I noticed that againwst a number fo the members of of the Boyd of Ballymacool, Letterkenny, Co Donegal that they were "Freeman of the City of Londonderry". Is there a list of whom were appointed Freeman of the City of Londonderry. Could anyone suggest whereit maybe found these days Thank you Mike Boyd Brisbane

While doing some other work on my map for Aghadowey, I just happened to look to the left of the map and saw marked "Boyds Mountain" about a kms south of the B66 Road between Aghadowey and Limavady in the forested area. Would anyone know who this Mountain is called after please? As the Boyd did not go to Ireland until 1590 - Letterkenny is the first location I can currently find - and most likely not until after 1609 in Co Derry. So why would an Irish Mountain be called after a Scot? Mike Boyd Historical Committee, HBS

>From History of the Boyd family and descendants, with historical sketches of the ancient family of Boyd's in Scotland from the year 1200, and those of Ireland from the year 1680, with records of their descendants in Kent, New Windsor, Middletown and Salem, N. Y., Boston, Mass., Northumberland County, Pa., and sketches of those from the southern and western states from 1740 to 1912. By William P. Boyd ... Rochester, N. Y., John P. Smith printing company, 1912. 507 p. 12-24703. pp 94-95 "The first traces (a) of the early Boyd family in Ireland was at the time of the seige of Londonderry. To the east of this renowned city, a few miles (b) , rested in the County of Antrim (c), a small Presbyterian village called Aghadowey, one of the oldest Presbyterian settlements in Ireland. At this time (1689) found at this settlement the Rev. Thomas Boyd, who had ministered almost from the time of the plantation (d) to the little settlement of this place. He had succeeded the predecessor (e) of the Rev. James McGregor, who had come over here to America. "A few days before the seige of Londonderry commenced (which too place April 15, 1689) this aged soldier Divine, for he must have been between seventy and eighty years (f) old at the time, gathered all the members of his congregation one afternoon what was called the green or lawn, in front of the old church. Here he held a service, picturing to his congregation the advancement of the Irish troops toward the illfated city. He then afterwards picked out all the youths and men who were able to carry arms. Then mounting upon a small grassy elevation on the lawn, with his sword by his side and Bible in hand, with his long white waving hair hanging over his shoulders, he addressed the men and his hearers, and aroused them to the highest pitch of religious and patriotic enthusiasm. Then formed them into a company of soldiers, and placed himself in front, as chief or commander, and marched at the head of his company to the walls of Londonderry, where, old as he was, he prayed and fought and endured all the deprivations and horrors of that famous and awful siege. He afterwards, returned to his old home again, where he lived for nine or ten years in peace, to see his cherished religion saved, and died among those of his younger days in 1699. "... He is said to have been a tall, slender, old gentleman and had a very commanding appearance and was a favourite with all that knew him. "At this time, there were several other families of Boyd living at this place. (g) And there were others of the Boyd name (h) who went with Reverend Thomas Boyd of Londonderry, but being less noted men, their names and deeds have passed into oblivion. At the present day, [1912?], there are several Boyds,* still living there, who are prominent in civil history, and one of their cleverest judges descends from the old ancient family of Boyds." What source did William P. Boyd get this from in 1912? Assume it was an published book of some kind that he had found. Need to correct errors in the above statement. [Notes: (a) Know members of Boyd families were in Ireland long before 1689. Several that I am aware of are Boyds of Ballymacool arrivied in 1590 at Letterkenny [ch 6]; William Boyd of Dunluce, Co Antrim died in 1624 [ch 7/360]; Boyds of Ballycastle who were in Dervock, Co Antrim in early 1600's starting with Thomas Boyd, who died in 1634) and his wife Elizabeth Smeaton. [ch 5]. I think several other families could be added to this list from chapter 7/354 the 1659 Census of Ireland. Plus other Boyd Preystberian families who were there before the Seige in 1689. (b) Aghadowey is about 42 kms or about 23 miles east of the Walled City, not just a few miles. (A good 6-10 hours walk and over a nice little hill as well). (c) Aghadowey is about 6 kms west of the River Bann and therefore in County Londonderry and not Antrim. (d) As Rev Thomas is said to have been in his 70's or 80's when the Siege of 1689 was on, then this comment does not seem to be correct "who had ministered almost from the time of the plantation" as the plantation started in 1609 and he would not have become a minister until the 1630's or 1640's. (e) The Rev Thomas Boyd was the second minister at Aghadowey, while the Rev MacGregor was the third minister, so he could not have "succeeded the predecessor of the Rev. James McGregor" as Rev Thomas was the predecessor of him. (f) He does not cite any source for the age of the Rev Thomas Boyd at the time of the Siege in 1689 but would appear to be quoting from some source. If so, from what? (g) Where did these "several" other Boyd families live around Aghadowey in 1689? (h) There "were others of the Boyd name who went with Reverend Thomas Boyd of Londonderry" would these names be recorded in the Church records or the Exemption records? (i) "There are several Boyds, still living there [1912?]" - who can these be identified. Some of the "Statements" by W. P. Boyd of are wrong an dI think htat I have corrected these in my Notes below his quotation on this Rev Thomas Boyd. The way it reads is as if he is quoting form some Preimary source. But while he does not give much specific information, it does tell us that Rev Thomas was an "old" man in 1689 and that other Boyd families lived around Aghadowey in 1689, although they are not named or said from which townlands they were living in. Given the migrations of 1718 and the 1720's some of the Boyds who went to the USA in this period and were Presbyterians could come from these unknown families or other area of the River Bann Valley. If you Boyd came from this area please let the list know. Mike Boyd Historical Committee, HBS

Does anyone have any info on John Bates, born in 1865 in Cumber, Londonderry, son of George Bates, who was a labourer. He married Mary Jane Best in 1884 in Omagh, Co. Tyone and then lived in Dublin but I know nothing about his family (i.e. siblings, parents etc...). He died in Liverpool, England in 1944.

