This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Carlisle, McCoy, McKay, McKoy, McDonald, McDaniel, McIntosh Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2N0.2ACIB/1395 Message Board Post: An 1891 letter written by James McCoy Carlisle, Sr., b. 1811, to his son, James McCoy Carlisle, Jr., b. 1851, discusses James Sr.'s family history and has recently come to light. We already had the names of James McCoy Carlisle, Sr.'s mom and dad, Jane (McCoy), b. 1779 in NC, and William W. Carlisle, b. 1784 in PA, and we knew his grandfather Carlisle was named "James." We now have his McCoy grandparents: Robert and Margaret McCoy. We know the McCoys came from NC, that Robert was probably of Irish descent and that Margaret was a "full-blooded Scotsman." We believe Margaret was widowed by 1798 and that these McCoys and related McDonalds and Angus/Anguish McIntosh were all in Garrard Co., KY by then, and that the Anguish McIntosh who married the widowed Mrs. Margaret McCoy there in 1798 is very likely "ours." We think the McCoys and Carlisles met in KY, though they may have met in NC. We are certain these families were very closely related and that these related Carlisles, McC! oys, McDonalds, and McIntoshes then migrated to middle TN between 1798 and 1809, settling in Bedford and Coffee Co., in the Beech Grove area. Hope to hear from anyone interested in these families and migrations.