CHIEF:  Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd 7th Baron Kilmarnock

Richard G. and Jerri Lynn Boyd

568 W. Friedrich Street

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Samuel G. Boyd / Katherine M. TenEyck

 Glen Falls, NY

SAMUEL G. BOYD

Reaches 90 years

The Post-Star, Friday, June 16, 1933, Glen Falls, New York

Samuel G. Boyd is one of the few residents of Glen Falls alive today who can picture Glen Street as it looked before the great fire of 1864. Samuel married Katherine TenEyck.

Born on Federal Hill, North Bolton, June 15, 1843, Mr. Boyd came here with his parents in 1847. Mr Boyd worshipped in all five churches built by the Presbyterians, including the "Old white", erected about 125 years ago and replaced in 1850 by a building which burned in 1864.  Mr Boyd has a vivid
recollection of the fire which destroyed all but two stores. He was twenty-one and a member of the fire department. He did his bit manning the brakes on a hand engine from which water was pumped from wells. There were no motor pumpers or high pressure water mains inn those days.

Mr. Boyd's home at Park and Elm streets was a station on the "Underground Railway" for slaves escaping to Canada. Going to the barn one morning, he saw a negro hidden in the hay. Rushing into the house he told his mother what he had seen and was set in a chair with the admonition not to say a word about it. That evening his father drove out with a sleigh loaded with bogs. In the load were two slaves. They were delivered to a Quaker in Swanton, Vermont, who assisted them on the last lap of their journey to Canada.

Few residents of this city are as well known as this tall, active nonagenarian, who can remember when Glen Falls was a hamlet of 400 persons and the industries here were sawmills, lime kilns, tanneries, and brick yards.

The fifteenth annual reunion of the Goodman family, conducted Wednesday at the Wray farm, Fort Ann, was in honor of Samuel G. Boyd, the oldest member of the family. The reunion was called "Cousin Sam Boyd's Picnic Day"

Samuel G. Boyd's parents were Rufus Boyd and Eliza Catlin GOODMAN.  She was the daughter of Eleazar GOODMAN and Elizabeth CATLIN.  He had brothers, Harlan Page Boyd, Rufus Boyd, and two sisters; Elizabeth Catlin Boyd and Helen Goodman Boyd.  Samuel married Katherine M. TenEYCK of Saugerties, New York October 15, 1866.  Their children were: Harlan Page Boyd, Rufus TenBroeck Boyd, Mollie Elizabeth Boyd, Frances TenEcyk Boyd and Bessie Eliza Boyd.

(The Goodmans of Bolton, New York, 1930, Edith Willoughby Goodman West) (Additional data supplied by Richard S. French, 10B Pine Street, Clifton Park, NY 12065).

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