Posted on: Orange Co. Va Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Va/Orange/283 Surname: Copeland, Semple ------------------------- Who are the Mr. John Sample (Semple) and Mr. Copland listed in an October 1767 inventory for Captain Taverner Beale in Orange County? By this time, other Copelands and Semples/Samples were living in Augusta County, Virginia near each other. Other related families of Copeland were said to be in Orange County, Virginia before 1760--most leaving for North Carolina by 1755.