Perry Quite a good tree you have provided members of this list. I will be away from home for the next 3 days at a conference, so I will start some questions for you before I write next week. Have you looked at the 1820 and 1830 Chatham and/or Moore County NC census? - So what town were they living in? And were any other Boyd families "living nearby". It may be worth listing these to the list in case someone is linked to those - Are you on the both the old and current Chathan and Moore County Net list at rootsweb.com? - Alexander could have died on his farm in NC before the family moved; or while travelling to TN? (So do you know which route the family took from NC to TN. - In that period it was "quite" common that family groups travelled together. So look at the 1840 TN census for other Boyds. - The Counties Book tells us that Crockett Co., TN was not formed until 1845, then from Lauderdale, Dyer, Madison, Gibson & Haywood, so you may need to look in one or all of these western TN counties. Early next week I will search for any other Boyds in your NC Counties to see if I can find any others researching in this area of NC. Michelle Legon from Boone, NC, our State Historian for NC, may have some other suggestion in the mean time. Thank you Mike Boyd Historical Committee, HBS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Perry Boyd" <cabpmb@gmail.com> To: <BOYD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 6:39 AM Subject: [BOYD] Looking for Alexander Boyd (~1790-1834) Chatham or MooreCounty, NC > My name is Perry Boyd. I'm the gr-g-g grandson of Alexander and Margaret > McKnight Boyd. My email address is cabpmb@gmail.com. > > My search for ancestry connections via the Boyd line stops with *Alexander > Boyd*. The following information on Alexander, his marriage, and his > children is provided for members of the list with hope that one or more of > you have come across information that will help us further link our line > back into Ireland or Scotland. We know that Alexander's wife and children > moved from Chatham or Moore county NC to Crockett county TN in 1834. I > have not found what happened to Alexander, where he was born, where he > died, > or identification of his parents, etc. > > *Generation No. 6* > > *ALEXANDER BOYD* was born Abt. 1790, and died Abt. > 1834 in Chatham or Moore County, NC. He married MARGARET MCKNIGHT Abt. > 1822 > in Chatham or Moore County, NC, daughter of HENRY MCKNIGHT and REBECCA > EMISON. She was born Abt. 1795 in Belfast, Ulster, Ireland, and > died 1869 in Madison County, Tn. > > Children of *ALEXANDER BOYD and MARGARET MCKNIGHT *are: > > *1. ROBERT BOYD*, b. Abt. 1825, Moore County, NC; d. Dec 1891, Crockett > County, Tn. > > 2. REBECCA BOYD, b. Abt. 1827, Moore County, NC. > > 3. HENRY BOYD, b. Abt. 1828, Moore County, NC. > > 4. ??? BOYD, b. Abt. 1830; d. 1851. > > 5. ARCHIBALD BOYD, b. Abt. 1832, Moore County, NC. > > 6. EASTER BOYD, b. Abt. 1834, Moore County, NC. > > 7. JAMES BOYD, b. 19 Apr 1835, Center, Gibson county, Tn. > >