Boyd family from Ireland - book info
Was researching my Boyd line and came across this in a book, not my family but interesting, maybe it will be helpful to someone else.
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Pages 444-447 (see source note below)
The Boyd Line.
Alan, First Lord High Steward of Scotland, married Margaret, daughter of Fergus, Earl of Galloway, and had five children, the third being Simon, progenitor of the Boyds. Alan died in n53, and Simon, his third son, became the second Lord High Steward of Scotland. Robert, son of Simon, being of fair complexion, was called "Boidle" or "Boidel" in Gaelic, meaning Boyt or Bo—"fair or beautiful." This became a surname, and Robert Boyd, "the Fair," is the common ancestor of all of the name Boyd. He died prior to 1240 A. D., and left a son, Sir Robert Boyd. Dean Castle, long the residence of the ancient family of Boyd, stands about a mile from Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, on the west coast
of Scotland. The descent to the American Boyds during the centuries has been in many instances through younger sons of whom no record has been kept in the register's office of Scotland. They are first on record in America at Londonderry, where Boyds settled' in 1718. They were Scotch-Irish who had gone into northern Ireland from Scotland! about 1688, there married, and bred the hardy pioneer Scotch-Irish who perpetuated their home names in the new towns they created. The name is next found in New York City and Pennsylvania, where they settled prior to the revolution. There was also an early settlement in Virginia. The Boyds, like all the Scotch-Irish, were hardy, energetic, desirable citizens, and in settling in a new country usually chose the rugged country instead of the more fertile river bottoms, as did the Dutch. This was due to their early environment, as each chose location in accordance with youthful surroundings.
(I) John Boyd was born in the year 1725, of Scotch parentage, and as conclusive evidence shows, was of the Kilmarnock family, some of whom settled in the north of Ireland, county Antrim, where he was either born or taken by his parents at an early age. He married, in 1757, in Ireland, Ann Logan, born 1739. and with his wife and three children arrived at New York in 1762. With John Boyd was his brother-in-law, John Rogers, who married Agnes Logan just before the party started for America. John Boyd resided at Albany until 1793, when, as appears on the sessions record of the First Presbyterian church, of which he was an elder, he removed to the country with his family, meaning Johnstown. 'New York. John Rogers, who was a wheelwright, accompanied him and there they erected saw mills, and there John Boyd died, July 6, 1799. His wife, Ann (Logan) Boyd, survived him, dying in Albany, New York, February 9, 1815, aged seventy-six years. They are both buried in Johnstown, New York. Children:
1. John L., born October 8, 1758.
2. Nancy (Agnes), born February 26, 1760, died February, 1851; married Peter McHench, May n, 1786; had five children, including William, who married Margaret, daughter of David and Margaret (Maxwell) Boyd.
3. James Boyd (see forward).
4. Alexander, the first born in America* September 14, 1764, died 1854. He was a prosperous farmer of Schoharie county, New York, owning much land and many slaves. In 1813 he was elected to congress as a Whig. He was a deacon of the Dutch Reformed church for many years. He married Elizabefh,'daughter of Peter Becker. Children: •i. John, born July 29, 1784, married Kate Van Epps; no issue, ii. Helen, born December 10, 1785, married James Van Gaasbeck, M. D., •of Schoharie county; seven children, iii. David, born November 3, 1788, married Nancy Van Derzee; nine children, iv. Ann Boyd, born March 7, 1791, married George Dial; 'had issue, v. Albert, born March 1, 1793, married Ann Heron; seven children, vi. Peter, born August 25, '1795, married Laney or Helen De Voe; four children, vii. James, 'born December 6, 1797, married Emily Stimpson; two children, viii. Margaret, born February 10, 1800, married John C. Van Vechten; nine children, ix. William A., born September 13, 1802, married Margaret Dougherty, who died 1830; two children; married (second), Sarah M. Sternberg; five children, x. Nancy, born February 2, 1805, married Daniel Larkin; four children, xi. Alexander (2), 'born February 26, 1807. xii. Hugh, died young, xiii. Delia, born July 15, 1812, married Jehiel Larkin; no issue.
