Published county history — Honeyman, A. Van Doren, ed., Northwestern New Jersey: A History of Somerset, Morris, Hunterdon, Warren and Sussex Counties (1927), volume III, page 123 — the biographical sketches of James Ryerson Warbasse (1797-1844) and his son Joseph Warbasse (b. 1833), both of which locate the "Quaker Settlement" by township and by watercourse.

What this document records

🎯 the quaker settlement is in independence township on the pequest

Two sketches on the same page, and between them they place the settlement twice.

▸ James Ryerson Warbasse, transcript-grade:

James Ryerson Warbasse, son of Joseph and Phoebe (Hull) Warbasse, was born on the homestead > farm in Lafayette Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, September 2, 1797, and died in > Independence Township, Warren County, New Jersey, in 1844. Some years after his marriage > he removed with his wife to the "Quaker Settlement" in Independence Township, Warren > County, and remained there to the end of his life. He and his brother Edward were the > only two members of his father's large family who belonged to the Society of Friends. He > married, July 3, 1823, Anna Tuttle, daughter of William Tuttle…

▸ Joseph Warbasse, his second son, transcript-grade:

JOSEPH WARBASSE, the second son of James Ryerson and Anna (Tuttle) Warbasse, was born October > 19, 1833, on the Big Spring Farm, near the North Hardyston Presbyterian Church, Sussex County, > New Jersey, and afterwards grew up as a farmer boy with his father and mother, brothers and > sisters in the Quaker Settlement, Warren County, New Jersey, near the Pequest River, > between Hope and Allamuchy.

A third hit on p. 360 mentions a daughter who "reside[s] in a Quaker settlement in Warren County" in the twentieth century — recorded so the count of three is accounted for; it adds nothing.

🔑 why the township name differs from snells

[I.207d] took the settlement's location from Snell 1881, which puts it in ALLAMUCHY and in GREEN, Sussex County. This volume puts it in INDEPENDENCE. Both are right, at different dates.

Snell's own first sentence says so, read at 3× off a 300-dpi render of PDF p. 1053:

INDEPENDENCE contained, prior to the setting off of Allamuchy, 37⁶⁄₁₀ square miles, or > 24,096 acres. It is bounded on the north by Frelinghuysen, on the south by Hackettstown and > Mansfield, on the east and northeast by Allamuchy township.

⇒ Allamuchy was set off OUT OF Independence. Snell, writing in 1881, uses the new township; Honeyman's contributor, describing a man who died there in 1844, uses the old one. And the second sketch fixes the ground independently of either name — "near the Pequest River, between Hope and Allamuchy."

This corrects a statement in [I.207d], which recorded the settlement as straddling "Allamuchy (Warren) and Green (Sussex)" without noting that this is the post-1873 geography. Corrected there.

⛔ no israel cooper in this volume

"Israel Cooper" returns {"indexed": true, "matches": []} from the search-inside API on this item.

Controlled: the same API on the same item returns 1 match for "Independence Township" and 3 for "Quaker Settlement", and reports "indexed": true — so the item's full text is searchable and the reader works.

A narrow null. This is volume III only, which is the biographical volume, and the phrase form was searched rather than the surname. Cooper alone was NOT run, and the other volumes of the set were not located on the Internet Archive — a title search returns this volume and no other. → t2.

🔎 the surname sweep of the whole volume 9 coopers and one is ours

Cooper run against the whole volume on 2026-10-01 — the surname, not the phrase, per the lesson that on the Sussex deed books a phrase search returned 2 where the surname returned 13. Nine matches, and eight are nothing to do with this catalog: four are Henry Cooper Kelsey of Sparta (a middle name), and four are passing mentions in sketches of Townsend, Meyer, Smith and Major families.

The ninth is on page 156, and it is the LONG HILL family — transcript-grade, the API's OCR:

Joseph W. Thompson… About five years ago he moved from Morristown to the old homestead on > Long Hill, which place he has helped to beautify… * > > Joseph W. Thompson married Margaret M. Cooper, the only daughter of William and Margaret > (Brown) Cooper, born at the old homestead there August 15, 1852. They have two children: > **William C.; and Florence M.*, who died January 3, 1900.

THE CATALOG ALREADY HOLDS EVERY PERSON IN THAT SENTENCE — William Cooper William Cooper of Long Hill (1811-1880), his second wife Martha M (Brown) Cooper Martha M. (Brown) Cooper (1818-1855), their daughter Margaret (McEowen) Cooper Margaret McEowen Cooper Thompson, and the two children Wm Cooper Thompson and Florence (Brown) Thompson. Recorded here as a source-level reading, not as a finding; the two things it offers are at Margaret (McEowen) Cooper.

Two divergences from the catalog, neither resolved here: the volume gives the mother's given name as Margaret where the catalog has Martha M., and it gives Margaret (McEowen) Cooper's birth as August 15, 1852 where the catalog holds only AUG 1852. Neither is promoted — this is uncropped OCR from a subscription biography.