The Coopers of Long Hill

Document F.196 · Church and Vital Records · transcription: partial

Samuel S. Purple (ed.), Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York: Marriages from 11 December 1639 to 26 August 1801 (NYG&B Society Collections Vol. I, 1890) — the NYC Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church marriage register, companion to the [F.72] baptism register. Acquired 2026-06-21 (free, archive.org recordsofreforme01coll). Van Court + Cooper sweep: NULL — zero 'Van Court' in any spelling in any year, zero Coriell/Curiel, and no Daniel or Anne Cooper marriage.

Transcription and notes

[high certainty for the 1890 typeset publication + the surname-sweep nulls; the few Cooper-surname marriages present are collateral/later NYC Coopers, not transcribed in full here]

Source identification

Element Value
Title Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York: Marriages from 11 December, 1639, to 26 August, 1801
Editor Samuel S. Purple
Series NYG&B Society Collections Vol. I(1890; ed. of 100 copies)
Congregation Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of the City of New York(the same NYC Collegiate congregation whose baptisms are F.72)
Filename (image held in the family archive) (downloaded 2026-06-21 to sit beside Vol II Baptisms + Vol IV Staten Island + Vol V Minisink)
Filesize / format 26.5 MB, PDF 1.5 (text layer present)
Source Free, public-domain: archive.org recordsofreforme01coll (full text (image held in the family archive))
Date acquired + searched 2026-06-21
Why acquired To find the 1716 Elias Van Court × Anne marriage— the record that would directly name Anne's maiden surname and resolve the "Ana BVancourt" initial (p.3)

Headline — the search that prompted acquisition: Van Court marriage = NULL

Full-text search of the entire 1639–1801 register (chronological body + back-of-book index) for Van Court / Vancourt / Van Coort / Van Koort / Van Coert / Vaucourt / Van Cour(excluding the unrelated Van Cortlandt manor family) returns ZERO marriages, in any year.There is no Elias Van Court, and no bride "Anne/Anna Cooper"or "Anne B—"in the 1714–1719 window (or anywhere).

⇒ The ~1716 Elias × Anne marriage was notperformed/recorded at NYC Collegiate — consistent with the family being Raritan-area, not NYC (cf. the F.72 baptism null). Combined with: Raritan/Somerville DRC marriages begin only 1721(no settled minister until Frelinghuysen, first sermon 31 Jan 1720 — so the register opens after the marriage); NJ colonial marriage bonds(NJA 1st Series Vol 22) hold only later Van Courts (Moses 1777/1780, Cornelius 1775); First Reformed New Brunswickbegins 1793. The ~1716 marriage predates every surviving regional Dutch-Reformed marriage register — there is no source left to order that would name Anne's maiden surname.See p.3 2026-06-21 note + pr.2.

Coriell / Curiel / Coryell = NULL

Zero hits, any spelling (Cor[iy]e?ll / Curiel / Koriel / Coryl / Cariel) across the full register. The Daniel-Sr biologicalline (fam.15/pr.16) is absent from the NYC Collegiate marriage register exactly as it is from the baptism register (per the F.72 2026-06-21 extension) — the Coriells did not marry or baptize in the NYC Dutch orbit.

Cooper-surname marriages present (all collateral — none is Daniel Sr's family)

No "Daniel Cooper"and no "Anne Cooper"marriage appears. The register's Cooper-surname marriages are a scatter of unrelated / later NYC Coopers (given verbatim as spelled, years not transcribed here — all sit in the register's later/​higher-page run, i.e. mid-to-late 1700s, not Daniel Sr's ~1716 generation):

Plus assorted Kuyper/Cuypermarriages (Hopper × Aaltje Kuyper; John Bas × Susanna Kuyper; Cornelius Ekkersse × Lena Cuyper; Gerardus A. Kuypers b.1766) = the already-catalogued Bergen/NYC Kuyper cluster (cf. F.72/M.1), none relevant to Daniel Sr's chain. None of these warrants a people-file beyond existing coverage; flagged here only to document that the Cooper marriages were examined, not skipped.

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