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Moses Boyd  ~ Jane Boyd

Beaver and Butler Counties, PA

In 1816, MOSES BOYD (1786-1859) came to America with his brothers, SAMUEL and JOSEPH.  Their parents were MOSES BOYD (1758-1825) and MARY BOYD (1762-1812).  The sons came from County Down, Ireland, though all had been born in their father's place of origin, County Armagh, before the family moved to County Down (MARY BOYD had been born in Scotland).

A year after arriving in America, MOSES BOYD married JANE BOYD (1796-1883). A weaver in Ireland, MOSES was a farmer in America, mostly in Beaver and Butler Counties in Pennsylvania.  He died near his farm at Ogle, PA (present-day Cranberry Township in Butler County); JANE died at Allegheny City, PA  (now Pittsburgh's Northside).  JANE had come to America with her family in 1802.  Her parents were JOHN BOYD (1767-1856) and ELIZABETH INGRAHAM (1772-1828).

JOHN BOYD was a Flour Miller living near Ballymoney in County Antrim.  In America he was a farmer in Beaver County at New Scottsville, PA and an Elder for 26 years until his death at the Ohio Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church identified in 1913 as the United Presbyterian Church of New Scottsville (possibly the present-day Ohio Presbyterian Church of Aliquippa).  Nothing is known of ELIZABETH INGRAHAM'S family.  Both JOHN and ELIZABETH INGRAHAM BOYD are buried at the Mt. Carmel Presbyterian Churchyard in New Sheffield (present-day Aliquippa).   The members of these two BOYD families and their descendents with births until about 1910 are chronicled in James Melancthon Nevin's NEVIN AND BOYD GENEALOGIES (Elizabeth, Pa., 1913).  The information is online at:   http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~hnevin2

Hugh Nevin

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