(1) ROBERT BOYD, born 2 August 1688 Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland and died 7 March 1759, Kilmarnock "aged 72" m. in Kilmarnock, 25 Oct 1714 Margaret Thompson b. 3 Nov 1692 dau. of Peter and Bessie (Adams) Thompson.

The Earl of Kilmarnock was born 1661 so his fourth son would hardly have been born nearly thirty years later. That Robert Boyd the glover was the son of John and Agnes (Blackwood) Boyd is more likely since he is known to have been born in 1688 or 1689 and by the death record of Robert Boyd, he died in 1759, aged 72. It should be noted as supporting evidence that Robert named his first son Robert, after himself and the second son John presumably after Robert's father and brother. It is true that the Kilmarnock parish records show other Robert Boyds born between 1680 and 1700 as follows:

Robert, b. 16 Dec 1683, son of James Boyd and Margaret Boyd.

Robert, b. 11 Mar 1688, son of James Boyd and Janet Conell.

Robert, b. 5 Dec 1691, son of Robert Boyd and Margaret Connel

There is no record of the births of any of the children (3) of the 1st. Earl (in Kilmarnock). (These births are recorded in Kirkintullach) The age at death of Robert Boyd, would seem to rule out all except Robert, son of John and Agnes, born 2 August 1688, and Robert, born 11 March 1688, son of James and Janet and it must be noted that Robert named his ninth and tenth children respectively, Janet and James.

The marriage record in the Kilmarnock Registry reads, "Robert Boyd, glover and Margaret Thompson daughter of Peter Thompson, were booked and consigned and markes of penalties on Friday, October 1, 1714. Witnesses John Adams and James Finlay and got up their penalties when the time required ---and after orderlie proclamation threu several Sabbaths, were married by Mr. Wright, October 25, 1714. Witnesses Peter Thompson and James Finlay"

From the Council Book of Kilmarnock of 19 October 1723 it appears that he was elected a member of the Council where he continued to serve, with a few months intermission, by annual election for thirty years until 1753.

A deed of a tract of land belonging to the town which adjoined or was "opposite to his ground" is on the Kilmarnock records, for which he stipulated "to pay presently three pounds sterling and a yearly tack duty of 4 shillings."

The children of Robert and Margaret (Thompson Boyd, according to the Kilmarnock Register were:

1. Robert born 7 March 1716, baptized 22 March 1716 by Rev. Mr. Pedin, Witnesses: John Adams and Peter Thompson, died 30 June 1734,

 2. John, b. 26 November 1717, bapt 11 Dec 1717 by Rev. Mr, Wright; died in infancy

 3. John, b. 18 August 1719, bapt. 1 December 1719.

4. William,  bapt 1 March 1724 by Rev. Mr. Wright, living in London 1795. 5. A child, no name of date given. 6. A child, no name given, bapt. 14 Dec 1725.

7. Margaret, b. 28 Jan 1728, bapt. 1 Feb 1728 by Mr. Paisley; m. 5 Sept 1748, Matthew Fairservice, glover. He was probably son of Matthew Fairservice, glover who died in Kilmarnock, 4 December 1746, aged 80. She died in London, 1776.

8. A child, no name or date.

9. Janet, b. and bapt. by Mr. Paisley, 29 March 1730 d. 12 April 1733.

The above births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths were copied from original records in Kilmarnock by Miss E. Winifred Binning of Edinburgh, Scotland in 1966.

                                     IN AMERICA

At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in America a portion of the Royal Army was quartered upon James' estate, called "Kilmarnock". The soldiers committed great outrages, robbed the estate of all movables, drove off the cattle and reduced the family to a state of near starvation. James with his wife and younger children escaped in a small vessel to Newburyport, Mass. leaving the two oldest Boyds, Robert and Joseph, aged 17 and 15 years to salvage what they could from the wrecked estate. They followed the family to Newburyport the next summer, having endured incredible hardships and suffering during the rigors of an inclement winter. James continued to reside in Newburyport until the death of his wife in 1788 and then moved to Boston, where he married again and died of yellow fever.

The children of James and Susanna (Coffin) Boyd according to the Vital Records of Newbury and Newburyport, Massachusetts were:

1. Robert, b. Newbury, 13 Nov 1758, d. Portland, Maine in January 1827 m. 1st on 15 Nov 1791, Ruth, dau of Capt. David Smith of Portland. She d. Portland, 1 Aug 1805: m. 2nd, Newburyport, 22 Sept 1807, Hannah Greenleaf daughter of Benjamin Greenleaf 1 Nov 1765. She died 20 Jan 1846.

2. Joseph Coffin Boyd, b. Newbury 23 July 1760

3. Margaret Boyd b. 25 Jan 1762, d. Boston in Oct 1840; m. 13 Sept 1792, Woodbury Storer of Portland, ME.

4. (Brig. Gen.) John Parker Boyd, b. 21 Dec 1764, Newburyport d. Boston, MA 1830.

