The Coopers of Long Hill
The descendants of Daniel Cooper Sr 1695–1795 of Long Hill, Morris County, New Jersey, and their spouses: 1166 people and 1305 transcribed documents. Every fact is graded for certainty and linked to the document it comes from.
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- Daniel Cooper SrDaniel Cooper Sr lived to be a hundred years and two days, and married six times.
- StoryHis son Benjamin was sentenced to hang for counterfeiting in 1773, and reprieved at the gallows.
- StoryWho were Daniel Sr's parents? A Y-DNA test points not to other Coopers but to the Coryells, a family of Sephardic origin.
- StorySeven gravestones that travelled for forty years, from a backyard to a library, a public-works yard and a park.
- Daniel Cooper JrSix or seven hundred people came to the funeral of Daniel Cooper Jr in 1787.
- StoryBenjamin's sons are named in no record of his own time. Seven men have been proposed.
- Document L.4Arthur E. Cooper's hand-drawn tree of the family, 1695 to 1895.
- Document G.730The plaque that now stands beside the seven stones in Stirling.
- Benjamin CooperBenjamin's signature as a militia clerk in 1778, the only document known in his own hand.
Other families
Other Cooper families the research has had to tell apart from Daniel's. Their pages say so at the top.
Stories
- Benjamin Cooper, sentenced to hang for counterfeiting in 1773, reprieved at the gallows and pardoned Benjamin Cooper
- Who were Benjamin Cooper's sons? A male line resting on very little Benjamin Cooper
- Who were Daniel Cooper Sr's parents? The search for the origin of the Long Hill Coopers Daniel Cooper Sr
- The Cooper family burying ground at Long Hill, and the long journey of its seven stones Daniel Cooper Jr
Children of Daniel Cooper Sr
- Benjamin Cooper 1741–1794
- John Cooper 1738–1778
- Rosanna (Cooper) Gaston 1743–1817
- Daniel Cooper Jr 1729–1787
- George Cooper 1745–1801
- Peter Cooper 1735–1755
- Agnes Cooper 1732–1737
- Providence (Cooper) Manning 1748–1798
- Ann (Cooper) Carle 1750–1795