This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ikJ.2ACIB/1456.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Dave, This is wonderful information re: David Copeland b. abt. 1730 PA., son of Richard. You can never have to much imformation! And this is what I was looking for, something about Rachel Copeland...... July 12, 1783. "Rachel Copeland married out to one not a member... Sarah Copeland accompanied her sister to her marriage." (Warrington Monthly Meeting Minutes, LDS reel no. 0387937, p. 283) Thanks so much……. The above record establishes that Rachel Copeland and Sarah Copeland were sisters. So Sarah Copeland is your line….and Richard is as far back as you go right now?.. Richard Copeland b. abt. 1707 David Copeland b. abt. 1730 Sarah Copeland Willis…..sister - Rachel Copeland Glancy b. 1760 Here is some information re: Rachel Copeland b. 1760 PA this book claims she was a descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, (This is what I hope to prove) From the book; And Then They Went West by Darlene E. Kelley Genealogy by Byron Williams (Byron is a descendant of Rachel Copeland and Jesse Glancy) ----------------------------------------------------------- On November 14, 1830, John Cooley Williams married Rachel Copeland Glancy, (granddaughter of Rachel Copeland Glancy) who was born January 6, 1813, and was the eldest of the ten children of John and Elizabeth Shields Glancy. Elizabeth Shields was born in Maryland, November 12, 1795, and was the youngest of the ten children to Thomas and Elizabeth Clark Shields, who came to Columbia in the spring of 1795, and to northern Clermont Co. (Ohio) two years later. John Glancy, born Novemeber 30, 1786, was the second child of Jesse and Rachel Copeland Glancy, who came to Williamsburg, Ohio December 23/24, 1804,from York county, Pennsylvania. Jesse Glancy was the son, some say grandson, of a Scotch-Irish immigrant, who came with cash in a little trunk still preserved, that enabled him to leave a considerable estate. The lining of the trunk is printed with the date 1726. Jesse Glancy was born in 1756 PA, and died September 1, 1831. His gravestone declares that he was a patriot soldier, and tradition affirms that he was in the battles of Brandywine, Monmouth and Yorktown. Rachel Copeland Glancy, of Lancaster county,(was York Co. a part of Lancaster Co. then?) Pennsylvania, died January 3, 1829, in her seventieth year. Tradition traces her line through a Quaker branch of the family of William Copeland, who married Mary, the second daughter of John and Ruth Alden Bass, and Ruth Alden was the third daughter of John and Priscilla Mullins Alden, of the Mayflower fame. After a life marked with strong mentality, John Glancy died December 29, 1874, in possession of much of the large tract midway between Owensville and Goshen, (Clermont Co.Ohio) that his father had taken seventy years before. ------------------------------------------------------------- I haven't been able to tie into the William Copeland who married Mary Bass.....but I'm working on it. Below: Mary Bass' second husband is William Copeland... JOHN BASS - John Bass was a wheel-wright. b 1632 d 9-12-1674 Braintree, Mass. m. Ruth Alden 2-3-1657, married by her father, John Alden, Magistrate b. 1635 d 10-12-1674 Braintree, Mass. m. 2nd Hannah Sturtevant 7-21-1675 Their children were: John b 11-26-1658 d 9-31-1724 m. Abigail Adams and 2nd Rebecca Savil Samuel b 3-25-1660 d 2-20-1751 East Bridgewater, Mass. m. Mary Adams Ruth b 1-28-1662 d 6-5-1699 m. Peter Webb 1683 Joseph b 12-5-1665 d 11-22-1733 Boston m. Mary Belcher and 2nd Lois Rogers Hannah b 6-22-1667 d 11-24-1705 m. Joseph Adams 1687 (Grandparents of John Adams) Mary b 2-11-1669 d after 12-31-1716 m. Christopher Webb and 2nd William Copeland Sarah b 5-29-1672 m. 1-7-1692 Ephriam Thayer Kind regards, Lori