1868 Town of Passaic NJ — atlas plate including Long Hill area. THREE Cooper residences along the same east-west road: A Cooper + W Cooper (left/west cluster) + A. Cooper (middle cluster, alongside J Blake). 15 years post-[I.62](I.62.yaml); same general road segment shows ONE NEW Cooper household added (the second 'A' Cooper west of W. Cooper) since the 1853 wall map's W + A pair.

Transcription and notes

• Source file: (image held in the family archive) (1.84 MB; file dated 9 May 2026 on disk)
• Identification: 1868 atlas-plate of "Town of Passaic" (= Passaic Township, Morris Co., NJ — Passaic Twp was formed 1866 from parts of Chatham + Morris + Mendham + Hanover; later renamed Long Hill Twp in 1992). Compare to I.62 1853 Morris Co. wall map of the same general area, before Passaic Twp existed. Plate shows multiple post offices (WHITE BRIDGE, MEYERSVILLE LONG HILL P.O., MILLINGTON P.O., PASSAIC VALLEY P.O.), district label DIST N° 6, schools, residences, and roads.

Data — visible labels (verbatim from PDF page 1, maintainer-supplied 2026-05-09)

Title-block / large geographic labels:

• WHITE BRIDGE (top left)
• MEYERSVILLE / LONG HILL P.O. (top right; same area as I.62 1853 "Long Hill" inscription)
• MILLINGTON P.O. (bottom left)
• DIST N° 6 (bottom middle)
• PASSAIC VALLEY P.O. (bottom right)

Top of map (north of the east-west road):

• "E Mills" + dwelling number "289" + "Geo Baker" (top center, near WHITE BRIDGE)
• "L Kutch" + dwelling "297" (top right)
• "F Hoe" + "C Oat[man?]" + "H Sch[?]" + "C Ga[?]" (top right)
• "P Bebout" + "JT Bebout" + "I Bebout" + "C Hoffman / Stove & PO" + "Cem [Cemetery]" + "Parsona[ge]" (Meyersville cluster)
• "E Hill" + "390" (left center)

Center / road area — THREE Cooper residences (W → E):

• ** LEFT cluster (west): "JL Heath" — "N Gillem" — "A Cooper" — "W Cooper"** — "POROck" / "BS Sh" / "WS Sh" — "AMines" / "JJackson" / "ADunn" / "194" / "395"
• ** MIDDLE cluster: "A. Cooper"** — "J Blake" (south of A. Cooper) — "455" — "P Murphy" + "S Squier"
• "AMoore" / "BLyne" / "WCornfield" / "ER Williams" / "School N° 6" (middle-right cluster, east of A. Cooper)
• "G Bird" / "S Doty" / "J Joll" / "328" (right cluster near Meyersville)

Bottom (south of road):

• "S H Matthews" / "AA Boyle" / "233" + "M & JO" / "Store & PO" / "WLeason OC" (Millington P.O. area)
• "JD Thompson" + "AGC[oat?]" (right south)
• "B Runyon" + "N Bowers" + "RV Cornish" + "Wm Phelan" + "JMatthew[s]" (Passaic Valley P.O. area)
• "303" (dwelling number, near Passaic Valley)

Three Cooper residences, all on the same east-west road:

Cross-reference to I.62 1853 wall map

The 1868 map shows the same east-west road as the 1853 wall map's Long Hill detail. Comparison:

Key new finding: A THIRD Cooper household has been added to the road between 1853 and 1868. The new "A Cooper" is west of W Cooper (= William b. 1813) and east of N Gillem + JL Heath. Possible identities (interpretation, not data from this map):

• Son of William Cooper b. 1813 — if William had an "A___" son b. ~1840-1855, he would have come of age 1860-1875 and could be the new A Cooper. Would test via 1860 + 1870 census Morris Twp / Passaic Twp NJ for William b. 1813's children.
• Brother / nephew of Alexander Cooper b. 1828 — Alexander had a wife Abagail (1850) + widowed mother Susan (62 in 1850); if they had additional Cooper relatives who established a household by 1868, one could be the new A Cooper.
• Cooper relation arriving from elsewhere — e.g., a cousin migrating into the area from a different Morris Co. township (Hanover, Mendham, Chatham, Rockaway).

Caveats and follow-up

• Identify the NEW A Cooper of 1868 (left cluster, west of W Cooper) — primary-source target. Test paths:
• 1860 federal census Morris Twp Morris Co. NJ — Cooper-name search; bridges 1850-1870 and would surface any new Cooper households arriving 1850-1860
• 1870 federal census Passaic Twp Morris Co. NJ (post-1866 split) — Cooper-name search; should show all three 1868-map Coopers as living households in 1870
• Morris Co. deed grantor index 1853-1868 for any Cooper-name property transfers near W. Cooper or A. Cooper of 1853
• Morris Co. probate 1853-1870 for William b. 1813 or Alexander b. 1828 (in case either died and a successor took over a property)
• Pull the 1868 atlas plate at higher resolution to capture all dwelling numbers + verify exact reading of Cooper labels (left-cluster A vs middle-cluster A. spelling difference; visual placement of all 3 Coopers relative to road sides north/south).
• Cross-reference 1870 Passaic Twp census with this map's labels: if W Cooper, A Cooper (left), A. Cooper (middle), J Blake, P Murphy, S Squier, B Runyon, AA Boyle, A Dunn all appear in the 1870 enumeration adjacent to each other, that would primary-source-confirm the 1868 map's residence pattern.
• Check whether J.H. Wilson Est property persisted into 1868 — the 1853 map showed J.H. Wilson Est east of A. Cooper / J. Blake; the 1868 visible labels in that area are "AMoore" / "BLyne" / "WCornfield" / "ER Williams" — possibly the J.H. Wilson estate was settled and the property sold to one of these families.
• Note the label "B Runyon" at south edge near Passaic Valley — possibly Benjamin Runyon (b. ~1826 per D.233 David R. Runyon's son). If so, primary-source-confirms Runyon-line persistence into 1868.
• The 1868 map title "Town of Passaic" confirms the post-1866 township renaming (= Passaic Twp formed from parts of Chatham, Morris, Mendham, Hanover) per I.61 township-history reference.

Cross-references

• I.62 — 1853 Morris Co. wall map of the same area; W. Cooper + A. Cooper PRIMARY-SOURCE-LOCKED at dwellings 305 + 255 1850 Morris Twp; this 1868 map adds a third Cooper (the new "A Cooper" west of W Cooper)
• I.61 — Morris Co. township boundaries 1740 (orientation); confirms Passaic Twp formed 1866 from Chatham + Morris + Mendham + Hanover
• D.233 — 1850 Morris Twp Cooper enumeration; W. Cooper = William Cooper b. 1813 dwelling 305 + A. Cooper = Alexander Cooper b. 1828 dwelling 255 + Eleanor M. Cooper 66 + Catharine M. Cooper 25 dwelling 287 (third household, NOT map-labeled even in 1868 since they boarded with Smalley family rather than owning property)
• D.235 — 1860 Morris Twp Cooper enumeration: Alexander 32 with son William Jr 8 (first Y-line carrier); William 48 without wife; both still on Long Hill road
• D.236 — 1870 Passaic Twp Cooper enumeration (post-1866 split): Alexander 42 + 7 children incl. William Jr 18 + Abraham 8 = TWO Y-line carriers; William 58 + Martha H 46 + Margaret 17 = Y-line dead-end. Resolves the 1868 "third A Cooper" question only partially — Abraham 6 in 1868 too young for own household; the 1868 map's third Cooper remains unresolved (possibly a 1860-1868 transient, possibly a misread, possibly a Cooper relation outside the user's image clip)
• G.4 — Cooper Family Burying Ground Long Hill; the 1868 map's Cooper households are 4th-generation Daniel-Sr-line candidates whose deaths post-1868 may surface in the burying ground