The family starts with Alexander Boyd in Cecil Co. MD.  It is thought that
Alexander was born about 1715, but this date does not fit and we are trying
to get a better idea of how far back to push it, at this time.  Alexander
died, according to probate, 27 Nov 1780, in Cecil Co. MD.  His wife's
name was Margaret.  They had the following children;

Margaret b. abt 1741
Robert b. abt 1743
Hugh b. abt 1745
Francis b. abt 1747
Alexander b. abt 1750  ( believe Alexander was in the Rev. War)

The above information was kindly provided by Betty Jones. My cousin and I
were stuck at Hugh Boyd for many years, unable to get the right connection.
There was an age gap that wasn't right.  With the information from Betty and
the copies of wills she sent, it became clear that we were missing a generation.  Our Hugh was the son of Francis listed above, and the grandson of Alexander, not the son.

Francis Boyd b. abt 1747 in Cecil Co. MD, married Esther or Hester ?  and died 11 April 1797 in Cecil Co. MD.  They had the following children;

Esther b. ca 1759  m. Hugh Steel 17 Oct 1796.  both mentioned in father's will
Elizabeth b. ? d. Oct 1797    mentioned in will
Hugh b. abt 1763
Sarah b. abt 1765  m. ? Williams  mentioned in will

Some of the above information was sent after I made a connection on rootsweb
and the Boyd surname listing, and was sent to me by  Charles Fitzgerald.  He
had access to the cemetery information from Port Deposit, MD.

Hugh b. abt 1763  m. Jane Steel (sister to the above) 7 June 1788. mentioned in will   d.17 Sept 1811 buried, Port Deposit, Cecil Co. MD.  They had the following children;

Francis b. 8 Jan 1791  d. 11 June 1870    m. Sarah C. Patterson 10 Feb 1827
this is Charles' line and I will leave it for him to fill in as he wishes.

James b. 14 Dec 1789
Mary b. 13 Jan 1795  d. 13 July 1868, Hancock Co. WV.  m. James Jones  11 May 1815 Cecil Co. MD.  this is Betty's line and I will leave it for her to
fill in.  At this time I don't know if Betty is on line, if anyone feels
they connect to this line, send me your request via my email and I will send
Betty's address to you.
William b. abt 1797  Had no other information on him till I received the
letters.  Anyone with lines to a William Boyd in Sacramento CA, at the time
of the Gold Rush let me know, we may be related.
John b. 24 May 1807  d. abt 1835 - 1837  left land to his brothers and
sisters, in Cecil Co. MD
Sarah b. 6 Aug 1795 (I think this is darn near impossible, she wouldn't even
be 9 months from the birth of her sister)  m. ? Brown, as per letter.
Jane b. 1805 ( per letters)  m. ?  Hatch  She was married 3 times, I take it
Mr. Hatch was the last one.;-)
Rebecca b. abt 1805  m. Joseph Scarborough
Hugh S. b. 30 Jan 1799 (from letters)
Esther b.  abt 1788 (per letters) m. ? Harlan

Rachel b. 2 July 1801
Elisabeth b. 3 Oct 1802,   These 2 are not mentioned in their father's or
mother's will. May have died young.  They were sent with the information
from Charles that he had found in Port Deposit, MD.

I will fill out more of Hugh S.' family as he wrote the letters. And James'
line as that is mine.

Hugh S. b. 30 Jan 1799  m.  ?  twice. Never mentions wife's name in the
letters, only that she is his 2nd wife.  He had the following children;
Mary Jane          Williamina m. ? Finley and living in D.C. as of 1867
A. J. or Andrew or Jackson  b 2 Feb 1837 was in Civil War on the Union side,
living in Little York, PA in 1867 ( all three of the names were used in the
letters, I believe them to all be one and the same)          Albert H. d. 28
April 1869  Was in the Civil War on the side of the Union, he is referred to
in another letter as Hugh's youngest son. I feel he was to the second wife.
He was a conductor on the Baltimore city rail cars in 1867.      Another
daughter is mentioned, but no name given.

