When James Copp was born in 1794, in Rhode Island, United States, his father, John Copp, was 19 and his mother, Sarah Sally Clemmons, was 18. He married Arminta Amanda Robbins in 1833, in Covington Township, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 9 daughters. He lived in Covington, Putnam Township, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850. He died on 17 November 1858, in Covington Township, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Bowen Cemetery, Cherry Flats, Covington Township, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States.
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The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
Historical Boundaries: 1804: Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States
On January 9, 1811, the USS Revenge hits a reef off of Watch Hill, Rhode Island. The load the ship is carrying is handed off to other ships and the USS Revenge is tied down by tow ropes. It brakes free from the ropes and later sinks. In 2011 divers find what are believed to be the remains of the ship.
English (Devon): topographic name for someone who lived on the top of a hill, from Middle English coppe, Old English copp ‘summit’ (a transferred sense of copp ‘head, bowl’, cognate with modern English cup). Alternatively, a nickname for someone with a peculiarity of the head.
German: variant of Kopp and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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