When Jonathan Copeland was born on 16 October 1786, in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, United States, his father, Jonathan Copeland, was 29 and his mother, Esther Chapman, was 25. He married Rebekah Edwards on 3 April 1804. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died on 5 December 1858, in New York, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Sherburne Quarter Cemetery, Sherburne, Chenango, New York, United States.
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The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
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English and Scottish: habitational name from Copeland in Cumbria or Coupland in Northumberland, both named with Old Norse kaupa-land ‘bought land’, a feature worthy of note during the early Middle Ages, when land was rarely sold, but rather held by feudal tenure and handed down from one generation to the next.
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