Nancy McCoy (Hanna) - A Confusion of Nancy's & William's ?

Started by Dan Cornett on Saturday, August 19, 2017
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8/19/2017 at 2:05 PM

From Private User:

I have a land grant given to this Nancy McCoy in 1831, which suggests her husband William died before 1833 as it is listed here at geni. Land grant below (and added to her "About").

Furthermore, I am coming to this because I have information on another Nancy McCoy, with a lot of similar details, which I'm curious if they are in actuality the same, or if things have been conflated:
Nancy Burkett

Nancy (Jennings) Burkett was Nancy McCoy between 1824 and 1833. She was married to a William McCoy in Botetourt Co., VA (near enough to Greenbrier County) in 1824, her husband died before 1830, per census of that year, and she remarried in 1833 to David Burkett in same Botetourt Co.

I don't know which William McCoy she was married to. [This] William McCoy (William McCoy) apparently died in 1833 (which seems unlikely given this land grant in 1831). There is another William McCoy, unlike to be mine, who died outside Richmond in 1829 at 77 years old.

Land grant states: John Floyd, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia: To all to whom there present shall come, greeting: Know ye, that in conformity with a survey, made on the twenty-seventh day of December, 1785 by virtue of a Land Officer Treasury Warrant No. 12465... June 24th 1782 there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto Anthony Bowen, Moses Mann, Jr., William Hamilton, Nancy McCoy, John Bird, Elizabeth Bird, William Bird, Andrew Bird, Thomas Bird, Jane Bird, and ..., Heirs of Andrew Hamilton, ... A certain Tract or Parcel of Land, containing Six hundred acres situate in Greenbrier County on Sandy Creek a branch of Elk river, joining a survey made for John Dickison below, on the Creek about eight miles up the said Creek, and bounded as followeth to wit Beginning at the top of a ridge at the White Oaks corner to Dickison and running S45*E 200 poles with Dickisons line to the bank of Sandy Creek to a beech and hickory; N70*E 66 poles to the hickories; S20*E 70 poles to a White oak and beech; S60*E 60 poles to two White Oaks on the point of a ridge N30*E 200 poles to two sugar trees on the side of a ridge; N30*W 400 poles to two White Oaks, and S30*W 50 poles to the beginning. To have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land, with its appurtenances, to the said Heirs of Andrew Hamilton, med and their heirs forever. In witness whereof, the said John Floyd, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, hath hereunto set his Hand, and caused the lesser seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed, at Richmond, on the sixteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one and of the Commonwealth the fifty fifth. John Floyd

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8/20/2017 at 6:24 AM

This book lists the wife of this William James McCoy as Anges Hanna McCoy, not Nancy. Mistake?
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois: https://books.google.com/books?id=6s9HAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA196&dq=...

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