CHIEF:  Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd 7th Baron Kilmarnock

Richard G. and Jerri Lynn Boyd

568 W. Friedrich Street

Rogers City, Mich. 49779

John Boyd ~ Margaret Long

Shelburne Falls, MA

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 Northern 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  She was baptized 25 July 1743  d. 1807

3. Abraham Boyd 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.  

5. William Boyd baptized 11 June 1749 Hopkinton, Worcestor Co., MA d. in 25 May 1840 in West Springfield, MA.  He married in January of 1777 Marjery 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

Sources:

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.

 NOTE: Use this data as a finding tool, just as you would any other secondary source. When you find the name of an ancestor listed, confirm the facts in original sources.

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