Person:Isaac McCoy (4)

From the Virginia Albins: (26) “William McCoy’s son, Isaac, became a minister at age nineteen, and a revered missionary to the Indians, who established Baptist missions in northern Indiana and southern Michigan. Later he made many trips to Washington, DC to persuade the President and Congress to set aside land in the present states of Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska for the exclusive use of the Indians. He felt they would be destroyed completely if they remained in close proximity to the white man and his ‘firewater.’ After the removal of the Indians to what became Kansas Territory, he established his home in western Missouri, at Westport, now a historical section of Kansas City. He was later called to Louisville, Kentucky to publish a Baptist publication. The Kansas Historical Society Archives contain over thirty volumes of his diary and papers, some of which have been published. He died in 1846 in Louisville.”

1.   Judy & Gary Griffin, [email protected]. Hutchinson - Laird - Griffin - Eggleston and Related Families.