yes. Bethlehem is a town and a township. In 1730 it was a little spit of land and the Irish settlement was HUGE in comparison. The original Irish settlement includes almost all of Bethlehem city and Bethlehem Township in today's maps. The Moravians who created what we now know as Bethlehem city did this after the S-I had sold them their lands and moved in 17755 from the Indian uprisings. They had built a "fort" and church but little else before 1750. The S-I "built" the farm land the Moravians needed to enable their survival. There are two Boyd families in the Irish settlement. John the original lived in the curve of the Lehigh River where it turns north. That is now Allentown City but was part of Northampton county and Bethlehem. The second is William who lived north of Bethlehem city near to East Allen Township in the Catasauqua are of today. if you want to take Thomas at face value it would point to him being part of Williams family in Catasauqua. HOWEVER, you can never be specific with these "general locations". They changed numerous times. BY his death in 1790's. "Alin Township" didn't even exist AND wasn't part of Northampton County :) So "Bethlehem" is right and wrong and ditto to "Alin" Township. If it was easy it wouldn't be so much fun :) BTW- YOUR BOYD family is and always has been Scotch-Irish! Get rid of that "supposedly" tag line- you know better! Colin Brooks The 1718 Project In a message dated 3/31/2010 10:56:57 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Colin and others. (we have communicated with you before Colin) There have been a cluster of us working on our Boyd family, who "may" have come out of Armagh in 1732/34" to this country. (Thomas Boyd and his brother William plus a couple of sisters) Thomas said in his will that he was of "Alin " township. It has always bothered me that Thomas's son James (my ancestor) was said in many old DAR applications to have been born at Bethlehem Pa. The reason that it has never felt right is because my understanding of Bethlehem is that it was a German settlement. The Boyd family were supposedly Scots/Irish. Do you have any opinions about this? Diane ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message