Daniel Cooper Jr 1729–1787

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

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

Documents

• A.171 Sussex County, New Jersey — Divisions of land proceedings, vol. A, book pages 19, 20 and 21: the partition of a Newton Township tract formerly William Burnett's, between the heirs of Daniel Cooper Jun'r and Aaron Fulkerson. Order 26 Nov 1793; return and map 27 May 1794. FamilySearch DGS 5679654, images 21 and 22.
• B.50 Stryker, Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War (Trenton, 1872) - Cooper surname sweep
• 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.150 Abstracts of Partitions and Divisions of Morris County Estates, pp. 10–11 — the Orphans' Court partition of Daniel Cooper, Jr., 1787–1789. His five heirs, named.
• 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.10 Calendar of Wills 1786–1790, p. 51 — the abstract of Daniel Cooper, Jr. of Morristown, intestate: administration 10 July 1787, and the widow Ann Cooper's renunciation.
• A.33 Aitkin's Index of Wills, Inventories, etc. prior to 1901, Vol. 3 — Morris County section — all 54 Cooper-surname entries, verbatim, with their NJSA docket numbers.
• A.64 Sussex County, New Jersey — County Clerk division of lands, record CA 19 with Map CA 21: the partition of a Newton Township tract formerly William Burnett's, between the heirs of Daniel Cooper Jr of Morris County and Aaron Fulkerson. Dated 11 November 1789; recorded 27 May 1794. Read here in the Alleman 1978 abstract, Abstracts of divisions of Warren and Sussex County Estates … 1789-1918, County Clerk records division Book A 1792-1821 p. 2.
• 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.
• F.163 New Jersey marriage bond, 13 April 1751 - Daniel Cooper of Morris County, yeoman, and Joseph Runyon of Middlesex County, yeoman, bound to Gov. Jonathan Belcher for a licence for Daniel Cooper Jun. to marry Catherine Hankinson of Freehold, spinster. Vol. C p. 125; DGS 4836070 item 1, image 160.
• F.164 New Jersey marriage bond, 11 March 1768 - Daniel Cooper Esq. and Daniel Cooper Jun. Esq., both of Morris County, bound to Gov. William Franklin for a licence for Daniel Cooper Esq. to marry Grace Manning, widow. Vol. C p. 449; DGS 4836070 item 2, image 529.
• I.4 John Littell, Family Records, or Genealogies of the First Settlers of Passaic Valley (and Vicinity) above Chatham — a compiled surname-chapter genealogy of the Passaic Valley families, with a separately-bound index volume. Preface signed April 1852; the scan carries no title page.
• I.14 Mellick / Schmidt, The Old Farm (Rutgers University Press) — edited from Andrew D. Mellick, Jr., The Story of an Old Farm
• 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.23 Sheldon Forbes Craddock, Craddock, Kinder, Rogers, and Sheldon Families — additional Cooper-relevant biographies on Chart IX (entries 50, 51, 100, 204) at pp. 219 + 223. Daniel¹ Cooper full biography (Benjamin's father, 10 children listed); Mary³ 'Polly' Cooper biography (Benjamin's daughter, d. 1817 Basking Ridge); Joseph³ Cross biography (Polly's husband); Robert² Cross biography (Joseph's father).
• I.66 Pitney, A history of Morris County, New Jersey: embracing upwards of two centuries, 1710-1913, Vol I (1914)
• I.78 Documents Relating to the Colonial History of NJ — TWO 1749 primary-source Daniel Cooper records: (a) Series I Vol 16 (Journal of the Governor 1748-1755) pp. 89-91 — 28 March 1749 Burlington Council, Gov. Jonathan Belcher in Council commissioning Daniel Cooper of Morris County as 'Quorum' (= Justice of the Quorum of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas); (b) Series I Vol 7 (Belcher 1746-1751) pp. 275-276 — 14 April 1749 sworn affidavit of 'Daniel Cooper Esqr One of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Morris' regarding timber destruction by the Newark/Horseneck rioters in the South-East-Pasaick + Great Swamp region, signed 'DANIEL COOPER'. Together these are the on-disk primary-source documents Schopfer's note (per project pr.3 Daniel Sr 1749 oath of allegiance.md) refers to. Revises Schopfer's naturalization-hypothesis reading: a Crown commission to Justice of the Quorum required the holder to already be a British subject, so the oath Daniel Sr took c. 28 Mar 1749 was the oath of office + oaths of allegiance/supremacy/abjuration as a subject, NOT a naturalization oath.
