NJSA Early Land Records — Daniel Cooper Jr (Deputy Surveyor) 14 April 1762 survey on branches of Dead River, Somerset Co. — 76.18 acres for Joseph Kinnan + John Williams + John Longstreet (good-right and pine-right combined), at the request of Joseph Kinnan. Survey personally signed by 'Stirling' = William Alexander, Lord Stirling, Surveyor General = primary-source-confirms Daniel Jr was already working under Lord Stirling by April 1762 — 2 years earlier than the K.6/K.8 Morris Co. Cooper-Stirling Long Hill attestations, 11 years before the 1773 Cooper-Stirling letter (pr.52). Adjoins Ephraim Dunham's prior tract (book S page 88). Underlying right traces to Mary Alexander's 9 February 1760 deed to grantees (1400 ac of her 6000-ac warrant of 29 November 1757, Lib W4.13), and to Thomas Kinnan's certificate of 3 August 1751 for 109.81 ac pine land (Lib S3.216), assigned to Joseph Kinnan via Lib AB3.298. Same Joseph Kinnan / Thomas Kinnan family that recurs in [K.16 Record 7](K.16.yaml) (Ruth Kinnan 1773 Bernards Town deed signed by Daniel Sr as Morris CCP Judge). Companion to [K.13](K.13.yaml) (Daniel Jr 2 Mar 1758 Dead River survey for John Harrison heirs) — both records establish Daniel Jr's Dead River / Middlesex–Somerset borderland surveying footprint.

Transcription and notes

Source identification

Manuscript verbatim (full body excluding pure boundary courses)

Marginal cross-reference notations (left margin): - "Mrs Alexander's warrant for 6.000 W4.13" - "her deed to Kinnan and others for 1400 AB4.434" - "50¼ good right to Joseph Kinnan, John Williams and John Longstreet" - "Certificate to Thomas Kinnan or his assigns for 109⅛ Pine any where S3.218" - "72.55 Pine to the assigns of Thomas Kinnan which Joseph Kinnan claims to be by deed in AB3.298"

Body opening:

"These do certify that Daniel Cooper Junr being duely deputed and sworn to the intent herein after mentioned did survey for Joseph Kinnan, John Williams and John Longstreet at the request of the said Joseph All that tract of land on good right in Somerset county in the Eastern division of New Jersey situate on the branches of dead river Begining at the second corner of a tract of land return'd to Ephraim Dunham and recorded in book S. page 88. and from thence runing 1st South twenty five degrees West seven chains, then 2. South eighty degrees & fifteen minutes..."

[Boundary courses 1-11 follow; partial transcription:]

"...1st South twenty five degrees West seven chains, then 2. South eighty degrees & fifteen minutes East twenty seven chains and thirty links, thence 3. North sixty three [degrees thirty minutes] East eighteen chains and thirty links, thence 4. North three degrees West twenty chains and thirty links, thence 5. North seventy eight degrees West eight chains, thence 6. South twenty chains and fifty links, thence 7. North eighty nine degrees and a half West eleven chains, thence 8. North twelve degrees East eight chains and sixty links, thence 9. North seventy eight degrees West ten chains, thence 10. South twelve degrees West ten chains, thence 11. North seventy eight degrees West ten chains to the begining containing fifty two acres and six tenths of an acre strict measure which after allowance for highways is to remain for fifty acres and one tenth of an acre."

Adjacent pine-right tract:

"And also did survey for the heirs or assigns of Thomas Kinnan at the request of the said Joseph Kinnan All that tract of pine land begining at the first or begining corner of the aforesaid survey on good right and from thence runing 1st South seventy eight degrees East ten chains, 2 thence North twelve degrees East ten chains, 3 thence South seventy eight degrees East ten chains, 4 thence North twelve degrees East fifteen chains, 5 thence South seventy eight degrees East eighteen chains, 6 thence South three degrees and thirty minutes East twenty three chains and thirty links, 7 thence South sixty three degrees West fifty two chains and fifty links, 8 thence North twenty three chains and ninety links, 9 thence North twenty five degrees East seven chains to the begining containing besides the aforesaid right fifty two acres and six tenths of an acre strict measure of good [right] included within the said bounds of the pine right, seventy six acres and eighteen hundredths of an acre strict measure which after allowance for highways is to remain for seventy two acres and fifty five hundredths of an acre."

Title-chain language (good-right portion):

"To which tract of land on good right the said Joseph Kinnan, John Williams and John Longstreet claim title by virtue and in part of a deed to them from Mary Alexander for fourteen hundred acres of land to be taken up in any part unappropriated except Romopock, dated the ninth day of February one thousand seven hundred and sixty, recorded in book AB4 page 434, to grant which she had right in part of a warrant to her for six thousand acres dated the twenty ninth day of November one thousand seven hundred and fifty seven and recorded in book W4 page 13"

Title-chain language (pine-right portion):

"And to the aforesaid tract on pine right the said Joseph Kinnan claims right title by virtue and in part of a certificate that Thomas Kinnan or his assigns have right to locate one hundred and nine acres and eighty one hundredths of an acre of pine land in any part unappropriated except Romopock dated the third day of August one thousand seven hundred and fifty one and recorded in book S3 page 216 and as assignee of his father the said Thomas Kinnan by deed recorded in AB3 page 298"

Provision and signatory:

"Provided always that if the said tract of pine land or any part thereof shall be located by virtue of any of the dividends of good land within five years after the recording hereof then this return shall be so far void. Witness my hand this fourteenth day of April one thousand seven hundred and sixty two — Stirling"

Recording confirmation:

"Recorded the twenty fourth day of April one thousand seven hundred and sixty two, Examin'd and agrees with the original, the words (heirs) obliterated in tenth line, (right) interlined in twentyeth and (eight) obliterated in thirty first line, in preceeding page, were by a mistake in recording — John Smyth jr Surv. Genl"

Catalog significance — three major findings

(1) Lord Stirling (William Alexander) personally signed this survey

The signatory line on the manuscript is the single word "Stirling" — = William Alexander's customary signature once he was using the Stirling title. = primary-source-locks Lord Stirling as Surveyor General of EJ Proprietors by 14 April 1762.

