SHORT, Miriam ^{3 4 5 6 7 8 9}

  General Notes:

She was a passenger on the ship "Welcome" that came to Pennsylvania from Aug.-Oct. 1682. Her mother and uncle, Isaac, both died on board in the smallpox epidemic. She and her siblings came under the care of her mother's bother, G. Ingram. (C-253b, 1427) She was married shortly thereafter to George Thompson. George as well as the clergyman who performed the ceremony were taken to court for violating the laws of the Province (possibly because she was with child?). Thompson appeared in court on Feb. 14, 1682/3 and the charges were dismissed as no one came to accuse him. It appears that Thompson left Miriam, as she was in the town records on Nov. 6, 1684 as needing public assistance for herself and child (Ralph Thomson). In some sources it assumes he dies before she marries again. However, this George Thompson seems to be the same Thompson that was listed as a married man in church records in 1698. There is a descendant of a Joshua Thompson, b. 1696 in this area named Lew Chaplick that believes that Joshua is a son or grandson of George Thompson, possibly through Miriam Short.

She next married William White of New Castle Co. He was a Wheelwright. He died in 1703 and left her widowed with three additional children.

Her last husband was Aaron Coppock. (C-1210) They had declared their intention to marry on 7/11 and 9/13/1704 in Concord MM. She probably is the Miriam Coppock who witnessed the marriages of John, her son, and Margaret Coulson Coppock in 1731; John Harris and Phebe Beeson, 1731, and William White, her grandson, and Sarah Pugh in 1743 in East and West Nottingham Monthly Meetings held in Cecil Co., Maryland, just over the border from Townships of this same name in Pennsylvania. (C-1302)

A supposed source by Cope entitled "Baily Family", states that this Short families origin was in Garton, Surrey, (ENG). (C-1427)

  Noted events in her life were:

• Baptism, May 10, 1664, Ford, Sussex, ENG. ¹²

Miriam married Aaron COPPOCK, son of John COPPOCK The Tanner and Margaret DEANE, 30d 9mo 1704 in Chichester M.M., Chester, PA.^{1 2} (Aaron COPPOCK was born on Dec 25, 1665 in Mobberley, Cheshire, ENG, christened on Jan 6, 1665/66 in Moberly Parish, Chester, ENG,^{13 14} died on Oct 10, 1726 in East Nottingham, Chester, PA, USA and was buried on Oct 12, 1726 in East Nottingham, Chester, PA, USA.)

  Marriage Notes:

Chichester was in Chester Co., PA at that time, though it is now Delaware Co., PA (C-2140) They declared their intentions to marry on 11th of 7th mo, 1704 and married on the 30d 9mo 1704 according to "EARLY CHURCH RECORDS OF DELAWARE CO., PA, VOLUME 2".

Miriam next married George THOMPSON in 1682.

Miriam next married William WHITE after 1698. (William WHITE died in 1703.)