Re: James Boyd Ky. or Virginia
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James Boyd Ky. or Virginia
Lynn Noe 7/23/11
Could your 1814-1877 James Boyd be related to Alfred Boyd?
My great great grandfather was Alfred Boyd, born 1802 in Trigg County, KY.
He married Lucy Amis Harrison on 1824 October 19 and died 1874 in Mayfield or Paducah KY. She was born 1806 Dec 12, died 1847 March 14.
His father was Abram Boyd who was born 1765 in Virginia. He fought in the Revolutionary war as a teenager, in South Carolina, along with his father James Boyd and brothers, who were from Bedford County VA. He married Nancy Lynn, whose father Adam Lynn was from Ireland, and had eloped with Sidney Ewing.
In 1788 Abram Boyd went to TN with Andrew Jackson, later moving on to Kentucky, where he founded Boyd's Landing in Cadiz/Canton KY.
Good luck!