Historical Register of Officers
of the Continental
Army During The War of
The Revolution, April
1775 to Dec 1783.
Boyd,
Abraham (MD). Lieutenant Colonel Recruiting
Officer
for Maryland troops, 1780-1781. (Died,
1799)
Boyd,
Adam (NC). Ensign 1st North Carolina, 4th
January
1776; 2nd Lieutenant, 3rd March 1776;
Chaplain
22d North Carolina, 1st October 1777
Brigade
Chaplain, 18th August 1778, to June 1789.
(died
1800).
Boyd,
Hugh (NC) Surgeon 4th North Carolina, 17th
April
1776 to_______
Boyd,
John (Mass). Captain of Company Minute
Men
in Lexington Alarm, April, 1775; Captain
of Heath's
Massachusetts Regiment, May to De¬
cember,
1775.
Boyd,
John (Pa). Volunteer in the Quebec
Expedition;
taken prisoner at Quebec 31st
December,
1775; exchanged 1st November,
1779.
Boyd,
John (Pa). 2d Lieutenant 12th Pa., 16th
October,
1776; 1st Lieutenant, 20th May, 1777;
transferred
to 3d Pa., lst July, 1778; Captain
Lieutenant,
18th June, 1779; retired 17th
January,
1781. (Died 13th February, 1832.)
Boyd,
Matthew (Pa). Captain Montgomery's
Pennsylvania
Battalion of the Flying Camp;
taken
prisoner at Fort Washington 16th
November
1776.
Boyd,
Matthew (Pa). Lieutenant-Colonel Pa.
Militia,
1777-1778.
Boyd,
Nathaniel (N. H.). Sergeant 1st N. H.,
24th
April, 1775; 2d Lieutenant, 18th June to --
December,
1775.
Boyd,
Robert (Pa). Surgeon lst Pennsylvania
Battalion,
19th April, 1776; resigned 13th June,
1776.
Boyd,
Thomas (Md). Ensign 2d Maryland, 27th
October,
1779; transferred to 5th Md., lst
January,
1781, with rank of 2d Lieutenant; re¬
tained
in Maryland Battalion April, 1783, and
served
to 15th November, 1783. (Died 1797.)
Boyd,
Thomas (Pa). lst Sergeant of Thompson's
Pa.
Rifle Regiment, 25th June, 1775; taken
prisoner
at Quebec 31st December, 1775; ex¬
changed
- November, 1777; 1st Lieutenant 1st
Pa.,
14th January, 1778; killed in action with
Indians
near Geneseo, N. Y., 13th September,
1779.
Boyd,
Thomas (Pa). 3d Lieutenant of Miles'
Pennsylvania
Rifle Regiment, 19th March,,
1776;
2d Lieutenant, 9th August, 1776; taken
prisoner
at Fort Washington 16th November,
1776;
resigned 22d June, 1777. (Died 1814.)
Boyd,
William (Mass). Quartermaster of Ward's
Ma.
Regiment, -- May to -- December, 1775;
Lieutenant
and Quartermaster 21st Continental
Infantry,
1st January to 31st December, 1776.
Boyd,
William (Pa). Ensign 12th Pa., 16th .
October,
1776; 2d Lieutenant, 20th May, 1777;
killed
at Brandywine, 11th September, 1777.