The Coopers of Long Hill

Document A.64 · Probate, Wills, and Estate Administration · transcription: verbatim — Alleman 1978 abstract; original Sussex Co. Clerk record CA 19 + Map CA 21 NOT pulled

Sussex County, New Jersey — County Clerk division of lands, record CA 19 with Map CA 21: the partition of a Newton Township tract formerly William Burnett's, between the heirs of Daniel Cooper Jr of Morris County and Aaron Fulkerson. Dated 11 November 1789; recorded 27 May 1794. Read here in the Alleman 1978 abstract, Abstracts of divisions of Warren and Sussex County Estates … 1789-1918, County Clerk records division Book A 1792-1821 p. 2.

Transcription and notes

Source identification

Element Value
Source compilation Alleman 1978 — Abstracts of divisions of Warren and Sussex County Estates filed at Sussex County Courthouse, Newton, NJ, from 1789-1918
DPL call number G929.374976 A424ab (Denver Public Library, 1/1 available)
Now accessible via Ancestry.com — 177-image database. Book A 1792-1821 covers images 1-30; Book B 1822-1870 starts image 31
Within Alleman County Clerk records division Book A. 1792-1821, page 2
Original courthouse record Sussex Co. Clerk CA 19 + Map CA 21 (Newton, NJ) — physical original NOT yet pulled
Manuscript-level status NOT yet manuscript-pulled. Alleman abstract is the maximum-available digital captureeded
Catalog discovery 24 May 2026 by maintainer (Chris Cooper) during Sussex-county-research session, after K.21 Sussex Cooper sweep + pr.63 Daniel Sr 1720-1744 catalog gap thread led to broader Sussex-Co. records survey. Search for "Daniel Cooper" on Ancestry's Alleman-1978 database returned 2 hits: one body abstract (this entry) + one index citation.

Verbatim Alleman abstract

ESTATE OF WILLIAM BURNETT              CA 19; Map CA 21

Location:    Newton Tp., Northeast of Judge Theale, Samuel
             Swayze, et al.
Petitioner:  Heirs of Daniel Cooper and Aaron Fulkerson
             as tenants in common, formerly William Burnett.
Heirs-at-law and relationship to deceased, if shown:
   Daniel Cooper, Jr., deceased, heirs of (of Morris County,)
   Aaron Fulkerson
Dated:       November 11, 1789.
Recorded:    May 27, 1794.
Remarks:     Meeting at Inn of Samuel Annin, Basking Ridge, N.J.

Catalog-defining significance

Primary-source identification of p.79 Daniel Cooper Jr

The Alleman abstract unambiguously identifies one of the petitioners as "Daniel Cooper, Jr., deceased, heirs of (of Morris County,)" with: - Date of partition petition: 11 Nov 1789 (= 2.5 years after p.79 Daniel Cooper Jr's documented May 1787 death at Morristown Morris Co.) - Residence-of-record: Morris County (= matches p.79's documented Morris Co. residence) - Status: deceased, with heirs participating collectively in the partition - = unambiguously primary-source-confirms our p.79 Daniel Cooper Jr identification.

NEW Sussex Co. real-estate holding at Daniel Jr's death

Daniel Jr was previously primary-source-attested as holding land in: - Morris Co. — his documented home (~45 K.6/K.7 surveys; 100-ac landowner per pr.62 / S4.[number removed] manuscript) - Middlesex Co. — surveyor career (K.11) - Somerset Co. — surveyor (K.16) + personal landowner (K.16 Record 12 / S5.268 1765 9.51 ac Passaic River as Grantor)

Sussex Co. was NOT previously cataloged as a Daniel Jr landholding county. This A.64 partition action primary-source-attests his Newton Twp Sussex tract, held tenant-in-common with Aaron Fulkerson on land formerly William Burnett's. = catalog-defining 4-county Daniel-Jr-landowner profile.

