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Individual:
An excerpt from: (Please note last paragraph)
"The American Genealogy Research Institute Arlington, Virginia, 1973"
There is really only one BOYD coat of arms in existence, although there are approximately thirteen variations of it registered in Scotland and Ireland. The differences are miniscule. Most are
matters of crest devise; the shield itself is almost exactly the same for all family branches, including the variant spelling of BOIT and BOYT.
All the BOYDS in the United States are entitled to the primary BOYD coat of arms. This is a rare claim since most families have a dozen or more quite separate coats of arms. The BOYDS are an unusual family in that they, like many Scots maintained quite tight family and clan connections. The family and its branches are sharply defined and the need for separate coats of arms, except in the crest device and slight secondary changes, has apparently never really been needed.
Examples of the BOYD coat of arms dating prior to the American Revolution have been found in several states. John BOYD who immigrated from Coleraine in Londonderry, Ireland, to Newcactle,
Delaware, brought a coat of arms with him. The cracked tombstone of GEORGE BOYD in the north burying ground of Portsmouth, New Hamshire, also bears an example of the single BOYD coat of arms. And MARK FREDERICK BOYD of Tallahassee, Florida, and his descendants can trace their claim to the coat of arms to WILLIAM BOYD of Newtown Hamilton in county Armagh, Ulster, Ireland- who first landed in New York City in 1828.
DESCRIPTION OF ARMS
ON A BLUE FIELD A WIDE HORIZONTAL BAR CHECKERED IN GOLD AND RED ACROSS THE CENTER OF THE SHIELD. CREST: A RAISED RIGHT HAND IN NATURAL COLORS, WITH THUMB AND TWO FINGERS
POINTING UP. MOTTO: CONFIDO (I TRUST)
The name BOYD may have more than one coat of arms, however all arms for this name mean the same. The name has a real meaning that is pictured on the arms it represents. Although
wars, conquests, and economic conditions have changed boundaries, modified name spellings, and altered languages, a coat of arms remains a picture that means a name. A coat of arms was as easily read in earlier times as a name on a mailbox is today.
Originally, arms were used to identify a family, group, or a clan, and to distinguish friend from foe; that is why no two are alike! No snobbery was connected with them, but some people like to think so!
Colors and designs were chosen to show status, allegiance, personality, or profession, and to reflect traits or traditions associated with the original bearer. The colorful arms are as distinctive as a fingerprint and tells a spell-binding tale.
Several different Boyd Coats-of-Arms can be found here:
http://clanboyd.info/coa/index.htm
Rich Boyd
01/19/2004 ancestry.com 1800 Iredell Co., NC federal census
Name: Boyd, Robert
Township: Salisbury
County: Iredell
State: North Carolina
Year: 1800
Roll: M32_29
Page: 628
Image: 220
Between Arron & Robert Boyd on pg 219 there is a Benjamin Boyd. Not sure where he fits in or if he does-vg.
03/29/2005
North Carolina Family Group Sheet for the BOYD, Robet Family
Copyright Vivian Goodman. All rights reserved.
http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.shtml
Submitted by: Vivian Goodman
Email address:
07/14/2005
The following is from the book "The Boyd Family of York County, Maine, Arthur S. Boyd, 1924."
(This is the only book on the Boyd family-- that I know of- - that goes into Norman lineage. It is quite interesting.)
(Arthur's book goes on the assumption that the Boyds and the Stewarts descend from brothers. Most Scottish historians do not support that descent today.
The Norman connection:
The Boyd family of Kilmarnock, Scotland, from which is descended all the Boyd families of Scottish origin, is a branch of the Breton family of Dinan, or de Dinant. The identity of the families appears in their arms; as the family of Dinan bore a fesse indented, while that of Fitz-Alan (from which the Stuarts and Boyds are descended) bore a fesse chequey.
The principally of Dol and Dinan was in the old French Province of Bretagne, and extended from Alet (St. Malo), by way of the towns of Dol (now known as Dol-de-Bretagne, in the Department of Ille-et-Vilane), Dinan (in Cotes-du-nord), and Combourg, to the central hills of Bretagne, over a tract of ninety miles by sixty. Its chiefs, on whom many Barons were dependent, were rather sovereigns than magnates, and their origin is lost in antiquity. In all probability they represented the patriarchal sovereigns of the Diablintes, the nation who held that part of Bretagne in the time of Julius Caesar, who conquered Bretagne in 57-56 BC and gave it the name of Armorica, and occupied the coast of Gaul between the seine and the Loire, but later the name of Armorica was confined to Bretagne.
