John Boyd (abt. 1705 - 1789)

Born about 1705 in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Ireland [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 30 Jun 1789 at about age 84 in Shelburne Falls, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

John was born in 1705, perhaps at Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.^[1][2]

Text from FindAGrave:^[2]

He married Margaret Long on Apr 11,1731 at Boston, Massachusetts.^[3]

She was born in Ireland, a daughter of John Long and Sarah Jane (___) Long.

Margaret died at Shelburne, Mass. on Sep 30,1793.

John Boyd was probably among the immigrants in 1718 from Ulster, Ireland. He and his wife were warned out of Rumney Marsh, and went to Hopkinton or Upton, Mass. before finally locating in Shelburne, Mass.

Inscription:

In memory of Mr John Boyd

who died June 30 1789

ye 84th year of his age

Death is a debt to nature

Due, which I have paid.

And so might you.

Alternate biography:

John was born about 1720. ^{[citation needed]}

John, son of James Boyd, landed with his brother James, in Boston,^{[citation needed]} and further record of him is lost. Tradition says that he was killed in a Naval action under John Paul Jones, but it must have been another John of the family, as this John would be seventy or eighty years old at the time of the Revolution. The Navy Department has no record of a John Boyd serving on any of Jones ships, but then the records of that period are very incomplete.

Alternate Death Date: 20 June 1789

Place: Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts

Source: John, June 20, 1789, a. 84 y. P. R. 18. ^[4]

Burial Place: Shelburne, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA

Residence

• Date: 18 Mar 1731

Place: Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA^{[citation needed]}

Research Notes

His Findagrave profile attaches him as a son of James Boyd (abt.1669-). However, this is unsupported by sources. Do not attach parents without other sources.

Sources

1. ↑ FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G9QK-Q8Q, with attached sources
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 25 September 2021), memorial page for John Boyd (1705–30 Jun 1789), Find A Grave: Memorial #68185694, citing Hill Cemetery, Shelburne, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Anonymous (contributor 47283828) .
3. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-KMCP : 29 November 2018), Jonathan Boyde and Margaret Long, 1731; citing Marriage, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011046.
4. ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). Death Record

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