William BOYD

1745 - 1800  (55 years)

• Name	William BOYD  [1, 2]
  Born	1745	, Antrim, Ireland
  Gender	Male
  Died	2 Jun 1800	, Chester, SC, USA   [3]
  	This is the date of his will
  Person ID	I10	Boyd
  Last Modified	11 Oct 2020

  
  

  Father	(Earliest) BOYD,   b. Bef 1730
  Family ID	F83	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary DORMAN,   b. 1743, , Antrim, Ireland
  Children	1. Mary BOYD,   b. Abt 1768, , Antrim, Ireland ,   d. Aft 1800  (Age > 33 years) + 2. Martha BOYD,   b. 1772, , Antrim, Ireland ,   d. 13 Apr 1832, , Chester, SC, USA  (Age 60 years) + 3. Jennette “Jennie” BOYD,   b. Abt 1776,   d. 26 Feb 1843  (Age 67 years) + 4. Alexander BOYD,   b. Abt 1780,   d. 1825, , Chester, SC, USA  (Age 45 years)
  Last Modified	25 Aug 2008
  Family ID	F7	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Died - 2 Jun 1800 - , Chester, SC, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Documents » Slide Show		Plat for William BOYD’s Newberry County Land Grant
  		Memorial for William BOYD’s two land grants
  		William BOYD Land Grant
  		William BOYD Will South Carolina Will Transcripts, 1782 - 1868 (Microcopy No. 9), Call no. S 108093, 1980
  		William BOYD Will

  
  

• Notes

  ancestry.com suggests two additional children: William, b. abt 1770 and Robert, b. abt 1774. No other information. If true, they may have died as children. Page 112 of "Heritage History of Chester County, South Carolina", 1982, says that they had four children. # Alexander Boyd b. Est 1766 # Mary Boyd b. Est 1768 # William Boyd b. Est 1770 # Martha Boyd b. 1772 in of, Chester, South Carolina # Robert Boyd b. Est 1774 # Jennet Boyd b. Est 1776 Federal 1790 census shows following entry for William Boyd: Free White males 16 years upward and head of families: 1 (William?) Free White males under 16 years: 1 (Son?) Free white females and head of families: 4 (Wife and daughters?) All Other free persons: 1 (Nephew Alexander?) Slaves: none Will of William Boyd of Chester County dated 2 June 1800 & proved Aug 1800 page 25 Book B & C Chester SC Executors & Witnesses James Kennedy & John Wilson names sons & daughters. Son Alexander; eldest daughter Mary Boyd 100 acres of the 250 acres in Newberry; and daughter Martha Boyd, her sons William and Robert Boyd, her daughter Mary: youngest daughter Jennet Reedy, her son William Reedey:

  
  

• Sources

  [S2] Boyd Family History, Robert B. Boyd, (note, 118 Woodlawn Circle Athens, TN 37303, 1997), p 1. [S40] Heritage History of Chester County SC, Vol. I, Anne Pickens Collins & Louise Gill Knox, editors, (Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, TX, 1982, Reprinted 2000), Library of Congress: 00-106865., page 108. [S234] Will of William Boyd, (South Carolina Department of Archives & History, 1980), S 108093.