The rest of this can be found on the Clan Boyd Society web site below:
http://www.clanboyd.info/state/maine/famhist/arthur1/index.htm
Richard G. Boyd
http://www.clanboyd.info
From: "Karen"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 6:58 AM
Subject: RE: [Boyd] Iredell Co NC Robert Boyd doesn't have a father
I would love to see your photos.
Karen in FL.
-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Boyd & Karen Selbert [mailto:cdboyd@win.net]
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 11:04 AM
To: CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [Boyd] Iredell Co NC Robert Boyd doesn't have a father
Greetings cousins!
I am still on the eternal quest of finding Robert Boyd's father and much more. Most of what I have is via our late cousin Linda Boyd Lawhon and I am looking for whatever anyone else has scratched up.
I end with Robert and Eleanor McCullock Boyd in Iredell Co, NC. There has been some discussion that Robert's father was also named Robert. Recently I came across a record of a Robert Boyd baptized 27 Jan 1728, in Dull, Perth, Scotland at the ancient Celtic church there which was founded by St Adamnan of Iona. The father of the child was Robert Boyd, who was born c. 1683 in Dull, and married 29 Jul 1707 a Katherine Menzeis, who was born c. 1689 also in Dull. With the possible location of Perthshire, could the Robert Boyd of Iredell Co been from a family that were Jacobites and/or Covenanters? If the
Robert Boyd of Dull is his father, and having married into the Menzeis clan, which were strong Jacobites, could they have departed for the plantations as a part of the Scots Banishment? Does anyone have any glue for this hypothesis? Also, if anyone is interested, I have photos of the Boyd family cemetery in Diamond, Missouri, which was the neighboring farm to Geo. Washington Carver's place of birth and where he grew up.
Peace,
Christian Boyd
of the Newton Co., Missouri Clan
and living in the Louisville, KY Metro area.
Gedcom on request.
I forgot: the children of Robert & Katherine Menzeis Boyd were Brigham (30 Dec 1712), Jean (a girl, 27 Oct 1718), James (24 Dec 1723), and Robert (see below).
Christian Boyd & Karen Selbert
Sunday, February 12, 2006 11:51 AM
RE: [Boyd] Robert Boyd of Iredale NC and Cumberland Presbyterians
Boyds??? Also interested to know if these Boyds were related to the Capt. Robert Boyd who was b abt 1705 Scotland and migrated to Cumberland Valley (now Franklin Co) PA.
05/10/06 ClanBoyd
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Curtis"
To: Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 11:16 PM Jan Curtis jcurtis@infowest.com
Subject: Re: [ClanBoyd] Presbyterian Scots
You're right, Sandy. When the Protestant Reformation was sweeping Europe, Scotland was
> touched very little. It is unlikely that the Reformation, in any country of Europe, was wholly religious in its motivation, but was more political in nature.
It was with the return of John Knox from exile in 1559 that the Reformation took fire in Scotland. In 1560 the Parliament put an end to the Church of Rome as the National Church of Scotland. By 1561 the Presbyterian Church was established as "the KIRK of Scotland."
In 1600 Scotland was a land of poverty & insecurity. The main attraction of Ulster, Ireland, for the Scots was the hope of a better economic future.
The 2nd reason was they wanted to be free of the violence in Scotland during the reign of Charles I & Richard Cromwell, so thousands of Scot emigrated to Ireland, especially from the the Lowlands.
But even so, there was a series of economic blows in Ireland, and the 31 land leases expired. The long lease, at moderate rents, had encouraged the Scots to improve the land, and at the expiration, the landlords either raised the rents exorbitantly, or put the leases up for auction to the highest bidder. Many Scots were forced to leave. In 1717 more than 5,000 left for America, and when favorable reports
came back from the emigrants of 1717-18, others followed. There were five waves of emigration: 1717-18, 1725-29, 1740-41,1754-55, and 1771-75.
Most of (what is now known as Scot-Irish) entered America through Philadelphia & Chester Co., PA and New Castle, Delaware, into the counties of Philadelphia, Chester, Berks, and Lancaster, PA., then spread. There are numerous Boyds listed in the the Penn. Archives.
Jan
07/16/06 CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com
Karen and Christian,
Thanks for sending this data. This is the type of material I like to see
on the list.
Rich Boyd, List Admin
'Christian Boyd & Karen Selbert' wrote:
O great genealogists and FAS (Scot)s, give me your thoughts on the following. I have been steaming over it ever since I read Alfred C. Boyd's 1923 letter which stated they were related to the Rev. Finis Ewing, one of the founding fathers of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
Two Lines of Boyd Crossing Paths in the Frontier Complied by the Rev. Christian D. Boyd of the Newton Co., MO Boyds, Residing in the Louisville, KY/IN Metro.
