Joseph Boyd, Antrim, Hillsborough Co., New Hampshire

Joseph Boyd, afterwards Deacon Boyd, son of William, an emigrant from the north of Ireland to Londonderry, became a resident of Antrim, 1774, and began the Jesse Goodell farm. He was a man of singular industry, candor and sincerity, an elder of the Presbyterian church, and enjoyed the general respect of his townsmen. It used to be said of him that no man ever saw in him any thing unfair or dishonorable. He died, 1816, of a disease of the bladder; his death probably hastened by being thrown violently out of his carriage, near the old meeting house on the Sabbath. Deacon Boyd had two brothers who settled in Antrim: William Boyd, who came here a year or two later than Joseph, began to cultivate the farm now Mr. Starret's and after a residence of about twenty years returned to Londonderry; and James Boyd, who began, about 1791, to subdue the large and valuable farm now his son's, the present James Boyd. James Boyd, senior, died 1835, aged sixty-seven. He married Fanny Baldwin, of Hollis, a woman of great excellence of character, who died 1828.

Source: History of the town of Antrim, N. H. for a period of one century, from 1744 to 1844 by John M. Whiton; Washington [District of Columbia] : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service. Micro-reproduction of original published: Concord, N. H. : McFarland & Jenks, 1852? - FHL Film 1464011.

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