5. Frances Boyd, b. Newburyport 14 Aug 1766 and drowned in Mississippi River 1834 m. Boston 30 June 1790, William Little.

 6. Ebenezer Little Boyd b Newburyport 6 July 1768, died Newbury, 25 Jan 1841, m. Boston 30 June 1796, Sarah Frazier daughter of John Frazier. She d. Newbury 27 Feb 1837, aged 57.

 7. Charles Coffin Boyd, b. Newburyport, 3 Feb 1770 d. there 19 Aug 1860 "aged 91 y, 5 mo., 25 d"

8. (Dr.) William Boyd, b. St. Andrews, Nova Scotia, 20 March 1776 (Newburyport V.R. I:42) died Boston, 13 June 1803.

 9. Mary Lee Boyd b. 22 Jan 1778.

MAJ. JOSEPH COFFIN BOYD, b. Newbury, MA., 25 July 1760, d. Portland, ME 12 May 1823; m. 1st Congregational Church of Scarborough, ME., 24 Jan 1796, Isabelle Southgate, b. Scarborough, 29 March 1779, d. Portland, ME 28 Jan 1821, daughter of Dr. Robert and Mary (King) Southgate. Joseph joined his brother Robert in Portland shortly after 1784, where they engaged in trade. He was a Master Mason. In 1800 he went to France where he remained for about 18 months. On his return to Portland he became an Acting Magistrate and for some time County Clerk (Journals of Rev. Thomas Smith and Rev. Samuel Dean and Hist. of Portland, by William Willis (1849 page 401) He was Treasurer of the State of Maine from 1820 to his death in 1827.

The history of the Portland Federal Volunteers is given in an article by H. Charles McBarron, Jr. and Frank E. Southard which appeared in the Military Collector and Historian, Vol. Xii No. 2 Summer 1960 entitled "The Portland Federal Volunteers, 1793-1803.

(1) Dr. Frederick Tilghman Boyd's "History of The Boyd Clan and Related

Families" 1962, Regal Press.

(2) (Frederick Tilghman Boyd, Ph.D.)

(3) The children of the 1st Earl were all born in Kirkintilloch,

Dunbarton, Scotland [Scottish Church Records]

The children of Joseph Coffin and Isabella (Southgate) Boyd baptised at the 1st Church of Falmouth, Maine (Some dates from family bible) were:

 i. Mary Southgate Boyd, b. 20 Jan 1797, bapt. 2 Apr 1797, d. Portland, 9 Apr 1861; married Portland, 26 Sept 1820, Dr. John Merrill, b. Conway, NH, 1781 d. 27 May 1855, son of Thomas & Elizabeth Cabbot (Cummings) Merrill.

ii. James Joseph Boyd, b. 25 July 1798, bapt. 19 Aug 1798, d. Hallowell, ME 30 Apr 1829; m. Hallowell, (VR) 17 Nov 1825, Harriet Dummer, b. Hallowell 17 Apr 1798, dau. of Jeremiah and Mehitable (Moody) Dummer who is said to have survived her husband, returned to Hallowell and said to have married 2nd, a Mr. Moody. There is no record of this 2nd marriage.

iii. Charles Orlando Boyd, b. 6 Nov 1799, bapt. 15 Dec 1799, d. Portland, ME 12 Dec 1821 while studying medicine.

iv. Isabella Susanna Boyd, b. 28 Dec 1801, bapt. 28 Nov 1801, d. Conway, NH 17 July 1825. She was a noted beauty.

v. Robert Southgate Boyd, b. 24 Oct 1804, bapt. 28 Nov 1804, d. Portland 1 Dec 1877. Married Portland 14 March 1832, Margaret Ann Hall, b. 1811, d. 1 May 1881, dau. of Joel and Mary Hall.

vi. (Hon.) Samuel Stillman Boyd, b. 27 March 1807, d. 21 May 1869; m. Natchez, MS 14 Nov 1838, Catherine Charlotte Wilkins, dau. of James C. Wilkins. He became a Supreme Court Judge of Mississippi.

vii. Frances Greenleaf Boyd, b. 25 Nov 11808, d. Portland, ME 11 Dec 1824, unmarried.

viii. Horatio Errol Boyd, b. 7 April 1810, d. unmarried at Lexington, KY 11 March 1833, while studying for holy orders.

ix. Walter Bowne Boyd, b. 21 April 1811. He resided at St. Paul, MN and was unmarried in 1907.

x. Miranda Elizabeth Boyd, b. 24 Dec 1812, d. Portland, ME 30 May 1830.

xi. Frederick William Boyd, b. 19 Jan 1814

xii. Octavia Caroline Boyd, b. 15 Mar 1815, d. Portland, ME 10 Sept 1826.

xiii. (Dr.) Edward Augustus Boyd, b. 10 June 1816, d. 4 June 1888; m. 2 Dec 1841, Sarah Bragg Farrington, b. 1822, d. 1895, dau. of John and Polly (Adams) Farrington of Andover, ME. They removed to St. Paul, MN.

xiv. Ellen Almira Boyd, b. 8 April 1817, d. Portland, ME 6 April 1826.

xv. Augusta Murray Boyd, b. 10 Jan 1819 d. NY City, 1 Feb 1898; m. in 1843, Brig. Gen. Lloyd Tilghman of Baltimore who was killed in battle at Champion Hill, 28 August 1863 fighting in the Confederate army.

