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NEW YORK HISTORY


                John Boyd White Plains, New York

Samuel, son of Thomas Merritt, was called of Rye in 1706, and in 1710 he was living at White Plains, New York. He also lived at Port Chester, New York, on the site now occupied by the Union free school. On November 27, 1713, he bought land from JOHN BOYD, at White Plains, and also purchased other land there of Thomas Budd on January 18, 1723. He granted a lot to Humphrey Underhill, who released his claim, May 28, 1722. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Humphrey and Sarah Underhill. Children: William, George, David.

New England families, genealogical and memorial : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of commonwealths and the founding of a nation. Author: Cutter, William Richard , 1847-1918 - FHL US/CAN Film 899795


         John Boyd of Mexico, NY

Mexico Independent, (NY), March 22, 1886

Texas - On Thursday of last week, Keeper Chapman of the life saving station selected his crew for the coming season, which is expected to open April 1st. The members of the crew are Alonzo Morton, Perry Marsh, William Henderson, Don Calkins, Herbert Dennis of Texas, John Boyd of Mexico and Emery Tryan of Ellisburg. H. L. Dennis will be No. 1 or first mate, and Don Calkins the steward. The crew consists of the same men that were under Capt. Parker last season except Mr. Tryan takes the place of George Cole. Mr. Cole had the place offered him but declined the offer, thinking he could do better.


NEWBURGH and NEW WINDSOR

1782-1783 -- General Washington resides at Hasbrouck House.

In 1763, Part of Ulster County: Highlands Precinct was divided into New Windsor Precinct and Newburgh Precinct.

A few on-line records:

The German Patent: Early Records of Newburgh, New York

 

Newburgh, New York Glebe Leases, 1807-1821 Book Two (part 2): 

Nathaniel B. Boyd of the town of Newburgh in the County of Orange State of New-York

Village and Town of Newburgh Records 1803-1838
Philip Boyd
John Boyd
Hugh Boyd
Nathan B. Boyd
Lewis Boyd

Record of Livestock Marks, Strays and Slaves in the Village of Newburgh:
Francis Boyd  1828

1801 Assessment Roll for the Town of Newburgh:
BOYD (no first name given)

Newburgh, New York: Glebe Leases, Book One/4
Nathan B. Boyd

Newburgh, New York: Glebe Leases, Book One /3
Nathan B. Boyd

See:
Newburgh, NY: http://www.newburgh-ny.com/
(including a map which shows the location of Washington's  headquarters)

Books:

History of the Town of Newburgh by E. M. Ruttenber, 1859.

General Washington: General Orders Issued at Newburgh 1782-83 by Edward
Carlyle Boynton, 1973.

Guide to Historical Resources in Orange County, N.Y. Repositories, N.Y. Historical Resources Center, Cornell University, 1989.

Guide to the Mauscript Collection of the Goshen Library and Historical Society by Henry Pomares, 1982. Includes Newburgh material of the 1700's
& 1800's.

History of the County of Orange: with History of the Town & City of Newburgh by E. M. Ruttenber, c. 1875.

Old Orange County by Julien and Arno Cornell, 1977. Sketch and thumbnail
history of Washington's Headquarters; sketch of reconstructed sloop 'Clearwater'.

and many more!

NEW WINDSOR

1790 Census Ulster County, NY Town of New Windsor
The following is a compilation of the individuals listed in the 1790 Census for the Town of New Windsor, which was then in Ulster County, New York, today of course the Town of New Windsor is in Orange County.

HEADS OF FAMILIES:
BOYD, DAVID
BOYD, NATHANIEL
BOYD, ROBERT
BOYD, SAMUEL
BOYD, JAMES

St. George Cemetery Newburgh,Orange Co; NY
Boyd, Jane     d. 1859
Boyd, Margaret [Hamilton] d. 01/04/1903  age 72

1775 Assessment Roll of Orange County, NY

Boyd, Robert      District 8
Boyd, Samuel      District 7

Early Marriages Bethlehem Church - Orange Co; NY

Early marriages at Bethlehem Church compiled by the Historic Society of Newburgh Bay & the Highlands.  The list is provided by Glenn Marshall,Historian for the Town of New Windsor:

Russel, John      Boyd, Mary    5/11/1806

Civil War Volunteers From New Windsor,Orange Co; NY
Boyd, Andrew M.     Co.B. 124th Regt   MIA June 6,1864

New York 1825 Census Town of New Windsor,Orange Co; NY
Boyd, James S.

New Windsor, New York Precinct Records, 1763-1779

Nathaniel BOYD
Robert BOYD
Robert BOYD, Jr
Samuel Boyd
Robert S. Boyd
James J. Boyd

We the subscribers being the major part of the Commissioners for laying out and altering the roads in the Precinct of New Windsor and Newbourgh in Ulster County and State aforesaid by the election of a number of the most respectable freeholders and inhabitants of the two Precincts before mentioned, agreeable to law and the aforesaid petition viz: have laid out a public open road or highway, three rods wide being chosen by the people of the two Precincts as Commission- ers for that purpose. Where road so laid out is butted and bounded as follows , viz: beginning on the main road that runs from Newbourgh to New Windsor south of Major Boyds house on his southbounds and the north bounds of the farm
belonging to Governor Clinton

Precinct Records Minute Book, 1792 -1828
Boyd, Huldah
Boyd, James
Boyd, James S
Boyd, John
Boyd, Nathaniel B
Boyd, Robert
Boyd, Samuel


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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