• I.95 Documents Relating to the Colonial History of NJ Series I Vol 15 (Journal of the Governor Vol III 1738-1748) p. 91 — 1 September 1739 Perth Amboy Council under Gov. Lewis Morris: Daniel Cooper commissioned as one of three Justices of the Quorum for Morris County (alongside Timothy Tuttle + Samuel Swisey), in the FIRST documented Morris Co. judicial commission after the county's 1739 formation. Per image-zoom verification of the printed column structure, Daniel Cooper is bracketed under 'Quor:' (= Quorum), NOT the lower 'Justices' (Justice of the Peace) tier. This is the earliest primary-source attestation in the catalog of Daniel Cooper Sr holding Crown judicial office — 10 years before the 1749 Belcher re-commission per [I.78](I.78.yaml), and 8 years before the April 1747 Newark-Rioter target per [I.94](I.94.yaml). Also Vol 15 p. 563 (December 1747 Council Journal) records 'A Petition of Daniel Cooper and others praying the Same [= relief against the Rioters]' as item N° 2 in a list of papers laid before the House of Assembly in August 1747 — = a NEW catalog primary-source attestation that Daniel Sr PERSONALLY petitioned for rioter relief separately from the 14 August 1747 'Sundry Inhabitants' petition (N° 1). Petition body not yet on disk.
• I.97 Morris County NJ Court of Common Pleas Minute Book Vol 1 1740-1754 (FamilySearch DGS 7903187), image 27 of 321, printed pp. 32-33 — Tuesday 24 March + Wednesday 25 March 1741 (MDCCXLI) General Sessions of the Peace + County Court for holding of Pleas at Morristown, NJ, in the fourteenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second King. Daniel Cooper named in the afternoon session Justices list alongside Timothy Tuttle, with John Budd + Gersham Mott + Abraham Kitchel + Jacob Ford as Judges. = first image-verified Morris CCP minute-book attestation of Daniel Cooper Sr actually sitting as a Justice in court session, 18 months after his 1 September 1739 Quorum commission per [I.95](I.95.yaml). Closes the long-standing acquisition target identified at I.78 + I.94 + I.95 + [pr.3](../../projects/pr.3%20Daniel%20Sr%201749%20oath%20of%20allegiance%20%28RESOLVED%29.md) for primary-source Morris CCP record of Daniel Sr's judicial service. Plus full township-officer appointment lists for Hanover Twp + Morris Twp for the year ensuing.
• I.98 Morris County NJ Court of Common Pleas Minute Book Vol 1 1740-1754 (FamilySearch DGS 7903187), image 142 of 321, printed pp. 242-243 — Tuesday 28 March 1749 General Sessions of the Peace + County Court at Morristown. Daniel Cooper named as sole Justice present alongside Judges Gersham Mott + John Lindsly + Jacob Ford. = THE SAME DAY as the [I.78](I.78.yaml) Belcher Council session at Burlington that re-commissioned Daniel Cooper as Justice of the Quorum. Daniel Sr was at Morris CCP at Morristown holding court at the very moment the Council was reappointing him at Burlington ≈ 50 miles south — establishing continuity of his judicial service across the new commission. Plus complete township-officer-appointment rosters for Hanover, Morris, Wasock (Walpack), Roxbury (which lists Nathan Cooper Junr = fam.2 Nathan Jr 1725-1797 as Roxbury Twp officer), and Pequannock. Plus Vol 1 page 242 = December 28 1748 Uzal Ogden + Josiah Ogden + Joseph Higbie civil-suit business immediately preceding.
• I.99 Morris County NJ Court of Common Pleas Minute Book Vol 2-3 (1754-1766) (FamilySearch DGS 7903193), image 70 of 410, printed pp. 119-120 — Sept 27-28, 1758 court sessions. Page 120 contains 'Daniel Cooper Junr Esq^r High Sheriff of Morris County' formally protesting the insufficiency of the Morris County Gaol — = primary-source-image-verified attestation that Daniel Cooper Jr (b. 1729, age 29 in 1758) was Sheriff of Morris County by Sept 1758. Combined with [pr.44](../../projects/pr.44%20NJ%20Colonial%20Documents%20corpus%20scan.md)'s Vol 26 Newspapers Vol VII finding (Daniel Cooper Jr Sheriff 1768-1769), the Daniel-Jr Sheriff tenure is now primary-source-attested across 1758-1769 = at least 11 years. CATALOG CORRECTION: Honeyman [M.24](../M-Societies/M.24.yaml) 1912 attribution of 'Sheriff of Morris Co. 1753-1761' to Daniel Cooper Sr was at least partially wrong — by Sept 1758 Daniel Jr held the office. Also: 'Daniel Cooper Junr Esq Petition for [tavern] Licence ... Daniel Cooper Esq and Joseph Stiles Sureties' = first image-verified father-son surety transaction between Daniel Sr and Daniel Jr.
