Misc. Revolutionary War Boyds
Alexander
Boyd. Enlisted as a Private in Captain Samuel Ryersons Company
of the 4th Battalion, New
Jersey Volunteers on 24 April 1778. Enlisted
by Captain Samuel Hayden.
Served in Captain Joseph Lees Alert Company on
Staten Island in the summer
of 1778. Deserted to the Volunteers of
Ireland in muster of 21 October
1778. Sources: National Archives of
Canada (NAC), RG 8, C Series,
Volume 1858, Pages 28 & 42.
Henry
Boyd, a Private in Captain Joseph Marshalls Company of the Kings
(Carolina) Rangers in muster
of 24 April 1781. Corporal in muster of 24
October 1781. Private
in muster of 25 April 1783. Sources: National
Archives of Canada, RG 8,
C Series, Volumes 1892 & 1898.
James
Boyd, Enlisted as a Private in the 4th Battalion, New Jersey
Volunteers in 1782.
Awol from Paulus Hook, New Jersey, at nine
o’clock at night on 13 August
1782. Sources: Library of Congress, George
Washington Papers, Series
6, Volume 7, Deserter Interviews.
James
Boyd, Clerk to the Inspector General of Provincial Forces on 1
February 1777. Served
as such through 20 September 1783. Commissioned
an Ensign in the New York
Volunteers at the end of 1783. A Native of
Scotland. A Merchant’s
Clerk from North Carolina.
Sources: PRO, Audit Office,
Class 1, Volume 335, folio 1338, pages 2-9.
PRO, Colonial Office, Class
5, Volume 111, folios 446-462. New-York
Historical Society, DePeyster
Papers, 1741-1836, folio 37.
John
Boyd, commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Halifax Regiment of Nova
Scotia Militia on 9 July 1778.
Sources: Public Archives of Nova Scotia,
RG 1, Volume 168, Page 537.
John
Boyd, a Private in Captain Samuel Roworths Company of the King’s
(Carolina) Rangers in muster
of 24 April 1781. A Prisoner of War in
muster of 24 October 1781.
Name left out in muster of 24 April 1782.
Sources: National Archives
of Canada, RG 8, C Series, Volume 1898.
Robert
Boyd, a Private in Captain Samuel Roworths Company of the Kings
(Carolina) Rangers in muster
of 24 October 1781. Listed as a Prisoner of
War the same muster.
Name left out of he muster of 24 April 1782.
Sources: National Archives
of Canada, RG 8, C Series, Volume 1898.
Robert
Boyd, enlisted as a Private in Captain Joseph Marshalls Company
of
the Kings (Carolina) Rangers
on 26 March 1781. Taken Prisoner in May,
1781. Returned to the
regiment in muster of 24 October 1781. Name left
out in muster of 25 April
1783
Sources: National Archives
of Canada, RG 8, C Series, Volumes 1892 & 1898.