Ancestry Family Tree — person page for 'Daniel Cooper 1673-1715' of Camden / Gloucester Co. NJ (m. Sarah Spicer), with parents and children

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SIGNIFICANCE — strongest single-tree corroboration of pr.2 Daniel Sr's Camden Quaker parentage hypothesis

L.85 captures an Ancestry public family tree (tree ID 38568533, person ID 310172654867) for Daniel Cooper b. 27 March 1673 Coleshill Amersham Hertfordshire England — d. March 1715 Coopers Point Gloucester NJ with explicit naming of:

• Father = William Cooper FOUNDER OF CAMDEN (1632-1710) = the fam.3 patriarch
• Mother = Margaret Phillips (1636-1696)
• Wife (2nd) = Sarah Spicer (1677-1742) = matches I.93 Youngs Spicer-Tilton genealogy
• Son = Daniel Cooper 1698-1795 = candidate match for OUR p.1 Daniel Cooper Sr 1695-1795

This is the FIRST single-tree corroboration of the I.93 Daniel × Sarah Spicer 1695 → our Daniel Sr 1795 lineage hypothesis. The match-point is death year 1795 for both Daniels. Open discrepancy: birth year 1698 (tree) vs 1695 (catalog Daniel Sr).

Source

• Filename: (image held in the family archive) (3 pp; ~316 KB)
• Tree ID: 38568533
• Person ID: 310172654867
• URL: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/38568533/person/310172654867/facts
• Tree owner: Not identified in PDF (= maintainer can request via Ancestry messaging per memory feedback_ancestry_tree_source_links.md)
• Accessed: 18 May 2026 (= PDF timestamp 5/18/26 3:52 PM)
• Per memory feedback_ancestry_family_trees_low_certainty.md — tree-tier-low-certainty; use as LEAD not evidence
• Per memory feedback_secondary_source_middle_initial_caution.md — tree-builder confusion patterns visible (= 4 conflicting marriage dates; multiple sons born 1695; Ancestry place-name bugs)

Verbatim — tree facts panel

Identity

Daniel Cooper BIRTH 27 MAR 1673 • Coleshill, Amersham, Hertfordshire, England DEATH MARCH 1715 • Coopers Point, Gloucester, New Jersey, USA

Parents

William Cooper FOUNDER OF CAMDEN 1632-1710 Margaret Phillips 1636-1696

Siblings (multiple — tree-builder confusion patterns)

Tree-confusion: 3 different "William Cooper" siblings (1660 + 1669 + 1680) + 2 of them d. 1691 = likely the tree-builder merged/duplicated William records.

Spouses + marriages (4 different Sarah Spicer marriage dates — tree-builder confusion)

Marriage 04 May 1693 • Newton, Gloucester County, New Jersey — Sarah Spicer 1677-1742 (2 sources) Marriage 7 Jun 1693 • Newton, Gloucester, New Jersey — Abigail Wood 1672-1694 (1 source) Marriage 26 Feb 1695 • Newton, Gloucester County, New Jersey — [unspecified spouse] Marriage 26 Feb 1698 • Camden, New Jersey — Sarah Spicer 1677-1742 (1 source) Marriage 1705-02-26 • Gloucester, New Jersey, USA — Sarah Spicer 1677-1742

= tree contains 4 separate marriage events for Sarah Spicer (May 1693, Feb 1695, Feb 1698, Feb 1705) + 1 marriage to Abigail Wood. This is tree-builder data-quality issue. The likely real-marriage sequence: (1) Daniel × Abigail Wood June 1693 (= Abigail d. Dec 1694 likely childbirth-related) + (2) Daniel × Sarah Spicer Feb 1695 (= matches I.93 Youngs "married in 1695"; second marriage after Abigail's Dec 1694 death). Other marriage dates may be tree-data-entry errors or duplicated events.

Children

By Abigail Wood (1st wife): - William P Cooper 1694-1767 (born 1694 Gloucester Co. NJ)

By Sarah Spicer (2nd wife): - Daniel Cooper TEEN 1695-1715 (born 1695 Gloucester County NJ; d. 1715 = same year as father, age 20) - David Cooper 1695- (born after 1695 NJ) same-year-as-TEEN-Daniel = tree-confusion possible - Samuel Cooper 1695- (born after 1695 NJ) same-year-as-TEEN-Daniel + David = tree-confusion - William Cooper 1696-1767 (born 1696 Gloucester NJ) - Samuel Spicer Cooper 1696-1732 (born 1696 Gloucester NJ) same-year-as-William = twin? confusion? - Daniel Cooper 1698-1795 (born 1698 "At Sea" = Ancestry place-noise)

Multiple-1695 + multiple-1696 children pattern = tree-builder confusion. Likely real-children-of-Daniel-and-Sarah-Spicer: TEEN Daniel 1695 + David + Samuel + William 1696 + Samuel Spicer 1696 + Daniel 1698. But Sarah Spicer would have had birth in 1695 + 1696 + 1696 + 1698 = possible but tight; some children may be merged-from-sibling-trees.

