John
McCoy
Born about in New Hampshire
Ancestors 
Son of John McCoy
and [mother unknown]
Brother of
Charles McCoy, Hannah (McCoy) Libbey, Paul McCoy, Margery (McCoy) Leathers, Mary (McCoy) Sawyer and Lois (McCoy) Emerson
Husband of
Comfort (McDaniel) McCoy
— married
Apr 1790 in Lee, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States
Husband of
Betsy (Elwell) McCoy
— married
11 Oct 1817 in Chenango, New York, United States
Descendants 
Father of
Rhoda (McCoy) Brown, William McCoy, David McCoy, Jane (McCoy) Jones, Andrew McCoy, Daniel Henry McCoy and John McCoy
Died
at about age 70
in Georgetown, Madison, New York, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 26 Aug 2019
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Biography
Marine John McCoy served with Continental Navy during the American Revolution.
John McCoy was born in 1763 in New Hampshire, son of John McCoy who was born 1728 in Merrimack, New Hampshire. He passed away 1 August 1833 in Georgetown, Madison, New York.
He married1: Comfort McDaniel in April 1790 in Lee, Strafford, New Hampshire. He married2: Betsy Elwell on 11 Oct 1817 in Chenango, New York.
On September 4, 1777, he being then a Marine on board the Continental Frigate Raleigh, in the Service of the United States, in an action of said Ship with the British Ship of war Druid, he was wounded with a grape shot in his right hip.
Sources
- Remick, Oliver P. A record of the services of the commissioned officers and enlisted men of Kittery and Eliot, Maine: who served their country on land and sea in the American Revolution, from 1775 to 1783. Boston: A. Mudge & Son, 1901. pp 221.
- New Hampshire, Provincial and State Papers. Authority of the Legislature of New Hampshire, 1884. Volume 13, pp 109.
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Categories: Continental Navy, American Revolution
edited by CJ Fulton
I see a tree on ancestry listing Betsey on pension in La Crosse Wisconsin in 1853. Entry lists James McCoy private but doesn't state where he served.