My Boyd's are found in Chester Co. PA & Cecil Co MD (used to be part of Chester Co.) Alexander's birth is guesstimated at 1712-15, he had a brother Francis and may have had a brother Hugh. Don't know where or when they had arrived in the " new world". Family tradition has them Irish, but you know how that is. Alexander (children: Margaret, Robert, Hugh, Francis, Alexander Jr.) and one of his son's, Francis (my line) stayed in the Port Deposit/ West Nottingham area of Cecil Co. Maryland until Hugh and Jane Steel Boyd's clan. They started to move out of the area, a son and 2 of the daughters moved down into Baltimore, the daughter Mary Jane Boyd Jones and her family, with her brother James Boyd, moved to the panhandle of Virginia, now West Virginia about 1820, as close as I can tell at this time. I have found several Boyd's in this area, but don't know if any of them are related to Mary & James Boyd James met and married Sarah Robinson there and moved into Ohio, Carroll Co. area in about 1827-30. There are many of us that have stayed, traveled out of and returned to the area of Carroll County Ohio. It is very nice here. There was one son, William, that traveled to the far west, and was a fur trader in Vancouver, then a gold miner in California. After 1850 he was never heard from again by his eastern family. Not sure if he had met with a bad end or may have drowned trying to return east. He had said he would be on his way home in the fall of 1850. He never made it. If anyone has any information on this family, please let me know. Thank you. Jane in Ohio jcgrezlik@bright.net