James b. 14 Dec 1789  d. 27 June 1872  Monroe twp. Carroll Co. OH  m. Sarah Robinson 14 Nov 1822 in PA or VA/WV.  this is my line.   They had the following children;

Daughter, name unknown, b. abt 1820 according to census.
Elizabeth  b. 19 Dec 1823 - 1828  possibly in Brooke Co. VA/WV  m. William Moreland 1 Aug 1844 in Carroll Co. OH   d. 16 Jan 1879 ( last 2 numbers on her stone are worn, date is a best guess)  age 50y 28 d. She is buried at Mt. Tabor Cemetery, Carroll Co. Oh near her parents.
John b. 19 June 1825, Collier's Station Brooke Co. VA/WV.  d. 8 Jan 1901
Came to Ohio with his parents by 1830.               m. 1st Matilda McQueen
11 Oct 1847.   2nd  Catherine Chaney Palmer, a widow.  Matilda and John had the following children;

Amanda b  1848  m. John Rabe       James Robinson  b 1849  m.  Hannah
Poulton         John Marion  b 1851  m. Minerva West
Mary Margaret  b 1853  m. Remus Gartrell      William McQueen  b 1855  m.
Della Teter/s       Francis  b  1857  m. Roseanne Moreland          Sarah
Ann  b 1859  m. John Smith  (my direct line)

Jane, Carroll Co. OH
jcgrezlik@bright.net

Dear Brother I receved yours of 24th June Some time Since but have not been abel to answer it on ac__t of being confined to my bad Since the first June last with Infermation on on my lungs from a wetting that I got a bout the middel of May last  I am better now Just abel to move about a littel but have not being abel to attend to my bisness Since about the 28th May last the rest of my familey is all well  So far as I Know my olds Daughter Mary Jane is gon to Philadelpia on a visit -  Francis Boyd Son & Daughter is here at present  I was up in cicel twice this Spring  but Did not See Francis on the Subject of your Land ___ the opperunity to See him and Speak to him on the Subject  but I Shew his wife and Son your letters but the new nothing of the matter  I told them to tell Francis, this Morning I asked yong Francis what his Father Said conserning the Matter and he Said his Father said he had ___ your Mothers wright & it was all ___ for & that it was on record in Elkton

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So that if you want aney thing done you will have to come on here your Selfe & See to it for I shall not portend to  medelle in the Matter between you  I canot attend to my owon bisness as it Should be you had better if you cant come in rite Esther Steele about the note you Spok of & for the Money you Spok of that is  Eaissr Said than Don  I will not pertend to bother with your land and Marys Jones  if laid of both together about 9 acres to gether and both of your rites would have to be got and that would be attended with a great ale of trubel & E__pe_es  aney thing I can Do towards gitting you a _ircher for your part I am willing to Do it and will let you Know if I Should meet with aney  but that may not be fer Seven years forom this  So under all the Sicumstances you had better come on here  your Selfe and attend to your own bisness because it is too far off fer me to attend to it.  _______ is a making a great change in the price of of land up in cecil  that old tract of l!
and where old Sam Battey the constabel livead when you was here was bot by Mr Goforth & Sold to Charles Brookins  I think for 7 or 8 Dollars por acre  was Sold by Charles Brookings for 30 Dollar per acre a few Days Since to a Mr Brown  a Son of 

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Lisha Brown  a grand Son of Black Smith Saml Gays and all the land has risen bond all imagantion  there was one of the finest fields of wheat in all that Neighberhood cut on Linton old fields that has being lying out for more than 50 years which you and I have corest thousands of times _ 40 bushells to the acre  no More at preset but hope these lines may find you in Good helth 
yours with respict   H. S. Boyd 

