This project is to help Coy descendants find their ancestors. The following families are now part of the project: (The first three listings below are by the former project administrator, Gayle) 1. John Coy was born about 1748-1750 in Nine Partners, Dutchess County, New York. He married Molly Millett in 1773 in Gloucester, Mass. The family moved to Minot, Maine after the Revolutionary War. Y-DNA testing may help connect ancestors. 2. Young John Coy was born Henry Wiltsie in Dutchess Co., New York and was kidnapped and changed his name to Coy. We are looking for Wiltsies (or any spelling) who may be related. 3. John Coy was born abt. 1710 in Co. Galway, Ireland. He married Hannah Gready. We are looking for ancestors. 4. Descendants of Richard Coy and Lucy Lenton of England. Two sons, Richard and Matthew came to America with their sister, Mary. Immigrant Matthew Coy b. abt 1623, married Elizabeth Roberts. Immigrant Richard Coy, b. apt 1625, married Martha Haffield. We are working on those descendants, and they appear in our project with the halpogroup J-M172. If you are descended from Immigrant Matthew Coy's son, Matthew Coy b. 1656, this is a Mayflower line, as he married Ann Brewster. 5. There is also an Archibald Maccoy b. abt 1666-77 in Massachusetts. His later descendants use the Coy and Coye names. They are found in Pomfret CT in the 1700s, and one of his descendants is Archibald Coy, Rev soldier. We suspect his family may have originated in Scotland.