Residence / Migration

• 1680 — Arrival West New Jersey (age 7) — 1 source
• 30 Mar 1715 — Residence Gloucester, New Jersey, United States — 1 source
• March 1715 — Death Coopers Point, Gloucester, New Jersey, USA — 1 source
• (no date) — Residence Camden, New Jersey — 1 source

Sources cited in tree

10 source-types listed in right panel: 1. Ancestry Family Trees (= tertiary) 2. England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 (= primary-source-grade if verified) 3. New Jersey, Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817 4. New Jersey, Compiled Marriage Records, 1684-1895 5. New Jersey, Marriage Records, 1670-1965 6. New Jersey, U.S., Calendar of Wills, 1670-1760 7. U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s 8. U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 (= 3 separate Quaker Meeting Record sources cited) 9. (additional Quaker Meeting Records) 10. (additional Quaker Meeting Records)

NO per-fact source citations visible — per memory feedback_ancestry_tree_source_links.md: tree's right-panel sources are tree-wide aggregate; would need per-fact source-to-item view to identify which Quaker Meeting record attests which fact (= marriage 1695? son Daniel 1698?). Maintainer-Ancestry-message request to tree owner would be the standard next step.

Catalog implications

1. STRONGEST single-tree corroboration of Daniel Sr's Camden Quaker parentage hypothesis

Per I.93 Youngs Monmouth NJ records typescript image 38: "Sarah Spicer was born Feb. 16, 1677. She married in 1695 Daniel Cooper." L.85 adds: - Daniel Cooper b. 27 Mar 1673 Coleshill Amersham Hertfordshire ENG → arrival West NJ 1680 → d. Mar 1715 Coopers Point Gloucester NJ - Daniel's parents = William Cooper FOUNDER OF CAMDEN + Margaret Phillips - Daniel × Sarah Spicer had 6 sons including Daniel Cooper 1698-1795 = candidate match for OUR Daniel Sr

Combined evidence chain: 1. I.93 Youngs (= published-secondary-genealogist authorship) = Daniel × Sarah Spicer 1695 marriage attestation 2. L.85 Ancestry tree (= tree-tier-low-certainty) = identifies the Daniel = son of William Founder of Camden + names son Daniel 1698-1795

= Combined evidence elevates pr.2 hypothesis from LOW (per I.93 alone) to MEDIUM-LOW certainty (per L.85 corroboration). Primary-source verification still required.

2. Birth-year discrepancy 1695 (catalog) vs 1698 (tree)

Our Daniel Sr's catalog birth = 1695 (per multiple sources + Basking Ridge headstone [G.27] "died May 2d 1795 aged 100 years & 2 days"; corrected 2026-10-11 from "10 Jun 1795 death", which no source supports). L.85 tree says Daniel Cooper 1698-1795.

Possible resolutions: - (a) Catalog 1695 is correct; L.85 tree's "1698" is tree-builder error - (b) L.85 tree's "1698" is correct; catalog 1695 (from House of Cooper + later compilations) is wrong-by-3-years - (c) Two different Daniel Coopers d. 1795: our 1695-1795 + a separate Daniel 1698-1795 son of Daniel 1673-1715 × Sarah Spicer

Most likely: (a) — our Daniel Sr's 1695 birth is well-attested at obituary-tier; L.85 tree-tier "1698" is the error. The 3-year discrepancy is consistent with tree-builder confusion already visible (= 4 marriage dates for Sarah Spicer; multiple 1695+1696 sons; place-name bugs). Catalog reading 1695 stands; L.85 tree's 1698 = tree-tier-error.

3. NEW catalog ancestor: William Cooper FOUNDER OF CAMDEN

Per fam.3 Camden NJ Quaker Cooper: William Cooper Sr was already known as fam.3 patriarch + founder of Camden ca. 1681. L.85 adds: - Birth year 1632 - Death 11 Jan 1710 North side of Cooper River Delaware - Spouse: Margaret Phillips 1636-1696 - 1680 family arrival in West New Jersey - Multiple children (Daniel 1673 + others; some duplicated in tree)

If L.85 tree's parentage hypothesis (Daniel Sr = grandson of William Founder of Camden) is validated, this extends Daniel Sr's documented ancestry back to England (= Coleshill, Amersham, Hertfordshire) + adds 1680 immigrant-generation arrival event.

4. Denominational-shift obstacle still unresolved

Per pr.2: our Daniel Sr documented Reformed Dutch via L.13c/L.13e + Grace Runyon 1726 RDC marriage. L.85's Daniel 1673-1715 + Sarah Spicer = Quaker per 3 Quaker Meeting Records sources cited.

A Quaker-to-Reformed-Dutch denominational shift in one generation requires explanation. Possibilities: - (a) Daniel Sr left the Quaker faith between his 1695/98 birth + his 1726 Reformed-Dutch marriage = possible at age 28-31 (= adult conversion or marriage-induced denominational shift) - (b) Daniel Sr's mother (Sarah Spicer or another wife) was Reformed-Dutch + Daniel Sr followed maternal-denomination at adulthood - (c) Three-different-Daniels hypothesis = our Daniel Sr is NOT same as Daniel 1698-1795 of Daniel × Sarah Spicer - (d) Cooper family had Reformed-Dutch-Quaker dual affiliation = unusual but documented in some 1690s-1720s NJ families

This obstacle is not foreclosed by L.85; verification path = Camden Quaker Monthly Meeting birth records 1695-1700 for Daniel-son-of-Daniel + Reformed Dutch Church records 1720-1740 for Daniel × Grace Runyon family.

