Benjamin Cooper 1741–1794

Catalog ID p.2 · Cite this page: njcoopers.com/p/2/

Benjamin Cooper was born on 13 Dec 1741 in Long Hill, Morris Co. NJ, the son of Daniel Cooper Sr and Grace (Runyon) Cooper. He married Anna Brown (1788). He died in Dec 1794. Eight children are recorded.

Facts

Event	Date	Place / detail	Certainty	Sources
birth	13 Dec 1741	Long Hill, Morris Co. NJ	certain	I.22
death	Dec 1794		certain	I.22

Family

Parents

Father Daniel Cooper Sr 1695–1795
Mother Grace (Runyon) Cooper 1707–1755

Spouses

Anna (Brown) Cooper
married Feb 1788, Zion Lutheran Church, Oldwick, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey
F.1, I.22

Siblings

Daniel Cooper Jr 1729–1787
Agnes Cooper 1732–1737
Peter Cooper 1735–1755
John Cooper 1738–1778
Rosanna (Cooper) Gaston 1743–1817
George Cooper 1745–1801
Providence (Cooper) Manning 1748–1798
Ann (Cooper) Carle 1750–1795

Children

Joseph Cooper 1785–1852 unproven D.4, D.40, D.469
Theodosia (Cooper) Wyckoff 1775–1839 probable L.4, F.107, F.108, I.85
Mary (Cooper) Cross/Annin 1780–1817 I.22, I.4, C.41
Robert Cooper 1783–1863 unproven D.4, D.40, D.469
John Cooper 1786–1867 unproven D.4, D.40, K.24
Charity (Cooper) Haas 1789–1856 I.4, I.22, C.6, C.12
John H Cooper probable I.22, A.1
Samuel Cooper 1795–1871 unproven D.4, D.40

Family tree

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In the documents

Every published document that names Benjamin Cooper, in date order, with what that document itself records.

