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Richard G. Boyd

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Adam Boyd

Bergen Co; NJ

 Adam Boyd, a Representative from New Jersey; born in Mendham, N.J., March 21, 1746; moved to Bergen County about 1770 and to Hackensack a few years later; member of the board of freeholders and justices in 1773, 1784, 1791, 1794, and 1798; sheriff of Bergen County 1778-1781 and again in 1789; member of the State house of assembly in 1782, 1783, 1787, 1794, and 1795;judge of the court of common pleas of Bergen County 1803-1805; elected as a Democrat to the Eighth Congress (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1805); elected to the Tenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ezra Darby; reelected to the Eleventh and Twelfth Congresses and served from March 8, 1808, to March 3, 1813; again judge of the court of common pleas 1813-1833; died in Hackensack, Bergen County, N.J., August 15, 1835; interment in the First Reformed Church Cemetery.

Source: page 876,Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949: The Continental Congress September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788 and The
Congress of the United States From the First to the Eightieth Congress March 4, 1789 to January 3, 1949, Inclusive, Washington, DC:United States Government Printing Office, 1950.

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