There seems to be “several” Boyd families that lived in the Fishing Creek area of Chester County, SC. In the book The descendants of the Robert Boyd and the Charles Boyd families of Chester County, South Carolina, (2000 Harvard St., Midland 79701), M. Perry, c1987 Max lists two Boyd families. The first was the grandson of Captain Robert Boyd of Cumberland Valley, PA (now Franklin County) whose grandson Robert Boyd settled there. He also mentions in a second part of this Book the family of a David Boyd – whom from memory came directly to Fishing Creek in about the 1770’s (that book is still pack in a box) - Then there seems to be a family of a David Boyd (1738-1815) and Margaret Wylie who also settled on Fishing Creek – whose origins are not clear. So in this one location, we have at least THREE BOYD FAMILIES – that we know of. In this case it will be very easy to confuse these families if you do not work your way back generation by generation. Mike Boyd Historical Committee, HBS

This is a fantastic question, Mike. I'll play! There is no short answer to the question. There are several problems we must sort out first. Which "Fishing Creek"? This moniker will be found branching off of every river in the Carolinas but usually only one per county/district. The first settlers to come to this area of what would someday become "Chester county" came in about 1755 and were Scotch/Irish Presbyterians from Chester, Pennsylvania. There was only one footpath and it was about where highway 72 runs. The church was about here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Fishing+Creek+Presbyterian/@34.7746304,-81.0494915,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xb9e4e7284e7d757a Fortunately for us and this settlement the name has stuck, and this is still called "Fishing Creek". So we are talking about the one in South Carolina, off the Catawba river in what is today Chester County. The next question concerns "Chester county" which did not exist as it is now until 1868. There were several other names for the local governments; Chester county 1755- 1768 when it became Camden District. This same area was part of "Pickney District" in 1791 and only on 1800 did it become again "Chester county". and even then the districts and counties overlapped. People tended to just go to the closest courthouse to do business and this is pretty close to Chester. Here is a valuable resource for that: http://www.mapofus.org/southcarolina/ What complicates the matter even further when we try to sort out these Boyd families who lived in such close proximity here in the Chester area is that it is quite close to the 96th district border and so it seems that some researchers have mixed these families up. Once we separate out all the non- Chester county families what do we have left? Does anyone know where exactly this Boyd property on Fishing Creek, Chester district, South Carolina was, exactly? What land records do we know about? The first census was not until 1790 and it is "District" wide. 1800 has the county boundaries close to how they are today. What does the 1790 census tell us about these Boyds? I would expect there were Boyds among the first Presbyterians to this settlement circa 1755-58. so there is a whole generation there before the first census. Is anyone on the list researching any of these families? Should I add a stop at the Chester County Historical society to my list of days in September? Barry in Dallas On 4/29/2016 6:41 PM, Mike Boyd via wrote: > There seems to be “several” Boyd families that lived in the Fishing Creek area of Chester County, SC. > > In the book The descendants of the Robert Boyd and the Charles Boyd families of Chester County, South Carolina, (2000 Harvard St., Midland 79701), M. Perry, c1987 Max lists two Boyd families. The first was the grandson of Captain Robert Boyd of Cumberland Valley, PA (now Franklin County) whose grandson Robert Boyd settled there. 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