Cooper-Burnet professional-and-property relationship extended

The William Burnett former-owner reference is almost certainly the same William Burnet whom Daniel Jr surveyed for in: - K.16 Record 9 / S4.77 — 9 Aug 1756 — 113.74 ac First Mountain Somerset for William Burnet - K.6 — Morris records via James Alexander warrant chain

The K.16 Record 9 manuscript (= recently pulled per 2026-05-24 manuscript-read upgrade) documents Daniel Jr surveying 2 tracts for William Burnet on First Mountain Somerset, both rooted in William Burnet's 500-ac warrant of 29 Mar 1755. The Sussex Co. Newton Twp partnership of A.64 — Daniel Jr + Aaron Fulkerson as tenants-in-common on former-William-Burnett land — extends this professional relationship into co-ownership / land-acquisition territory. Plausible scenario: Daniel Jr acquired part of William Burnet's Sussex Co. holdings as in-kind payment for surveying services OR as direct purchase from Burnet's estate after Burnet's death (date unknown).

Cooper-Annin family-network venue attestation

The partition meeting was held at the Inn of Samuel Annin, Basking Ridge, NJ — a primary-source-attested venue tying the Cooper family estate-administration to the Annin family extended kin network. The Annin family was Cooper extended kin via p.5 Polly Cooper Cross/Annin — Daniel Sr's daughter Polly Cooper married into the Annin family one generation later. The Samuel Annin host = possibly Polly Cooper Annin's father-in-law (chronologically consistent if Samuel was active 1789 = adult by ~1764 = b. ≤ ~1743) OR an earlier Annin generation.

Catalog implication: Cooper-Annin family-network operated as an estate-administration support system in early-Republic NJ — = consistent with the broader Cooper-Annin marriage tie. Worth recording for genealogical-network-mapping research.

What's NOT in the Alleman abstract

Daniel Jr's individual heirs are NOT named in the Alleman abstract. The abstract uses the collective phrasing "Daniel Cooper, Jr., deceased, heirs of (of Morris County,)" without sub-listing his children individually. Compare to: - Atchley (SB 187) = a Surrogate's-Court probate with full named-heir sub-tree - Chelsea Forge Tract (CA 22) = a parallel County-Clerk partition with 6 individually-named heirs - = the William Burnett abstract is structurally shorter, suggesting the original Sussex Co. Clerk record at CA 19 itself did not list Daniel Jr's heirs individually — they were represented collectively as a single party.

Individual-heir extraction = requires either (a) pulling the original Sussex Co. Clerk record CA 19 + Map CA 21 in person OR by records request, OR (b) pulling Daniel Jr's Morris Co. Surrogate probate records (= his probate as decedent at Morristown should have a named-heir list independent of this Sussex partition action).

Reconciliation with other catalog Daniel-Jr attestations

Date Event Source
14 Jan 1729 Born Piscataway Middlesex Co. p.79
1754+ Deputy Surveyor career begins under James Alexander K.7
9 Aug 1756 Surveyed 113.74 ac for William Burnet (First Mountain Somerset) K.16 Record 9 / S4.77
12 Aug 1761 Acquired 100-ac Morris Co. land from Robert Hunter Morris K.7 + AB.5 page 52
14 Apr 1762 Surveyed Dead River Somerset for Joseph Kinnan (Lord Stirling signatory) K.18
9 Sept 1765 Sold 9.51 ac Passaic River Somerset to John Harrison Heirs (= his personal Somerset landholding) K.16 Record 12 / S5.268
[some date pre-1787] Acquired tenant-in-common interest in Newton Twp Sussex tract formerly William Burnett's, jointly with Aaron Fulkerson A.64 inferred
23/24 May 1787 Died Morristown Morris Co., age 58 p.79
11 Nov 1789 Heirs of Daniel Cooper Jr + Aaron Fulkerson petition Sussex Co. Clerk for partition of the Newton Twp Sussex tract A.64 (this entry)
27 May 1794 Partition recorded at Sussex Co. Clerk A.64 (this entry)

The acquisition date of the Newton Twp Sussex tract = unknown (= a research follow-up). Plausible windows: - Late 1750s / early 1760s — concurrent with Daniel Jr's surveying for William Burnet (= acquired as fee-in-kind) - Late 1760s / 1770s — post-Burnet's-active-period; possible purchase from Burnet's estate - 1780s — pre-Daniel-Jr's-1787 death

Manuscript-pull of CA 19 might supply the acquisition date.

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