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    1. [NIR-DERRY] Boyd of Taughboyne Parish, Co Donegal and later of Worcester, Mass.
    2. Mike Boyd
    3. This is another family that I found that I have on my PC that migrated in 1718:- "YOUNG, David, of Worcester, Mass.; from Londonderry, Ireland, 1718; son of John Young(q.v.); born in Taughboyne, County Donegal, Ireland; m. Martha BOYD? d. at Worcester, Oct.26, 1749, aged 65; Child: William; d. Dec. 26, 1776, aged 94.-Perry's Scotch-Irish, p. 11, Worcester Inscriptions, p. 67, Wall's Reminiscences of Worcester, p. 128." >From the date of death for their some William Young, this would suggest that David Young and Martha Boyd were married before 1682. However, it does not tell us how may other children they may have had and if any of these also came to Worcester, Mass with them in 1718. Taughboyne Parish takes in St Johnstown and Church Town on the west side of the River Foyle. However, that does not tell us where Martha Boyd's family may have come from in Ireland. >From Scotch-Irish in New England By Rev. A. L. Perry, Professor of History and Politics, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. I was sent a passage which says:- "John Young was perhaps the oldest immigrant who ever came to this country to live and die. If the inscription on his tombstone is to trusted, which the American Antiquarian Society, of Worcester, copied and published many years ago, he was ninety-five years old when he landed at Boston. He lived in Worcester twelve years, died in 1730; was buried in the old yard on the common. His son, David Young, an old man when he came, died at ninety-four years, and was buried in the same place. His son, William Young, a stone cutter by trade, erected over their graves a common double headstone, with the following inscriptions in parallel columns, united at the bottom by the rude yet precious rhyming lines: "Here lies interred the remains of John Young, who was born in the isle of Bert, near Londonderry, in the Kingdom of Ireland. He departed this life, June 30, 1730, aged 107 years. Here lies interred the remains of David Young, who was born in the parish of Tahbeyn, county of Donegal, and kingdom of Ireland. He departed this life, December 26, aged 94 years. The aged son, and the more aged father Beneath (these) stones their mould'ring bones Here rest together." Again if you are an descendant of this Boyd/Young family, I am sure the list would like to hear form you please Mike Boyd Historical Committee, HBS

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