tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199172620528470353.post4129318854695963381..comments2023-09-03T05:58:11.601-05:00Comments on The Exile Bibliophile: Lion of New Hampshire spottedBenjamin L Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00489486832142866020noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199172620528470353.post-57769348236707752302011-01-16T13:26:28.983-06:002011-01-16T13:26:28.983-06:00I did the paperwork for Capt. Charles Dearborn Cop...I did the paperwork for Capt. Charles Dearborn Copp's Medal of Honor tombstone/memorial stone (by mistake his middle name on it may be Dearborne, with an incorrect "e"?) and paid for the stone's obverse inscription; the cemetery installed it gratis. Charles had an existing civilian stone with no mention of the Medal of Honor, hence the supplemental stone. I donated my research records on him to the local library there; but can't remember where "there" was, now. I think it was in Mass., about 30 miles west of Boston? He was killed in the worst hand-to-hand combat at Fredericksburg. My great, great grandfather,Capt. Alfred Alexander Miller, CSA, Co. K, 57th N.C. Troops, was killed in the second worst hand-to-hand combat when he led his in-reserve, surprised company in a counter-charge down Deep Run Creek. He fell within three hundred yards of where the F. & P. R.R. tracks cross the creek like an "X" on the battlefield; today near an end of the Shannon Airport runway. A bullet through the heart, he is buried Bethel Lutheran, Franklin, Rowan County, N.C. The Copp connection: Great grandfather was Capt. Harry Copp James, Biloxi, Miss., harbormaster (Pvt., age 16, Capt. Hall's New Orleans Soavue Fire Brigade Militia), the son of LtCol Robert Wm. James and Jane Ann Nixon, the daughter of 1815 Battle of New Orleans, Adj. Lt. John Nixon, City Attorney for New Orleans, who wed Adeline Cecelia Copp, born Dover, N.H.; the daughter of Phillips Exeter Academy graduate/lawyer, David Copp, Jr. (murdered 1805 in a New Orleans gambling house) and Mary "Polly" Watson who he wed age 15 in the Portsmouth, N.H., Episcopal Church. Allegedly they fled Portsmouth in the night to escape his gambling debts. His father was LtCol David Copp, Sr., a captain at Bunker Hill. As a legislator he fought the disfranchisement of Catholics. His lineage goes back to Copp's Hill, Boston, where British artillery fired upon him across the Cambridge River. Wm. Copp, 1589-1670 (wife Judith Itchenor, d 1670) was the son of Thomas Copp, 1539-1628, and second wife Isabel Gunne, of Bewsall, Hatton, Warwick, England. LtCol Copp's wife Margaret "Molly" Palmer, was the daughter of legislator Patriot, inn keeper, one-handed Maj. Barnabus Palmer, Sr., who's wife, Elizabeth Robinson of Exeter, N.H., descended Governors Dudley and Winthrop. She also descended Exeter lawyer Edward Hilton, Sr., who wed Mrs. Catherine Shapleigh Treworgey, the sister of Capt. Nicholas Shapleigh of Eliot, Maine, who drafted early charts of the Cape Fear River. Edward's brother was Capt. Wm. Hilton, Jr., who "purchased" and named the Cape Fear River. I live near Southport, CFR, on the bluff of Dutchman's Creek. Their parents were Capt. Wm. Hilton, Sr., who more-or-less rescued the Pilgrims; wife Ellen Mainwaring, the son of London, England fishmonger Roger Hilton (as were Govs. Dudley & Winthrop, fishmongers-all), the brother of Sir Wm. Hilton, Knight, sons of Wm. Hilton, younger brother of Sir Thomas Hilton of Hilton Castle overlooking the River Wear, Monkwearmouth, Northumbria, England. There connected with the Neville, Percy, and Lambton families. Wm. Hilton, the last mentioned, wed Margaret, the daughter of Sir James Metcalfe of Nappa Hall, Wensleydale, York; a Knight, buried Washington. Jim Miller, Dutchman's Creek Bluff, Southport/Oak Island, N.C.