Thomas P. Cope Family papers

Thomas Pim Cope (1768-­1854), a Quaker merchant, founder of Cope family shipping business, and member of the Philadelphia City Council and Pennsylvania legislature, married Mary Drinker (1766-­1825) in 1792. Their son Henry Cope (1793-1865) married Rachel Reeve (1794-1863) in 1818. Henry and Rachel's son Thomas Pim Cope (1823-­1900) married Elizabeth Waln Stokes (1823-­1902) in 1849.

Letters, legal, business and financial, accounts, minutes, diary, portraits, and other papers chiefly related to the Cope family of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Papers of Thomas Pim Cope (1768-1854) relate to business and civic interests in Philadelphia (Poor Laws, public schools, public water, first bridge over the Schuylkill, etc.); papers (1816-1823) related to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting committee aiding the German Separatists led by Joseph M. Bimeler (Baumler); letters and documents related to legal aspects of the Separation of 1827-1828 within Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

Letters (1799-1847) to Thomas Pim Cope from Friends and others discuss slavery and immigration of free Black people to Haiti, the War of 1812, business conditions, etc.

Papers of Alfred Cope (1806-1875) include minutes and accounts related to the disbursement of money to the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin (1849).

Papers of Philip C. Garrett (1834-1905) discuss the formation of Haverford College Alumni Association (1857), and also include his diary while at Haverford College (1851).

Letters (1854-1857) of Thomas Garrett (1789-1871) discuss his work assisting fleeing formerly enslaved people.

Letters to Thomas Pim Cope while he was in Europe (1858) related to ship "Tuscarora," also letters from family and friends while he was on a religious journey in Great Britain and France with Samuel Morris in 1890.

Seven letters (1890-1891) of Alban Cope while a patient at New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica (now the Utica Psychiatric Hospital) and Hartford Retreat (now the Institute of Living); letters (1890) of Elizabeth W. Cope to her husband Thomas Pim Cope discuss family matters, including son Alban.

Letter (1864) of J.M. M'Kim discusses freedmen; letters of William Drinker Cope discuss land and business matters.

Other correspondents in the collection include Abigail Barker, Moses Brown, Francis R. Cope, Henry Cope, John S. Cope, Margaret Cope, Walter Cope, Thomas Eddy, James Milnor, Inazo Nitobe, and others.

Materials in the collection are arranged by topic.

Original processing information unknown.

• HC.MC.1170, Cope-­Evans family papers;
• HC.MC.1169, Stokes- Evans-Cope family papers;
• HC.MC.1242, Cope-Evans family papers;
• HC.MC.975.01.013, Thomas P. Cope diaries;
• HC.MC.975.11.009, Cope Packet Ship logbooks;
• HC.MC.975.02.005. Thomas P. Cope letters

Use

Standard Federal Copyright Law Applies (U.S. Title 17).

Preferred Citation

Thomas P. Cope Family papers (HC.MC.1013), Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.

Publisher

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Creator

Cope, Thomas P. (Thomas Pim), 1768-1854

Subject

Slavery -- United States

Shipping

Quaker businesspeople

People

Cope, Thomas P. (Thomas Pim), 1768-1854

Cope, Alfred, 1806-1875

Garrett, Thomas, 1789-1871

Organization

Philadelphia (Pa.). City Council

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library

Place

United States -- History -- War of 1812

Haiti

Language

English