Person:Thomas Copley (24)

Thomas Copley was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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• 1782 John Alsop, assignee of Thomas Copeley, assignee of James Havens, received a Commissioner's Certificate for 400 a. on West side of New River in Buckeye Bottom. Rootsweb.com

• 1790? John Alsup, assignee of Thomas Copely, assignee of James Heaven, assignee of Thomas Burk, assignee of John Young rec. 400 a. on West side of New River in Buckeye Bottom to incl. 90 a. surveyed in 1775, settled in 1774. Rootsweb.com

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   Thomas Copley II
   BIRTH Aug 1736
   West Yorkshire, England
   DEATH Jan 1822 (aged 85)
   Pearisburg, Giles County, Virginia, USA
   
   Husband Of -
   1st Wife,
   Mary (Day) Copley
   
   2nd Wife,
   Rhoda (Prater) Copley
   
   Served in Revolutionary War under Capt. Daniel Smith of Fincastle Soldiers; Battle of Point Pleasant, WV, Capt. John Lucas' Co, when he was about 23 years of age.
   
   He & 1st wife, Mary (Day) Copley were 1st settlers on New River/Blue Stone River, about 1770.
   
   Research indicates
   Children of
   Thomas Copley, Sr.,
   and
   1st Wife,
   Mary (Day) Copley were:
   Joshua Copley, b. Abt. 1764 on board ship, Atlantic Ocean;
   Thomas Copley, Jr.;
   Rachel/Rachael Copley;
   Sarah "Sally" Copley;
   John Copley;
   Joseph C. Copley;
   Nancy Copley;
   Elizabeth "Betsy" Copley, W/O Joseph Floyd McKinney, I;
   Abigail Copley
   
   Children of
   Thomas Copley, Sr.,
   and
   2nd Wife,
   Rhoda (Prater) Copley were:
   Rhoda Copley and
   James B. Copley, H/O Rebecca Jane (Marcum) Copley,
   
   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43537807/thomas-copley

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   Thomas Copley was also listed as a customer of James McCorkle's store in New Dublin between 1774 and the start of the Revolution. Ingle's Tavern and McCorkle's store were meeting places, New Dublin is now under Claytor Lake. Ingle's Ferry was the scene of great activity as frontiersmen came in from many places on their way to join Col. Andrew Lewis at Camp Union, Lewisburg, WVA., preparatory for the Ohio expedition against the Shawnees in 1774. (Col. Andrew Lewis lived at Richfield, Salem, VA. Ingle's Ferry is located 1.4 m. east of Radford, in 1760 it was the site of the first rendevouz of Col. Byrd's expedition agianst the Cherokees. There Indians returning to New River in 1763 were attacked by Wm. Ingles and party of settlers.) McCorkle's store did a rushing business. Officers and men flocked into the store, buying supplies and taking chances on guns and other merchandise being raffled. Rum, drawn from huge oaken casks, was dispensed in great quantity. Apparently the entire Fincastle Battalion assembled in this area before marching to Camp Union. Among those coming from afar were companies commanded by Cpt. James Harrod, founder of the first settlement in Kentucky and Cpt. Evan Shelby from the edge of Tennessee. [Source: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/e/l/Lreonard-H-Wellman/GENE5-0026.html]