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  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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