Warren Co., N.J. Common Pleas Minutes, June Term 1828, book page 169 — the order appointing the surveyors of Greenwich, Mansfield and Independence to lay out a public road in Mansfield Township, made on the oath of William Cooper, directing them to meet at the house of William Cooper on 18 June 1828, the road to run through William Cooper's lands. FamilySearch film 008653727, image 95.

What this document records

🎯🎯 william cooper swore the oath and the road runs through his lands

This is the ORDER that produced [K.108], and it says two things the return does not. 1. HE SWORE THE OATH. "The Court being satisfied by the oath of William Cooper that the Applicants for this road had put up advertisements of their intention signed by ten and more freeholders of the County of Warren as the Law directs…" He appeared before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas and was sworn — he is the moving party, not merely one of ten signatures. 2. THE ROAD RUNS THROUGH HIS LANDS, and the Court says so in the plural. The route is to run "…through lands of Samuel D. Gay, Henry Albert, the heirs of John H. Marlat and William Cooper's lands, until it intersect the public road leading from Anderson Town to James Gilberts and to end there." ⇒ A second, independent statement that a William Cooper OWNED LAND in Mansfield Township in June 1828 — this time from the county court rather than from the surveyors. Still no wife, child or parent named, and still no choice between William Cooper and William Cooper. Nothing asserted.

✅ it corroborates k108 and extends it

The order and the return agree on everything checkable: the meeting at the house of William Cooper in the township of Mansfield, on Wednesday the eighteenth day of June instant at ten o'clock in the forenoon; a road two rods wide; beginning at the Canal Bridge near the house now occupied by John R. Brown. And it adds what the return does not carry: the surveyors were drawn from three townships — Greenwich, Mansfield and Independence — and the road's far end is "the public road leading from Anderson Town to James Gilberts". Two abutters appear here that the return does not name: Simon I. Wick[?] and Samuel Garis[?]; and the return's Joseph Philips is spelled Joseph Phillips here.

⚠️ a discrepancy john h vs john r marlat

The two records disagree on one initial, and it is recorded rather than smoothed. This order: the heirs of John **H.** Marlat. The return [K.108]: the heirs of John **R.** Marlat. Neither is preferred here. Both were read at magnification — the order in a native 1:1 crop, the return at 2× — so this is a genuine difference between two clerks, not a reading error on one side. Marlatt is a common Warren/Hunterdon surname and the family may well contain both a John H. and a John R.

📌 the other mansfield road of the same term

A SECOND Mansfield road order sits immediately above this one on the same page, and it is a different road entirely: "Public Road in Mansfield — The Court being satisfied by the oath of John S. Davis…", its surveyors to meet at the house of John S. Davis, running from Stouts Gap near the Pohatcong Creek along lands of Jacob Taylor, M. Wilson, John S. Davis, James Belt[?], Joseph Tindall and others. THIS CORRECTS A GUESS IN [K.108]. That entry described the second return at the foot of its opening as "on the application of Joseph Ware[?] and others", read from the orienting view and flagged [desc] and uncertain. The minutes show the other Mansfield road of this term was John S. Davis's, so the second return is very probably his. Probably — the return itself has still not been read.