When I visited this Church in 2004, I was told it was a "mother Church". First can someone tell me when it was established. I have the 1640's running around my head. Secondly, from what Church was it founded from in Scotland? Thirdly, what does the term "mother church" mean? Was it the "first" church established in the area that then esblished other churches around it? Given that there was the Irish uprising in 1641 and the plantation of occurred with many Scots in 1609, why would the Presbyterian Church not be established at a much earlier period? Mike Boyd Brisbane

I found details for 5 of these airmen in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website. They were from 59 RAF Squadron which was based in Ballykelly from September 1943. The squadron was flying patrols over the Atlantic seeking out submarines and threats to shipping and was based there until the end of the war. I guess that these airmen were either killed on returning to base or in training flights. Cheers from NZ Brian Moriarty ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ulster Ancestry" <ulsterancestry@hotmail.com> To: <NIR-DERRY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 6:49 AM Subject: [NIR-DERRY] 2nd World War Graves in Ballykelly > > I was recently in the graveyard attached to Tamlaghfinlagen{Ballykelly} > Church of Ireland Church which is just a mile outside of Limavady. > > While I was there I noted down the following nine 2nd World War > headstones. > > What struck me was that six of these young airmen were buried on the same > day 23rd June 1944 while the other three were buried together on the 27th > June 1944 just four days later. > > These are the transcriptions. Someone,somewhere may find them of interest. > > The following were buried on the same day 23rd June 1944 > > AUS 421778 > Norman Athol Cooper[Australia] > Flight Sergt.RAF > > > AUS 422370 > Kenneth John Neilson [Australia] > ARAF > > CANR 13406 > Vaughan Albert McClellan [Canada] > > 431471 > John Haines RAF > > 883398 > Rowland Paine Wade RAF > > The following were buried on 27th June 1944 > > NZ421266 > Henry Gordon Coobe [New Zealand] > NZRAF > > CANR134752 > Wilfred Clarke Wallace [Canada] > RAF > > CANR134227 > George William Geering [Canada] > RAF > > best regards > Robert > www.ulsterancestry.com > > _________________________________________________________________ > Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! > http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NIR-DERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Mary Jane BRISTOW was, according to the 1851 census of Bethnal Green, London, born in Coleraine c 1818/19. She married Theophilus Samuel Patrick MONTGOMERY. Their daughter Maria was born in Coleraine c 1840/41. By 1844/45 they had moved to Holborn, London. I am sorry that my existing information is rather vague, but I would appreciate advice on how to locate details of Mary Jane and Maria's baptisms and the marriage of Mary Jane and Theophilus. Adrian Yorkshire

Hello Brian, Thanks for that. Its important to remember young men like these who gave up their lives. regards Robert www.ulsterancestry.com >From: "Brian Moriarty" <B.Moriarty@xtra.co.nz> >To: "Ulster Ancestry" ><ulsterancestry@hotmail.com>,<NIR-DERRY-L@rootsweb.com> >Subject: Re: [NIR-DERRY] 2nd World War Graves in Ballykelly >Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 08:57:43 +1300 > >I found details for 5 of these airmen in the Commonwealth War Graves >Commission website. They were from 59 RAF Squadron which was based in >Ballykelly from September 1943. The squadron was flying patrols over the >Atlantic seeking out submarines and threats to shipping and was based there >until the end of the war. > >I guess that these airmen were either killed on returning to base or in >training flights. > >Cheers from NZ >Brian Moriarty > >----- Original Message ----- From: "Ulster Ancestry" ><ulsterancestry@hotmail.com> >To: <NIR-DERRY-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 6:49 AM >Subject: [NIR-DERRY] 2nd World War Graves in Ballykelly > > >> >>I was recently in the graveyard attached to Tamlaghfinlagen{Ballykelly} >>Church of Ireland Church which is just a mile outside of Limavady. >> >>While I was there I noted down the following nine 2nd World War >>headstones. >> >>What struck me was that six of these young airmen were buried on the same >>day 23rd June 1944 while the other three were buried together on the 27th >>June 1944 just four days later. >> >>These are the transcriptions. Someone,somewhere may find them of interest. >> >>The following were buried on the same day 23rd June 1944 >> >>AUS 421778 >>Norman Athol Cooper[Australia] >>Flight Sergt.RAF >> >> >>AUS 422370 >>Kenneth John Neilson [Australia] >>ARAF >> >>CANR 13406 >>Vaughan Albert McClellan [Canada] >> >>431471 >>John Haines RAF >> >>883398 >>Rowland Paine Wade RAF >> >>The following were buried on 27th June 1944 >> >>NZ421266 >>Henry Gordon Coobe [New Zealand] >>NZRAF >> >>CANR134752 >>Wilfred Clarke Wallace [Canada] >>RAF >> >>CANR134227 >>George William Geering [Canada] >>RAF >> >>best regards >>Robert >>www.ulsterancestry.com >> >>_________________________________________________________________ >>Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! >>http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters >> >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>NIR-DERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>quotes in the subject and the body of the message > _________________________________________________________________ MSN Hotmail is evolving – check out the new Windows Live Mail http://ideas.live.com

I was recently in the graveyard attached to Tamlaghfinlagen{Ballykelly} Church of Ireland Church which is just a mile outside of Limavady. While I was there I noted down the following nine 2nd World War headstones. What struck me was that six of these young airmen were buried on the same day 23rd June 1944 while the other three were buried together on the 27th June 1944 just four days later. These are the transcriptions. Someone,somewhere may find them of interest. The following were buried on the same day 23rd June 1944 AUS 421778 Norman Athol Cooper[Australia] Flight Sergt.RAF AUS 422370 Kenneth John Neilson [Australia] ARAF CANR 13406 Vaughan Albert McClellan [Canada] 431471 John Haines RAF 883398 Rowland Paine Wade RAF The following were buried on 27th June 1944 NZ421266 Henry Gordon Coobe [New Zealand] NZRAF CANR134752 Wilfred Clarke Wallace [Canada] RAF CANR134227 George William Geering [Canada] RAF best regards Robert www.ulsterancestry.com _________________________________________________________________ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters

