Moses William Coppock

1736 - Aft 1816  (> 80 years)

• Name	Moses William Coppock  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	14 May 1736  [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft 23 Jul 1816	Bush River, Newberry County, South Carolina, USA   [1, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I7875	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Father	Bartholomew Coppock,   b. 1705, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA d. 9 Feb 1761, Marple, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 56 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F7179	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Martha Scarr,   b. 18 Sep 1739   d. 28 Feb 1797, Bush River, Newberry, South Crolina (Age 57 years)
  Married	22 Sep 1740	Burlington, New Jersey, USA   [3, 5]
  Married	22 Sep 1748	Burlington, New Jersey, United States
  Marriage	3 Jul 1758
  Children	1. Martha Coppock,   b. 1763, Newberry, South Carolina, USA d. 1815 (Age 52 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. James Coppock,   b. 1767   d. Aft 23 Jul 1816 (Age > 49 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Hannah Coppock,   b. 1771, Newberry, South Carolina, USA d. 1798, Newberry, South Carolina, USA (Age 27 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. John Coppock,   b. 1770, South Carolina d. 9 Apr 1838, Hamilton, Indiana (Age 68 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Mary Coppock,   b. 6 Jul 1776   d. 21 Sep 1856 (Age 80 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Isaac Coppock,   b. 4 Feb 1768   d. 3 Aug 1804, Newberry, South Carolina, USA (Age 36 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   7. Benjamin Coppock,   b. Aft 1758   d. Aft 23 Jul 1816 (Age > 57 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F1530	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

• Notes

  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. Roboppock 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S713] Copy of the Coate Coppock Land Lease dated July 23, 1816 noting that the original was never found and therefore might be a fabrication (State of Pennsylvania, Chester Co, Philadelphia County and Venango Co as copied by Esther Wolslager, stenographer). [S712] Keller, Roberta, Roberta Coppock Keller to L. Dudick Email letters dated 1999 at robertak@ix.netcom.com. [S25] Ancestry.com, Geneanet Community Trees Index, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2022;). https://gw.geneanet.org/denniso?n=coppock&oc=&p=william+moses [S20] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Ancestry Family Tree. [S25] Ancestry.com, Geneanet Community Trees Index, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2022;). https://gw.geneanet.org/denniso?n=lester&oc=1&p=martha