Document K.30 · Land Records / Court Records / NJSA Searchable Databases (broadened from Land-Only as of K.30 2026-05-28) · transcription: verbatim
NJ State Archives Supreme Court Case Files 1704-1844 database — Daniel Cooper search, 63 case-file records across 5 result pages. CATALOG-DEFINING GAP-FILLER for [pr.63 Daniel Sr 1720-1744 catalog gap](../../projects/pr.63%20Daniel%20Sr%201720-1744%20catalog%20gap.md): 8+ pre-1745 cases primary-source-attest 'Daniel Cooper' as Plaintiff defending crops/fence/trees on 'the north side of Passaic River, Hannover Township, Hunterdon County' in 6 separate trespass actions ALL dated 20 February 1737/1738 + 1 trespass 1744 Morris + 1 named-in-case Monmouth land-title 1735 at Cedar Creek/Great Cedar Swamp. = REDUCES the catalog gap from 1720-1744 (24 years) to 1720-1737/1738 (~17 years) at primary-source-NJSA-index tier, pending manuscript-pull confirmation that cited Daniel Cooper = our Daniel Sr (extremely high probability given the Hannover Twp Hunterdon Co. geographic + temporal fit with Daniel Sr's known 1744 Green Brook Falls K.5 attestation + Morris Co. 1739 Justice commission per I.95). SECOND CATALOG-DEFINING FINDING for [pr.16 Cooper-Coriell Y-DNA mystery](../../projects/pr.16%20Cooper-Coriell%20Y-DNA%20mystery.md): 2 cases 1753 = Sarah Corriel and John Corriel v. Daniel Cooper (Morris+Somerset 1753) — companion Trespass-on-the-Case (Assumpsit £100 light money upon promises, Case 6685*) + Debt (£40 light money, Case 6213) = DIRECT primary-source-attested Cooper-Corriel litigation 1753 = high-leverage manuscript-pull target for the Coriell-NPE-mystery research thread. Other catalog-relevant clusters: ~30+ Daniel Sr + Daniel Jr Sheriff/JP/Judge of Morris attestations 1759-1798; debt cases vs Benjamin Manning 1766-1771 (Grace Manning's family); 1771 Daniel Jr v. Benjamin Cooper et al Debt (Case 5839) = possible Cooper-family-internal debt litigation. Pages 1-5 captured separately.
Transcription and notes
2026-06-16 — MANUSCRIPT PULLS RECEIVED (NJSA Order 202605-87245 / pr.77) — 3 cases catalogued, 1 correction
The four case files ordered off this K.30 index (Cases 6685*, 6213, 5839, 17397) were received and manuscript-read 2026-06-16. New verbatim entries + one index correction:
| Case(s) | New entry | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 6685* + 6213 (Corriel v. Daniel Cooper 1753) | K.48 | Both files = capias writs + sheriff's cepi corpus returns only (Daniel Cooper arrested). NO declaration, NO kinship/estate-administration language. The pr.16 estate-dispute test = kinship-language NULL. John Corriel confirmed as co-plaintiff (resolves the " Discrepancy" note below). |
| 5839 (1771 Debt on Bond) | K.49 | CORRECTION: plaintiff/creditor = Daniel Cooper SEN.r, NOT Daniel Jr (NJSA party row + bond text "the s.d Daniel Cooper Sen.r"). Stirling + Benjamin Cooper jointly bound to Daniel Sr (penal £2,000 NY; pay £1,000 by 12 Apr 1771); autographs "Stirling (L.S.)" + "Benj.n Cooper (L.S.)"; levy on Hibernia Furnace ~2,000 ac. So §4 below is superseded — it is not Daniel Jr suing his brother; it is Daniel Sr as creditor of Stirling + Benjamin. |
| 17397 (Hewlett & Steele v. Parker 1738-39) | K.50 | Cooper-NULL. Cedar Creek land chain = Hewlett/Steele ↔ Parker ↔ Eastwood ↔ Burnet; no Cooper. The lone "Daniel Cooper" = a writ cross-reference to the separate Cooper v. Norris cause (Case 8001). pr.2-Hypothesis-B Cedar-Creek hope retired. |
Section-letter scope expansion note
The K section is hereby broadened from 'Land Records and Deeds' to 'Land Records / Court Records / NJSA Searchable Databases' to accommodate this entry. K.1 through K.29 are NJSA Early Land Records sweeps + specific deeds; K.30 is the catalog's first NJ Supreme Court Case Files entry. The NJSA Searchable Databases catalog now spans both Land Records + Court Records via the same K-section workflow. Maintainer may at a later date assign Supreme Court Case Files their own dedicated section letter (e.g., N); until then K.30+ accommodate them.
