Joseph Cooper (1735 - abt. 1818)

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Haines) Cooper — married 22 Sep 1760 in Monmouth County, New Jersey

Died about 10 Nov 1818 at about age 83 in Gloucester Co., New Jersey

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Biography

JOSEPH COOPER, b. 1735; d. on or about Nov. 10, 1818; son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Coles) Cooper. They resided in Newton Twp., Gloucester Co., N.J., and left no children. His will was dated Nov. 27, 1817, and was probated Dec. 3, 1818. Her (Elizabeth Haines Cooper) will was dated 12 mo.. 19, 1818, and was probated Feb. 15, 1821.

Will abstract mentions the following family members^[1]

• wife Elizabeth
• nephew William Cooper (son of late brother Samuel), had sons Samuel H. Cooper (eldest) and Joseph W. Cooper
• nephew Benjamin Cooper (son of brother William)
• Joseph (son of nephew Nathan Cooper)
• kinsman Richard M. Cooper
• Isaac Cooper (son of late Marmaduke Cooper)

Slaves

Joseph Cooper named one slave in his will.

• Cornelia McLaughlin, a colored woman, her freedom when 21

Sources

1. ↑ “Abstracts, New Jersey Wills,” 1818, Volume 1. [Photocopied cards of typed and handwritten abstracts, compiler unknown, at NJSL A 974.9 A164]. Citing File 3169 H.

• Haines, John W., Richard Haines and his Descendants. A Quaker Family of Burlington County, New Jersey Since 1682., (Boyce, Va: Carr Publishing Company, Inc., 1961), p. 120.

Prowell, History of Camden Co., N.J., p. 409.

N.J. Marriage Licenses and Bonds, B. A-W, No. 111.

Charles H. Engle Records.

Gloucester Co., N.J. Wills, Bk. B, pp. 230, 314.

N.J. Chancery Court Records, Drawer H-8, Papers 86-122,