Boyds in the William and Mary College Quarterly

“Boyd. Raleigh, NC, Aug 3, 1926. Ed. William and Mary College Quarterly:

Sir:  Noticing the article in  the Jul 1926 magazine, “Diary of Capt Phillip 
Buckner,” I was interested in reading the reference on page 190, where he 
attended service conducted by “old gentlemen who was of the Church of 
England and very old and very decrepit,” and again on the same page he notes 
he heard “old Mr. Boyd preach” and again on page 191 “went to hear old Mr. 
Boyd preach,” and noted that foot-note No. 59 on page 205 stated they had 
been unable to locate any Episcopalian minister in Natchez as early as the 
date (1801).
  By referring to the sketch of Rev. Adam Boyd in Vol 5 of the Biographical 
History North Carolina, pages 18 to 23, it will be seen that he lived in Natchez, Miss, from sometime about 1800 until his death in that city Mar 7, 1803.  He was born Nov 5, 1738, in Pennsylvania, ordained Aug 17, 1788, by Bishop Seabury, and for a while was rector of St. James Church at Wilmington, NC, then Augusta, GA, from 1790 to 1799 and at Nashville, Tenn., in 1800, and then in Natchez, Miss.   A descendant of Rev Adam Boyd is Mr. James Boyd, of Southern  Pines, NC, who is the author of “Drums,” which appeared a year ago.  It should further he stated that Rev. Adam Boyd was an original member of the North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati.  By A.B. Andrews.

Source: William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, 2nd. Ser., 
Vol. 6, No. 4. (Oct., 1926), p 354.
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“David Boyd,  of the Parish of St. Stephens, Northumberland County, made his 
will May 7, 1781. It was proved Dec 10, 1781. It conveys a large estate. 
Legatees named: daughter, Margaret Smith, deceased; grandson, Augustine 
Jaqueline Smith; David McCulloch, son of John McCulloch, of Torhouse, and 
Mary his wife, “my youngest sister,” both living in shire of Wigton, North 
Britain; James McCulloch, son of John McCulloch and Agnes his wife, another 
sister, late of the Isle of Man; granddaughter, Mary Jaqueline Smith.  Names 
as executors: Col. John Smith, of Frederick County; Rev. Mr. Thomas Smith, 
of Westmoreland; Richard Mitchell, of Lancaster; Capt David Bell and Mr. 
Onesephilus Harvey, of Northumberland; Mr. John Sydnor, Capt William Ball, 
Mr. William Miskell, Maj Charles McCarty, of Richmond County, and William 
Taylor, gent, of Nortumberland Co. Desires a real plain chariot, with sets of harness, be purchased for his wife and grandchildren; granddaughter Mary 
to be genteelly educated, “and if no better way can be fallen on, that a woman that is genteel and well qualified be provided and live in the family for that purpose,” his grandson to be sent to one of the colleges in Aberdeen, thence to Edinburgh for his medical studies, thence to London, Leyden and Paris, “in a medical way before he leaves Europe.
” Desires his grandson “to carry his bones, and those of his mother and his uncle, Alexander Boyd, to Scotland, and to bury them by my father and mother in the churchyard of the town of Wigton.”   (Chancery Papers in Williamsburg.)
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William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 3. (Jan., 1912),
1761, Feb 19, Charles Wade & Isbel Boyd. Sec. Jno. Armstrong

Some Early Marriages in Bedford County, Va.
Jos. L. Miller William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 
11, No. 4. (Apr., 1903), pp. 280-282.
1762 Francis Reade and Margaret Boyd
1779 James Boyd and Hannah Gilbert

William and Mary College Quarterly Hist. Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 3. (Jan., 1914), p 211.

Robert  Boyd’s will was made Sep 10, 1710 and proved May 16, 1711. He named 
wife Ann, brother-in-law John Pope, son John, son not named, other word show 
it to have been Robert, god-son, Moses Wood.  His wife was doubtless a 
sister of John Pope, since the latter had deeded him the above land.  A 
reference to this deed appears again when, Feb 18, 1713, Wm Heath presented 
John Pope’s deed for land to Robert Boyd.   Jun 8, 1747 there was a 
settlement between the estates of Robert Boyd and Wm Taylor dec’d.

Genealogical Notes and Queries
William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, 2nd. Ser., Vol. 11, 
No. 4. p 354.

Robert Wade married Sarah (Sally) Boyd dau. Of Geo. Boyd, Jun 18, 1786.  
Robert Wade names wife Nancy, sons Robert, George, James and Daughters Anne, 
Elizabeth and Martha. Wit, James ___, and Sarah Wade. Exs bro Richard Wade 
and Joseph Scott. Dated Apr 19, 1815. Will of Mary Wade in which she names 
sons George, Robert and Richard Wade; Daughters Amy Patterson, Slly, Mary, 
Rebecca and Elizabeth. Wit. Mary Ward and John B. Scott. Exs. Joseph W. 
Scott and son George. Dated Jan 9, 1815 and recorded Mar 27, 1815.

