As part of the Heber G. Gearhart collection at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, I found some pages, which included the family of John Cowen Boyd who was born in 1793 in Chester County, PA and died 18 August 1849 at Boyd’s Station in Northumberland County, PA. He married Hannah Montgomery, daughter of General Daniel Montgomery and had seven children. John Boyd was the son of General John Boyd. I know that over recent years on the Boyd list, there have been a number of Emails on a “John C. Boyd”. However, I am not sure if this John Cowen Boyd is the same person being referred to? It goes onto say that John removed from Chester County and located in Danville in 1820. It then adds, “Miss Helen Wallace, 203 Pine St., Harrisburg, PA is publishing a book about the Boyd family.” I have not seen any such book by Miss Wallace on any list of books on Boyd families that I have been able to find. This Gearhart collection would have taken place in the 1930’s Do any members know if Miss Wallace actually published her book? And what was its title, etc? Are any of our members able to search any of the Harrisburg, PA Library’s Indexes to see if to she did publish? Or can some of the local Harrisburger’s check on their next visit to the public Library or the “Harrisburg local History society” may have any of her papers. Hopefully this will allow some members to find additional information on this Boyd family. Thank you Mike Boyd Historical Committee House of Boyd Society

Could this Danville have been Danville, VA? And then he went back to PA?? We have suspected that my Boyd's went back to PA near their death. If so it would sure be the missing link for my family. Anyone have ideas? -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Boyd Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 5:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [BOYD] John Cowen Boyd (1793-1849) & Hannah Montgomery of Boyd’s Station Danville, Northumberland County, PA and Miss Helen Wallace's book As part of the Heber G. Gearhart collection at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, I found some pages, which included the family of John Cowen Boyd who was born in 1793 in Chester County, PA and died 18 August 1849 at Boyd’s Station in Northumberland County, PA. He married Hannah Montgomery, daughter of General Daniel Montgomery and had seven children. John Boyd was the son of General John Boyd. I know that over recent years on the Boyd list, there have been a number of Emails on a “John C. Boyd”. However, I am not sure if this John Cowen Boyd is the same person being referred to? It goes onto say that John removed from Chester County and located in Danville in 1820. It then adds, “Miss Helen Wallace, 203 Pine St., Harrisburg, PA is publishing a book about the Boyd family.” I have not seen any such book by Miss Wallace on any list of books on Boyd families that I have been able to find. This Gearhart collection would have taken place in the 1930’s Do any members know if Miss Wallace actually published her book? And what was its title, etc? Are any of our members able to search any of the Harrisburg, PA Library’s Indexes to see if to she did publish? Or can some of the local Harrisburger’s check on their next visit to the public Library or the “Harrisburg local History society” may have any of her papers. Hopefully this will allow some members to find additional information on this Boyd family. Thank you Mike Boyd Historical Committee House of Boyd Society ==================== House of Boyd will be present in the Clan Village at the 700th Anniversary Celebration of the Battle of Bannockburn, June 2014. Look to http://www.clanboyd.org for more information ==================== Need to contact the Admin? Want to discuss an Admin Note? Remember -- to keep the flow of the list, Admin notes are not to be replied to on list. Write me off list at [email protected] ==================== Remember to trim your message before hitting send! Check your email client's help file if directions are needed. ==================== This list is set for replies to go to the list address [email protected] not just the author of the post. ==================== Can't recall what the beginning of a thread was? Subscribe mid-discussion? Visit the PUBLICLY VIEWABLE archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=boyd ==================== Got an issue that is beyond the purview of this list? Write the Help Desk for assistance http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ Honor your fellow subscribers -- follow the Golden Rule! _________________________________________ House of Boyd Society's (HBS) Annual General Meeting (AGM) & Gathering of the Clan 2014 will be held in conjunction with the St. Andrews Society of Detroit's Highland Games at Livonia, Michigan, USA. The date is to be confirmed by the venue, however, this year's event (2013) is the first weekend in August. Please plan on attending! Write [email protected] if you would be interested in helping to plan it. ______________________________________ House of Boyd Society's (HBS) Annual General Meeting (AGM) & Gathering of the Clan 2013 was a great success. It was held in Greenville, SC, USA in conjunction with the Greenville Scottish Games, Saturday May 25th, Memorial Day Weekend 2013. _______________________________________________________________________________ Support the Fellowship Activities of the Clan. Join the House of Boyd Society! http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BOYD/2008-06/1212428046 ______________________________________ House of Boyd Society sends HUGE thank you to all of our volunteers. The Society would not be what it is without you! ______________________________________ Want to contribute an article or query to the Dean Road? Contact Kevin McLachlan, Editor at [email protected] ==================== Visit the House of Boyd Society Website http://www.clanboyd.org ==================== For Officers and other Contacts, see http://www.clanboyd.org/officers.shtml **************************** ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

This Danville is in Montour county PA. The historical society is located in Montgomery house. The origin of the name Danville comes from Daniel Montgomery. http://www.itourcolumbiamontour.com/wp-content/uploads/Montgomery-House.pdf -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Diggingupbones Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 8:25 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [BOYD]John Cowen Boyd (1793-1849) & Hannah Montgomery of Boyd's Station Danville, Northumberland County, PA and Miss Helen Wallace's book Could this Danville have been Danville, VA? And then he went back to PA?? We have suspected that my Boyd's went back to PA near their death. If so it would sure be the missing link for my family. Anyone have ideas?

