His father had been named to honor his godfather Dr. John Worden (d. 1716) and drafted a will as his death approached which appointed his neighbors Augustine Washington and Benjamin Weeks to assist his widow in administering his estate.
Unlike his elder brothers and brother-in-law, John Pope stayed in Virginia's Tidewater region after the war.
[3] Fairfax and Prince William County voters elected Pope to represent them in the Senate of Virginia from 1787 until 1792, then Prince William County voters elected him as one of their part-time representatives in the Virginia House of Delegates for the remaining sessions of the century, except for a single-year gap in the 1793/94 session.
[6] In 1800 Pope moved his family to Wilkes County, Georgia, where he and two of his children died between 1802 and 1804, as did his former Dumfries, Virginia neighbor Richard Scott Blackburn, who had accepted a commission in the U.S. Army engineering corps.
[7] Survived by his widow and two other children, Pope is buried in the family plot at Resthaven Cemetery in Wilkes County.