Seth Pancoast and Esther Coppock
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January 23, 10:36 PM GMT
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1,000 - 2,000 USD
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Seth Pancoast and Esther Coppock
Quaker marriage certificate, 21 March 1741
1 page (14 3/4 x 18 1/4 in.; 365 x 464 mm). Ink on velum, dated 21 March 1741, and signed by Seth Pancoast, Esther Coppock, and numerous others, docketed on verso "Marriage Certificate | Seth Pancoast | Recoded in the Records | belonging to Chester Monthly | in Book a Page 18(?)7 | Caleb Copland"; some staining and yellowing, short tear repaired with tape, old folds, brittle.
Seth Pancoast was a cabinetmaker, who possibly apprenticed in Chester County, Pennsylvania, with his eldest brother, William, who had married Mary Copeland in 1730 in another Quaker Friends Meeting. Seth married Esther Coppock in Chester County in 1741, and the couple settled in the Marple Township (now Delaware County).