Rev Perry outlines a second migration in 1719 & 1720 by Robert Temple on the shores of the Kennebec from its mouth to Merrymeeting Bay. Many of the families settled in what is now Topsham. While Perry list some of these people, he doe snot ay how may people came, nor does he say what the name so the five large ships were. So if your family disappeared from County Londonderry or County Antrim in hte 1719 & 1720 period this may be an area that you may need to look at. Mike Boyd Brisbane Scotch-Irish in New England By Rev. A. L. Perry, Professor of History and Politics, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. Taken from The Scotch-Irish in America: Proceedings and Addresses of the Second Congress at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 29 to June 1, 1890. The next attempt to introduce this class of immigrants into Maine seems to have been from a source entirely independent of the previous one, though nearly contemporaneous with it. Robert Temple, who had been an officer in the English army, and was a gentleman of family, was the leader in the enterprise. His motive was to establish himself as a large landed proprietor in this country. He says in a letter to the Plymouth proprietors: "In September, 1717, I contracted with Captain James Luzmore, of Topsham, to bring me, my servants, and what little effects I had to Boston." "My eye," he continues, "was always toward a good tract of land as well as a convenient place for navigation." Returning from an examination of Connecticut, he says: "I was resolved to see the eastern country also before I should determine where to begin my settlement." The proprietors of the west banks of the Kennebec took him down to see their land, but he gave the ultimate preference to land on the east side of the river, which belonged to Colonel Hutchinson and the Plymouth Company, and he became a partner in that concern and engaged to bring a colony to it. Within two years he chartered five large ships to bring over families from Ulster to carry on the settlement. They were the same sort of people that came to Boston, and from the same general localities. During the two years, 1719 and 1720, several hundred families were landed on the shores of the Kennebec from its mouth to Merrymeeting Bay. Many of the families settled in what is now Topsham, which received its name from Temple's place of departure on his first voyage, the port of Exeter in Devonshire; another portion settled in the northerly part of Bath, on a tract of land stretching along on Merrymeeting Bay to the Androscoggin, and was called Cork, and sometimes Ireland, from the country of the settlers, which name it still retains; and still others straggled along on the eastern side of the bay and river, and descendants of these still occupy and improve portions of the country. The familiar Scotch names, McFadden, McGowen, McCoun, Vincent, Hamilton, Jolmston, Malcolm, McClellan, Crawford, Graves, Ward, Given, Dunning, Simpson, still live to remind the present generation of the land from which their ancestors came. Unhappily, the Indian troubles, which we call "Lovell's War," commenced shortly after Temple's people got fairly seated on the Kennebec, broke up some of the settlements, which had begun to assume a flourishing aspect, and scattered away many colonists from the rest; some of these sought a refuge with their countrymen at Londonderry, N. H., but the greatest part of them removed to Pennsylvania; Brunswick and Georgetown were destroyed and deserted; in the summer of 1722, nine families were captured at one time by the Indians in Merrymeeting Bay; but Temple himself and many of his people remained, and the descendants of both have connected their names indissolubly with Bowdoin College in Brunswick, and with both state and church in Maine. Temple himself received a military commission from Governor Shute, and rendered good service in the defense of his adopted country. His posterity have served it long and well. His eldest son, Robert, married a daughter of Governor Shirley; the second son, John, lived to become a baronet, and married a daughter of Governor Bowdoin, of Massachusetts. Their daughter, Elizabeth, married Thomas D. Winthrop, of Massachusetts, and those are the parents of Robert C. Winthrop, of Boston. After the breaking up of the Norridgewock tribe on the Upper Kennebec, some of Temple's Scotch settlers returned to the deserted places on the eastern shore, and new adventurers sought the vacant seats. In 1729, Colonel Dunbar, a native of Ireland, of Scottish descent, in the hope of separating Maine from the Massachusetts government, obtained a commission from the crown as governor of the territory. He had previously been commissioned as surveyor-general of the woods, with a view to preserve the pine timber for the British navy. He selected Fort Frederick, at Pemaquid, as the seat of his government, and was placed in possession by a detachment of troops from Nova Scotia in 1730. Rightful were the claims of Massachusetts to the eastern shore, but Dunbar took immediate measures to occupy and improve the lands in his new province by inviting his countrymen, the Scotch-Irish, to settle upon them through liberal inducements both of lands and privileges. He granted one-hundred-acre lots on Pemaquid in the neighborhood of the fort, laid out and improved a large farm for himself, and ceded to his countrymen, Montgomery and Campbell and McCobb, large tracts, which soon became towns. In the course of two or three years, more than one hundred and fifty families, principally of Scotch descent, were introduced into this territory. Some were drawn from the older settlements of the stock in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and some were fresh colonists from Ireland. These had their pastor, Rev. Robert Rutherford, and their Presbyterian institutions, which they cherished with great tenacity for a long time. Among these families were McClintocks, Hustons, McLeans, McKeens, Caldwells, Dicks, Forbushes, Browns, McIntyres, and McFarlands. Massachusetts continued to protest against the government of Dunbar, excellent as were its results, and it was terminated in August, 1732, and jurisdiction restored to Massachusetts. Dunbar returned to England in 1737, where, like Penn, he was committed to prison for debt, but afterward released through the liberality of his friends, and in 1743 was appointed governor of St. Helena, an English island since rendered famous by the exile of a more distinguished ruler than this early Scotch-Irish governor of Maine. Samuel Waldo, who had been a sort of agent of Massachusetts in displacing Dunbar, and who had an interest in the territory as a patentee, and who had seen the benefit arising from the admirable class of immigrants whom Dunbar had introduced, proceeded to profit by the example in respect to his own ample possessions lying between the St. George and the Penobscot rivers. In 1734, Waldo carefully examined the resources of his land grant, and fortunately discovered the invaluable quarries of limestone, which have proven from that day to this day a source of continued riches and progress to the inhabitants of that peninsula. The first movements in the manufacture of lime there, which are now so extended, and which seem at present to claim the attention of our legislators at Washington, were so small that the lime was shipped to Boston in molasses casks. The St. George river, on which the first settlements were made, is a plunging stream, and afforded then and now fine mill sites for handling both wood and stone, and the near forests gave an abundant supply of timber. Waldo's first settlers upon his eastern grant were all of Scotch descent from the North of Ireland--some of them of recent immigration, and others had been in the country from the first arrival in Boston in 1718. This company consisted of twenty-seven families, arrived upon the spot in 1735, and each family furnished with one hundred acres of land on the banks of the St. George, in the present town of Warren, Maine. The names of some of these pioneers will show to those familiar with the history of Maine how much the state is indebted to this enterprising proprietor, Samuel Waldo, for placing in permanent contact with the soil these most useful settlers. Among the names are Alexander, Blair, Kilpatrick, North, Patterson, Nelson, Starrett, Howard, McLean, Spear, Creighton, McCracken, and Morrison. The Old French War broke out in 1744, which greatly interrupted developments in Maine for ten years, when Waldo went to Scotland again, and formed a company of sixty adults and many children, who reached St. George's river in September, 1753, and were settled in the western part of Warren, to which they gave the name of Stirling, the ancient royal city of their country. These were mostly mechanics; the names of some of them were Anderson, Malcolm, Crawford, Miller, Auchmutey, Carswell, and Johnston; and this we believe to be the last immigration into New England of people of Scottish extraction, in any considerable number, prior to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War.

