Marriage — DANIEL COOPER (III) × SARAH HOUGHTON, Fayette Co., KY (bond 23 Nov / married 3 Dec 1805). Primary-source-locks [p.737]'s marriage + puts Daniel Jr's son Daniel III in KY by 1805. [verbatim]

Transcription and notes

Source: two indexed derivatives of the Fayette Co. marriage record (maintainer screenshots 2026-07-07): - Fayette County, Kentucky, Marriage Index, 1803–1814 (Ancestry coll. 5621) — 23 Nov 1805, Fayette, Kentucky (bond date). - Kentucky, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1802–1850 (Ancestry coll. 2089) — 3 Dec 1805, Fayette (marriage/return date).

Data from the record [verbatim]

• Name: Daniel Cooper · Spouse: Sarah Houghton
• Marriage: bond 23 Nov 1805 / married 3 Dec 1805, Fayette Co., Kentucky.

Significance (interpretation — flagged)

• Primary-source-locks [p.737 Daniel Cooper III]'s marriage — previously tree-tier ("m. 1805" per L.4/Brode). Now Fayette Co., KY, Nov/Dec 1805. Combined with the independent Sutton biography ([I.182], which names his wife "Sarah (Houghton) Cooper"), the patriarch is now double-corroborated.
• The Cooper family was in KENTUCKY by 1805 — Daniel Jr [p.79]'s son Daniel III married in Fayette Co. in 1805, three years before his brother Joseph (× Elizabeth Houghton, 1808, [C.63]). ⇒ the NJ (Long Hill) → KY migration of Daniel Jr's sons was by 1805 or earlier.
• Two Cooper brothers married two Houghton sisters in Fayette Co. KY: Daniel III × Sarah Houghton (1805, this) + Joseph × Elizabeth Houghton (1808, [C.63]) — the double Cooper-Houghton tie, now both primary-source-locked.

Cross-references

• p.737 Daniel Cooper III (groom) · p.79 Daniel Cooper Jr (his father) · C.63 (brother Joseph's parallel Houghton marriage) · I.182 · pr.14