The following ancestry account has been pieced together from family history given by the children and grandchildren of John Boyd, son of Robert and Eleanor or Iredell Co., NC, and the research forged by Linda Lawhon and others in the Boyd family, as well as Ewing clan.
Our story begins with Robert Boyd, Sr. who came to the colonies from N. IRE. He arrived first in Philadelphia, PA then later moved to VA. Robert came with two sons: William, who had red hair, and Robert, who had 'raven locks'. His son William settled farther north, whereas his namesake, Robert, Jr.
>settled in Burke (later Iredell) Co., NC. Robert, Jr. was born in IRE or SCOT near 1728 and settled along the Muddy Fork of the Lower Little River and acres on Lower Little River including the Big Falls and his own improvements for complement. Present day, this parcel is located northwest of Taylorsville, NC, in Alexander Co., with HWY 16 running through it. Robert married Eleanor McCullock (possible in
Philadelphia, PA 1752) and had seven sons (no daughters according to sworn testimony given by Thomas Boyd to the Clerk of Calloway Co., MO). Robert and Eleanor's sons were: William, Robert, Thomas, John, Moses, Aaron, Joseph. According to family account, Robert was a miller during the Revolutionary War. Robert died in Iredell Co. in 1806.
Robert's son, John, was born in Philadelphia, PA (or Richmond, VA) in 1764. John Boyd is listed on the 1810 Census, Burke/Iredell Co., NC. John's family was members of Fourth Creek Presbyterian Church in Iredell Co., NC, where later his grandson, James Hall, would be the minister (this is also the church from which Alexander Witherspoon was a member, whose daughter married John's nephew, John Boyd of William). John and his family eventually left North Carolina about 1811 and went to Logan Co., KY by way of TN. According to John's daughter, Hannah Ewing Boyd, their farm in Logan Co. was adjacent to the farm of Rev. Finis Ewing and his brother, Chatham. Finis Ewing later became one of the founding fathers of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and with John's sons, especially Rev. James Hall Boyd, planted churches in IL and northern MO. Hannah also states that John claimed he and Finis were cousins. About 1817, John and ten of his children moved to Stewart Co., TN. There he purchased 271 acres on the north bank of Green Tree Grove Creek, about a mile south of the Trigg Co., KY. Line, not too far from Canton, KY, which was founded by Finis' nephew-in-law, Abraham Boyd. John's land remained in the family until 1880. By 1850, only Robert, John's son, remained with his parents on the farm.
John died in 1852; his will directed the sale of the property for benefit of his wife, Elizabeth, who had moved into daughter Hannah Ewing Boyd Hudson's home in Trigg Co., KY. (Hannah's husband, Richard, was a blacksmith in Stewart Co., TN). John's land, including the parcel sold by his son, Alfred, to Richard Hudson, is now part of Fort Campbell. John's Children were (in order of birth): Abner, Eleanor M., Margaret E., Isabell, Nancy, John, Adlai, James Hall, Alfred, Robert W., Elizabeth L., Martha C., Hannah
Ewing.
Hannah and Richard lived close to 15miles from Canton, KY, the home town of Abraham and Nancy Agnes Linn Boyd. Abraham and Nancy were born in Bedford Co., VA in 1765, and a contemporary of John Boyd, Hannah's father. Abraham and his family fought in the Revolutionary War, with his father and a
>brother dying in a Tory prison in SC. He is also known to have crossed the mountains into Tennessee with Andrew Jackson. Abraham Boyd, of Scot-Irish descent, came from South Carolina and settled on the banks of the Cumberland River in West Kentucky, known as Boyd's Landing, in 1785. In 1800, he
>settled in and donated the land for the town of Canton, Trigg Co., KY. His wife Nancy Agnes Linn Boyd was of Scot-Irish extraction. Her mother was a Ewing who ran away and married against her parents wishes to an Irishman named Adam Linn, who was born in Belfast, IRE. Nancy Agnes was the niece to
>the Rev. Finis Ewing, both being born in 1773. Abraham served in the Kentucky Court of Appeals. He died April 1839 (no stone) and is buried in Atwood Cemetery, Trigg Co., KY, with his wife, Nancy Agnes (Linn) Boyd where there is no stone.
We are now going to turn our attention to Abraham and Nancy Agnes' ancestors, especially since John called them "cousins" and will try to determine if the moniker was either out of true kinship or kinship of the heart. We will begin with Nancy's heritage since John was so taken with the Ewings, then end with Abraham's Boyd line.
