Hi folks, here's a website with much info on the settlement of Methodists from Ireland: http://www.leadersoftomorrowinstitute.com/indexz.html A few highlights: "The community to which the McCreerys emmigrated had become known in 1820 as Boyd's Settlement after one Samuel Boyd from Armagh who had been granted land (Lanark Con. XII Lot 2W) in 1820 along with other families including the Codes - who will later be seen to be part of my family as well. The settlers were Wesleyan Methodists and in short order they had their own church, school and cemetery at Boyd's. "Arrival at Boydís Settlement of the McCreery and Magee Family 1823 "What we know so far is that a cadre of Irish Methodists,led it would appear, by Sunday school teacher Samuel Boyd from Armagh and Thomas and Lancelot Jackson from Aghowle had congealed around the previously unsettled XIIth line of Lanark and the adjacent Ist Line of Ramsay in 1820. By 1821 or so they were building a school at the corner of the burying ground which became Boydís Methodist Cemetery. In 1822 the Warrens of Carlow (John Warren (Ramsay Con. II Lot 2) Benjamin Sheppard ( Ramsay Con. 1 Lot 2) and others who perhaps moved on shortly after arriving , had joined them. In an article from the Carleton Place paper in 1944 (see below), it is suggested that the settlers who arrived together in 1823 included McCreary's, Kinchís, Dowdall's, Warren's and Sheppard's. All of these families stayed, and became an extended family. " Much more info and other surnames. Linda Merle ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mail.fea.net