Thomas Hope

Thomas Hope was born on 2 Feb 1701.1,2 He married Jennet Wilken a 1720 at Chester County, Pennsylvania.3,2 Thomas Hope died on 24 Oct 1776 in Pomeroy, Chester County, Pennsylvania, at age 75.4,5,6 He was buried at Upper Octorara Cemetery, Parkesburg, Chester County, Pennsylvania.4

    We do not know Thomas' place of birth. Our first record of him is in the early 1700s at Upper Octorara Presbyterian Church. Thomas was an elder at the Synod in Philadelphia on May 23, 1739, May 26, 1742, May 29, 1752, and May 28, 1755. Upper Octorara was organized about 1720. Thomas' children married Scotch-Irish Presbyterians from the Sadsbury area (Withrow, Wilson, Cowan, Kinkead, McPherson, Scott, and Parke). Most of these in-laws' ancestors can be traced to northern Ireland (County Cowan, County Donegal, etc.). Logic would indicate that Thomas or his father probably came from the north of Ireland. 

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