Document J.9 · Newspaper, Directory, and Misc. · transcription: verbatim

New-Jersey Gazette, 6 April 1784 — Sheriff's Advertisement, Sale of Capt. Benjamin Cooper's Plantation

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Identification: New-Jersey Gazette (Trenton, New Jersey), Tuesday, April 6, 1784. Volume VII, Issue 308, page 3. Source: GenealogyBank.com (copyright NewsBank / American Antiquarian Society, 2004). Three-week run code "3w" at bottom right.
Data from the notice (full transcription):
Heading: "Hunterdon county, ff."
Body: "TO be sold by adjournment, at the dwellinghouse of Captain Benjamin Cooper, in the township of Lebanon, on Wednesday the twenty-first of April next, sundry goods and chattels, to wit, beds and bedding, tables, chairs, pots and dishes, a library of books, horses, cattle, sheep and hogs, waggon and gears, ploughs and harrows, green grain on the ground, and a variety of household furniture and farming utensils;"
"Also between the hours of twelve and five of said day, will be sold that plantation whereon the said Cooper now lives, containing upwards of four hundred acres of choice land; there are on said premises a large frame dwellinghouse, barn, and famous orchard; a great proportion of meadow, well watered; late the property of said Benjamin Cooper: Seized and taken in execution at the suit of Daniel Cooper. and to be sold by"
Signed: "JOHN ANDERSON, Sheriff."
Date: "March 24, 1784."
Cross-reference: This resolves the K follow-up item on a separate 1784 NJ Gazette notice distinct from the September 1779 Stirling-estate vendue at I.12.
2026-06-08 — the underlying court + deed records ACQUIRED (pr.53):
A.81 — Hunterdon Common Pleas, Aug Term 1783 minute: Daniel Cooper v. Benj.ⁿ Cooper, action of Debt, writ fi fa de bonis et terris, levy on Benjamin's property (one enslaved boy, 4 horses, 8 cattle, 10 hogs, ~423[?] acres, standing crops) = the execution behind this sale.
K.46 — deed 5 Jan 1795, Daniel Cooper (= Daniel Sr [p.1], "of Morris Co.") → John H. Cooper, p.105, conveying the plantation "whereon Benjamin Cooper formerly lived" ⇒ plaintiff = Daniel Sr; family-redemption reading confirmed.
The "upwards of four hundred acres" + livestock + "library of books" here corroborate the A.81 levy (≈423 acres).