• I.100 Morris County NJ Court of Common Pleas Minute Book Vol 2-3 (1754-1766) (FamilySearch DGS 7903193), image 66 of 410, printed pp. 117-118 — Tuesday 4 July 1758 General Sessions of the Peace + Inferior Court of Common Pleas at Morristown. 'A Commission from the Honourable John Reading Esq appointing Daniel Cooper Junior Esqr Sheriff of the County of Morris being Read' = the exact moment Daniel Cooper Jr received his Sheriff commission, primary-source-image-verified. John Reading was Acting Governor of NJ 1757-1758 between Belcher's death + Bernard's arrival. Daniel Sr present at same session as Justice of the Quorum. = closes the [I.99](I.99.yaml) Sept 28 1758 attestation by establishing the formal commission date 12 weeks earlier. Final correction to Honeyman [M.24](../M-Societies/M.24.yaml) Sheriff attribution: Daniel Cooper Junior commissioned by John Reading on 4 July 1758, not Daniel Sr.
• I.103 Morris County NJ Court of Common Pleas Minute Book Vol 4-6 (1766-1778) (FamilySearch DGS 7903185), image 94 of 669, July Term 1768 — 'Wilson petitioned as above & John Wilson principal Daniel Cooper & Benjamin Cooper Suities &c' = first image-verified primary-source attestation of Benjamin Cooper (Daniel Sr's son, age 27) in Morris CCP court records, jointly with father Daniel Sr as sureties for John Wilson's tavern-license recognizance bond. 5 years before Benjamin's 1773 counterfeiting trial. Also surfaces a NEW lead: 'Appeal from Justice B. Cooper Judgt' = possibly Benjamin Cooper acting as a JP in 1768 (cursive B/D ambiguity; needs image-zoom).
• I.104 Morris County NJ Court of Common Pleas Minute Book Vol 4-6 (1766-1778) (FamilySearch DGS 7903185), image 116 of 669, December Term 1768 — 'Daniel Cooper Jus Esq appears in Court & in behalf of his Brother the Deft confesses Judgment to the Plaintiff for the sum of fourteen pounds two shillings & six pence proclamation money with Costs of Suit & Release of Errors.' = image-verified identity-resolution: the 'Brother' = Benjamin Cooper, named in the case caption 'Patrick Finnell & Sabine his Wife late Sabina Picklemin v Benjamin Cooper, David Leforge & Wife, Peter Bebert, John Smalley, Thomas Anderson et al'. Daniel Jr (= Daniel Cooper Junr, Morris Co. Sheriff) appeared in court on behalf of his brother Benjamin (= Daniel Sr's 4th son) and confessed judgment for £14.2.6. Plus same page: Henry Cooper appears in adjacent case (= fam.2 Henry Miller Cooper Sr probable) + Nathan Cooper Sen witness (= fam.2 Nathan Sr age 72) + 'Danl Cooper Esq high sheriff' sanctioned in unrelated case.
• I.105 Morris County NJ Court of Common Pleas Minute Book Vol 2-3 (1754-1766) (FamilySearch DGS 7903193), images 212 + 229, December Term 1763 + March Term 1764 — TWO image-verified Benjamin Cooper plaintiff cases against Hathaway-family defendants: (1) Img212 Dec 1763 'Benjamin Cooper v Benjamin Hathaway — In Debt. Sheriff seized 40 shillings of Hathaway's goods; Court orders Vend Exponas writ', and (2) Img229 Mar 1764 'Benjamin Cooper v James Hathaway — In Debt — Casa Comm Entred (default judgment entered)'. = EARLIEST image-verified primary-source court appearances of Benjamin Cooper in the catalog, ages 22-23, 5+ years before [I.103](I.103.yaml) (1768) joint surety with father and 10 years before 1773 counterfeiting trial. Benjamin as PLAINTIFF/CREDITOR in BOTH cases — pursuing two different Hathaway-family debtors in successive 3-month interval. Documents Benjamin's active creditor-side financial network with the Hathaway family at ages 22-23.
