During my recent trip to the USA in 2011, I meet four people at four separate places, during my talks and going to the three Highland Games, who were descendants of this couple. However, it was not until I was talking to a group at Nashville (which young Bob Boyd organised for me) that I meet the last of these, Clayton Boyd, who gave me a file with some 32,000 names on it. So after my talk finished Clayton, Bob and I were talking about this family. And it was decided that we should make this family A PROJECT for the House of Boyd Society. By a Project, I mean that a group of this family descendants and other HBS members devote some time to doing some organised research on this family. I know that these books are published about this family:- The Boyds of Boyds Tank, by Frank Ewell Boyd & William Taylor Boyd. (1970). 107 p. 71-126643 Captives' Mansion by S. R.. Slaymaker II, published in 1973. [title given by Brenda Cornelius ] So does anyone know if any other books or material has been published on the family of George and Isabella Boyd and their five son's families - Patrick; George, Jr.; John; James and Robert Boyd? I know that when I was in Lexington, KY, I found about 40-50 pages on the West family who are part of Patrick's family. While last year, while with Charlene Kemp at the Lancaster Co., PA Historical Library, I found a chart which Mrs. Evelyn A. Benson did while researching for material for Frank Ewell Boyd & William Taylor Boyd book. This Chart covers the first 5 generations. I have also been told Frank Ewell Boyd & William Taylor Boyd's book does contain some errors in it but not what these errors are or how many there are. It is know that the son George Boyd remained in Compass, Chester Co., PA. While Patrick and John Boyd moved to South Boston on the Dan River, Virginia and the remaining two brothers, who had also come to the Dan River later moved onto Granville County, NC These are the details that I currently have on these five sons (which I have been given over time, so may or may not be correct):- S1 Patrick Boyd, b / /1711 ( , Co. Antrim, Ireland), d 2/1/1762 (either Chester Co, Pa or Halifax Co., VA.), bu , m 25/7/1732 (St. John's Episcopal Churchyard, Compass, Lancaster Co., PA.), Rachel Grissom (or Grisham), dau of and (nee ) Grissom, bc 1715 ( ), dc / /1750 ( ), bu , and had issue:- m 2ndly m 1751-1752 ( Church, place ), Ann Douglass, of Halifax Co., VA., dau of and (nee ) Douglass, bc 1737 ( ), d / /17xx ( ), bu , and had issue:- S2 George Boyd, Jr., b / /1715 ( , Lancaster Co., Pa.), d 12/6/1763 ( ), bu St. John's Episcopal Churchyard, Compass, Lancaster Co., PA., m / /174x ( church , place), Mary Douglass, dau of and (nee ) Douglass, bc 1730 ( ), d / /17xx ( ), bu St. John's Episcopal Churchyard, Compass, Lancaster Co., PA., and had issue:- S3 John Boyd, Sr., b / /1716 ( , Lancaster Co., Pa), d / /1757 ( , Halifax Co., Va.), bu , m / /173x ( , ), Margaret Lawson, dau of and (nee ) Lawson, bc 1720 ( ), d / /17xx ( ), bu , and had issue:- [Lived: Dan River, VA ] S4 James Boyd, b / /1718 ( ), d 1772 ( ), bu , m / /173x ( , ), Mary Cochran, dau of and (nee ), bc 1720 ( ), d / /17xx ( ), bu , and had issue:- - From the book, The Boyds of Boyds Tank, by Frank Ewell Boyd & William Taylor Boyd, (1970), 107 p. (USLC # 71-126643), pp 20-21, said that:- "The brothers James (1717?-1772) and Robert (1719?-1778?), sons of George Boyd of Pennsylvania, were in Virginia with older brothers John and Patrick for a time but moved to North Carolina settling in Granville County which borders on the Virginia state line just south of Halifax County. Both died in Granville County." S5 Robert Boyd, b / /1720 ( ), d / /1782 ( ), bu , m / /174x ( , ), Lucretia O'Mary, dau of and (nee ) O'Mary, bc 1720 ( ), d / /17xx ( ), d / /17xx ( ), bu , and had issue:- [Lived: ] While these are the details the 1994 IGI for the UK has on them:- Isabella Mrs BOYD (F)......... S: Abt 1695 B: 21 Oct 1980 OGDEN Ba: F801962 10 @^- Spouse: George BOYD , , Ireland E: 30 Oct 1980 OGDEN So: 1260781 George BOYD (M)........ B: 1715 B: 4 Apr 1989 LOGAN Ba: 5007964 12 Father: George BOYD , Antrim, Ireland E: 19 Oct 1989 LOGAN So: 1553367 Mother: Isabella SP: Cleared George BOYD (M)........... B: 1719 B: 21 Oct 1980 OGDEN Ba: F801962 10 @^- Father: George BOYD Antrim, Ulster Province, Ireland E: 8 Nov 1980 OGDEN So: 1260781 Mother: Isabella SP: 25 Nov 1980 OGDEN John BOYD (M)........... B: 1712 B: 21 Oct 1980 OGDEN Ba: F801962 10 @^- Father: George BOYD Antrim, Ulster Province, Ireland E: 12 Nov 1980 OGDEN So: 1260781 Mother: Isabella SP: 25 Nov 1980 OGDEN James BOYD (M)............ B: 1715 B: 21 Oct 1980 OGDEN Ba: F801962 10 @^- Father: George BOYD Antrim, Ulster Province, Ireland E: 12 Nov 1980 OGDEN So: 1260781 Mother: Isabella I do not have Patrick's entry which is in the 2nd half I still have to copy. While this entry MIGHT BE George's Christening after his birth in 1691. George BOYD (M)........... C: 17 May 1692 B: 17 Apr 1974 SLAKE Ba: 7331611 84 Father: Georg BOYD Airth, Stirling, Scotland E: 6 Jun 1974 SLAKE So: 934260 Mother: Elizabeth JOHNSTOUN SP: 20 Aug 1974 SLAKE I was told last year when I visited South Boston on the Dan River, that James and Robert had their land on the Virginia and North Carolina State border and claimed that when the State Tax man came to them, that they lived in the other State. While I have part of this family outlined in Chapter 5/266 with 68 pages, it will mean that in future I most likely will have to make up new family chapters for some of the later generation's families in Volume 25 of Clan Boyd of Scotland (for Pennsylvania families); Volume 27 (for the Virginia families and Volume 28 (for North Carolina families. Or should I keep all these families - say for the grandchildren of the five sons - into one of these Volumes so that they are all remain together. So do we from a group to research this family in an organised why? Can someone else besides myself, chair or guide this group? So there are a number of questions that need to be asked on the start of this family and I will start the list of:- (i) When did George and his family come to Compass, Chester Co., PA? It was know that it was prior to 1729. (ii) What ship did they come from Ireland on? (iii) Which Port did they leave from in Ireland? (iv) Which Port did they arrive in the USA? (v) Are there any land purchaser that they made when they arrived? (vi) What was the date of birth of each of the five sons and where? [Note my current data differs from the IGI dates for their birth] (vii) Where in County Antrim, Ireland did George and his family live? [I think it was around the Ballymoney area of Antrim but I have no evidence to support this.] viii) Some people say that he came on a ship hired by Lord Archibald Douglass. (While at the Woodland Games in California, I did get an card from the Douglas tent for their Regent for North California, so I can write to him shortly to see whom might be the best person to write to in Clan Douglas society of North America.) (ix) Why did George and his family settle in Compass, Chester Co. PA and not further west like many of the other Irish of the 1720's. (x) Why did he as a Episcopalian in American and I assume as a Church of Ireland in County Antrim find that he had to migrate out of Ireland in the 1720's. The Church of Ireland were the "ruling class" in Ireland. (xi) Why did George (and assume his parents) moved from Scotland to County Antrim. Was this because of the Covenanter problems in Scotland at the end of the 1600's? ANY OTHER QUESTIONS TO BE ASKED/ANSWERED? xii) ? SO WHAT DO WE DO WHEN WE HAVE COLLECTED THIS DATA? A) Do we simply compile a family tree and put it as various family Chapters in Clan Boyd of Scotland? B) Or does someone wish take this family tree data and add other data to it to make a book on this family? C) Or can we put it on it on the clanboyd.org web site? D) any other suggestions? Thank you ? Mike Boyd Chairman Historical Committee House of Boyd Society

I am so excited that the interest in George and Isabella Boyd has surfaced again. Here is my line Gay Philips Dasher>Laddie Boyd Longino>Vance Boyd Longino>Mary Frances "Molly" Boyd>Fitzherbert Boyd>Henry Boyd>Richard Coleman Boyd>Patrick Boyd>George and Isabella Boyd. Mike had sent me a file on the family some time ago (FILE W56588HC.doc) but I could not open it. There is a wealth of information at the Troup County GA Library in LaGrange GA. It is the genealogical data and research of Mrs. Roland Shaefer Heard, Mrs. Charles Mellard Jamison and Mrs. Julius C. Moore, descendants of Henry and Susan Heard Boyd. Much of their data was used in the book Boyds of Boyd's Tank. I is all organized very clearly and I spent 4 hours gathering information - just a drop of what is there; but it is a two hour drive from my home so I spent 4 hours driving for 4 hours of research. My main interest is in Molly Boyd and her parents Fitzherbert Boyd and Sophronia "Sarah" Allison. Molly and her sisters are living in Alabama in 1860 but in 1870 are with their grandmother Martha Allison in Meriwether County, GA. I can find no death records for Fitzherbert "Herbert" of Sophronia "Sarah." It is supposed that Molly's father Herbert died during the Civil War but I have not found a record to that effect and absolutely nothing on what happened to her mother Sarah.