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Cooper Family Papers

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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081

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Call Number:
RG5.031
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
1 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item or series here], Cooper Family Papers, RG5/031, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Date:
1780-1926 (inclusive)
Creator:
Cooper family, Cooper, William, 1770-1850, Cooper, Sarah, 1774-1848, Cooper, Howard M. (Howard Mickle), 1844-1922, and Cooper, Lucy S. (Lucy Smyth), 1853-1924
Abstract:
William Cooper, a New Jersey Quaker and Elder of Woodbury Monthly Meeting, married Sarah Morgan in 1806. They had six children and resided at "Greenfield" in Woodbury. This collection contains family correspondence, wills and marriage certificates, other manuscript and printed materials, memorabilia, and photographs of the ancestors and descendents of William and Sarah Morgan Cooper. Includes historical writings of Howard Mickle Cooper and the genealogical notes compiled by Lucy Smyth Cooper.

William Cooper, a New Jersey Quaker and Elder of Woodbury Monthly Meeting, married Sarah Morgan in 1806. They had six children and resided at "Greenfield" in Woodbury.

The larger part of the collection is composed of genealogical research. There also is some family correspondence, wills and marriage certificates, manuscript and printed materials, memorabilia, and photographs of the ancestors and descendents of William and Sarah Morgan Cooper.

The collection is divided into five series:

  1. Correspondence
  2. Wills and related papers
  3. Memorabilia
  4. Pictures
  5. Genealogy

Donors: Emily Cooper Johnson, 1959, and Elizabeth M. Cooper, 1961-1962

Originally processed before 1967 by FHL staff. Rehoused and finding aid revised in 2015.

See also:

  1. Emily Cooper Johnson Papers, RG5/078
  2. Cooper family pictures, PA 118

The following materials have been removed from the collection and recatalogued:

  1. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Discipline, 1719. See Disciplines.
  2. In oversize picture collection, Portraits: Mahlon Betts (1795-1867) of Wilmington, Del.
  3. In oversize picture collection, Portraits: Mary (Seal) Betts (1795-1891) (Photographed from oil portraits by Benjamin Otis(?)
  4. Marriage certificates: see marr. certs. in chart case
  5. Marriage certificate: Kaighin, Joseph to Mickle, Sarah. 4mo 16 1795. See Marriage Certificates in Chart Case.
  6. Marriage certiificates: Cooper, John to Kaighn, Mary M. 10mo 18 1843. See Marriage Certificates in Chart Case.

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Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
FHL staff
Finding Aid Date
Before 1967
Sponsor
Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Friends Historical Library believes all of the items in this collection to be in the Public Domain in the United States, and is not aware of any restrictions on their use. However, the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status before reproducing. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/.

Collection Inventory

William Cooper to John Cooper, Greenfield, 3/31/1834.
Box 1
Physical Description

ALS and copy

Mary [Cooper?] to Ann [Cooper?], Byberry, 8/23/1857.
Box 1
[Elizabeth M. Cooper?], Greenfield, to Anna Richardson, Phila., 9/3/1890.
Box 1
Lydia Griscom to?, Greenfields, 8/14/1909.
Box 1
Lydia Griscom to cousin Howard Cooper, Greenfields, 11/15/1909.
Box 1
Lydia Biddle to Howard [Cooper?], Lansdowne, Pa., 2/13/1910.
Box 1
Wm. A. Cooper to Howard [Cooper?], Conshohocken, 5/15/1921.
Box 1

Scope and Contents

Also includes papers connected with the wills.

Hannah Jessup, 1780.
Box 1
James Cooper, 1790.
Box 1
Mary Cooper, 1794.
Box 1
Rebecca Cooper, 1799.
Box 1
James Cooper, 1819.
Box 1
John Cooper, 1830.
Box 1
Joseph Kaighn, 1841.
Box 1
William Cooper, 1850.
Box 1
Joseph Morgan, 1864.
Box 1
Joseph M. Cooper, 1885.
Box 1

Birth Announcement, Sarah Cooper Griest,, 1922.
Box 1
Birthdays of family Friends, 1889.
Box 1
Medical certificates: Anna Richardson, 1899-1902.
Box 1
Speech by Lucy Cooper Walker at Cooper family reunion at Greenfields, Nov. 1934.
Box 1
Annie Cooper Lippincott, 1910.
Box 1
Sarah Cooper, 1923.
Box 1
Anna Richardson, 1926.
Box 1
Invitation to funeral of Sarah Kaighn, 1842 11mo 9.
Box 1
Invitation to hear Grattan Guiness, 1860 4mo 11.
Box 1
Disownment of Mary Kaighn, Haddonfield Meeting, 1837 8mo 14.
Box 1
Disownment of John Cooper, Woodbury Meeting., 1836 3mo 1.
Box 1
Disownment of Joseph Kaighn, and wife Sarah, Haddonfield Meeting, 1829 6mo 8.
Box 1
"Newton Meeting--A Retrospect," by Howard M. Cooper, 1876 1mo 14.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Read before the Friends' Lyceum, Camden, N.J. Received 11/28/1962.

