Jane (Craig) Boyd (abt. 1695 - aft. 1750)

Born about 1695 in Stirlingshire, Scotland

Ancestors

Wife of John Thomas Boyd — married about 1715 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died after 1750 after about age 55 in Northampton Twp, Northampton, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Jane (Craig) Boyd was born in Scotland.

Jane (Craig) Boyd migrated from Scotland to Colonial America.

Jane (Craig) Boyd was born about 1695 in Stirlingshire, Scotland, daughter of Captain William Craig Sr. (>1662 - 1744) and Margaret Elizabeth (Lindsay) Craig (~1660 - ~1687).

Her siblings were:

1. Thomas Craig (~1675 - 1744)
2. William Craig (<1685 - ~1756)
3. Thomas Craig (1688 - 1779)
4. James Craig (1690 - )
5. Sarah (Craig) Wilson (1692 - 1784)
6. Margaret Craig (1694 - 1772)
7. Daniel Craig (1698 - 1776)

Jane (~20) married John Thomas Boyd (~25) (1690 - ~1750) in 1715 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia. Their children were:

1. John Boyd (1716 - 1758)
2. Janet Boyd (1720-bef.1812)
3. William Boyd (~1724 - ).^[1]

John [Thomas] Boyd (I) - b.1699 [1690] in Edinburgh, Scotland. He removed with his father's family to Antrim, Ireland in 1700. From thence he removed to America 1714...settling in Philadelphia. In 1715 he married Jane Craig, sister of Thomas Craig. She was born in Scotland in 1695.^[2]

John and Jane removed with Colonel Thomas Craig and other families from Philidelphia, in 1728 formed the Craig or Irish Settlement in Northampton County. The farm on which they lived was owned in 1879, we believe, by John Miller.^[2]

As the family records were burned during an Indian incursion into the Craig Settlement in 1756, the date of birth for John and Jane Boyd are not definitely known. As near as we can learn John Boyd died on his farm near Bath in 1750, aged about 60 years. Jane Boyd outlived her husband by several years. They had several children, the names of whom, except that of John and Mary and Jane have been lost. There is even some doubt about Jane.^[2]

Jane died about 1750 in Northampton Twp, Northampton, Pennsylvania aged ~55.

Sources

1. ↑ Marriage and Children https://archive.org/details/cu31924028856900/page/323/mode/1up Pennsylvania genealogies; chiefly Scothch-Irish and German by W H Egle, page 740-755
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} The Scotch-Irish of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, Published by The Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society, 1926, Volume I, p.166 JOHN BOYD

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