• I.106 Morris County NJ Court of Common Pleas Minute Book Vol 4-6 (1766-1778) (FamilySearch DGS 7903185), image 305 of 669, December Term 1771 — case caption 'William Throgmorton a Eleanor Johnson, Richard Johnson & John Vantyle, Daniel Cooper Executors of Henry Johnson the late Sheriff of Morris' = image-verified attestation of (a) Henry Johnson as a deceased prior Sheriff of Morris County (NEW catalog person), and (b) Daniel Cooper as one of four Executors of Henry Johnson's estate, alongside widow Eleanor Johnson + Richard Johnson + John Vantyle. Case: William Throgmorton suing the Johnson estate executors; Sheriff returned £52.14 of judgments levied; David Ogden motions for Alias Fieri Facias for residue.
• I.108 Morris County NJ Court of Common Pleas Minute Book Vol 4-6 (1766-1778) (FamilySearch DGS 7903185), images 640+641 of 669, 1 July 1777 — Rev War-era Morris CCP at Morristown adjourns mid-session to convene at Capt Peter Dicherson Esqr (= Capt Peter Dickerson home, Morris Co. militia officer; wartime court-displacement context). Present-list image-verified: Daniel Cooper June[ior] named as Justice of the Peace alongside Matthias Burnet, John Brookfield, Jonathan Stiles. = NEW catalog datum: Daniel Cooper Jr is a Justice of the Peace by July 1777 (post-Sheriff transition c. 1769-70). Daniel Cooper Sr is NOT on the bench at this session — age 82, possibly retired or just absent. Standard wartime court business: tavern licenses, recognizance bonds 'to keep the Peace & be of good behaviour', State v defendants criminal cases.
• I.110 Morris County NJ Court of Common Pleas Minute Book Vol 4-6 (1766-1778) (FamilySearch DGS 7903185), image 380 of 669, December Term 1772 sealing docket — TWO image-verified joint litigation entries documenting the Earl of Stirling + Benjn Cooper Esqr (Hibernia Iron Mines partnership) in active CCP litigation against debtors: (1) 'Earl of Sterling & B. Cooper Esqr Agt Jacob Youngs' (Capt Case CC) and (2) 'The Earl of Sterling & Benjn Cooper Esqr Cap. Case CC Agt Eleazr Perkins £23.3, Wm D Hart Atty'. PLUS adjacent (3) 'Hibernia Compt Agt George Finger' (Capt Case) = Hibernia Iron Mines Co. as corporate plaintiff itself. = first image-verified primary-source court attestation of the Cooper-Stirling Hibernia Iron Mines partnership in active joint litigation, 9 months before Benjamin's August 1773 counterfeiting trial.
• I.111 Morris County NJ Court of Common Pleas Minute Book Vol 4-6 (1766-1778) (FamilySearch DGS 7903185), image 299 of 669, December Term 1771 — King's-bench (criminal) case row image-verified: 'The King v George Cooper [+ Camp co-defendant?] / John Cooper Surety' = first image-verified primary-source court attestation of George Cooper (Daniel Sr's son per pr.44 1759 Providence Runyon will family roster), alive Dec 1771; John Cooper as surety on George's recognizance bond = likely John of Long Hill (brother, [p.8](../../people/p.8%20John%20Cooper%201738-1778.md)) acting as fraternal surety. George Cooper NOT named in Daniel Sr's 1791 will [A.9](../A-Probate/A.9.yaml) = died between Dec 1771 and Apr 1791.
• I.112 Morris County NJ Court of Common Pleas Minute Books — Daniel Cooper Junr Esq 'LATE SHERIFF' attestations primary-source-locking Daniel Jr's Sheriff-tenure END at before 1770. Vol 2-3 (1754-1766) DGS 7903193 Img223 = 1770: 'Lebedee Potter [v] Daniel Cooper Esq Esqr Late Sheriff &c' (Vend Exponas in Debt). Vol 4-6 (1766-1778) DGS 7903185 Img264 = March Term 1771: 'Exrs of Amy [Sip?] [v] Daniel Cooper Junr Esqr Late Sheriff' (Cap[ias] Case £200 proc, Lewis Ogden Atty). Combined with [I.100](I.100.yaml) commission 4 July 1758, this BRACKETS Daniel Jr's Sheriff tenure at 4 July 1758 → before 1770 (= maximum 11.5 years; minimum determined when a Sheriff-tenure-end commission record surfaces).
