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From: "Christie Russell" <>
Subject: Pope and Stevenson Families
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:14:08 -0600

I need any information on Pope and Stevenson Families in Hunterton Co. They
probably were Quakers. It is reported that NATHANIEL POPE owned land
adjacent to THOMAS STEVENSON in 1698. A Quaker marriage record for SAMUEL
POPE and ELIZABETH STEVENSON is found in Warrington MM for their marriage at
the Menallen MM York Co., PA in 1751. It is possible that Nathaniel Pope
was the father of a family found in York/Adams Co., PA by 1748. Nathaniel
Pope may have married Mary Cope/Albon. Records are found in Chester,
Lancaster, York/Adams, Cumberland PA and in Frederick Co., MD that seem to
tie the following persons together in a family group. Was there a migration
from Hunterton to that area of Pennsylvania in the early part of the 1700's?



"Richard Pope was one of a list of persons from Chester county, (PA) who
were to have had surveyed to them in 1736, land on the west side of
Susquehanna, by leave of the Maryland authorities (Col. Rec., Vol. iv, p.
101-2).



Letters of administration on the estate of Richard Pope, deceased,
Huntington township, Lancaster (now Adams) county, were granted to John Pope
in 1746. From records of an Orphans' Court of York county, July 26, 1762,
it appears that Richard Pope left a widow, Mary (since married to William
Young) and three children, for whom Archibald McGrew and John Wilson were
apointed guardians. The children were:

1. William, b. Sept. 16, 1743; apprenticed Sept. 2, 1762, to Henry Wierman,
tanner and currier, of Huntington until he came of age.

2. John, b. Oct. 13, 1744.

3. Sarah, b. June 1, 1746; apprenticed Sept. 1, 1762, to Robert Scott,
yeoman, of Strabane township, until she is 18 years of age.

There is reason to believe that Priscilla pope, wife of Henry Wierman, was
closely related to these Popes.



While proof has not be established, it is thought that RICHARD and PRISCILLA
POPE were brother and sister to JOHN, SAMUEL, SARAH, and ELIZABETH POPE.



SOURCE: From a portion of an article bh Albert Cook Myers, Swarthmore
College, PA. from "Notes and Queries" 1970.



At Warrington monthly meeting of Friends, now York County, Pa., 1 mo. 19,
1747-48, JOHN POPE was received into membership.



JOHN POPE, of York county was appointed "one of the justices of the peace
and of the county Court of Common Pleas" by John Penn, Lieutenant Governor
of the Province, July 23, 1768 (Co. Rec. Vol. ix, p. 543). He was
reappointed Apr. 9, 1774 (Pa. Arch. Vol. ix, p.782).



He was a member of the "Provincial Assembly, 1772-1773 (Pa. Arch., Vol. ix,
p. 781).



At Warrington Mo. Mtg., 8 mo. 8, 1778, complaint was made that John Pope, of
menallen meeting, "hath taken the test proposed by those in power."
[Believed to be the Oath of Allegiance at the time of the Revolutionary
War.] At a meeting, 9 mo., 12, 1778, he did not deny "but said he was easy
under it." He was disowned as a member 3 mo., 13, 1779.



In his will, made Sept. 25, 1782, and probated Aug. 25, 1784 (A. p. 281),
JOHN POPE leaves his plantation in Tyrone township, where he now lives,
under certain conditions to his brother Samuel.



He mentions, William Pope, "Cousin John Pope," Mary Davey (wife of Samuel),
Ann Swisher (wife of Anthony), Elizabeth Bently (wife of Barnard), Nathaniel
Pope ("my brother Samuel Pope's son"), his sister, Sarah "McCelrevey" (wife
of Hugh, who is in the war); her children (John, Richard, Mary, Hugh and
William McCelrevey") and "James Hammond, son of Daniel Hammond, who is
married to my sister, Elizabeth." He appoints Archibald McGrew and William
Delap, executors.

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"SAMUEL POPE, brother of John, was received a member of the Warrington Mo.,
Mtg., 3 mo., 18, 1751, and on 7 mo. 4 of the same year, SAMUEL POPE, of
Tyrone township, York County (now Adams), and Elizabeth Stephenson, of
Menallen township, same county, were married at Menallen Friends' meeting
house (Warrington Mo. Mtg. Records). At Warrington Mo. Mtg., 10 mo. 8,
1763, a certificate of removal was signed for Samuel Pope, wife Elizabeth
and child to New Garden Mo. Mtg., Guilford county, North Carolina.

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