John Cooper 1738–1778
Catalog ID p.8 · Cite this page: njcoopers.com/p/8/
John Cooper was born about 1738, the son of Daniel Cooper Sr and Grace (Runyon) Cooper. He married Lynche Boyle Cooper (1763). He died on 31 Mar 1778 and was buried at Cooper Family Burying Ground, Long Hill, Morris Co., NJ. Six children are recorded.
Facts
| Event | Date | Place / detail | Certainty | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| birth | about 1738 | certain | ||
| death | 31 Mar 1778 | certain | G.123, G.4 | |
| burial | Cooper Family Burying Ground, Long Hill, Morris Co., NJ | certain | G.4 |
Family
Parents
- Father Daniel Cooper Sr 1695–1795
- Mother Grace (Runyon) Cooper 1707–1755
Spouses
- Lynche Boyle Cooper 1746–1809married 11 Sep 1763F.101
Siblings
- Daniel Cooper Jr 1729–1787
- Agnes Cooper 1732–1737
- Peter Cooper 1735–1755
- Benjamin Cooper 1741–1794
- Rosanna (Cooper) Gaston 1743–1817
- George Cooper 1745–1801
- Providence (Cooper) Manning 1748–1798
- Ann (Cooper) Carle 1750–1795
Children
- Charity (Cooper) Sayre 1767–1833
- Daniel Cooper 1769–1826
- Solomon Cooper 1770–1844
- Agnes Cooper 1772–1833
- Susannah Cooper 1778
- Lucretia Cooper 1778
Family tree
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In the documents
Every published document that names John Cooper, in date order, with what that document itself records.
| Date | Document | Role | What it records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1742 | F.101 church register History of the First Presbyterian Church, Morristown, N.J., Part II: The Combined Registers, 1742 to 1889 (341 pages) |
member as "John Cooper" |
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| 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 "John" |
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| 27 Jan 1778 | A.29 will Will of John Cooper of Morristown, made 27 January 1778, proved 17 April 1778 — names "my Honoured Father Daniel Cooper Esqr". Loose file 456N, recorded Liber 2… |
testator as "Cooper, John" |
residence: Morristown, Morris Co., New Jersey probate: 17 Apr 1778, Morris Town, New Jersey |
| 1778 | G.123 find a grave memorial Find a Grave memorial 150811719 - John Cooper, Old Cemetery, Long Hill, Morris County, New Jersey |
deceased as "John Cooper" |
birth: 20 Aug 1734, Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey death: 31 Mar 1778, New Jersey burial: Old Cemetery, Long Hill, Morris County, New Jersey |
| 9 Jan 1778 | K.93 deed Morris County, New Jersey, Deed Book B, pages 184–189 (FamilySearch Morris. Deeds 1790–1796, DGS 008137071, images 103–105): four conveyances of Long Hill land … |
grantee as "John Cooper of the same Place" |
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| 1787 | G.92 find a grave memorial Find a Grave memorial 150816493 - Daniel Cooper Jr., Old Cemetery, Long Hill, Morris County, New Jersey |
sibling as "John Cooper" |
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| 1801 | G.211 find a grave memorial Find a Grave memorial 7633052 - George Cooper, Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Basking Ridge, Somerset County, New Jersey |
sibling as "John Cooper" |
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| 1809 | G.124 find a grave memorial Find a Grave memorial 70802082 - Magdalen Lynche Boyle Cooper, Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Basking Ridge, Somerset County, New Jersey |
spouse as "John Cooper" |
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| 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 "John" |
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| 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 "John Cooper" |
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| 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, JOHN" |
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| 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 "John" |
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| G.719 index sweep Find a Grave cemetery browse and searches, Long Hill Township (Long Hill, Stirling, Millington, Meyersville, Gillette), Morris County, New Jersey, with surname … |
deceased as "John Cooper" |
3 further documents not published (they may name living people).
Still unknown, and where we have looked
- Birthplace not established.
Documents
- 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.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.29 Will of John Cooper of Morristown, made 27 January 1778, proved 17 April 1778 — names "my Honoured Father Daniel Cooper Esqr". Loose file 456N, recorded Liber 20 p. 227.
- 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].
- B.50 Stryker, Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War (Trenton, 1872) - Cooper surname sweep
- D.274 Ancestry search of the New Jersey Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1643-1890: 'John Cooper', lived in Morris Co.; 84 results; May 2026.
- F.101 History of the First Presbyterian Church, Morristown, N.J., Part II: The Combined Registers, 1742 to 1889 (341 pages)
- G.123 Find a Grave memorial 150811719 - John Cooper, Old Cemetery, Long Hill, Morris County, New Jersey
- G.124 Find a Grave memorial 70802082 - Magdalen Lynche Boyle Cooper, Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Basking Ridge, Somerset County, New Jersey
- 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.54 Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey (Series I, Vols 1-42 1631-1817 + Vol 22 Marriages 1665-1800 alternate edition) — full 43-volume corpus scan = canonical NJ-State-Archives-published primary-source compilation. v190.5x9+ 2026-05-08 corpus sweep surfaced 18+ catalog-changing Cooper-line primary-source records: Daniel Cooper Jr birth 14 Jan 1729 Piscataway (Vol 26 editor's footnote); Providence Runyon 1759 will listing 7 Daniel-Sr-children-via-Grace-Cooper (Vol 33); full 1773 counterfeiting case Council proceedings + Benjamin Cooper pardon (Vol 18); Benjamin Cooper as Hunterdon Co Judge pre-1773 (Vol 17); 1739 Daniel Cooper Quorum-Judge appointment + 1747 rioter petition (Vol 15); Daniel Cooper Jr as Sheriff of Morris 1768-1769 (Vol 26); John Cooper of Morristown 1778 will (Vol 34) — wife Magdalane, sons Daniel + Solomon, father Daniel Sr, Passaic-River mills; Daniel Cooper Jr as Patrick Donaho's 1756 sole heir + Executor (Vol 32); Cooper-Manning marriage register entries (Vol 22). Primary-source confirmation of [A.6](../A-Probate/A.6.yaml), [A.7](../A-Probate/A.7.yaml), [A.8](../A-Probate/A.8.yaml), [A.9](../A-Probate/A.9.yaml), [A.10](../A-Probate/A.10.yaml), [A.18](../A-Probate/A.18.yaml) at NJ-Archives-published level.
- I.96 Minutes of the Council of Safety of the State of New Jersey (Jersey City: John H. Lyon, 1872) Vol I — Newly downloaded primary-source state-papers volume covering the NJ Council of Safety 18 March 1777 – 8 October 1778. Founding 12 members of the Council named on the title page; Daniel Cooper Sr / Daniel Cooper Jr / Benjamin Cooper / John Cooper of Long Hill are NOT among them. Catalog-relevant content: (1) 'Mr Cooper' attending Council frequently from May 1777 onwards = added later as a Council member; identification = Joseph Cooper of Gloucester (Camden Quaker line, [fam.3](../../families/fam.3%20Camden%20NJ%20Quaker%20Cooper.md)), NOT our Daniel-Sr-line — this is the primary disambiguation-risk Cooper for the Rev War period; (2) John Cooper paid as 'a wounded Soldier' in the Militia, ~Nov 1777, via Mr Condict (= Silas Condict, Morris Co. Council member) — POSSIBLE identification with [p.8 John Cooper of Long Hill 1738-1778](../../people/p.8%20John%20Cooper%201738-1778.md), Daniel Sr's 5th son, who died 27 January 1778 (plausible wounded-then-died-of-wounds timeline); (3) William Cooper took Oaths of Abjuration and Allegiance before Council 22 April 1777 Bordentown — unidentified William Cooper, possible research lead; (4) Jacob Cooper a POW captured by Major Mifflin, paroled 29 May 1777 with Thomas Curtis of Shrewsbury as £100 surety — Monmouth Co. context, unidentified. NO primary-source Daniel Sr or Benjamin Cooper appearances.
- 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.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.183 Ellery B. Crane, Genealogy of the Crane Family Vol. II (1900) — independently corroborates TWO Cooper-Crane marriages on the Daniel-Sr tree: Agnes 'Neaty' Cooper [p.729] × David Crane, and Mary (Cooper) Crane [p.732] × Israel Crane (+ son Israel C. = [p.860]). [verbatim]
- 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.
- 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.
- K.92 Morris County, New Jersey, Deed Book B, pages 380–389 (FamilySearch Morris. Deeds 1790–1796, DGS 008137071, images 204–208): five related Cooper conveyances of 14 August and 28 September 1793 — the executors of John Cooper (Magdalen Cooper, Joseph Manning) to Daniel Cooper Jun[r]; Daniel Cooper Jun[r] to Solomon Cooper; Solomon Cooper to Daniel Cooper Jun[r]; and Daniel Cooper (twice) and George Cooper to Daniel and Solomon Cooper — acknowledged December 1794, recorded 30 December 1794 – 2 January 1795.
- K.93 Morris County, New Jersey, Deed Book B, pages 184–189 (FamilySearch Morris. Deeds 1790–1796, DGS 008137071, images 103–105): four conveyances of Long Hill land recorded January 1793 — Daniel Cooper Senior to John Cooper (9 Jan 1778); Sheriff William Liddel to Magdalen Cooper (1 Jan 1787); Magdalen Cooper to Daniel and Solomon Cooper (2 Jan 1787); Daniel Cooper Sen[r] to Daniel and Solomon Cooper "sons of John Cooper deceased" (8 Aug 1787).
- 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.51 "Cemetery Burial Listing", Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church, Basking Ridge, Somerset County, New Jersey (web page, saved HTML)
- G.92 Find a Grave memorial 150816493 - Daniel Cooper Jr., Old Cemetery, Long Hill, Morris County, New Jersey
- G.211 Find a Grave memorial 7633052 - George Cooper, Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Basking Ridge, Somerset County, New Jersey