Richard Wade married Mary Boyd dau. Of George Boyd(no date given)

(same page 354 entry for Boyd Wills.)
The will of John Boyd in which he refers to himself as a planter of Lunenburg County. Names wife Margaret, sons George, William, John and James. Wits. David Graham, Patrick Boyd, John Humphrey and Sampson Winifree(?). Executors, James Boyd, wife Margaret, Francis Swanson and Thomas Douglas. Dated July 1748 and probated May 19, 1757. W.B.O. page 34.

 George Boyd’s will in which he names wife Wilmoth, sons, Walter, Joshua, Irby, George, Edward and Harrison; daughters Sarah Hobson and Tabitha. Witnesses, William Powell, E. Ragland, Thomas Douglas and Andrew Boyd. Exs. Wilmoth Boyd, Micaux Watkins and Joseph Hobson. Dated May  9, 1779 and recorded Jun 1781. W.B. No. 1, page 357.

Revolutionary Proceedings in Northumberland County, 1765, 1776-1778 William and Mary College Quarterly Hist. Mag, Vol. 20, No. 2, (Labeled issue 1). (Oct., 1911), p. 127

Mon., 8th day of July 1776 Court House of Northumberland Co several took oaths among them were “David Boyd and  Wm Brown gent, having taken the oath etc., were admitted to practice as attornies at this court.”

Marriage Bonds of Norfolk County VA  Mrs. Russell S. Barrett William and Mary College Quarterly Hist. Magazine, 2nd. Ser., Vol. 10, No. 2.  p 131. 
Dec 31 1818 Thomas Boyd & Miss Isabella Parks

Marriage Bonds of Norfolk County VA Russell S. Barrett William and Mary College Quarterly Hist. Magazine, 2nd. Ser., Vol. 8, No. 2.  pp. 103.
Sep 26, 1761 Jno. Hatton and Margaret Boyd

Marriage Bonds in Amelia County VA
William and Mary College Quarterly Hist. Magazine, Vol. 15, No. 4. (Apr., 1907), p 262
Dec 1792, Francis Boyd and Ann Worsham

Artisans in Maryland, Sites of Blacksmiths’ Shops, Kent County, Maryland, circa 1750:   Chester River area Archibald Boyd.  “Archibald Boyd paid 47 pounds for a half-lot, after that date, no smiths acquired lots except through inheritance.  Boyd left his shop  “and all and every of my working tools Iron and Coals” to his son David.”

William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 14, No.  (Oct., 1905), pp. 114-117.) (no dates given)

Martha Boyd married Dr. Howell Jeffries. She died and Dr. Jeffries married 
Ann Matilda Nelson, d/o Martha and William Nelson. Maria married William 
Easly; he died and Wm Easly married Nancy Morton, c/o Anderson Morton.
Sallie Boyd married Frank Thornton.
Mary Boyd married William Hawkins.
Frank Boyd married Isabella Townes, d/o William Townes. He died and his wife 
married his cousin Alfred  Boyd, whose first wife was Elizabeth Townes, a sister of Isabella Townes.
 
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“The following letter is from Mr. Edward Jaquelin Davison, in correction of papers of this famiy: Kansas City,  Mo., Oct 25, 1895. Ed. Wm and Mary College Quarterly, Williamsburg, VA.

 “My Dear Sir: Since the publication of my article on the Smith family of Purton, I have received some corrections which appear to me to be satisfactory. This corre- spondent states that, “Shooter’s Hill” was on the Pianketank River instead of the
Rappahannock, and I incline to this belief, also, from the appearance of the former name in old deeds and documents amongst the Smith papers. Augustine Smith, son of John Smith and Mary Jaquelin, record 17, p. 95, Vo.. IV. 2, the following may be accepted:  Married first Mildred Rootes not Booker. Second Margaret Boyd daughter of DAVID (not John) Boyd and Margaret Ball, widow of John Ball and daughter of Thomas Pinkard and Elizabeth Downman. Augustine Smith died at “Shooter’s Hill,” and never lived at West Grove, near Alexandria,   His will is dated May 31, 1774, and he died June 13, 1774. He was not an Episcopal clergyman as stated on p. 51, Vol. IV. No.
1. Regarding the relationship existing between the Smiths and Robinsons, the same correspondent gives it as follows:  Augustine Smith, of “Shooter’s Hill,” married, first Mildred Rootes, Their daughter, Mildred Smith, married a son of Speaker Robinson. (The register I have gives the date of birth of this daughter “Feby 7th at 12 o’clock 1763, and died Sept 14, 1768.”  I gave you the first year as 1768. Just how to harmonize these dates I do not know.)

