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Coy, Jacob

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JACOB1 COY was born 1700 in Germany, and died 1738. He married SUSANNA ??? Bef. 1725 in Germany, Europe. She was born in Germany. Notes for JACOB COY: According to a Genforum Message posted by Sandie Mae on May 18, 1999 both Jacob and Susanah died while making the journey to America and were buried at sea. All the family belongings were confiscated when they landed. John and his siblings were indentured to a Planter from Pennsylvania. After many years, John (son of Jacob and Susanah) purchased his freedom and relocated to Madison Co., KY. The family then relocated to Indiana and . . . Children of JACOB COY and SUSANNA ??? are: i. ADAM2 COY. ii. HENRY COY. iii. JACOB COY. 2. iv. JOHN COY, b. 1725, Rhineland, Germany. v. MARY COY. vi. PETER COY. vii. SUSANNA COY. Generation No. 2 2. JOHN2 COY (JACOB1) was born 1725 in Rhineland, Germany. He married ANNA Bef. 1750 in Germany or Maryland. Children of JOHN COY and ANNA are: 3. i. DAVID WILLIAM3 COY, b. March 10, 1756, Probably in Indiana; d. July 10, 1833. ii. BOCEAY COY. iii. PHOEBE COY. iv. PEGGY COY. v. HULDY COY. vi. CHRISTOPHER COY, b. 1753; d. October 12, 1839. vii. JOHN COY, b. 1750; d. 1817. viii. DANIEL COY, b. 1767; d. 1839. Generation No. 3 3. DAVID WILLIAM3 COY (JOHN2, JACOB1) was born March 10, 1756 in Probably in Indiana, and died July 10, 1833. He married MARY ANN DENNIS November 25, 1779 in Montgomery Co., Maryland. She was born 1760, and died 1833. Notes for DAVID WILLIAM COY: William (David William) Coy was a Revolutionary War veteran and is buried in Indiana. More About DAVID WILLIAM COY: Burial: Indiana Children of DAVID COY and MARY DENNIS are: 4. i. SAMUEL4 COY, b. 1782; d. 1836. ii. THOMAS B. COY, b. 1780; d. 1843. iii. SUSANNAH SUKY COY, b. 1784; d. April 13, 1853. iv. ELIZABETH ANN COY, b. 1786. v. ESTHER HESSY COY, b. 1788. vi. SARAH SALLY COY, b. 1790. vii. ELIZABETH BETSY COY, b. 1792. viii. WILLIAM COY, b. July 1793; d. January 09, 1877. ix. CELIA SELELY COY, b. 1800. x. FRANCES COY, b. December 04, 1802. xi. MARY COY, b. 1803. xii. NANCY COY, b. 1804. xiii. INFANT COY, b. 1806; d. 1806.

From Danial Coy's home page: http://www.ddc.com/~decoy/gen256.htm Jacob Coy Sr. and wife (name unknown) b. c1710 Germany d. 1757 died at sea, and buried in the Atlantic The progenitor of my Coy family in America began in north-western Europe of the early 1700's. The area known today as Germany was, at the time, a collection of independent kingdoms known as the Holy Roman Empire. Sometime around 1710 Jacob Coy I and his wife were born in this part of Europe, and sometime around 1730 they were married and began a family. In an 1881 interview with one of the couples great-grandchildren, the family was described as 'High Dutch'. In America the term 'Dutch' was once deraugatoraly used to describe not only people from Holland, but also Germans. The term was a variation of the word 'Deutsch' which is the German word for 'German'. The term 'high' re ferred to the southern mountainous region of the German speaking peoples. In 1757 the family, consisting of the parents and 7 children, began a migration from Europe to America. During the voyage both parents died and were buried at sea. There are a great number of unanswered questions about the event s before, during, and after the voyage. If this family was typical of the times in which they lived these questions can be answered as follows. 1) Why did Jacob Coy I and his family come to America? During this time in German history the only reason that an entire family would be allowed to leave the kingdom in which they lived was because of religious or political diss idence. This family was involved in the German Reformed or 'Dunkard' Church. This congregation was an outgrowth of the LutheranChurch. 'Dunkards' took a more literal interpretation of the Bible. The name 'Dunkard' came form thei r practice of immersion, or 'dunking' their members during baptism. In the southern Catholic controlled section of the empire where the family originated, the Dunkards were persecuted, not only because they were Protestant, but because they were considered very radical (just as the Puritan Pilgrims had been in England). 2) How did the parents die? Conditions on ocean going vessels of the mid 1700's were very unsanitary. The odds of a healthy person making the voyage were 50/50 at best. Due to the close quarters of the ships, when a life threate ning disease did begin to spread aboard a ship the person almost always died. They died because diseases spread very rapidly, and medical attention was virtually non-existent. 3) How was this migration financed? Colonial America of the 1750's was deeply in need of families to work the farms and plantations that produced the raw materials traded for finished goods from Europe. Farmers at the time would offer to pay ocean passage, room, board, and education for an entire family in return for a contract of indentured servitude from the father. The contract would last for a pre-determined period of time, usually 5-10 years. If J acob Coy agreed to such a contract it is unknown. However when the ship carying what remained of Jacob's family arrived in America, the family's possessions were confiscated and the oldest sons were indentured. Whenever a person already under contract died during the voyage it was customary for the oldest sons to fulfill that contract. This leads to the conclusion that the Jacob Coy Sr. had agreed to such a contract.

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