CHIEF:  Dr Robin Boyd, MA (Oxon); MB BS; LRCP, MRCS; DCH; AFOM, 8th Baron Kilmarnock

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 Chester County, Pennsylvania to Northumberland County, Pennsylvania

Captain John Boyd was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania,  February 22, 1750, and became a resident of Northumberland in 1778.  On the 16th of October, 1776,  he was commissioned as second lieutenant in the Twelfth Pennsylvania regiment, and subsequently promoted first lieutenant; in July, 1778, he was transferred to the Third regiment, in which he became captain lieutenant. He was a member of the "forlorn hope" that inaugurated the assault upon Stony Point in 1779. Retiring from his regiment, January 1, 1781, he took command of a company of rangers in Bedford county, and was taken prisoner at the Raystown branch of Juniata while crossing the Allegheny mountains. After spending a year in Canada under duress he was exchanged and returned to Northumberland, where he spent the remainder of his life. Among the civil positions with which he was honored were those of member of the Supreme Executive Council, register and recorder of Northumberland county, and inspector of internal revenue under President Washington. He died on the 13th of February, 1831. His brother,  Lieutenant William Boyd,  of the Twelfth regiment, was killed at the battle of Brandywine, September 11, 1777.  Another brother,  Lieutenant Thomas Boyd,  was killed by the Indians, September 12, 1779, in Sullivan's campaign. 
 

Source: Bell's History of  Northumberland Co; PA; Chapter XV: Borough of Northumberland.

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