As noted above, Nancy Agnes Ewing Linn was the daughter of Adam and Sidney Ann Ewing Linn. Nancy's father was born in 1725 in Belfast, IRE and immigrated with his family to Bedford Co., VA. He died in Canton, KY in 1832. Nancy's mother was born in Bedford Co., VA in 1753 to Robert and Mary
May Baker Ewing. Sidney Ann was the eldest daughter of Robert and Mary, and as noted above, caused scandal as she ran off with Adam against her parent's permission. Sidney also died and was buried in Canton, KY in 1811. Adam's father was also Adam, who was born in 1720 in IRE and died in Bedford Co.,
VA.
Sidney Ann Ewing Linn's mother, Mary May Baker, was born around 1725, possibly in VA. She married Robert Ewing in 1747 in Bedford Co. VA, where she was also laid to rest in 1747. Mary May's mother was Martha Brooks Baker, who was born in 1695 in Lancashire, ENG. She married Caleb Baker, Jr.
in 1722, and died in Prince Edward Co., VA in 1759. Martha's father was the Rev. John Brooks. Mary May's father, the Rev. Caleb Baker, a Presbyterian minister, was born in Lancashire, ENG about 1690. He died in 1754 in Amelia, Prince Edward Co. VA. Caleb's family were from Lancaster Co., PA and his
great grandfather, Andrew Baker, came from Buckingham, ENG to Boston, MA, where he died about 1650.
Sidney Ann Ewing Linn's father, Robert Ewing, was born between 1715 and 1718 in Coleraine, Londonderry, Ireland. He came over from Ireland between 1735 and 1747. He died in 1787 in Peaks Of Otter, Bedford County, VA. Robert's father, Charles, was born in Londonderry about 1690 and died in 1750.
Robert and Mary May Ewing's children became very well noted as statesmen, judges and Presbyterian clergymen.
Abraham Boyd's parents were James and Martha Burns Boyd. Abraham's mother was born between 1735 and 1740 and was a close "blood kin" to poet Robert Burns (1759-1796), born in Ayershire, SCOT. Martha's parents were Laird I. Burns (b. 1716, Cumberland, PA; d. 1784, Craven, Chester Co., SC) and Ann Mann Burns (1712-1732). Martha's grandfather was John B. Burns, who was born in 1681 in Alyth, SCOT, and died in 1760 in Hamilton Township, Cumberland Co., PA. Martha Burns married James Boyd in Bedford Co., VA in 1754.
Abraham's father, James, was born in 1729 in Bedford Co. or Halifax Co., VA. James enlisted in the 1st South Carolina regiment in 1775, and the Revolutionary War. James "moved to the state of South Carolina, where he was an active and vigilant friend of his country, and a determined asserter of
its independence. Constant and unyielding in the support of the War of the Revolution, he and his family suffered severely for their well-tried patriotism. Twice their habitation was burnt to the ground by the Tories; twice their hearth was made desolate, and he and his family went forth without shelter and raiment, yet they never lost faith in God and the good cause of their country. One son (Samuel) was shot diagonally through the eye and temple. Another son, of the tender age of sixteen years, bore arms
by the side of his father and brother in the war of freedom." James died in 1778 at the Tory Prison Camp, Christian Co., SC. James' father was William Boyd, born about 1700 in N IRE to Scottish parents. He immigrated in 1718 to Philadelphia, PA., and eventually settling near Fort Mitchell in Lunenberg,
Bedford (now Lunenberg) Co., VA. William and his wife Elizabeth were the parents of nine children, the sons being (in order of birth), James, John, Francis, Joseph, and Robert.
End note: It is interesting to see the migration pattern of various Boyd families related to Robert and Eleanor and of William and Elizabeth. Where Abraham Boyd went, not too far in his tracks were also the sons and grandsons of Robert. As Abraham settled for a bit near Nashville, TN, so did John's children and John's nephews and nieces of my ancestor, William. The children of John and William even followed Abraham into Trigg Co., KY before heading into northern and southern MO.
Question: Is the grandfather of Abraham Boyd (William) any relation to Robert Boyd Jr. of Burke/Iredell Co., NC?
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- Title: House of Boyd
Author: Linda Boyd Lawhon
Publication: Self published
Media: Manuscript
- Title: gencircles.com
Author: Bartlett Database by Roger Bartlett
Publication: source: Title: Steve Tutt, electronic mail to Roger Bartlett, 9 Oct 1999
Media: Electronic
- Title: 1800 Iredell Co., NC federal census
Author: National Archives
Publication: M32_29
Media: Census
Page: 628
- Title: 1810 Iredell Co., NC federal census
Author: National Archives
Publication: M252 Roll: 40
Media: Census
Page: 608
- Title: 1790 Iredell Co., NC federal census
Author: National Archives
Publication: Series: M637 Roll: 7
Media: Census
Page: 628
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