Published county history — Snell & Clayton, History of Sussex and Warren Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1881), 540 FamilySearch images / 1082 PDF pages, read for its medical-profession roster (book p. 504 = image 353) and its biographical sketches (image 435). FamilySearch Warren, New Jersey. Biographies, History Records | Sussex, New Jersey. Biographies, History Records, groupId TH-7757-91150-29805-67, ark 3:1:3QHV-V38H-Z9QG-6.

What this document records

🎯🎯🎯 it places dr john cooper sr at phillipsburg 1791 95

THE PASSAGE, read at full viewer zoom:

PHILLIPSBURG. > David Brainerd, about 1770, when preaching as a missionary to the Indians here. > John Cooper, 1791-95; went to Easton. (From this time until 1843, Phillipsburg was dependent > upon Easton and physicians of Greenwich township for medical aid.) H. H. Southard, 1843-45; > removed to Reaville, N. J. … The chapter says what the list is, two pages earlier: "The following list of places where physicians are or [have been] … WARREN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, have been resident, with date of locating and time of removal, is given from data in possession of Drs. Griffiths and Johnson." ⇒ the figures 1791-95 are a date of locating and a date of removal, not a floruit guess. David Brainerd is listed as a missionary who practised incidentally about 1770 — so John Cooper is the first named RESIDENT physician of Phillipsburg on this roster. The book does not use the phrase "first physician"; that is the list's shape, not its wording.

⚠️ whether this is p27 and why the catalog should care

The book gives a bare name — John Cooper — with no age, no parentage and no addition. This entry does not make the identification. But the fit with John Cooper Sr Dr John Cooper Sr (1765-1851) is close on four independent points, and John Cooper Sr is where the argument belongs: | the book | John Cooper Sr, already in the catalog | |---|---| | a physician named John Cooper | Dr. John Cooper Sr, M.D. | | resident Phillipsburg, Warren Co. NJ | [G.94]: "First physician in Phillipsburg, Warren Co. NJ" | | 1791-95 | b. 24 Mar 1765 ⇒ aged 26-30, the age a newly-qualified man begins practice | | "went to Easton" | d. 2 Feb 1851 at Easton, Northampton Co. PA; married there 1798 ([C.27]) | Why it matters beyond confirmation: this is very likely the SOURCE behind [G.94]. That Find a Grave bio asserts the Phillipsburg first-practice with no citation; an 1881 published county history drawing "from data in possession of Drs. Griffiths and Johnson" is a far better provenance than a modern memorial page. Not proven — [G.94] cites nothing, so the descent of the claim is inferred from the match. → John Cooper Sr. And it does NOT resolve the 1794/1795 discrepancy. [G.94] says "from 1794 practiced in Easton"; this book says 1791-95. Both are recorded; neither is preferred.

🔑 a possible explanation for the greenwich conflict flagged not asserted

WITHDRAWN THE SAME DAY, 2026-09-12 — this speculation is no longer needed and should not be carried forward. The rest of the volume was swept that afternoon and it turns out to state his station twice more, in running prose, at book p. 513 and book p. 552, saying Phillipsburg both times (→ [I.207a]). ⇒ there is no need to explain Greenwich as a misreading of the roster sentence, because the roster is not the only place the book says where he was. The disagreement with [I.180]/Wickes is untouched — it is now simply an open disagreement between two books rather than a solved puzzle. The original speculation is preserved below because a withdrawn hypothesis that leaves no trace gets re-invented.

The catalog carries two incompatible accounts of where Dr John Sr first practised, and this page may explain how they diverged. - [G.94] (Find a Grave): Phillipsburg. - [I.180] (SCHQ Vol VII, quoting Wickes' History of Medicine in New Jersey): "He first practiced in Greenwich, Warren Co., but afterwards moved to Easton, Pa." Both town names sit in the SAME SENTENCE here — "John Cooper, 1791-95; went to Easton. (From this time until 1843, Phillipsburg was dependent upon Easton and physicians of Greenwich township for medical aid.)" ⇒ a compiler reading quickly could carry Greenwich away as Cooper's station when the clause is actually about who covered Phillipsburg AFTER he left. THIS IS A HYPOTHESIS AND IS NOT ASSERTED. Wickes may have had independent evidence, and Greenwich and Phillipsburg are adjacent — a man could have served both. Nothing here retires [I.180]. The test is to read Wickes directly → John Cooper Sr.