Copp Family Tree
date: label: date made
content: ca 1795
notes: label: Description
content: This framed watercolor of the Samuel and Dolley Copp’s family tree hung in the Copp family home in Stonington, Connecticut during the second half of the 18th century. The family tree is depicted as two intertwined branches sprouting from two overlapping hearts on a blue hill or base at bottom center. The names, birthdates and marriage date of parents Samuel Copp and Dolley Brown are in bottom segment of the tree. The names and birthdates of nine children (Sarah, Dolley, Jonathan, Betsey, Mary, John Brown, Esther, Nancy, and Samuel) are arranged above in three rows of three ovals suspended from flowering branches. The death date of Betsey is also given. Signed at bottom right by John Brown Copp (b. 1779), sixth oldest of the Copp children.
label: Description
content: The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Stonington
label: place used
content: United States: Connecticut, Stonington
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Copp Collection
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Brenton Copp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.006820
label: catalog number
content: 6820
label: accession number
content: 28810
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (image material)
label: Physical Description
content: watercolor (image material)
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content: paper, laid (image material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (frame material)
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content: paint (frame material)
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content: brass (original hanging hardware material)
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content: glass (glazing material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 1/2 in x 17 1/8 in x 1/2 in; 52.07 cm x 43.4975 cm x 1.27 cm