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199172620528470353.post-17504648218346627572011-01-16T13:19:25.259-06:002011-01-16T13:19:25.259-06:00I did the paperwork for Capt. Charles Dearborn Cop...I did the paperwork for Capt. Charles Dearborn Copp's Medal of Honor tombstone/memorial stone (by mistake his middle name on it may be Dearborne, with an incorrect "e"?) and paid for the stone's obverse inscription; the cemetery installed it gratis. Charles had an existing civilian stone with no mention of the Medal of Honor, hence the supplemental stone. I donated my research records on him to the local library there; but can't remember where "there" was, now. I think it was in Mass., about 30 miles west of Boston? He was killed in the worst hand-to-hand combat at Fredericksburg. My great, great grandfather,Capt. Alfred Alexander Miller, CSA, Co. K, 57th N.C. Troops, was killed in the second worst hand-to-hand combat when he led his in-reserve, surprised company in a counter-charge down Deep Run Creek. He fell within three hundred yards of where the F. & P. R.R. tracks cross the creek like an "X" on the battlefield; today near an end of the Shannon Airport runway. A bullet through the heart, he is buried Bethel Lutheran, Franklin, Rowan County, N.C. The Copp connection: Great grandfather was Capt. Harry Copp James, Biloxi, Miss., harbormaster (Pvt., age 16, Capt. Hall's New Orleans Soavue Fire Brigade Militia), the son of LtCol Robert Wm. James and Jane Ann Nixon, the daughter of 1815 Battle of New Orleans, Adj. Lt. John Nixon, City Attorney for New Orleans, who wed Adeline Cecelia Copp, born Dover, N.H.; the daughter of Phillips Exeter Academy graduate/lawyer, David Copp, Jr. (murdered 1805 in a New Orleans gambling house) and Mary "Polly" Watson who he wed age 15 in the Portsmouth, N.H., Episcopal Church. Allegedly they fled Portsmouth in the night to escape his gambling debts. His father was LtCol David Copp, Sr., a captain at Bunker Hill. As a legislator he fought the disfranchisement of Catholics. His lineage goes back to Copp's Hill, Boston, where British artillery fired upon him across the Cambridge River. Wm. Copp, 1589-1670 (wife Judith Itchenor, d 1670) was the son of Thomas Copp, 1539-1628, and second wife Isabel Gunne, of Bewsall, Hatton, Warwick, England. LtCol Copp's wife Margaret "Molly" Palmer, was the daughter of legislator Patriot, inn keeper, one-handed Maj. Barnabus Palmer, Sr., who's wife, Elizabeth Robinson of Exeter, N.H., descended Governors Dudley and Winthrop. She also descended Exeter lawyer Edward Hilton, Sr., who wed Mrs. Catherine Shapleigh Treworgey, the sister of Capt. Nicholas Shapleigh of Eliot, Maine, who drafted early charts of the Cape Fear River. Edward's brother was Capt. Wm. Hilton, Jr., who "purchased" and named the Cape Fear River. I live near Southport, CFR, on the bluff of Dutchman's Creek. Their parents were Capt. Wm. Hilton, Sr., who more-or-less rescued the Pilgrims; wife Ellen Mainwaring, the son of London, England fishmonger Roger Hilton (as were Govs. Dudley & Winthrop, fishmongers-all), the brother of Sir Wm. Hilton, Knight, sons of Wm. Hilton, younger brother of Sir Thomas Hilton of Hilton Castle overlooking the River Wear, Monkwearmouth, Northumbria, England. There connected with the Neville, Percy, and Lambton families. Wm. Hilton, the last mentioned, wed Margaret, the daughter of Sir James Metcalfe of Nappa Hall, Wensleydale, York; a Knight, buried Washington. Jim Miller, Dutchman's Creek Bluff, Southport/Oak Island, N.C. focusoninfinity@hotmail.com Post Script: John Nixon's asst. N.O. city attorney and son-in-law was Peregrine "Perry" Snowden Warfield of Georgetown, D.C., close kin of base born Bessie Warfield who wed King Edward VIII of England.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199172620528470353.post-4857507227879420472011-01-16T13:13:50.452-06:002011-01-16T13:13:50.452-06:00I did the paperwork for Capt. Charles Dearborn Cop...I did the paperwork for Capt. Charles Dearborn Copp's Medal of Honor tombstone/memorial stone (by mistake his middle name on it may be Dearborne, with an incorrect "e"?) and paid for the stone's obverse inscription; the cemetery installed it gratis. Charles had an existing civilian stone with no mention of the Medal of Honor, hence the supplemental stone. I donated my research records on him to the local library there; but