James Boyd and Mary Boyd MacGregor

"James Boyd-grocer of Coleraine, N. Ireland and Portsmouth, New Hampshire and father to Mary (Boyd) MacGregor (1723-1793), wife to Reverend David MacGregor, has been identified as an 1718 Ulster emigrant. James Boyd is mentioned in Connelly's manuscript written in late 1718 as being "gone to America". James can then be found in the York County, Maine court records in 1719 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. A written agreement in 1717 between James Boyd and Hugh Orr BOTH of Coleraine, N. Ireland and bearing the red wax seal of BOYD is the only known physical article found in America related to the 1718 emigration. That agreement is in the Archives of the New Hampshire Court in Concord, New Hampshire. Unfortunately, James has no male descendants and only his daughter, Mary, is alive when his will was approved in Portsmouth, NH in November 1739."

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