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David Ogden Stiers

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William Copeland

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of David Ogden Stiers — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 162 
  • Father:
  • William Copeland 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Thayer   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Dec 1730 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 Aug 1797 
  • Death Location:
  • Thompson, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • West Thompson Cemetery, Thompson, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Smith
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 May 1753 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Thankful Copeland (Ahnentafel No:81 )

  • Notes: 

  • William Copeland and his wife Sarah Hall may have had a daughter Rachel born in 1788.

• Additional marriages for William Copeland

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Hall
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Dec 1786
  • Marriage Location:
  • Thompson, Windham, Connecticut

• Sources for William Copeland

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Canterbury, p. 58, Birth record for daughter Thankful Copeland.
  • ² Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 505.
  • ³ Woodworth-Barnes, Esther Littleford, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 4, John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2015), 174-177.