Anne (Cooper) Van Court ?–1779

Catalog ID p.3 · Cite this page: njcoopers.com/p/3/

Anne (Cooper) Van Court married Elias Van Court Sr (1716). Five children are recorded.

Also recorded as: Ann VanCourt A.68; Annatje F.67, F.197; Anne Van Court I.35

Facts

Event	Date	Place / detail	Certainty	Sources
death	28 Mar 1779		possible	F.410

Family

Parents

Not identified.

Spouses

Elias Van Court Sr
married 1716

Siblings

Daniel Cooper Sr 1695–1795 sibling; parents not identified A.12, A.16, I.30, I.35

Children

Elias Van Court Jr 1719
Moses Van Court 1720
Samuel Van Court 1730–1777
Michael Van Court
Elizabeth Van Court 20 Dec 1735 I.218, A.12

Family tree

Solid lines and outlines: certain. Dashed: probable or weaker. Open the full tree (four generations)

In the documents

Every published document that names Anne (Cooper) Van Court, in date order, with what that document itself records.

Date	Document	Role	What it records
1699	F.67 baptism register transcript Beulah Gangaware, typed transcription of the baptism register of the Reformed Dutch Church of Raritan (Somerville), Somerset Co., New Jersey, 1699-1829 (91 type…	parent as "Enni / Annatje / Anna / henna / Ante / Antje; "Antie Van Coort" as sponsor 1743"
4 Apr 1750	A.12 will register copy Will of Elias Van Court of Piscataway, Middlesex Co., N.J. — the Liber E recorded copy (pp. 449–451); made 4 April 1750, proved 23 August 1750.	executor as "Ann VanCourt"
4 Apr 1750	A.16 probate abstract Honeyman, Calendar of New Jersey Wills Vol. II 1730–1750 (NJ Archives 1st Series Vol. XXX), p. 495 — the published abstract of Elias Van Court's 1750 will, nami…	spouse as "Ann"
4 Apr 1750	A.68 will and inventory The loose-paper ORIGINAL probate file of Elias Van Court Sr of Piscataway — NJSA File 2413-2421L: the will's last leaf carrying his own signature and the three …	executor as "Ann VanCourt"	residence: 1750, Piscataway, Middlesex Co., New Jersey
1750	G.68 find a grave memorial Find a Grave memorial 194931739 - Elias VAN COURT, Little Quaker Churchyard, Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey	spouse as "Antje ("Ann") Elizabeth Cooper"
28 Mar 1779	F.410 church death register published First Presbyterian Church of Morristown, N.J., Bill of Mortality, Sept. 1778 - Dec. 1780, as printed in The Record, page 95; with the Combined Registers, 1742 t…	deceased as "Wife of Elias Vancourt"	death: 28 Mar 1779
	I.218 published genealogy Patty Barthell Myers, Ancestors and Descendants of Lewis Ross Freeman with related families (Penobscot Press; Woodbridge Public Library copy stamped May 14 '96)…	parent as "Ann Cooper, sister of Daniel Cooper of Piscataway"

Still unknown, and where we have looked

Parents not identified.
Birth not yet found.
Burial not yet found.

