Document K.50 · Land Records / Court Records / NJSA Searchable Databases · transcription: verbatim
NJ Supreme Court Case File — Robert Hewlett & James Steele v. Daniel Parker, Monmouth 1738–1739 — Case 17397 — Habeas Corpus in Debt on Bond (1735 £500 EJ money for title to land at Cedar Creek, lower end of Great Cedar Swamp) — manuscript pull (NJSA Order 202605-87245 / pr.77). NULL for our Coopers: the Cedar Creek land-title chain is Hewlett/Steele ↔ Daniel Parker ↔ John Eastwood ↔ John Burnet — NO Cooper. The single 'Daniel Cooper' reference is a clerk's cross-reference 'in Daniel Cooper v. Sam. Norris; additional case listed on writ' = a pointer to the SEPARATE Cooper v. Norris cause (Case 8001, the 1737/1738 Hannover Twp trespass). = does NOT place a Daniel Cooper in the Monmouth Cedar-Creek land transaction; the pr.2-Hypothesis-B hope returns NULL.
Transcription and notes
Manuscript pull received 2026-06-16 via NJSA Order 202605-87245 (pr.77). Index source: K.30 record #44. File: (image held in the family archive) (14 pp). Ordered on the pr.2 Hypothesis B hope that a 1735 Cedar Creek / Great Cedar Swamp £500 land-title bond might place a Daniel Cooper in a Monmouth-County context inside the pr.63 1720–1744 gap window.
Result — NULL for the Cooper hypothesis
No Daniel Cooper appears in the Cedar Creek land-title chain. The 1735 £500 East-New-Jersey bond and the disputed title concern Daniel Parker (defendant), with the land "at Cedar Creek in the lower end of Great Cedar Swamp … taken up by John Estwood [Eastwood] from John Bornet [Burnet]." The plaintiffs are Robert Hewlett (Hulit/Hulet) and James Steele (Stelle/Still); bail for Daniel Parker = John Parker + Richard Parker (yeomen of Monmouth Co.).
The only occurrence of "Cooper" in the entire file is a clerk's cross-reference on a bail-piece / writ (PDF ~p.10) reading "Daniel Cooper / & / Sam: Norris Cop[y] of Declaration 4 May Term 1738" — i.e. a docketing note pointing to the separate Daniel Cooper v. Samuel Norris cause (= K.30 record #5, Case 8001, the 1737/1738 Hannover Twp trespass cluster), which happened to be filed in the same term. It does not make Daniel Cooper a party to, or a landholder in, the Cedar Creek matter.
pr.2 Hypothesis B gains nothing from this case, and the K.30 " possibly primary-source-locks Daniel Sr's Monmouth Co. presence at Cedar Creek 1735" speculation is retired — the Monmouth/Cedar-Creek 1735 land bond has no Cooper in it. (The only real Cooper datum it confirms is indirect: that Cooper v. Norris was an active 4 May 1738 Term cause — already known from Case 8001.)
Source identification (NJSA finding aid, p.0–p.1) [verbatim]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Case Number | 17397 |
| Caption | Robert Hewlett and James Steele v. Daniel Parker |
| Case Type | Habeas Corpus (to Monmouth Common Pleas; to produce Daniel Parker) in Debt on Bond (from 1735; £500 East New Jersey for title to land on Cedar Creek in the lower end of Great Cedar Swamp) |
| County | Monmouth |
| Dates | 1738–1739 |
| PLAINTIFF | Hewlett, Robert ([Hulit; Hulet]) |
| PLAINTIFF | Steele, James ([Stelle; Still]) |
| DEFENDANT | Parker, Daniel |
| ENJOINED IN BOND | Parker, John (Yeoman) (of Monmouth County; Bail for Daniel Parker) |
| ENJOINED IN BOND | Parker, Richard (Yeoman) (of Monmouth County; Bail for Daniel Parker) |
| NAMED IN CASE | Burnet, John ([Bornet]; land at Cedar Creek taken up by John Estwood from John Bornet; on land title in dispute) |
| NAMED IN CASE | Cooper, Daniel (in Daniel Cooper v. Sam. Norris; additional case listed on writ) |
| NAMED IN CASE | Eastwood, John ([Estwood]; land at Cedar Creek taken up by John Estwood from John Bornet; on land title in dispute) |
| NAMED IN CASE | Norris, Samuel (in Daniel Cooper v. Sam. Norris; additional case listed on writ) |
| OFFICIAL | Burnett, [Unrecorded] (Clerk) |
| OFFICIAL | Campbell, John (Judge of Common Pleas) |
| OFFICIAL | Cox, Daniel (Justice of the Supreme Court) |
Cross-references
- K.30 — index source (record #44); this entry resolves the K.30 "possibly Daniel Sr Cedar Creek 1735" speculation → NULL.
- K.30 record #5 = Case 8001 Daniel Cooper v. Samuel Norris Sr. & Jr. (1737/1738 Hannover Twp) — the cause the 17397 writ cross-references.
- A.25 John Cooper of Middletown Monmouth 1733 intestate — pr.2 Hypothesis-B candidate father; not advanced (the Cedar Creek bond is Parker/Eastwood/Burnet, not Cooper).
- pr.2 Daniel Sr father search / pr.63 Daniel Sr 1720-1744 gap — threads served; result = NULL.