Display Patriot - P-118908

John BOYD

SAR Patriot #: P-118908

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State of Service: MD Qualifying Service: Private

DAR #: A209240

Birth: 1756 / Cecil / MD
Death: 29 Dec 1832 / Belmont / OH

Qualifying Service Description:

Private in the MD Militia

Additional References:

Official roster: Soldiers of the American Revolution who lived in the State of Ohio. Wilbur R. Branthoover, compiler. Veterans Affairs, Ohio. Reprinted by OHSDAR. 1938

Spouse: Mary McBurney
Children: Robert;

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Burial:

Taggarts Presbyterian Church (aka Lodge, Old Uniontown) Cemetery_(C-0178416)

Location:

Lafferty / Belmont / OH / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

2366381

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

n/a

Find A Grave Memorial #:

58786505

Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

photo used with permission of Michael B. Gunn, 185230, Cincinnati Chapter, OHSSAR

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Photo: 1 of 1

Author: Michael B. Gunn
Born in 1756 Cecil County, Maryland. He served after enlisting as a Private for 6 months in 1777 in the Maryland State Troops under Captain Moffit’s Company of Colonel Runsey’s Regiment. Pensioned in Belmont Co., OH in 1832, S2088. He married Mary McBurney; children: Esther, Elizabeth, William, Ann, Mary, and Martha. He died on December 29, 1832 at his residence in Union township after a short illness, John Boyd Esq. In the 77th year of his age and buried at Taggarts Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Lafferty, Cemetery, Belmont Co., OH. Cemetery notes and/or description: A small cemetery, a little more than one and a third acres, on a hillside surrounded by strip mined land. John Boyd Obituary from the Saint Clairsville Gazette, January 5th, 1833
Died - On the 29th December, at his residence in Union township after a short illness, John Boyd Esq. In the 77th year of his age. Mr. Boyd was born in Cecil co. Md. in 1756. In our Revolutionary struggle he took up arms and gallantly defended his country. In 1800 he migrated to Ohio and lived in this county till his death. He was a substantial citizen: as an industrious and frugal farmer - as an accommodating, friendly and intelligent neighbor - as a politician, firm and consistent in the support of the democrat principles and institutions he aided in establishing in his youth - and last and not least, as a Christian he was exemplary for his morality and piety, and he died, as he had long lived, a revered and esteemed member of the Union Church. Official roster: Soldiers of the American Revolution who lived in the State of Ohio. Wilbur R. Branthoover, compiler. Veterans Affairs, Ohio. Reprinted by OHSDAR, 1938.
SAR Ancestor # P- 118908. Has a tombstone.

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