Ancestors

Tacy Cooper

Tacy Cooper came to Dorchester on 9 June 1634 and had moved to Windsor before her marriage. Mr. Ludlow married her there to Samuel Hubbard on 4 January 1636.

Twice in her life she changed what her household believed, and both times her husband wrote down that she had gone first. At Fairfield in 1647 it was believers' baptism: "God having enlightened both, but mostly my wife, into his holy ordinances of baptizing only of visible believers, and being very zealous for it, she was mostly struck at and answered two terms publicly." They were threatened with Hartford jail and left the colony the following year.

At Newport in March 1665 she took up the seventh day Sabbath, the first person in the family and, by the reckoning of the denomination that grew out of it, the first on the continent. Her husband followed in April, her daughters over the next months, a son-in-law in February 1666.

When the Newport church finally called the Sabbath keepers to account, it was Tacy Hubbard who stood up and, in the phrase the record uses, gave forth the grounds of their grievance, in three numbered items: the apostasy of four members who had known the Sabbath and left it; a sermon of Obadiah Holmes saying it were better a millstone were hanged about the neck of those who turn to Moses in observing days, and they be cast into the sea; and the laying aside of the ten precepts by the leading brethren. The five withdrew on 7 December 1671, and on the twenty third, with the Mumfords, they covenanted as a church of their own.

She is recorded as dying in 1697. Her own parents are not named in any known source.

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Cite: Heirology, "Tacy Cooper (d. 1697)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/tacy-cooper-1697-e6fd58.