The third area that people from the 1718 migration settled was in Kennebec County, Maine. However, Rev Perry deos not say how many. So it would be the third area to search for those with exemptions. Mike Boyd Brisbane Scotch-Irish in New England By Rev. A. L. Perry, Professor of History and Politics, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. Taken from The Scotch-Irish in America: Proceedings and Addresses of the Second Congress at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 29 to June 1, 1890. 3. KENNEBEC COUNTRY. Full as New Hampshire became of the Scotch-Irish, especially in the southern and eastern halves of it, it is likely that this element became still more predominant in what is now the State of Maine. We have already noted the but half-suppressed anxiety of Governor Shute at Boston to get as many as possible of the five ship-loads into his province to the eastward, as a frontier-barrier against the French and Indians of Canada. Although many of the supposed three hundred persons who wintered in the harbor of Portland returned the next spring to the Merrimac to settle Londonderry, some of them remained in Maine. We know certainly, that John Armstrong, Robert Means, William Jameson, Joshua Gray, William Gyles, and a McDonald remained and founded families in Portland. James Armstrong, for example, an infant son of John, was born in Ireland in 1717, and the parents had a son Thomas, born in Portland in 1719. It is pretty certain also, that parts of that company were left on points along Casco Bay and the mouth of the Kennebec, at or near Wiscasset, before the main part returned to the Merrimac. We happen to know with almost absolute certainty the fortunes of one of the families left behind in Portland, when the future Londonderry settlers returned to Massachusetts. This was the family of Joshua Gray. He had a Celtic-Irish wife, and a large family. The names of the sons of this family were Reuben, Andrew, James, John, Samuel and Joshua. In the spring of 1759, the year of Wolfe's battle on the Heights of Abraham, Governor Pownall, of Massachusetts, fitted out an expedition of 395 men in order to capture from the French the mouth of the Penobscot River. They left Portland May 4, and arrived at Wasaumkeag Point, May 17. Among the enlisted men were Andrew and Reuben Gray. In Governor Pownall's journal may be found the following: "May 26. Visited Pentaget with Captain Cargill and twenty men. Found the old abandoned French Fort, and some abandoned settlements. Went ashore into the Fort. Hoisted the King's Colours there and drank the King's health. Embarked in the sloop King George for Boston." The place thus described is now known as Castine, from Baron Castine, whose name is a very familiar one along the eastern coast of Maine; and among the twenty men who accompanied Governor Pownall on that occasion was Reuben Gray. A strong fort was planned at Wasaumkeag Point, and the work of building it was carried forward so diligently, that it was completed July 5, 1759, the expense being £5,000. A garrison was kept there until 1775, when the fort was dismantled by Commodore Mowett in a British man-of-war, and later in the same year entirely destroyed by Colonel Cargill, of New Castle. The building of this fort marked the beginning of settlements by the English around the Penobscot Bay and river region, the first settlers being members of the military expedition, who, on being discharged, established themselves near the fort, where their homes could have its protection against the French and Indians. The two Gray brothers, Reuben and Andrew, being of a venturesome disposition, crossed the bay and located at what is now called Penobscot, and were the first settlers of English origin to build their homes on that historic peninsula. Several brothers of Reuben and Andrew followed them to the Penobscot, and at last also, their old father and mother. The distinction is claimed for Reuben's son, Reuben Gray 2d, of being the first male child of English parentage born east of the Penobscot River, the date of his birth being 1762. The old father, Joshua, died about the opening of the Revolution, but the Irish widow continued until after the close of the war. The first Reuben seems to have died about 1820; and the second certainly in 1858; and about ten years ago, as my two oldest boys, with other students of Williams College, were making sailing excursions along the coast of Maine, they ran across, at Brooksville, within the mouth of the Penobscot, Captain Abner Gray, son of the second Reuben, then nearly eighty-five, as straight as an arrow, helpful and hospitable, and that chance acquaintance led to the correspondence that has given us these facts about the Scotch-Irish on the Penobscot. The Grays of this very family are still in large numbers in Brooksville and Bucksport, on the lower Penobscot, and so are Wears, and Orrs, and Doaks, and other Scotch-Irish families. In published extracts from court records of the Province of Maine I have read the affidavits of several of the early inhabitants, who stated that they came to Boston in August, 1718, from Ulster, and thence that autumn to Maine, where they settled in Brunswick and that neighborhood; which is another independent evidence that parts of our now famous five ship-loads furnished the first Scotch-Irish settlers of Maine, as well as of New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

