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- This Moses William Coppock is listed with this information in a published book whose reference I can't find currently and multiple descendants have had his name, his wife and his children passed down to them with their family history. Roberta Coppock Keller got this information from her grandmother's written notes on the family. Her grandfather was the President of the Indianapolis organization of the Coate Coppock Heirs. According to them this Moses William, wife Martha, sons Benjamin and James are the Coppocks who originally helped purchase the land from the Cherokee Indians and then lease it out for $1.00 an acre in 1816. It is not known for sure if this Moses William and his wife Martha were living in 1816, though they'd be in their late 70's and early 80's at this point in time. It is also not known whether or not the Coppock Coppock land lease was real or fraudulent as is oft stated.
Moses William's parentage is uncertain. It is thought by some that he is the son of Moses and Martha Coppock born early in the 1800s. However, Moses did not marry Martha Lester until 1740 and this younger Moses was born in 1736. Roberta Keller theorizes that he is the son of Moses' brother Bartholomew, making him a cousin to Mary Jane Coppock, wife of Marmaduke Coate, also involved in the land lease. (C-2144)
According to a descendant of this Moses William Coppock born in 1855, this Moses W. and Martha also had a son named Samuel Coppock married to Lavina Coate that is sometimes found connected to Joseph and Jane Coate.
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