Mossom Boyd (1814 - 1883)

Ancestors Descendants

Biography

Mossom Boyd was the founder of an Ontario-based lumber industry centered on the Trent River watershed. He built grist and sawmills at Bobcaygeon in the 1850s and signed a lucrative deal in 1869 to cut lumber on Canadian Land and Emigration Company lands in the Haliburton region. He eventually had residences in both Bobcaygeon and Toronto.^[1][2]

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossom_Boyd
2. ↑ Larry Turner, “BOYD, MOSSOM MARTIN,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 14, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed December 3, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/boyd_mossom_martin_14E.html.

See also:

• India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947, ancestry.com: "Name: Mossum Boyd; Gender: Male; Birth Date: 07 Dec 1814; Baptism Date: 03 Jan 1815; Baptism Age: 0; Baptism Place: Berhampore, Bengal, India; Father: Gardiner Boyd; Mother: Arabella; Reference ID: v 9 p 195; FHL Film Number: 498610"