Captain John Osborne Pope, Sr. was born circa 1720, a son of John Pope and Mourning McKinney (see researchers notes)
John married Elizabeth Jeffreys and they became the parents of as many as 15 children. [1]
Genealogies of Virginia Families from the William and Mary College Quarterly, Vol. II, (1982) Article, "John Pope & Mourning McKinney and Family, " by Gary Parks, pages 294-295:
John Pope (Henry, William) was born in Isle of Wight, Virginia. He moved to Bertie County, North Carolina, and later to Edgecombe County, where he died April 1745. John Pope was a Justice of the Peace, Juryman, a Church Warden, Commissioner of the Peace, and a Member of the General Assembly 1744-45.
John Pope married Mourning, daughter of Colonel Barnaby and Mary McKinne: Issue six children, viz: I. Henry Pope, will 1764 Halifax county, North Carolina, Henry Pope’s wife named Tabitha II. Jesse Pope, died 1818 in Georgia, wife Mary; III. Lewis Pope, wife Ann; IV. Winifred Pope, died unmarried, will 1762 Halifax, North Carolina; V. John Pope Vi. Barnaby Pope, died 1795 in Georgia.
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