1650. March 2. List of the Captains to command the Parliament Ships appointed for the next summer's service: Margaret ketch, Capt. James Coppin, 40 men. [Memorials of the Professional Life and Times of Sir William Penn, Knt. Admiral and General of the Fleet, during the Interregnum; Admiral, and Commissioner of the Admirality and Navy, after the Restoration, From 1644 to 1670. By Granville Penn, Esq. London: James Duncan, Paternoster Row, 1833. p. 297]
1650. September 26th. A List of the Ships and Commanders for the next Winter's Guard, besides the 20 Ships to continue towards the Southward: ... Amongst the Sands: Margaret ketch, James Coppin, 40 men, 6 guns. [Ibid, p. 304]
1651. November 28th. In pursuance of an order of Parliament ... whereby it is to be referred to this Committee to consider how to prevent the taking of our men by the Turks, and to present their opinions to the Parliament ... General Blake reports, from the Council of State, a list of such ships and vessels as already are, and
may in convenient time be, fitted out to sea, as a guard for the summer ensuing, for the coasts of England, Ireland, and Scotland, together with their commanders' names, number of men and guns: ... Ship Hart, Commander James Coppin, 60 men, 14 guns. [Letters and Papers relating to the First Dutch War 1652-1654, edited by Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1896, p. 62-66]
[Capp, B. S. Cromwell's navy: the fleet and the English Revolution, 1648-1660 Oxford [England]: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.]
1652. March 8. Council of State to Capt. Moulton, commander at Portsmouth. Whitehall. In case the Worcester and Mermaid touch at Portsmouth, order their commanders to go back to the Downs forthwith, notwithstanding any former order for their going to the southward; upon their arrival in the Downs, they are to send notice thereof to us. With note of like letters to Capt. Coppin, Commander-in-Chief in the Downs, on board the Entrance, and to Capt. Blake and Daniel Ely, Deputy Collectors for Prize Goods at Plymouth. [Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 1651-1652, Preserved in the State Paper Department Her Majesty's Public Record Office. Edited By Mary Anne Everett Green, published under the Direction of The Master of the Rolls and with the Sanction of Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department. London: Longman & Co., Paternoster Bow; Trubner & Co., Ludgate Hill,1877, p. 172]
1652. March 12. Warrant of the Council of State (C.O.S.) to Capt. James Coppin, of the Heart. To convoy the Godspeed, and five other ships, of Hull, and the Employment, and three other of Lynn, to their ports. [Ibid, p. 554]
1652. Oct. 8. COMMITTEE FOR TRADE and FOREIGN AFFAIRS. Day's Proceedings....
3. To report to Council* that so much of Gen. Blake's letter, referred to this committee, as concerns the widow of Capt. Jas. Coppin, commander of the Heart, slain in the fight with the Dutch, may be referred to the Admiralty Committee. [Ibid, p. 434]
1652. Oct. 15. COUNCIL OF STATE. Day's Proceedings. ...
2. That of Marie, widow of James Coppin, commander of the Heart frigate, with Gen. Blake's letter concerning her, referred to the Admiralty Committee, to consider what may be done for her, and to report. [Ibid, p. 440]
1652. Oct. 20. Warrant from the Council of State for Payments of Money by Collectors for Prize Goods to Marie, widow of Capt. James Coppin, of the Hart frigate. For her loss by his death, 40£ a piece for herself and four children. [Ibid, p. 617]