McCoy John b. 1750 d. 09 JAN 1823

1750 - 1823

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Birth 1750 [1]

Gender Male

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Died 09 Jan 1823 [1]

Person ID I4736 Alan Donald Vibber

Last Modified 08 Dec 2009

Father McCoy Alexander

Family ID F1952 Group Sheet

Family 1 Boyd Margaret, b. Abt 1754, d. 04 Apr 1783

Married 1780 [1]

Children

	1. McCoy Thomas, b. 10 Mar 1782, d. 22 May 1851
	2. McCoy Alexander, b. 21 Jul 1786, Antrim, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, USA , d. 24 Sep 1872

Family ID F1948 Group Sheet

Family 2 Hutchins Mary, b. Abt 1767, d. 1848, Peterborough

Family ID F1949 Group Sheet

Notes	McCOY. THOMAS McCOY lived, in the early years of the town, near Dustin Barrett's, but nothing is known of whence he came or whither he went. The last record of him here was in 1783, when a road was laid outby his house. Ensign JOHN McCOY, son of Dea. Alexander McCoy, whose ancestors went from Argyleshire, Scotland, to Ireland, thence to Londonderry (now Windham), was born in the last-named town in 1750. He served five years in the Revolutionary war; was a privateersman. and helped capture thirteen merchant-ships, — one, he said, for every State in the Union ; marched in a company from Londonderry to join the army at Saratoga against Burgoyne; returned from the army in 1780, and the same year married Margaret Boyd, and moved to Hillsborough, but soon came to Antrim and began the Elijah Gould place, which, in subsequent years, was long occupied as a tavern stand. There his children were born; but in his later years he bought, of Adam Nichols, the place on the hill in the east part of the town next south ofGeorge Turner's (buildings now gone). He died Jan. 9, 1823, aged seventy-two. His wife, Margaret, died April 4, 1817, aged sixty-three; married, second, Mrs. Mary (Hutchins) Hartwell of Hillsborough,and after his death she married Obadiah Hadley of Bradford, and died in Peterborough in 1848, aged eighty-one. The children were: — 1. Thomas, [b. March 10, 1782, m. Betsey McCalley of Merrimack, and lived on the paternal estate. He was a man of executive ability, and was kept by his townsmen in positions of trust for many years,having been chosen selectman eighteen times. He was one of the committee to build the Center Church. He d. May 22, 1851. His wife d. Oct. 24, 1871, aged 87. Children : — -David, (b. in 1811, and d. in infancy.) -Mary, (b. in 1813, m. David W. Bell of Bennington, Jan. 28, 1836, and is now living a widow in Francestown.) -Eliza A., (b. in 1816, m. Solomon H. Griffin May 8, 1838, and d. in 1853.) -Caroline, (b. in 1818, m. James M. Appleton in 1839, and now lives in Deering.) -James Madison, (d. Dec. 31, 1826, at the age of six.) -Milton, (b. in 1824, m. Elisabeth Appleton, and lives in Deering.)] 2. John, [b. June 14, 1784 ; m. Hannah Taylor April 13, 1813;settled on the Samuel Weeks place, where the large brick house by the East cemetery now stands, and which he built in 1822. After some years he sold and moved to Benning- ton, where he d. Dec. 7, 1861, at the age of 77. His children were: — -Louisa, (d. in childhood.) -Mary, (b. July 18, 1815 ; in. David Tapley, a merchant in Lowell.) -Prof. James M., (b. June 15, 1817 ; m. 1st, Alma L. Mooar of Francestown; 2d, Annie M. Dennis of Lowell. Has been for thirty years a teacher in that city, having begun there in 1842. He entered Amherst College in 1841, but was soon compelled by ill health to leave. In 1859 he established a commercial college in Lowell, which was very successful, and of which he remains the leading officer. Has one child-, Louise J. McCoy, and she is the only great-grandchild of the early settler and soldier, John, that bears the name of McCoy ; she is a student of Wellesley College, class of 1879.) -Hannah W., (b. March 15, 1819 ; m. George Young of Du- buque, lo.) -John, Jr., (b. Jan. 21, 1822; was formerly a teacher in Georgia, but went to California in 1849, where he d. the next year, May 30, aged 28.) -Louisa J., (d. Sept. 29, 1845, aged 20.)] 3. Alexander, [b. July 21, 1786; m. Katherine Gibson ; built the Widow Newman's house and there kept store, but afterwards engaged in trade at Hillsborough Upper Village. He lived to old age, and d. without children.] 4. Robert, [was a trader in company with his brother Alexander, at Hillsborough, and, like him, d. there in old age, childless, June 19, I860.]

Sources

[S234] History of the town of Antrim, New Hampshire: from its earliest settlement to June 27, 1877, with a brief genealogical record of all the Antrim families, Warren Robert Cochrane, (Name: Mirror Steam Printing Press, 1880;), 594 (Reliability: 3).