%eadnotat; ]> 5178cofa Cope Family Papers, 1792-1877 FHL staff Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. 1996 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, May 2002. ENG Cope Family Papers, 1792-1877 FHL staff Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. 1996 Descriptive Summary Cope Family Papers, 1792-1877 RG 5/ 178 2 boxes; 1 linear ft. Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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Phone: (610) 328-8496 FAX: (610) 690-5728 The Cope family was a Quaker family of Chester County and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore, Maryland. The collection contains family correspondence, genealogical papers and legal papers, a journal (1823) of Ann (Shoemaker) Janney, and other papers of the Cope and related Shoemaker, Yarnell, and Janney families. Individuals represented include Mahlon Day, Joseph John Gurney, and John Janney. BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL 1680s, 1721, 1736-1760The Cope family in America descended from Oliver Cope who settled in northern Delaware, arriving from England in the late 1680s. His son, John Cope, joined the Society of Friends, and his and succeeding generations were active in Quaker affairs. John Cope married twice, the second time in 1721 to Charity Jefferis Evans. They were members of Bradford Monthly Meeting, and their son, Caleb, was born in 1736. Caleb Cope (1736-1824) was married in 1760 at Bradford Monthly Meeting to Mary Mendenhall (died 1809). 1800-1823Their son, Jasper (1775-1856) was married in 1800 at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Northern District, to Rebecca Shoemaker (1781-1856). She was the daughter of Joseph and Abigail (Jones) Shoemaker. Rebecca's sister, Ann (1772-1837), married John Janney (1765-1823) of Alexandria Monthly Meeting, Virginia, at Frankford Monthly Meeting in Philadelphia, 1817. He died in 1823 while on a sea voyage, a trip recorded in a journal kept by his wife. 1808-1834Jasper Cope was a dry goods merchant in Baltimore, establishing the firm of Cope and Company. Rebecca and Jasper Cope had seven children, including Emma (b. 1808) who married Charles Yarnell, son of Ellis and Mary Horner Yarnell, in 1834. They also had seven children, including Ellis Horner, Charles, and Amy, who are represented in the correspondence. SCOPE AND CONTENT

The Cope family was a Quaker family of Chester County and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore, Maryland. The collection contains extensive family correspondence, genealogical papers and legal papers, a journal (1832) of Ann (Shoemaker) Janney, and other papers of the Cope and related Yarnell, Shoemaker, and Janney families. The largest part of the correspondence is that of Rebecca (Shoemaker) Cope, especially her correspondence with her sister, Ann (Shoemaker) Janney and her daughter Emma (Cope) Yarnell. Persons represented in the collection include Mahlon Day, Joseph John Gurney, and John Janney of Alexandria, Virginia.

Arrangement Family Papers & Journals Correspondence ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Accession information:

Donor: Unknown, Unknown date

Donor: Sarah A. G. Smith (Alfred Cope MSS), 1962

The source of the collection is unknown, but apparently there were several donors. The collection is grouped around the family of Rebecca Shoemaker and Jasper Cope, and from internal evidence, the papers seem to have descended through their daughter, Emma, who married Charles Yarnell; their family is also represented in the correspondence.

Access

Collection is open for research

Use Restrictions

Copyright has not been assigned to Friends Historical Library All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in to the Director. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Friends Historical Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.

Preferred Citation

[Indicate the cited item or series here], RG 5/178, Cope Family Papers, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.

Processing information

The collection was originally stored as a manuscript collection, arranged chronologically with individual items catalogued in the FHL Manuscript card catalogue. Subsequently, a checklist was created which divided the collection into two series. In 1996, the collection was transferred to Record Group 5.

SELECTED SEARCH TERMS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Friends Historical Library (TRIPOD). Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings: Researchers are advised to search by subject and author, when applicable.

Quakers - Diaries -- 19th century Quakers -- Social life and customs Quakers -- Pennsylvania Quakers -- Maryland Maryland -- Quakers Pennsylvania -- Quakers Quakers -- Ocean travel -- 19th century Day, Mahlon, 1790-1854 Gurney, Joseph John, 1788-1847 Cope, Rebecca, 1781-1856 Cope, Jasper, 1775-1856 Janney, Ann, d. 1837 Yarnell, Emma Cope, 1808 Janney, John, 1765-1823 DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Note to Researchers: To request materials, please note both the location and box numbers shown below:

Ser. 1. Family Papers Genealogical table of the Cope, Shoemaker and Yarnall families 1

Tables shows the relationship of the most prominent persons represented in the collection.

Cope, Alfred (1806-1873) MSS of brief biography 1 MSS, Cope, Rebecca (Shoemaker) (1781-1856) 1843 1

re: visit to Mammoth Cave with Jaspar Cope.

Day, Mahlon. MSS copy of extracts from his Journal 12/22/1839 1 Janney, Ann (Shoemaker), Journal. 1823 1

re: sea voyage with John Janney

Janney, John and Ann Shoemaker. Marriage certificate 5/2/1817 1 Janney Family. Births and deaths. ca. 1823 1

John and Ann (Shoemaker) Janney family, MSS (by Ann Janney?)