Source identification
| Element | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | New Jersey State Archives — Supreme Court Case Files, 1704-1844 database |
| Portal URL | https://wwwdnet-dos.nj.gov/DOS_ArchivesDBPortal/SupremeCourt.aspx |
| Search filters | Last Name: Cooper; First Name: Daniel |
| Search captured | 28 May 2026 by maintainer (Chris Cooper) |
| Total records | 63 across 5 result pages |
| Local result-set files | (image held in the family archive) through (image held in the family archive) |
| Catalog discovery context | Supreme Court sweep performed 28 May 2026 in response to my pr.63 Priority-3 question (= NJSA Supreme Court Case Files as the highest-leverage unsearched database for the 1720-1744 gap, per reference_njsa_searchable_databases.md). Same-day discovery; immediately catalog-defining. |
| Related existing folder content | (image held in the family archive) — read 2026-05-30; a 29-record companion index export with detail this 63-record search lacked. See "Companion on-disk index export" section below. |
Companion on-disk index export — (image held in the family archive) (read 2026-05-30) [verbatim search-result]
A pre-existing 1-page PDF ((image held in the family archive), p.2 blank) headed "Index to Supreme Court Cases, 1704-1844", 29 Records Found — a differently-filtered export of the same Daniel-Cooper query. It is a SUBSET of the 63-record search above, but it breaks multi-party cases into one row per party, exposing detail the 63-record summary collapsed. Two catalog-defining gains:
Gain 1 — Case 5839 is Daniel Jr v. Benjamin Cooper AND Lord Stirling jointly
The 63-record search rendered Case 5839 as "Daniel Cooper Jr. v. Benjamin Cooper et al." This export resolves the "et al." — three party-rows, all Case 5839 / Debt / Morris / 1771:
| Plaintiff | Defendant | Case | Type | County | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cooper, Daniel Jr. | William Earl of Stirling ([William Alexander]) | 5839 | Debt | Morris | 1771 |
| Cooper, Daniel Jr. | Cooper, Benjamin | 5839 | Debt | Morris | 1771 |
| Cooper, Daniel Jr. | Lord Stirling (William Earl of Stirling) | 5839 | Debt | Morris | 1771 |
= Daniel Cooper Jr. (Plaintiff) v. Benjamin Cooper + Lord Stirling (William Alexander) jointly (1771 Debt, Morris). This is no longer a simple intra-family suit — it puts p.79 Daniel Cooper Jr, p.2 Capt Benjamin Cooper, and Lord Stirling on the SAME 1771 debt instrument. Strongly suggestive of a Stirling-network joint obligation — cross-thread to K.9 Benjamin's Hibernia/Pequannock Lord Stirling iron-works partnership 1761-1766 + pr.52 Cooper-to-Stirling 1773 letter. Manuscript-pull of Case 5839 now substantially higher-leverage than the 63-record summary implied (it would surface the underlying debt instrument tying Benjamin + Daniel Jr + Stirling, 2 years before the pr.52 1773 letter).
Gain 2 — Case 6700 (NEW, not in the 63-record search)
| Plaintiff | Defendant | Case | Type | County | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cooper, Daniel | Denman, John | 6700 | Trespass | Essex | 1744 |
= the Essex-venue companion of Case 6605 (Daniel Cooper v. John Dunman/Denman, 1738-1744). RESOLVED 2026-05-30: the K.32 Case-6605 manuscript cover label states "Some documents microfilmed under Case #6700 have been refiled to this Case #" — i.e. 6700's papers were physically refiled into 6605. So 6700 is not a wholly separate matter; it is the same Cooper-v-Denman title-of-land action, its Essex documents now consolidated under 6605 (K.32). (6700 was absent from the 63-record search because its content moved to 6605.)
Discrepancy — Corriel plaintiff(s) listed differently across the two exports
This 29-record export lists the 1753-1754 cases with Sarah as sole named plaintiff: "Corriel, Sarah v. Cooper, Daniel" (6213, Debt, Morris, 1753-1754) and "Coriel, Sarah v. Cooper, Daniel" (6685*, Trespass, Morris, 1753-1754) — note the two spellings AND the extended 1753-1754 date range. The 63-record search above listed "Sarah Corriel AND John Corriel" as co-plaintiffs. Whether p.570 John Corriel is truly a co-plaintiff (per the 63-record export) or only Sarah is named (per this 29-record export) is unresolved between the two NJSA exports — the manuscript pull of 6685* + 6213 would settle it (and is the same pull already prioritized for the pr.16 Hypothesis-E question).
Full 29-record export [verbatim]
Boudinot, Elias v. Cooper, Daniel — 2580 — Debt — Hunterdon — 1798-1799 · William Burnet (Estate of) / William, Alexander + Burnet Montgomery (Administrators) v. Cooper, Daniel (Estate of) — 2694* — Undetermined — 1798 · Bingo, Jacob v. Cooper, Daniel — 3922 — Debt — Somerset — 1799 · Cooper, Daniel Jr. v. William Earl of Stirling / Benjamin Cooper / Lord Stirling — 5839 — Debt — Morris — 1771 · Cooper, Daniel v. Breese, John — 5919 — Debt — Somerset — 1786 · Cooper, Daniel v. Brokaw, John — 5964 — Debt/Trespass — Somerset — 1792 · Cooper, Daniel v. Baird, Isaac — 6173 — Trespass & Ejectment — Morris — 1794 · Corriel, Sarah v. Cooper, Daniel — 6213 — Debt — Morris — 1753-1754 · Cooper, Daniel v. Crane, John — 6247 — Trespass — Morris — 1738 · Cooper, Daniel v. Crane, William — 6317 — Trespass on the Case — Essex — 1830 · Cooper, Daniel v. Dunman, John — 6605 — Trespass — Morris — 1738 · Coriel, Sarah v. Cooper, Daniel — 6685* — Trespass — Morris — 1753-1754 · Cooper, Daniel v. Denman, John — 6700 — Trespass — Essex — 1744 · Cooper, Daniel v. Giels, James — 7039 — Debt — Middlesex — 1764 · Cooper, Daniel v. Lender, John — 7745 — Trespass — Hunterdon — 1738 · Cooper, Daniel v. Moss, Joseph — 7903 — Trespass — Essex — 1742 · Cooper, Daniel v. Norris, Samuel — 8001 — Trespass — Hunterdon — 1737-1738 · Cooper, Daniel v. Scudder, John — 8631 — Trespass — Morris — 1744 · Cooper, Daniel Jr. v. Tuttle, Joseph — 8804 — Debt — Morris — 1769 · Cooper, Daniel v. Terrill, John — 8919 — Trespass — Essex — 1738 · Neilson, William v. Cooper, Daniel — 27678 — Debt — Hunterdon — 1787 · VanHouten, Dirch v. Cooper, Daniel — 42517 — [blank] — 1795-1796 · VanHouten, Garrab v. Cooper, Daniel — 42521 — [blank] — 1774 · Wills, Samuel v. Cooper, Daniel — 44485 — [blank] — 1787. (29 Records Found.)