• I.129 Biographical and Genealogical History of Morris County, New Jersey, Vol. II (Lewis Publishing Co., New York, 1899), Vol. II p. 937 [Ancestry image-pagination] — 'THE COOPER FAMILY OF MORRIS COUNTY' narrative biographical section embedded in the Joseph W. Thompson biographical sketch. PRIMARY-SOURCE-GRADE 1899 Long-Hill-Cooper-family-tradition narrative (= 1899 publication is within living memory of Daniel Sr's grandchildren, age 50+ in 1899 = adults remembering grandparents). 6 catalog-defining content blocks: (1) 'About the year 1700 the first American ancestor of this family came from Holland' = INDEPENDENT CORROBORATION of Holland-origin tradition 47 years earlier than [I.36 House of Cooper 1946](I.36.yaml). (2) Confirms Daniel Cooper [Sr] × Grace Runyan + Long Hill residence + 'leading man, justice of the peace and county judge'. (3) NEW LAND CLAIM: 'He located on a tract of five hundred acres along the banks of the Passaic river from Sterling to Long Hill, his deed being signed by William, earl of Sterling and one of His Majesty's commissioners in the state of New Jersey' — = NEW NJSA primary-source-search target NOT YET in catalog K-section. (4) Confirms Daniel Jr 'was a sheriff of this county' = matches catalog [I.99](I.99.yaml)/[I.100](I.100.yaml). (5) 5-sons-of-Daniel-Jr roster: Peter / Dr John of eastern PA / Daniel / William / Joseph. (6) Late-19th-c. Long-Hill Cooper continuation: William d. 1880 (m. 3 times Sarah A. Cooper + Martha Brown + Martha Cross; father of Mrs. Joseph W. Thompson); Alexander 'still living on the old homestead' 1899 (m. Abigail Parrott; 5 children incl. Mrs. Elizabeth Travis of Newark + Mrs. Anna Flaker of Brooklyn).
• I.130 Catherine Bigham Brode, Ludlow-Ross Genealogy: The Ancestors of Lydia Ludlow and Ogden Ross and Their Descendants, With Allied Families (privately printed, Walla Walla WA, 1932) — the Cooper, Runyon and Ludlow chapters at book pp. 68-89, from the NYPL copy digitised by Google Books.
• I.131 Arthur E. Cooper, 'Col. Cornelius Ludlow,' in Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, Third Series, Vol. III (Newark NJ: NJHS, bound 1906; sub-issues 1898-1905), book pp. 42-49, composed Morristown NJ 8 June 1901 — = THE primary-source published genealogy underlying [I.36] House of Cooper 1946 + [I.130] Brode 1932 for the Catherine Cooper Ludlow / Cornelius Ludlow / John Ludlow descendant tree; CONFIRMS Catherine Hankinson (not Conover) was Daniel Cooper Jr's 1st wife + only mother of Catherine Cooper Jr (= the 1898 NJHS publication that Brode p.77 cites as 'Mr. Cooper wrote for the N. J. Historical Society in 1898'); 8-page genealogy enumerates Cornelius's 3 marriages + 7 named children by Catharine Cooper [p.51] + Martha Lyon + Mary Wall + grandchildren via John Ludlow [p.53] (= 13 children primary-source-locked via Susan Demun not 'Damon') + Benjamin Ludlow [p.278] (= eldest son of Cornelius × Martha Lyon, b. 1764 d. 27 Jan 1817, Maj. Gen. NJ Militia + NJ Legislative Council 1807-1814; his grandson George C. Ludlow b. 1830 = Governor of New Jersey 1880) + Israel Ludlow (b. 1766 d. 1804, surveyed Symmes Purchase Ohio 1788 = sole owner of Hamilton OH + part-owner of Dayton + co-founder of Cincinnati; his great-grandson Salmon P. Chase = Governor of Ohio + US Senator + Chief Justice of US Supreme Court) + 10+ tombstone-primary-source inscriptions from old Presbyterian church yard New Providence NJ (copied 31 July 1900 by Dr. A. M. Corey)
• J.42 New Hampshire Spy (Portsmouth NH), 23 June 1787 — death notice for Daniel Cooper Jr. Esq. of Long Hill, Morris Co. NJ. Reprint of a New-Brunswick (NJ) dispatch dated 22 June 1787 reporting Daniel Jr.'s suicide by hanging on Friday 24[?]/25 May 1787 in his barn at Long Hill. Names Rev. Samuel Kenedy as funeral preacher; describes ~600-700 mourners; states Daniel Jr. left a desolate widow and eleven children; confirms burial in 'the family burying ground, on his father's plantation' = the G.4 Long Hill site.
