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

Jane Boyd ~ Samuel Craig 

Samuel Moorhead ~ Agnes Nancy Craig 

Westmoreland Co; PA

Samuel Moorhead married Agnes Nancy Craig, daughter of Samuel and Jane
Boyd Craig. Samuel's son John was the owner of three woolen mills, a number of tanneries, and about thirty farms, also raised stock, driving cattle to Philadelphia. He was an associate Judge of Westmoreland County. Judge John Moorhead married Margaret Hill, daughter of Rev. George Hill. They had the following children: Elizabeth, Nancy, Sarah, Betsey, Jane, Margaret, Lucinda, Mary W., Samuel, and John.

The Craigs came from Scotland in 1684, settling in New Jersey. Andrew, born in 1662, died in 1739 was the first generation to immigrate. His son, John, born 1695, died in 1778, had a son, Samuel, born in early 1700's, married Elizabeth McDonald first, and second, Jane Boyd and started to Western Pennsylvania from New Jersey in 1766. In 1769, Samuel Craig bought a tract of land on the eastern side of the Loyalhanna, of three hundred acres.

Source: 200 Years of History in New Alexandria, Westmoreland County,
Pennsylvania By The Bicentennial History Committee Published by the New
Alexandria Bicentennial Committee in Cooperation with the Community of
New Alexandria, Pennsylvania

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