Moses Green MacKay

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Moses MacKay formerly Mackay

• Born 1720 in Freehold, Monmouth, New Jerseymap
• Son of Robert MacKay I and Ann (Browne) McKay
• Brother of John (Kay) McKay, Mary Martha (McKay) Robinson, Margaret (McKay) Job, Robert Browne MacKay II, James (McKay) Mackay, Zachariah Mackay, Leah (McKay) Taylor, Hannah (McKay) Hollingsworth and Elizabeth (Mackay) Jobe
• Husband of Mary (Job) Mackay — married 1748 in Frederick, Virginiamap
• Father of Willis McCoy, Richard McCoy, Isaac McKay, Abraham (McCoy) MacKay, Jeremiah MacKay I, Moses McCoy Jr, William McCoy, Rachel (McCoy) Lillard, Moses Green Mckay and Margaret McCoy
• Died 1777 in Virginia

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Moses MacKay

 	also spelled McKay, McCay, McKey, MacKoy, McCoy 	 

Moses MacKay was born about 1720 in New Jersey. He was the son of Robert MacKay and Ann Browne.

He migrated with his father to Virginia.

He married Mary Jobe in 1748 in Fredrick County, Virginia, She was born about 1730 in New Garden, Chester County, Pennsylvania and was daughter of Abraham Jobe and Sarah Gatchell.

• Isaac MacKay (1750, married Betty Withers),
• Abraham MacKay (1752, married Rachel Odell),
• Jeremiah MacKay (1755, married Lydia Whitson),
• Moses MacKay, Jr. (1758).
• William MacKay (1760, married Jane Lawsher)
• Rachel MacKay (1761).

On July 17, 1777, Moses drowned while serving in the Revolutionary War.

In 1786, William Whitson [Jr.] and Abraham MacKay were elected to meet with the Primitive Baptist church association held at Kendrick's Creek, (Sullivan county) to petition for permission to establish a church at Big Pigeon.

Abraham and Rachel MacKay were original members of the Primitive Baptist church in Pig Pigeon in 1786. They built a fort on the French Broad River.

In 1790 Jeremiah MacKay of Shenandoah County gave his power of Attorney to David Jobe in Washington County and Abraham Mackay of Green County to receive his wife's portion of the estate of Joseph Whitson.