Below are the migration patterns of my Boyd family. Why not tell us yours? --------------------------- My earliest known ancestor John Boyd married Margaret Long in Boston, Massachusetts, 11 April 1731 but most of their five sons were born further west in Hopkinton in Worcestor County in the 1730s, 40s, and 50s. We are not certain where John came from but it was either N. Ireland or Scotland. He could have come with the 1718 migrations out of Northern Ireland but we don't know for sure. In the 1760s they all moved even further west to Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, where some of them remained. One line went to New York. In the 1770s one of the sons, Abraham Boyd, moved up into Wilmington, Vermont, north of Shelburne Falls which today is a "hop skip and a jump" but in those days was a long journey. We are not sure why he went to Vermont except that he fought at the Battle of Bennington during the American Revolution, and may have like the area. One of his six sons (Luther) made the giant leap West sometime in 1822 when he landed in Ohio, near Columbus. He left Vermont in 1813 but doesn't show up anywhere until 1822 in Columbus, Ohio where he married Easther English. During the years 1813 - 1822 we don't know where he was. There was a Luther Boyd who fought in the war of 1812 but was listed as signing up in New York (which is another hop, skip, and a jump) from Vermont. We don't know if he was our Luther, but think it was. His son Luther Jr., stayed in Columbus, Ohio all of his short life but his son Richard Boyd went to Peru, Indiana where he lived most of his life and died in 1934. His oldest son, Albert Boyd carried on the westward migration and went to Des Moines, Iowa about 1900 where he married and had a son. Another son, my grandfather, George S. Boyd had the wanderlust and from the 1900s to 1929 followed the oil wells in Arksansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas for work. Most of his children were born in Louisiana and Texas. George S. and his brother John Henry Boyd ended up in Michigan which explains why I was born here. George came back to Michigan in 1929 after the stock market crash and during the Depression. My Boyd family left relatives all over New England from Massachusetts to Vermont, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, and etc. Over the years (and especially with the advent of the Internet) I have met several of these distant Boyd cousins in many of the above areas. For more info see: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~confido/book2.htm Richard G. Boyd Rogers City, Michigan

Good idea, Rich...I can do that with other families, but not my Janet Boyd. Short story - For example, my Samuel Gholson, VA (1780-1854), was a Kentucky long-hunter, and an alcoholic. He had a bad reputation in Wayne County....he was accused (with 2 other men) of raping a woman in a "doggery" (a saloon). They had been out hunting, fishing, drinking, and on the way home stopped in at the doggery, met the woman. He was tried & found innocent. His atty was Micah Taul, his BIL. During the War of 1812, he was a Kentucky Mounted Rifleman, and fought at the Battle of New Orleans. He moved into Arkansas, and was involved in the Santa Fe Trade (as a wagon merchant). His son Alverado (age 17), was shot & killed in Santa Fe for $600.00 in gold. Samuel moved to Texas 1834. He was friends with Sterling Clack Robertson. He had 5,000 acres on the Brazos north of Waco. He moved to Marshall, Harrison Co., TX & died 1854. (after he had married 2 other women). Remind me some day, to tell you about his ex-wife, Mary (Polly) Slaton...she moved in & took over his 5,000 acres in Texas. <g> And his 3rd wife, Brittania Cannon of ill fame in New England. Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: "RichBoyd" <RichBoyd@SpeednetLLC.com> To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 5:48 PM Subject: [ClanBoyd] Boyd Migration Patterns > Below are the migration patterns of my Boyd family. Why not tell us yours? > --------------------------- > > > My earliest known ancestor John Boyd married Margaret Long in Boston, Massachusetts, 11 April 1731 but most of their five sons were born further west in Hopkinton in Worcestor County in the 1730s, 40s, and 50s. We are not certain where John came from but it was either N. Ireland or Scotland. He could have come with the 1718 migrations out of Northern Ireland but we don't know for sure. > > In the 1760s they all moved even further west to Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, where some of them remained. One line went > to New York. > > In the 1770s one of the sons, Abraham Boyd, moved up into Wilmington, Vermont, north of Shelburne Falls which today is a "hop skip and a jump" but in those days was a long journey. We are not sure why he went to Vermont except that he fought at the Battle of Bennington during the American Revolution, and may have like the area. > > One of his six sons (Luther) made the giant leap West sometime in 1822 when he landed in Ohio, near Columbus. He left Vermont in 1813 but doesn't show up anywhere until 1822 in Columbus, Ohio where he married Easther English. During the years 1813 - 1822 we don't know where he was. There was a Luther Boyd who fought in the war of 1812 but was listed as signing up in New York (which is another hop, skip, and a jump) from Vermont. We don't know if he was our Luther, but think it was. > > His son Luther Jr., stayed in Columbus, Ohio all of his short life but his son Richard Boyd went to Peru, Indiana where he lived most of his life and died in 1934. > > His oldest son, Albert Boyd carried on the westward migration and went to Des Moines, Iowa about 1900 where he married and had a son. > > Another son, my grandfather, George S. Boyd had the wanderlust and from the 1900s to 1929 followed the oil wells in Arksansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas for work. Most of his children were born in Louisiana and Texas. George S. and his brother John Henry Boyd ended up in Michigan which explains why I was born here. George came back to Michigan in 1929 after the stock market crash and during the Depression. > > My Boyd family left relatives all over New England from Massachusetts to Vermont, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, and etc. Over the years (and especially with the advent of the Internet) I have met several of these distant Boyd cousins in many of the above areas. For more info see: > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~confido/book2.htm > > Richard G. Boyd > Rogers City, Michigan > > > ==== 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 >