CHIEF:  Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd 7th Baron Kilmarnock

Richard G. and Jerri Lynn Boyd

568 W. Friedrich Street

Rogers City, Mich. 49779

Robert Boyd / Catharine Ballantyne

Monroe Co; W. VA

Andrew BALLANTYNE and his wife, Agnes SMART, and their four children came from Dundee, Scotland, to Norfolk in 1801, and thence to the Sinks of Monroe. Their friends, Andrew Miller, May Broady, and others, came by the same ship and others had preceded them. Ballantyne was a skilled weaver. And like a true Scotchman of his time he was a great reader and student, Especially of the Bible. For many years he taught in an old schoolhouse that stood close to his home near Hillsdale. He and Andrew and James Miller would regularly walk to one another's homes on Sunday, a circuit of 10 miles, for the purpose of religious worship. They were elders of the first session after the Lebanon brick church was completed. The three daughters were as fond of reading as their parents. In order that a borrowed book might be promptly returned, they would read at night what their father had read by day. Their books, heavy both in binding and subject matter, are still in possession of their descendants. They also delighted in feats of memory. One of these was committing the 119th psalm, the Shorter and Longer Catechisms, and much of the Presbyterian Confession of Faith. Children: Jean (Michael Beamer, 1824) - Elspeth (b.1796) (Philip Beamer,Jr.) -CATHARINE (ROBERT BOYD) - Robert (Mary Harper)- Marjorie (born at sea 1801)(John Crawford).

Source: A History of Monroe County, West Virginia, Oren F. Morton, B. Lit. Staunton, VA, The McClure Company, Inc. 1916

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