Thomas Copeland

Thomas Copeland

• Birth: Feb 6 1654 - Braintree, Massachusetts (Norfolk)
• Death: June 6 1706 - Braintree, Massachusetts (Norfolk)
• Parents: Lawrence Copeland, Jr., Lydia Towsend

Second son of Lawrence and Lydia (Townsend) Copeland

• Marriages:

1. Widow Mehitable Atwood; died Feb. 3, 1692, aged 30.
2. Mercy, died Feb. 2, 1699
3. Mary Arnold; married May 17, 1699, daughter of John Arnold.

• Child of Thomas and Mehitable:

1. Mary; married Ephriam Thayer

• Children of Thomas and Mary:

1. Thomas, Jr.; b. April 10, 1700
2. Sarah; b. December 22, 1701
3. Nathanial; b.April 30, 1704; d. 1706
4. Elizabeth; b.June 18, 1706

Thomas was in Captain Johnson's company in King Phillip's War, 1675 ( See Savages's Gen. Dictionary, Mass. Soldiers and Sailors).

Source: Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey; compiled under the supervision of Francis Bazley Lee; Vol. IV; New York Lewis Historical Publishing Company; 1910

Link: http://books.google.com/books?id=apE-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1631&dq

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• From : Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

King Philip's War, sometimes called the First Indian War, Metacom's War, Metacomet's War, or Metacom's Rebellion,[1] was an armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day New England and English colonists and their Native American allies in 1675–78. The war is named after the main leader of the Native American side, Metacomet, known to the English as "King Philip".[2] Major Benjamin Church emerged as the Puritan hero of the war; it was his company of Puritan rangers and Native American allies that finally hunted down and killed King Philip on August 12, 1676.[3] The war continued in northern New England (primarily in Maine at the New England and Acadia border) until a treaty was signed at Casco Bay in April 1678.[4]

The war was the single greatest calamity to occur in seventeenth-century Puritan New England and is considered by many to be the deadliest war in American history.[5] In the space of little more than a year, twelve of the region's towns were destroyed and many more damaged, the colony's economy was all but ruined, and its population was decimated, losing one-tenth of all men available for military service.[6][7] More than half of New England's towns were attacked by Native American warriors.[8]

King Philip's War began the development of a greater American identity, for the colonists' trials, without significant English government support, gave them a group identity separate and distinct from being just subjects of the king

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Philip%27s_War