John Usher became a young apprentice for Samuel Copp at the age of 14 when John's Father passed away. Samuel Copp was a cordwainer and taught young John Usher how to be a shoemaker, tailor, and farmer. He lived with the Copp family until he turned the age of 21. He then bought land and house dwelling and was already bringing in enough money to set up home for a wife. He was given Samuel Copp's daughter Prudence Copp for marriage in Norwich, Connecticut on 12 June 1766. They started their family in 1768 and his trade took him to Ludlow Hampshire County Massachusetts. John was busy buying and selling land and house dwellings in Greenfield, Deerfield and Cheapside Massachusetts. The Revolutionary War had been going on for three years and soon all English money became worthless, leaving the citizens penniless. This is when John Usher was recruited into the Revolutionary War to be a shoemaker, and tailor. After the Revolutionary War there was a mass exit to New York and he made many stops and eventually arrived in Perry, New York where both John and Prudence (Copp) Usher have a final resting place in the Hope Cemetery.
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Contributed to her 5th Great Grandfather's memorial by
Linda I. Royse
[email protected]
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Contributed to her 5th Great Grandfather's memorial by
Linda I. Royse
[email protected]
John Usher became a young apprentice for Samuel Copp at the age of 14 when John's Father passed away. Samuel Copp was a cordwainer and taught young John Usher how to be a shoemaker, tailor, and farmer. He lived with the Copp family until he turned the age of 21. He then bought land and house dwelling and was already bringing in enough money to set up home for a wife. He was given Samuel Copp's daughter Prudence Copp for marriage in Norwich, Connecticut on 12 June 1766. They started their family in 1768 and his trade took him to Ludlow Hampshire County Massachusetts. John was busy buying and selling land and house dwellings in Greenfield, Deerfield and Cheapside Massachusetts. The Revolutionary War had been going on for three years and soon all English money became worthless, leaving the citizens penniless. This is when John Usher was recruited into the Revolutionary War to be a shoemaker, and tailor. After the Revolutionary War there was a mass exit to New York and he made many stops and eventually arrived in Perry, New York where both John and Prudence (Copp) Usher have a final resting place in the Hope Cemetery.
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Contributed to her 5th Great Grandfather's memorial by
Linda I. Royse
[email protected]
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Contributed to her 5th Great Grandfather's memorial by
Linda I. Royse
[email protected]
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