About the NJSA Supreme Court Case Files database (verbatim portal description excerpt)
This database currently indexes 55,088 Supreme Court case files held by the New Jersey State Archives. It includes 225,416 name entries. The Supreme Court case files vary in content, from a single writ or summons, to complex documentation containing multiple writs, depositions, court costs, jury summons, and papers filed in lower courts.
All cases are indexed by the primary plaintiff and defendant; 67% also record a basic case type, and at least one county designation; 97% record at least one year.
Many records include: a date range (multiple years over which the case was adjudicated); additional counties and out of state locations (where the case was heard, where the parties were from, or where the injury occurred); additional notes on the case type; and additional names recorded in the file. Out-of-state locations--'Philadelphia,' for example--are noted in the 'County' column. Supplemental data entry is ongoing.
Per maintainer note (search performed): 63 records returned across 5 pages = total Daniel-Cooper-name hits.
CATALOG-DEFINING GAP-FILLER — Daniel Sr in 1737/1738
The 1737/1738 Hannover Township trespass cluster — 6 cases, same incident, same plaintiff
Six separate Supreme Court cases share an identical pattern: Daniel Cooper as Plaintiff suing 6 different defendants for Trespass on 20 February 1737/1738 at 'the north side of Passaic River, Hannover Township, Hunterdon County' (Hannover Twp pre-dates the 1739 Morris Co. creation, so it was Hunterdon-county-administered until then). All 6 cases claim £500 damages for the same conduct: destroying crops, tearing down fence, and destroying trees.
| Case # | Defendant | Counties | Dates | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8919 | John Terrill | Essex and Hunterdon | 1738 | Trespass + £500 |
| 7745 | John Lender | Hunterdon | 1738 | Trespass + £500; specifies "in the close of Daniel Cooper" |
| 8001 | Samuel Norris Sr. and Samuel Norris Jr. | Essex and Hunterdon | 1738 | Trespass + £500; file includes 2 suits; one per defendant |
| 7903 | Joseph Morss [or Moss] | Hunterdon and Morris | 1737 - 1742 | Trespass + £500; "Hannover Twp Hunterdon Co, later Morris Co" = case docket spans the 1739 county-creation transition |
| 6605 | John Denman | Essex, Hunterdon, Morris and Out of Province (New York) | 1738 - 1744 | Trespass + £500 + Debt on Costs £70.18.10; View PDF available (= NJSA has scanned this case file image) |
| 6247 | John Crane | Essex, Hunterdon, Morris | 1738 - 1742 | Trespass + £500; includes a jury summons dated 1742, but no jury list |
Catalog significance
This is the catalog's strongest gap-window primary-source-INDEX attestation of Daniel Sr since the K.2 1720 Hunterdon Weaver attestation. The 6-case cluster establishes:
- Daniel Sr was a LANDED FARMER at Hannover Township, Hunterdon County, by February 1737/1738 — owning crops, fence, and trees substantial enough to generate £500 damage claims = a large valuation in 1738 currency (£500 EJ money in 1738 ≈ a substantial farmstead's value).
- The 20 February 1737/1738 incident was a SINGLE event affecting one farm (Daniel Sr's) and identified 6+ specific defendants — possibly a coordinated trespass / political protest / Crown-rights dispute (= note: 1737-1738 was the Newark-Riots-precursor period in NJ; Cooper's specific case may be related to the same Crown-land vs. settlers tension that later became the Newark Rioters of 1745-1755 documented in I.94 David Ogden 1747 letter targeting Daniel Sr's house — i.e., a 9-10 year predecessor incident).
- Daniel Sr was Hunterdon-county-administered in 1737-1738 — Hannover Twp at that date was part of Hunterdon Co. (Morris Co. created 1739; per Case 7903 the docket spans the Hunterdon→Morris transition). This is consistent with Daniel Sr being Hunterdon-administered through the gap window 1720-1739.
- Geographic anchor: 'north side of Passaic River, Hannover Township' = the same Long Hill / Hannover-pre-1768 / Morris Twp area where Daniel Sr is later attested as Esquire 1752 (K.10), Hannover Twp former owner 1772 (K.10), Long Hill resident 1791 (A.9), buried Basking Ridge (G.27). = continuous geographic chain from 1737/1738 through 1795 death at the same farmstead area.
- The 1739 Morris Co. creation transition + Daniel Sr's 1 September 1739 Justice of the Quorum commission (I.95 = previously catalog's earliest Morris-Co. judicial attestation) now sits ~18 months AFTER his Feb 1737/1738 trespass-plaintiff farming attestations = primary-source-confirms Daniel Sr's Hannover Twp farmstead presence ~18 months before his Morris-County-Crown-appointment.
Net for the gap
pr.63 Daniel Sr 1720-1744 gap is now REDUCED from 24 years (1720-1744) to ~17 years (1720-1737/1738) at primary-source-NJSA-index tier. Manuscript-pull of any 1 of the 6 case files (especially 6605 v. Denman = View PDF available = no order needed) would primary-source-LOCK this attestation at full verbatim tier and resolve any same-name-different-Daniel ambiguity. Hypothesis H1 (Hunterdon-county-administered through gap window) is now STRENGTHENED at index tier, conditional on manuscript-confirmation.
Plus 1744 Morris trespass
Case 8631 Daniel Cooper v. John Scudder (Morris 1744) Trespass = 1-month-or-so before K.5 6 Oct 1744 Green Brook Falls survey. = continuous Daniel-Sr-Morris-Co.-farmstead attestation through 1744.
Plus 1738-1739 Monmouth named-in-case
Case 17397 Robert Hulet et al. v. Daniel Parker (Monmouth 1738-1739) = Habeas Corpus (to Common Pleas to produce Daniel Parker) + Debt on Bond (from 1735, £500 East New Jersey money owed on transfer of land title: at Cedar Creek, lower end of Great Cedar Swamp). Daniel Cooper named in case via "in Cooper v. Norris, additional case listed on writ" (= the related 1738 Case 8001 Daniel Cooper v. Samuel Norris Sr+Jr cited above). Possibly primary-source-attests Daniel Sr's Monmouth Co. land-title-bond involvement at Cedar Creek 1735 = WITHIN GAP WINDOW. Identification pending manuscript-pull; if confirmed = closes pr.2 Hypothesis B (John Cooper of Middletown Monmouth 1733 candidate father) geographic context.
CATALOG-DEFINING for pr.16 Cooper-Coriell Y-DNA mystery
Cases 6685* + 6213 — Sarah and John Corriel v. Daniel Cooper, Morris 1753
| Case # | Title | Type | County | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6685* | Sarah Corriel and John Corriel v. Daniel Cooper | Trespass on the Case (Assumpsit; £100 light money upon promises) | Morris | 1753 |
| 6213 | Sarah Corriel and John Corriel v. Daniel Cooper (of Morris County) | Debt (£40 light money) | Morris and Somerset | 1753 |
Direct primary-source-attested Cooper-Corriel litigation 1753. This is the catalog's first primary-source-attested instance of a Coriell-spelled surname appearing as a direct legal-counterparty to a Daniel Cooper. = high-leverage manuscript-pull target for pr.16 Cooper-Coriell Y-DNA mystery.
Plaintiffs Sarah Corriel + John Corriel — NEW catalog persons. Surname spelling "Corriel" (not "Coriell" / "Coryell") matches the K.20 David Coriell of Piscataway Middlesex-county spelling pattern. Possibly siblings / spouses / cousins of David Coriell (p.262). Daniel-Cooper defendant identification = our Daniel Sr (age 58 in 1753, sitting Justice/Sheriff at that period) is the highest-probability candidate.
Manuscript pull is the catalog's next-highest priority pr.16 path. $25-50 likely cost. Would surface: (a) Sarah + John Corriel relationship to each other + to David Coriell; (b) the specific debt / promises context (= business deal? family money? land sale?); (c) Daniel Cooper's defense + outcome. Together with the K.20 David Coriell of Piscataway records 1726-1742 + pr.32 Emanuel Coryell research thread + A.18 Daniel Sr as Overseer of Emanuel Coryell's 1745 will, this 1753 Sarah+John Corriel case would primary-source-establish a multi-decade Cooper-Coriell social-and-legal-network at Morris/Somerset/Middlesex 1726-1753.
Verbatim — All 63 records, organized by page
Page 1 of 5 — Records 1-15 [verbatim search-result]
| # | Case # | Name (role) | Case Title | Case Type | County | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8804 | Cooper, Daniel Jr. (Esquire) (Plaintiff) | Daniel Cooper Jr., Esquire v. Joseph Tuttle, Esquire, John Tuttle, and Joseph Tuttle Jr. | Debt on Bond (£1,462 current money of New York) | Morris | 1769 |
| 2 | 8919 | Cooper, Daniel (Plaintiff) | Daniel Cooper v. John Terrill | Tresspass (on February 20, 1737/1738, on the North side of Pissaick River, Hannover Township, Hunterdon County; destroying crops, tearing down fence, and destroying trees) and Damage (£500) | Essex and Hunterdon | 1738 |
| 3 | 8631 | Cooper, Daniel (Plaintiff) | Daniel Cooper v. John Scudder | Trespass | Morris | 1744 |
| 4 | 7745 | Cooper, Daniel (Plaintiff) | Daniel Cooper v. John Lender | Trespass (on February 20, 1737/1738, for destroying crops and cutting trees in the close of Daniel Cooper, on the north side of Passaic River in Hannover Township) and Damage (£500) | Hunterdon | 1738 |
| 5 | 8001 | Cooper, Daniel (Plaintiff) | Daniel Cooper v. Samuel Norris Sr. and Samuel Norris Jr. | Trespass (on February 20, 1737/1738, for destroying crops and cutting trees from land on the north side of Passaic River in Hannover Township) and Damage (£500) [File includes two suits; one for each defendant] | Essex and Hunterdon | 1738 |
| 6 | 6173 | Cooper, Daniel (Plaintiff) | Daniel Cooper v. Isaac Baird | Trespass & Ejectment | Morris | 1794 |
| 7 | 7903 | Cooper, Daniel (Plaintiff) | Daniel Cooper v. Joseph Morss [or Moss] | Trespass (on February 20, 1737/1738, on the North side of Pissaick River, Hannover Township, Hunterdon County, later Morris County; destroying crops, tearing down fence, and destroying trees) and Damage (£500) | Hunterdon and Morris | 1737 - 1742 |
| 8 | 7039 | Cooper, Daniel (Plaintiff) | Daniel Cooper v. James Giels | Debt | Middlesex | 1764 |
| 9 | 6605 [View PDF] | Cooper, Daniel (Plaintiff) | Daniel Cooper v. John Denman | Trespass (on February 20, 1737/1738, for destroying crops and cutting trees on Daniel Cooper's land on the north side of Passaic River in Hannover Township) and Damage (£500); and Debt on Costs (£70.18.10) | Essex, Hunterdon, Morris and Out of Province (New York) | 1738 - 1744 |
| 10 | 6247 | Cooper, Daniel (Plaintiff) | Daniel Cooper v. John Crane | Trespass (on February 20, 1737/1738, on the North side of Pissaick River, Hannover Township, Hunterdon County; destroying crops, tearing down fence, and destroying trees) and Damage (£500); [includes a jury summons dated 1742, but no jury list] | Essex, Hunterdon and Morris | 1738 - 1742 |
| 11 | 5964 | Cooper, Daniel (Plaintiff) | Daniel Cooper v. John Brokaw | Trespass and Debt | Somerset | 1792 |
| 12 | 5919 | Cooper, Daniel (Plaintiff) | Daniel Cooper v. John Breese | Debt | Somerset | 1786 |
| 13 | 5839 | Cooper, Daniel Jr. (Plaintiff) (index error) | Daniel Cooper Jr. v. Benjamin Cooper et al. manuscript = Daniel Cooper SEN.r v. Lord Stirling + Benjamin Cooper — see K.49** | Debt | Morris | 1771 |
| 14 | 6317 | Cooper, Daniel (Plaintiff) | Daniel Cooper v. William Crane | Trespass on the Case | Essex | 1830 |
| 15 | 6685* | Cooper, Daniel (Defendant) | Sarah Corriel and John Corriel v. Daniel Cooper → manuscript K.48 | Trespass on the Case (Assumpsit; £100 light money upon promises) | Morris | 1753 |
Page 2 of 5 — Records 16-30 [verbatim search-result]
| # | Case # | Name (role) | Case Title | Case Type | County | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 27678 | Cooper, Daniel (Defendant) | William Neilson v. Daniel Cooper | Debt | Hunterdon | 1787 |
| 17 | 44485 | Cooper, Daniel (Defendant) | Samuel Wills v. Daniel Cooper | Undetermined | Undetermined | 1787 |
| 18 | 2694* | Cooper, Daniel (Estate of) (Defendant) | William Burnet (Estate of) et al. v. Daniel Cooper (Estate of) et al. | Unspecified | Unspecified | 1798 |
| 19 | 6213 | Cooper, Daniel (of Morris County) (Defendant) | Sarah Corriel and John Corriel v. Daniel Cooper → manuscript K.48 | Debt (£40 light money) | Morris and Somerset | 1753 |
| 20 | 42521 | Cooper, Daniel (Defendant) | Garrab VanHouten v. Daniel Cooper | Undetermined | Undetermined | 1774 |
| 21 | 42517 | Cooper, Daniel (Defendant) | Dirch VanHouten v. Daniel Cooper | Undetermined | Undetermined | 1795 - 1796 |
| 22 | 3922 | Cooper, Daniel (Defendant) | Jacob Bingo v. Daniel Cooper et al. | Debt | Somerset | 1799 |
| 23 | 2580 | Cooper, Daniel (Defendant) | Elias Boudinot v. Daniel Cooper et al. | Debt | Hunterdon | 1798 - 1799 |
| 24 | 34527 | Cooper, Daniel (Defendant) | State of New Jersey v. Peter Cooper et al. | Riot | Morris | 1792 |
| 25 | 35213 | Cooper, Daniel (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | John Stevens v. Hartshorne Fitzrandolph | Debt on Bond | Morris | 1765 - 1767 |
| 26 | 35214 | Cooper, Daniel Jr. (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | John Stevens v. Jacob Ford | Debt | Morris | 1768 |
| 27 | 35624 | Cooper, Daniel Jr. (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | John Schuyler (Estate of) et al. v. John Harriman et al. | Debt | Morris | 1768 - 1786 |
| 28 | 35966 | Cooper, Daniel Jr. (Justice of the Peace) (Official) | State of New Jersey v. Samuel Hinds | Appeal on Forcible Entry & Detainer | Essex and Morris | 1785 - 1792 |
| 29 | 36149 | Cooper, Daniel (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | Peter Sobrisco v. Jonathan Johnson | Debt | Morris | 1768 |
| 30 | 15292 | Cooper, Daniel Jr. (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | Captain Hammet v. John Budd | Assumpsit | Morris | 1768 |
Page 3 of 5 — Records 31-45 [verbatim search-result]
| # | Case # | Name (role) | Case Title | Case Type | County | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 15036 | Cooper, Daniel Jr. (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | Perry Thomas Hayes et al. v. Jacob Allerton | Debt | Morris | 1767 |
| 32 | 23345 | Cooper, Daniel (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | John Low v. Joseph Prudden | Debt on Bond (from 1743) | Morris | 1768 |
| 33 | 40706 | Cooper, Daniel Jr. (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | Joseph Turner v. Elizabeth Hackett (Administratrix) et al. | Debt | Morris | 1761 |
| 34 | 38862(5)* | Cooper, Daniel (Juror) | State of New Jersey to Sheriff of Morris | Precept for a Grand Jury (1781) | Morris | 1781 |
| 35 | 40153* | Cooper, Daniel Jr. (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | College of New Jersey v. Alexander Carmichael | Debt on Bond (from 1766) | Morris | 1766 - 1767 |
| 36 | 40155 | Cooper, Daniel (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | College of New Jersey v. Abraham Cory | Trespass and Debt | Morris | 1768 |
| 37 | 40157 | Cooper, Daniel (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | College of New Jersey v. David Cory | Trespass and Debt | Morris | 1771 |
| 38 | 36476 | Cooper, Daniel Jr. (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | Walter Shee et al. v. William Laverty | On Assumption | Morris | 1769 |
| 39 | 22571 | Cooper, Daniel Jr. (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | Abraham Lott et al. v. Jonathan Hunting | Debt on Bond | Morris | 1767 - 1768 |
| 40 | 19090 | Cooper, Daniel (Juror) | John Jessup v. Joseph Cook | Error on Debt (regarding trade partnership, ca. 1784-1786, multiple suits. Referred to Chancery and Errors and Appeals) | Gloucester and Salem | 1788 - 1804 |
| 41 | 10307 | Cooper, Daniel (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | William Dorris v. Tristram Hull | Replevin (for return of a bay horse, taken at the Kings Highway, Somerset) and Inquisition | Morris and Somerset | 1767 - 1768 |
| 42 | 41843 | Cooper, Daniel (Justice of the Peace) (Official) | Overseers of the Poor of Bedminster Township v. Overseers of the Poor of Mendham Township | Appeal on Order of Removal (for Robert Kirkpatrick and his family) | Morris and Somerset | 1768 |
| 43 | 12868 | Cooper, Daniel (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | Caleb Fairchild v. Elijah Gillet | Assumpsit | Morris | 1761 |
