Oliver Cope and Rebecca [Unk]

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Husband Oliver Cope ^{1 2 3 4 5}

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           Born:  - Wiltshire, England
     Christened: 
           Died: Abt May 1697-1701 - Chester Co, PA
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         Father: [Ancestor] Cope (      -      )
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Rebecca [Unk] ^{1 2 4 6}

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           Born: 
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           Died: Abt 1728 - Bradford, Chester Co, PA
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Children

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1 M William Cope ^{1 4 6}

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           Born: Abt 1672
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         Spouse: Mary [Unk] (      -      ) 1 6

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2 F Elizabeth Cope ^{1 4 6}

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           Born: 
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         Spouse: [Unk] Foulke (      -      ) 1

         Spouse: Hugh Blackwell (      -      ) 1 4 6

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3 F Ruth Cope ^{4 6 7 8 9}

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           Born: 
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           Died: Abt 1728
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         Spouse: Thomas Buffington (Abt 1680-1739) 4 6 7 8 9

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4 M John Cope ^{2 3 4 6 10}

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            AKA: John Coope 1
           Born: Abt 1691 - Chester Co, PA
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           Died: 14 Feb 1773 1
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         Spouse: Unknown (      -      ) 1

         Spouse: Charity Jefferis (1695-Abt 1743) 3 6 10
           Marr: 30 Nov 1721 - Chester Co, PA 1 6 11

         Spouse: Elizabeth [Unk] (      -      ) 1
           Marr: 23 Dec 1746 or 1748 1 11

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General Notes: Husband - Oliver Cope

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The founder of the Cope family in America was Oliver Cope, who came from Wiltshire, England, about 1681. It would appear that he made the voyage in the same ship with William Penn, inasmuch as deeds for five hundred acres of land in what is now Chester County were made to him in 1681. The land was situated on Naaman's creek where he resided until his death.

From Abury, Wiltshire, England, he was a purchaser of land from William Penn by deed of Sept. 8, 1681, and is supposed to have arrived in America early in 1683, as he obtained a warrant for the survey of some land in that year. He fixed his residence on Naaman's Creek, below the circular line of New Castle County, and there died about the end of May, 1697, leaving a wife, and four children.

He came to Pennsylvania among the early English settlers, bringing, it is supposed, a wife and children; another child was born soon afterwards, John. The following written in 1815 by a grandson seems to contain the most likely facts of the emigrant "The particular time Oliver Cope came from England and settled at Naamans Creek (now Chester county, Pennsylvania), I am not fully capable of informing you; yet I believe it must be about the year 1687 or 1688, and the time of his decease was when my father was about ten years of age, which must be about 1701." He made his will May 21, 1697.

1 J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881), Pg 502.

2 —, Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Biography of Pennsylvania, Vol. I (New York: Atlantic Publishing & Engraving Co., 1889), Pg 308.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 370.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 24.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 99.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 100.

7 J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881), Pg 489, 502.

8 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 589.

9 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 111.

10 J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881), Pg 502, 613.

11 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 25.