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

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William Boyd

Bullskin Township, Fayette County, PA

WILLIAM BOYD came from Virginia some time about the close of the Revolution, making the journey to his new home on the west border of Bullskin on pack horses.  He brought with him several slaves and six negro children were registered as being born to these slaves from 1795 to 1809, namely, Andrew, Millie, Ben, Prissie, Samuel and Alexander, but of their subsequent history nothing can be here said. William Boyd was a man of considerable education and served for a number of years as justice of the peace.  He died in 1812 and was interred on his homestead.  His family consisted of eight children: THOMAS BOYD; JOHN BOYD; ROBERT BOYD; JAMES BOYD; WILLIAM BOYD; JEREMIAH J. BOYD and a daughter who married James BARNETT of Connellsville and Stewart H. WHITEHILL, who resided on the
Mounts place many years. After 1812, THOMAS BOYD lived on the homestead where he carried on the distillation of liquor at an early day.  He was a popular man among his fellow citizens. Two of his sons: WILLIAM BOYD and RICHARD BOYD are yet residents of Bullskin township.  Other sons, JOHN BOYD, RANDOLPH BOYD, THOMAS BOYD and RICE BOYD, have died or removed.  THOMAS BOYD SR. died in 1855; JOHN BOYD, the second son, died in 1857 at Connellsville; ROBERT BOYD moved to Menallen township; JAMES BOYD died in Tyrone township; WILLIAM BOYD moved to Ohio; JEREMIAH BOYD became a physician and after living in Louisiana a number of years, moved to Washington.

Source: p488, History of Fayette County, by Franklin Ellis, Philadelphia, L.H. Everts and Company, 1882.

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