Daniel Cooper Jr × Catherine Hankinson — Colonial Marriage Bond + parental-consent note, April 1751 (NJSA Colonial Marriage Bonds 1666–1799, Vol C Part 1 [1735–1764] pp. 124–125). Manuscript bond signed by groom Daniel Cooper Jun.r + co-bondsman Joseph Runyon of Middlesex Co., under Gov. Jonathan Belcher; accompanying consent note names the bride's parents William Hankinson and Dorithy his wife. Acquired NJSA Order 202605-87163 ([pr.72](../../projects/pr.72%20NJSA%20Order%20202605-87163%203%20Daniel%20Cooper%20marriage%20bonds.md)), received 2026-06-16.

Transcription and notes

Identification

• Repository: New Jersey State Archives — Colonial Marriage Bonds 1666–1799, Volume C (Part 1 : 1735–1764), pp. 124–125.
• Subjects: Groom p.79 Daniel Cooper Jr (1729–1787); bride p.258 Catherine (Hankinson) Cooper.
• Acquired: NJSA Order 202605-87163 (pr.72, placed 2026-05-28), received 2026-06-16.
• Filename: (image held in the family archive) (2 pp.: p.124 consent note, p.125 bond).

Data from the document

Page 124 — parental-consent note (dated "April the 8th 1751")

Transcribed (handwritten; bracketed text where the binding/edge cuts off the line):

"[…] to Certifie to Whome this May Concern that [Willi]am Hankinson and Dorithy his Wife hath frely [giv]en unto Daniel Cooper their Daughter Catherine [Han]kinson to Join In Wedloc with as witness our hands"

• Signed: "William Hankison" [sic — single 'n'] + a second name/mark at lower right partly illegible [?].

Page 125 — the marriage bond (printed form with manuscript insertions)

• Obligors: "We Daniel Cooper [of Morris County[?]] yeoman and Joseph Runyon of Middlesex County yeoman are holden and do stand justly indebted unto…"
• Obligee: "His Excellency Jonathan Belcher Esq.r Governor of New Jersey"
• Penal sum: "the Sum of Five Hundred Pounds current of Lawful Money of New-Jersey"
• Dated: "this thirteenth Day of April … One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty one" (13 April 1751)
• Condition: "whereas the above bounden Daniel Cooper Jun.r hath obtained a Licence of Marriage for himself of the one Party, and for Catherine Hankinson of Freehold Spinster of the other Party…"
• Witness (Sealed and Delivered in the Presence of): "Tho.s Bartow"
• Signatures: "Daniel Cooper Jun.r" [seal] · "Joseph Runyon" [seal]

Notes (standardized / cross-reference — not document text)

• Bride's father named: the consent note's "William Hankinson and Dorithy his Wife" primary-source-identifies Catherine's parents. p.258 previously had parents UNKNOWN with Brode's candidate Thomas Hankinson; William Hankinson (one of the Freehold Hankinson men Brode listed) is now the attested father. See fam.14 Hankinson family of Freehold NJ.
• Co-bondsman Joseph Runyon of Middlesex Co. — a Runyon stood surety for the groom. Daniel Jr's mother was p.148 Grace Runyon Cooper of the Piscataway (Middlesex Co.) Runyons → a maternal-kin surety. (No kinship statement in the bond itself; this is a cross-reference observation.)
• Date layering: licence 3 Apr 1751 (NJ Archives Marriage Licenses Vol xxii, via I.130 Brode) → consent 8 Apr → bond 13 Apr 1751. Brode/I.131 give marriage at Freehold; bond confirms bride residence Freehold (Monmouth Co.). (First-pass read "Hopewell" corrected to "Freehold" on 7× zoom.)
• This is the primary-source manuscript behind the I.130/I.131 published attestation of the Hankinson (not "Conover") identification.