5. Hugh, born January 25, 1767, died December 29. 1816; married January 14, 1796,
'Catherine Staats.
6. David, born December 4, 1770, died November 3, 1834, at Schenectady. He was a prominent man of Schenectady, and one of the organizers of the Mohawk Bank, one of the oldest banking institutions of the state. Por a great many years he held the position •of cashier. February 5, 1823, he was elected county judge, serving until January 31, 1825. In 1826 he was elected mayor of Schenectady. In 1812 he was presidential elector. He married, March 7, 1793, Margaret Maxwell, born 'December 29, 1772, died October 14, 1856. Children: i. Euphemia, born January 24, 1794, died March 15, 1851, unmarried, ii. Hugh M., born December 8, 1795, died May 7, 1847, married Mary Dow. iii. Margaret, 'born December 16, 1797, died October 18.
1852, married William McHench. iv. David M., died in infancy, v. Ann, born August 30,
1802, unmarried, vi. John H., born
•9. 1805. vii. Ursula Jane, died in- childhood. viii. Ursula Jane (2), born September 24, 18n, died 1877, married George H. Thacher (see Thacher). ix. David, born December 4, 1815: graduate of Union College; died unmarried, December 12, 1865.
7. Dr. Thomas, born April 19, 1772, died in 'New York City, March 18, 1856. He practiced medicine over sixty years, fifty of them in New York City, and at the time of his death was the oldest physician in the city.
'The press of the city spoke of him in most •compli1rentary terms at the time of his death.
He married, October 22, 1793, Sarah Graham, daughter of Rev. Chauncey and Elizabeth (Van Wyck) Graham. She was born January 11, 1770, died August 16, 1844. Children: i. Elizabeth, married John H. McCall, died February 12, 1881. ii. John Thomas, born July 4, 1797, died June 8, 1859, married Hannah Agnes Shea. (The founder of Boyd's City Express, New York City), iii. Theodore C.. born September, 1799, died August 7, 1843, married Sarah P. Cummings. iv. Margaret A., died February 27, 1841, married Alexander Chalmers, v. William H., a physician, died September 6, 1837, at New Orleans, vi. Maria, died October 21, 1879. vii. Sarah Matilda, died June 6, 1881.
8. William, born September 14. 1775, died April 24, 1840; was captain of a passenger sloop running between Albany and New York for a number of years; then engaged in the jewelry business with William Shephard, continuing later under the firm name of Boyd & Mumford; he married, May 29, 1809, Hannah Hook, born 1783, died February, 1856: children: i. Catherine Hook, died in infancy, ii. John, died in childhood, iii. Thomas Hook, died in infancy, iv. Thomas Hook, died in childhood, v. William, born 1817, died April 6, 1895. vi. Howard, born May, 1819, died July 27, 1889, married Mary A. Morrow, vii. Catherine (2), born September, 1821, died November 22, 1880, married Stephen R. Schuyler. viii. Anna Mary, died in childhood.
9. Hamilton, born February 17, 1778, died September 20, 1820. In association with his brother, Captain Hugh Boyd, he operated a line of river sloops with headquarters at Troy, New York. Tradition says Hugh and Hamilton Boyd were pilots on the first steamboat that ever came to Albany from New York. Hamilton Boyd married (first) Ann Bradshaw (second) Eliza Kirby, who died January 15, 1824; children: i. James Hamilton, died young, ii. Mary Ann, born 1804, died March 3, 1878, married James Peter Boyd, a grandson of James and Jane Boyd, who emigrated from Scotland to America in 1774. iii. Edward Hugh, born May, 1815, died 1884.
