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{22455} Miriam (SHORT) COPPOCK
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Miriam (SHORT) Coppock
b05/10/1664 [Ford, Sussex, Englan],
m11/30/1704 [Chichester, PA],
{ 20374 } Aaron Coppock b10/25/1662 [Wilmslow, Mobberley Parish, Cheshire, England], d12/10/1726 [East Nottingham, Chester, PA] ( 64.1) | ||||||||
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We must now return to the Ingram will and the three children of Miriam Short the elder, she being called deceased on 26th 7th mo, 1682. If Miriam the elder accompanied her brother on the voyage, then she died en route, but there is no evidence to show her aboard. A more important question is whether the three children came with their uncle, and to this the present writer is redy to say that he believe that they did.
The evidence is as follows: George Thomson of the Welcome lost little time after he landed in acquiring a wife. In the record of the Courts of Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1681 - 1697, we find the following pertinent paragraphs:
Page 23: Court held at Chester, 14 Feb, 1682 (1682/3) George Thompson appeared at ye cort and non appearing against him was Cleared by Prclamation Lawrence Carolus, for marrying ye aboves Geo: Thompson & one Merriam short, Contrary to the Lawes of the Province (the rest pertains to the disposition of charges against this Lutheran clergyman).
KPage 49: Court held at Chester, 6 11th mo 1684 (Jan 1684/5) Ordered that ye inhabitance of Concord bethell and Chichester meet on the 3rd day of the next weeke att Henry Reynolds to Conferre together how to provide a maintenace of Miriam Thomson and her child.
In the fourtenn weeks between the arrival of the welomce and the first session of the court, George Thompaon had courted Miriam Short and had married her by Lutheran rite, and if both were aboard the Welcom this could have begun as a shipboard romance. It is difficult to believe that the fact that a proved welomce passenger marries a possible welcome passenger is mere coincidence. No one appeared to object at the hearing, and George and miriam took up their married life and before long had a child, name and sex not recorded when the welfare of miriam and the child was a matter of concern to the court in 1685, about six months after the sale of the property to Bexer. Had George Thompson died or had he deserted his young wife? The answer is not easy to give.
Gilbert Cope's genealogy of the Baily Family of Broham, Wiltshire, England (Lancaster 192), page 14 implies that George Thompson had died. The widow Miriam married William white, wheelwright, who had a warrant for land in Brandywine Hundred, Newcastle County, in 1692, and was dead by 30 9th mo. 1704, when Miriam Married, thrid, at Chichester, Aaron Coppock of Aston Township. In 1713 they removed to Nottingham where he died 10 10th mo 1726. An abstract of Aaron Coppock's will, date not given but probated 17 Dec. 1726, was printed in the Boston Transcript of 21 Feb, 1938 by P L Answering QWuery 5010 of J.W.D. (9 Aug 1937); Aaron Coppock of Notingham mentions son John, unamed wife; daughters Lydia, Meriam, Sarah Frayzer, Martha Robinson, Mary Sinclair; sons-in - law E Ralph Thomson, John WHite and samuel white; daughter-in-law Elizabeth White; executrix: wife Miriam to be assisted by James King. This in in accord with what Cope says. He goes on to remark that Ralph Thomson ws taxed in Marlborough Ttownship 1719-1726 and in East Fallowfield 1735-1740; that John WHit3e married, 31 Oct. 1717, Mary Job, daughter of Anddrew and Elizabeth, of Nottingham; that Samuel White married 21 2nd month 1726 Hannah Pigott of Cecil County, Maryland; mentions with no further information Elizabeth White; and says that Aaron and Miriam Coppock has at least Miriam, married 12 8th mo 1727 to Richard Jone, and John married 16 1st mo 1731 to Margaret Coulson, and that two descendeants of the last named couple were at Harper's Ferry with John Brown. A similare but less detailed account appears in THomas Maxwell Pott's book, Our Family ancestory (Canonsburg, Pa., 1895), p 370.
Thus far, everything seems to point to an early death of George thompson, the Welcome passenger. But other evidence must still be presented. By deed dated 28 9th mo(Nov) acknowledged 6 Dec 1692, recorded 2 Aug 1693 (Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, 19:130-134) one Arthur Cooke of the Town and County of Philadelphis, merchant, conveyed a lot on the Delaware bank, originially patented to him by WIlliam Penn 28 10th mo 1689 to Goerge Thompson and Andries Derickson of the same, merchants,for L300. On 1 July William & Mary 1693, George Thompson conveyed his moiety of this lot to and's Derickson for L130. Was this George Thompson Miriam short's hushand? The latter was a grocer, this man a merchant. Philadelphis is not far from concord Township, but we now think that the evidence that Miriam (Short/ Thompson continued to live until after 1726 and had two subsequent marriages is strong enouth to distinguisuish between the two men of the same name. It is not imposible that the merchant was a son of the grocer by an earlier wife, for this is no eivdence to show that the grocer was marrying miriam as a bachelor. He might have been a widower with a nearly grown son.
In any case, there is more to say about the merchant. Elizabeth, dauther of George and Ann Thompson, is recorded as buried in Philadelphis on 11 6th mo, 1695 in the list of non-Quaker burials. The said Ann would appear to be the dauther ANN, wife of Foerge Thompson named in the will of Ann Cox, widow , signed by mark in Philadelphis 3 Aug 1699, probated 18, Sept, 1699 (Philadelphis Wills no. 215 Publication of the genealogical Society of Pennsylvanis 3:27: also ibid. 149 , citing Liber a, No. 42 for the same estate. THe language of the will suggests strongly that the family were not Friends. Testatrix mentions son WIlliam Trotter, Daughter Ann THompson (Wife of Feorge) and daughter Elizabeth Shepperd, widow, who at dare of probation was in the Island of Barbadoes. It would be hazardous to guess whether Ann Thompson's maiden name was Trotter, Cox, or somethig entirely different.
Finally, A George thompson married at the First Presbyterian church, Philadelphis, on 3 March 1707/9, Elizabeth Morrisfield, and they subsquently had no child baptized at that church,t he registers of which are rigth in Thompsons.
For the subsequent history of Adam and Ann Short, see Cope's baily Family, pages 12-14, Adam Short of New Castle County Married, preseumably notfor the first time, ca 1712 Martha Metcalf, widow of Thomas, and a Miriam Short, probably his dauther by and earlier marriage, marrried at Swedes church, WIlimighton, 6 Jan, 1729, John Bush. Ann Short married Hoel baily, first itentions, Chichester and concord Monthly Meeting, 14 1st Mo. 1686/7, second intentions, Birmingham, 11 2nds mo 1687.
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