Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church marriage register, Rev. Robert Finley, July 1795 – Sept 1811 (39 numbered marriages) + post-Finley formal continuation to ~1821. Full two-page register image (Marriage/Baskingridge Marriages 1795-1821.jpg). 5 Cooper marriages: #11 Joseph Cross × Mary Cooper (13 Mar 1800 = [p.5](../../people/p.5%20Polly%20Cooper%20Annin.md) primary-source 1st marriage); #16 Sayre × Charity Cooper (15 Oct 1801 = [C.12](C.12.yaml)); #25 David Kirkpatrick 3rd × Sally Cooper (14 Nov 1804); #31 — Cooper × — Horton of Chester (25 Apr 1806, names blank); #35 Peter Cooper × Susan Boyle (14 Dec 1808 = Daniel-Jr's-son marriage per Brode).

Transcription and notes

Source artifact (maintainer-supplied 2026-06-09, FamilySearch): (image held in the family archive) — a single high-resolution two-page register spread (3614×2928 px), the "List of Marriages Solemnized by the Rev'd Robert Finley of the Congregation of Baskinridge in the County of Morris," beginning "July 12th 1795." Left + right pages carry 39 numbered marriage entries through Finley's close (entry #39, June 1811; register "concluded … 10 September 1811 — Robert Finley"), followed by a post-Finley continuation in formal-paragraph style (a successor minister's hand) running to ~1821.

Same register already partially in the catalog: C.12 (entry #16, Sayre × Charity Cooper, from a FamilySearch koha:214696 register-page image) and C.15 (Amos Dayton × Kitty Cooper, 1812). C.41 is the full-spread image that finally executes C.12's standing "read the remaining 30+ entries for other Cooper marriages" priority.

Verbatim discipline note. This is a Cooper catalog; the 5 Cooper marriages are transcribed in full below. The complete 39-entry list is also recorded (the register's content matters for Cooper-network / witness context — surnames like Coryell, Runyan, Boyle, Cross, Sutton, Doty recur in the Cooper network), but the scan is cursive and modest-resolution: non-Cooper readings carry [?] where uncertain and should not be relied on without re-examination. Cooper entries were cross-zoomed for confidence.

Cooper marriages (verbatim)

Officiant for all 5 (and entries #1–39): Rev. Robert Finley, pastor, Basking Ridge Presbyterian.

Full register transcription — Rev. Robert Finley, entries 1–39 [verbatim; [?] = cursive-uncertain]

Header: "List of Marriages Solemnized by the Rev'd Robert Finley of the Congregation of Baskinridge in the County of Morris."

1. Daniel Wood to [Amerca?] Hind[?] — July 12, 1795
2. Solomon Utey[?] to Mary Brevin[?] — March 9, 1795[?]
3. Daniel Runyan to Phebe Lewis [Freeman?] — December 22, 1796
4. Abraham Coryell to Deborah Runyan — January 3, 1797
5. Abraham Wood to Hetty Brees[?] — November 22, 1797
6. [Frederick?] Bridge to Phebe Miller — December 5, 1797
7. Joseph Benjamin to Susan Hanvill[?] — April 3, 1798
8. Matthias Burnet to Susan Guerin — March 29, 1799
9. Samuel Johnson to Abigail Bockaw[?] — January 7, 1800
10. Moses Rogers to Nancy Wright — March 8, 1800
11. Joseph Cross to Mary Cooper — March 13, 1800
12. Stephen Sutton to Sally Bidel[?] — April [?] 1800
13. John Lyon to Mary Miller — January 7, 1801
14. Charles Ogden to Sarah Sindy[?] — January 7, 1801
15. Solomon Boyle to Elizabeth Keirson[?] — June 27, 1801
16. Eleazer[?] Sayre to Charity Cooper — October 15, 1801 (= C.12)
17. Isaac Wiggins to Betsey Moffatt — December 17, 1801
18. Samuel Young to Anne Fanchet[?] — January 30, 1802
19. Henry Carey to Sally Day[?] — February 9, 1802
20. James Johnson to ——— Babbit — November [?] 1803
21. Job Johnson to Dolly Sutton — January 7, 1804
22. Benjamin Hathaway to Hitty[?] Turner — January 7, 1804
23. ——— Hand to Abby Garrett — February 15, 1804
24. James Ardman[?] to Phebe Bockaw[?] — November 7, 1804
25. David Kirkpatrick 3d to Sally Cooper — November 14, 1804
26. Stephen Doty to Anne Sutton — December 14, 1804
27. Jacob Singleton[?] to Anne Boyle — February 11, 1805
28. Sidney[?] Guns[?] to Catharine Miller — March 9, 1805
29. Stephen Jones[?] to Phebe Wade — November 22, 1805
30. James Miller to Anne Collard[?] — December 13, 1805
31. ——— Cooper to ——— Horton of Chester — April 25, 1806 (both given names blank)
32. Stephen Conkling to Sally Coriel[?] — January 23, 1807
33. Enoch [Cotile?] Jun to Mary Fleming — March 9, 1808
34. George Bockner[?] Jun to Mary Smith — June 15, 1808
35. Peter Cooper to Susan Boyle — December 14, 1808
36. Dorothy[?] Lewis to Abby Perrine — January 21, 1809
37. Michael Mount to Peggy Baird — May 25, 1810
38. Noah Hanvill[?] to Mary Riley — November 28, 1810
39. [Abraham?] Williams[?] (struck-through "William Williams") to Martha Boyle — June 25, 1811