Business papers of Jasper Cope and others. 1808-1866 1

Includes the will of Charles Yarnall (1877)

Ser. 2. Correspondence: Anonymous (son?) to Mary Yarnall. 1 letter n.d. 1 Anonymous to Rebecca Cope. 1 letter 1801 1 Anonymous (Herman Cope?) to Rebecca Cope. 1 letter 8/14/1831 1 Anonymous to unknown. 3 letters 1840, n.d 1 Coates, Amy to Sarah Horner. 1 ALS 8/22/1798 1 Cope, Abby Ann to Jasper and/or Rebecca. 15 ALsS 1834-1838 1 Cope, Abby A. to Charles and /or Emma Yarnall. 12 ALsS 1831-1844 1 Cope, Caleb to Jasper Cope. 1 ALS 1809 1 Cope, Jasper to Abby Ann Cope. 1 ALS 1821 1 Cope, Jasper top Charles S. Cope. 1 ALS 1819 1 Cope, Jasper to Herman Cope. 1 ALS 1821 1 Cope, Jasper to Rebecca Shoemaker. 30 ALsS 1797-1800 1 Cope, Jasper to Rebecca Shoemaker. 13 ALsS 1800, n.d. 1 Cope, Jasper to Rebecca Shoemaker Cope. 26 ALsS 1819-1838 1 Cope, Jasper to Rebecca Cope Jr. 3 ALsS 1840 1 Cope, Jasper to daughter. 1 ALS 6/28/1843 1 Cope, Mary to Rebecca Cope (sister). 1 ALS n.d. 1 Cope, Mary to Rebecca Cope (aunt). 2 ALsS 1829, 1830 1 Cope, Rebecca (jr.) to Charles S. Cope. 1 ALS 1842 1 Cope, Rebecca (jr.) to Jasper and/or Rebecca C. 9 ALsS 1836-1847 1 Day, Mahlon to Charles Yarnall. 1 ALS 6/7/1840 1 G.B. to Rebecca Cope. 1 ALS 7/1/1833 1 Griffith, Dr. R.E. to Mr. Hodgeson. 1 ALS 1840 1 Griffith, Dr. R.E. to Charles Yarnall. 1 ALS 1840 1 Gurney, Joseph John to Ellis Yarnall. 1 ALS 1/26/1841 1 Hetherey, Henry to Caleb Cope. 1 ALS 3/28/1811 1 Janney, Ann Shoemaker to Jasper Cope. 1 ALS n.d. 1 M.G.L. to Mrs. Bond Valentine. 1 ALS 1849 1 M.J. to Rebecca Cope (aunt). 1 ALS 1834 1 Pince, Phillip to Jasper and Rebecca Cope. 1 ALS 1819 1 Preston, Margaret to Jasper and Rebecca Cope. 1 ALS 1845 1 Robeson, Elizabeth to Rebecca Cope. 3 ALsS 1803-1804 1 Shoemaker, Abby to Rebecca Cope. 2 ALsS 1807 1 Shoemaker, Abigail to Rebecca Shoemaker Cope. 3 ALsS 1801-1804 1 Shoemaker, Ann to Rebecca Cope. 22 ALsS 1800-1802 2 Shoemaker, Ann to Rebecca Cope. 31 ALsS 1802-1804 2 Shoemaker, Ann to Rebecca Cope. 32 ALsS 1804-1805 2 Shoemaker, Ann to Rebecca Cope. 23 ALsS 1805-1807 2 Shoemaker, Ann to Rebecca Cope. 25 ALsS 1808-1809, 1826 2 Shoemaker, Ann to Abigail Shoemaker. 9 ALsS 1802-1807 2 Stokes, E.R. to Rebecca Cope Jr. 1 ALS 1846 2 Strough, Joshua to Caleb Cope. 1 ALS 1823 2 Taylor, Alex to Mahlon Day. 1840 2 1 ALS

Describes visit of J.J. Gurney to Santa Cruz

Thomas, H.M. to Rebecca Cope. 3 ALsS 1838-1844 2 Thomas, H.M. to Emma Yarnall. 1 ALS 1841 (?) 2 [Unknown] Emilia to Polly Horner. 1 ALS n.d. 2 Wood, Margaret Shoemaker to anonymous. 1 ALS n.d. 2 Wood, Margaret Shoemaker to Rebecca Cope. 8 ALsS 1799-1803 2 Yarnall, Charles to Amy Yarnall Ellis. 1 ALS 1829 2 Yarnall, Charles to Bond and/or Julia Valentine. 5 ALsS 1848-1868 2 Yarnall, Charles to Ellis Yarnall. 1 ALS 1846 2 Yarnall, Ellis and/or Mary to Sarah Horner. 4 ALsS 1797-1799 2 Yarnall, Ellis to aunt. 1 ALS 1817 2 Yarnall, Ellis to Amy Yarnall. 1 ALS 1818 2 Yarnall, E., Jr. to Emma Yarnall. 1 ALS 1841 2 Yarnall, Emma Cope to [anonymous]. 4 ALsS n.d. 2 Yarnall, E. C. to Jasper and/or Rebecca Cope. 37 ALsS 1819-1846 2 Yarnall, Emma Cope to Rebecca Cope Jr. 1 ALS 1836 2 Yarnall, Emma Cope to Charles Yarnall. 8 ALsS 1836-1839 2 Yarnall, Emma Cope to Julia Thomas Valentine. 22 ALsS 1836-1852 2 Yarnall, Emma Cope to Julia Thomas Valentine. 22 ALsS 1853-1862 2 Yarnall, Emma Cope to Julia Thomas Valentine. 40 ALsS 1864-1869 2 Yarnall, M. to Sarah Horner. 1 ALS 1792 2 Yarnall, Mary and/or Nathan to Ellis Yarnall. 3 ALsS 1803, n.d. 2