CHIEF:  Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd 7th Baron Kilmarnock

Richard G. and Jerri Lynn Boyd

568 W. Friedrich Street

Rogers City, Mich. 49779

Virginia History

SOME EMIGRANTS TO VIRGINIA

Page 9 - BOYD, DAVID (d. 1781), Northumberland county; his father and
mother were buried in the churchyard at Wigton, Scotland.

Source: Stanard, W. G. Some Emigrants to Virginia. The Bell Book and Stationary Company. Richmond Virginia: 1911.

SOME VIRGINA FAMILIES

Page 102 - Robert Vincent Lewis, m. BELLE BOYD of Kentucky; three sons.

Page 109 - Emily Tousey, m. TRUSTON B. BOYD: issue,--David, Ingram; St.
Louis, Mo.

Page 109 - Lydia Paxton Tousey, m. GEORGE W. BOYD, Asst. Genl. Pass.
Agent of the Pennsylvania R.R.: issue,--Oliver, Lydia Paxton, Anna; l.
Philadelphia, Penn.

Source: McIlhany, Hugh M. Some Virginia Families. Staunton, VA: Stoneburner and Prufer Printers, 1903.

APPRENTICES OF VIRGINIA
BOYD, Samuel  1776
BOYD, John
BOYD, Samuel
BOYD, Patrick

Source: Gill Jr., Harold B. Apprentices of Virginia 1623-1800. Salt Lake
City, UT

HISTORY OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VA

Page 250
Samuel LEAKE in 1836 married M.A. BOYD of the Cove neighborhood, and
finished his course a few years ago near Hillsboro, where his son
William now resides.

Page 261
MARY, the sister of John B. MAGRUDER Sr., was the wife of THOMAS D. BOYD. At the beginning of the century he conducted a public house at the
junction of the Three Notched and River Roads, the locality still known as BOYD's TAVERN.

Page 371 - PRIVATES IN STATE MILITIA.
WILLIAM BOYD

Page 382 - ATTORNEYS OF THE ALBEMARLE BAR.
1825 - THOMAS J. BOYD

EMIGRANTS FROM ALBEMARLE TO OTHER STATES.
Page 386 - Samuel and John Boyd, Surry Co.- NORTH CAROLINA
Page 393 - Pleasant F. Boyd - ALABAMA
Page 407 - A. P. Boyd 1890.

Source: Woods, Edgar Rev. History of Albemarle County, Virginia: The
Michie Company, Printers, 1901

Frederick County Virginia

Boyds in Shenandoah Valley, VA
 "Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and their Descendants, A history of Frederick County Virginia" T.K. Cartmell, 1783 to 1903

James and Isaac Van Meter received grants for 40,000 acres of land each around the Shenado River per records in the sessions of 1721-1734. Knowing some of this land over lay other grants; a large grant of same was given to Yost Hite, and approved by 1730. Hite began parceling it out by 1734. His was not all in one piece, but was to be made up from surveyed land parcels not already located on as he found them.

He had transferred 46 conveyances, which were recorded in March 1736. After that he began to pick up and sell smaller parcels. By 1739 he was giving out these "minor grants". "A number of minor grants were issued to Shepard, Morgan, Swearingen, Stephen, BOYD, Dark, Harper, Porterfield and other early settlers on the south side Cohongorooto River 'now' embraced in the counties of Berkley and Jefferson, while others were in Frederick and along the Shenandoah River.

The Presbyterian Church maintained most of the early records for this era which were available to the author. There is a record of a church near present day Winchester in 1737. The church in Winchester grew along with the population after the town was incorporated in 1792.

In 1842 Rev. A.H.H BOYD had been called to the ministry to serve at the New School. His ministry was noted for it's acceptable service, and he was loved by the children unto the third and fourth generation.. The church was reorganized in 1848, at which time A.H.H. BOYD was among 9 men who were appointed by the Court to minister there. Dr. A.H.H. BOYD also conducted protracted meetings at the Cedar Creek church for several years before the Civil War. 

Dr. A.H.H. BOYD, helped to organize the New School Church (Loudoun Street)
along with Rev. Silas Billings from Cedar Creek. He served as pastor at the New Church in Winchester until his death on 16 December 1865. The people worshipped and enjoyed the church's services without much regard to creed.
Dr. A.H.H. BOYD was one of the more enlightened slave owners who educated their slaves so they could eventually be emancipated.