Closing line: register "[?] concluded … 10 September 1811 — Robert Finley."

Post-Finley continuation (~1811–1821) — successor minister, formal-paragraph hand

Each entry a one-sentence certificate ("This may certify that I married ___ to "). Couples read so far include Davis Lyon × Maria King; James McCall × ; Isaac Miller × Mary Hopkins; Moses Holloway × Anna Maria Nesbit; Anthony Chancy[?] × Maria Servant[?]; Cliff[?] Fisk × ; William Woolridge × Sary[?] ; ___ × Frances Hervey[?]; plus one "free black woman" entry. No Cooper marriage positively identified in this section yet — but this is where C.15's Amos Dayton × Kitty Cooper (19 Feb 1812) would fall; re-read needed to confirm whether C.15 appears here (the formal hand is harder to read at this resolution).

Cross-references

• p.5 Polly (Mary) Cooper Cross/Annin — entry #11 is the primary-source record of her 1st marriage (Joseph Cross, 13 Mar 1800), previously attested only by Craddock I.22/I.23 and the I.65 follow-up that explicitly sought "a Basking Ridge marriage record c. 1798–1810." Same church she is later buried at (G.20, plot 341).
• p.79 Daniel Cooper Jr + p.270 Lynche Boyle Cooper — entry #35 (Peter Cooper × Susan Boyle, 14 Dec 1808) primary-source-confirms the Brode-1932-p.75 marriage of Peter Cooper, son of Daniel Jr, to Susan Boyle (dau. Joseph Boyle of Long Hill). Reinforces the Cooper↔Boyle intermarriage pattern (Lynche/Magdalene Boyle × John Cooper p.8; Susan Boyle × Peter Cooper).
• C.12 — entry #16 (Sayre × Charity Cooper) is the same marriage C.12 already catalogs from a different image. Reading discrepancy RESOLVED (2026-07-06): this image's "Eleazer[?] Sayre" vs C.12's "Ebenezer Sayre" → Ebenezer is correct, per Banta Sayre Family ([I.173]) entry #281 (Ebenezer Sayre, b.1747 Monmouth, d.1822 Morris Co.).
• p.736 Sarah (Cooper) Kirkpatrick — entry #25 is her 1st marriage (David Kirkpatrick 3d, the nephew). CORRECTION 2026-06-21: the catalog formerly treated "Sally × Capt. David Kirkpatrick" as a separate woman ([p.50]); Littell I.4 (p.91/198/199) shows she married both Davids (nephew here in 1804, then the uncle Capt. David as his 2d wife). p.50 = p.736, merged. Not two women — one woman, two Kirkpatrick husbands.
• Bride of #16 = p.730 Charity (Cooper) Sayre — Daniel Sr's granddaughter via son John of Long Hill (b. 16 May 1767), identified via Banta I.173. (Formerly logged only as name.152 Charity Cooper, now resolved to p.730 — NOT Benjamin's daughter.)

Follow-up

• Read the post-Finley (~1811–1821) continuation section closely for additional Cooper marriages — specifically whether C.15's Amos Dayton × Kitty Cooper (Feb 1812) is in this same image. May need a tighter crop of the lower-right page.
• Entry #31 (Cooper × Horton "of Chester," 1806, names blank) — the blanks can't be filled from this register; check adjacent Morris Co. marriage records / the Morris County Liber A index (newly-supplied) for a 1806 Cooper×Horton entry that names the parties.
• Image #11 tight crop to re-confirm "March 13" vs alternative day reading for p.5's marriage date (currently confident).