John Boyd and Margaret Long
John
Boyd (1) was born about
1704 and died 30 June 1789
in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts.
I believe John Boyd to be
the son of
Capt. James Boyd, younger son of the first Earl
of Kilmarnock, William
Boyd of Scotland. Capt. James Boyd served
in the Scot's Brigade in Holland.
(see "Papers Illustrating the History
of the Scots Brigade in the
Service of the United Netherlands,
1572-1782 published in three
volumes for the Scottish History
Society, 1899,1900,1901. by
the University Press at Edinburgh.)
The last record of Capt. James
in the book is in 1703 when he was
discharged and it may have
been at this time that he went to
Northen Ireland. (See
"The Boyd Family by Arthur S.Boyd Jr.,
Boston,
MA. 1924).
John Boyd married Margaret
LONG, in Suffolk County, Boston,
Mass. on 11 April 1731,
daughter of John and Sarah
Long of
Taunton, Mass. She died
30 September 1793 aged 86. John and
Margaret Boyd moved from Taunton,
Massachusetts to Hopkinton,
and finally to Shelburne
Falls where they lived out there lives.(2)
Their children (3)
were:
1. John Boyd Jr.
b. 1733 d. 15 Oct 1815
m. Mary WARREN
b. 1737 d. 19 Aug 1825
(John Jr. purchased land in
Wilmington, Vt. in 1793 and 1795)
2. David Boyd
b. 1735? d.
1802 Wilmington,
VT.
m. Sibbel TAYLOR 6 Dec 1770
bp. 25 Jly 1743 d. 1807
3. Abraham Boyd (4)
b. 1740? d. 1820?
m. Hannah HILL 24 June
1766
4. Samuel Boyd
bapt. 3 May 1747 Hopkinton
m. Sarah AMSDEN 10 Feb 1773
in Conway, MA. Amsden Web Page
5. William Boyd baptised
11 Jne 1749 Hopkinton, Worcestor
Co., MA d. in 25 May 1840
in West Springfield, MA. He
married in January of 1777
Marjary TAYLOR born 7 Mar 1758
Newington, CT died 17 Oct
1833 West Springfield, MA.
William served in Revolution
as a corporal in Capt. Isaac
Tuckerman's Company, Col.
Ebenezer Francis' Massachusetts
Regiment. See
Dar Records
See more on this family at:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~confido/bkindex.htm
1. New
England Families by William Richard Cutter, 1912
The Boyd Family by Arthur S. Boyd, New York, 1924
2. Vanished
Pioneer Homes and Families of Shelburne, Mass.
by Leila Stone Bardwell, 1974
3. From
a letter by David Long to Aaron Long dated 1851
wherein David gives an account of the Boyd family.
Original is in possession of Richard Long. Copies at
NEHGS library in Boston, Massachusetts, Fort Wayne,
Indiana, and at Arms Library, Shelburn, MA. Research
of Emiline Rice Long. V.R. Springfield, Mass. and V.R.
Suffolk County, Mass.
4. Hopkinton
deeds (page 77) show that on 27 Sept 1762 John
Boyd sold his son Abraham, 38 acres for 26 English pounds.
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