In the late 1990’s I wrote these notes on this family – “[5] It appears that the Boyd's and Fulton's left Ireland on the ship General Wolfe, Captain Hunter, from Londonderry, Ireland which sailed on 25 June 1772 and arrived on 16 October 1772 at Hampton Roads, VA. - The New York Journal, 29 Oct. 1772 said "This ship it is said had been seventeen weeks on the passage, nearly half the time at short allowance, came out with 300 of whom about 80 died at sea of mere want and the disorders arising from it, in drinking salt water, etc. Part of the time the allowance was half a biscuit and half a pint of water a day." - "About 50 passengers left the ship near the Capes and went off to Baltimore in Maryland." - [Fulton tradition said that Abraham Fulton and family were among this 50.] Does that include John (T1) and Mary? - "80 of them were the same afternoon landed at Hampton mere skeletons, so weak that they could hardly walk or stand, and most of them without any money for their support. The inhabitants charitably took care of them and supplied them with necessities, " [WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REMAINING 90?] [6] From the Fulton Web Page it said all the family of Abraham and Margaret Fulton came on the General Wolfe. I would estimate this would be:- - Abraham and Margaret Fulton - their 9 children born between 1747-1759 of which Mary Fulton and John Boyd had 2 children by 1772. [NEED TO ASK FULTON'S HOW MANY OTHER GRANDCHILDREN CAME ON TRIP?] - ESTIMATE GROUP WAS 14 people in total. [7] From the Email by AQUILLAHE of 1 December 1998 said "When Abraham Boyd arrived with his family at the port of Londonderry, Ireland to set sail for America, the ship's captain flatly refused to let the hugh tribe of Boyds set sail. They were instead put into quarantine because young Abraham and his brother John had smallpox. While waiting out the period, the Boyds learned that the ship they originally were to have sailed on foundered at sea with loss of all lives onboard. "Among the considerable family group, really a Fulton migration, was Abraham's (U2) father John (T1), his wife Mary Fulton Boyd and her entire family of parents, brothers and sisters." - Abraham was about 18 months old when the ship sailed from Londonderry which is not how the above quotation might be read ie that Abraham Boyd brought his parents across the Atlantic. - [CAN THE QUARANTINE LIST FOR JUNE 1772 LONDONDERRY BE FOUND? OR DID IT EVER EXIST?] [8] The term "the hugh tribe of Boyds" in point 7 does not ring true. There were only 4 Boyd's as part of the Fulton's. Even for the current time 4 people would not be regarded as a hugh number, especially when families of this period were often consisted of 10 or more children. This would suggest possible other Boyds were in this party in Quarantine and on the shipping list for the General Wolfe. - could this mean that John Boyd's (T1) parents and their children (and possibly grandchildren) where in this "hugh tribe." Perhaps John father might have been friends with Abraham Fulton and the 2 families decided to move to America. The other possibility is that there was a group of Presbyterian Boyd's from this area who decided to go with the Fulton's to America. I have Boyd families from Macosquin, Aghadowey and Ballymoney, all within 10 km of Coleraine. - is there an immigration list available for October 1772 for Baltimore, MD, or were no records kept? [9] From the Fulton Web Page, p 7 it has the following on how and where the Fulton's settled in Westmoreland Co. PA but it does not say where the Fultons lived after they landed at Baltimore, MD or when this journey took place. [Mike Boyd - I would assume that John Boyd and Mary Fulton were also part of this migration. Are there any records from cemetery to confirm Boyd's who are buried there?] (FFL 89:73) "JOURNEY ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS The journey across the mountains must have been most arduous and perilous. The only means of locomotion was on foot or by horseback. The only road was that created by the soldiers of General Forbe's or General Braddock's armies a few years before, a mere mountain trail and now roughly the course of the Lincoln Highway (U.S. 30) and the National Highway (U.S.40). FULTON FAMILY ON WESTERN SIDE OF MOUNTAINS. The Treaty of Peace, closing the French and Indian conflict, had scarcely been signed, assurance given that the Western woods were really British lands, then a tide of men swept down from the East to occupy the broad, beautiful acres open to settlement. ...The Fulton Family located in the Sewickley Settlement near the Big Sewickley Creek in what is now called South Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. In this region they lived the lives of frontier pioneers, farmed, raised numerous offspring, served their newly adopted country in the Revolutionary War, went to church in crude log structures, died, and are buried in the old country graveyards which endure to this day." [10] Need to get list of other Boyd's buried at Bull Creek Church from Kim Wetzel” Some, years ago, I was told that this family settled at “Derry Westmoreland County, PA”. Is that the same place as Sewickley Settlement near the Big Sewickley Creek in what is now called South Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania? (I do not have any local knowledge of this USA County.) From the above comments, it seems quite clear, that both the Fulton’s and John Boyd and his family were planning to go to Pittsburgh area of Western Pennsylvania. And was this “another” planned migration from Ulster, like Rev William Martin’s five ships to Charleston, SC also in 1772? In my trip to Ireland since 2004, I have not come across the “List of Protestant Householders for Anno 1740”. I am aware that some of these records were destroyed in 1922, but there are still parts available. I think in PRONI in Belfast and Dublin? 1) Has anyone make a list of Boyd’s for this “List”? 2) Has anyone “researched these ten Boyd families of Articlave in County Londonderry, Ireland. (With two Ben Boyd’s, I can only assume that they are not all brothers, but could be cousins or even more distant than that in relationship.) And when did these Boyds ancestors come to Articlave? 3) With John Boyd and Mary Fulton’s first son being called John Boyd, could John Boyd, the father’s, own father be the “Jn. Boyd” based on the naming pattern, commonly used by Scottish families. 4) Are there any “histories” of this area that may provide more details about the pre 1740 settlements? 5) Are any details known about “the Boyds learned that the ship they originally were to have sailed on foundered at sea with loss of all lives onboard” – which they were supposed to sail on from Londonderry (port) but could not because the children had “smallpox”. And is there any record of the people that sailed on it? And could some of those be some of the Boyds and Fultons (and other families) from Articlave? 6) And after the Fulton and Boyds settled in Westmoreland County, PA, did other families from Articlave follow their migration to Westmoreland County, PA? I assume that there are other questions that can and should be asked about these Fulton, Guttery (Guthrie), and Boyd families of Articlave. If you are member of the Fulton, Guthrie named ROOTSWEB.COM net list or the Westmoreland County, PA net list feel free to post this article to those sites can use this information. Mike Boyd Brisbane, Aust. [Folder 16A #4B