(II) James, second son and third child of John and Ann (Logan) Boyd, was born in county Antrim, Ireland. February 2, 1762, died at Albany, New York, February 22, 1839. He was an infant in arms when his parents came to Albany. He grew up and was educated in that city and became a well-known public man and prosperous farmer of the town of Glenville, Schenectady county. He served in the revolutionary war as private under Colonel Philip Schuyler from October 28, 1779, to November 4, 1781. He owned a fine farm in Glenville, but through endorsement of notes lost it, and removed to Johnsburg, Warren county, New York, where he operated a saw mill. He later removed to Albany, New York, where he was public weighmaster many years. For fourteen years he represented Glenville on the Schenectady county board of supervisors; was elected to the state legislature in 18n, reelected in 1812, and held other offices of trust. He married, at Schenectady, January 16, 1783, Alicla Conde, of Charlton, Saratoga county. New York, granddaughter of Adam Conde, constable of Albany, New York, in 1724, and high constable in 1725. He removed to Schenectady, where he was killed in the Buelkendal Indian massacre in 1748. He was called a "Hollander," but there is a well-founded belief in the family that he was a Huguenot descendant of the French Conde family, who fled from France to Holland to escape persecution. He married, November 30, 1736, Catherine DeGraaf, daughter of Jesse and Aaltie (Hennion) Ackerman, of New York, and granddaughter of Claas Andriesse De Graaf, born 1628, the early settler of Schenectady, who married Elizabeth, daughter of William Brouwer, of Albany. Jesse De Graaf was his oldest son, and was for a time held captive in Canada by the French and Indians. Adam Conde and Catherine De Graaf had Johannes, Susannah, Alida, Jesse (see forward), Eva and Adam (2). Jesse Conde was born in Schenectady, March 13, 1743, died 1818. He settled in the town of Charlton, Saratoga county, New York, in 1775, where he died. He married, July 5, 1762, Parthenia Ogden. born July 14, 1744, died December n, 1817, daughter of Jonathan Ogden, of Westchester county. New York. Jesse and Parthenia (Ogden) Conde had twelve children, Alida, Jonathan, Jonathan (2), Adam, Albert, John, Wilmot, Jesse, Susannah, Nicholas De Graaf, Isaac and Jesse (2). Alida, eldest of these children, born June 16, 1763, at Schenectady, died at Albany, August 4, 1838. Tradition says she received from her parents a peck of gold (which may be a fable) and a family of negro slaves (which is a fact) as a marriage portion. She married James Boyd, January 16, 1784. Children: 1. Catherine, born November 17, 1785, married Jacob Yiele. 2. John, born February 12, 1787, died January 21, 1887, lacking a month of completing a full century of years: he was a captain in the war of 1812, and married Maria Vedder. 3. Ann, born 1/92, died at New Orleans, March, 1830; married Charles Vedder, and had James, Catherine, and other children. 4. Parthenia, born November 29, 1/94, married, February 18, 1813, Christopher Whittaker. 5. Wilmot, bornDecember 29, 1796, died March 20, 1877; married Charles Taylor Brown, July 21, 1814,. and died March 20, 1877. 6. Margaret, born October 25, 1800, died June 4. 1878; married Frederick N. Clute, 1819. 7. Susan, born December 18, 1801, died August 9, 1895 ; married Nathaniel Griffing, July 20, 1823. 8. Jesse Conde (see forward). 9. Nancy McHench, born November 5, 1807, died May 18, 1883: married Jesse Martin Van Slyck. James and Alida Boyd were buried in the Dutch Reformed church cemetery, Albany; later they were removed to Rural Cemetery, when the former was taken for Washington Park.
