This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YAB.2ACI/1020.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: The William MCCOY we are researching married Joanna PAYNE 16 Aug 1781 in Bedford Co., VA. William MCCOY (MECOY) son of Willis MECOY, married Cordilla about 1776 in Craven Co., NC . John MCCOY married Joanna's sister Sarah PAYNE about 1780 in Bedford Co., VA. There is a very complex, but circumstantial trail connecting William MCCOY with Anna MCCOY STUMP. I have copied and pasted some of the submissions to our mailing list, a big thanks to Melissa Foutz for this summary: The first William MCCOY noted below would be our purported father of William MCCOY, born about 1756-60, probably MD somewhere. "William MCCOY testified for Thomas STUMP in court in 1763 in Loudoun County. In 1764, in Loudoun County, we find that Thomas STUMP was one of 3 appraisers of the estate of William MCCOY upon his death. The executor of the estate of William MCCOY was named Ann MCCOY. So, we have a STUMP family in business with the PAYNE family in Loudoun County, and we have a William MCCOY living on propety belonging to the same STUMP family members. William MCCOY died in 1764, and "Ann MCCOY" , the executor of William MCCOY's estate shows up on the fee books of Loudoun County in 1764 and 1765. The name Ann MCCOY does not reappear after 1765. William MCCOY (Jr.) was a witness to the will of Anna's husband, John STUMP, in 1787, and a William MCCOY paid the bond for Anna STUMP on John STUMP's will, as did Anna's son in law, Thomas PRICE (husband of Margaret MCCOY, sister to our William, step daughter of John STUMP). We know that the other names listed as witnesses etc. of the estate of John STUMP in 1787 include the surnames of AYERS, NICHOLS, and PAYNE. In 1832, William MCCOY had a deed of trust for 100 acres which he stated he said was originally owned and purchased by John STUMP in 1785. The PAYNES and AYERS were all residing on Rockcastle Creek, the deeds of Thomas PRICE and Margaret MCCOY PRICE reveal them to be living on Rockcastle Creek. The deed of trust of William MCCOY in 1832 places his 100 acres on Merriman's Run which is very near Rockcastle Creek. So, essentially, we can draw a 2 or 3 mile wide circle around Merriman's Run, and the southern end of Rockcastle Creek and encompass the STUMP-MCCOY land, the PAYNEs, the AYERS, NICHOLs, and PRICE family. The only conclusion we can make from this is that William MCCOY was living in extremely close proximity to Anna MCOOY STUMP and Margaret MCCOY PRICE, and that his property (the STUMP tract) was adjacent to his PAYNE in-laws. William MCCOY must be related to Anna MCCOY STUMP, as it could not be " just a coincidence" that he is living near her, and that he owns Anna STUMP's land after her husband's death." As I say, all circumstantial but very compelling. We have not found a marriage between the elder William MCCOY and Ann(a) or the births of William, John and Margaret specifically naming their parents as William and Ann(a) MCCOY other than we know Margaret is Anna's child through other forms of records. William MCCOY died in Breckinridge Co., KY, in 1835. Judy McCoy