A grand-daughter of David O’Sheal Coupland, Mrs. John P Wilson, of “Bonbrook,” Cumberland County, Virginia, stated, “It appears that David Coupland first married, when quite young, a Mrs. Fleming and that a son by this marriage lived a few years after his marriage with Ann Harrison of “Berkeley” but died young without issue.”
David Coupland was a Justice of Cumberland County, appointed October 24, 1778 and vestryman of Littleton Parish. There is a land grant recorded in Virginia land office to his grandfather David O’Sheals, in Nansemond County, “On southside of Nansemond River.”
The home of David O’Sheal Coupland and Ann Harrison Coupland was at Springfield lying in both Cumberland and Buckingham Counties, on West side of Willis River and opposite (North) side of Great Buffalo Creek from “Clay Bank” an old Randolph and Trent home still standing. The house was burned about the close of 19th century. No record in Cumberland County of administration of estate of David Coupland or Ann Harrison Coupland. As he owned property in both counties, such records were doubtless filed in Buckingham County, all of whose records were burned in the last century.
Elizabeth Bassett Coupland married Stephen Woodson Trent (1769-1844) of “Auburn,” Cumberland County, Virginia. Trent was a Justice of Cumberland and son and executor of Alexander Trent III (1729-1793) of “Barterhill,” Cumberland County and Manchester, a vestryman of Southern Parish and Justice and Burgess for Cumberland. William Rickman Coupland, named for his uncle-in-law, Dr. William Rickman, Director General and Surgeon of Continental Hospital, first husband of Elizabeth Harrison, youngest daughter of Benjamin Harrison, the Signer. William Rickman Coupland died a bachelor at the home of his sister, Mrs. Isham Randolph.
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