Do we have this Thomas Boyd in the books?? State of Missouri Calloway County: SS On this 20th day of August in the year 1833 personally appeared in open court before the County Court of Calloway County now sitting, Thomas Boyd Senior a resident of said County of Calloway in the State of Missouri aforesaid, aged seventy-two years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following statement in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 – I was born on the 10th of March in the year 1761 in York County Pennsylvania according to the uniform statements of my Father and to the registry of my age which I have seen in my Father's Bible – what has become of that Bible I cannot tell, but suppose it to be in possession of someone of my family in North Carolina, to which State I removed along with my Father and family when I was about eight years of age – My Father then settled with his family in what was then called Berk [sic, Burke] County close to the line of Rowan County – I remained there with my Father and mother until I was about 15 years old