David de Sola Pool, Portraits Etched in Stone: Early Jewish Settlers, 1682–1831 (Columbia Univ. Press, 1952) — the definitive ~160-biography roster of colonial Congregation Shearith Israel (NYC). Cooper-relevant: (1) p.448 — Abraham Coriell, merchant, sued by Saul Brown (Pardo), Shearith Israel's first hazzan, in NYC court 30 Sept 1702; (2) p.174 — Moses Curiel (= Geronimo Nunes da Costa, the Amsterdam Sephardic patriarch) cited as a Marrano name-reversion. NO Coriell appears as a synagogue MEMBER (= family was Christian); the Shearith-Israel-membership path for Daniel Sr's origin is NULL, but the 1702 hazzan-lawsuit documents the Coriells in the NYC Sephardic-Jewish commercial orbit. [verbatim]

Transcription and notes

Searched for p.1 Daniel Cooper Sr's origin via the only NYC synagogue (~1700), since his biological paternal line is Sephardic Curiel/Coriell (pr.16 / I.155). Pool's book is the definitive ~160-biography roster of colonial Congregation Shearith Israel members 1682–1831 (built from the congregation's own archives). A full-text surname sweep returned exactly the two items below — no Coriell appears as a congregation member/biography.

Data from the document [verbatim]

1. p.448 — Abraham Coriell, merchant (in the biography of Saul Brown/Pardo, the first hazzan):

"He [Saul Brown] was alive on April 28, 1702, and the court records have on the calendar for 30th September, 1702, Saul Brown's suit against Abraham Coriell, merchant. Some time between then and September 28, 1703, he died, for on that date in the tax list of assessments … it is the widow Brown who was assessed …"

( "he died" = Saul Brown, not Coriell — confirmed by "widow Brown" assessed by 28 Sept 1703.)

2. p.174 / (text) — Moses Curiel as a Marrano name-reversion:

"… in the early history of the Amsterdam Sephardic Jewish community, the parent community of the one in New Amsterdam, we find Francisco Nunez Pereyra taking the name David Abendana on his reversion to Judaism, or Geronimo Nunes da Costa reappearing as Moses Curiel …"

(Index also lists: "Coriell, Abraham, 448"; "Curiel, Moses, 174"; "Costa, … Nunes da, 14,15,17,174,309".)

Notes (interpretation — not data)

• NEW datum for pr.16: Abraham Coriell was a NYC merchant in the Sephardic-Jewish commercial orbit in 1702 — sued by Saul Brown (Pardo), Shearith Israel's first hazzan, 30 Sept 1702. This is the same Abraham Coriell who registered the Piscataway cattle mark 1 Sept 1702 (I.155) — so he operated as a merchant NYC ↔ Piscataway and had direct commercial contact with the NYC Jewish community. A second, independent Sept-1702 record for Abraham (the catalog previously had only the cattle mark) and the first to place the Coriells in the NYC-Jewish merchant network — consistent with a recently-arrived Sephardic-origin family (Curiel of Amsterdam → NYC/Piscataway).
• Does NOT show a Coriell death ~1700 (the misreadable "he died" is Saul Brown's). Abraham Coriell lived to ~1750. So this does not directly supply Daniel Sr's hypothesized father (the "Coriell who died ~1700") — but it sharpens the milieu: a NYC-merchant Sephardic family, exactly the setting in which an orphaned-children-of-a-deceased-merchant reconstruction (pr.16 favored) would sit.
• Shearith Israel MEMBERSHIP path = NULL / CLOSED. No Coriell is a member-biography; Abraham appears only as a Christian merchant defendant. This confirms the Avotaynu finding (I.155): the American Coriell branch had been Christian since the 1497 conversion and were not practicing Jews — so they would not appear in synagogue records. The "Moses Curiel" mention is the European patriarch (name-reversion example), unconnected by Pool (who wrote in 1952, 71 years before the Coryell=Curiel DNA link). ⇒ The synagogue-record avenue for Daniel Sr's origin is exhausted (parallels F.190 Anglican-closed); what remains is the Coriell Y-line documentary work (pending pr.77).

Cross-references

• p.1 Daniel Cooper Sr · pr.16 Cooper-Coriell Y-DNA mystery · pr.2 Daniel Sr father search · fam.15 Coriell Curiel Sephardic
• I.155 (Avotaynu/NEHGS Coryell=Curiel DNA study) · p.262 David Coriell of Piscataway