Date	Document	Role	What it records
24 Sep 1755	A.77 probate abstract NJ Archives Vol. XXXII, pp. 276–277 — the published abstracts of three Runyon wills of Piscataway: Peter (1755), his widow Providence (1759), and their son Jose…	grandchild as "Benjamin"
1761	A.83 probate corpus sweep NJ Archives Vol. XXXIII — a Cooper / Runyon / Coriell sweep of the whole volume (Calendar of Wills IV, 1761–1770): 611 pages searched, and the Cooper-adjacent e…	mentioned as "Benjamin Cooper"
1763	F.2 gravestone photographs Gravestone photographs, Old Bethlehem Presbyterian Churchyard, Grandin (Pittstown), Hunterdon Co., NJ - table stone of Charity Cooper and headstone of her infan…	husband and father as "Benj[amin] Cooper / Benjamin"
1763	G.134 search results Find a Grave cemetery search, Old Bethlehem Presbyterian Churchyard, Grandin, Hunterdon County, New Jersey (cemetery 2220599), last name "Cooper" (2 results), w…	spouse as "Benjamin Cooper"
1769	A.181 court writ Hunterdon Co. Inferior Court of Common Pleas, loose case papers — The Honourable William Earl of Stirling and Benjamin Cooper Esq[r] v. Patrick Murry, trespass …	plaintiff as "Benjamin Cooper Esq[r] / Benj[amin] Cooper Esq[r]"
1772-1776	I.264 legislative journal The Votes and Proceedings of the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, 22nd Assembly, 1772-1776 (bound volume of the printed sessional journals)	deponent as "Benjamin Cooper"
1775	A.182 court writ Hunterdon Co. Inferior Court of Common Pleas, loose case papers — Philip C[?]ck v. Benjamin Cooper, trespass on the case, £28: summons and docket, returnable Ma…	defendant as "Benjamin Cooper"
1776	B.2 military service card NJSA Revolutionary War service card — Benjamin Cooper's two one-month tours of 1776 as Captain, 4th Regt. Hunterdon militia, attached to Col. Frelinghuysen's 1s…	subject as "Cooper, Benjamin"	occupation: 1776, Captain, Fourth Regiment, Hunterdon County Militia
1776	B.34 pension declaration Robert Hazlett's Revolutionary pension declaration, page 3 (Pension R. 4809). It puts Capt. Benjamin Cooper in FIELD COMMAND — taking over Capt. Bell's men, mar…	mentioned as "Captain Benjamin Cooper"	residence: between 1776 and 1781, Elizabethtown Point and Staten Island probable
1778	B.3 military service card NJSA Revolutionary War service card — Benjamin Cooper as CLERK at the officers' election held at the White House, 25 April 1778. Abstracted from MSS 701.	subject as "Cooper, Benjamin"	occupation: 25 Apr 1778, Clerk at the officers' election, 4th Battalion Hunterdon militia
25 Apr 1778	B.3a militia election certificate MSS No. 701 — the election return of the 4th Battalion, Hunterdon militia, White House, 25 April 1778, written and signed "Benjn Cooper Clark". The catalog's on…	witness as "Benjn Cooper"	occupation: 25 Apr 1778, White House, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey, Clerk, 4th Battalion Hunterdon militia officers' election
1778	B.5 military pay abstract Auditor's Book B, p. 186 — Jesse Hart's abstract of bounty rolls for the Hunterdon & Somerset militia. Two Cooper lines: 9 Nov 1777, £163.1.[?], and 20 Apr 1778…	subject as "[Capt.] Benj: Cooper"
1778	B.6 military service card NJSA Revolutionary War service card — pay abstract no. 92: Capt. Cooper, 4 Hunterdon, at Elizabethtown under Brig. Winds, 20 April 1778, £131. 7. 0½. Abstracted…	subject as "Capt. Cooper"	residence: 20 Apr 1778, Elizabethtown, Essex Co., New Jersey
1778	B.6a military pay abstract Auditor's Book B, p. 183 — Jesse Hart's pay abstract for the Hunterdon & Somerset militia. Line 92: Capt Cooper, 4 Hunterdon, Elizabeth town, under Brig. Winds,…	subject as "Capt Cooper"	residence: 20 Apr 1778, Elizabeth town [Elizabethtown, Essex Co.], New Jersey
1779	D.599 tax ratable Hunterdon County, New Jersey — tax ratables, New Jersey State Archives series SAS00001 (Tax Ratables (Duplicates), 1768-1854). LEBANON Township, the complete su…	taxpayer as "Cooper Benjamin"	occupation: Sep 1779, Merchant probable
1783-08	A.81 court execution Hunterdon Co. Court of Common Pleas, August Term 1783 — the levy entry in Daniel Cooper v. Benjamin Cooper, a writ of fieri facias de bonis et terris in Debt, i…	defendant as "Benj.n Cooper"	residence: 1783, Lebanon Twp., Hunterdon Co., New Jersey
1785-02	A.114 court execution Hunterdon Co. Common Pleas, 1785–1789 — James Cole v. Benjamin Cooper, a second creditor: declaration February 1785 on a £30.8.8 bond, levy on his last 300 acre…	defendant as "Benjamin Cooper"	residence: 1782, Tewksbury, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey
1788-02	F.1 church marriage register Zion Lutheran Church, Oldwick (New Germantown), Hunterdon Co., NJ - marriage register, one page, 1787-1788; the February 1788 entry	groom as "Cap[t]n Benjn Cooper"	marriage: 2[0 or 5] Febr 1788, Zion Lutheran Church, Oldwick, Hunterdon Co., NJ
1788	F.97 marriage register Zion Lutheran Church, Oldwick (New Germantown), Tewksbury Twp, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey: marriage register page, late 1787 - Oct 1788	groom as "Captn. Benjm. Cooper"	marriage: [Fe]br: 2[0 or 5]th 1788
