanuoipH ul
 Ralsworth. (William and Mary Quarter, ly says that Lucy was the daughter or Robert Boiling of BollinGbrook House
 Petersburg, Va) l ,. Jane Boiling married Hugh Miller d Scotch gentleman
 John Randolph of Roanoke" in let ter to my great-uncie, speaks of ms knsman on his maternal grandmother s side. Drury Boiling and states distinct ly that Robert Boiling @ and Drury
 Rolling were brothers and sons of his l kinsman Robert Boiling u(, by his sec
 ond marriage with Miss Stth. Jane Roife'
 his first wife, being John Randolph s
 great great grandmother, his grandmothei
 Jane Bollings grandmother.
 The following notes relate to the Bath-
 urst and Merriwether families which
 were connected with the Boiling family
 Launcelot Bathurst. high sheriff of New
 Kent County Virginia. in 1898 (Refer,
 euce Nestry Book of St. Peters Parish )
 He was born in l646, came to Virginia
 before lGSo. is entered in the Visitation of Worcestershire of l6S2 as Launcelot
 Bathurst of Virginia, married there and
 living there at 36 in 1882; granted l'3o,
 acres of land in New Kent County. ApFl
 l6. 1883, Book VII, p. 269. (William and
 Mary Quarterly0 Appointed August l
 1884. by Edmund Jennings. Attorney Gen.