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He settled at Fishkill-on-the-Hudson; and his son Obadiah whom tradition declares to have been the fourth white man child born in what is now Dutchess County was the great-grandfather of Peter Cooper. In 1720 an Obadiah of the next generation followed, and of his son John, born in 1755, Peter Cooper was the fifth child. John Cooper came of age in the year of the Declaration of Independence.
"The water in dreamy motion kept, As he sat in a dreamy mood, A wave hove up, and a damsel stept All dripping from the flood," may have appealed strongly to Cranch at this time; for we find that in October, 1841, he was married at Fishkill-on-the-Hudson to a young lady of an old Knickerbocker family, Miss Elizabeth De Windt.
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