Display Patriot - P-118890

John BOYD

SAR Patriot #: P-118890

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State of Service: NC Qualifying Service: Soldier

Birth:
Death: 07 Oct 1780 / Cherokee / SC

Additional References:

46th-55th Annual Reports DAR. Senate documents (United States Congress, Senate). Government Printing Office: Washington, DC
Rev War Graves Register. Clovis H. Brakebill, compiler. 672pp. SAR. 1993
SAR Rev War Graves Register CD. Progeny Publishing Co: Buffalo, NY. 1998

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Burial:

Kings Mountain Battleground (aka King) Cemetery_(C-0040274)

Location:

Blacksburg / Cherokee / SC / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

70465

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Grave GPS Coordinates:

n/a

Find A Grave Memorial #:

13700685

Marker Type:

Tombstone

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Author: Frederick Arnold Weyler
John Boyd is one of four patriots honored on our nation’s second (to the shot heard round the world) battlefield monument. On Saturday afternoon 07Oct1780, John was with Colonel William Graham’s “South Fork boys” of the Lincoln County NC militia when he was killed in the Battle of Kings Mountain.

In 1815, Doctor William McLean purchased and erected the battlefield’s first commemorative marker. It
honors Lincoln County men killed and is located where that military unit approached the steep hill. The four were buried there. Today, it is on the hiking trail beside a modern copy. The marker reads, “Sacred to the memory of Major William Chronicle, Captain John Mattocks, William Robb, and John Boyd who were killed at this place on the 7th of October, 1780, fighting in defense of America.” Of historical interest, McLean did not include Arthur Patterson Sr. among the killed as appears on the 1909 obelisk plaque. Martha Rudisill, an Arthur Patterson Sr..descendant, indicates that the reason is that Arthur is not named with his neighbors is that he was not killed there and it not buried there.

John Boyd, who was really killed at Kings Mountain, was the son of Robert Boyd of Virginia. John's wife was Mary (Buchanan) Boyd who died in Lincoln County NC in 1787

The Lincoln County folks list John Boyd, killed at BKM under Graham’s Corps (but Graham was called home by his wife for an emergency, and Lt Col Hambright placed Major Chronicle in command). the enemy charged bayonet—said to have been led by DePeyster—first firing off their guns, by which, Robert Henry supposed that Captain Mattocks and John Boyd were killed, and William Gilmer, a brother of the noted scout, and John Chittim wounded—

Doctor McLean had been a surgeon’s mate, an apprentice doctor of sorts, during the war with earlier practical experience at Charleston. He attended to the wounded at Kings Mountain.

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