1789	A.178 court writ Hunterdon County, New Jersey — Inferior Court of Common Pleas, the original ALIAS CAPIAS AD SATISFACIENDUM in James Cole v. Benjamin Cooper, tested the first Tu…	defendant as "Benjamin Cooper"
1 Feb 1791	A.8 will and codicil Will of Daniel Cooper Sr. of Morris Twp., Morris Co., N.J. — made 1 February 1791, with a codicil of 24 April 1792, proved 20 June 1795. NJSA File 873N; Record …	child as "my Son Benjamin Cooper"
1 Feb 1791	A.9 probate abstract Calendar of Wills p. 84 — the published abstract of Daniel Cooper Sr.'s will of 1 February 1791 and its 24 April 1792 codicil, proved 20 June 1795.	child as "Son, Benjamin Cooper"
31 Dec 1794	A.2 estate inventory Inventory of the goods and chattels of Capt. B. Cooper of Lebanon Twp., taken 31 December 1794, with the appraisers' and administrators' sworn statements — prob…	deceased as "Capt. B. Cooper"	residence: Township of Lebanon, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey
5 Feb 1795	A.1 administration bond Administration bond and administrators' sworn statement, estate of Benjamin Cooper, Hunterdon Co., N.J., 5 February 1795 — probate file 1704J.	deceased as "Benjamin Cooper"	death: before 5 Feb 1795, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey
18 Feb 1795	A.3 estate inventory Supplementary inventory of the estate of Benjamin Cooper of Lebanon, 18 February 1795 — two inventories on one page, the second of farm produce claimed by John …	deceased as "Benj Cooper"
5 Feb 1795	A.6 probate abstract Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. VIII (1791–1795), p. 84 — the abstract of Benjamin Cooper's intestate administration, File 1704J.	deceased as "Cooper, Benjamin"	death: before 31 Dec 1794 residence: Hunterdon Co., New Jersey
5 Feb 1795	A.7 will register entry New Jersey Record of Wills, Volume 36 (1796–1797), page 168 — the register entry recording the grant of administration on Benjamin Cooper, 5 February 1795.	deceased as "Benjamin Cooper"
4 Aug 1796	A.113 orphans court minute Hunterdon Co. Orphans' Court, 4 August 1796 — the order allowing John H. Cooper's administration account on the estate of Benjamin Cooper. Minutes p. 149.	deceased as "Benjamin Cooper"
3 Feb 1796	A.4 estate account Final account of John H. Cooper, administrator of Benjamin Cooper of Hunterdon Co., filed 3 February 1796 and allowed 4 August 1796 — a balanced ledger of £197.…	deceased as "Benjamin Cooper"
15 Aug 1832	B.32 pension declaration Andrew Bray's Revolutionary pension declaration, page 4 (Pension S. 856), sworn in open court at Hunterdon Co., 15 August 1832. He names "Benjamin Cooper" among…	mentioned as "Benjamin Cooper"
1833	B.2a pension affidavit Jacob Smith's Revolutionary invalid-pension affidavit, Inv. 914 — a private's nineteen tours of Hunterdon militia service, two of them under "Capt. Benj. Cooper…	mentioned as "Capt. Benj. Cooper"
1847	I.260 published book William A. Duer, The Life of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling (New York: Wiley & Putnam for the New Jersey Historical Society, 1847), pp. 24-25, 27, 35, 97-1…	author as "Benjamin Cooper"	residence: 7 Sep 1773, Morristown, Morris Co., New Jersey (confined)
1852	I.4 published genealogy John Littell, Family Records, or Genealogies of the First Settlers of Passaic Valley (and Vicinity) above Chatham — a compiled surname-chapter genealogy of the …	child as "Benjamin"
1852	I.4 published genealogy John Littell, Family Records, or Genealogies of the First Settlers of Passaic Valley (and Vicinity) above Chatham — a compiled surname-chapter genealogy of the …	subject as "Benjamin Cooper"
1871	G.19 find a grave memorial Find a Grave memorial 70808178 - Elizabeth Catherine Cooper Dayton, Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Basking Ridge, Somerset County, New Jersey	parent as "Benjamin Cooper"
1872	B.50 published register Stryker, Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War (Trenton, 1872) - Cooper surname sweep	mentioned as "COOPER, BENJAMIN"
30 Dec 1915	B.4 military service card NJSA Revolutionary War service card — bounty roll entry no. 53: Capt. Benj. Cooper, 4 Hunterdon, 20 April 1778, £94. Abstracted from Auditor's Book B, p. 186.	subject as "Capt. Benj. Cooper"
1932	I.130 published genealogy Catherine Bigham Brode, Ludlow-Ross Genealogy: The Ancestors of Lydia Ludlow and Ogden Ross and Their Descendants, With Allied Families (privately printed, Wall…	child as "Benj."
1999	I.22 published genealogy Sheldon Forbes Craddock, Craddock, Kinder, Rogers, and Sheldon Families (Incline Village NV, privately published 1999) — Chart IX Biographies, book pp. 220–222:…	subject as "Benjamin² Cooper"
	A.44 probate file capture FHC capture of Benjamin Cooper's estate docket 1704J — Film 461828 / DGS 5646382, the same Hunterdon file already catalogued at [A.1]–[A.4].	deceased as "Benjamin Cooper"