>From the papers this Danville PA is in Northumberland county, PA. While the migrations were "normally" from North to South to obtain land, I have seem references of people going south to north after their land had grown too much tobacco and was no longer any use for agriculture. Mike Boyd Historical Committee, HBS -----Original Message----- From: Diggingupbones Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 11:24 PM To: [email protected] ; [email protected] Subject: Re: [BOYD]John Cowen Boyd (1793-1849) & Hannah Montgomery of Boyd’s Station Danville, Northumberland County, PA and Miss Helen Wallace's book Could this Danville have been Danville, VA? And then he went back to PA?? We have suspected that my Boyd's went back to PA near their death. If so it would sure be the missing link for my family. Anyone have ideas? -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Boyd Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 5:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [BOYD] John Cowen Boyd (1793-1849) & Hannah Montgomery of Boyd’s Station Danville, Northumberland County, PA and Miss Helen Wallace's book As part of the Heber G. Gearhart collection at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, I found some pages, which included the family of John Cowen Boyd who was born in 1793 in Chester County, PA and died 18 August 1849 at Boyd’s Station in Northumberland County, PA. He married Hannah Montgomery, daughter of General Daniel Montgomery and had seven children. John Boyd was the son of General John Boyd. I know that over recent years on the Boyd list, there have been a number of Emails on a “John C. Boyd”. However, I am not sure if this John Cowen Boyd is the same person being referred to? It goes onto say that John removed from Chester County and located in Danville in 1820. It then adds, “Miss Helen Wallace, 203 Pine St., Harrisburg, PA is publishing a book about the Boyd family.” I have not seen any such book by Miss Wallace on any list of books on Boyd families that I have been able to find. This Gearhart collection would have taken place in the 1930’s Do any members know if Miss Wallace actually published her book? And what was its title, etc? Are any of our members able to search any of the Harrisburg, PA Library’s Indexes to see if to she did publish? Or can some of the local Harrisburger’s check on their next visit to the public Library or the “Harrisburg local History society” may have any of her papers. Hopefully this will allow some members to find additional information on this Boyd family. Thank you Mike Boyd Historical Committee House of Boyd Society

Mike and others, As a general rule America was settled east to west and north to south. However, if you look at a large map, the Eastern coast of America slopes severly inward (westward). So much so that Maine was always called the "Eastward" lands from Massachusetts, and yet modern people would call it north of Massachusetts. We are truly idiots but that's another tangent.... Anyway, people ALWAYS settled the pathways (made by Indians, animals and traders) and waterways. The most significant is seen by our Scotch-Irish who (Boone and Crockett etc.) traveled NORTH from North Carolina into Tennessee; Kentucky and Pennsylvania into Ohio. So the migration would make a lot of common sense. Easier to travel up the Susquehanna River to Shamokin; Sunbury; Danville then cross over mountains into western PA. AND the land was very cheap. So that is the story for both John Boyd's in Northumberland County (original)- one settled Shamokin and the other settled Danville. Colin Brooks The 1718 Project On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Mike Boyd <[email protected]> wrote: > From the papers this Danville PA is in Northumberland county, PA. > > While the migrations were "normally" from North to South to obtain land, I > have seem references of people going south to north after their land had > grown too much tobacco and was no longer any use for agriculture. > > Mike Boyd > Historical Committee, HBS > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Diggingupbones > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 11:24 PM > To: [email protected] ; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [BOYD]John Cowen Boyd (1793-1849) & Hannah Montgomery of > Boyd's > Station Danville, Northumberland County, PA and Miss Helen Wallace's book > > Could this Danville have been Danville, VA? And then he went back to PA?? > We have suspected that my Boyd's went back to PA near their death. If so it > would sure be the missing link for