In May of 1865, Dr A.H.H. BOYD and his wife were visited by the wife of Mr. Philip Williams, a renowned lawyer, at their home where Dr Boyd was confined
to bed as an invalid.. Dr. BOYD was by this time an invalid, mostly confined to bed. Mrs. Williams related the experience of a nearby farmer, who had turned up the bodies of two soldiers buried in one of his fields during his spring plowing. The two ladies with Dr Boyd's help, worked out plans for an organization known afterwards as the "Ladies Memorial Association". They raised money in the State and outside of it, and the end result was re-interment for the many soldiers buried where they fell in the first of many memorial military cemeteries.   More on Andrew H.H. Boyd

In March of 1900 the Old School and the New School churches combined. The new Organization elected as Ruling Elders: Dr. P.W. BOYD, WW Glass, TN Lupton, George C Shephard, George W Kurtz, and TK Cartmell. For a few years, Dr BOYD lived in the Morgan house in Winchester, which had been built for General Daniel Morgan. He purchased this from Alex Tidball and later sold it to Judge Joseph H Sherrard.

Bette Morton Tidball,  a daughter of Thomas A Tidball and Susan Hill, who married 18 Nov 1813, married  a Mr. Thurston. One of their daughters, married
Hunter BOYD of Cumberland. Hunter topped his legal career as a Judge of the
Supreme Court of Maryland

Charlestown became the county seat of Jefferson County in 1801 when it was
formed from Berkeley County. At the first Court, held, held 10 Nov 1801 in John Mines house, Elisha BOYD was one of the first attorneys admitted to practice law in this new county. Col. Philip Clayton Pendleton married a daughter of Gen'l. Elisha BOYD, of Berkeley County. Their children were Philip, Dr. E.B., and Judge Edmund Pendleton, of Winchester VA.  Another of Elisha's daughters married Hon. Chas. J. Faulkner, Sr. He was elected to Congress prior to the Civil War. Their two sons were Senator C.J. Falkner and E. Boyd Faulkner.  C.J. Faulkner lived at the ancestral home, Boydville, near Martinsburg.
 

FREDERICK CO; VA - HOPEWELL FRIENDS (QUAKER COMMUNITY) HISTORY MARRIAGE CERTIFICATES FROM HOPEWELL 1748-1830

page 245 - BOYD, William
page 266 - BOYD, Margaret
page 297 - BOYD, Samuel
page 313 - BOYD, John
page 318 - BOYD, John
page 325 - BOYD, John

Source: Joint Committee of Hopewell Friends. Hopewell Friends History 1734 -1934: Frederick County, Virginia: Records of Hopewell Monthly Meetings and Meetings Reporting to Hopewell. Strasburg, VA: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1926.

Pittsylvania County, VA

THE HISTORY of PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY VIRGINIA CHAPTER IV A PART OF LUNENBURG COUNTY, 1745-1752

In 1749 JOHN BOYD was given leave to keep a ferry on Dan River; and here in 1781 was enacted one of the leading events of the Revolutionary War, when General Greene and his army escaped across the river from Cornwallis' pursuing hosts.

Charles Carter and Dame Maria Byrd, executors of the will of Colonel William Byrd, deceased, began in 1746 to sell his lands north and south of Dan River, which were a part of the Order of Council for 105,000 acres granted to Col. Byrd in 1735. This great tract of land was called "The Havila," and the records of the sales fill many pages of the deed books of Lunenburg and Halifax Counties. Among the first purchasers were Alexander Irvine, Hugh Lawson, William Douglas, William Fuqua, Gideon Smith, David Evans, JOHN BOYD, Hugh Moore and the Echols'.

In 1746 James and Ralph HUNT of Hanover, bought land in Lynchburg and there James Hunt reared his large family, leaving seven sons, viz.: Charles, Nathaniel, James, Elijah, Gilbert, John and David Hunt. David Hunt settled in Pittsylvania on Straightstone Creek where he built his home after the style of an English cottage. He married Nancy Richardson, and died in 1826, leaving a daughter who married GEORGE BOYD.

Source: Clement, Maud Carter. History of Pittsylvania County Virginia. Lynchburg, VA: J.P. Bell Co., 1929

SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY RECORDS

JAMES BOYD, admr. of David Morrison, decd., with William Hughes and Patrick Connelly, sec. Dec. 7, 1748.

Patrick Connelly, admr. of Nicholas Sullivan, decd., with JAMES BOYD and James Allenack, sec.Feb. 5, 1752.

Source: Crozier, William Armstrong. Spotsylvania County Records.

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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