| 44 | 17397 | Cooper, Daniel (in Cooper v. Norris, additional case listed on writ) (Named in Case) | Robert Hulet et al. v. Daniel Parker → manuscript K.50 (Cooper-NULL: no Cooper in the Cedar Creek land chain) | Habeas Corpus (to Common Pleas to produce Daniel Parker) and Debt on Bond (from 1735, £500 East New Jersey money owed on transfer of land title: at Cedar Creek, lower end of Great Cedar Swamp) | Monmouth | 1738 - 1739 |
| 45 | 45382 | Cooper, Daniel (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | Ann Waddell v. John Losey Jr. | Debt (£350 current money of New York Province) | Middlesex and Morris | 1769 - 1770 |
Page 4 of 5 — Records 46-61 [verbatim search-result]
| # | Case # | Name (role) | Case Title | Case Type | County | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 46 | 115 | Cooper, Daniel (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | John Alford v. Samuel Bayles | Debt on Bond (from 1753; £139.8s.2d proclamation money) | Morris | 1759 - 1760 |
| 47 | 25598 | Cooper, Daniel Jr. (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | Benaiah Munday v. Isaac Hull and Samuel Hull | Trespass on the Case (on a promisory note for £22 and damage; £40 proclamation money); and Warrant of Attorney | Morris and Sussex | 1767 - 1768 |
| 48 | 2064 | Cooper, Daniel Jr. (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | John Boyle v. Solomon Boyle | Trespass on the Case (Assumpsit; £100) | Morris | 1766 |
| 49 | 23338 | Cooper, Daniel (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | Gabriel Ludlow and Nicholas Hoffman v. Moses Peirson | Debt on Bond (from 1765; £500 current money of New York) and Costs (£7.1.6) | Morris | 1767 - 1769 |
| 50 | 30420 [View PDF] | Cooper, Daniel Jr. (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | Daniel Pierson v. Moses Pierson (Eldest son and heir of James Pierson, deceased) | Trespass | Morris | 1768 - 1769 |
| 51 | 9100 | Cooper, Daniel Jr. (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | Nicausa Cipp v. Daniel Wick | Debt on Bond (from 1764; £200 current money at eight shillings the ounce) | Bergen and Morris | 1766 - 1768 |
| 52 | 763 [View PDF] | Cooper, Daniel Jr. (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | William Allen v. James Kernes and John Stark | Debt on Bond (from 1764; £217.5.2 1/2 penny proclamation money) | Morris | 1768 - 1770 |
| 53 | 10996 | Cooper, Daniel Jr. (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | John DeHart and Benjamin Crane (Executors of John Crane, Esquire, deceased) v. John Roll | Debt (£36) | Morris | 1767 |
| 54 | 3077 | Cooper, Daniel Jr. (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | William Brownejohn, Sr. v. David Gould | Debt on Bond (from 1768; £127.17.6 1/2 current money of New York) | Morris, Sussex and Out of Province (New York City) | 1768 |
| 55 | 4411 | Cooper, Daniel Jr. (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | Thomas Browne and Thomas Canfield v. John Pierson and Samuel Roberts Jr. | Debt on Bond (from 1763; £500 current money of New York; owed on condition of payment of £300 New York money to James Jansey, owed by Thomas Browne and Thomas Canfield) | Essex, Morris and Out of Province (New York City) | 1768 - 1771 |
| 56 | 5386 | Cooper, Daniel (1807) (Juror) | John Y. Baldwin and Jesse Balwin v. John Vandyke | Appeal (to JP Aaron Munn) on two Debt suits (1806 for $79.76; and, 1807 for $74.91) and Costs (1806 for $4.43; and 1807 for $5.03); and Debt on Costs in Certiorari ($19.59) | Essex and Out of State (New York City) | 1806 - 1809 |
| 57 | 11528 | Cooper, Daniel Jr. (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | Hendrick Demott v. Peter Young | Debt (£100) | Morris | 1769 |
| 58 | 9602 | Cooper, Daniel Jr. (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | Hendrick DeMott v. Lemuel Bowers and Peter Young | Debt (£120 proclamation money of New Jersey) | Morris | 1768 |
| 59 | 44060 [View PDF] | Cooper, Daniel Jr. (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | William Wilson v. David Beaman | Trespass on the Case (Assumpsit; £50 proclamation money of New Jersey); and Warrant of Attorney | Essex and Morris | 1767 |
| 60 | 2308 [View PDF] | Cooper, Daniel Jr. (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | Joseph Burdge and William Crawford (Executors of Richard Morris, deceased) v. James Cooper | Debt on Bond (from 1761; £200 current lawful money of the Province of New Jersey at eight shillings the ounce) | Middlesex and Morris | 1769 - 1770 |
Page 5 of 5 — Records 61-63 [verbatim search-result]
| # | Case # | Name (role) | Case Title | Case Type | County | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 61 | 15773 [View PDF] | Cooper, Daniel (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | William Hayden v. Daniel Day | Debt on Bond (from 1764; £380 New Jersey money at eight shillings the ounce) | Morris and Somerset | 1767 - 1770 |
| 62 | 23110 [View PDF] | Cooper, Daniel (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | Daniel Lawrence (also as Assignee of Jacob Ford Jr., Esquire) v. Benjamin Manning | Debt (£74.8.0 current money of the province at eight shillings the ounce) | Morris | 1766 - 1767 |
| 63 | 45641 [View PDF] | Cooper, Daniel (Sheriff of Morris) (Official) | Thomas White v. Benjamin Manning | Debt on Bond (from 1763; £600 current money of New York) | Morris | 1769 - 1771 |
Catalog synthesis
1. The 1737/1738 cluster is the single most catalog-defining post-1720 Daniel Sr index attestation in months
6 cases, 1 incident, 1 plaintiff = Daniel Sr at Hannover Twp Hunterdon Co. as landed farmer Feb 1737/1738. Reduces the catalog gap by 7 years (24 → 17) at index tier.
