This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_917987743_boundary Content-ID: <0_917987743@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Petition of Ulstermen, 1718 --part0_917987743_boundary Content-ID: <0_917987743@inet_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: text/plain; name="PET1718" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Content-disposition: inline THE PETITION OF ULSTERMEN Five heads of the Boyd family signed the memorial (Petition of Ulstermen 1718) to Governor Shute, March 6, 1718 asking encourgement to obtain land in "that very excellant and renowned plantation called New England. Captain William Boyd came to this country fourteen times bringing Scottish pioneers from the north of Ireland, and finally located at Londonderry. There is reason to believe that many of the Scottish Boyds who came between the years 1718 and 1750 from Ulster were his near kin. A number of them located at Bristol, Maine. The Petition begins: "We whose names are the underwritteninhabitants of ye north of Ireland doe in our own names and in the names of many others, our neighbors, gentlemen, ministers, farmers, and tradesmen, commisionate and appoint our trusty and well beloved friend the Reverand William Macasky to repair to His Excellancy the Right Honorable Colonel Samuel Suitte (Shute) Governor of New England, and to insure His Excellancy of our sincere and hearty inclinations to transport ourselves to that excellant and renowned Plantation upon our obtaining from his Excellancy suitable encouragement"......... The original copy of the Petition of Ulstermen hangs in the rooms of the New Hampshire Historical Society in Concord. RG Boyd (RBoyd1033@Aol.com) 12137 Highland Avenue Mt. Morris, MI 48458-1412 =1A --part0_917987743_boundary--