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Sandbox for William McCoy Sr (1751-1822) and his descendants

Effort of the Appalachian Project, cleanup of project-protected profile and notable family.

Active Researchers: Patrick Stacy | Melissa Maynard

Needed: Research | Add Sources | Detach Incorrect Profiles | Merge Profiles.

Note: Please Consider Linking Back to McCoy-506 and Campbell-2691 with explanation why a profile was detached. We don't want to ever deal with this mess again.

Contents

New Research

  • William McCoy Sr (1751-1822)
    • See Children sub-section below for sourced children.
    • All other children that are currently attached likely belong to some other parent and should be removed. However, some of these children might need to be merged. A list of these "non-children" are tracked below.
    • Look at his wife's profile Cordelia (Campbell) McCoy (abt.1758-abt.1820) and make sure appropriate updates are also made there.
    • Check each child for potential duplicates. The family reused the same names but it looks like there may be siblings as children, etc.
    • Make sure each confirmed descendant is correctly categorized/ stickered (need Appalachian category/sticker and Hatfield and McCoy Family Feud category if the person was directly involved in the feud).

Descendant Research

  • Once we get through each child, need to confirm spouses, children, children's spouses and their children, etc.

Children

Confirmed children:


Non-Children

All of these profiles are currently listed as children of William McCoy, but we have no current source to support the claim. All profiles need overhaul.

Parent Research

Source Research

  • Not sure birth dates are correct. Need investigation, impacts potential sources, also potential duplicate profiles.
  • 1810 United States Federal Census: The record for William McCoy lists his household including 3 males under age 10, 2 males between age 10 and 16, 1 male between age 26 and 45 (this is William that is the head of household), and one female age 45 and older (his wife). [1].
    • William Sr currently has birth year of 1751, which would have made him age 53 in the 1810 census, too old for this record. His son William was born in 1773 and would have been 37 in 1810. Is this the son's record?
  • 1820 census also is too young to be William Sr. [2]
  • Seems unlikely William Sr was married in Maryland if he and his wife were born in Virginia. We know some of his children were born in Virginia, none were born in Maryland.
  • Do not rely on Family Search record and tree (https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GWG6-1LN). It appears multiple persons have been merged into one, so family is not correct in FS.

Misc Research Notes

  • Need to research Revolutionary War records. None of the prior records loaded to Willi's profile have valid links, copied here below:
    • Military Service Event: Veteran of the Revolutionary War. He served in the Virginia Continental line and was given a land grant in what is now Pike & Floyd counties, Kentucky.
    • Property Type: Military (How do we know this?" The Land Office Military Warrant #3348 for A William McCoy dated 1784. [3] Shows the Assignee(s) as Nancarrow, John; Vaughan, John & January, Peter. These men purchased several land warrants. Specifically those of Palmer, Thomas(#574) [4], Clavenger, Edward (#915), [5], Kelly, John (#922), [6], Tillery, John (#1448) [7], Perry, Henry (#1462) [8], Hundley, Joshua (#1723) [9], Loudon, Adam (#2863) [10], Smith, William (#3182) [11], Neal, Peter (#3197) [12]. Each of these warrants were used in the Ohio Military District [13] as indicated in the Revolutionary War Warrants Database for each of the above warrants. [14]. Note that Adam Loudon's was authorized in Oklahoma. All of the rest except William Smith list 'No [identified] patents in Kentucky'. William McCoy's warrant was 'Used in Ohio Military District. See Virginia Grant Bk 16, pgs 348-9'[3] The conclusion drawn from this warrant is that it was not used by William McCoy to acquire land in Kentucky. Nor does prove it belongs to William McCoy who is the progenitor of the McCoy's of Pike County, Kentucky & Logan County, Virginia. GLR. Roberts-8662 17:16, 13 September 2015 (EDT))

Sources

  1. ↑ "United States Census, 1810", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH2H-YK4 : Wed Oct 04 21:03:47 UTC 2023), Entry for William Mc Coy, Floyd, Kentucky, United States; citing page 102, NARA microfilm publication M252 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 6; FHL microfilm 0FHL351.
  2. ↑ 1820 United States Federal Census; 1820 US Census; Census Place: Floyd, Kentucky; Page: 31; NARA Roll: M33_22; Image: 40; Birth Date: William McCoy; Floyd, Kentucky; 000001 GLR 1/11/2009; Year: 1820; Census Place: Floyd, Kentucky; Roll: M33_22; Page: 31; Image: 40.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Revolutionary Land Warrant for A William McCoy
  4. ↑ Revolutionary War Warrant for Palmer, Thomas (#574)
  5. ↑ Revolutionary War Warrant for Clavenger, Edward (#915)
  6. ↑ Revolutionary War Warrant for Kelly, John (#922)
  7. ↑ Revolutionary War Warrant for Tillery, John (#1448)
  8. ↑ Revolutionary War Warrant for Perry, Henry (#1462)
  9. ↑ Revolutionary War Warrant for Hundley, Joshua (#1723)
  10. ↑ Revolutionary War Warrant for Loudon, Adam (#2863)
  11. ↑ Revolutionary War Warrant for Smith, William (#3182)
  12. ↑ Revolutionary War Warrant for McNeal, Peter (#3197)
  13. ↑ Revolutionary War Military District
  14. ↑ Revolutionary War Warrants Database as of 13 Sep 2015

See also:

  • William McCoy and His Descendants: A Genealogical History of the Family of William McCoy, One of the Scotch Families Coming to America Before the Revolutionary War, who Died in Kentucky about the Year 1818. Also a History of the Family of Alexander McCoy, a Scotchman who Served Through the Revolutionary War, and Died in Ohio in the Year 1829. Book by Lycurgus McCoy: https://archive.org/stream/williammccoyand00mccogoog/williammccoyand00mccogoog_djvu.txt (digital genealogy book from 1904, use for reference, not certain of accuracy)




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