General Notes

_HISTORY OF FAYETTE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA_, edited by Franklin Ellis, 1882. (P. 681)
James McCoy settled in South Union in 1769, when with many others, he made application for a tract of land in the valley east of Uniontown. He was a native of Ireland, and when about fifteen years of age ran away from home and came to America...He remained in the East until twenty-four years of age, when he came to this county...The warrant for Mr. McCoy's land bears date June 14, 1769, and the order of survey was made Sept. 23, 1769. The property was named "Flint Hill," comprised 305 acres, and an allowance of six per cent, was made for roads. This tract of land is recorded as adjoining those of Thomas Brownfield and Isaac Sutton. Another tract of 221 acres adjoining was surveyed to him the same date.
Before leaving the East, Mr. McCoy had married Ann Bruce, who was like himself born in Ireland, and who came to this country when but twelve years old. Upon locating here he built a log cabin, which was situated at the foot of the Bailey orchard. Very soon, however, this cabin was reconstructed and made into "McCoy Fort", which was the rendezvous for all the immediate neighbors in times of danger, the "Col. Thomas Gaddis Fort" being two miles away to the southwest. "


An undocumented source in the IGI said he married his wife Ann Bruce in Frederick Co., VA.

His son Isaac had a son Thomas Jefferson McCoy. "Thomas had become advanced in years when his mother died, so much [27] so that he was called an old bachelor. After the death of his mother [1810] he came west to Ohio where some of his relatives lived [could these be your McCoys?]. Here he married a Miss [Mary Ann] Smith.. . . This Thomas removed from Ohio to Indiana in the western part of Johnson County. From there he removed to near Terre Haute where he died and is buried."[Thomas and Mary's son Isaac was born in Clinton Co., Ohio]

James and Ann Bruce McCoy had a son George.
Ellis, _History of Fayette County, PA_, 1882: "George, who never married, went to Ohio to live, and died there."

More on George McCoy:
Paper read by WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON MCCOY at the McCoy reunion at the McCoy Homestead near Charlestown, Ind. 1876: "From what was said of him, he was a man of no ordinary ability. He was a great musician and composer of music, contributing much of the martial music of his day. So brilliant were his powers in the composition of music that he is said to have composed both music and poetry in the same instant, singing them at the same time. George McCoy was a gunsmith and took an active interest in the Revolutionary War. He was never married. He lived to a good old age and died in Ohio."

James and Ann Bruce McCoy's daughters, Sarah "Sallie" McCoy Sutton and Annie McCoy Askren both died in Logan Co. Ohio.