A Whole Lotta Family - Person Sheet
A Whole Lotta Family - Person Sheet
NameMary Elizabeth McCoy 
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13Birth1735, Greenbriar Co, Virginia Colony, BCA11
Death18 Apr 1779, Williamsburg, Greenbriar Co, Virginia11 Age: 44
BurialBill McClung Cemetery, Greenbrier Co, West Virginia11
FatherJames W McCoy (1712-1781)
MotherJane Hamilton (1715-1798)
Notes for Mary Elizabeth McCoy
On July 1763 the Shawnee Indians attacked the Clendenin and Muddy Creek Settlements of Greenbrier Co., Virginia. They killed John Thomas Williams and took [his wife] Mary, daughter Nancy (age four) and son David (age two) captive to their villages on Scioto River in Ohio. Sons Thomas, Richard and John were not at home and escaped captivity. Major William Hunter Cavendish under Col. Hensy Bouquet attacked their villages on Scioto River in Ohio and defeated a large force of Indians at Bushy Run, east of Fort Pitt in 1763 where Mary and David were being held. As he led his soldiers against their villages, the Indians agreed to release their captives. In Col Bouquet's records, Mary Williams and David were returned to Fort Pitt, 5th of January 1765. Daughter Nancy Jean Williams on 10th May 1765 "Jeany" Williams, age six, who is listed among "Women Deliver'd by Shawanese" from "GreenBryer", Virginia and as being in captivity two years. Mary married her liberator Major William Hunter Cavendish September 19, 1765 in Williamsburg, Greenbriar County, Virginia. William buried her with her parents and 1st husband John Thomas Williams in the James McCoy Plantation Cemetery renamed the Bill McClung Cemetery.11