Wm Anderson McCoy Genealogy

*Transcription of estate inventory of Richard McCoy*

pg. 202
An inventory of the estate of Richard McCoy deceased taken 15th of February 1794
one bay, two year old filly L9 one brown mare four years old L15
one sorrel horse L8 and one bay mare L12 one bay colt L4
two black and white cows a L3 one cow and calf L
one black and white heifer 45f one mooly cow 50s
one red cow 55f and one red yearling 15f one two year old white faced bull 25f
one year old brindle bull 20f one bull calf 10f one mooly calf 8f
one black calf with a white face 9f seven head of hogs 23f
nine head of sheep at 10f and a lamb 2f L3 14
one bed and blanket sheet and coverlid L6 one old bed and furniture L4 1f
one bedsled 10f one puter dish 8f two small basons at 2f 8 old tin cups at 3s
one big bell 6f one small Do 2f one Do 5f
one cutting knife and stell 8f two old axes 12f
one broad how 5f one smoothing iron 3f one lock chain 8f
one old plow shear and screw 6f four blevises 8f
two old broad hoes at 2f one mattock 6f
two sickles at 2f one fluks plow and coltes 10f one rifle gun and shotpouch 5L
one dutch oven 9f one small pot 4f one loom and tackline L3 10f
one skillet 4f and one hackkle 10f one little 12f 20 geese at 2f
one cooller1/6 one piggen 6d one churn 2f
one hand saw 4f one auger 1f one cup 3f one iron wedge 2f
one large kittle 18f two pots at 10f one cooler 1/6 one pale 1/6 one churn 3f
one picklin tub 4f one pair of stirrupirons 2/6
one draw knife 3f 1lb steel 1/3 one acer 4f 4 delf plates 2f
certified under our hands this day and year above written; Thomas Pickins, John Day, Daniel Howe
at Montgomery County March court 1794
this inventory and appraisment fo the estate of Richard McCoy dec'd was returned to court and ordered to be recorded; a copy teste Charles Taylor cme

Montgomery Co., Va.
Richard McCoy, will, prob. 7-1793; wife Susanne gets part of cattle
wife Susannah, ch.; William and George get cattle and divide land when of age
plus daughters; equal share of cattle when come of age
Susanna and William executors; John and Isaac Eley or Euley

According to David McCoy in his McCoy and Sanders Main tree on Ancestry.com, Richard's paternal line Y-DNA links him to the line of "Od William McCoy", many of whose descendants lived in Pike County, Kentucky. (and thus to the line of William Anderson McCoy.)

[See media fille of David McCoy's entry for Richard McCoy]

*This note (source unknown) presents the most commonly seen version of the ancestry of Richard McCoy of Montgomery County, VA. It contrasts with that presented by David McCoy.*

GERMAN NEW RIVER SETTLEMENT
McCOY (McKay)

The McCoys located near the great falls of New River, now the extreme western part of now Montgomery County are descendants of the McKay's, who were among the first to come into the lower Valley oi. Virginia. Robert McKay is the first ‘perhaps to have a will recorded in Augusta County, 1745. He devised to sons, Robert, James, Zachariah, and Moses. That the McCoys are such descendants is determined by a will which bequeaths to several McKays and to two McCoys, the McCoys being placed in parenthesis. The change from Kay to Coy is easily accounted for when you get the Scotch pronunciation of the former Word. The “A” is broad and sounded as if an “O” and t-he “Y” form- ing almost another syllable.

Just when Richard McCoy first came into the New River Settlement cannot be determined. it must be by 1760 for he held good hunting grounds which would have been pre-empted if he had gone in later. His will was executed in 1792 and the same was probated in 1793. in 1794 a Land Grant was taken out for his holdings, evidently by his offspring, in order to make secure their title. He devised to William and George. The issue of William were Moses, George, and Henry. Each of these sons left families. The issue of George were Francis and Jack . Issue of Moses: Amanda {Harless), Sarah Sifford, Isaac, married Melissa Albert, George, Wilzony (Albert), Nancy (Grant Whitaker] and Thomas (married Dillon}, issue: George, Francis and Jack. Of George, William Francis McCoy and Mrs. Lewis Ekiss.