• 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.13 NJSA Early Land Records — Daniel Cooper Jr (Deputy Surveyor) 2 March 1758 survey return for heirs of John Harrison of Rocky Hill — 81.2 acres at Dead River, original 100-acre tract that John Harrison had conveyed to John Pound of Piscataway in May 1735 but never surveyed. = EARLIEST PRIMARY-SOURCE-ATTESTED Daniel Cooper Jr Deputy-Surveyor record in Middlesex Co. catalog. Signed by Thomas Bartow, Surveyor General. Cross-referenced to a 26 Apr 1758 council-of-proprietors warrant to Harrison's heirs for 1671.95 acres unappropriated in the Eastern Division of New Jersey 'except Romopock', and to a related Phineas Cox 2 Jun 1758 survey covering the residual ~82 acres of the Pound tract (S.N°2 page 280).
• K.18 NJSA Early Land Records — Daniel Cooper Jr (Deputy Surveyor) 14 April 1762 survey on branches of Dead River, Somerset Co. — 76.18 acres for Joseph Kinnan + John Williams + John Longstreet (good-right and pine-right combined), at the request of Joseph Kinnan. Survey personally signed by 'Stirling' = William Alexander, Lord Stirling, Surveyor General = primary-source-confirms Daniel Jr was already working under Lord Stirling by April 1762 — 2 years earlier than the K.6/K.8 Morris Co. Cooper-Stirling Long Hill attestations, 11 years before the 1773 Cooper-Stirling letter (pr.52). Adjoins Ephraim Dunham's prior tract (book S page 88). Underlying right traces to Mary Alexander's 9 February 1760 deed to grantees (1400 ac of her 6000-ac warrant of 29 November 1757, Lib W4.13), and to Thomas Kinnan's certificate of 3 August 1751 for 109.81 ac pine land (Lib S3.216), assigned to Joseph Kinnan via Lib AB3.298. Same Joseph Kinnan / Thomas Kinnan family that recurs in [K.16 Record 7](K.16.yaml) (Ruth Kinnan 1773 Bernards Town deed signed by Daniel Sr as Morris CCP Judge). Companion to [K.13](K.13.yaml) (Daniel Jr 2 Mar 1758 Dead River survey for John Harrison heirs) — both records establish Daniel Jr's Dead River / Middlesex–Somerset borderland surveying footprint.
• 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.35 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.
• K.41 NJ Supreme Court Case File #2308 Joseph Burdge & William Crawford (Executors of Richard Morris dec'd) v. James Cooper — Debt on Bond £200, Middlesex & Morris, 1769–1770 — manuscript-read (NJSA free View-PDF, declaration transcribed). The debtor is 'James Cooper … of the Township of ROXBURY in the County of Morris' (declaration p.5, re-read at 240 DPI) — i.e. a Roxbury-Morris (fam.2 Nathan-Cooper territory) James Cooper, NOT the Piscataway/Middlesex man of this entry's first (corrected) draft. £200 bond to Richard Morris executed at Perth Amboy (24 Nov, cover-dated 1761), sealed by James Cooper. Daniel Cooper Jr. (Sheriff of Morris) executing official ([K.30](K.30.yaml) row 60). Companion case #4825 (same Richard-Morris 1761 bond, vs William Salmon) names this James Cooper as bail + co-obligor. Recorded in [name.7](../../names/name.7%20James%20Cooper.md).
• K.42 NJ Supreme Court Case Files — four Daniel-Cooper-as-Sheriff-of-Morris administrative case-file images (#15773 Hayden v. Day; #30420 Pierson v. Pierson; #44060 Wilson v. Beaman; #763 Allen v. Kernes & Stark), 1767–1770 — manuscript-on-file (NJSA free View-PDFs). These are routine debt/trespass executions in which a Cooper is the executing Sheriff (Daniel Sr in #15773; Daniel Jr in #30420/#44060/#763), NOT a party. = manuscript-tier corroboration of the [K.30](K.30.yaml) index Sheriff-of-Morris tenure; no Cooper-family genealogical content. Consolidated to keep the catalog proportionate; individual writs not deep-transcribed.
• C.36 NJ Archives Vol. XXII — Marriage Records 1665-1800 (NJ State Archives First Series) — complete Cooper-name sweep, ~30 marriages from the printed alphabetical index. Catalog-defining: primary-source marriage records for Providence Cooper of Morris × Joseph Manning of Morris (1768) = [p.1 Daniel Sr](../../people/p.1%20Daniel%20Cooper%201695-1795.md)'s daughter (the 'Providence Manning' of his A.9 will) + Mehitable Cooper of Morris × William Davison of Somerset (1770) = [p.572](../../people/p.572%20Mehetabel%20Cooper%20Davison%20%28DUPLICATE%20of%20p.467%29.md) (resolves her husband's given name) + corroborates Daniel Sr × Grace Manning (1768) + Daniel Jr × Catherine Hankinson (1751) + Daniel × Deborah Middleton (1797). Plus 2 fam.2 Morris Nathan-Cooper marriages (1749 Marsh, 1751 Dickenson), Elizabeth Cooper × Henry Wick Jr (Morris 1760), and ~20 fam.3 Gloucester / Monmouth / Bucks-PA Coopers (disambiguation).