 Jane Grezlik    jcgrezlik@bright.net

Baltimore October 30th 1856

Dear Brother
I take this oppertunity to informe you that we are all well at present and
hope these lines will find you all __ the same, _________ wrote to my son
about the midel of this  _____________got to see __ __
sister____________just arived here from __ and __ me that She has made a
bargend with __ Smith to Sell hir part and part of your share of that land
in
Cecil which is __ 4 ½ acres Each which would be 8½ between __ she has
Bargend for $70.00 Ea one hindrid forty Dollars $140.00 for the whole & is
the best that can be Don with the land now if you agree to take Sevenity
Dollars she __________  (there is a break in the paper and the next sentence
isn't readable)

___________ he gave me no paper or letter at all _____in Cisel is all well
I
wish to here from my Son Soon and often how he is acoming on with his new
boss Mr. Frie  we all Send our best respects and good wishes for you and
your
Fameles remember me to your Son John and Famaley I Still Expect to see you
here or some of your famelay.

I remain your affecinet Brother until Deth.
H. S. Boyd
No 35 Stirling
Street Baltimore
To James Boyd
Carroll County Ohio Paleramo post office
 

Baltimore November 21st 1856

Dear Brother
I take this opportunity to Wright to you again I Wrote to you about the
first of this month in haste Expecting to have a answer from you at once but
I have been Disappointed.  Mary Jones has Sold her part of Brother Johns land
for Sixty Dollars with the understanding that if the Same person can get
your part of Johns part he will give Seventy Dollars for Each part so Mary
waited here till she was tired for a answer from you but non came  She then
went to portdeposit and made a way her wright for the $60.00 with the
understanding to get $10 Dollars more if he gets your wright at $70 Dollars
Mary is here now but is to Start for home on next Monday-Now I want you to
Send me the power of attorney at once or Say so at once or I Shall troubel
my Selfe no more about your bisness at all remember me to my Son and all
Enquiring friends tell Jackson to Wright to me as Soon as he can as I am
verry antious to here how he is coming on with his new boss and trade I want
to know if you have moved to your new farme yet if so how you like it if I
Sell I want you to give me instructions how I Shall Send the money by letter
or otherwise.  I want y__  ___ two Dollars in my hands to get hed & foot
Stones for mothers grave Mary has
agred to give $2.00 & all the brothers & sister has agread to give the Same
Brother John has no hed Stones yet the Frinds in Cecil was all well a few
Day Since my Famaley & Janes is all well at present and hope these few lines
may find you and yours Enjoyning the Same  blessing I remain your affecinate
Brother untill Deth.
Hugh S. Boyd
No. 35 Stirling Street,
Baltimore Md
 

Baltimore     Febuary  10th 1867

Dear Brother James Boyd  I take this appertuny to Write you a few lines to
let you Know that Sister Esther Harlen is Dead  She Depared this Life on the
10th January Last and was Burried before I New of it  She was in hir 79 year
of hir age  She was alive about one year & Nearly Blind  She Dide at hir
Daughters  Rebeca Whitkers  She lived to agood old age & I hope She has gon
to Heven Where I hope you & I will be prepared to meat all our Sisters &
Brothers & Friends be on the look out for that Change it must come Sooner or
Later - I have not been to Cecil County Since July 1860  there ware so many
Rebbels or Simpithsers with the South there that I Did not care a going a
many my Friends there but the was is all over and the caus Slavery Blotted
out and Everything will Soon be Setteld as Soon as we git that Trator Andy
Johnson Impeached  & Turned out but whither or not Congress will Keep a tite
Rane over him So that he cant Do much harme hereafter  the South by their
Rebelion has Freed the Negroes & Now the Negroes must & will have to have
the Ballet to protect themselves from being _____ upon & Distruyed we must
Educat them & _____ So as to mak good Citisin  of  them & not impose upon
them before the war or Rebelion I was in Favor of Slavery Remaining Where
it was but When the South took up arms to Extend Slavery into Kanses and all
the new terrtyory I went in to put the Rebelion Down & Slavery within the
South  was the (part of the letter is gone) ____  ___ ___ the abolishment

