Immigrants
to New England, 1700 - 1775
BOYD,
Adam, of New England; from Ballymoney, Ireland,
in 1723;
b. 1692; m. Janet Craighead; Children:
Margaret,
John, Janet, Agnes, Thomas, Mary,
Adam, Andrew,
Hannah, Elizabeth, Samuel; removed
to Delaware
and Pennsylvania; d. 1768.--Sprague's
Annals
of the American Pulpit, Vol. 3, p.
130; Craighead
Family, p. 6.
BOYD,
Rev. Alexander, of Georgetown, Me.; from Scotland,
1748; educated
at Glasgow University, preached
at Palmer
for a time in 1748.--Sprague's Annals of
the American
Pulpit, Vol. 3, p. 29; Green's Boothbay,
p. 177.
(see below)
Rev.
ALEXANDER BOYD, A.B., University of Glasgow;
came to New
England before 1748; settled Georgetown,
Maine 1748-1753; Or-
dained Newburyport, Mass., for the ministry at
Newcastle, Maine
Sept. 19, 1754; settled Newcastle, Maine., 1753-1758;
dism. 1758;
Presbytery.
Book: The Colonial Clergy and the Colonial Churches of New England
Author: Frederick Lewis Weis
BOYD,
Andrew, of East Greenwich, R. I.; (perhaps two
Andrews);
from Antrim, Ireland, before 1775. -- Murray's
Irish Rhode
Islanders, p. 31.
BOYD,
Archibald, of Palmer, Mass.; from north of Ireland;
in Palmer
1742.--Temple's Palmer, p. 126.
BOYD,
George, of Boothbay, Me.; from Ireland 1750;
b. County
Antrim, Ireland; m. Margaret (???),
1765; Children:
Thomas; George W.; a brother of
Samuel
of Bristol, and Thomas of Boothbay.--Greene's
Boothbay,
p. 504.
BOYD,
James, of Bristol, Maine, and Worcester, Mass.;
m. Jean
(???); Children: Samuel, John, James,
Andrew,
Margaret, William, Thomas, Joseph, Eliza.--Boston
Evening
Transcript; Worcester Vital Records, p. 31.
BOYD,
Samuel, of Bristol, Me.; from Ireland, 1750; b. County Antrim,
Ireland; m. (???); Children:
Thomas, called "the surveyor" to distinguish
him; brother of Thomas and
George of Boothbay.--Greene's
Boothbay, p. 504.
BOYD,
Thomas, of Boothbay, Me.; from Ireland 1750;
b. parish
of Dunt-- and town of Bu-foot, County
Antrim,
1732; m. 1758; Child: Adam, of Back Narrows;
d. 1792;
a brother of Samuel of Bristol and
George
of Boothbay.--Greene's Boothbay, p. 504.
BOYD,
Rev. William, from Ireland in 1718; returned
1719 (?);
son of (???) Boyd of Dungiven, Derry.--Leavitt's
Blair Family,
p. 24.
BOYD,
Capt. William, of Londonderry, N. H.; from Ireland
in 1719;
m. Alice Hunter; Children: Joseph,
William,
Isaac, John, Alice, James; d. 1789, aged
70; he
brought over fourteen ship-loads of Scotch-Irish.--Cochran's
Antrim,
p. 371.
Immigrants
to New England, 1700 - 1775
Author:
Ethel Stanwood Bolton
Listed
in Harold Lancour's Bibliography of Ship Passenger Lists, this work
consists
of an alphabetical list of 2,250 immigrants to New England during
the
period 1700 to 1775. Entries contain important information such as place
of origin
and place of settlement, dates of departure and arrival, name of
wife,
date of marriage, and names of children.
Bibliographic
Information: Bolton, Ethel Stanwood. Immigrants to New
England,
1700 - 1775. 1931.
There
is a reprint available from Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1966.
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