It would appear that a second group that settled in Londonderry, NH. Again this may be an area to find out if any of these settlers were at the Siege of Londonderry, City, Ireland in 1689. Mike boyd Brisbane Scotch-Irish in New England By Rev. A. L. Perry, Professor of History and Politics, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. Taken from The Scotch-Irish in America: Proceedings and Addresses of the Second Congress at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 29 to June 1, 1890. 2. LONDONDERRY. The core of the company that settled Londonderry, N. H., in April, 1710, consisted of sixteen men, with their families, namely: James McKeen, John Barnett, Archibald Clendenin, John Mitchell, James Sterrett, James Anderson, Randall Alexander, James Gregg, James Clark, James Nesmith, Allen Anderson. Robert Weir, John Morrison, Samuel Allison, Thomas Steele, John Stuart. Thirteen of these men lived to an average age of seventy-nine years; six of them attained to nearly ninety, and two of them overpassed that limit; and one, John Morrison, lived to see ninety-seven years. All of the Scotch-Irish of that generation, wherever they located in New England, unless their personal habits were such as shorten life, attained on the average to a very advanced age. The pioneers in this second settlement were most of them men in middle life, robust and persevering, and adventurous and strong-willed, fronting death with no thought of surrender. Most of them were the descendants of Scotch Covenanters who had passed over to Ulster later than the mass of the settlers there, and they had kept together in church relations, as well as in residence, more closely than most of the Scotch settlers. Their residence was in the valley of the Bann, mostly on the Antrim side of the river, in or near the towns or parishes of Coleraine, Ballymoney, Ballymena, Ballywatick, and Kilrea; and when they decided to emigrate, they still wished to keep together in church relations, and those of them who had been under the pastoral charge of Rev. James McGregor, who came with them, especially the McKeen families and their numerous connections, desired to form a distinct settlement here and become again the charge of their beloved pastor. With this end in view, about twenty families, taking others with them, amounting in all (as Willis estimated) to three hundred persons, sailed from Boston in the late autumn to explore Casco Bay for a home, under a promise from Governor Shute of a grant of land whenever and wherever they decided upon a location in any still unappropriated quarter in New England. They wintered, hungry and cold, in Portland Harbor. In the early spring they explored to the eastward, but there is no record how far they went or what they found. It is enough for our present purpose that Maine seemed to offer no genial home to those sea-worn and weather-beaten voyagers. Though they left a few of their number in Portland, to whom we shall recur later, and probably a larger number on the Kennebec at or near Wiscasset, the bulk determined to seek a milder climate and a more favorable location. Undoubtedly while still in Boston their attention had been called to Southern New Hampshire as well as to Maine, both at that time under the jurisdiction of the governor of Massachusetts, for they sailed directly back to the mouth of the Merrimac and anchored at Haverhill, on that river, where they heard of a fine tract of land about fifteen miles to the northward, then called Nutfield, on account of the abundance of the chestnut and walnut and butternut trees which, in connection with the pines, distinguished the growth of its forests. A party, under the lead of James McKeen, grandfather of the first president of Bowdoin College, and brother-in-law of Pastor McGregor, went up and examined the tract; and ascertaining that it was not appropriated, they decided at once to take up here the grant obtained from the government of Massachusetts of a township twelve miles square of any of her unappropriated lands. Having selected the spot on which to commence their settlement, and having built a few temporary huts on a little brook which they called "West-Running Brook," a tributary of Beaver Brook, which falls into the Merrimac at Lowell, and leaving two or three of their number in charge, they returned to Haverhill to bring on their families, their provisions, their implements of labor, and household utensils. Mr. McGregor and some others had passed the winter at Dracut, on Beaver Brook, just north of Lowell; and two parties, one from Dracut and the other from Haverhill, were soon converging through the forests toward West-Running Brook, when they met, as tradition says, at a place ever after called "Horse Hill," from the fact that both parties there tied their horses while the men surveyed the territory around as the future home. This day was April 11, old style, 1719. The next day, having in the meantime explored with the leaders more fully what they had selected for the township, the good pastor, under a large oak on the east side of Beaver Pond, delivered to his people, now partially re-united, the first sermon ever preached in that region--Isaiah, 32, 2: "And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place; as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land." The spot where this religious service was held, especially the tree around which these hardy pioneers assembled, was for a long period regarded with great reverence by the people of Londonderry. When at last it decayed and fell, the owner of the field in which it stood planted a young apple tree among its rotten roots, which now serves, and will long serve, to designate the venerated spot. These first families, in order to secure the advantages of near neighborhood, and be better able to protect themselves against the attacks of the Indians, with which all the New England colonies were at that time threatened, planted their log-houses on each side of West-Running Brook, on home-lots but thirty rods wide and extending back on a north and south line till they inclosed sixty acres each. These lots constituted what has ever since been called the Double Range. For fifty years or more this range continued to be a populous section of the town. The first season the settlers cultivated a field alongside the brook, then and ever since called the "Common Field;" but the best land in the township was not in that section, for it lay too low, and as each settler had allotted to him another sixty acres elsewhere, after a while the lowland began to be deserted of houses, and nothing is now to be seen along the Double Range but meadows, dotted here and there by the cellar-holes of these earliest planters. No price was paid for the land, since it was the free gift of King William to his loyal subjects of the old country, some of them faithful champions of his throne in the siege and defense of Londonderry. The first dwellings were, of course, of logs, and covered with bark. It is to be noticed, however, that in these exiles for rightousness's sake, sound and pious as they were, there was as much human nature to the square inch as in the rest of mankind. When John Morrison was building his house in the Double Range his wife came to him, and in a persuasive, affectionate manner said to him, "Aweel, aweel, dear Joan, an' it maun be a log-house, do make it a log heegher nor the lave,'' (than the rest). Beaver Brook, however, tumbles well in its course from the pond to the Merrimac, and saw-mills were soon built, and within a year or two good framed houses were erected; the first for Pastor McGregor, only quite recently demolished, and the second by John McMurphy, Esq., who bore a commission as justice of the peace, dated in Ireland, and so antedated the commission signed by Governor Shute, April 29, 1720, to Justice James McKeen, in some sense the foremost man of the settlement. Two stone garrison-houses, strongly built and well prepared to resist an attack of the Indians, were put up the first season, and to these the several families retired at night whenever, for any reason, special danger from that source was apprehended. But it is remarkable, that neither in Lovell's War, when Londonderry was strictly a frontier town, nor in either of the two subsequent French and Indian wars, did any hostile force from the northward ever even approach that town. Tradition has always been busy in ascribing the signal preservation of this colony from the attacks of the Indians to the influence of Pastor McGregor over Governor Vaudreuil, of Canada. It is said that they had known each other in the Old World at college; that a correspendence was kept up between them on this side the water; that at the request of his friend the governor caused means to be used for the protection of the settlement; that he induced the Catholic priests to charge the Indians not to injure any of these people, as they were different from the English, and that the warriors were assured beforehand that no bounty would be paid for such scalps, and no sins forgiven to those who killed them. It is certain that the early inhabitants of Londonderry believed in all these assertions; and it is some confirmation of them that a manuscript sermon of McGregor's, still extant, has on the margin the name and various titles of the Marquis Vaudreuil, by which, of course, he would be addressed upon occasion.

