Ancestors
Margaret Cuppy
d. 1816
Died 1816
Children include John
Margaret Cuppy was the wife of John Cuppy, who brought the family from Morristown, New Jersey, to Mill Creek near Romney in Hampshire County, Virginia, about 1762. Her son John, born near Morristown on 11 March 1761, was a baby when they made the move.
Her own family name is uncertain. In 1859 her son John, then ninety eight, talked about his family to two men. A grandnephew, John Warral Cuppy, wrote in his diary that his mother was Margaret Parker. The historian Lyman Draper, who was collecting the memories of the old frontier, wrote that she was Margaret Devore, a native of New Jersey. Devore was also the name of the son's own first wife, Elizabeth, so one of the two may have been confused. The family's compiler in the 1940s took Parker, noting that a Benjamin Parker had sold her husband his first land on Mill Creek in 1766.
She joined her husband in selling both Mill Creek farms in April 1794, and went with him to the Ohio River in Brooke County, near the present New Cumberland. In his will of August 1801 he named her first among his executors and left her all his personal estate. She outlived him by fourteen years and died near New Cumberland in 1816.
Her son John administered her estate. Its inventory was taken on 3 January 1817 by John Pettinger, William Hewitt, Andrew McCowen and Hugh Pugh, and the sale was held three days later. Robert Mills, John Cuppy, Aaron and Samuel Bartholomew, Moses Pugh and John Thomas were among the buyers. The proceeds barely covered the funeral and the costs, so nothing was left to divide among her children.
Sources
Brooke County, Virginia (now West Virginia), Will Book 1, page 15: will of John Cuppy, dated 4 August 1801, proved at the September term of court 1802 on the oaths of Henry Wells and Christian Herr, John Connell clerk; full copy in "The Cuppy Family in America," a tentative outline in the Cuppy family papers of Walter O. Shriner and his correspondents, Vigo County Public Library, archive.org cuppy-family-miscellaneous.
Hampshire County, Virginia, deeds of 9 June 1766 (Benjamin Parker and Margaret his wife to John Cuppy, 227 acres on Mill Creek), 16 August 1787 (purchase of 350 acres at the public sale of the Mercer and Lewis estate) and 1 and 8 April 1794 (John Cuppy and Margaret his wife, sales of both tracts), as abstracted in the same outline, archive.org cuppy-family-miscellaneous.
Brooke County, Virginia, estate of Margaret Cuppy, inventory of 3 January 1817 and sale of 6 January 1817, as abstracted in "The Cuppy Family in America," Cuppy family papers, Vigo County Public Library, archive.org cuppy-family-miscellaneous; the 1859 diary of John Warral Cuppy and the notes of Lyman C. Draper's interview of John Cuppy, as quoted in the Cuppy family correspondence of 1951 to 1967, archive.org cuppy-family-correspondence-1951-1967. Brooke County, Virginia (now West Virginia), Will Book 1, page 15: will of John Cuppy, dated 4 August 1801, proved at the September term of court 1802 on the oaths of Henry Wells and Christian Herr, John Connell clerk; full copy in "The Cuppy Family in America," a tentative outline in the Cuppy family papers of Walter O. Shriner and his correspondents, Vigo County Public Library, archive.org cuppy-family-miscellaneous. Hampshire County, Virginia, deeds of 9 June 1766 (Benjamin Parker and Margaret his wife to John Cuppy, 227 acres on Mill Creek), 16 August 1787 (purchase of 350 acres at the public sale of the Mercer and Lewis estate) and 1 and 8 April 1794 (John Cuppy and Margaret his wife, sales of both tracts), as abstracted in the same outline, archive.org cuppy-family-miscellaneous.
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Cite: Heirology, "Margaret Cuppy (d. 1816)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/margaret-cuppy-1816-2643be.