can't remember where "there" was, now. I think it was in Mass., about 30 miles west of Boston? He was killed in the worst hand-to-hand combat at Fredericksburg. My great, great grandfather,Capt. Alfred Alexander Miller, CSA, Co. K, 57th N.C. Troops, was killed in the second worst hand-to-hand combat when he led his in-reserve, surprised company in a counter-charge down Deep Run Creek. He fell within three hundred yards of where the F. & P. R.R. tracks cross the creek like an "X" on the battlefield; today near an end of the Shannon Airport runway. A bullet through the heart, he is buried Bethel Lutheran, Franklin, Rowan County, N.C. The Copp connection: Great grandfather was Capt. Harry Copp James, Biloxi, Miss., harbormaster (Pvt., age 16, Capt. Hall's New Orleans Soavue Fire Brigade Militia), the son of LtCol Robert Wm. James and Jane Ann Nixon, the daughter of 1815 Battle of New Orleans, Adj. Lt. John Nixon, City Attorney for New Orleans, who wed Adeline Cecelia Copp, born Dover, N.H.; the daughter of Phillips Exeter Academy graduate/lawyer, David Copp, Jr. (murdered 1805 in a New Orleans gambling house) and Mary "Polly" Watson who he wed age 15 in the Portsmouth, N.H., Episcopal Church. Allegedly they fled Portsmouth in the night to escape his gambling debts. His father was LtCol David Copp, Sr., a captain at Bunker Hill. As a legislator he fought the disfranchisement of Catholics. His lineage goes back to Copp's Hill, Boston, where British artillery fired upon him across the Cambridge River. Wm. Copp, 1589-1670 (wife Judith Itchenor, d 1670) was the son of Thomas Copp, 1539-1628, and second wife Isabel Gunne, of Bewsall, Hatton, Warwick, England. LtCol Copp's wife Margaret "Molly" Palmer, was the daughter of legislator Patriot, inn keeper, one-handed Maj. Barnabus Palmer, Sr., who's wife, Elizabeth Robinson of Exeter, N.H., descended Governors Dudley and Winthrop. She also descended Exeter lawyer Edward Hilton, Sr., who wed Mrs. Catherine Shapleigh Treworgey, the sister of Capt. Nicholas Shapleigh of Eliot, Maine, who drafted early charts of the Cape Fear River. Edward's brother was Capt. Wm. Hilton, Jr., who "purchased" and named the Cape Fear River. I live near Southport, CFR, on the bluff of Dutchman's Creek. Their parents were Capt. Wm. Hilton, Sr., who more-or-less rescued the Pilgrims; wife Ellen Mainwaring, the son of London, England fishmonger Roger Hilton (as were Govs. Dudley & Winthrop, fishmongers-all), the brother of Sir Wm. Hilton, Knight, sons of Wm. Hilton, younger brother of Sir Thomas Hilton of Hilton Castle overlooking the River Wear, Monkwearmouth, Northumbria, England. There connected with the Neville, Percy, and Lambton families. Wm. Hilton, the last mentioned, wed Margaret, the daughter of Sir James Metcalfe of Nappa Hall, Wensleydale, York; a Knight, buried Washington. Jim Miller, Dutchman's Creek Bluff, Southport/Oak Island, N.C. focusoninfinity@hotmail.com<br />Post Script: John (W.?_) Nixon's (1787 Enniskillen-1849 Biloxi), asst. New Orleans city attorney and son-in-law, was Peregrine "Perry" Snowden Warfield of Georgetown, D.C.; close kin of base born Bessie Warfield, who wed King Edward, VIIIth of England.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199172620528470353.post-52762828640909767362008-03-31T16:20:00.000-05:002008-03-31T16:20:00.000-05:00For information about the Lion Percussion Embossin...For information about the Lion Percussion Embossing Press introduced by Joseph H. Merriam, Merriam & Co.,Boston,MA, c. 1857, please to go: http://www.earlyofficemuseum.com/seal_presses.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4199172620528470353.post-2208903712354583102008-01-19T12:21:00.000-06:002008-01-19T12:21:00.000-06:00Jan 19,2008Hello-Read with interest this article a...Jan 19,2008<BR/><BR/>Hello-<BR/><BR/>Read with interest this article as Elbridge J. Copp of Nashua, NH was my great grandfather. Would be interested in knowing where this Lion embosser is located?<BR/><BR/>Thanks,<BR/>Richard Baldwin<BR/><BR/>baldwindd@earthlink.netAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com