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Elizabeth Cope

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• • 8th Great-grandmother of Stephen A. Douglas — 11th Generation
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  • 1471 
  • Father:
  • John Cope 
  • Mother:
  • Bridget Raleigh   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1529 
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  • John Dryden
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  Bridget Dryden (Ahnentafel No:735 )

  Nicholas Dryden

  Erasmus Dryden

• Sources for Elizabeth Cope

  • ¹ Pope, Charles Henry, ed., Paine Ancestry: The Family of Robert Treat Paine, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Including Maternal Lines, Boston: Printed for the Family (1912), 188.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 219.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 431.
  • ⁴ Watson, Marston, Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Volume 2, Reverend Francis Marbury and Five Generations of . . ., Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2004), 2.
  • ⁵ Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650, Lancaster, Mass: (1950), 34.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Sir Erasmus Dryden, 1st Baronet", _1st_Baronet, (accessed 04/18/2020).
  • ⁷ Wilkinson, M. M., Genealogy of Wilkinson and Kindred Families, Shelby, Mississippi: Shelby Book Store, Publishers (1949), 63.