4 further documents not published (they may name living people).

Still unknown, and where we have looked

Burial not yet found. 4 searches recorded:

findagrave 2026-11-02 · firstname Benjamin, lastname Cooper, died 1794 +/- 5, location New Jersey (locationId state_33, chip read back as 'New Jersey, USA')

Searched for: firstname Benjamin, lastname Cooper, died 1794 +/- 5, location New Jersey (locationId state_33, chip read back as 'New Jersey, USA')

Result: NULL -- 'No matches found'. He has no Find a Grave memorial anywhere in New Jersey for a death within five years of 1794. CONTROL, same run: the identical search with the GIVEN NAME REMOVED returns 16 Cooper memorials, the second of which is 'Judge Daniel Cooper, 1 May 1695 - 2 May 1795, Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church, Grave number 250' -- his own father, held here as [G.27]. The filter therefore lands in the right family, county and decade. Recorded at [G.722].

findagrave 2026-11-02 · Old Bethlehem Presbyterian Churchyard, Grandin, Hunterdon Co. (cemetery id 2220599, read off the site's own cemetery-search href),...

Searched for: Old Bethlehem Presbyterian Churchyard, Grandin, Hunterdon Co. (cemetery id 2220599, read off the site's own cemetery-search href), lastname=Cooper

Result: 2 memorials, NEITHER HIM -- Charity (Hoff) Cooper Charity Hoff Cooper (188634435) and Infant Son Cooper (188634442), both carrying the plot string '149 / Owned by Benjamin Cooper'. Unchanged from [G.134]'s May 2026 reading. TWO PAGE-LEVEL CONTROLS: the page title reads 'Memorials in Old Bethlehem Presbyterian Churchyard', so this is not the [G.715] blank-title signature of a filter that landed nowhere; and the lastname=Hoff run in the same pass returned two HOFFMAN records, proving the surname match is fuzzy rather than exact, so the two-record result is not an over-tight filter.

findagrave 2026-11-02 · cemetery 2220599, died 1780 +/- 20 (= deaths 1760-1800), NO surname filter -- the coverage control

Searched for: cemetery 2220599, died 1780 +/- 20 (= deaths 1760-1800), NO surname filter -- the coverage control

Result: 26 memorials, complete roster transcribed at [G.722]. THIS IS WHAT MAKES THE NULL ABOUT HIM RATHER THAN ABOUT THE SURNAME: the ground's index holds 26 burials in his own 1760-1800 window, among them TWO deaths in 1794 itself (William Fleming 1720-1794; Mary Shoemaker d. 3 Apr 1794), and PLOT 150 is occupied -- George Cottnam, d. 30 Oct 1793 -- immediately beside the 149 he owned. He died Dec 1794. The ground: 863 memorials, 78% photographed, 256 with GPS.

findagrave 2026-11-02 · cemetery 2220599, lastname=Brown -- for Anna Brown, his 4th wife, m. 1788

Searched for: cemetery 2220599, lastname=Brown -- for Anna Brown, his 4th wife, m. 1788

Result: 11 Brown memorials, earliest death 1858, none a candidate for a woman who married in 1788. A WEAK null for her: a widow who remarried or removed would not be indexed under Brown at all, and the 'Anna Brown Cooper widow' section of this file already records her death and burial as exhausted-null. Closes the Brown half of [G.134] t3.

