John Boyd (1799 - aft. 1880)

Born 15 Dec 1799 in Jefferson County, Georgia, United States

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Died after 1880 after age 80 in Leake County, Mississippi, USA

Biography

John Boyd, born 15 December 1799, Jefferson County, Georgia; married Mary “Polly” Warren, about 1818 (d. 4 June 1853). After Polly's death he married married Priscilla Powell on 8 November 1853

John resided in Pike County until about 1833. After the Choctaw sessions he, along with Warren and McCullough in laws, moved to Yazoo County, then Holmes County.

The Boyds, John and Polly Warner then left Holmes County to join Polly’s siblings and other friends in the Leake-Newton-Neshoba counties triangle. They finally settled on Newton County’s Conehatta Creek, just below the Neshoba line. In 1843 the family moved a final time to Leake County. Polly Warner Boyd died 10 years later.

John Boyd and Mary “Polly” Warren had the following children:

1. Franklin Boyd, born 1819‒20, Mississippi.He married (1) about 1840 in LeakeCounty, Lamender A. Barfoot; (2) after 1860 in Leake County, D. A. Woodall;and (3) 8 November 1871, Leake County, Jane W. Pickens. Both his Barfoot and Pickens wives are said by many descendants to be of Indian extraction.
2. James Boyd, born between 2 June 1821 and 1 June 1822, Mississippi;203 married Elmira Parks, about 1840; married Mary C? Frances Smith, on 27 November 1853, Leake County; died before 1 June 1860.205
3. Priscilla Boyd, b. ca. 1824–25, Mississippi; 206 died 7 October 1900, near Conway, Leake County, Mississippi.207 She married Matthew Murray Johnson, son of Martin and Elizabeth (Peace) Johnson, about 1845, apparently in Newton County.208 Matthew Murray’s tombstone states that he was born 28 March 1822 and died 26 June 1888.209
4. Unnamed daughter was born between 1825 and 1830 in Mississippi.210
5. Eliza Boyd, born ca. 1828‒29, Mississippi; married James Johnson, about 1847, apparently in Newton County.
6. Andrew John Boyd, born on 9 March 1836
7. William Jasper Boyd, born in 1839, Newton County, Mississippi; married Amanda E., before 1860, ?Newton County.
8. Mary Ann M. (Martha?) Boyd, born about 1843–44,215 Leake County,

Mississippi; married Richard Augustus Owen, 3 January 1837, Leake County.^[1]

"Polly’s sister and brother-in-law, Priscilla (Warren) and Samuel Sims, had settled in upper Leake County near the community of Conway—forty-to-fifty miles away, as the crow flies. On 13 July of that year, John purchased 80 acres next door to the Simses on the Yockanokana River near the road leading from Carthage to Bennet’s Ferry, The tract, legally known as the W½ of the SE¼ of S31 T12N R7E, was purchased from Samuel Joslyn Jr. and his wife Elmira. John died after the 1880 census of Leake County, Mississippi."^[2]

Most census records place John’s birth in Georgia born between 2 June 1799 and 1 June 1800; for example, see 1850 U.S. Cens., Leake Co., Miss., pop. sch., p. 17 (stamped), dwell. 217, fam. 238; National Archives microfilm 432, roll 376. Most subsequent censuses, cited in his biographical sketch, agree with this time frame for his birth. John’s place of birth is based on the known residence of his father in the 1796–1806 period—that residence being in Jefferson Co. along the Burke Co. line. An aberrant 1880 census, for which data appears to have been given by a younger daughter or son-in-law, attributes his birth to Tennessee; see 1880 U.S. Census, Leake Co., pop. sch., Beat 2, dwell. 169, fam. 174. That Tennessee birth reference is an echo of the 1850^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.historicpathways.com/download/JanesOffspring5Generations.pdf page 51
2. ↑ https://www.historicpathways.com/download/JanesOffspring5Generations.pdf page 49
3. ↑ https://www.historicpathways.com/download/JanesOffspring5Generations.pdf page 39

1850 Census, Name: John Boyde, Age: 51, Estimated birth year: abt 1799

Birth Place: South Carolina Gender: Male

Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Police District 3, Pike, Mississippi

Family Number: 453

Household Members Name Age

John Boyde 51

Mary Boyde 46

Elizabeth Boyde 12

Mary Boyde 6

Nancy Boyde 21

Michael Boyde 18

John Boyde 15

Drucilla Boyde 19.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to George Berthelson for creating WikiTree profile Boyd-2503 through the import of John Boyd.ged on Feb 25, 2013.

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