Rev. Frederick William Boyd, D.D., born 19 Jan 1814, died Delaware County, Iowa, 16 Nov 1886; m. Natchez, MS, 4 Jan 1844, Mary Eliza Railey, born Natchez, 5 January 1824, died Waukesha, WI., 28 April 1910, dau. of James and Matilda Susan (Green) Railey. Frederick W. Boyd graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1836. He then entered the General Theological Seminary in the city of New York, graduating in 1839. He was Ordained Deacon of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 20 Oct 1839 by the Right Reverand Alexander Viets Griswold, in St. John's Cathedral at Bangor, ME. After traveling extensively throughout the States, he was settled at St. Paul's parish, Kent County, Maryland in 1840. He was ordained priest in December 1841. The next three years he was Rector of Christ Church, Vicksburg, Miss.

He was at Natchez in 1846, Rector of Saint James Church, Port Gibson, Miss. in 1849 and resided at his estate of 100 acres near Natchez, MS, called "Kilmarnock" granted him by his father-in-law 1853-1855. In 1850 he was on leave in New Orleans and in the same year he had a small parish in Scotland and then spent a year in Canada. Dr. Boyd died on the train enroute from Cresca to Iowa and was buried 25 November 1886 in Waukesha.

From the Cresco Plaindealer we copy the following, relative to the lamented F.W. Boyd D.D. which will no doubt be read with satisfaction by his host of friends:

"Like a fire bell in the night came the tiding by telegram that the Rev. Dr. F.W. Boyd, on his way from Cresco to Davenport died on the train Tuesday and that his remains were at Edgewood, a small station at Delaware County. By direction of Bishop Perry and invitation of this parish he came here, held services morning and evening in Grace Church and attended sabbath school between. During his brief stay in Cresco, he was the welcome guest of the family of the editor and appeared in good health and spirits. On Tuesday after-noon he left our home to go to Davenport to confer with Bishop Perry having telegramed his coming. At 3:30 p.m. the editor accompanied to the train carrying his traveling bag into the Davenport car and then bidding him goodbye thinking him in good health but a little nervous. Before midnight tidings came that he had gone to the undiscovered world of spirits. The deceased was born at Portland Maine in 1814 and was consequently 72 years of age. He had seen much of public life and the world. He had been in Europe several times, had made the acquaintance of J.Q. Adams, Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Van Buren, Benton an the statesmen of a past age generally. The reminiscences of other days made his visit at our home one of pleasure and profit prolonging our Monday evening chat to nearly midnight." The children of Rev. William and Mary E. Railey Boyd were:

i. James Railey Boyd, b. Portland, ME 13 Aug 1846 d. unmarried at Waukesha, WS 17 May 1901.

ii. Frederick William Boyd Jr, b. "Oakland" Adams County, MS 4 Nov 1848 and d. 1 Nov 1871; m. 12 Oct 1871, Lutie Temple.

iii. Joseph Coffin Boyd, b. "Oakland" Adams County, MS 25 Feb 1851 and d. 31 Oct 1852, New Orleans, LA :of peritonitis and dropsy from measles."

iv. Carlone Green Boyd, b. "Kilmarnock" near Natchez, MS 18 Nov 1853, d. "suddenly in dental convulsions" at La Grange, Adams Co, MS, 15 Aug 1854.

v. Horatio Erroll Boyd, b. "Kilmarnock" near Natchez, MS 22 June 1855, d. 4 Feb 1858 "of tubecular consumption from measles."

vi. Mary Mayo Boyd, b. "Kilmarnock" near Natchez, MS 12 Oct 1857 d. 18 Aug 1859 "of enteritis from varioloid at "Kilmarnock".

vii. Walter Stuart Boyd, b. "Kilmarnock" 9 Nov 1859, d. unmarried ca. 1911, Milwaukee.

viii. Lloyd Tilghman Boyd b. Natchez, MS 19 Dec 1861 d. 8 Nov 1914 Milwaukee, m. 6 Feb 1895 Wilmington DE, Susan Anderson Patterson b. 24 Oct 1870 in Baltimore. She died 27 June 1950, Wilmington, DE.

xi. Charles Mayo Boyd, b. 15 Dec 1866 d. unmarried 1 Feb 1904 of typhoid fever on a Mississippi riverboat.

(More Patterson/Boyd coming)