Ancestry of
Anderson Cooper

Television Journalist

James Claypoole

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Anderson Cooper — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 212 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Claypoole 
  • Mother:
  • Edith Ward   
  • Birth Date:
  • 22 Jan 1720/1721 
  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 5 Feb 1720/1721 
  • Christening Location:
  • Christ Church, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania 
  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1796 
  • Death Location:
  • Jamaica 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Chambers
  • Marriage Date:
  • Sep 1750 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania 
  • Child:

  Abraham George Claypoole (Ahnentafel No:106 )

  • Notes: 

  • Sheriff of Philadelphia

• Additional marriages for James Claypoole

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  • Spouse:
  • Rebecca White
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 May 1742
  • Marriage Location:
  • Christ Church, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania

• Sources for James Claypoole

  • ¹ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1996, Vol. 13, p. 24.
  • ² Browning, Charles H., Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to . . ., 2nd Ed., Philadelphia: Porter and Coates (1891), 161.
  • ³ Graff, Rebecca Irwin, Genealogy of the Claypoole Family of Philadelphia 1588-1893, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company (1893), 63, 66-67.

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