During my visit to Pennsylvania and to Philadelphia in June 2013, I visited the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and found a Boyd folder (of 50 pages) amongst the Herbert G. Gearhart Collection. This work appears to be dated 1934. In a three page document it says – “William Boyd and his brother Thomas left Armagh*, Ireland, came to America in 1732, and located in New Garden, Twp., Chester Co.” * I assume that “Armagh” means the County of Armagh rather than the town of Armagh? The name “New Garden” is familiar to me as being the place where the Quaker family of John Boyd and Janes Bell. They were married on 20 November 1707 at the Quaker Church, Lurgan, County Armagh, Ireland. John Boyd produced a certificate dated 10 February 1736, for himself, wife Jane and children, from Ballynacree Monthly Meeting of Friends near Ballymoney, Antrim county, Province of Ulster, Ireland, to New Garden Monthly Meeting, Chester county, Pa 26 December 1736-7. They became members of Sadsbury Meeting. At Warrington Monthly Meeting, York county, Pa., 9 November 1765, a certificate dated 21 August 1765, from Sadsbury Monthly Meeting was recieved for John Boyd and wife. John Boyd, of Warrington township, York county made his will 8 August 1770 and it was probated 31 October 1777. I do not know when John and Jane Boyd went from Lurgan. County Armagh, to Ballymoney, County Antrim. There is no indication if these brothers, William and Thomas Boyd, were also Quakers or not, when they arrived New Garden, but a number of the next generation appear to be officers, with some being listed in the 1990 DAR Patriot Index. So if they were Quakers in 1732, they may have left the Church some time later. William Boyd is given as dying on 17 April 1767, in Chester Co., PA and being buried with his wife at Fagg’s Manor. While Thomas Boyd is said to have died in 1782 in Philadelphia, PA, but he had lived in “the Forks of Delaware” and then removed to Philadelphia. So are the brothers William and Thomas Boyd and the sisters Mrs Dobbins and Mrs Curry, related to John Boyd, who married Jane Bell? From the dates this John Boyd MIGHT BE an uncle, if there is a relationship. DNA testing may show if THIS THEORY OF MINE, if there is a possible link between these families. Thank you Mike Boyd Historical Committee House of Boyd Society

Mike, would you please share with me the 3 page document re: William and Thomas Boyd from Armagh to New Garden Township Pa. This story is very close to mine....(.Brothers William and Thomas from Armagh to Pa. sisters mentioned etc). ============== In the year 1782 came William Boyd and Thomas Boyd from the county of Armagh, in Ireland, and with them two unmarried sisters, one of whom married a Mr. Dobbins and the other a Mr. Curry, all of Philadelphia. They also left one married sister in Ireland, who with her husband afterwards emigrated to Philadelphia. Thomas Boyd settled in the forks of Delaware, but afterwards removed to Philadelphia, where he died in 1782, leaving four sons and one daughter: Maj. Alexander Boyd (the oldest son), James Boyd, Thomas Boyd, and Andrew Boyd, all officers in the Revolutionary army, serving through the war. Some time after the war, James and Thomas settled in Kittanning. Of their families nothing is known. The other children remained in Philadelphia and died there. ================================ (1) "Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical, Chiefly Relating to Interior Pennsylv ania," ed. William Henry Egle, Annual Vol. 1896, XXXVII, p.203. (2) "History of Chester County, Pennsylvania," by J. Smith Futhey and Gilbert Cope (Philade lphia: J.B. Lippencott & Co., 1881) p.485. FHL film 20,995. ================ I do have further information on this family of mine . Diane Graham