The Coopers of Long Hill

Document A.184 · orphans court minute · transcription: partial

Hunterdon County Orphans' Court minutes, August Term 1807, vol. 3–4 pp. 50–51 — orders in the estates of Daniel McPherson, Benjamin Sipon[?], Charles Eversole and Nathaniel Hunt[?] (FamilySearch "New Jersey, Probate Records, 1678-1980", Hunterdon, Orphans' Court minutes 1806-1821, image 67)

repository
FamilySearch, New Jersey Probate Records 1678-1980 (collection 2018330) — Hunterdon — Orphans' Court minutes 1806-1821, vol 3-4
identifier
ark 3:1:3QS7-893S-NSBF, image 67 of 599; book pages 50-51
date
1807-08

What is transcribed: The Charles Eversole order transcribed in full. The rest of the opening (McPherson account correction; the confirmation list; the Sipon[?] and Hunt[?] orders) is recorded by heading only — no Cooper appears in it at whole-page reading.

People named

As writtenRoleIdentified asWhat this document says
John H. Cooper occupant John H Cooper probable
residence: Aug 1807, near the Whitehouse, Readington Twp, Hunterdon Co., NJ
Charles Eversole decedent

What this document records

What it places

A house and lot of about one acre in Readington Township, near the Whitehouse, "at present occupied by John H. Cooper", ordered sold for the debts of the late Charles Eversole. The minute states occupation only — not tenancy terms, family or household.

Transcription and notes

Headings: page 50 "August Term, 1807." · page 51 "August Term, 1807."

Real estate of Charles Eversole dec[ease]d [verbatim] (read at 2×)

"Real estate of Charles Eversole dec[ease]d } It appearing to this Court that the order entered at last term had been duly published according to law, and that the personal estate of s[ai]d dec[ease]d together with so much of his real estate as is already sold, is insufficient to pay all his just debts, the Court order the executors of the said Testator to make sale of a House and Lot of Land containing about one acre of which said testator died seized in fee simple, situate in the county of Hunterdon, in the township of Readington, near the Whitehouse, at present occupied by John H. Cooper, for the payment of the debts of said dec[ease]d which remain unpaid, costs, &c. — they advertising, conducting the sale and making a return thereof agreeably to law."

Other business on the opening [desc]