Martha Coppock

1755 - 1844  (89 years)

• Name	Martha Coppock  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Birth	20 Jan 1755
  Gender	Female
  Death	6 Mar 1844	High Point, Randolph, NC, USA   [7]
  Burial	Abt 9 Mar 1844	High Point, Randolph, NC, USA   [8]
  Person ID	I11320	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Father	Moses Coppock, *,   b. 2 May 1708, Middle, Dauphin, Chester, PA d. Bef 1 Dec 1767, Bush River, Newberry District, South Carolina Colony (Age < 59 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Martha Lester, *,   b. Bef 1721, , Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA d. Abt Feb 1797, Newberry, South Carolina, USA (Age > 76 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	22 Sep 1740	, , NJ, USA   [9, 10]
  Family ID	F3026	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William Tomlinson,   b. 27 Mar 1749, Timahoe, Kildare, IRL d. 17 Mar 1813, , Randolph, NC, USA (Age 63 years)
  Marriage	30 Dec 1771	Bush River M.M., Newberry, SC, USA   [1]
  Family ID	F3158	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

• Notes

  Martha is sometimes listed as the older and sometimes younger sister of Mary Coppock. Both were supposedly captured by Indians. One account that seems to be closest to Quaker records, says Mary was 6 and Martha was 6 months at the time.a is said to have stayed with the Indians and be the wife of half breed Chief John Roose of the Cherokees. An account from "I Have Called You Friends, the Story of Quakerism in NC" by Francis Charles Ancombe listed this account in Archdale, Randolph Co., NC: "Wm. Tomlinson and wife Martha Coppock came to this section while the Indians were still inhabiting the forests. As a girl she had been kidnapped by Indians, lived among them for a while, but was eventually rescued and restored to her family." This town was near Guilford Co., NC and the New Garden MM. Martha was probably rescued by 1767 when she likely accounts for one of the individuals living with her mother when Martha Sr. applied for 300 acres of land in Newberry/Berkeley Co., SC in 1767. This amount of acreage means that Martha had 5 persons including herself, living in her household. (C-2289) The only factual information we have on Martha is that she did marry in Quaker Records, William Tomlinson on Dec. 30, 1771. (C-701) Her birth date of 1755 is possibly incorrect. It was recorded in Springfield Monthly Meeting, Guilford Co., NC Quaker records after she had died. It is included with a list of her husband and children's birth and death dates which means it was information relayed after the most recent death date which was daughter Martha who died in 1843. Her mother Martha's birth date of 1755 could easily be miscalculated. If the date of 1754 is correct for her capture, her birth date is likely to be previous to that. (C-1019) Her birth place is sometimes listed as Newberry, SC, but is more likely Granville Co., NC where a Moses Coppock is paying taxes in 1755.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2090] Bush River Quaker Records (on Microfilm housed in Columbia, SC, Archives and History Library). [S2551] Corinne Diller to Linda Coate Dudick Letter dated March 1996 at 8443 Sonneville Dr., Houston, TX 77080-3638 In Dudick Files (C-701). [S339] Corinne Hanna Diller to Linda Coate Dudick E-mail letter dated Feb. 17, 1996 at JDiller683@aol.com In L. Dudick files (C-683). [S423] Harrison, Bill, Email dated 2000 at MRBIL1@juno.com. [S2894] Martha Coppock-William Tomlinson family group sheet supplied 8 Sept. 1995 by Elizabeth Harris 648 Ulverston Dr., Gahanna, OH 43230 (C-609). [S2826] Betty Jean Cox to R.R. Calkins Letter dated Jan. 12, 1997 at 39011 Roundtree Lane, Squaw Valley, CA 93675 In Linda Coate files (C-988). [S287] Gill, Donna Woodard, "My Coppock and Related Ancestors" at www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/9095/coppock.html. [S2895] Harris, Elizabeth to John Sharp E-mail letter dated April 2, 1997 at chlamy@acpub.duke.edu In Linda Coate files (C-1019). [S2546] New Jersey Archives, Mariage Licenses 1711-1797, Vol. 1727-1734, Cenerous to Bourne, page 57 1/2. [S2547] Nelson, William, New Jersey Marriage Records, 1665-1800 (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., c1982).