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Last name Cope
First name Benjamin
Display name Benjamin Cope
Other names Benjamin Cooke;Benjamin Cook;Benjamin Coope
Birth date 1765
Death date 1845
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, Birmingham Friends meeting
Bio notes Son-in-law of Joshua Sharpless. Benjamin Cope married Rachel Sharpless, daughter of Joshua and Edith Sharpless in 1792 at Birmingham Meeting. Benjamin and Rachel travelled to Tunesssa in 1805 to instruct the Seneca but Rachel died in 1807 in childbirth.

Mentioned in:

Halliday Jackson's Journal, 1806

Joshua Sharpless' Journal [Visit to Upper Canada and Parts Adjacent], 1797

Some Account of Rachel Coope [edited by Joshua Sharpless]

Some Account of Rachel Coope (Journal A)

Some Account of Rachel Coope (Journal B)

William Allinson Diary, Volume 3