>From the address of Rev Perry, he said that the members of the 5 ships of 1718 went to three area. So I will send these separately. This information may help members to findout where in the USA perhaps some of those exempt from taxation mayhave sttled. Mike Boyd Brisbane Scotch-Irish in New England By Rev. A. L. Perry, Professor of History and Politics, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. Taken from The Scotch-Irish in America: Proceedings and Addresses of the Second Congress at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 29 to June 1, 1890. 1. WORCESTER. Nowadays we in Massachusetts call Worcester "the heart of the Commonwealth." It is a shallow bowl of beautiful country. The fall of 1718 marked the fifth year of its permanent settlement. There were about fifty log houses and two hundred souls within the circle. These were all English and Puritans, and from the towns immediately to the eastward. But the Indians were hostile. Two previous settlements on the spot had been abandoned from this cause, the first in King Philip's war in the year 1675, the second in Queen Anne's war in 1709. Now the colony was determined to hold the ground. At least five garrison-houses, one a regular block fort, stood within the bowl. Accordingly, Governor Shute looked favorably upon the proposition, that a part of the Scotch-Irish, now in one sense on his hands, should go direct to Worcester, to find a much-needed home for themselves, to reinforce the fifty families already on the ground, and to take their chances in helping to defend the menaced western frontier, fifty miles from Boston! We do not know exactly how many went to Worcester. We may fairly infer that at least fifty families--large families--went straight from Boston to Worcester that autumn, and that the population of the place was thus more than doubled at one stroke. I entertain the opinion, gathered from scattered and uncertain data, that it was the poorer, the more illiterate, the more helpless, part of the five shiploads who were conducted to Worcester. I have hanging in my study, handsomely framed, the original deed by which my immediate maternal ancestor, Matthew Gray, conveyed to his son, of the same name, in 1735 his farm in Worcester of fifty-five acres, still called there the "Gray Farm," to which deed are appended, not the autographs but the "marks" of Matthew and Jean, his wife. Neither Matthew nor Jean could write. The deed is witnessed, however, by "William Gray. Jr.," who writes a fair hand; but "Ealanor Gray," who witnesses with him, makes her "mark." Three marks to one manual is a bad proportion, but you will allow me to premise that the Grays, though illiterate, were long-headed. There is much evidence that the poor Scotch-Irish were welcomed in Worcester at first. They were needed there, both for civil and military reasons. Jonas Rice, the first permanent settler of Worcester, who had been a planter during the second settlement broken up by the Indians, returned to his farm to stay, October 21, 1713, and remained with his family alone in the forest till the spring of 1715. Adonijah, his son, was the first child born in Worcester, November 7, 1714. The cool courage, good sense, and strict integrity of Jonas Rice made him the first great leader in the town where great leaders have never been wanting since. He was just the man to appreciate the stout hearts of his new-come, not yet well-understood neighbors. No town organization had as yet been made when, in 1722, Lovell's Indian war broke out, and two Scotch-Irishmen, John Gray and Robert Crawford, were posted alone as scouts on Leicester Hill to the westward, doubtless at Rice's instance. In September of the same year a township organization was first effected, and John Gray, with Jonas Rice, were two of the first selectmen; William Gray was chosen one of the two fence viewers, and Robert Peebles one of the two hog reeves. At the first annual town meeting the next year new names of the strangers appear on the list of town officers; for example, James Hamilton as surveyor, and Andrew Farren as fence-viewer, though John Gray dropped this year from selectman to sealer of leather; but at the second annual March meeting, 1724, John Gray goes back to his earlier post as selectman, James McClellan, great-great-great grandfather to the late general-in-chief, becomes a constable; Robert Lethridge a surveyor of highways; William Gray and Robert Peebles, fence-viewers; John Battay, tythingman, and Matthew Gray, my own great-great grandfather, both sealer of leather and hog-reeve.

