I found this at the Princeton University site. I have Boyds married to Boyds and it is difficult to sort them out. I don't know who this one belongs to but found it interesting. Jo Ann Patterson Baxley teacherbaxley@earthlink.net <<Boyd, James Boyd, James (1888-1944) was born in Pennsylvania and brought up in North Carolina. At Princeton he wrote verse and fiction for the Tiger and was its managing editor in his senior year. After graduation in 1910, he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and served overseas with the Army Ambulance Service in World War I. He then returned to North Carolina, where he wrote five historical novels. His two best known are laid in North Carolina, Drums (1925), during the American Revolution, and Marching On (1927), during the Civil War. Roll River (1935) is about his native Harrisburg, Long Hunt (1930) and Bitter Creek (1939) about the frontier West. The Manuscripts Room of Firestone Library is dedicated to Boyd's memory. Inscribed on a silver tablet are these words of his: ``The belief that leads to a democracy is this: that every man has something sacred about him. This sacredness is held to be inherent and perpetual: no ruler, no religion, no group of men, no government is justified in violating it. It is the first principle of man's life and nothing takes precedence over it.'' From Alexander Leitch, A Princeton Companion, copyright Princeton University Press (1978).>>

They married cousins & neighbors, etc. I had one ancestor, Tabitha Collins in VA, who married Thomas Foster, and had a daughter Elizabeth....he died. She married 2nd Henry Gates (a widower), then her daughter Elizabeth married Henry Gates' son, and she named her son Thomas Foster Gates....then he dropped the Gates name, and went by Thomas Foster.....(back to square one). Then Tabitha married a 3rd time to John Holloday....he died. And she moved to Georgia with her son, Thomas Foster (Gates). The Georgia records shows Tabitha as Tabitha Collins....her Will. Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jo Ann Baxley" <teacherbaxley@earthlink.net> To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 9:49 PM Subject: [Boyd] James Boyd Princeton NJ > I found this at the Princeton University site. I have Boyds married to > Boyds and it is difficult to sort them out. I don't know who this one > belongs to but found it interesting. Jo Ann Patterson Baxley > teacherbaxley@earthlink.net > > <<Boyd, James > Boyd, James (1888-1944) was born in Pennsylvania and brought up in > North Carolina. At Princeton he wrote > verse and fiction for the Tiger and was its managing editor in his > senior year. After graduation in 1910, he > studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and served overseas with the > Army Ambulance Service in World War I. > He then returned to North Carolina, where he wrote five historical > novels. His two best known are laid in North > Carolina, Drums (1925), during the American Revolution, and Marching On > (1927), during the Civil War. Roll > River (1935) is about his native Harrisburg, Long Hunt (1930) and > Bitter Creek (1939) about the frontier West. > The Manuscripts Room of Firestone Library is dedicated to Boyd's > memory. Inscribed on a silver tablet are > these words of his: > ``The belief that leads to a democracy is this: that every man has > something sacred about him. This sacredness > is held to be inherent and perpetual: no ruler, no religion, no group > of men, no government is justified in > violating it. It is the first principle of man's life and nothing takes > precedence over it.'' > From Alexander Leitch, A Princeton Companion, copyright Princeton > University Press (1978).>> > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees > > >