Morris County Loan Office Mortgages — Mortgages for Morristown and Morris Township (copied from Books I & II by John D. Canfield, 1776-1787) — MMT typescript transcription + cross-index. CATALOG-DEFINING for [p.1 Daniel Cooper Sr](../../people/p.1%20Daniel%20Cooper%201695-1795.md): Daniel Cooper's own 18 June 1776 Loan Office mortgage (Book I p.162) on ~90 acres on the southwesterly side of Long Hill, part of Lot No. 2 of the Berkeley Survey — its boundary calls name Daniel Cooper Jun. ([p.79](../../people/p.79%20Daniel%20Cooper%20Jr%201729-1787.md)) + John Cooper ([p.8](../../people/p.8%20John%20Cooper%201738-1778.md)) as adjoining Cooper landowners = primary-source snapshot of the Daniel-Sr family's subdivided Long-Hill Lot-No.-2 holdings in 1776. Plus George Cooper 200-ac Morris-Twp mortgage 1786 (Book II p.143; candidate [p.80](../../people/p.80%20George%20Cooper%20son%20of%20Daniel%20Sr.md) Daniel-Sr-son George) + an uncopied 'Cooper, Benj. II p.148' index lead. Source: MMT digital collection id/12665.

Transcription and notes

Source identification

Cross-index — all Cooper entries [verbatim, Image 03]

Cooper, Benj.    II p 148 Cooper, Daniel    I p 162   (p.18) Cooper, George    II p 143   (p.33)   (township of Morris) Cooper, John    I p 162   (p.18)

(Parenthetical "(p.NN)" = the typescript copy-page where the mortgage is transcribed; "Cooper, Benj. II p 148" has no copy-page = NOT transcribed = lead to the original Book II.) Both Daniel + John index to the same mortgage-book page (Book I p.162) = John appears as an adjoining owner within Daniel's mortgage.

Daniel Cooper's mortgage [verbatim, Image 36 = copy-p.18]

Header:

Daniel Cooper & Commrs. Loan Office Morris Co. — Dated June 18, 1776. Recd. April 15, 1780. Book I, of Loan Office. Mtge. p. 162 &c.

Body (close transcription; [?] = uncertain reading):

"Certain tract of land situate in Morris aforesaid on the southwesterly side of Long Hill it being part of a tract called lott No. 2 called Berkeley Survey Beg. at corner of Daniel Cooper's, jun. S.W. corner & [running] in John Carls[s][?] Beg[?] line thence (1) S. along said Carle's line and John Carle Cisly[?] line 30 ch. & 50 [?] (4) N. 30 ch. to John Cooper's line (8[?]) along said Cooper's line & Daniel Cooper's line 30 ch. to the Beg. cont. ninety acres (90)."

Extracted data: - Mortgagor Daniel Cooper → Commissioners of the Morris County Loan Office; 18 Jun 1776; recorded 15 Apr 1780; Book I, mortgage p.162. - Land: Morris Co., southwesterly side of Long Hill, part of Lot No. 2, Berkeley Survey; ~90 acres. - Adjoining owners named: Daniel Cooper, Jun. (SW corner); John Carle / John Carle [family]; John Cooper; Daniel Cooper [Sr's own other line].

George Cooper's mortgage [verbatim, Image 51 = copy-p.33]

Header:

George Cooper & Commrs. Loan Office, Morris Co. — Dated Dec. 26, 1786. Recd. in Book 2 of Loan Office mtges. pages 143 &c.

Body:

"Tract of land situate in the Township of Morris bounded as follows: Beg. on the line of Jonas Carles land on the westerly end of muddy brook ditch from thence easterly along said ditch and binding on the same untill it meets with a line of land belonging to Peter Layton thence along his line and binding on the same a southerly course until it meets with Passaic River thence up said river the several courses thereof untill it comes to the corner Jonas Carles land thence a northerly course along his line bounded by the same to the place of Beg. cont. or supposed to contain two hundred acres (200 acres). Jonas Carle, Peter Layton, Passaic River"

Catalog significance

Finding 1 — Daniel Sr's family subdivided Berkeley Lot No. 2 at Long Hill (1776 snapshot)

Daniel Sr's 1776 mortgage primary-source-attests that by 1776 the Long Hill Lot No. 2 (Berkeley Survey) was held by at least three Coopers in adjoining parcels — Daniel Sr (the ~90-ac mortgaged tract), Daniel Cooper Jr. (SW-corner neighbor), and John Cooper (a bounding line). This dovetails with: - K.31/K.32: the 9-10 Nov 1733 reconfirmation of "Lot No. 2 ... on the north side of Passaic River" to Daniel Cooper Yeoman (the gap-reducing attestation); - I.138 Chambers (1895): Daniel Sr "bought lot No. 2, 500 acres, of the Berkeley tract."