Documents

A.113 Hunterdon Co. Orphans' Court, 4 August 1796 — the order allowing John H. Cooper's administration account on the estate of Benjamin Cooper. Minutes p. 149.
A.81 Hunterdon Co. Court of Common Pleas, August Term 1783 — the levy entry in Daniel Cooper v. Benjamin Cooper, a writ of fieri facias de bonis et terris in Debt, itemising what was seized. Minutes Vol. 13.
A.114 Hunterdon Co. Common Pleas, 1785–1789 — James Cole v. Benjamin Cooper, a second creditor: declaration February 1785 on a £30.8.8 bond, levy on his last 300 acres “subject to prior executions”, then a capias ad satisfaciendum in 1789.
A.6 Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. VIII (1791–1795), p. 84 — the abstract of Benjamin Cooper's intestate administration, File 1704J.
A.77 NJ Archives Vol. XXXII, pp. 276–277 — the published abstracts of three Runyon wills of Piscataway: Peter (1755), his widow Providence (1759), and their son Joseph (1760).
A.83 NJ Archives Vol. XXXIII — a Cooper / Runyon / Coriell sweep of the whole volume (Calendar of Wills IV, 1761–1770): 611 pages searched, and the Cooper-adjacent estates transcribed.
D.455 NJ, Hunterdon Co. Index to Taxpayers 1778-1797 (compiled name-index to the township tax lists) - the Cooper-surname entries.
I.22 Sheldon Forbes Craddock, Craddock, Kinder, Rogers, and Sheldon Families (Incline Village NV, privately published 1999) — Chart IX Biographies, book pp. 220–222: entry 102 Benjamin² Cooper, entry 200 John¹ Cross, entry 202 Bryan Lefferty; plus the complete 347-item bibliography at book pp. 359–378.
I.66 Pitney, A history of Morris County, New Jersey: embracing upwards of two centuries, 1710-1913, Vol I (1914)
K.7 Daniel Cooper Junior — 20-year Deputy Surveyor career of East Jersey (1754 → 1774) under James Alexander → Thomas Bartow → William Alexander Lord Stirling — ~45 documented surveys across Morris County for the Eastern Division Proprietors, primary-source-locked via [K.6](K.6.yaml) Morris Co. NJSA Early Land Records search. Catalog-defining significance: this 20-year continuous Cooper-Alexander professional relationship begins in 1754 (10 years after Daniel Sr's 1744 Green Brook Falls land acquisition from James Alexander per [K.5](K.5.yaml)) and extends to 1774 (1 year after the pr.52 Cooper-Stirling 1773 letter), with a documented PRINCIPAL-PARTY land acquisition for Daniel Jr personally on 12 August 1761 (= 100 acres from Robert Hunter Morris, recorded Lib AB.5 page 52, primary-source-locked via 20 Nov 1761 S4 Folio 464-466 manuscript) and continued landholder status through 1785. The Cooper-Alexander/Stirling professional + landholding relationship spans 41+ documented years (1744-1785) across two Cooper generations + three Alexander Surveyors General.
K.8 Daniel Cooper Junior surveyed Lord Stirling's Great Swamp 1,304.87 total acres (1762-1763) + LONG HILL 101.53 acres (31 Mar 1764) + Horse Pound Brook 48.64 acres (4 Jul 1766) + Horse Pound Brook 421.55 acres (12 Jul 1766 = conveyed to James Anderson + Benjamin Cooper, see K.9) + Pequannock 10.5 acres (24 Jun 1765) = primary-source-LOCKED Daniel Jr's personal surveying for Lord Stirling on Stirling's most important Morris Co. proprietary holdings 1762-1769. Catalog-defining significance: Daniel Jr (= Daniel Cooper Sr's son [p.79]) PERSONALLY surveyed Lord Stirling's Long Hill tract (= the same Long Hill where Daniel Sr [p.1] lived) and Lord Stirling's Great Swamp holdings (= immediately adjacent to Long Hill); the 11 August 1762 Great Swamp survey (S5 Folio 18 = re-recording of S5 Folio 15) is manuscript-read verbatim 23 May 2026 and primary-source-LOCKS Stirling's inheritance chain from his father James Alexander (will dated 2 Jan 1755, Book AB.5 page 1) + mother Mary Alexander (republished will dated 27 Feb 1758, Book AB.5 page 9), in part of Stirling's share of the original James Alexander 13,000-acre warrant dated 20 Nov 1753 (Book W.3 page 43). Daniel Jr's surveying work for Lord Stirling 1762-1769 = the LAND-RECORD INFRASTRUCTURE underpinning the Cooper-Stirling 1773 iron-works partnership documented in [pr.52](../../projects/pr.52%20Cooper-Stirling%201773%20letter%20acquisition.md).