• C.41 Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church marriage register, Rev. Robert Finley, July 1795 – Sept 1811 (39 numbered marriages) + post-Finley formal continuation to ~1821. Full two-page register image (Marriage/Baskingridge Marriages 1795-1821.jpg). 5 Cooper marriages: #11 Joseph Cross × Mary Cooper (13 Mar 1800 = [p.5](../../people/p.5%20Polly%20Cooper%20Annin.md) primary-source 1st marriage); #16 Sayre × Charity Cooper (15 Oct 1801 = [C.12](C.12.yaml)); #25 David Kirkpatrick 3rd × Sally Cooper (14 Nov 1804); #31 — Cooper × — Horton of Chester (25 Apr 1806, names blank); #35 Peter Cooper × Susan Boyle (14 Dec 1808 = Daniel-Jr's-son marriage per Brode).
• C.43 Daniel Cooper Jr × Catherine Hankinson — Colonial Marriage Bond + parental-consent note, April 1751 (NJSA Colonial Marriage Bonds 1666–1799, Vol C Part 1 [1735–1764] pp. 124–125). Manuscript bond signed by groom Daniel Cooper Jun.r + co-bondsman Joseph Runyon of Middlesex Co., under Gov. Jonathan Belcher; accompanying consent note names the bride's parents William Hankinson and Dorithy his wife. Acquired NJSA Order 202605-87163 ([pr.72](../../projects/pr.72%20NJSA%20Order%20202605-87163%203%20Daniel%20Cooper%20marriage%20bonds.md)), received 2026-06-16.
• C.44 Daniel Cooper Sr × Grace Manning — Colonial Marriage Bond, 11 March 1768 (NJSA Colonial Marriage Bonds 1666–1799, Vol C Part 2 [1765–1797] p. 449). Bond signed by groom Daniel Cooper Esq.r + co-bondsman his son Dan.l Cooper Jun.r Esq.r (both of Morris Co.), under Gov. William Franklin; bride Grace Manning, Widow, of [Essex] County; witnesses Peter Kemble & Rich.d Kemble. Acquired NJSA Order 202605-87163 ([pr.72](../../projects/pr.72%20NJSA%20Order%20202605-87163%203%20Daniel%20Cooper%20marriage%20bonds.md)), received 2026-06-16.
• M.15 NYG&B Record Vol 40 (1909) — Earliest Baptismal Records of the Church of HARLINGEN (Reformed Dutch) of New Jersey 1727-1734 by William Jones Skillman — CONGREGATION PRIMARY-SOURCE-IDENTIFIED v190 2026-05-06 as HARLINGEN NJ Reformed Dutch Church (= aka Sourland; aka 'op de Millstone' before 1766; same area as Skillman ancestral home). TWO Daniel Cooper × Lucresia Runyon children baptized at Harlingen 1729-1733: (1) Daniel Jr baptized 26 March 1729 (= Daniel Cooper Jr 1729-1787; wits Henry Smock & Ann Van Duyn); (2) CORRECTED 2026-07-11 — the "Anna Cooper baptized ~Oct 1733" is a PHANTOM (= Agnietje 1732 [p.516], not a new daughter). Reading the actual Vol 40 page (PDF p.322 = printed p.289) shows Skillman's entry is "Aug. 16. Anna, dau. Daniel Cooper & Lucresia Runyon" under the year header 1732 — i.e. the SAME 16 Aug 1732 baptism the register image + GMNJ render as Agnietje ([F.176]/[F.222], image-verified "Daniel Cuper / Creesje Reijnjen"). Skillman rendered "Agnietje"→"Anna" (he wrote "Anna" for all three consecutive Aug-16 girls); the v190 "~Oct 1733" date was a mis-read of the page location. ⇒ NOT a separate child; collapses into [p.516]. Daniel Sr × Grace have exactly TWO Harlingen baptisms (Daniel Jr 1729 + Agnietje 1732). Plus 'Sept. 11, 1728. Lucresia Runyon, wife of Daniel Cooper; received by Confession of Faith & baptized the same day' = primary-source 1728 Confession-of-Faith. Lucresia Runyon = Grace Runyon: per Vol 40 editorial note 'the latter being of the same household as Peter Runyon, the editor's paternal great-grandfather' — confirmed by [M.16](M.16.yaml) Vol 38 p. 108 published Skillman-family genealogy = Grace Runyon b. 17 Jan 1706/7 daughter of Peter Runyon b. 1 July 1680 of Piscataway. Latin/church-name 'Lucresia' for English/familial 'Grace'. v190 nuance: Vol 40's series transcribes the anti-Frelinghuysen / Conferentie party register of Harlingen 1727-1734; a separate Frelinghuysen-coetus-party register exists at Holland Society Library per Vol 41 editor's note; latter may have additional Daniel Sr × Grace baptism entries not yet seen.
