Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Benjamin Coplin (Copeland)    
                Born: ca 1720              in Rockingham Co, VA  1
                Died: aft 1781              1
              Father:
              Mother:
                Wife: Deborah ___   1  
                Died: aft 1781              1
              Father:
              Mother:
           F Child 1: Hannah Coplin (Copeland)      
                Born: ca 1740               1
                Died: Nov- 1-1791          in Kentucky  1
           F Child 2: Mary Coplin (Copeland)      
                Born: 1743                  1
             Husband: James Corry Curry  d. 1780  
           M Child 3: Jacob Coplin (Copeland)      
                Born: ca 1745               1
                Died: 1815                 in Garrard Co, KY  1
                Wife: Ann Henton  b. 1748  
           F Child 4: Ann Coplin (Copeland)      
                Born: ca 1746              in Rockingham Co, VA  1
             Husband: John Andrew Davisson  b. ca 1746  d. Mar- 4-1782  
       Also known as: Andrew Davisson 1,2
             Married: Jun-28-1772           1,3
             Husband: Eleazer West  
             Married: Nov-23-1789           3
           M Child 5: Benjamin Coplin (Copeland)      
                Born: Mar-28-1752          in Augusta Co (now Rockingham Co), VA  4
                Died: Sep- 5-1834          in Harrison Co, (W)VA  4
              Buried:                      in Bridgeport Cemetery, Bridgeport, Harrison Co, WV  5,6
            Military:                      scout and spy, Revolutionary War  7 (see note 1)
                Wife: Deborah Shinn  

Sources:
(1) G. J. Whittaker, a Gaston descendant and researcher. 
(2) Russell Lee Davisson, The Davissons - A History and Genealogy, McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV (1993) 
(3) Russell Lee Davisson, The Davissons - A History and Genealogy, McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV (1993), p. 116. 
(4) Historical Military Records, www.fold3.com. 
(5) Henry Haymond, History of Harrison County West Virginia, Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, WV (1910), 
http://books.google.com/books?id=J4QFK5LO-boC. 
(6) Findagrave.com, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=109049926. 
(7) Russell Lee Davisson, The Davissons - A History and Genealogy, McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV (1993), p. 160. 

Event Notes
Note (1) From Harrison County, Virginia, Revolutionary War pension application, dated
18 Jun 1833:  Benjamin Coplin was born 28 Mar 1752 in  Rockingham County,
Virginia.  He lived at Nutters Fort when he entered the Revolutionary War in a
Company commanded by Capt. William Lowther.  He was stationed at Nutters Fort
and employed in scouting from the Monongahela River to the Ohio River.  He
served for six months and was discharged in the fall of 1776.  Then in the 
spring of 1777, he volunteered again in the same Company and was stationed at
Powers Fort on Simpson Creek, Harrison County.  He was again employed as a scout
for a term of six months.  In the spring of 1778, he served as a scout another
six months at Powers Fort under the same command.  In the spring of 1779, he
volunteered under Captain Lowther again at  Powers Fort.  In the spring of 1780,
he volunteered again and was stationed at the Blockhouse on Elk Creek, where
Clarksburg now stands.  He was employed for six months as a scout.  In the
spring of 1781, he volunteered under a Company commanded by Capt. George
Jackson, because Lowther had been promoted to Major. He served another six
months.  In the spring of 1782, he volunteered under Capt. Christopher Carpenter
for six months.  All the above-named officers were commissioned by the state of
Virginia and were employed to guard the frontier settlement from the depredation
of the Indians.

Although Benjamin Coplin is reported by some researchers as being a Captain
in the Revolutionary War, and his headstone states his rank as Colonel, nothing
in his pension application indicates that.  Rather, he was employed as a scout
and spy, and was not attached to any regiment.  He was involved in several
skirmishes with the Indians and at one engagement killed an Indian.  In the year
1776, he was stationed at Powers Fort when news reached the Fort that a parcel
of Indians were at Middle Island, in western part of Harrison County (this would
be present-day Doddridge County).  He and about 20 others went in pursuit of
them and was gone for four days.

http://www.revwarapps.org/s10464.pdf
(Transcribed from original documents on file at the U.S. National Archives
and viewable online at www.fold3.com)







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