Document C.116 · marriage register · transcription: verbatim
Sussex County, New Jersey, marriage register page 107 — the county clerk's entry of the Reverend John Boyd return of 1812: six couples, among them Robert Cooper to Sophia Sheffer. FamilySearch New Jersey, County Marriages, 1682-1956; DGS 004541238, item 2 ("Marriages, Sussex county, v. A — Sussex. Marriage Records 1795–1853"), image 42 of 104. Same film as [C.84] and [C.113].
- repository
- FamilySearch — New Jersey, County Marriages, 1682-1956
- collection
- Marriages, Sussex county, v. A — Sussex. Marriage Records 1795–1853; DGS 004541238, item 2, image 42 of 104
- date
- 1812-11-12
What is transcribed: One officiant's block on page 107 — the six marriages entered under the Reverend John Boyd. Not the whole page, and not the three other columns on this frame, which carry other justices' and ministers' returns of 1811–1813.
People named
| As written | Role | Identified as | What this document says |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooper, Robert | groom | Robert Cooper 1783–1863 candidate | |
| Sheffer, Sophia | bride | Sophia (Sheffer) Cooper 1792 candidate | |
| Boyd, John | officiant |
What this document records
What it says
"Robert Cooper to Sophia Sheffer", fifth in a block headed "Married by the Reverend John Boyd" — the same six couples, in the same order, as the signed loose return at [C.115].
What it does not say
No ages, parents, residences, witnesses or venue — the register copies the return, and the return had none of these. And it does not, in this scan, give the dates — see source.transcription.quality.
Transcription and notes
Data from the document [verbatim]
Page 107, the block headed for the Reverend John Boyd — read at 2× on the full-resolution plate. The date column at the left of each line is illegible in the gutter:
Married by the Reverend John Boyd
[illegible]— Isaac Dennis to Huldah Shaw[illegible]— Thomas Hunt Junr. to Rebecca Turner[illegible]— Robert Lanning to Mary Decker[illegible]— George Hunt to Eliza Brown[illegible]— Robert Cooper to Sophia Sheffer[illegible]— Benjamin Chandler to Mary Luce
Why a second copy of the same six marriages is worth its own entry
Because the two documents fail in opposite places, and between them nothing is lost.
| [C.115] — the loose return | [C.116] — this register copy | |
|---|---|---|
| scan resolution | 1719×951, the collection's ceiling | 6496×3824 |
| the names | clear | clear |
| the dates | plain — Novʳ. 12 — 1812 |
illegible in the gutter |
| the officiant | signed John Boyd |
named "the Reverend" John Boyd |
| written by | the minister | the county clerk |
Two independent hands wrote Sheffer. The clerk copying into the county book was reading
the minister's paper, not the FamilySearch index — so the surname survives a transcription step
that had a real chance of corrupting it, and does not.
And the register supplies what the return omits: the officiant's title — the
Reverend. The loose return is signed John Boyd with no style at all; without page 107 he would
be an unidentified man rather than a minister. ⇒ a clergy marriage, not a justice's — which
is where to look for a congregation, and therefore for a baptismal register that might name
Sophia's father.
Two numbering systems on one film — read the note in source.image_note
This is the third catalog entry on DGS 004541238 ([C.84] p. 233, [C.113] p. 235, and this at p. 107), and the first to be viewed in item-relative numbering. The film is divided into 3 items; this opening is image 42 of 104 in item 2, while [C.84] cites image 181 of 478 whole-film. No conversion between the two is recorded here, because none was verified. See films/film.004541238.yaml.
Cross-references
- C.115 — the signed return this page copies, where the dates are legible
- p.114 Robert Cooper of Independence Twp Warren · p.2056 Sophia Cooper
- C.84 · C.113 — the same register, pages 233 and 235
- films/film.004541238.yaml · films/film.004541257.yaml