K.9 Benjamin Cooper [p.2] — earliest documented Stirling-network land transactions Morris Co. NJ — 3 primary-source-attested records 14 January 1761 → 12 July 1766: (1) 14 Jan 1761 — 'B. Cooper' WITNESS on Lord Stirling (= William Earl of Stirling)'s deed of 20.82 acres (2 tracts: 10.54 + 10.28) on Mine Road from Hibernia Furnace to Charlottenburg Furnace, Pequannock Twp Morris Co., TO John Burns for £32, co-witness J. Hoff (= candidate Jacob Hoff = potential link to [p.46 Charity Hoff Cooper](../../people/p.46%20Charity%20%28Hoff%29%20Cooper.md) Benjamin's 1st wife); Morris Co Deed Vol A Folio 428-429 (CMRCL002). (2) 28 Oct 1765 — Benjamin Cooper (Grantee) Conveyance Pequannock Morris Co. FROM Samuel Ford (ux); D-3 (EJ) Folio 46 (SSTSE023) = primary-source-LOCKED Benjamin's earliest documented land acquisition. (3) 12 July 1766 — Benjamin Cooper + James Anderson grantees of 421.55 acres (6 tracts: 33.24 + 49.32 + 101.25 + 141.14 + 50.19 + 46.41) on Horse Pound Brook Pequannock Twp Morris Co., conveyed BY Lord Stirling per Daniel Cooper Junr's survey; S5 (EJ Surveys) Folio 304 (PEASJ003) — based on James Alexander's 1753 13,000-acre warrant via heirs/assigns of Peter Sonmans dec'd. Catalog-defining: This 3-record series anchors Benjamin's Hibernia-area presence + Stirling-network involvement at age 20 (1761 witness) and age 25 (1766 grantee) = 12 years BEFORE the pr.52 1773 Cooper-Stirling letter.
K.30 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.
K.33 NJ State Archives Supreme Court Case Files 1704-1844 — Benjamin Cooper search, ~45 case-file records across 7 result pages (maintainer-run 2026-05-30, companion to [K.30](K.30.yaml) Daniel search). CATALOG-DEFINING for [p.2 Capt Benjamin Cooper](../../people/p.2%20Benjamin%20Cooper.md) + [pr.14](../../projects/pr.14%20Two%20paths%20to%20Benjamin%20male%20descendants.md) + [pr.52](../../projects/pr.52%20Cooper-Stirling%201773%20letter%20acquisition.md): ~25 cases attest OUR Benjamin (d. 1794) in a Morris/Hunterdon/Sussex Lord-Stirling / Hibernia-Furnace / Vanderveer / Livingston debt nexus 1769-1791 — the financial collapse behind the 1773 counterfeiting. Case 42345 [View PDF, FREE] = John Vanderveer v. William Earl of Stirling and Benjamin Cooper, Esquire (Morris 1771) — property seized explicitly includes '2,000 acres at Pequannock Township; Hibernia Furnace and associated buildings' = primary-source-LOCKS the [K.9](K.9.yaml) Benjamin-Stirling iron-works partnership at manuscript-image tier. Three Benjamin cases are free View-PDF downloads (42345 + 34263 + 21650 chain). Disambiguation: the bulk of the 45 results are the 19th-c. [fam.3](../../families/fam.3%20Camden%20NJ%20Quaker%20Cooper.md)-area 'Benjamin B. Cooper' of Gloucester/Cumberland/Camden (1804-1834) — NOT our Benjamin.
K.37 NJ Supreme Court Case File #34263 Gisbert Sutfin, Lawrence Vanderveer & Jacobus Vanderveer (Exrs of John Vanderveer dec'd) v. Benjamin Cooper, Esquire — Scire Facias to revive the 1771 £1,800 judgment ([K.36](K.36.yaml)) — Hunterdon, 1783 — FULL MANUSCRIPT TRANSCRIPTION of the writ. Recites that both John Vanderveer AND the Earl of Stirling have died and that Benjamin Cooper has survived them = primary-source-attests Benjamin alive 1783 (Hunterdon), still pursued for the 1771 Hibernia-era bond 21 years later; sheriff's endorsement attests Benjamin was warned 2 Sept 1783. Writ tested by Chief Justice David Brearley 19 May 1783.
K.49 NJ Supreme Court Case File — Daniel Cooper Sen.r Esq. v. William Earl of Stirling & Benjamin Cooper Esq., Morris 1771 — Case 5839 — Debt on Bond (penal £2,000 NY money; condition £1,000) — manuscript pull (NJSA Order 202605-87245 / pr.77). CORRECTION to K.30: the plaintiff/creditor is Daniel Cooper SENIOR, not Daniel Jr (confirmed by the NJSA finding-aid party row AND the bond text 'the s.d Daniel Cooper Sen.r'). Penal bond dated 10 April 1771, Stirling + Benjamin Cooper jointly bound to Daniel Sr to pay £1,000 by 12 April 1771; autograph signatures 'Stirling (L.S.)' + 'Benj.n Cooper (L.S.)'; judgment for plaintiff + £4.16.10 costs; sheriff (Jonathan Stiles) levied on the Hibernia Furnace ~2,000-acre tract at Pequannock Twp (already under prior executions, unsold). Recorded Process Book 11 p.416.
A.1 Administration bond and administrators' sworn statement, estate of Benjamin Cooper, Hunterdon Co., N.J., 5 February 1795 — probate file 1704J.