Kathy There could also be some records in Canada as well on this issue. I am not sure if the "Loyalist" from the USA who moved to Canada in the 1776 peiod may have brought some of these Exemptions with them as well. So these may be other areas that need to be explored by "researchers" Mike Boyd Brisbane ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathy Nemaric" <knemaric1@cfl.rr.com> To: "'Mike Boyd'" <mikejboyd@bigpond.com>; <NIR-DERRY@rootsweb.com>; <BOYD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 7:27 AM Subject: RE: [NIR-DERRY] Siege of Londonderry in 1689 > Here's a tidbit from "Chapter 38 - Londonderry from History of Rockingham > County, NH" > > "Exempt Farms.-A few of the Londonderry settlers who were in the > siege of Londonderry, Ireland, 1688-89, and who took an important part in > the defense of the city, were, in common with all the soldiers engaged > there, exempted from taxation by an act of the British Parliament. This > exemption continued down to the Revolution, which terminated all the > authority of England here. Among the exempts were Rev. Matt. Clark, John > Barr, William Caldwell, Abraham Blair, and James Wilson. There were > probably > more, but their names are unknown. James Wilson lived on the Proctor > place." > > This explains when the act was no longer enforced, although I am not sure > if > there would be a specific deletion from the statutes. It does bear some > investigating. I wonder if the U.S. National Archives, or the New > Hampshire > State archives might have more to offer, in terms of records? > > Kathy Judge Nemaric > Orlando, Florida > > > -----Original Message----- > From: nir-derry-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:nir-derry-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of Mike Boyd > Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 1:24 AM > To: NIR-DERRY@rootsweb.com; BOYD-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [NIR-DERRY] Siege of Londonderry in 1689 > > While reading the Jameson Paper again last night, I came across this > quotation:- > > "So important was Londonderry's defense that William obtained the Tolerant > Act, May 24, 1689, which exempted from taxation throughout the land, > "...all > > who bore arms in the city during the siege, and of this act those who > settled in Nutfield [NH] availed themselves until the American Revolution, > occupying lands known as the "exempt farms." " > > When was this Tolerant Act of 1689 deleated from the Statue Books? > > To enforce this Act some records must have been maintained. If so, where > would they be today? > > It would seem that at least in America this exemption was in force until > 1776. > > Has anyone had experience researching these and how useful are they in > trecing your family of the years? > > Mike Boyd > Historical Commitee, HBS > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NIR-DERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Rachel Thank you for that advice and the correct name of the Act plus the Websites. (not being a web person, myself, I hope that they will be helpful for others) If as the Act suggests that those defending Londonderry City, were given an exemption from Taxation (of some sort), you would EXPECT that there was both a "local" and "central" listing maintained. People as you suggested may have had to apply for the exemption, so you would have expected advice to have gone from a "central" area - London or Dublin - back to the local town or County authority, they knew not to collect taxes from that person. Then we have the problem of those people going to the USA or Canada or even to England itself. So it may be a line of research what is worth following up on if people think or know that there families may have come from that period. Mike Boyd Brisbane ----- Original Message ----- From: "Records" <records@dysarts.co.uk> To: <NIR-DERRY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 4:11 AM Subject: [NIR-DERRY] Fw: Siege of Londonderry in 1689 > > > Your source mentions the "Tolerant Act of 1689". Ths could be the > Toleration Act. > > However I've read through a couple of on line versions and as far as I can > see it doesn't specifically mention the defenders of Londonderry. It is > concerned with exempting Protestants from existing laws restricting the > worship, practice of their beliefs. > It's possible I missed something re Londonderry while in a post Christmas > haze. I have also previoulsy found that some Acts of P have addenda that > don't make it online- all those boring lists of names that are meat and > drink to family historians! > > The source for anything like this is the Calendar of State paper (CSP) > Domestic- there's another one for overseas. You may find it in a good > university library - it is also in the National Archives in London.(TNA). > However you are in luck as a lot of this is being put on line > http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ > The site is still growing but the William and Mary era is there > http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=46304 > The Toleration act is listed under 1688 and not by that name. > > If you go further down the list of Statutes you will find various relating > to relieving distress in Ireland . The site enables you do a search for > for > words or phrases , though putting in 'Londonderry' quite often brings up > the Earl of Londonderry. > > This site gives amodern English version of the Toleration Act > http://www.agh-attorneys.com/4_act_of_toleration_1689.htm > My own feeling is that if provision was made for William's supporters it > would have been along the lines of a general grant/exemption-whatever- and > individuals would have applied for it. I don't think there is something > specific in an Act naming all those supporters - though I notice he did > naturalise many of his commanders. > > > However I could be wrong - if you do find further info, let me know. > On your other questions, I'd say any records still existing would either > be > in TNA in London or if held in Dublin could have been destroyed in the > 1922 > fire. > > As to how useful these records are to family history, they are > useful if you had an ancestor who made good, was an aristocrat or > gentry,or > well known for some reason. For the footsoldiers and small farmers of > history, there is a > chance they will turn up in some return, someone was required to make or > something compiled as evidence for a parliamenary committee. > > Rachel > > __________________________________________________________________ > snip............................ > While reading the Jameson Paper again last night, I came across this > quotation:- > > "So important was Londonderry's defense that William obtained the Tolerant >>> Act, May 24, 1689, which exempted from taxation throughout the land, >>> "...all >>> who bore arms in the city during the siege, and of this act those who >>> settled in Nutfield [NH] availed themselves until the American >>> Revolution, >>> occupying lands known as the "exempt farms." " >>> >>> When was this Tolerant Act of 1689 deleated from the Statue Books? >>> >>> To enforce this Act some records must have been maintained. If so, >>> where >>> would they be today? >>> >>> It would seem that at least in America this exemption was in force >>> until >>> 1776. >>> >>> Has anyone had experience researching these and how useful are they in >>> trecing your family of the years? >>> >>> Mike Boyd >>> Historical Commitee, HBS >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> NIR-DERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NIR-DERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Your source mentions the "Tolerant Act of 1689". Ths could be the Toleration Act. However I've read through a couple of on line versions and as far as I can see it doesn't specifically mention the defenders of Londonderry. It is concerned with exempting Protestants from existing laws restricting the worship, practice of their beliefs. It's possible I missed something re Londonderry while in a post Christmas haze. I have also previoulsy found that some Acts of P have addenda that don't make it online- all those boring lists of names that are meat and drink to family historians! The source for anything like this is the Calendar of State paper (CSP) Domestic- there's another one for overseas. You may find it in a good university library - it is also in the National Archives in London.(TNA). However you are in luck as a lot of this is being put on line http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ The site is still growing but the William and Mary era is there http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=46304 The Toleration act is listed under 1688 and not by that name. If you go further down the list of Statutes you will find various relating to relieving distress in Ireland . The site enables you do a search for for words or phrases , though putting in 'Londonderry' quite often brings up the Earl of Londonderry. This site gives amodern English version of the Toleration Act http://www.agh-attorneys.com/4_act_of_toleration_1689.htm My own feeling is that if provision was made for William's supporters it would have been along the lines of a general grant/exemption-whatever- and individuals would have applied for it. I don't think there is something specific in an Act naming all those supporters - though I notice he did naturalise many of his commanders. However I could be wrong - if you do find further info, let me know. On your other questions, I'd say any records still existing would either be in TNA in London or if held in Dublin could have been destroyed in the 1922 fire. As to how useful these records are to family history, they are useful if you had an ancestor who made good, was an aristocrat or gentry,or well known for some reason. For the footsoldiers and small farmers of history, there is a chance they will turn up in some return, someone was required to make or something compiled as evidence for a parliamenary committee. Rachel __________________________________________________________________ snip............................ While reading the Jameson Paper again last night, I came across this quotation:- "So important was Londonderry's defense that William obtained the Tolerant >> Act, May 24, 1689, which exempted from taxation throughout the land, >> "...all >> who bore arms in the city during the siege, and of this act those who >> settled in Nutfield [NH] availed themselves until the American >> Revolution, >> occupying lands known as the "exempt farms." " >> >> When was this Tolerant Act of 1689 deleated from the Statue Books? >> >> To enforce this Act some records must have been maintained. If so, where >> would they be today? >> >> It would seem that at least in America this exemption was in force until >> 1776. >> >> Has anyone had experience researching these and how useful are they in >> trecing your family of the years? >> >> Mike Boyd >> Historical Commitee, HBS >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NIR-DERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Here's a tidbit from "Chapter 38 - Londonderry from History of Rockingham County, NH" "Exempt Farms.-A few of the Londonderry settlers who were in the siege of Londonderry, Ireland, 1688-89, and who took an important part in the defense of the city, were, in common with all the soldiers engaged there, exempted from taxation by an act of the British Parliament. This exemption continued down to the Revolution, which terminated all the authority of England here. Among the exempts were Rev. Matt. Clark, John Barr, William Caldwell, Abraham Blair, and James Wilson. There were probably more, but their names are unknown. James Wilson lived on the Proctor place." This explains when the act was no longer enforced, although I am not sure if there would be a specific deletion from the statutes. It does bear some investigating. I wonder if the U.S. National Archives, or the New Hampshire State archives might have more to offer, in terms of records? Kathy Judge Nemaric Orlando, Florida -----Original Message----- From: nir-derry-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nir-derry-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Mike Boyd Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 1:24 AM To: NIR-DERRY@rootsweb.com; BOYD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [NIR-DERRY] Siege of Londonderry in 1689 While reading the Jameson Paper again last night, I came across this quotation:- "So important was Londonderry's defense that William obtained the Tolerant Act, May 24, 1689, which exempted from taxation throughout the land, "...all who bore arms in the city during the siege, and of this act those who settled in Nutfield [NH] availed themselves until the American Revolution, occupying lands known as the "exempt farms." " When was this Tolerant Act of 1689 deleated from the Statue Books? To enforce this Act some records must have been maintained. If so, where would they be today? It would seem that at least in America this exemption was in force until 1776. Has anyone had experience researching these and how useful are they in trecing your family of the years? Mike Boyd Historical Commitee, HBS ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NIR-DERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

