John Cuppy
John Cuppy was living near Morristown in Morris County, New Jersey, when his son John was born there on 11 March 1761. Within about a year he took the family south to the South Branch of the Potomac and settled on Mill Creek near Romney, in Hampshire County, Virginia. On 9 June 1766 he bought 227 acres on Mill Creek from Benjamin Parker and Margaret his wife. Parker had taken up the land in 1763 from the Fairfax proprietors, who owned the whole northern neck of Virginia and sold it off in tracts to settlers.
Once his son was grown the Virginia records call him John Cuppy Senior. In the Hampshire County enumeration of 1782 his household numbered seven and his son's four. In 1784 his own was down to five. On 16 August 1787 he bought 350 acres more near his first tract, at the public sale of the Mercer and Lewis estate. In 1788 father and son sat on the same grand jury.
In April 1794 he and his wife Margaret sold out. On 1 April they sold the 350 acres for 225 pounds, and a week later the 227 acres for 350 pounds. They went out to the Ohio River in Brooke County, near the present town of New Cumberland, where their son John had settled. That year the Indian war on the upper Ohio ended, and John had spent it as a scout.
He made his will on 4 August 1801, "being weak in body but of sound and perfect mind and memory." He named "my wife, Margaret Cuppy, and my two sons John and Abraham" his executors. He left his wife all his personal estate. All his land went to his grandson John Cuppy, son of Abraham, on condition that the boy pay each of the heirs an equal share of its value if he kept it, and Abraham was to choose for him. His clothes were to be "equally divided among my three sons as may best suit themselves." Henry Wells and Christian Herr witnessed it, and it was proved at the Brooke County court in September 1802.
His son John acted as his executor. In the county court the suit of Abraham Cuppy, for the use of John Cuppy Senior, against John Beard was carried on after his death as John Cuppy, executor of John Cuppy deceased, against John Beard and William Beard. The court also ordered appraisers to value his estate.
Where he came from is family tradition only. Descendants who gathered the family's papers in the 1930s and 1940s believed he came to New York about 1750 from Germany or Holland, and wrote his name as Johan Kopje or Coppje. A roster of Revolutionary soldiers buried in Ohio, printed in 1929, says he served in the French and Indian War. No record of his crossing, his birthplace or that service has been found, and the birth years given for him run from 1716 to 1735.
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Cite: Heirology, "John Cuppy", https://heirology.com/ancestors/john-cuppy-d5dfab.