5. Tree-data-quality caveats

Multiple tree-builder-confusion artifacts visible: - 4 conflicting marriage dates for Daniel × Sarah Spicer (1693 May 4 / 1695 Feb 26 / 1698 Feb 26 / 1705 Feb 26) - 3 William Cooper siblings of Daniel 1673 (= 1660 + 1669 + 1680; 2 of 3 d. 1691; likely Williams duplicated/merged) - Multiple sons born 1695-1696 to Daniel + Sarah (TEEN Daniel + David + Samuel + William + Samuel Spicer + Daniel 1698) — = Sarah Spicer would have produced triplets 1695 + twins 1696 + singleton 1698 = possible but unusual; tree-merge-error possible - Ancestry place-name bugs: "Sea, Sulawesi Tengah, Indonesia" (= David Cooper 1695 birth) + "Reusel-de Mierden, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands" (= sister Antje Elizabeth 1691 birth, FTM glitch per memory) + "At Sea" (= Daniel 1698 birth)

Per memory feedback_ancestry_family_trees_low_certainty.md: L.85 = LEAD for further primary-source-verification, NOT evidence.

Follow-up priorities

Critical

• [ ] Camden Quaker Monthly Meeting records 1695-1700 for Daniel Cooper × Sarah Spicer + their children — primary-source-attest marriage + son Daniel birth (= would resolve birth-year 1695 vs 1698 discrepancy at primary level). Target: Haddonfield Monthly Meeting (= Camden-area Quaker MM)
• [ ] NJ Calendar of Wills 1670-1760 for Daniel Cooper d. 1715 Coopers Point — primary-source-attest death + heirs (= would primary-source-name his sons; could test the 6-sons-in-2-years tree-confusion)
• [ ] NJ Calendar of Wills 1670-1760 for William Cooper Founder of Camden d. 11 Jan 1710 — would name his sons (= would attest whether Daniel 1673 was actually his son OR whether tree-builder error)
• [ ] Tree-owner Ancestry messaging — request per-fact source-to-item view per memory feedback_ancestry_tree_source_links.md

Medium

• [ ] William Cooper Founder of Camden published genealogy — Boyer's Family of Cooper of New Jersey + Charles Stewart's William Cooper of Burlington and Camden + similar primary-source-published-secondary works; verify William's children-list and check whether Daniel 1673 is genuinely his son
• [ ] England parish records 1673 Coleshill Amersham Hertfordshire for Daniel Cooper baptism — primary-source-attest birth date + parents; would primary-source-lock the 1680 immigrant origin
• [ ] Test denominational-shift hypothesis — Reformed Dutch baptism records 1715-1730 for any Cooper-family transition + Quaker-disownment records for any Daniel Cooper b. 1695/1698 who left the faith pre-1726 marriage
• [ ] p.149 William Cooper Founder of Camden (stub now exists; link corrected 2026-10-11 from a link mis-pointed at the Daniel Jr file) — candidate grandfather of Daniel Sr; family-of-origin Coleshill Hertfordshire ENG

Cross-references

• I.93 Youngs Spicer-Tilton genealogy — primary text-source for Daniel × Sarah Spicer 1695 marriage; L.85 = tree-tier corroboration
• p.1 Daniel Cooper Sr 1695-1795 — OUR Daniel Sr; L.85 names a "Daniel Cooper 1698-1795" candidate-match (= birth-year discrepancy)
• p.75 Sarah (Spicer) Cooper — wife of Daniel 1673-1715; L.85 adds death year 1742
• p.76 Daniel Cooper m. 1695 — = same person as L.85's Daniel 1673-1715
• fam.3 Camden NJ Quaker Cooper — patriarch William Founder + Daniel 1673 family
• pr.2 Daniel Sr father search — L.85 elevates Camden Quaker hypothesis from LOW to MEDIUM-LOW
• pr.9 Second Daniel Cooper southern NJ — relevant project

Status notes

• Status [partial] — tree facts panel transcribed verbatim; per-fact source-to-item view + Quaker Meeting Records primary-source verification pending = upgrade path to [verbatim]
• Certainty [MEDIUM-LOW for the Daniel × Sarah Spicer 1695 → Daniel Sr 1795 lineage hypothesis (= L.85 + I.93 combined corroboration); LOW for the tree's specific dates (= multiple internal inconsistencies)]
• L.85 = strongest single-tree-tier corroboration of pr.2's Camden Quaker parentage hypothesis; primary-source verification path = Haddonfield MM Quaker records + Camden Co. NJ wills 1710-1720
• Located 18 May 2026 PM via user-supplied PDF; cataloged same-day per memory feedback_catalog_supplied_files_without_asking.md