2. The 1753 Sarah+John Corriel cases are the catalog-newest Coriell-spelled-surname primary-source-court-case attestations
= direct Cooper-Coriell legal-counterparty 1753, distinct from K.20 Piscataway David Coriell + I.18 Emanuel Coryell 1745 will Daniel-as-Overseer chain.
3. The ~30+ Sheriff-of-Morris cases corroborate the I.99-led primary-source-locked Daniel-Sr-Sheriff 1753-1761 + Daniel-Jr-Sheriff 1758-1770s attestation
Per p.1 Open-Question §about Sheriff role: Daniel Sr was Sheriff 1753-1761 per Honeyman M.24 (corrected via I.99 to recognize Daniel Jr also held the role 1758+). Now the Supreme Court Cases reveal: - Daniel Sr Sheriff cases 1759-1769 = primary-source-confirms Honeyman's "1753-1761" attribution roughly (extends to ~1769 per Case 23345 + others) - Daniel Jr Sheriff cases 1761-1786 = extends I.99's 1758 attestation through ~1786 = ~28-year Daniel Jr Sheriff tenure (intermittent? continuous? = manuscript-pull would clarify; possible that Cases marked "Daniel Cooper (Sheriff)" without "Jr." are Daniel Sr's tenure and "Daniel Cooper Jr (Sheriff)" are Daniel Jr's tenure, but this is a database-indexing convention not a primary-source distinction; manuscript-pull of each case file would surface the actual signatory)
4. The 1771 Case 5839 is Daniel Cooper SEN.r v. Lord Stirling + Benjamin Cooper (CORRECTED 2026-06-16 at manuscript — see K.49)
Superseded by the manuscript. The 63-record summary read "Daniel Cooper Jr. v. Benjamin Cooper et al."; the 29-record export resolved "et al." = Lord Stirling (William Alexander). But the manuscript pull (K.49, 2026-06-16) corrects the plaintiff suffix: the NJSA finding-aid party row AND the bond text both name the creditor "Daniel Cooper Sen.r". So this is p.1 Daniel Cooper SR (Plaintiff/creditor) v. Lord Stirling + p.2 Capt Benjamin Cooper jointly — NOT Daniel Jr, and NOT a brother-suing-brother intra-family suit. It is Daniel Sr (the father) enforcing a £1,000 joint bond (penal £2,000 NY money, dated 10 Apr 1771) against Lord Stirling + Benjamin, levying on the Hibernia Furnace ~2,000-acre tract (cross-thread K.9 Hibernia partnership + pr.52 1773 Cooper-Stirling letter). See K.49 for the full verbatim transcription.
5. The 1766-1771 Benjamin Manning debt-execution cases (Cases 23110 + 45641) are Cooper-Manning-family-of-origin context
Daniel Sr was Sheriff in both = he was personally executing debt-collection writs against Benjamin Manning (= relative of [p.??] Grace Manning of Essex Co., whom Daniel Sr married 11 Mar 1768 = 1 year after Case 23110 begins). New data for the Grace-Manning family-of-origin research thread. Manuscript-pull would surface kinship details.
6. Multiple View-PDF-available cases — manuscript-images on NJSA server
Cases with "View PDF" availability (no order needed; free download): - 6605 Daniel Cooper v. John Denman 1738-1744 — IN THE 1737/1738 CLUSTER = highest catalog priority (would PRIMARY-SOURCE-LOCK the 1737/1738 Hannover Twp Daniel Sr attestation at full manuscript-image tier with NO paid order) - 30420 Pierson v. Pierson 1768-1769 — Daniel Jr Sheriff - 763 Allen v. Kernes+Stark 1768-1770 — Daniel Jr Sheriff - 44060 Wilson v. Beaman 1767 — Daniel Jr Sheriff - 2308 Burdge+Crawford v. James Cooper 1769-1770 — Daniel Jr Sheriff + James Cooper Defendant - 15773 Hayden v. Day 1767-1770 — Daniel Sr Sheriff - 23110 Lawrence v. Benjamin Manning 1766-1767 — Daniel Sr Sheriff + Manning context - 45641 White v. Benjamin Manning 1769-1771 — Daniel Sr Sheriff + Manning context
Follow-ups
- Download Case 6605 PDF (Daniel Cooper v. John Denman 1738-1744) — View-PDF-available = no paid order needed. Would primary-source-LOCK the 1737/1738 Hannover Twp Daniel Sr attestation. CATALOG TOP PRIORITY 2026-05-28.
- DONE 2026-06-16 — Cases 6685* + 6213 received + manuscript-read at K.48 (NJSA Order 202605-87245, pr.77). Result: capias writs + cepi corpus returns only; no declaration, no kinship/estate language → the pr.16 estate-dispute test returns kinship-language NULL. John Corriel confirmed co-plaintiff.
- DONE 2026-06-16 — Case 5839 received + manuscript-read at K.49 (NJSA Order 202605-87245, pr.77). CORRECTION: plaintiff/creditor = Daniel Cooper SEN.r, not Jr (Stirling + Benjamin jointly bound to Daniel Sr; penal £2,000 NY, pay £1,000 by 12 Apr 1771; Hibernia Furnace levy). See §4 above.
- DONE 2026-06-16 — Case 17397 received + manuscript-read at K.50 (NJSA Order 202605-87245, pr.77). Cooper-NULL — no Cooper in the Cedar Creek land chain; the lone "Daniel Cooper" = a writ cross-reference to Case 8001. pr.2-Hypothesis-B Cedar-Creek hope retired.
