The Coopers of Long Hill

Document F.34 · church pew list · transcription: verbatim

Pew-Holders of Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church, 1783-1786, The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey pp. 106-107

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The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey
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"Pew-Holders of Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church, 1783-1786", contributed by Miss Nettie Allen; pp. 106-107

What is transcribed: The whole list on pages 106-107: pews 1-80 (47 and 71 printed with no names). Page 107 ends at pew 80; whether the list continues on page 108 is not known. Page 106 opens with the end of a different article, whose names carry the "*Not a Communicant of the church" footnote; no pew-holder has an asterisk.

People named

As writtenRoleIdentified asWhat this document says
Widow Magdalen Cooper pew-holder Lynche Boyle Cooper 1746–1809 candidate
Edward Lewis Cooper pew-holder
Dan'l Cooper, Junr. pew-holder Daniel Cooper Jr 1729–1787 candidate
Daniel Cooper, Esq. pew-holder Daniel Cooper Sr 1695–1795 candidate
Widow Cooper pew-holder

What this document records

Cooper rows

Pew 6 Widow Magdalen Cooper; pew 9 Edward Lewis Cooper; pew 32 Dan'l Cooper, Junr.; pew 43 Daniel Cooper, Esq.; pew 52 Widow Cooper. No John Cooper.

Transcription and notes

Page 106 - heading

PEW-HOLDERS OF BASKING RIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 1783-1786 CONTRIBUTED BY MISS NETTIE ALLEN NOTE: This is the second oldest list of Pew-holders of this church, the first list, 1769-1776, was published in this Magazine, Vol. 5, page 97 (April, 1930).

Pews 1-24 (page 106)

  1. Moses McCollum.
  2. Wm. Annin.
  3. Henry Southard.
  4. Jonas Carle; Jonathan Miller.
  5. Edward Lewis, Edward Lewis, Junr.
  6. Christopher Dixon; Edward Hill; Widow Magdalen Cooper.
  7. Thomas Kennan; John Archer; John Todd; James Kirkpatrick, Esq.
  8. Thomas Colyer; John Persel; Barnett Sheals; Joth'n Riggs.
  9. Dr. James Boylan; Edward Lewis Cooper; Joseph Allger.
  10. Negroes.
  11. Joth'n Whitaker, Junr.; Daniel Jones; Richard Hall.
  12. James Kirkp'k, Esq.; Thomas Kirkp'k; Robert Nesbitt.
  13. John McCain.
  14. Ensle Dugglish; Charles Adams.
  15. George Grant; Allen Cameron; Andrew Kirkpatrick; Joseph Boyle; Docr McEowen.
  16. Joseph Bullman; Abner Johnson; John Bebout, Junr.; John Ayers, son of Joth'n.
  17. Nath'l Ayers, Esq.
  18. Samuel McCord; Solomon Boyle.
  19. Uriah Sutton; Jonathan Sutton.
  20. Samuel McCord.
  21. Robert Helm.
  22. Alexander Kirkp'k; Samuel Annin; Captain Layton.
  23. Joseph Todd.
  24. John Still; John Smith.

Pews 25-80 (page 107)

  1. William Conkling; Jonas Smalley.
  2. Jonathan Ayers; Hugh Walker.
  3. Wm. Boyd; Silvaneus Parkeson.
  4. Joseph Roy; Matthias Goble; Daniel Lane.
  5. Edward Hill.
  6. Negroes.
  7. Robert Cross.
  8. Dan'l Cooper, Junr.
  9. Hugh McEowen.
  10. John Brees, Junr.; Henery Brees.
  11. Robert Dayton.
  12. James Todd.
  13. William Baird.
  14. John Compton; Jeremiah Hayden.
  15. John Doty; Amariah Hinds.
  16. Esau Hinds.
  17. Corneilus Ludlow.
  18. John Carle, Esq.
  19. Daniel Cooper, Esq.
  20. Henery Allward.
  21. Noah Hamon; Daniel Doty.
  22. Benjamin Hinds; Robert Wilson; Daniel Wright. 47.
  23. Joth'n Whitaker.
  24. Thomas Riggs.
  25. Samuel Hinds; Con'l Martin; Clement Wood, Junr.
  26. David Kirkpatrick, Esq.
  27. Widow Cooper; Elisha Wick.
  28. Joseph Doty, Esq.
  29. William Cross.
  30. Jonathan Penniton; Elijah Smith; John Lewis.
  31. Wil'm Hill, Marthew Besson.
  32. Elisha Ayers.
  33. Capt. Israel Rikey.
  34. Wid'w Rachel Southard; Stephen Brees; Levi Giles.
  35. Isaac Miller; Sam'l Doty; Azariah Breese.
  36. Thomas Burgie; Jonathan Pound; Robert Finley.
  37. Jacob Riky, Esq.; William Hill.
  38. Robart Jellison.
  39. William Frazer.
  40. Josiah Conkling; Benjamin Ludlow; John Britton; John Colyer; John Lewis.
  41. George Bocover; Elias Correll; Peter Coryell.
  42. Sam'l Alexander; Elijah Knap.
  43. Joseph Watkins; William Stiles.
  44. Capt. McCoy.
  45. Jeremiah Sutton; Peter Sutton. 71.
  46. Zebulon Sutton; Wil'm Doty, Junr.; Oliver Woodward.
  47. Peter Sharp.
  48. Thos. Kinnan; Joseph Sutton; Zebulon Doty.
  49. Samuel Johnson; Ephrim Lindsley.
  50. Peter Davison; Stafford Wilson; Bedent Baird.
  51. Hugh Colwell.
  52. John Harris; Sam'l Thomson; John Colwell.
  53. Peter Bebout; John Rickey.
  54. Isaac Lewis; James Tinker; Joseph Kinnan.

Names broken across lines (pews 15, 16, 65) are rejoined here.