First Generation
1. Hugh COYLE was born on Jun 12, 1768 in Augusta
Co., VA. He died bet 1808 - 1809 in Rapides Parish, LA.1
Notes on William Washington Coyle, by Lontie Ernestine Coyle: (some spelling
errors corrected)
The father of Wm. W. Coyle is believed to be the Hugh Coyle found in the
Feliciana District, Spanish West Florida Documents, Vol. 5, and in Vol. 12, 1806
and 1808 being the last years he is mentioned. This could be the same Hugh Coyle
on record in American State Papers. Vol.2, Claims, Rapides Parish, La. And this
could be the same Hugh Coyle of Natchez, Mississippi 1792, who is thought to
have moved to Louisiana at the turn of the century. Wm. W. Coyle could
have been his 2nd child. The dates fit. Hugh Coyle, Natchez, married a Martha
Thompson, their first child was James Coyle. William Coyle had two known sisters:
Martha (Patsy) married James Slack. They are listed in Feliciana Census 1820.
Mary (Poly) married William Humphrey(s). Possibly she is the Mary Cayle listed
in Casey’s Marriages in Wilkinson Co., Miss. in 1816. The Wm.Humphreys are
also listed in Feliciana Census, 1820.
I have not located Wm. W. Coyle in the 1820 census. T'he succ'n. of Jonathan
G. Clark proves he was married and in Feliciana in 1819. His affidavit (Nat'l
Archives) shows he lived in Feliciana in 1819, being in the Feliciana Militia,
and served in the defense of N. Orleans, in the War of 1812. (Battle of New Orleans,
1815) <sic> [1814].
Wm.W.Coyle, James Slack, and Wm. Humphreys are all in Yazoo Co. Miss. by 1829.
Wm. Coyle mortgaged and by 1830 had sold the same identified slaves his wife
Betsy Clark Coyle had inherited from her mother in 1819. (Succession of J.G.
Clark). She died in Mississippi the year her 6th child was born and since he
was born in Dec. of 1833, she probably died in 1834 or 35. In 1836 the three
families moved from Yazoo Co. to La. settling around what is now Cotton Valley
in Webster Parish, La. which was at that time Claiborne Parish. Claiborne Parish
records burned in 1849. Census records are the only early records of them. Wm.
W. Coyle married Matildia Pate and had 6 more children before dying in Bossier
Parish (now Webster) in 1856.
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Hugh Coyle in the Mississippi census record: 1792 Natchez Co., Santa Catalina
Dist., MS, page 426 [this was the Spanish census of the Natchez District; See
History of Mississippi: The Heart of the South, Vol. 1, 1925], and 1860
Adams Co., Natchez City, page 7. The 1860 census enumerates Hugh Coyle, age
28, a carpenter by trade, residing in the household of the Patrick Welch family,
also born Ireland. Enumeraed with Hugh is Ellen Coyle, a 22 year old female,
born in Ireland.
Found on Ancestry.com, Land Claims in Mississippi Territory, 1789-1834, original
data taken from Early Settlers of Mississippi as Taken from Land Claims in
the Mississippi Territory:
Certificate Entered: 04 Jun 1805 Certificate: 127 Certificate Date: 03 May
1805 Recorded: Vol 1 Page 300 Claim Name: John Bisland Orig Name: Hugh Coyle
Quantity: 240f. Situation: On the waters of St. Catharine's creek Derived:
Spanish 30 Aug 1795
Also found in the Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
[The Southern Publishing Co., Chicago & Nashville, 1890] an entry for a Hugh
Coyle who, with Mark Powell [see Powell genealogy in the Hugh Blunt line] and
others who claimed land in the original Spanish concession in Bayou Rapides.
This Hugh Coyle is not yet identified.
Hugh COYLE and Martha THOMPSON were married between 1791 and 1793 in Natchez,
Adams Co., MS.1 Martha
THOMPSON was born on Jun 27, 1776 in Spanish West Florida, Louisiana.1 She died after 1811.1
Martha's father was Richard, son of Thomas Thomson/Thompson of Louisa Co. VA
and is named in his will. There is much online about him. I descend from another
of Thomas's sons, Jeremiah Thompson who also came to the Natchez area - Claiborne
and Warren Cos. MS by 1810-20.
From May Wilson McBee, The Natchez Court Records, Greenwood MS, 1953, page 601.
THOMSON - "At a meeting of the council of the Province of West Florida,
18 Dec. 1767, Richard Thomson's petition for 500 acres of land near Natchez was
presented and he was granted 300 acres. However, on 25 Aug. 1770 he was issued
a grant of 500 acres, 4 miles SE of Fort Panmure, 4 miles from Mississippi River
and bounded on all sides by vacant lands. On 6 Nov. 1776 he again petitioned
for 300 acres and received a warrant for the same. But he apparently he did not
live to get full possession of this tract. Letters of Admr. on the estate of
Richard Thomson were issued to Phillip Barbour on Feb. 11, 1778. The fee for
this was 8 pounds, 5 shillings to the Gov. and 9 pounds 4 shillings to the Secy.
On 16 Nov. 1778 William B. Smith married Ann, widow of Richard Thomson, after
which he obtained letters of admr. on Thomson's estate, With William Heson(Hinson?)
and Capt. Phillip Barbour, his sureties. Inventory and apprasial were taken Dec.
12, 1781 in the Natchez Dst. The heirs, children of Richard Thomson and his wife
Ann:
Mary, 16
John, 14
Sarah, 12
Nathan 10
Thomas 8
Martha 6
Richard 4
In 1799 William Smith settled with all the above heirs except Thomas and Richard
who may have died before this time. Mary had married Richard Philetus Smith,
Sarah had married Solomon H. Wisdom, and Martha had married Hugh Coyle. It may
be interesting to note that one of the papers in the settlement of the Richard
Thomson estate was witnessed by Thomson Clack, whose grandfather Thomas Thomson
of Louisa Co. VA, in his will 22 April 1774 - 10 Oct. 1774, specified that should
his son Richard, or his heirs not return in ten years to claim the land he left
them that it was to go to other heirs. (Louisa Co. Will Book 2, pgs. 202-204.)
Thomson Clack and Jane Frazier, both of Miss. Terr. were married 18 Sept. 1800
by Philander Smith JP (Adams Co. MS Deed Book B, pg. 87."
Source: Sue Moore, sbmoore@swbell.net, May 11, 2004, and found in Coyle genealogy
forum at genealogy.com, message 1137.
Hugh COYLE and Martha THOMPSON had the following children:
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