Documents

A.12 Will of Elias Van Court of Piscataway, Middlesex Co., N.J. — the Liber E recorded copy (pp. 449–451); made 4 April 1750, proved 23 August 1750.
A.16 Honeyman, Calendar of New Jersey Wills Vol. II 1730–1750 (NJ Archives 1st Series Vol. XXX), p. 495 — the published abstract of Elias Van Court's 1750 will, naming "brother-in-law Daniell Cooper" an executor.
A.17 New Jersey Index of Wills, Inventories, Etc., Vol. II — Middlesex County section — the index page giving NJSA loose-paper file numbers for four Van Court probates.
A.68 The loose-paper ORIGINAL probate file of Elias Van Court Sr of Piscataway — NJSA File 2413-2421L: the will's last leaf carrying his own signature and the three witnesses, the estate inventory, and the executors' autographs — "Daniell Cooper" among them.
A.89 NJ Archives Vol. XXXIV — a Cooper / Runyon / Coriell sweep of the whole volume (Calendar of Wills V, 1771–1780), the third in the series after [A.78] and [A.83].
L.143 Brian S. Carpenter — 'Elias Van Court Sr and Family' (41-pp research compilation; Research/Elias Van Court Sr and Family.pdf). The most substantial Anne-(Cooper)-Van-Court research document on disk — previously a 'ghost source' (cited in 6 entries for only the 14-children count + 1779 death). Now mined: a brother-in-law/sibling-degree logic-tree, a low-grade candidate father 'William Cooper,' and a documented ship-list immigration NULL. [research-tier]
F.196 Samuel S. Purple (ed.), Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York: Marriages from 11 December 1639 to 26 August 1801 (NYG&B Society Collections Vol. I, 1890) — the NYC Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church marriage register, companion to the [F.72] baptism register. Acquired 2026-06-21 (free, archive.org recordsofreforme01coll). Van Court + Cooper sweep: NULL — zero 'Van Court' in any spelling in any year, zero Coriell/Curiel, and no Daniel or Anne Cooper marriage.
F.67 Beulah Gangaware, typed transcription of the baptism register of the Reformed Dutch Church of Raritan (Somerville), Somerset Co., New Jersey, 1699-1829 (91 typed pages, scanned by Eric Raub)
F.197 First Reformed Church of Raritan (Somerville), NJ — original baptismal-register manuscript pages (RCA Archives scans, 2026): the register title page plus the openings covering 1719, 1721-1724, and 1727-1729. Backup copy at Rutgers Special Collections & University Archives, Ac1769.
D.405 'Eighteenth Century Freeholders in New Jersey'(GMNJ Vol 16 (1941) + Vol 17 (1942)) — two published freeholder (property-owner) lists: Township of Morris, Morris Co., 31 Aug 1752+ Bridgewater Township, Somerset Co., 17 July 1753. Cooper-network sweep: Morris 1752 = Daniel Cooper+ Soloman Boyle + Jacob Carle + Peter Layton; Bridgewater 1753 = Nathaniel Cooper+ Elias Van Court+ Daniel Blackford + Isaac Hoff + Fulkerson + Castner + Sebring. = a primary-source civic snapshot of the Cooper + in-law families ~1752–53.
G.68 Find a Grave memorial 194931739 - Elias VAN COURT, Little Quaker Churchyard, Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey
M.47 DAR GRS Ancestor record A117489 — VAN COURT, MICHAEL (× Elizabeth Brown), Somerset Co. NJ → Romulus, Seneca Co. NY. = the youngest son of Elias Van Court Sr [p.25] × Anne Cooper [p.3] (Daniel Sr's sister) — the only NJ Van Court DAR patriot; his application NN 80509 is the live Van-Court lever for Anne's maiden name (pr.2). Asst Quartermaster General, Somerset Co. Militia.
G.267 Find a Grave memorial 220126638 - Samuel Van Court, Old Presbyterian Graveyard, Bound Brook, Somerset County, New Jersey
I.191 New Jersey. Genealogies 1600–1960 (FS Full-Text, image 161 of 1,338), VAN COURT §100 — the 14 children of Elias × Ann (Cooper) Van Court with baptism witnesses, PLUS a sponsorship-analysis paragraph asserting 'Elias² Senior and Ann (Cooper) Van Court were UNCLE AND AUNT of Samuel² and DAVID² CORYELL' and arguing she was aunt of Abraham² Coryell too. CORRECTED 2026-07-16 (Jenkins p.6 + Santos p.170 read): her aunt-hood is BY MARRIAGE — Abraham¹ Coryell married a Cooper or Van Court sister, per Samuel² Coryell's 1760 will — so Ann stays a COOPER; this does NOT make Daniel a born Coriell and does NOT explain the [pr.16] Y-match. See the top-of-entry resolution.
I.192 New Jersey. Genealogies 1600–1960 (FS Full-Text, image 158 of 1,338), COOPER §105 — the compiler's Daniel-Sr narrative: b. 1 May 1695 at sea, d. 2 May 1795 aged 100; 'lived at Piscataway until March, 1732'; the six wives; sister Ann 'lived near him in Piscataway'; and the New Brunswick ferry tradition ('he and his sister rowed passengers over the ferry… about 1710'). CAUGHT MIS-CITING BENEDICT — it smuggles '(among them Daniel Cooper)' into a quoted Benedict passage whose five settlers ([I.153]) contain no Cooper. ⇒ a direct reliability check on this compiler, and therefore on [I.191].
I.218 Patty Barthell Myers, Ancestors and Descendants of Lewis Ross Freeman with related families (Penobscot Press; Woodbridge Public Library copy stamped May 14 '96), title page and pp. 629-630, Harned Family, no. 14 Nathan Harned
I.231 R. B. Hull, Cooper Family Register: or, records and genealogical notices of some of the descendants of William and Margaret Cooper, of Pine Point, Newton Township, Gloucester County, West New Jersey. 1679 - book pages 52-53 (PDF pp. 52-53 of 131), the SECOND-GENERATION chapter 'Daniel and Abigail (Wood) and Sarah (Spicer) Cooper'
F.373 Codicote, Hertfordshire, England - Church of England parish register, baptisms 1691-1694; FamilySearch film DGS 007549701 image 24 of 618 (collection "England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", groupId 1473014).
F.410 First Presbyterian Church of Morristown, N.J., Bill of Mortality, Sept. 1778 - Dec. 1780, as printed in The Record, page 95; with the Combined Registers, 1742 to 1889, page 245.
I.35 Howard E. Bonham, Bonham And Related Family Lines: A Family Genealogy From the Mayflower to the 1990s — multi-page Runyon-Cooper-Van Court genealogy — page 583 explicit attestation 'Benjamin Runyon... was witness to the will of Elias Van Court, husband of Daniel Cooper's sister, Anne Van Court' = 4th independent corroborator of the Anne-Cooper-as-Daniel-Sr's-sister hypothesis (alongside Monnette p. 635, Reformed Dutch Church Raritan 1719 baptism, 1750 will-body 'my brother in Law Daniel Cooper'). Also primary-source-locks Grace Runyon (b. 17 Jan 1706/7) m. 17 Apr 1726 (as his first wife) Judge Daniel Cooper + provides 11-children roster of Daniel Sr × Grace per The Runyon Tree Section III June 1983.