Thanks, Mike. Yes, this is one of my Boyd lines, and Larry is one of my cousins. So is David Drummond Boyd. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/o/y/David-Drummond-Boyd/index.html Their ancestor was James Boyd (c1758-1845) who married Nancy Agnes Wier and came from Ireland to South Carolina in 1795 with Nancy's brother Thomas Wier Jr. (1763-1851) and wife Mary Withrow Wier aboard the ship "The Irish Volunteer," usually called The Volunteer in the family. Another brother was William Boyd (born 1747) who married Margaret Lyons. Their daughter Nancy Boyd married Robert Wier (Weir), son of Thomas and Mary Withrow Wier. James and William Boyd also had a sister, Jane Boyd Hamilton, whose daughter was my ancestor Mary Hamilton (born 1774) who married James Wier, brother of Nancy Wier Boyd and Thomas Wier Jr. In 1804, William Boyd, wife Margaret Lyons Boyd and family came from Cookstown, N. Ireland with James and Mary Hamilton Wier, and James' nephew Robert Wier (including Robert's future wife Jane Boyd Wier) aboard the Lady Washington, which landed at Charleston Oct. 31, 1804, and which sank on her return voyage. My ancestor James Wier Jr. married Elizabeth Evans whose father and grandparents came on the Irish Volunteer in 1774, twenty years before the Boyds and Wiers came over on the same ship. I wonder if it really was the same ship or if it had been rebuilt. Was twenty years considered a long time for a wooden ship to be active? The Volunteer made regular runs between Belfast and Philadelphia, Belfast and Charleston in the 1770s-1800s. > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:13:19 +1000 > Subject: Re: [BOYD] Boyd migration from "New England" after 1722 Indian uprising to NY/PA? > > Ray as you most likely know that this is the same family as Larry Boyd > > 5 M William BOYD Senior > Birth: 25 Sep 1766 Knocknavaddy, Parish of Desertcreat, Ele > Immigration: 31 Oct 1804 Charleston, South Carolina > Death: South Carolina > Spouse: Margaret LYONS > > Who come from Knocknavaddy half way between Cookstown and Dungannon in > County Tyrone. This family starts with a Samuel Boyd in 1718 and is > outlined in the book:- > > The Decendants and Ancetors of James Boyd and Nancy Wier, by William R. > Boyd, 1991, Quill Publications of Columbus, Georgia. [This complete family > history is on Larry Boyd's webpages back 10 genrations along with any > pictures that we had of our family members. There is also a page about my > dad's book there. > This book is now on http://www.lgboyd.com/boydbook/boydbook.htm > > Ray is this branch part of your section of Samuel's family. > > Mike Boyd > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ray > Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 12:22 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [BOYD] Boyd migration from "New England" after 1722 Indian > uprising to NY/PA? > > > Martha Clow (1894-1990) was the wife of Donald Boynton Douglas, > vice-president of the Quaker Oats company, in Chicago. > http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=26045067 > She was the daughter of William Ellsworth Clow, > who was the son of Matilda Ross Clow, > the daughter of Mary S. Boyd Ross, > the daughter of Col. Joseph T. Boyd "of Mercer Co, PA.," > the son of John Boyd and Jane Holand from County Armagh, N. Ireland, > the son of William Boyd and Margaret Lyons from Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, N. > Ireland, who landed at Charleston, S.C., Oct. 31, 1804 on the ship "Lady > Washington" from Belfast, N. Ireland. > > Martha Clow's great-grandmother Mary Boyd Ross wrote many letters to her > Boyd, Hamilton and Wier cousins in the 1870s-90s attempting to document the > Boyd family history. > Her grandson Harry Beach Clow was president of the Rand McNally company. I > hope one day to find that some of the Clow family have preserved the > correspondence that Mary Boyd Ross received from other Boyd descendants. > The letters from her that survive in other collections are tantalizing and > helpful in many respects but give a fragmentary picture of this Boyd family. > > > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > > Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 08:49:14 +1000 > > Subject: Re: [BOYD] Boyd migration from "New England" after 1722 Indian > > uprising to NY/PA? > > > > Hang on, we Scots like our Oats!! > > > > Some even have sown their wild Oats, while others drink it. > > > > Mike Boyd > > Brisbane, Aust. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rommy Lopat > > Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 5:55 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [BOYD] Boyd migration from "New England" after 1722 Indian > > uprising to NY/PA? > > > > Second, when I googled 1718 Project, this link came up: > > http://scotchirishfood.blogspot.com/. Loved it! I thought I'd (re?)share a > > bit of her "Why did the Scots move to Maine? Because they couldn't grow > > oats anymore" research: > > http://scotchirishfood.blogspot.com/2010/05/what-does-scot-do-when-they-cant-grow.html. > > Great stuff. > > > >