I was doing some research on the War of 1812 and ran across this reference to Col. John P. Boyd in the Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812 by Benson J. Lossing. Thought someone might enjoy reading it. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wcarr1/Lossing2/Chap10.html#e012 Marla

For other list members this Colonel John Parker Boyd was the descendant of:- Q1? Robert Boyd, b 6?/8/1689 (Kilmarnock ?), d November 1772, (said in W.P. Boyd p 120 d 1761) m 25/10/1714 (Kilmarnock), Margaret Thomson, dau of and (nee ) Thomson, b 16xx, d 17xx, and had issue:- [Lived: ] R10 James Boyd, b 3/9/1732 (Kilmarnock), d 30/9/1798, m 11/8/1757 (Newbury, Mass), Susannah Coffin, dau of Colonel Joseph Coffin of Newburyport, NH, b 17xx, d 17xx, and had issue:- m 2ndly 23/7/1791 (Boston), Abigail Bulfinch, dau of Bulfinch, b 17xx, d 18xx, and had issue:- ? [Lived: of Newburyport, NH USA ] S2 John Parker Boyd, b 21/12/1764 (Newburyport, Massachusetts), d 4/10/1830, and never married but had issue:- After he became an office in the Army in the USA he went to India and raised a Brigade and hired it out to the various Indian ruler. He came home and fought in the 1812 War and later became the Harbour Master at Boston. Although he never married he had two children by two different women. However, I have no details on what happened to them. Thank you Mike Boyd ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marla Fair" <dfair@woh.rr.com> To: "Boyd List" <BOYD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2011 10:04 AM Subject: [BOYD] Colonel John P. Boyd >I was doing some research on the War of 1812 and ran across this reference >to Col. John P. Boyd in the Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812 by >Benson J. Lossing. Thought someone might enjoy reading it. > > http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wcarr1/Lossing2/Chap10.html#e012 > > Marla > > >