(IIl) Jesse Conde, son of James and Alida (Conde) Boyd, was born in Schenectady, New York, June 5, 1803, and died at Montague, Michigan, June 6, 1891. He was a farmer of Johnsburg, then weighmaster of Erie canal freight; later a lumber dealer of Albany. He removed to the west and engaged in the manufacture of furniture at Chicago; leaving there,. he resided on a farm five miles north of Dixon, Illinois. He was of Grand Detour, Michigan, and Aurora, Illinois, and after losing his wife returned to Chicago, where he lived with his children until 1889, when he exchanged some city property for a farm near Montague, Michigan, where he moved at the age of eighty-four years, again began farming, and' there died. He is buried in Graceland cemetery, Chicago, Illinois. He married, January 15, 1824, Elcy Noble, born in Johnsburg, New York, January 8, 1805. died at Aurora, Illinois, July, 1872, daughter of Edward and' Mary (Leach) Noble. Edward was born in Ireland, October 12, 1772, died in Johnsburg, March 12, 1857. He came to the United' States in 1795. He was a member of the Methodist church, and his home in Johnsburg was noted for its hospitable entertainment of the ministers of that denomination. He married, April 23, 1801, Mary Leach, born inWestchester county, New York, February 5, 1782, died October 5, 1849, daughter of William and Elcy (Ward) Leach. Children: 1. Margaret, died 1852, unmarried. 2. Jane, married John Fuller. 3. Elcy, born January 8, 1805, married Jesse Conde Boyd. 4. John, married Ellen Armstrong. 5. Sally, married Joseph Leach. 6. Mary, married William A. Potter. 7. William, married Caroline Stewart. 8. Edward, married Eunice Fish. 9. Orrilla, married Harvey Schermerhorn.
David Noble, grandfather of Elcy (Noble) Boyd, was born at Terrahen, Ireland, died at Arlington, Vermont, July 14, 1807. In 1795 he came to the United States. He was a local' preacher of the Methodist Episcopal church,. and eminent for his piety and many virtues. He died in the pulpit at the close of a sermon. He married, in 1768, Margaret Caruthers, born in Holywood, Fermanagh county, Ireland, about 1/52, daughter of William. She died in Ireland, February 28, 1790, aged thirty-eight years. They had seven children, of whom Edward was the second. Archibald Noble, great-grandfather of Elcy (Noble) Boyd, was born in Terrahen, Fermanagh county, Ireland. The family were noted for great strength and moral integrity. They were originally members of the Church of England, but later became followers of John Wesley, a faith their descendants in the United States have adhered to with great uniformity. He married Eleanor Jamison, who died in Ireland. They had eight children, of whom David was the third.
Children of Jesse Conde and Elcy (Noble) Boyd: 1. Alida, born January 25, 1826, married Hiram Burton, born at East Greenbush, New York. 2. Mary J., born August 9, 1827, married Charles P. Easton (see Easton). 3. Margaret, born December 22, 1828, married Thomas R. Ferris. 4. James, born June 22, 1831, married Sarah J. Locke, Chicago, Illinois. 5. Edward. 6. John. 7. William, died in infancy. 8. David, born July 4, 1839. 9. Robert, born in Albany, July 13, 1841 ; married (first) Celia Stowe, (second) Helen Pitcher. 10. Charles Lansing, born in Albany, May n, 1843, married Melvina Locke, Chicago, Illinois. n-12. Caatherine, Caroline (twins), born and died November 23, 1845.
SOURCE:
Title:
Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs
A RECORD OF ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OF THE HUDSON AND
MOHAWK VALLEYS IN NEW YORK STATE, INCLUDED WITHIN THE PRES
ENT COUNTIES OF ALBANY. RENSSELAER, WASHINGTON, SARATOGA,
MONTGOMERY, FULTON, SCHENECTADY, COLUMBIA AND GREENE.
PREPARED UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF
CUYLER REYNOLDS
Curator of The Albany Institute and Historical and Art Society, since 1898; Director of New
York State History Exhibit at Jamestown Exposition, 1907; Author of "Albany
Chronicles," "Classified Quotations," and several other published works.
VOLUME I.
ILLUSTRATED
Publisher:
NEW YORK LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
1911
NOTE: This book can be found on google books
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