George and Jonathan Cochran Families from Walpole As It Was and As It Is (1880)

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Surname: COCHRAN
Source: Walpole As It Was and As It Is by George Aldrich, 
        The Claremont Manufacturing Co., Claremont, N.H., 1880, pages 231-232

COCHRAN, GEORGE, was the son of Robert Cochran of Londonderry, N.H. and was born Oct., 
1764, at the same place. He m. Mary Anderson, of Newcastle, Me., in 1801. He came to this town
in 1790, and purchased one hundred acres of wild land of David Humphrey of Portsmouth, N.H., 
some ten years before he married. The family were Scotch-Irish like most of the settlers on 
Derry Hill. This family, it is said, brought the old Irish white potatoes with them, which have
been planted on that soil till a recent date. Ch.
I. Robert, b. Mar. 26,1802, and d. unm. at the age of 27.
II. Jane, b. 1805, Feb. 18, m. Mason Fay and has five children.
III. Samuel, b. Dec. 10,1812, m. Relief, daughter of Levi, and Charlotte (Watkins) Leonard, June 
21, 1849. Ch. 1st, Mary, b. May 1, 1850, m. James Cochran of Pembroke, N.H., and resides 
there, 2d, George, d. in infancy; 3d, Ada Isabella, b. Feb. 4, 1854; 4th, Lucy Jane, b. Feb. 23, 
1856; 5th, James Buchanan, b. July 17, 1858; 6th, Sarah Frances, b. July 30, 1860; 7th, 
Robert, b. Nov. 13,1862.

COCHRAN, JONATHAN. A man bearing the name of Jonathan Cochran, a distant relative of the 
foregoing, was the first settler on the farm now owned by Edward A. Watkins. After a few years
he sold out to one Amos Cross, and left town, and nothing more is known of him.