Thomas B. Wilson, Notices from New Jersey Newspapers 1781-1790 (Records of New Jersey Vol I, Hunterdon House, Lambertville NJ 1988) — pre-curated 36-page Cooper-name extract on disk; detailed Daniel Cooper Jr 1787 suicide death notice (Brunswick Gazette 12 June 1787) with widow + 10 children + Rev Samuel Kennedy preaching funeral + 600-700 attendees; Daniel Cooper Sr × Mrs Gibb 12 Nov 1788 'fifth helpmate' marriage notice (NJ Journal Elizabethtown) corroborating [J.106](../J-Newspaper/J.106.yaml); Sheriff sale of Benjamin Cooper's 400+-acre Lebanon Twp Hunterdon plantation incl library of books at suit of Daniel Cooper 6 April 1784; Daniel Cooper as Justice of the Peace 25 June 1783; Daniel Cooper Esq + Isaac Cox 1/5 each owners of 'mine lot' in Bridgewater Somerset Co 1790; Daniel Sr stolen-horses notice from Long Hill 6 Feb 1782; Peter + William Cooper of Long Hill named as settling Daniel Cooper Jr's estate; Cooper land in Somerset Co s. of Passaic River 1783 bordering Coll Lochry. Plus out-of-scope Constant Cooper of Mount Hope stagecoach (1783-1785), Edward Cooper runaway servant (1784), Moses Cooper mulatto runaway (1786), south-NJ Coopers Joseph/Joshua/Marmaduke/William Burlington/Gloucester/Cooper's Ferry. Title page identifies this as Records of New Jersey Volume I, suggesting subsequent volumes exist for further years.

Transcription and notes

Source identification

Scope and method

Pre-curated by maintainer: 36 pages identified as containing Cooper-surname mentions across the corpus, each named for the relevant person/topic. Maintainer's pre-filtering = high-precision scope (no need to search; just read).

Newspapers covered (per pages 446 + 364 + others): - New Jersey Journal (Elizabethtown) 1781-1790 — main source - Brunswick Gazette — pp. 329 + 351 - New-York Gazetteer, and Country Journal — December 1783-August 1787 (per p. 446 introduction)

Verbatim Cooper-name extracts

Daniel Cooper Sr / Daniel Cooper Jr / Long Hill cluster

p. 131 — NJ Journal 6 February 1782:

"Daniel Cooper Sr., Long Hill, adv. for two horses stolen out of his stables. Return to him or to Christopher Vandeventer, at Pluckemin."

p. 168 — NJ Journal 25 June 1783:

"Hugh Goble and Daniel Booher, of Bergen County, adv. that they were completely exonerated of charges falsely made against them of committing robberies in the Counties of Essex, Morris, Sussex and Somerset which in fact were committed by Timothy Bedal now secured in the Morristown gaol. Appended is a certificate of John Carle and Daniel Cooper, Justices of the Peace, stating that the charges were groundless and false and that the accuser, Timothy Bedal has declared them both innocent."

p. 224 — NJ Journal Elizabethtown 30 May 1787 (Death Notices):

"Mr. Daniel Cooper of Long Hill is said to have committed suicide. He hung himself a few days since."

p. 329 — Brunswick Gazette 12 June 1787 (Death Notices):

"On Friday evening the 24th ult., Daniel Cooper Jr. Esq., of Long Hill, Morris County, put a period to his life by hanging himself in his barn. The poor man has appeared for about two months to be in a delirium... He was blessed with much of the good things of this world. He was interred on the Sunday following in the family burying ground on his father's plantation with a sermon preached on this mournful occasion by Rev. Mr. Samuel Kennedy before a multitude of six or seven hundred persons. He leaves a widow and ten children."

p. 223 — NJ Journal Elizabethtown 12 Nov 1788 (Marriages):

"On 3d inst., Daniel Cooper Esq., of Long Hill, Morris Co., aged 86, & Mrs. Gibb, aged 74. This is the fifth helpmate Mr. Cooper has taken. He is very active and strong mounts a horse and rides with agility."

p. 351 — Brunswick Gazette 7 September 1790:

"On application to the Court of Common Pleas of Somerset Co., Daniel Cooper Esq. and Isaac Cox, who each claim a fifth part of a tract in Bridgewater on the south side of first mountain, called the mine lot, it will be decided unless objections are entered at a meeting to be held at the dwelling house of Jacob Eoff at Pluckemin on 9th November. Col. Ephraim Martin, Benjamin Vail and Robert Blair Esq. are nominated commissioners to divide the tract."

p. 266 — Public Notices (date not visible in image):

"Peter and Wm. Cooper, Long Hill, adv. to settle the estate of Daniel Cooper Jr., deceased."

