I think that the legal problems were with the children of Robert and Eleanor Porterfield. According to one source, they had two children, an Esther and Robert , the latter who as born in 1752 either before or shortly after Robert's death in Augusta County,Virginia. Gwendalynn Gohlke Dunn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Jones" <howard.jones@uni.edu> To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 4:06 PM Subject: Re: [ClanBoyd] Robert BOyd and Eleanor?Katherine Porterfield > It's in the back of myi mind that the Robert who ml Eleanor Porterfield was > involved in legal problems with the estate of a Boyd who died in Augusta Co. > VA. I think these papers are smmzrized in Chalkleym which is now on line. > > Howard V. Jones > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gwendalynn Gohlke Dunn" <crochetb@satx.rr.com> > To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 4:04 PM > Subject: [ClanBoyd] Robert BOyd and Eleanor?Katherine Porterfield > > > > I am thinking that I possibly might have the wrong Robert Boyd as my > earliest ancestor. I found a Robert Boyd who was born in Ireland about 1718 > who married an Eleanor Porterfield either in Ireland or the USA. We don't > know when they immigrated. It states that they had two children, an Esther > Boyd born in 1750 and Robert Boyd born in 1752 with Robert the father dead > in 1752. In another data base I have found both Eleanor and/or Katerine > Porterfield marrying Robert Boyd and they had at least one child named > Patrick Boyd who was born in 1759 with his father dying in 1759. On another > source I found that he was also named Robert Patrick or Patrick Robert all > being born in 1759 with his father dying in 1759. I know that there are > many mistakes made in censuses as well as data bases and other things where > there is data that has been forgotten or recording incorrectly. > > I am just trying to tighten up all of my loose ends. The family line > that I am talking about has Patrick;s wife as Ann McDowell with one of his > sons marring a Catherine Ballantine. > > Both of the marriages of the two Robert Boyds took place in what is > know West Virginia. > > > > I hope that there is somebody on this list that can clear this up > for me so that I can go forward in my research of the Boyds as well as the > other surnames that I am researching. > > Thanks very much, > > Gwendalynn (Gwendy) Gohlke Dunn > > > > > > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > > BOOKS http://clanboyd.info/books/forsale > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees > > > > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > BOOKS http://clanboyd.info/books/forsale > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees >