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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

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

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

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

ALS and copy

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

Scope and Contents

Also includes papers connected with the wills.

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

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

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

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

Printed in The American Monthly Magazine.

Archival Resource Key. 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.

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

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

Archival Resource Key. William J. Cooper (1849-1925), c. 1924.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Group: Caroline M. Cooper, Sarah Bancroft Clark, Emma C. Bancroft, William P. Bancroft, c.1899.
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Archival Resource Key. 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
Archival Resource Key. Group: Anne T. Hilles, Sarah Tatum Hilles, Joseph T. Hilles. At Cooper Reunion, Woodbury N.J., 1909.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Group: Emily Kaighn Smith, Robert Kaighn, Anna K. Smith, Mary M. Kaighn, Sarah C. Kaighn. Cooper Reunion, 1909.
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Archival Resource Key. 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
Archival Resource Key. 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
Archival Resource Key. 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
Archival Resource Key. Group: Deborah Ferris, Anna Ferris, Martha Ferris, late 1800s.
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Archival Resource Key. Group: Anna and Patty (Martha) Ferris, late 1880s.
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Archival Resource Key. Group: Deborah and Anna Ferris, late 1800s.
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Archival Resource Key. Wm. C. Smyth, 3/4/1895.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Mount Holly, N.J., Meeting house.
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Archival Resource Key. Stony Brook, N.J., Meeting house.
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Archival Resource Key. Wilmington, Del., meeting.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Woodbury meeting house, 9/1/1909.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Cooper Family notes.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Betts Family notes.
Box 2
Physical Description

2 volumes

Archival Resource Key. Canby Family notes.
Box 2
Physical Description

1 volume

Archival Resource Key. Seal Family notes.
Box 2
Physical Description

1 volume

Archival Resource Key. Smyth Family notes.
Box 2
Physical Description

4 volumes

Archival Resource Key. Ancestral Tablets.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

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

Physical Description

1 volume

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

3 packets

Print, Suggest