Capt. Benjamin Cooper of Lebanon Twp Hunterdon Co.

p. 58 — NJ Journal 6 April 1784:

"John Anderson, Sheriff of Hunterdon County, adv. for sale the plantation of Benjamin Cooper in Lebanon Tp., upwards of 400 acres, with goods including a library of books, seized at the suit of Daniel Cooper."

George Cooper of Long Hill / Morris County

p. 298 — NJ Journal 6 October 1790: Letter awaiting at Elizabeth Town post office for "George Cooper, Long Hill, Morris" (William Shute, Post Master).

p. 364 — 28 July 1791: Letter awaiting at Princeton post office for "George Cooper, Morris County" (John Harrison, Post Master).

Cooper land in Somerset Co.

p. 446 — New York Gazetteer 3 December 1783:

"(2) A tract of 99 acres of timber land in Somerset County, south of the Pesaic River, bounded on the river and the Deer Lick lot, near lands of Cooper and Coll. Lochry"

(One of 3 tracts being sold by Jacob Trembly, acting Sheriff of Essex Co., for the heirs of Joseph Morse Jr., deceased.)

Constant Cooper of Morris County / Mount Hope (provisional out-of-scope)

p. 162 — NJ Journal 16 April 1783:

"Constant Cooper, Morris County, adv. for sale a farm of 140 acres and six other lots [locations not stated]."

p. 448 — NY Gazetteer 4 February 1784: Letter awaiting at Elizabeth Town post office for "Constant Cooper, Morris Town."

p. 480 — NY Gazetteer 8 April 1785:

"Constant Cooper returns his most grateful thanks to the generous public, and his customers in particular, and informs them that he still intends to continue the business of post-Riding between Mount-Hope and New-York. The approaching season will admit his calling at every stage expressed in his subscription."

(Plus a follow-up Constant Cooper notice on same page disputing Job Allen's competing Rockaway-to-Paulus-Hook stagecoach.)

Other Cooper-name extracts (out of scope; recorded for completeness)

Cross-references

• G.4 — Long Hill Cooper cemetery (Daniel Jr's burial in family burying ground)
• J.42 — Daniel Jr 1787 suicide death notice (parallel)
• J.106 — NJ Journal 12 Nov 1788 Daniel Sr × Mrs Gibb (parallel — same notice)
• I.46 — Munsell 1882 Daniel Sr biography (resolves 6-wives ordering with Mrs Gibb as 5th)
• I.4 — Littell (founding families of Long Hill incl John Carle)
• I.47 — Rankin 1872 (William and Alexander Cooper of Long Hill alive 1872 = great-grandsons of Daniel Sr; possibly descendants of Peter + William here)
• I.54 — NJ Colonial Documents corpus (Benjamin Cooper as Hunterdon Co. Judge pre-1773)
• J.105 — Salem Gazette 1790 Daniel Sr × Hannah Martin (Col Ephraim Martin still alive Sept 1790 per p. 351 supports 'mother of General Martin' reading)
• B.3a — Capt Benjamin Cooper Rev War commission
• Project pr.13 Benjamin Cooper Stirling debt (RESOLVED).md — Benjamin's financial-distress pattern
• Project pr.4 Daniel Sr buried Basking Ridge (RESOLVED).md — refines suicide-stigma burial-location reasoning
• Project pr.9 Second Daniel Cooper southern NJ (RETIRED).md — out-of-scope south-NJ Cooper line
• Project pr.26 Roxbury Cooper family out-of-scope (RESOLVED).md — Nathan Cooper of Roxbury

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