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of Slavery  & now as the war has Freed them th__   are bound to give them
the Battet that is a  Stritrent fact and all the power on Erth canot Keep
them from it  So make up your Mind  for its  Bound to come Sooner or
later all over the cuntrey the Dimcrats & Rebbels may Houl & fome &
VanDugham rore as much as he pleases but it is bound to come so Dear  I
Recvd your  butiful polite Rebbel C__tail letter  I was gad to hare from you
& that you wore well but was Sorry to hare you was Such a Rebbel how did you lik Genrel Morgan Raid with his pack of theaves & Robbers when he past threw your Nigberhood  I Sepose you ware verry polite to him & his theaves and invited him & them into your house & trited him to a Glass of Rifel Whiskey
while my 2 Sons Jackson & Albert ware Fighting the Rebbels to Save our
Cuntry from being Split an tour part to make a Slave Govermant ___ of the
_______ ___  threw the trichery of Tom Swann who we Elected as a Union man for Govnor of Maryland ho aponted a Set  of fools to be Register of the new voters & we had a test ___ the Register was to put to them but he Selected
men  Traters like himself and only apart of the ___ that ___________ by the
law & the Constution & the Registered Rebbels and all that came to register
without regard to the other reqired by law & by Rebbels Swolering the other
lik a Duck Swoling corn  the Eleced a large Majority of Rebbles to the
Legistation & Tom Swan to the sinete of United States for his part in the
Game but Congress will not let him have his Seat in the U S Sinete the
Legistator is about turn Everything upside Down in the State  if Congress
Dose not put a Check on them ther wont be a Union man left in office if
Congress Dont check them we will be under _____  Rebbel Rule but it wont
last long the tide will soon turn again __ much _______ to last long ___ on
that Subject ~

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I heard from Brother Frank a Shot time Since & Sarah the wore all well  John
Steele & John Starratt is living yet  and __ Sister Jane Hatche is living
Sister Mary Jones was living about a year ago  I rote a letter to hir to Day
my helth has been better for the last year than for sevrel year tho I got a
fall about a weak ago & hurt my Self verry much bit im Sumthing better now
my son A. J. Boyd is well he is at work his trad Siger Makin in Littel York
Pennslyvanna & Albert H. Boyd my youngest son is a Conducter on the passenger Rale Road Carrs in this City my youngest Daughter Lives in Washington City hir helth is verry poore for some time  hir Name is Willamina Finley  She has 3 children hir Husban keeps a tobaco & Liqar Store in the ____ & my other 2 Daughter both live here in the City married & have Famaleys of ther own  My Wife is in verry poor helth at present  hir and myself live by our
two Selves with none of the Children to trubel us now   I Send my Best
Respects to you & your Wife & to John your son & his Famaley 
Yours until Deth

H. S. Boyd
No 84 N. Caroline  St
Baltimore, MD 

to James Boyd
New Hagerstown
Carroll County, Ohio

I hope everyone enjoys this as much as the first letter.  By the way, I am
descended from the James Boyd line.  It appears that I have both
abolitionist and Southern sympathizers in the family.  As other family lines
were active in helping the underground railroad.

Jane in Carroll Co.  OH
jcgrezlik@bright.net
 

Dear Brother James Boyd I take this oppertunty to informe you of the Deth of
brother Francis Boyd on the morning of the 11th June 1870 last about 1 ock
at __ verry sudenly he fell of the chere Dead while his wife wa gitten
sumting to Bathe his feet & legs whch had become verry cold in the 79 years
(since 8 of last January)of his age he had never bee Sick in his life nor
had a Docter to attend him   I was at his Funeral which was verry large   Sister
Sarah is Well   She is 75 years of age in 6th August next (1870)   She lives
with young Frank Boyd who keeps the Battel Swamp Tavron going on 3 years
Doing I think verry well young Frank has bot Sister Sarah's home & land he
has bilt a new frame hous where the old kitchen Stood the old Dweling is
verley reddy to ___  ____ ____

