Robert Boyd, John Boyd

Robert Boyd, a native of the Province of Ulster, Ireland, and of Scotch parentage, settled in the Cumberland Valley in what was afterwards Letterkenny township about the year 1737. He was a gentleman of education and influence on the "far frontiers" of the then Province of Pennsylvania. During the French and Indian war he was commissioned a captain in the Third battalion of the Provincial forces, Col. Hugh Mercer, his commission bearing date May 1, 1758, and participated in the Forbes expedition. He died about 1760, leaving the following children:

1) John
2) Margaret
3) Jane
4) Agnes
5) James
6) Esther
7) Samuel
8) Mary

The eldest son, John Boyd, who served in the Bouquet expedition of 1764, died in March 1770, leaving a wife Mary, who died June 30, 1778, (all buried at Rocky Spring grave-yard) and children:

1) James, b. 1749
2) Elizabeth, b. 1751
3) Robert, b. 1755
4) William, b. 1757
5) Samuel, b. 1759
6) John, b. 1762
7) Thomas, b. 1764

Source: Third Series Volume III, Notes and Queries - CCXLVII

William Henry Egle's Notes and Queries

Notes and queries: historical, biographical and genealogical, relating chiefly to interior Pennsylvania : edited by William Henry Egle, M.D.M.A. - FHL Film 1033794

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