= the family acquired the 500-ac Berkeley Lot No. 2 and, by 1776, had subdivided portions to sons Daniel Jr + John, with Daniel Sr mortgaging ~90 ac of his own share to the wartime Loan Office. Primary-source-confirms John Cooper (Daniel Sr's son, d. 1778) as a Long Hill landowner adjoining his father + brother ~2 yrs before his death.

Finding 2 — George Cooper 1786 (candidate Daniel-Sr-son George)

The 200-ac George Cooper mortgage (1786, Township of Morris, Jonas Carle + Peter Layton + Passaic River boundaries) sits in the same Carle-family neighborhood as Daniel Sr's Long Hill tract (both reference the Carle line). This geographic proximity is suggestive of p.80 George Cooper, son of Daniel Sr (b. ~1745) — one of the catalog's least-documented Daniel-Sr children — rather than the Hanover fam.10 George. Not asserted — alternative readings remain; original Book II p.143 + a George-Cooper land/probate trace would resolve.

Finding 3 — uncopied "Cooper, Benj. II p 148" lead

A Benjamin Cooper held a Morris Co. Loan Office mortgage at Book II p.148 (~1786) that Canfield did not transcribe. Whether this is our p.2 Benjamin (by 1786 resident in Lebanon Twp Hunterdon, but with continuing Morris ties + heavy debt — see K.33) or another Benjamin is open. Acquisition path = original Morris County Loan Office Book II p.148 (NJSA or Morris County archives).

Non-Cooper pages (context only — why the maintainer's other selected images are here)

• Image 20 (copy-p.2): John Muscho/Mascho, Benjamin Halsey (in Hanover, on Whippany River, bounded by Daniel Lindsley's land), Silas Stiles — no Cooper.
• Image 40 (copy-p.22): Abijah Fairchild, Assel Henman, Daniel Freeman, Samuel Fairchild — Morristown tracts; no Cooper.
• Image 54 (copy-p.36): Henry Brashen, Lemuel Person, Joshua Gering — no Cooper.

(These pages bracket the Cooper entries in the typescript; retained for provenance + future cross-reference of named neighbors.)

Follow-ups

• Acquire original Morris County Loan Office Book I p.162 (Daniel Sr's mortgage) + Book II p.143 (George) + Book II p.148 (Benj.) — verbatim-manuscript upgrade + resolves George + Benjamin identifications. Repository: NJSA or Morris County Hall of Records.
• Resolve George Cooper 1786 identity (p.80 Daniel-Sr-son vs fam.10) via the Book II p.143 body + George-Cooper land/probate.
• Pull the rest of the MMT id/12665 typescript — only 9 of ~54+ images downloaded; confirm no further Cooper entries beyond the 4 indexed (the cross-index above should be complete for Morristown/Morris-Twp, but the "papers NOT copied" index (index #2) may list additional Cooper Loan Office papers).
• Identify John Carle / Jonas Carle + Peter Layton (recurring Cooper-adjacent landowners on Long Hill / Morris Twp).

Cross-references

• K.31 NJSA state-wide Daniel Cooper land records + K.32 Case 6605 manuscript — the 1733 Berkeley Lot No. 2 reconfirmation; this 1776 mortgage is the same Lot No. 2.
• I.138 Chambers Early Germans of NJ — "Daniel Sr bought lot No. 2, 500 acres, of the Berkeley tract."
• A.9 Daniel Sr 1791 will — Long Hill residence + sons.
• p.1 Daniel Cooper Sr; p.79 Daniel Cooper Jr; p.8 John Cooper 1738-1778; p.80 George Cooper son of Daniel Sr; p.2 Capt Benjamin Cooper.
• pr.63 Daniel Sr 1720-1744 catalog gap (Berkeley Lot No. 2 thread); pr.2 Daniel Sr father search; pr.14 Benjamin male descendants.