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there is Grate change for the better taken place the Since you left the   you
Would not now where you were if you shoud visit the old Nerbehood   I had
Misfortune to have my yougest son Killed Instently on the Northern Centerel
RR 2 miles South of Little York Pensylvana   he was on top of the cars as
Breakman while going under a bridge that lys a cross the RR & Struck him
back of the ______  Kild him Instantly & Brot him home to me at __ ock in
the morning it was Dreadful Shock to me and my children it happend one year
a go 28th last April   my olds Son A J Boyd is well he has 1 child living &
I sepect will have a nother verry Shortley   I shall be verry much plesd to
haer from you & your Familey   I Should have Written to you before this time
but I could bring my Silfe Down to the job of Writting our Familey is going
the way of all Flesh the is but 5 left out of 10 _____ to men & women

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you are 80 years of age in Decembr next & I am in my 71st year Since 30 of
January last   Jane Hatch is well and __ has burred her 3rd husband & is
Widow   Mary Jones I have not hard from her for 2 years   I Shall rite to her
Soon   William I have not hard from yet I Exect he is Dead  my Helth is much
better for the last 2 years than it yust to be I way from 175 to 180 ___ 20
to 25 lbs more then I Evr waied before    my 2nd wife is Still living but in
verry Delicit Helth at Prsent   her & me lives by our 2 selves  I have 4
children living at Married & Doing for them selves  the have 12 children
living altogether  my grand children 4 of the is young men & women
 

Dear Brother  I Recvd yor letter of the 10th on the __  and was glad to hare from you & that you was alive & well  & your Family was well  it has been a long time Since I hared from you   the above letter I Wrote to you on the 15th July 1870 but I never got it finised I had lost the name of the post office & I did not send it   I am only toraleb well at presnt my has been reather poor this winter  I have the Dis____ in my Stumich & paine in the Back  my  hed for a SunStrok  that I sofer with  My Wife is in verry bad helth it ____  we live by our 2 selves  I have to have a _____ My Children 4 & 13 grandchildren is all or ______  well  John Steel is being Dade abou 3 years & John Starrat is Dead a bout 2 months  ___ fell Dead while walking a cross the store  Sister Sarah Brown is well & very Fat she lives with yong Frank Boyd at Battel Swamp Tavern  Sister Jane Hatch is well and her 2 children   I Follow ____  _____ & ____ ____ a always

H S Boyd
No  84  N Caroline ST
Baltimore MD
you will be 82 yeas old on December next & I will be 73 on 3rd January next

 Jane Grezlik, Carroll County, Ohio jcgrezlik@bright.net
Chuck Fitzgerald also researching these Boyds  cdfitzg1@juno.com
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from Mary
was 2 or 3 years since She promist to be in last fall was a year  but She
has not come yet  O amaney a long look Did poor Mother give to See hir and
you but alass She Died with out the Site amaney a time She  _____ about
Seing you & Mary & brother William  She was caled home with out Seing aney
of you but I hope we will all meat in a better world where parting will be
no more for Ever --- the last and the only time information that we Ever got
from brother William was a letter Dated March 1st 1850  Sacramento City
California and Stated he was well and had not one Days Sickness Since he
left home whic I think was in 1835 or 1836  he said he arived in the Orgen
teritory in 1840 near Vancover Island  on the Shores of the pecific oshen
and went in to the fur trade a trapping and _____ and _____ him Selfe very
well untill the gold was Discoverd in calliforney which is Some hundrds of
miles South of where he was and then he went into the mines and he Stated he
had more gold than a Jackass could carry and that he would be home in the
corn of one year but 2 & near 3 years is past and __ not one word can be
hared from him a maney a look Mother gave for him but Died with out the Site
I was verry much ___ and all of us when we got the letter but all
Dis________ consirning him and Disapentment                    Your
affectiant brother till Death

Hugh S. Boyd
No 82 North Caroline St  Baltimore
To James Boyd
My love to all the family and all Enquring friends
                                                     Hugh S. Boyd

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