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The various branches of William's family proceeded to populate
the counties of Sullivan, Washington, and Clay Counties,
Tennessee, and Monroe County, Kentucky. Other branches went
west, notably to Missouri, Kansas, and Texas, but the core of
William COPAS' family remained and still today remains in
Tennessee and Kentucky. Surname spellings vary from COPAS,
COPASS, COPUS, COPAUS, to COPESS, but all are connected.
Cheryl A. Copas has written a book about WILLIAM COPAS who has
many descendants in the Monroe/Barren Counties in Kentucky as
well as Jackson/Clay/and Overton Counties in Tennessee.with
aproximately 1100 pages and is chocked full of pictures, copies
of old documents, signatures, etc. .Some of the work was
contributed by the well-known Dayton Birdwell of Monroe Co.
Kentucky; Sally M. Byers, and Bill M. Copas. if ordered by 28
February, 1999, it is only $60. This price includes packaging,
fourth class book rate postage and handling; .a wonderful work
including five color topographical neighborhood maps of Sullivan
and Washington Counties, Tennessee, the area where the COPAS
family settled around 1800...and about 1000 family and
individual pictures. The book appears in an 8 X 10 custom
printed cloth three ring binder in a custom printed box. I can
tell you that mine is beautiful! 140 books had been sold as of 6
December.
Various interconnected lines: BIRDWELL, JOBE, KEEN, HALE,
JACKSON, HITE,
FITZGERALD, HEADRICK, MURRAY, CRAWFORD, COX, TREVITT, EMBERTON,
GIST, GULLY, McPEAK, STEEN, HATCHER, CONKIN, TOOLEY, SHIPLEY,
HULSE, CLINE, FORD, JONES, BACON, PITCOCK, ATERBURN, WALLER,
BOWSER, CHASE, WHEELOCK, HASHBARGER, KINCHELOE, HICKMAN,
BLAKELEY, FINCHER, CHERRY, YORK, COMPTON, EAKLE, BILLINGSLEY,
CRAIGHEAD, CROW, RITTER, etc., etc., etc...Please tell everyone
that their books may be purchased by: Contacting Cheryl A. Copas
by E-mail at: [email protected]
or...Writing to: Cheryl A. Copas, 2075 Innsfail Drive,
Snellville, Georgia 30078.
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Mother: Elizabeth HENSLEY |
_Moses HIGGINBOTHAM _+
| (1715 - 1790) m 1753
_James "Moses" HIGGINBOTHAM ___|
| (1755 - 1826) m 1785 |
| |_Mary Frances KYLE __+
| (1734 - 1825) m 1753
_James Garrison HIGGINBOTHAM Sr._|
| (1788 - 1866) m 1811 |
| | _William GARRISON ___
| | | (1746 - 1824)
| |_Elizabeth " Betsy " GARRISON _|
| (1765 - 1845) m 1785 |
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|--John Benham HIGGINBOTHAM
| (1822 - 1889)
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| _Samuel HENSLEY Jr.____________|
| | (1755 - 1841) |
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|_Elizabeth HENSLEY ______________|
(1790 - 1841) m 1811 |
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|_Eleanor ELLIOTT ______________|
(1760 - ....) |
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Mother: Frances "Frankie" BELLESFELT |
_Henry MARTIN ___________________
| (1720 - 1780)
_Peter MARTIN _______|
| (1741 - 1807) m 1761|
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_James MARTIN _________________|
| (1775 - 1858) m 1800 |
| | _Timothy REDDING "the Immigrant"_
| | | (1700 - 1760)
| |_Sarah REDDING ______|
| (1743 - 1830) m 1761|
| |_Mary SPILMAN ___________________+
| (1715 - 1760)
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|--Aaron MARTIN
| (1808 - 1881)
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|_Frances "Frankie" BELLESFELT _|
(1784 - 1851) m 1800 |
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Father: Ephraim Wesley MCGRAW Sr. Mother: Nancy MOBLEY |
_David MCGRAW ___________+
| (1738 - 1823) m 1770
_Cornelius M. Suggs MCGRAW _|
| (1777 - 1859) m 1799 |
| |_Mary ANDREWS ___________+
| (1750 - ....) m 1770
_Ephraim Wesley MCGRAW Sr._|
| (1794 - 1840) m 1819 |
| | _Gabriel ALLEN __________
| | | (1750 - ....)
| |_Elizabeth "Betsy" ALLEN ___|
| (1780 - 1810) m 1799 |
| |_Ann MCKINNEY ___________
| (1760 - ....)