A.2 Inventory of the goods and chattels of Capt. B. Cooper of Lebanon Twp., taken 31 December 1794, with the appraisers' and administrators' sworn statements — probate file 1704J.
A.3 Supplementary inventory of the estate of Benjamin Cooper of Lebanon, 18 February 1795 — two inventories on one page, the second of farm produce claimed by John H. Cooper. File 1704J.
A.4 Final account of John H. Cooper, administrator of Benjamin Cooper of Hunterdon Co., filed 3 February 1796 and allowed 4 August 1796 — a balanced ledger of £197. 16. 10. File 1704J.
A.7 New Jersey Record of Wills, Volume 36 (1796–1797), page 168 — the register entry recording the grant of administration on Benjamin Cooper, 5 February 1795.
A.8 Will of Daniel Cooper Sr. of Morris Twp., Morris Co., N.J. — made 1 February 1791, with a codicil of 24 April 1792, proved 20 June 1795. NJSA File 873N; Record of Wills Vol. 36 pp. 67–70.
A.9 Calendar of Wills p. 84 — the published abstract of Daniel Cooper Sr.'s will of 1 February 1791 and its 24 April 1792 codicil, proved 20 June 1795.
A.34 Aitkin 1912 NJ Index of Wills, Vol. 2 — Hunterdon County (suffix J) Cooper section — 8 verbatim entries, including Benjamin Cooper 1704J.
A.44 FHC capture of Benjamin Cooper's estate docket 1704J — Film 461828 / DGS 5646382, the same Hunterdon file already catalogued at [A.1]–[A.4].
B.2 NJSA Revolutionary War service card — Benjamin Cooper's two one-month tours of 1776 as Captain, 4th Regt. Hunterdon militia, attached to Col. Frelinghuysen's 1st Somerset. Abstracted from Inv. 914.
B.2a Jacob Smith's Revolutionary invalid-pension affidavit, Inv. 914 — a private's nineteen tours of Hunterdon militia service, two of them under "Capt. Benj. Cooper, and Col. Frelinghuysen", 1776.
B.3 NJSA Revolutionary War service card — Benjamin Cooper as CLERK at the officers' election held at the White House, 25 April 1778. Abstracted from MSS 701.
B.3a MSS No. 701 — the election return of the 4th Battalion, Hunterdon militia, White House, 25 April 1778, written and signed "Benjn Cooper Clark". The catalog's only known Benjamin Cooper autograph.
B.4 NJSA Revolutionary War service card — bounty roll entry no. 53: Capt. Benj. Cooper, 4 Hunterdon, 20 April 1778, £94. Abstracted from Auditor's Book B, p. 186.
B.5 Auditor's Book B, p. 186 — Jesse Hart's abstract of bounty rolls for the Hunterdon & Somerset militia. Two Cooper lines: 9 Nov 1777, £163.1.[?], and 20 Apr 1778, £94.
B.6 NJSA Revolutionary War service card — pay abstract no. 92: Capt. Cooper, 4 Hunterdon, at Elizabethtown under Brig. Winds, 20 April 1778, £131. 7. 0½. Abstracted from Auditor's Book B, p. 183.
B.6a Auditor's Book B, p. 183 — Jesse Hart's pay abstract for the Hunterdon & Somerset militia. Line 92: Capt Cooper, 4 Hunterdon, Elizabeth town, under Brig. Winds, £131. 7. 0½.
B.32 Andrew Bray's Revolutionary pension declaration, page 4 (Pension S. 856), sworn in open court at Hunterdon Co., 15 August 1832. He names "Benjamin Cooper" among the captains he served under in the Lebanon Battalion.
B.34 Robert Hazlett's Revolutionary pension declaration, page 3 (Pension R. 4809). It puts Capt. Benjamin Cooper in FIELD COMMAND — taking over Capt. Bell's men, marching to Elizabethtown Point, and skirmishing with Tories on Staten Island.
B.50 Stryker, Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War (Trenton, 1872) - Cooper surname sweep
D.599 Hunterdon County, New Jersey — tax ratables, New Jersey State Archives series SAS00001 (Tax Ratables (Duplicates), 1768-1854). LEBANON Township, the complete surviving run — all ten books, 899-908: May 1778 · Sept 1779 · Feb 1780 · July 1784 · 1785 · July-Aug 1786 · June-Aug 1789 · July-Aug 1790 · and two books NJSA catalogues as 1803 (907 and 908). PLUS TEWKSBURY Township, the complete surviving run — all eight books, 922-929: Aug 1779 · Feb 1780 · June 1784 · July 1785 · July-Aug 1786 (×2) · June-Aug 1789 · June-Aug 1790.
A.181 Hunterdon Co. Inferior Court of Common Pleas, loose case papers — The Honourable William Earl of Stirling and Benjamin Cooper Esq[r] v. Patrick Murry, trespass on the case, £30: a capias and two alias capias with their three dockets (case files 30328, 31419, 31330), returnable October Term 1769 to August Term 1770. FamilySearch Court Records 1713–1860, IGN 008351237 imgs 539–540 and IGN 008351240 imgs 443–444, 647–648.
