The Coopers of Long Hill

Document I.150 · Published / Reference · transcription: partial

Pelletreau — Records of the Town of Southampton, Long Island, NY, Volume 5: Ancient Loose Documents in the Town Clerk's Office and Abstracts of the Red Book of Deeds (398 pp.). MASSIVE COOPER NAME INDEX at PDF pp. 16-17 = ~25+ distinct Cooper individuals across the volume, with page numbers for each occurrence: Thomas (7+ pages), John (8+ pages), Mercator (2 pages), Ichabod (8+ pages), Samuel (5+ pages), James (5+ pages), Benjamin (2 pages), Johanah (2 pages), Abraham (5+ pages), Elias, Josiah, Caleb, Matthew, Zophar, Sarah, Mary, Margaret. Vol 5 = abstracts of loose Town Clerk's Office documents = full primary-source body data per attestation. PDF p. 37 has multi-deed Cooper grantor/grantee entries (28 hits one page); PDF p. 52 has 1666 Thomas Cooper allotment; deeds, transactions, kinship attestations span the volume.

Cite this page "Pelletreau — Records of the Town of Southampton, Long Island, NY, Volume 5: Ancient Loose Documents in the Town Clerk's Office and Abstracts of the Red Book of Deeds (398 pp.). MASSIVE COOPER NAME INDEX at PDF pp. 16-17 = ~25+ distinct Cooper individuals across the volume, with page numbers for each occurrence: Thomas (7+ pages), John (8+ pages), Mercator (2 pages), Ichabod (8+ pages), Samuel (5+ pages), James (5+ pages), Benjamin (2 pages), Johanah (2 pages), Abraham (5+ pages), Elias, Josiah, Caleb, Matthew, Zophar, Sarah, Mary, Margaret. Vol 5 = abstracts of loose Town Clerk's Office documents = full primary-source body data per attestation. PDF p. 37 has multi-deed Cooper grantor/grantee entries (28 hits one page); PDF p. 52 has 1666 Thomas Cooper allotment; deeds, transactions, kinship attestations span the volume.", document I.150, The Coopers of Long Hill, njcoopers.com/e/I.150/

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Element Value
Title Records of the Town of Southampton, Volume 5: Ancient Loose Documents in the Town Clerk's Office and Abstracts of the Red Book of Deeds
Compiler William S. Pelletreau
Pages 398 (PDF)
Local file (image held in the family archive)
Date acquired 2026-05-29

Verbatim — Cooper Index entries (PDF pp. 16-17)

Cooper, Thomas         7, 8, 18, 20, 22, 23, 34, 44, 62, 103, 111
Cooper, John           8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 21, 56, 58, 63, 100, 113
Cooper, Mercator       9, 161
Cooper, Ichabod        31, 34, 39, 42, 68, 96, 98, 101
Cooper, Samuel         35, 84, 98, 144
Cooper, James          31, 33, 37, 72, ...
Cooper, Benjamin       41, 42
Cooper, Johanah        40, 68
Cooper, Abraham        55, 64, 99, 100
Cooper, Elias          106
Cooper, Josiah         107
Cooper, John (estate)  258
Cooper, Caleb          117
Cooper, Matthew        11, 123
Cooper, Zophar         144
Cooper, Sarah          200, 209, 258
Cooper, Mary           184, 204, 239
Cooper, Margaret       182, 186, 188

Approximately 17 distinct Cooper individuals indexed with multi-page coverage. This is one of the most concentrated primary-source Cooper data resources in the catalog. Vol 5 = abstracts of Town Clerk's loose-paper files + Red Book of Deeds = each page-reference is to a full document body (deed, agreement, account).

Specific PDF-page Cooper attestations sampled (selective; not exhaustive)

PDF page Content Notes
16-17 Cooper master index 17+ distinct individuals indexed
36 "Grantee John Cooper Edward White George Heat..." early deed-grantor list
37 28 hits on one page — multi-deed Cooper grantor/grantee references Major Cooper-property-transaction page; needs full transcription
40 "Andrew Cliob Samuel Cooper Peregrine Stanborough" + "Henry Pierson Thomas Cooper Gersham Culver" community land-allotment list
43 "Stephens, Thomas neJames Cooper neJohn Tjppin... neCooper, Sam'l, Jas. Joseph Say..." + "Thomas Cooper Wm Herrick Thomas Cooper Daniel Sayre Manassah Ke..." community lists; "Daniel Sayre" not "Daniel Cooper" — = no Daniel Cooper hit
52 "1666, laid out for Thomas Cooper, who was to have 50 acres" 1666 land allotment to Thomas Cooper
53 "To John Cooper northward of Thomas [Cooper]..." Cooper land-adjacency 1666

Daniel Cooper status

No "Cooper, Daniel" in Vol 5 index (PDF pp. 16-17). = Vol 5 confirms Howell 1887 [I.148] finding: NO Daniel Cooper in Southampton LI Cooper primary-source records. Continues to weaken pr.2 Hypothesis C.

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