my family. Anyone have ideas? > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf > Of Mike Boyd > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 5:32 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [BOYD] John Cowen Boyd (1793-1849) & Hannah Montgomery of Boyd's > Station Danville, Northumberland County, PA and Miss Helen Wallace's book > > As part of the Heber G. Gearhart collection at the Historical Society of > Pennsylvania, I found some pages, which included the family of John Cowen > Boyd who was born in 1793 in Chester County, PA and died 18 August 1849 at > Boyd's Station in Northumberland County, PA. He married Hannah Montgomery, > daughter of General Daniel Montgomery and had seven children. John Boyd > was > the son of General John Boyd. > > I know that over recent years on the Boyd list, there have been a number of > Emails on a "John C. Boyd". However, I am not sure if this John Cowen Boyd > is the same person being referred to? > > It goes onto say that John removed from Chester County and located in > Danville in 1820. > > It then adds, "Miss Helen Wallace, 203 Pine St., Harrisburg, PA is > publishing a book about the Boyd family." I have not seen any such book by > Miss Wallace on any list of books on Boyd families that I have been able to > find. This Gearhart collection would have taken place in the 1930's > > Do any members know if Miss Wallace actually published her book? And what > was its title, etc? Are any of our members able to search any of the > Harrisburg, PA Library's Indexes to see if to she did publish? Or can some > of the local Harrisburger's check on their next visit to the public Library > or the "Harrisburg local History society" may have any of her papers. > > Hopefully this will allow some members to find additional information on > this Boyd family. > > > Thank you > > > Mike Boyd > Historical Committee > House of Boyd Society > > > > > > ==================== > House of Boyd will be present in the Clan Village at the 700th Anniversary > Celebration of the Battle of Bannockburn, June 2014. Look to > http://www.clanboyd.org for more information > ==================== > Need to contact the Admin? Want to discuss an Admin Note? Remember -- to > keep the flow of the list, Admin notes are not to be replied to on list. > Write me off list at [email protected] > ==================== > > Remember to trim your message before hitting send! > Check your email client's help file if directions are needed. > > ==================== > This list is set for replies to go to the list address [email protected] just the author of the post. > ==================== > > Can't recall what the beginning of a thread was? Subscribe > mid-discussion? Visit the PUBLICLY VIEWABLE archives: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=boyd > > ==================== > Got an issue that is beyond the purview of this list? Write the Help Desk > for assistance http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ > Honor your fellow subscribers -- follow the Golden Rule! > > _________________________________________ > House of Boyd Society's (HBS) Annual General Meeting (AGM) & Gathering of > the Clan 2014 will be held in conjunction with the St. Andrews Society of > Detroit's Highland Games at Livonia, Michigan, USA. The date is to be > confirmed by the venue, however, this year's event (2013) is the first > weekend in August. Please plan on attending! > > Write [email protected] if you would be interested in helping to plan it. > ______________________________________ > House of Boyd Society's (HBS) Annual General Meeting (AGM) & Gathering of > the Clan 2013 was a great success. It was held in Greenville, SC, USA in > conjunction with the Greenville Scottish Games, Saturday May 25th, Memorial > Day Weekend 2013. > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > Support the Fellowship Activities of the Clan. Join the House of Boyd > Society! > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BOYD/2008-06/1212428046 > ______________________________________ > House of Boyd Society sends HUGE thank you to all of our volunteers. The > Society would not be what it is without you! > ______________________________________ > > Want to contribute an article or query to the Dean Road? Contact Kevin > McLachlan, Editor at [email protected] > > ==================== > Visit the House of Boyd Society Website http://www.clanboyd.org > ==================== > For Officers and other Contacts, see > http://www.clanboyd.org/officers.shtml > > **************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >