Yost COPE (1700- )

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Yost COPE was born in 1700 in Wittenberg, Prussia. He migrated to Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States on 2 Oct 1727. He married Dorothea Barbara BUCHER.

Immigrated to Pennsylvania on "Adventure".

Arrived in Philadelphia 2 October 1727 with 53 Palatines and families, about 140

Both Yost and Dorothea buried in Leidy's Church cemetery

per web site The German COPE family (http;//www2.fwi.com/~migen/cope/german.htm)

Wuerttemberg, the city of his birth, is in former Prussian, Saxony, reputed to be the city where the Reformation started in 1517. The garrison church contains the graves of Luther and Melanchton. Luther's Cell and Melanchton's house are said still to be preserved.

Yost Cope and his family arrived in Pennsylvania on October 2, 1727 on the ship, the Galley Adventure, and was naturalized on Sept. 25-27, 1740. He came into possesion of a tract of land in the southeastern corner of Franconia township, bounded by the Cherry Lane, County Line, Hatfield Township line. The western was not certain, but believed to be the Hatfield Road, Washington Avenue extension, on the eastern border of present Souderton. The original homstead was located in the center ofthe tract, where the present house and barn stand.

There was 150 acres surveyed to him by Penn's Commissioners by warrant dated January 8, 1734. (Hist. Soud.)

He was one of the petitioners requesting the Court at Philadelphia, March, 1739, to open a public road, now known as the Cowpath Road. In 1744 he was a petitioner on the request for the opening of a public road on the County Line of Bucks and then Philadelphia county, from the vicinity of Cherry Lane to Line Lexington, the present County Line Road, and now also partly Highway Route 309. (Hist. Soud.)

Rev. John Peter Miller, in the Old Goshenhoppen Church Record, recorded a baptism on "Aug. 22, 1731, of Johann Adam, son of Johann Jost Kob and wife-witness, Johann Adam Beuscher & wf," showing the Yost Cope and his wife were Reformed in their faith. It is, therefore, a fair assumption, that when this new Reformed Congregation started here in 1744-45, it being considerable closer home, they actively engaged in worship here, evidenced by three sons marrying three daughters of families ofthis congregation, and themselves active in its affairs during their lifetime.

The above mentioned tract was in the possession of Yost Cope in 1755. In 1769 a resurvey was made, because errors were discovered in the draft of the tract that was surveyed had three owners, Jacob Leidy, John Cope and William Althouse. Patents of "confirmation" deeds were issued to Jacob Leidy for 246 acres, to William Althouse for 94 acres, to John Cope for 148 acres, less the usual six percent allowance for roads. (Hist. Souns.)

Yost Cope later moved to Bucks County where his sons, Abraham and Adam had purchased land in 1759. Yost Cope did not appear on any of the Indian Creek Church Contribution Lists, but his sons did beginning with the first record in 1768 and until 1796. Thus Abraham Cope, Adam Cope, John Cope, Michael and Henry Cope all were on these lists. Margrette Cope appears on the 1805 list. The farm on which Yost Cope lived was surrounded by other farms all in the possession of members of the IndianCreek Church. His three oldest sons married into two of these families. It seems, thus, reasonably certain that he and his family were in the audience at Indian Creek when Rev. Michael Schlatter preached on Oct. 20, 1746, and no doubt with at least two of his sons, Adam who

was 15 years of age, and Abraham who was 12 years of age.

We know that Yost and Dorothea Cope had at least six children, with the three oldest sons members of the Indian Creek Church until the time of their death." (A. History of Christ Reformed Church at Indian Creek (Indianfield).

He was a cooper by trade.

His will is recorded in Philadelphia, Pa.

Marriage 1 Dorothea Barbara b: 1700 in Germany

Children

Johann Nicolas Cope b: 1717 in Heidelberg, Germany

John Adam Cope b: 2 JUL 1731 in Montgomery Co., PA

Abraham Cope b: 11 AUG 1734 in Montgomery Co., PA

Catharine Cope b: 1729 in Montgomery Co., PA

George Cope b: 12 DEC 1737 in Montgomery Co., PA

Phillip Jacob Cope b: 1740 in Montgomery Co., PA.

Dorothea Barbara BUCHER (also known as DOROTHEA BARBARA Cope), daughter of Jainnis Nicholaus BUCHER (aft1670-1765) and Eva ( - ), was born on 30 Nov 1692 in Waldorf-Heidelberg, Prussian Saxony, Germany. She died on 6 Oct 1784 in Franconia Twp, Montgomery CO, Pennsylvania, USA. She was buried in Oct 1784 in Leidy's Burial Ground, Souderton, Montgomery CO, Pennsylvania, USA. She and Yost COPE had the following children: