Samuel Cooper (clergyman)

Samuel Cooper (March 28, 1725 – December 29, 1783) was a Congregational minister in Boston, Massachusetts, affiliated with the Brattle Street Church.

He was ordained as a minister on May 21, 1746, and served as pastor of the Brattle Street Church, 1747-1783.

Members of his parish at the Brattle St. Church included some of the most influential people of the American Revolution: John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Joseph Warren, John Adams, and others.

He corresponded with Benjamin Franklin, Charles Hector d'Estaing, Gideon Hawley, Charles Gravier de Vergennes;[1] and was associated with Phillis Wheatley.

[3] A portrait of Cooper by John Singleton Copley now resides in the collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society.