Posted on: Orange Co. Va Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Va/Orange/285 Surname: Copeland ------------------------- Who is the Robert Copeland found in the following? Orange County, Virginia Deed Book 7, 1742-1743, pages 133-139: 23-24 Feb. 1743. Robert Foster and Mary, his wife, of Drysdale Parish, Caroline County, to Phillip Clayton of St. Mark's parish, Orange County. Lease and release; for 300 acres in Drysdale Parish, Caroline County, on the north side of Marocosick Creek bounded by the lands of Mr. Rowland Thomas, Colonel William Beverly, and Mr. Robert Copeland whereon Robert Foster now lives. 641 acres, the contents of a patent granted to David Buggs 28 Sept. 1738 and for want of due cultivation John Foster made suit for the land, which John Foster relinquished to Robert Foster who obtained a patent 27 Sept. 1734...in St. Mark's Parish in the Great fork of Rappahannock River on the north side of the Mountain Run...at Robert Spotswood's corner now John Willis's at a fork on the run...Colonel Spotswood, deceasded line...up the run... Robert Foster, Mary Foster Witnesses: Edmund Taylor, Moses Penn