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|--Alsa Catherine MCGRAW
| (1831 - ....)
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| _William MOBLEY ____________|
| | (1770 - ....) |
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|_Nancy MOBLEY _____________|
(1798 - 1870) m 1819 |
| _(RESEARCH QUERY) BANKS _
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|_Elizabeth BANKS ___________|
(1770 - ....) |
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Halifax Deed Book 13, p.325 and/or 247? 22 Feb 1775. Burwell
Pope and Priscilla of Wake Co to Nicholas Long. Col. Barnaby
McKinnie by his Last Will and Testament dated 13 Aug 1737
devised the said tract to his daughter Mourning in fee (en)tail
which said daughter Mourning intermarried with John Pope and had
issue to wit Henry Pope & Burwell Pope since which said Henry
Pope is dead and the said land descended to Burwell Pope.
Will dated January 2, 1764; probated April 1764; in North
Carolina Will Book 1, page 144.
Children:
2 Mourning MCKINNEY OR MCKENNIE b: about 1704 + John POPE b:
1699/1700 d: 1745
2 Barnaby MCKENNIE 2 Barnaby McKinnie b: Abt 1710 d: 1736 + Mary
Brown b: Abt 1700
2 William MCKENNIE 2 William McKinnie b: Abt 1709 d: 1739
2 John MCKENNIE 2 John McKinnie b: Abt 1720 d: 1753 + Mary
Parish b: Abt 1720 d: 1754
2 Richard MCKENNIE 2 Richard McKinnie b: Abt 1714 d: 1755 + Mary
Kinchen b: Abt 1730 d: 1775
2 Robert MCKENNIE + Martha b: Abt 1707
2 Ann MCKENNIE 2 Ann McKinnie b: Abt 1713 + William Murphy b:
Abt 1697
2 Patience MCKENNIE
2 Christian MCKENNIE 2 Christian McKinnie b: Abt 1718 + William
Hurst b: Abt 1712
2 Unknown MCKENNIE
2 Mary Jane McKinnie b: Abt 1708 + John Brown b: Aft 1699 d:
1750
Barnaby and Mary moved Bertie County, North Carolina, where he
was a Justice of the Peace in 1724, a Judge of the General Court
in 1727, and a member of the General Assembly from Edgecomb
County in 1735.[CI:369:?3:CI]
The LW&T of Col. Barnaby McKinnie dated 13 Aug 1737 devised
tract of land to dau Mourning which said Mourning intermarried
with John Pope and had issue: Henry Pope and Burwell Pope since
which said Henry Pope is dead and said land descended to Burwell
Pope. 22 Feb 1775 Deed Book 13 p 325 Halifax Co.NC.
Burwell Pope and wife Pricilla Wootten for 380 pounds
proclamation maoney, sells to Long 200 acres in Halifax Co.
Barnaby McKinnie of Chowan County, N. Carolina, was the father
of Sarah, wife
of Isaac Ricks - and her Mother was Mary Exum. This was taken
from the land
records of North Carolina.
He conveyed by gift to his son-in-law, Isaac Ricks, March 28,
1722, 100 acres of land in Chaledonna Woods, called Napin Work,
patented by Nathaniel Holly.
He first appeared in the Colony in 1720, and settled in Caledony
Woods, at or near Coneconary Swamp, then in Chowas Precinct, and
after 1722, in Bertie Precinct, and 1741 in Edgecombe County,
then in Halifax. The name of Barnaby McKinne does not appear on
the old Quaker Books of Chuckatuck.
On the land records of Edmonton, the county seat of Chowan, can
be found several deeds running to Barnaby Mckinnie from
1710-1722.
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Mother: Ann WILLIAMS |
_John WRIGHT I_________+
| (1684 - 1739) m 1706
_John WRIGHT II______|
| (1700 - 1792) m 1728|
| |_Dorothy AWBREY _______+
| (1685 - 1739) m 1706
_John WRIGHT III_____|
| (1728 - 1789) m 1753|
| | _Jeremiah BRONAUGH ____+
| | | (1673 - 1748)
| |_Elizabeth BRONAUGH _|
| (1695 - 1792) m 1728|
| |_Elizabeth GLENDERING _
| (1675 - ....)
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|--Daniel WRIGHT
| (1759 - 1838)
| _Jonas WILLIAMS II_____+
| | (1682 - 1749)
| _Jonas WILLIAMS III__|
| | (1720 - 1744) |
| | |_______________________
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|_Ann WILLIAMS _______|
(1738 - 1825) m 1753|
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