James Douglas Boyd

Biography

Birth abt 1758 Knockavaddy, Parish of Desertcreat, Electorial District of Rock, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland

Immigration Mar 1795 Charleston, South Carolina

Mvd. abt 1800 Laurens County, South Carolina

USC 15 Nov 1808 Laurens County, South Carolina [1]

Deed 21 Aug 1837 Floyd County, Georgia[2]

Deed 3 Jan 1838 Forsyth County, Georgia [3]

Death 1845 Lumpkin County, Georgia

Burial Unknown

Marriage 4 Aug 1783 Cookstown, Northern Ireland

Census (fam) 1800 Laurens County, South Carolina [4]

Census (fam) 1810 Laurens County, South Carolina [5]

Census (fam) 1820 Captain Reids District, Hall County, Georgia [6]

Census (fam) 1830 Gwinnett County, Georgia [7]

Father Samuel BOYD (1718- ) Mother Lady GURNEY ( - )

Sources

↑ Brent H. Holcomb, South Carolina Naturalization's 1783-1850 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore 1985), Page #199, Roll # 25.

↑ Floyd County, Georgia Deed Records, Book C: Page number 72-73, Floyd County, Georgia City Hall, Rome, Georgia.

↑ Forsyth County, Georgia Deeds, Book D: Page 448, Clerk's Office, City Hall, Dahlonega, Forsyth County, Georgia.

↑ James Boyd-Nancy Wier household, ; Roll: 50; Page: 31; Image: 68; Family History Library Film: 181425; National Archives and Records Administration; Washington, D. C., Ancestry.com [database online], Provo, UT.

↑ James Boyd-Nancy Wier household, 1810 United States Federal Census, Laurens County, South Carolina, Roll: 61; Page: 194; Image: 30.00; National Archives and Records Administration Ancestry.com [database online] Provo, UT.

↑ James Boyd-Nancy Wier household, 1820 United States Federal Census, Capt. Reids Dist., Hall County, Georia, Page 139; Roll M33_6; Image 81; National Archives and Records Administration Ancestry.com [database online] Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004.

↑ James Boyd-Nancy Wier household, 1830 United States Federal Census, Not Stated, Gwinnett County, Georgia, Page 357; Roll 17; National Archives and Records Administration Ancestry.com [database online] Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc. 2004

See also:

William Riley Boyd, Ancestors and Descendants of James Boyd and Nancy Wier (Columbus, Georgia: Quill Publication, 1991) http://www.lgboyd.com/boydbook/, Boyd Book.

. Georgia Gwinnett County To all people to whom these present shall come I James Boyd of the County & State aforesaid send greeting Know ye that I James Boyd for and & in consideration of the love and good will that I bear towards my Daughter Margaret Foster wife of Robert Foster of Tolbard County & State aforesaid have given & granted and by these present do peaceably & clearly & absolutely give & grant unto my Daughter Margaret Foster on Negro woman named Dice & all the Increase she hereafter has also one negro boy child by the name of Lewis son of Dice with every forfit and benefit that come from the above named negroes unto the said Margaret Foster and the lawful heirs of her body forever against me my heirs & assigns & against all & every other person or persons claiming the same or any part thereof as Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal July 23 Anne Donini 1832 & in the fifty Seventh year of the American Independence Signed Sealed and delivered in presence of

Elisha Vindon his H.A.B. Lunnelley J P James X Boyd mark

Recorded the 7th day of August 1832 S.C. Leech Clk S.C

Notes

James and Nancy and family landed in Charleston, South Carolina on St. Patricks Day in March of 1795 on the ship named the Irish Volunteer. Margaret was born aboard ship.

It's been many years in the making, but I finally found out more information about the ship our ancestors came over on. As we know from news articles about a Wier reunion, one of the Wier's talks about James and Nancy Boyd coming over from Ireland in 1795 and landing in Charleston, South Carolina on St. Patrick's Day.

In the year 2000, Mona and I went to Charleston and went to the library there to see if we could find out anymore information. We did find an article that the Irish Volunteer was in town during that time and would soon be leaving. So, we got the true name of the ship.

I've spent many of hours googling the internet to see if I could find more information and yesterday I hit the jackpot. Below is an article about the Irish Volunteer and the man who owned it. It also tells us what port it left from in Ireland.

Patterns of Irish emigration to America, 1783-1800 Eire-Ireland:Journal of Irish Studies, Spring-Summer, 2001 by Maurice J. Bric

Charleston had strong connections with Ulster and in particular with the Larne merchant John Montgomery. Although Montgomery was involved in other vessels, his principal interest was in the three-hundred-ton ship, the Irish Volunteer, which he owned and which between 1788 and 1796 made an annual trip between Larne and Charleston. The ship had been purposely built as a passenger vessel and usually carried between two hundred and three hundred sixty passengers. With the help of the Rev. Douglas of Clough, Larne's Anthony Sinclair also sent his ship Ann to Charleston between 1788 and 1790. The involvement of clergymen in such ventures was neither new nor rare (at least on this route) and had emerged as a feature of the various schemes of assisted emigration that colonial Carolina had developed during the 1730s and 1760s. These projects had also encouraged better organized and prearranged bloc sailings, and this approach to emigration endured with respect to the Carolinas until the late 1790s

http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FKX/is_2001_Spring

I was also able to find from the South Carolina GenWeb pages when the ship sailed from Larne.

The Irish Volunteer left Larne, Ireland on October of 1794 and as we know, it landed in Charleston in March of 1795. so, it was about a 5 month trip across the Atlantic Ocean

http://www.rootsweb.com/~scmarion/state/SC_ships2.html I thought you all might enjoy this information.