Mike, Your ambitious as usual and forgetting we are not Ireland or England. Bus and train service sucks. SO, only option I can see is Concord Bus lines http://www.concordcoachlines.com/ They can take you to all those places and be the closest arrival spot for Loon Mt. Hopefully, Boyds with cars can get you to the games. Researching this area/region is pretty straight forward. #1- NEHGS in Boston as you mentioned. However, the Massachusetts State Archives, http://www.sec.state.ma.us/arc/arcsrch/searchwelcome.html , is a close second and does include material not held at NEHGS. PLEASE don't waste your time with Gary Boyd Roberts at NEHGS. His answer has not changed since 2004 "Can't research those Irish and don't really know the Boyd family". #2- Concord New Hampshire. New Hampshire Historical Society is the place to go and if you ask nicely, they may bring you the 1718 Petition. Take pictures of the Boyd signatures cause I have some Boyd documents I may be able to compare. The State Archives is a place you could spend a week, and maybe cull together all the individual Boyd records. Unfortunately, you don't have that time so I would focus on the NHHS time. #3 Londonderry. ONLY as an historical observation ie paintings, graves, walking the historical sites etc. They have little clue about their real heritage, and to this day are unaware of the family/history of the Robert Boyd who's portrait hangs outside the "genealogy" room. Sorry for the negativity, but you have little time to waste on useless research. -- Colin Brooks The 1718 Project CB1718project@gmail.com

Mike et al. Let me clarify some of your Boyd info on New Hampshire. There is only 2 proven Boyds in NH by 1719. Both suprisingly, are in Portsmouth. #1 GEORGE Boyd who became a famous shipping owner comes from the Boston region pre-1718. Origins are still unknown. George was a loyalist, and eventually died while returning from London on one of his ships. #2 JAMES Boyd- shopkeeper of Portsmouth is the only PROVEN 1718 Boyd connection. James has a signed 1717 agreement with John Orr of Ballymoney, County Antrim; and is documented in Portsmouth in 1719 in the court system. James, I believe, is the same James documented as "GONE" and having sold his lands in the Connelly Estate near Newton Limavady by Fall of 1718. It is James's daughter Mary, who becomes the wife of Rev. David McGregor, son of Rev. James McGregor who led the Aghadowey 1718 migration. James documents a brother John and nephew John in New Hampshire by 1928ish. James sells part of his settlers right land in Chester, New Hampshire to #3 Thomas Boyd. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ These are the unknown families who MAY be 1718 time frame or soon thereafter: #3 Thomas Boyd first of Chester and then of Londonderry, New Hampshire. This is my ancestor. First records are mid-1720s when he purchases land from James Boyd of Portsmouth. Thomas is only Boyd in early Londonderry Presbyterian church records. His family stays until the mid-1950s as far as I can tell. I believe he is the THOMAS BOYD who is listed as selling his lands and GOING in those same Connelly estate papers mentioned above Fall of 1718. There is an unknown and older ROBERT Boyd who may be his father, which is why Thomas does not show up in early 1718 records. I have a strong suspicion that Thomas was a sailing captain, and so is not in many "land"records in Londonderry. #4 William and Samuel Boyd are father son who gain lands in Derryfield and now Manchester. This family I have proven back to the Salem/Boston region and may pre-date 1718, but could easily be a 1718 emigrant. #5. William Boyd, ship captain, BORN in 1719, who has no known record of Londonderry existence until the 1750's but for which many combine his birth year with the emigration year. I have never found that evidence. However, William and #3 Thomas are practically next door neighbors and may easily be brothers, even the child naming patterns seem to be purposefully different. #6 Thomas Boyd of Hampton, New Hampshire circa 1750. Origins are unknown, he gets confused with Thomas #3, and sons names are close but again different. There are no more extra Boyd's until the late 1700's. All other NH Boyds are descendants of the above men. -- Colin Brooks The 1718 Project CB1718project@gmail.com