You do try McKay, McKoy, etc?  Robert McKay was in Orange co. , now
Frederick Co., around 1731.  It may be worth looking at this man on Google.



On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Gayle M. Garrett <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> *_Seasons Greetings_*:
> I have been trying to locate my great, great-grandfather, Harvey McCoy's
> Birth place in Virginia, or possibly West Virginia now. I have come to a
> dead end so many times in the past.
> Birth date December 23, 1813. His children had some very unusual names, I
> always thought that this might have come down their family line, but no
> luck there either. My family have been trying to trace his birth for over
> fifty years now, I have been trying over the last 30 years, along with my
> cousins, aunts & uncles.
>
> Any help, clues would be very much appreciated.
>
> *_Children's Names:
>
> Matthias McCoy
>
> Jehu Hardy McCoy, my great granddad
>
> John Riggs McCoy
>
> Lewis C. McCoy
>
> Melissa Ann "Sis" McCoy
>
> Isaac Madison McCoy
>
> Arstarkus McCoy
>
> Lycurgus McCoy
>
> _*Some of these names are not real common names.*_
>
> _Any help would be very much appreciated._
>
> Thank You:
>
> From our McCoy Family:
>
> Gayle M. Garrett
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _*
>
> On 12/14/2012 12:28 PM, Gale Fuller wrote:
>
>> I want to first say how much I appreciate this email list! I want to
>> thank the LVA for providing this forum for us and the person who is the
>> monitor of our messages. And a huge thanks to each of you who so willing
>> help others in their search for ancestors in VA records. I cannot tell you
>> how much valuable information you have provide me over the years...
>> contacts with other researchers, answers to questions and lead to follow.
>>  Just a huge THANK YOU!!
>>
>> Now to ask for another lead. I am trying to find some land record for an
>> ancestor who just shows up in a Cavalier and Pioneer record, not as a
>> person buying land but the record says the purchaser is buying land next to
>> the ancestor. Thus in my mind, that means this man owned the land next to
>> the purchased land.  I will post what I am referring to.
>>
>> Vol III p. 214
>> GEORGE WILKINSON, 1120 acs. (O.L.) New Kent Co., in St. Paul’s Par; N.
>> side of Totapotamoys Cr; on line of Mr. John Shelton; Capt. William
>> Dangerfield; & on land claimed by the Crenshaws’; 11 Jul 1719, p 435. Being
>> all that is found within bounds of a patent for 1206 acs., granted sd.
>> George & John Wilkinson, 23 Oct. 1703.
>>
>>
>>
>> Do you agree that John Shelton owned the land next to the land being
>> purchased by George Wilkinson? Could John Shelton have been there in the
>> original patent in 1703?
>>
>>
>>
>> There is not one single record of John Shelton owning land until this
>> one. I have checked the first three volumes of Cavaliers and Pioneers and
>> there is not John Shelton mentioned until this one.
>>
>>
>>
>> John Shelton is not in the New Kent County Quit Rent Roll of 1704. To me
>> that means he did not own land in NK and checking in York, James City,
>> Charles City and K&Q, he did not show up there either.
>>
>>
>>
>> The man is in the first record in St Paul’s Parish Vestry book in 1705
>> when he was appointed “reader” in 1706 when he is ordered to “officiate
>> clerk” and in 1711 when “ 1711 St Paul’s Parish “The land of Jno. Shelton
>> being made one precinct whereof the said Jno. Shelton and Edw. Bullock
>> being appointed overseers etc. But in 1714 this is found: 1714 John Shelton
>> built a house at Rural Plains when St Paul’s vestry notes it met there. Not
>> stated at Rural Plains but at the home of John Shelton.
>>
>>
>>
>> I am off in a moment to look at this St Paul’s book that I discovered is
>> at the local University library!!
>>
>>
>>
>> But can anyone offer any place to look for this man buying or obtaining
>> land in New Kent County? He was there! And had land in 1719 but was he new
>> to the county in 1705, right after the Quit Rent? Right when he shows up in
>> the St Paul’s vestry?
>>
>>
>>
>> Just love tossing ideas out and seeing the wonderful ideas you can offer.
>> Thanking you in advance.
>>
>> Gale Fuller
>>
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