• 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].
• M.38 DAR Genealogical Research Database 2026-05-28 — Cooper, Daniel Jr Ancestor #A071429
• M.46 DAR GRS Ancestor-Search results listing — COOPER, New Jersey (20 patriots). The two main-line patriots are already fully cataloged: COOPER DANIEL SR A025711 = [p.1] (full record [M.37]); COOPER DANIEL JR A071429 = [p.79] (full record [M.38]). The 'PROBLEMS DISCOVERED' notice on this listing belongs to COOPER DAVID A025712 (Monmouth, out-of-scope) — NOT to Daniel Sr (corrected 2026-06-26 per maintainer). Value-add of this listing = 4 Morris-Co collateral candidates (Henry Sr A025728, James A025740, James A025747, Joseph A025771) + Ichabod A025731; the rest are fam.9 Monmouth / fam.3 Camden-Gloucester / Bergen Dutch out-of-scope clusters.
• F.222 GSNJ Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, 'Records of the Harlingen (Millstone) Reformed Dutch Church' (Vols 15–17) — printed transcription; Cooper/Kuper/Runyon sweep 2026-07-11. Independent 4th transcription of the Harlingen register: corroborates Grace's 11 Sept 1728 confession, Daniel Jr's 26 Mar 1729 baptism, and Agnietje's 16 Aug 1732 baptism. NO new Cooper data (transcription ends ~1733).
• G.90 Find a Grave memorial 70801829 - Alexander Cooper, Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Basking Ridge, Somerset County, New Jersey
• A.71 Will of Richard Gibb of New Brunswick, Middlesex Co. NJ, gentleman, dated 20 June 1778, codicil 3 May 1785, probate 11 June 1786 — primary-source PRE-Cooper marriage attestation for Barbary Margreta Gibb = [p.280 Barbara Margaretta Gibb Cooper](../../people/p.280%20Barbara%20Margaretta%20Gibb%20Cooper.md). CATALOG-DEFINING DISCOVERY 2026-05-28: Barbara Margaretta was the WIDOW of Richard Gibb when she married Daniel Cooper Sr 3 Nov 1788 (= [p.1 Marriages table](../../people/p.1%20Daniel%20Cooper%201695-1795.md) #5 'Mrs. Gibb of New Brunswick'); 'Gibb' was her LAST married surname, NOT her maiden name. Maiden surname remains UNKNOWN.
• J.152 New Jersey Journal 12 Nov 1788 — marriage notice Daniel Cooper Esq. of Long-Hill × Mrs. Gibb of New-Brunswick (3 Nov 1788)
• G.719 Find a Grave cemetery browse and searches, Long Hill Township (Long Hill, Stirling, Millington, Meyersville, Gillette), Morris County, New Jersey, with surname Cooper searches of five grounds and memorials 150817593 and 237747667 parsed
• G.91 Find a Grave memorial 70802191 - Peter Cooper, Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Basking Ridge, Somerset County, New Jersey
• G.92 Find a Grave memorial 150816493 - Daniel Cooper Jr., Old Cemetery, Long Hill, Morris County, New Jersey
• G.94 Find a Grave memorial 169490858 - Dr John Cooper, Easton Cemetery, Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania
• G.123 Find a Grave memorial 150811719 - John Cooper, Old Cemetery, Long Hill, Morris County, New Jersey
• G.241 Find a Grave memorials 70839825 and 70839666 - David Kirkpatrick (1776-1824) and CPT David Kirkpatrick (1758-1828), Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Somerset County, New Jersey
• G.302 Find a Grave memorial 132609879 - Mary Cooper Crane, Evergreen Cemetery, Hillside, Union County, New Jersey
• G.211 Find a Grave memorial 7633052 - George Cooper, Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Basking Ridge, Somerset County, New Jersey
• F.34 Pew-Holders of Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church, 1783-1786, The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey pp. 106-107