- DONE 2026-05-30 — Cases 23110 + 45641 downloaded + manuscript-read at K.39 + K.40 (Daniel Sr Sheriff vs Benjamin Manning of Roxbury 1766–1771). K.39: verified "Dn.l Cooper Sheriff / 2[s] mileage" dorse endorsement on the Apr 1767 writ. K.40: declaration transcribed verbatim (£600 bond 30 June 1763 Morristown) + Roxbury co-obligor network (Budd/Drake/Ogden + witnesses King/Salmon) + NEW Reuben Manning on the seized Roxbury land. No primary-source kinship to Grace Manning attested — same-surname Morris-Co. context only.
- DONE 2026-05-30 — Case 2308 downloaded + manuscript-read at K.41 (Daniel Jr Sheriff; James Cooper defendant). Declaration p.5 names the debtor "James Cooper … of the Township of ROXBURY in the County of Morris" (£200 bond to Richard Morris, cover-dated 1761) = a fam.2 Roxbury James Cooper ( first-draft "Piscataway/Middlesex" was a same-day-corrected misreading — see K.41 correction note + the K.43 James-Cooper sweep "(of Roxbury)" index label). Recorded in name.7; candidate = fam.2 James, son of Nathan Cooper I.
- DONE 2026-05-30 — Cases 15773 + 30420 + 44060 + 763 downloaded + catalogued (consolidated) at K.42 — four routine Sheriff-of-Morris administrative case files (Cooper = executing sheriff only, no Cooper-family content).
- Order Cases 8919 / 7745 / 8001 / 7903 / 6247 (the other 5 of the 6 1737/1738 cluster) — if Case 6605 confirms Daniel-Sr-identification, the other 5 cluster cases would all corroborate at additional-trial-detail tier.
- Read the pre-existing (image held in the family archive) file (= already in folder before this K.30 was created) — may contain related secondary-source content.
- DONE 2026-05-30 — stub files created: p.569 Sarah Corriel + p.570 John Corriel. The 1753 case was also re-examined through the maintainer's pr.2 Hypothesis E lens (Coriell-mother/Coriell-father → Cooper-stepfather) — see pr.16 § 2026-05-30: under the Y-DNA-coherent form, Sarah could be Daniel Sr's paternal Coriell half-sibling. Manuscript pull of 6685* + 6213 remains the decisive test (kinship language / estate-administrator roles / date of the £100 "promise").
- DONE 2026-05-30 — Benjamin Cooper sweep cataloged at K.33 (~45 cases; ~25 = our Benjamin in the Hibernia/Stirling/Vanderveer/Livingston debt nexus 1769-1791, incl. Case 42345 free View-PDF naming the Hibernia Furnace seizure). Confirmed Benjamin is co-defendant in Case 5839. John Cooper sweep cataloged at K.34.
Cross-references
- pr.63 Daniel Sr 1720-1744 catalog gap — primary-source-GAP-FILLED at index tier; reduces gap to ~17 years.
- pr.16 Cooper-Coriell Y-DNA mystery — primary-source-attested direct Cooper-Corriel 1753 case = catalog-defining advancement.
- pr.2 Daniel Sr father search — Hypothesis B (John Cooper of Middletown Monmouth = candidate father) gains weak corroboration via Case 17397 (Daniel Cooper named in case with Monmouth Cedar Creek 1735 land-title bond).
- pr.44 NJ Colonial Documents corpus scan — Cooper Sheriff-of-Morris 1759-1770s pattern corroboration.
- pr.53 Hunterdon 1784 Daniel v Benjamin Cooper court records — sister project; the 1784 case may surface in a future Supreme Court Case Files audit (= 5839 1771 may be precursor).
- K.2 Daniel Cooper Weaver of Hunterdon 1720 — gap-starting attestation; this K.30 reduces the gap by 7 years on the gap-ending side.
- K.5 Daniel Sr 1744 Green Brook Falls — previous catalog-earliest post-gap attestation; this K.30 makes Cases 8631 (1744 Morris) + the 1737/1738 cluster pre-K.5 attestations.
- K.10 Daniel Sr Esquire 1752 + 1772 Hanover + 1773 CCP Judge — corroborates Daniel Sr judicial career continuity.
- K.16 Daniel Sr Somerset attestations 1745-1773 — sister sweep.
- K.20 David Coriell of Piscataway 1726-1742 — sister Coriell-surname sweep; this K.30 surfaces direct Cooper-Corriel litigation at Morris/Somerset 1753.
- K.28 Bergen 4-way sweep — sister sweep; today's same-day twin.
- K.29 Monmouth 4-way sweep — sister sweep; today's same-day twin.
- A.18 Emanuel Coryell 1745 will, Daniel Sr Overseer — earlier Cooper-Coryell chain attestation.
- A.25 John Cooper of Middletown Monmouth 1733 intestate — candidate father per pr.2 Hypothesis B; weak corroboration via Case 17397.
- I.95 1739 Daniel Sr Justice of the Quorum commission — Daniel Sr's Crown judicial commission post-dates the Feb 1737/1738 farming attestations by ~18 months = consistent chronology.
- I.99 + I.100 + I.101 Morris CCP Minute Book — Daniel Sr + Jr Sheriff/Judge tenure corroboration.
- p.1 Daniel Cooper Sr — subject of the gap-filling 1737/1738 attestations.
- p.79 Daniel Cooper Jr — subject of ~25+ Sheriff/Plaintiff/Debt cases 1761-1786.
- p.2 Capt Benjamin Cooper — possibly subject of Case 5839 1771 intra-family debt litigation.
- p.262 David Coriell of Piscataway — possibly related to Sarah+John Corriel of Cases 6685*+6213.
- External: (image held in the family archive) — pre-existing file in Court Records folder; not yet read into catalog. Flagged for separate review.