General John Smith and his wife are both buried in the old family burying ground at “Hackwood,” although neither died on that place. A few years ago I purchased a lot in “Mount Hebron’ cemetery, Winchester, to which I removed the remains of General and Mrs. Smith, my grandparents, and others buried at “Hackwood,” as that “graveyard” was fast losing any semblance of the purpose for which it was intended. Perhaps a fuller account of Mrs. Anna Bull Smith, wife of 23, VII, John Smith, might be interesting to some of your readers. Mrs. Anna Smith was a daughter of Col. John Bull, of Northumberland, PA, whose other daughter married Joseph Nourse, for fifth years registrar of the United States Treasury.  In fact, the first loans of the government were signed by him. Elizabeth Bull married Benjamin Rittenhouse, of Philadelphia.
Quinnis Bull married John Smith, of “Hackwood.” Eezekiel W. Bull, surgeon United States Army 1813 to 1815. Maria Luisa married Joseph Nourse. Sarah Hariet married first Joseph Haines; second B.J. Young; third, William Lloyd. Rebecca Boyd married John Boyd. John Bull  married Mary Phillips, 1752. He died, 1824, aged ninety.four.
She died, 1811, at advanced age.  I have a copy of John Bull’s will, also two letters written by him.  Very truly yours,   E.J. Davison." 

(note then article  jumps to following)
"Susanna Smith, daughter of Augustine Smith and Sarah Carver, married William Langbourne (Born 1723), son of Robert and Mary Dandridge Langbourne, of Fetter Lance, London (tombstone in King William county bearing the Langbourne arms impaling Dandrige). Issue: William Langbourne, ensign 6th Va, 27th April, 1777. By the act of 6th October, 1783, it was “Resolved, whereas William Langburn hath served from the commecement of the war in the Army of the United States, with equal
disinterestedness and reputation, that a brevet commission of Lieutenant-colonel be given him.”  (Heitman’s Historical Regist er of the Revolution.)  He was aid-de-camp to Gen. LaFayette whom he visited in France at his own home, “La Grange.”  He married Miss Claiborne, of King William; and his shattered tombstone on the Pamunkey river records his deather in 1814.  He left an only son, William,  who died at twenty-two years, when the name Langbourne became  extinct in Virginia (Mrs. Page’s Family Record).   Mary married Warner Throckmortor, son of Philip Throckmorton, of “Church Hill,” Gloucester county. Issue  descended Gen. William Booth Taliaferro,
Maj Thomas S.Taliaferro, Judge Beverley R. Wellford, Jr., and Judge Warner
T. Jones, who lately died. (Ref. Richmond Critic, Jan 11, 1890) >From the register, 8, Philip Smith son of Capt John Smith, of Purton, married Mary Mathews on Feb 9th, 1711. She was the daughter of Aldwin Mathews, Justice of the peace for York Co, the great-grandson of Gov. Samuel Mathews. There is a marriage  contract on record in Northumberland county between Philip Smith and Mrs. Hannah Shapleigh, dated Sept 16, 1742. On July 11, 1743, the will of Philip Smith was proved, by which it appears he had issue: , Mary, married Jesse Ball; , Mildred;, Elizabeth, Sarah, Jane, Susannah, Baldwin Mathews. He gave 200 lbs to each of his daughers, and the residue of his estate to his son, Baldwin Mathews. He made his brother Mr. Augustine Smith, nephew James Smith, and his son Baldwin Mathews Smith, executors. Baldwin Mathews Smith married Fanny Burgess (bond in Middlesex Co dated Dec 1743), and there is a bond of John Smith, dated 1762, as guardian of Burgess and Philip Smith, orphans of Baldwin Mathews Smith. 

Notes.  The deeds and  wills at Saluda, Middlesex Co, show that the “Shooter’s Hill” estate was on the Pianketank. Editor. I have it Booker from several sources.  The following appeared as one of them:  The following was copied by Mrs. Rosalie Locke from the old “Shooter’s Hill” Bible in possession of Capt. Boyd Smith, of Alexandria.” Of course the name Rootes, written by some one, might have been misread Booker.
It is a reasonable solution, I think,  for the error.” E.J. Davison.   Augustine Smith’s will is on record at Saluda:  Wife Margaret; his newborn son to be hereafter called Augustine Jaquelin; daughters Mary Jaquelin Smith and Mildred Smith; directs his executors, Charles Tomkies, Jr., and John Howlet, to settle with Mr David Boyd   on account of l,000 pounds promised by him on the marriage between his daughter Margaret and myself.  Brothers John and Edward Smith guardians to children, Augustine Jaquelin and Mary Jaquelin, dated 31st May, 1774, proved 24th Oct 1774.
Editor.  Mr. Stanard gives the name by mistake as Julia." (below msg sent earlier today) 

(Source: Historical and Genealogical Notes, William and Mary College
Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 7, Issue 2 (Oct. 1898), p. 126

Boyd, Spencer, came from the county of Ayr, Scotland, to King and Queen Co, VA where he was partner in merchandizing with Thomas Brown.  His will bears date Dec 7, 1778, and it was proved May 10, 1779.  Issue by First wife: 1, James; and by second wife, Lucy ___, 2, Spencer; 3, Robert; 4, William; 5, Julia; and 6, “the child my wife now goes with.” Under entail his Pinkill estate, in Ayr, descended to his eldest son, James,  who dying without heirs, it came to his son, Spencer Boyd, Jr., who returned to Scotland and there died before 1809, leaving  an infant son whose guardian was James Thompson. (Chancery Papers in Williamsburg.

Source: William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, 2nd. Ser., Vol. 6, No. 4. page 354.

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