You mention the Belfast Newletter index site http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/bnl/ It gives a very truncated version of the story/item . This is excelllent as otherwise you would never have known to explore certain areas. The index gave me the first clue that the Dysarts were involved in shipping and set me off researching early shipping from Derry to America. You do often need to see the full story.. The Belfast Newsletter is available on m/f and sometimes actual copies at Linenhall library in Belfast and in the Newspaper library attached to to Central library in Belfast. Central library has lots more newspapers too- alas unindexed. It has more mn/f readers and you can go and leaf through some of the papers. (Or you could 3 or 4 years ago) Apologies if you already knew or have done all that . Another thought, the Linenhall Library has an index of BMD notices taken from (I think) the Newsletter. Haven't made a note of what dates it covers. Rachel ----- snip > What is of more interest is whether he had any children. The following is > taken from the online index to the Belfast Newsletter for 23 May 1755 > #1924, > col. 4: > "Lands, Vow, Ballymoney, co. Antrim, > son Taughboyne, Boyd William" > The way this site works, the word "son" is probably an error because I > doubt > if he had a son called Taughboyne - that is where he ministered (now > called > Monreagh) after he left Macosquin in 1725. So, what land was he selling > in > the Vow, which is near Kilrea but across the Bann in County Antrim? > Anyone > have access to the Belfast Newsletter? I would like to confirm that this > is > not a reference to a son. > >