While reading the Jameson Paper again last night, I came across this quotation:- "So important was Londonderry's defense that William obtained the Tolerant Act, May 24, 1689, which exempted from taxation throughout the land, "...all who bore arms in the city during the siege, and of this act those who settled in Nutfield [NH] availed themselves until the American Revolution, occupying lands known as the "exempt farms." " When was this Tolerant Act of 1689 deleated from the Statue Books? To enforce this Act some records must have been maintained. If so, where would they be today? It would seem that at least in America this exemption was in force until 1776. Has anyone had experience researching these and how useful are they in trecing your family of the years? Mike Boyd Historical Commitee, HBS

Thank you Robert. Could you Email me from your personal address please. >From the Irish Link for June 1885, it said that Ludovic Stewart was granted lands at Portlough in Raphoe barony, Co Donegal. However, it did not say if he was Duke of Lennox or if his Brother Esme was but he had land in Co Cavan, so I assume it was Ludovic. It said that Emse came from Lennox in Stirlinghsire. However, when I wen to my map of Scotland, I could not find Lennox but did find Lennox town about 5 kms NW of Kirkintillock but this is in Lanarchshire. Near where the Cadet Branch of the Boyd family of Badenheath, as follows:- F2 William Boyd, b 13xx, d living 1374-75, m 13xx, wife unknown and had issue:- [Lived: ] - He had a grant of land from King David II (1329-1371) of the lands of Auchmarr in Dumbarton in 1366 forfeited by Duncan de Luss. Thomas Fleming of Foulwood, formerly Earl of Wigtoun, having in 1372 impignorated to him the lands of Leygne for 80 pounds sterling, he gave a charter of these lands to Malcolm Fleming of Biger. He was ancestor of the Boyds of Badenheath (Badinhaith is in Stirlingshire) - a property acquired before the reign of Robert III. The last of this line appears to have been Margaret, Lady of Badenheath, daughter of William and sister and heiress of Robert Boyd, both of that place, married to Robert Boyd, who died 1611, third son of fifth Lord Boyd, see M3. (see Chapter 11) I do not have the details of direct successsion of this family from the late 1,300's until 1611, let alone the younger male members of it. So there could have been Boyd tenants of Lodovic form Stirling that came with him to this part of County Donegal. There was already a John Boyd at Letterkenny by 1590 and Sir Thomas Boyd was one of the 50 Unkertakers just outside of Sion Mills, County Tyrone. I will look forwar to getting some detials from you about these two Boyd Thank you. Mike Boyd Brisbane ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ulster Ancestry" <ulsterancestry@hotmail.com> To: <NIR-DERRY@rootsweb.com>; <BOYD@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 6:53 PM Subject: Re: [NIR-DERRY] Boyd of Taughboyne Parish, Co Donegal and later of Worcester, Mass. > > Hello Mike, > > Further to your posting : > > "Here lies interred the remains of John Young, who was born in the isle of > Bert, near Londonderry," > > "Bert" is probably "Burt" which is now a Parish in County Donegal about 6 > miles from the City of Londonderry. Technically Burt is not an island but > there was an island in the Parish that being the Island of Inch [now in > Fahan Parish]. The original Taughboyne Parish extended right into > Newtowncunningham and bordered on Burt Parish > >>From Hills "Plantation of Ulster" you will find that this part of Donegal > was granted to Ludovic Stewart > The 2nd Duke of Lennox. Stewart populated his portion with many of his own > Scottish tenants including a John Boyd, a Robert Boyd, and a John Young. > If > we assume that these men were former Lennox tenants in Scotland then it is > likely that they came from Sterling,the heartland of the Lennox family > estates. > This idea might be further reinforced by the names of other early settlers > on Inch Island [The Bryces and the Elders} who we know did come from > Sterlingshire. > > You will find transcripts of 17th century Donegal muster rolls and land > leases at www.ulsterancestry.com on the Free Pages section which would be > worth a search for further evidence. > > > best regards > Robert > www.ulsterancestry.com >

In response to my posting Ray Isbell, has kindly forwarded me this website which members from both list may find of value, if they have not already found it. Perhaps it may tell us when some of the migratin took place from Northern Ireland and when. Mike Boyd ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Isbell" <isbell2@hotmail.com> To: <mikejboyd@bigpond.com> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 2:24 AM Subject: RE: [BOYD] Boyd of Londonderry, NH, USA > see: > Scotch-Irish in New England > By Rev. A. L. Perry > > http://www.libraryireland.com/articles/ScotchIrishNewEnglandCongress1890/index.php > > >>From: "Mike Boyd" <mikejboyd@bigpond.com> >>To: <NIR-DERRY@rootsweb.com>, <BOYD@rootsweb.com> >>Subject: [BOYD] Boyd of Londonderry, NH, USA >>Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:43:19 +1000 >>