Walter I will have to get some time this week to "try" and do some research on this Mary Boyd. What I found was quite a large family coving 250 years or so. I think for memory that I have data on the second Boyd family from Halifax County. It is just as bad as looking for a John Boyd when youhave a Mary Boyd to search for. Mike Boyd ----- Original Message ----- From: WYBoyd@aol.com To: mikejboyd@bigpond.com Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 2:12 AM Subject: Robert Bell/Mary Boyd Mike, I went back to my notes and do have a reference to Mary Boyd, born about 1754, as the second wife of Robert Bell, Sr. of Caswell County. It is claimed that she was the daughter of John and Rebecca Boyd, but I haven't been able to find any reference to her parents. In other words, I know of no grandson of George and Isabella Boyd named John who had a wife named Rebecca. As I've mentioned previously, there was another Boyd family in western Halifax County (the part that is now Pittsylvania County) in the mid-18th century, but I have not been able to link them to my Boyd branch. It is possible that Mary Boyd was the daughter of one of them since Robert Bell was from Caswell County and since it is due south of the part of Pittsylvania County where this Boyd family was living. The route we took from Greensboro to South Boston when you were here in October is directly along the route that Robert and Mary Boyd Bell would have followed when they migrated to Guilford County. It passes just to the east of the Guilford Court House area. Your mention of the Bell name and Tennessee triggered another Boyd memory. George Boyd Hopson, the great-grandson of John Boyd, Sr. (of Boyd's Ferry) was the physician to John William Bell of Tennessee, whose family is associated with the famous "Bell Witch," a very famous Southern ghost tale. Walter