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      Wills: Abstracts 1789-1834 -  New Castle County, DE.

The first date is when the will was written, and the second date is when it was proven.

BOYD, JOHN, Brandywine Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. April 11, 1833 - April 26, 1833.

Wife Elizabeth, brother DAVID BOYD, children: WILLIAM, MATTHEW, MARY,  SARAH JANE, JOHN SUMMERFIELD,and JAMES BOYD. Property in Wilmington, lines of Samuel Newlin and Jane Griffin, land in U. Chichester bought of Nehemiah Broomall, lines of Peirce Crosby and Ann Harvey; land in village of Brandywine, lines of James Price, Alex. McGee and others. Names uncle James Craig as guardian 
of oldest three children. Exrs: Wife Elizabeth and friend James Price. Wits: John Rice, Edward Tatnall and Lea Pusey. 

Source: FHL film #427761 

NEW CASTLE COUNTY, DELAWARE - WILLS

BOYD, Sarah
Probate Date: 14 Apr 1789
Widow; Mother, Mary Janvier; niece, Mary Janvier, dau. of brother, Richard Janvier and wife, Mary; children of brother, Thomas Janvier and wife, Jane Janvier; sister's daughters, Mary Bryson, Sally Bryson. Exc. Thomas Janvier and his wife, Jane.
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SUSSEX COUNTY, DELAWARE - PROBATE RECORDS

BOYD, John
Yeoman
Will Made Date: 09 Mar 1761
Will Probate Date: 05 May 1768
Heirs Name: bros. Jacob and Robert Morgan; sister Hannah Morgan; uncle Albertus Jacobs; cousins William Moliston and Magdalene Price; aunt Elizabeth Smith and children Jonathan, Martha and Nice Exec/Trus Name: friend Nathaniel Gordon and Rice Woolf, Jr. Wit Name: Es[the]r Darby, Catherine Gordon, Jane Skidmore
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SUSSEX COUNTY, DELAWARE - ORPHAN'S DOCKET INDEX

Name:         Status:    Action Taken:                 Year:
BOYD, John     dec'd      Account on his estate              1749
BOYD, John     Minor      Petition to choose Guardian     1757
BOYD, John     Minor      Petition of his Guardian           1758
BOYD, John     Minor      Petition to choose Guardian      1761
BOYD,  John    dec'd      Account of his executors         1771

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