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Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania Volumes I-III

WILLIAM ELLIS/AGNES BOYD (see bio)
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ANNA GILLESPIE, married DR. GEORGE MELLICK BOYD (see bio)
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Murdoch Kendrick
The ancestors of Murdoch Kendrick, of the Philadelphia bar, were among the early German settlers in the Conestoga and Pequea valleys of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, long prior to the Revolution, and many members of the Kendrick family took an active part in that struggle. Henry Kendrick, who had a mill and a large tract of land on the Pequea creek in Martick township, was captain of a company in the First battalion of Lancaster county militia, COLONEL JOHN BOYD, which was called into active service in May, 1777, and George, Martin, Isaac, and Henry Kendrick, Jr.,were members of the same battalion.

William Ross took part in the armed conflict between the Connecticut settlers in the Wyoming Valley, and the Pennsylvania authorities when force was resorted to, to oust the representatives of Connectcut from their lands, and in July, 1784, marched with twenty-nine picked men under Captain John Swift to meet an armed force of Pennsylvanians under Major Moore, who were reported to be at Larner's on their way to attack the Yankee settlers. The two parties met at Locust Hill, in Northampton county, and a battle ensued in which one Pennsylvanian was killed and several were wounded on both sides. August 1, Secretary John Armstrong, and HONORABLE JOHN BOYD, of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, came to Wyoming with an armed force and arrested Mr. Ross and others who were with him at Locust Hill on the charge of murder.
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REV. JAMES BOYD

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RICHARD BUTLER O'HARA/MARY BOYD (see bio)
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JAMES EASTON BRODHEAD/HATTIE LOCHLIN BOYD (see bio)

Pittsburgh:
ROBERT STURGEON ROBB/ EMMA S. BOYD (see bio)

Richard PARKER and Janet his wife emigrated from Ulster, Ireland, in 1725. and settled three miles from Carlisle, acquiring land by patent, near the Presbyterian meeting globe on the Cenedoguinet creek in Cumberland county, province of Pennsylvania, in 1734. His application made at that date was for the land on which he had "resided ye ten years past". Richard Parker died prior to 1750; his wife survived him fifteen years. Among their children were: 1. John 2. Thomas, born 1720, married Eleanor Ferguson. 3. Richard (2), born 1725, married Martha---. 4. William, born 1725, married and had issue. 5. Martha, died unmarried at age of eighty-four. 6. Susannah, married --- Dunning and had issue. 7. JAMES, married MARY (ELEANOR) BOYD.

Agnes PARKER, eldest child of John and Margaret (McClure) Parker, was born in 1741, near Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She married, in 1760, William DENNY, born 1737, in Chester county, Pennsylvania, died about the year 1800 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He removed to the Cumberland Valley in 1745, and was the first coroner of Cumberland county. During the Revolution he was commissioner of issues. He was the contractor and built the Court House at Carlisle in 1765; the building was destroyed by fire in 1845. He was a gentleman of the old school, high-minded and dignified in manner and conservative. Their children were: 1. Ebenezer, see forward. 2. PUSELLA , born May 28, 1763. died February 22, 1849; married SIMON BOYD, of Carlisle, an officer in the Second Battalion of Associators of Cumberland county. 3. William, died in infancy. 4. Nancy (Agnes), born August 31, 1768, died January 11, 1845, unmarried, at Carlisle. 5. Margaret, born June 25, 1775, married Samuel Simison. 6. Mary died aged three years. 7. Mary, born March 5, 1778, married George Murray, of Carlisle. 8. Elizabeth, born April 22, 1781, died March 27, 1848, unmarried, at Carlisle. and 9. Boyd Parker, born February 20, 1783, died at Pittsburgh.

COLONEL DAVID POTTER /SARAH BOYD (see bio)
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Robert Galt, or Gault, as the name is variously spelled at that early date, was one of the founders and first trustees and elders of Pequea Presbyterian Church, to which REV. ADAM BOYD was called as the first pastor, July 29,1724.
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PAUL ROSS WEITZEL / FANNIE EDWARDS BOYD,

Source: Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Vol. I-III
published 1911.

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