74 TJie American Geologist. August, i9iiu 
but before his death came to Philadelphia. While burgess of Lancaster 
in 1776, captain (afterwards major) Andre, who had been captured by 
general Montgomery, at St. Johns, Upper Canada, was sent with other 
British prisoners to Lancaster, where Caleb Cope offered them an asylum 
in his house, in spite of the popular excitement against them, which led 
to an attack upon it. He was a member of the Society of Friends and 
an opponent of war with England. In this connection it should be said 
that the historian of the family finds no authority for supposing that 
Oliver, the original settler, ever belonged to this society, though John, 
his son and father of Caleb, was a prominent member. Caleb had seven 
children of whom the fourth, Thomas Pim, was born Aug. 26, 1763: re- 
moved about 1784 from Lancaster to Philadelphia; and married Mary 
daughter of John and Rachel Drinker of the city by whom he had eight 
children of whom the seventh, Alfred, was the father of the subject of 
this sketch. In 182 1 Thomas Pim Cope established the Cope packet line 
of ships trading between Liverpool and Philadelphia. 
Alfred Cope married Hannah, daughter of Thomas and Edith Edge, 
of Chester Co., Pa., on October 23, 1839, and by her had three children: 
Edward Drinker (b. July 28, 1840), Elizabeth W. (wife of Philip C. 
Garrett, b. Nov. 15, 1841), and Mary Anna (b. April 19, 1843). 
After the death of his first wife in 1843 Alfred married Rebecca Bid- 
die Oct. 14, 1851, bv whom he had one son, James Biddle Cope. 
See "The Cope Family" by Gilbert Cope. King and Baird, Phila. 
1861. 
See also Americans of Royal Descent, Browning. (Porter and Coates.) 
Philadelphia. 2d Ed. 1891, p. 277, Pedigree LXX. 
Edward Drinker was born in Philadelphia, July 28, 1840. 
The earliest productions of his pen which the author has 
seen are dated in the year 1847. -^ collection of composi- 
tions on various subjects antedates his birthday of that year 
and a very creditably composed, written, and illustrated 
journal describing a voyage he made by sea from Philadel- 
phia to Boston was commenced and completed in August 
or just after his seventh birthday. 
Figures i and 2 represent two pages of this little journal 
with sketches of a lightship in the Delaware and a grampus 
off the coast. (Plates VII and VIII). 
