Moses and Jane (Boyd) Boyd
of Beaver and Butler Counties
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