Catalog impact: - Daniel Cooper Jr was working under Lord Stirling in Somerset Co. by 14 April 1762. Previous catalog K.6 + K.8 Morris Co. Daniel Jr-Stirling attestations dated 1764+; this record pushes the Cooper-Stirling Surveyor-General relationship back at least 2 years earlier. - = 11 years before the 1773 Cooper-Stirling letter (pr.52 Cooper-Stirling 1773 letter acquisition), establishing the working partnership long predates the political-correspondence relationship. - Combined with pr.27 Cooper-Stirling network, the Cooper-Stirling network now has primary-source-attested origin at least to early 1760s.

(2) Same Kinnan family that recurs in K.16 Record 7 (1773 Bernards Town deed signed by Daniel Sr as Morris CCP Judge)

The Joseph Kinnan + Thomas Kinnan named in this 1762 survey = same Kinnan family appearing in: - 1751 — Thomas Kinnan certificate for 109.81 ac pine, recorded Lib S3.216 (= father's underlying right) - 1762 (this record) — Joseph Kinnan as commissioning grantee, asserting his title via the Thomas → Joseph assignment Lib AB3.298 - 1773 (K.16 Record 7) — Ruth Kinnan (widow of Joseph Kinnan deceased) → John + Joseph Kinnan (sons) 15 ac Bernards Town deed, signed by Daniel Cooper, Judge of Inferior CCP Morris Co. Signatory 25 March 1774 — = Daniel Sr signing off on Joseph Kinnan's widow's transfer to his sons, 11 years after Daniel Jr surveyed Joseph's Dead River land - 1770-1772 (K.11 Records 4-8) — Daniel Jr + David Cooper Jr as former-owners of Kinnan-estate Middlesex Co. land

Catalog significance: the Cooper-Kinnan working relationship spans 22+ years (1762-1785) and Multiple counties (Somerset + Middlesex + Morris) AND multiple Cooper-family members (Daniel Sr judicial + Daniel Jr surveying + David Cooper Jr land-holding). Suggests Cooper-Kinnan was a notable cross-generational working/landholding relationship, not isolated transactions.

(3) Geographic continuity: Dead River = same corridor as K.13 Daniel Jr 1758 survey

This 1762 survey is on "branches of dead river" Somerset Co. — = same Dead River corridor where Daniel Jr surveyed for John Harrison heirs / Phineas Cox 2 March 1758 (K.13). The two surveys establish: - 1758 — Daniel Jr surveying for Phineas Cox / John Pound heirs at Dead River (Middlesex Co. side per K.13 — the Middlesex-Somerset borderland) - 1762 — Daniel Jr surveying for Kinnan / Williams / Longstreet at Dead River (Somerset Co. side, this record) - = Daniel Jr's 4-year continuous Dead River surveying footprint, working both county sides of the borderland.

Note Dead River is the modern Passaic River tributary; flows through what was the historical Long Hill / Pluckemin / Basking Ridge corridor that Daniel Sr's family lived along. = primary-source-locks Daniel Jr's professional presence in the same geographic area where Daniel Sr was a landowner, witness, and Judge.

Cross-references

• K.13 Daniel Jr 1758 Dead River survey — same Dead-River-corridor surveying footprint 4 years earlier
• K.16 Somerset Cooper sweep — parent record (= Record 10 of the 35-record sweep)
• K.16 Record 7 Ruth Kinnan 1773 Bernards Town deed — same Kinnan family, 11 years later, signed off by Daniel Sr as Morris CCP Judge
• K.11 Records 4-8 Middlesex Kinnan-estate former-owner records — same Kinnan family, Middlesex side, 1770-1772
• K.6 Morris Co. Cooper sweep + K.8 Daniel Jr Stirling surveys composite — Daniel Jr-for-Stirling Morris records — this K.18 pushes the Cooper-Stirling working relationship back earlier
• p.79 Daniel Cooper Jr — MAJOR upgrade: Cooper-Stirling working relationship primary-source-attested back to 14 April 1762
• pr.27 Cooper-Stirling network — origin-date push-back
• pr.52 Cooper-Stirling 1773 letter acquisition — 11-year preceding context

Follow-ups

• [ ] Re-survey K.6 / K.8 Daniel Jr-for-Stirling Morris records to confirm whether any predate 14 April 1762
• [ ] Update p.79 Daniel Cooper Jr body with the K.18 1762 Stirling-signatory finding
• [ ] Update pr.27 Cooper-Stirling network timeline to reflect 1762 origin-date push-back
• [ ] Cross-link K.16 Record 7 (Ruth Kinnan 1773 deed) → K.18 (Joseph Kinnan 1762 survey) to make the Kinnan-family-chain explicit
• [ ] Pull S3.216 (Thomas Kinnan 1751 certificate) when next NJSA paid order is placed — would primary-source-lock the Kinnan-family proprietary origin