John BOYD married Margaret LONG, in Suffolk County, Boston, Mass. on 11 April 1731, daughter of John and Sarah Long of Taunton, Mass. In "Genealogical Data Extracted from the Boston Selectmen's Minutes 1736-1775" by Brigitte Burket there is a "Warning Out" record "John Boyd and his wife are lately come to Rumney Marsh and are at the home of John White; they are "warned to depart" the town within 14 days." The next record I find of John and Margaret Boyd is in Worcestor County, Upton/Hopkinton, MA where some of their children's births or baptisms are recorded. Margaret died 30 September 1793 aged 86. John and Margaret Boyd moved from Taunton, Massachusetts to Hopkinton in Worcestor County, and finally to Franklin County, Shelburne Falls where they lived out their lives. Their children; not neccessarily in order were: 1. John Boyd Jr. b. 1733 d. 15 Oct 1815 m. Mary WARREN b. 1737 d. 19 Aug 1825 (John Jr. purchased land in Wilmington, Vt. in 1793 and 1795) 2. David Boyd b. 1735? d. 1802 Wilmington, VT. m. Sibbel TAYLOR 6 Dec 1770 bp. 25 Jly 1743 d. 1807 3. Abraham Boyd b. 1740? d. 1820? m. Hannah HILL 24 June 1766 served in Rev. as a minute man, Stephen Sadlers company 4. Samuel Boyd bapt. 3 May 1747 Hopkinton m. Sarah AMSDEN 10 Feb 1773 in Conway, MA. Served in Rev. 5. William Boyd baptised 11 June 1749 Hopkinton, Worcestor Co., MA died 25 May 1840 in West Springfield, MA. [Gravestone 3rd Congregational Church, Ireland Parish, later named the 1st Congregational Church of Holyoke] He married in January of 1777 Margery TAYLOR born 7 Mar 1758 Newington, CT died 17 Oct 1833 West Springfield, MA. William served in Revolution as a corporal in Capt. Isaac Tuckerman's Company, Col. Ebenezer Francis' Massachusetts Regiment. Note: Margery Taylor Boyd, wife of William, died Oct. 1834, age 75 according to church records of the 3rd Congregational Church, Ireland parish, West Springfield (later the 1st Congregational Church of Holyoke). According to her gravestone in Rock Valley Cemetery in Holyoke she died Oct. 17. This all in West Springfield records. 1. New England Families by William Richard Cutter, 1912, The Boyd Family by Arthur S. Boyd, New York, 1924 2. Vanished Pioneer Homes and Families of Shelburne, Mass. Leila Stone Bardwell, 1974 3. From a letter by David Long to Aaron Long dated 1851 wherein David gives an account of the Boyd/Long/Taft family. Original is in possession of Richard Long. Copies at NEHGS library in Boston, Massachusetts, Fort Wayne, Indiana, and at Arms Library, Shelburn, MA. Research of Emiline Rice Long. V.R. Springfield, Mass. and V.R. Suffolk County, Mass., West Springfield, Mass. 4. Hopkinton deeds (page 77) show that on 27 Sept 1762 John Boyd sold "his son Abraham", 38 acres for 26 English pounds. Rich Boyd http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~clanboyd/index.htm