Cooper, Howard M.: William Cooper of "Greenfield" Woodbury, N.J. and his Cooper ancestry., 1896.
Box 1
Cooper Re-union at Greenfields, N.J., 9mo. 18, 1909.
Box 1
McGeorge, Isabella Crater: Ann Whitall's Duty, September, 1901.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Printed in The American Monthly Magazine.

Bicentennial Celebration of Erection of Friends Meeting House, Woodbury Comfort, William Wistar, 1921 5mo.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

William Cooper and the Friends in England and America, Part II (in Bulletin of Friends Historical Society of Philadelphia.

Clipping: John Cooper, Patriot, by Isabella Crater McGeorge, April 22, 1921.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Looking Backward (Philadelphia Evening Bulletin). Obituaries, etc.

William J. Cooper (1849-1925), c. 1924.
Box 1
Group: Caroline M. Cooper, Sarah Bancroft Clark, Emma C. Bancroft, William P. Bancroft, c.1899.
Box 1
Group: William J. Cooper, George K. Johnson, Emma McIlvain Cooper, Sallie K. Johnson, Lucy Smyth Cooper, Howard M. Cooper, Mary Cooper Johnson (Griest), Emily Cooper (Johnson). At Cooper Reunion, Woodbury, N.J., 1909.
Box 1
Group: Anne T. Hilles, Sarah Tatum Hilles, Joseph T. Hilles. At Cooper Reunion, Woodbury N.J., 1909.
Box 1
Group: Emily Kaighn Smith, Robert Kaighn, Anna K. Smith, Mary M. Kaighn, Sarah C. Kaighn. Cooper Reunion, 1909.
Box 1
Group: Mary M. Kaighn, Lucy Cooper Walker, Sallie Kaighn, Emma C. Bancroft, Howard M. Cooper, Caroline M. Cooper, William A. Cooper, Anna Kaighn Smith, Robert Kaighn, Sarah Tatum Hilles, Annie Cooper Lippincott, Lydia C. Biddle, Sallie K. Johnson, Mary K. Richardson, William G. Cooper. Cooper Reunion, 1909.
Box 1
Group: Anna Richardson, Wm. Cooper Wilker, Lucy C. Walker, Wm. A. Cooper, Mary Kaighn Richardson (?), Mary Bagg Cooper, Annie Cooper Lippincott, Nathaniel Richardson, Elizabeth C. Richardson, Elisha H. Walker. Cooper Reunion, 1909.
Box 1
Group: Mary W. Griscom, Howard M. Cooper, Mary Biddle (Fink), Lydia C. Lewis, (Rickman), Lydia Biddle, Mary B. Cooper, Caroline Biddle Lippincott, Robert Biddle, Caroline M. Cooper, Nathaniel Richardson, Lydia Griscom, Helen Conrad Biddle, Elizabeth D. Richardson, Emma McI. Cooper, J. Lawrence Lippincott, Lydia C. Biddle, Emma C. Bancroft, Wm. P. Bancroft, Lucy Biddle Lewis, Wm. J. Cooper, Caroline Biddle (Malin), Lucy Lippincott (Maris), Caroline Lippincott (Forman), Elizabeth Biddle Ayars, Helen Biddle (Porter). Cooper Reunion, 1910.
Box 1
Group: Deborah Ferris, Anna Ferris, Martha Ferris, late 1800s.
Box 1
Group: Anna and Patty (Martha) Ferris, late 1880s.
Box 1
Group: Deborah and Anna Ferris, late 1800s.
Box 1
Wm. C. Smyth, 3/4/1895.
Box 1
Mount Holly, N.J., Meeting house.
Box 1
Stony Brook, N.J., Meeting house.
Box 1
Wilmington, Del., meeting.
Box 1
Woodbury meeting house, 9/1/1909.
Box 1

Cooper Family notes.
Box 1
Betts Family notes.
Box 2
Physical Description

2 volumes

Canby Family notes.
Box 2
Physical Description

1 volume

Seal Family notes.
Box 2
Physical Description

1 volume

Smyth Family notes.
Box 2
Physical Description

4 volumes

Ancestral Tablets.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Includes Canby, Gilpin, Gregg, Paxson, Richards, Shipley and many others.

Physical Description

1 volume

Miscellaneous notes: small notebooks, letters, and loose notes of different sizes.
Box 2
Physical Description

3 packets

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