A.182 Hunterdon Co. Inferior Court of Common Pleas, loose case papers — Philip C[?]ck v. Benjamin Cooper, trespass on the case, £28: summons and docket, returnable May Term 1775. FamilySearch Other Records / Miscellaneous Records / Loan Books / Court Records 1713–1860, IGN 008351225 (case files no. 25674–26064), imgs 80–81.
K.94 Morris County, New Jersey, Deed Book B, pages 392–395 and 545–547 (FamilySearch Morris. Deeds 1790–1796, DGS 008137071, images 210–211 and 289–290): two sheriff's deeds selling Morris lands of the Earl of Stirling and Benjamin Cooper Esq[r] under Jonathan Stiles' judgment — Sheriff John Cobb to Benjamin Hart and Abraham Dickerson (recorded 12 Jan 1795), and Sheriff Hiram Smith to Patrick McGill (30 Apr 1796).
K.95 Hunterdon County, New Jersey, recorded mortgages — book pp. 378–380 (FamilySearch Hunterdon. Mortgages 1766–1811, DGS 008139598, images 851–852): Isaac Smith of Lebanon Twp to Joseph Hankinson of Readingtown, 21 December 1805, a lot in Lebanon beginning at "a corner of Benjamin Cooper's thirty acre lott", being the lot John Dawes and Alice his wife conveyed to Smith on 25 April 1801.
A.178 Hunterdon County, New Jersey — Inferior Court of Common Pleas, the original ALIAS CAPIAS AD SATISFACIENDUM in James Cole v. Benjamin Cooper, tested the first Tuesday in May 1789 at Trenton before Joseph Read[in]g Esq., Judge, returnable August Term 1789, with its DORSE. Loose court paper, case file 34791, FamilySearch Hunterdon, New Jersey. Court Records 1713-1860, IGN 008351249, images 211 (dorse) and 212 (recto) of 957.
G.134 Find a Grave cemetery search, Old Bethlehem Presbyterian Churchyard, Grandin, Hunterdon County, New Jersey (cemetery 2220599), last name "Cooper" (2 results), with memorial 188634435
G.722 Find a Grave searches, Old Bethlehem Presbyterian Churchyard (cemetery 2220599), Grandin, Hunterdon County, New Jersey: surnames Cooper (2), Hoff (3) and Brown (11) and the unfiltered 1760-1800 death window (26), with a New Jersey statewide search for Benjamin Cooper, died 1794 +/- 5
I.259 Snell, History of Hunterdon and Somerset Counties, New Jersey (1881), 1,130 PDF pages - the twelve per-township sections headed CEMETERIES or CEMETERIES AND BURIAL-PLACES (PDF pp. 361, 413, 434, 513, 534, 574, 600, 809, 944, 994-995, 1058), with the Lebanon Township section (PDF p. 513 = book p. 448) and the Bethlehem Township section (PDF p. 534) transcribed; plus the township-boundary evidence at PDF pp. 172, 184 and 445.
M.32 NJ Archives 1st Series Vol XXIX = Nelson & Honeyman (eds.) Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Tenth Volume of Extracts from American Newspapers Relating to New Jersey, 1773-1774 (Paterson NJ: The Call Printing and Publishing Co., 1917) — = Craddock 1999 bibliography ref #101; underlying primary-source-published transcription for the four 1773-1774 NJ-Cooper-forgery-case newspaper articles at [J.131](../J-Newspaper/J.131.yaml)-[J.134](../J-Newspaper/J.134.yaml). Date-discrepancy discovery 2026-05-17: Vol XXIX p. 141 dates Gov. Franklin's pardon 13 December 1773, NOT 1774 as Craddock's [I.22](../I-Published/I.22.yaml) entry-102 transcript states — Craddock has a year-typo. J.134 imprisonment window corrected to ~3 months (17 Sep 1773 → 13 Dec 1773), not 15 months.
G.19 Find a Grave memorial 70808178 - Elizabeth Catherine Cooper Dayton, Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Basking Ridge, Somerset County, New Jersey
F.1 Zion Lutheran Church, Oldwick (New Germantown), Hunterdon Co., NJ - marriage register, one page, 1787-1788; the February 1788 entry
F.2 Gravestone photographs, Old Bethlehem Presbyterian Churchyard, Grandin (Pittstown), Hunterdon Co., NJ - table stone of Charity Cooper and headstone of her infant son, 1763
F.97 Zion Lutheran Church, Oldwick (New Germantown), Tewksbury Twp, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey: marriage register page, late 1787 - Oct 1788
I.260 William A. Duer, The Life of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling (New York: Wiley & Putnam for the New Jersey Historical Society, 1847), pp. 24-25, 27, 35, 97-104
I.264 The Votes and Proceedings of the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, 22nd Assembly, 1772-1776 (bound volume of the printed sessional journals)