Daughter of Adam Boyd. Wife of Hugh Hamilton.
Mother of Adam Boyd Hamilton, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Senate.
ADAM BOYD (1745-1814) was a Revolutionary War soldier who settled in Lancaster County. He arrived in Harris ferry about 1783, married Jeannette Macfarlane, and settled permanently as a farmer in Harrisburg in 1784. He was active in the affairs of the county, the city, and the organization of the Presbyterian church in Harrisburg.
See Find A Grave Memorial# 35143804
Lineage:
1 Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Kilmarnock
+Mariota Janet Maxwell
2 Alexander Boyd
+Janet Colville
3 Robert Boyd
+Helen Somerville
4 Robert Boyd, 5th Lord
+Margaret Colquohoun
5 Thomas Boyd, 6th Lord
+Margaret Campbell
6 Andrew Boyd, Bishop
+ Eliz. Cunningham
7 Capt. Adam Boyd 1599-1649* Scotland to Ire.
+Mary Boyd (or Janet?)
8 Rev. Adam Boyd II
+Agnes Forsythe
9 Rev. Adam Boyd III, Presbyterian
+ Mary Norton
10 John Boyd to PA 1714
10 Rev. Adam Boyd IV 1682-1768 (to Philadelphia 1714), minister to the Marsh Creek settlement (Hans Hamilton & McKean families)
10 John Boyd to PA 1714 (above)
+Jane Craig, to Irish Settlement, Northampton Co. 1728
11 John Boyd 1716-1759
+Elizabeth Young 1720-1803
12 Adam Boyd 1745-1814
+Jeanette Macfarlane 1764-1790
13 Rosanna Boyd
+Hugh Hamilton
14 Adam Boyd Hamilton (1808-1896)
(*Generations 1-7 from "The SACHNIK-BOYD CONNECTION" by Katherine Sachnik-Mitchell; also appearing in numerous other family trees online.
Mike Boyd, of the Historical Committee of the House of Boyd Society, stated he has seen no proof that Bishop Andrew Boyd (Generation 6) was the father of Capt. Andrew Boyd, as appears in a number of charts on the internet. Some family trees claim Capt. Andrew Boyd was born 1623 but Mike Boyd stated 1599 (Boyd List Archives, Rootsweb, 2 Jun 2015).
Adam Boyd Hamilton (1808-1896), Secretary of the Pennsylvania State Senate, recorded his paternal lineage in his "Hamilton Family Record" (1874), from his great-grandfather John Hamilton, who came from County Down, Ireland to Pennsylvania in 1729 with his own uncle Col. Hance Hamilton who led a colony of Scots-Irish settlers to Marsh Creek in Adams County. Rev. Adam Boyd was the minister to this Scots-Irish settlement.
PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGIES; CHIEFLY SCOTCH-IRISH AND GERMAN.
By WILLIAM HENRY EGLE, M. D., M. A. (HARRISBURG, PA.:
Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1886), p. 276-77:
Adam Boyd, son of John Boyd and Elizabeth Young, was a native of Northampton county, Pa., born in 1746. His ancestors were of that sturdy and fearless race, who, after winning religious liberty at home, braved the perils of the ocean and a life in the wilds of America, that they might establish civil and religious freedom in the New World. The ancestor of this family was Adam Boyd, an officer of the rank of captain in the army sent by Charles I. to Ireland, on the roll of Scottish division June 5, 1649. As was usual in Scotland, one of the sons, Adam (2) went into the Church ; his son Adam (3) was also a Presbyterian clergyman. Early in 1714, his son John (4) and a younger brother, Rev. Adam Boyd, left their native land, Scotland, arriving at Philadelphia in the summer of that year. John m., the year following, Jane Craig, daughter of Thomas Craig, and subsequently became (1728) one of the first emigrants to the " Irish Settlement," now in Northampton county. His son John, born in Philadelphia in 1716, m., in 1744, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Young, "an Ulster baronet. Their eldest son was Adam Boyd, the subject of this sketch. He learned the trade of a carpenter, and was following that avocation when the War of the Revolution called to arms.
When the State of Pennsylvania had formed its little navy for the protection of the ports of Delaware, in 1776, Adam Boyd received his first commission.
In 1777 he was honorably discharged. He at once entered the army proper, holding the same rank therein. He was at the battles of Brandywine and Germantown, with two of his brothers, one of whom, John, was killed in the latter engagement. Subsequently, Lieut. Boyd acted as " master of wagons," with the rank of captain, and as such remained with the army until the surrender of Yorktown. Passing Harris Ferry, in the spring of 1782, to the home of his mother, near Newvillo, Mr. Boyd was struck with the immense advantages offered by the location of the proposed town. He subsequently purchased of the proprietor a lot on the corner of Second and Mulberry streets. In 1784 he became a permanent resident. Under the first charter of Harrisburg in 1791 he was chosen a burgess. In 1792 he was elected treasurer of the county, and held the office until 1806, when he declined a re-election. In 1809 Mr. Boyd was elected a director of the poor, and during his term of office the county poorhouse and mill were erected under his direction. He d. on the 14th of May, 1814 ; was interred in the Presbyterian graveyard, of which he was an elder. In private trusts Mr. Boyd was frequently employed. His correspondence and accounts are precise and methodical, particularly the care with which he managed the estate of the younger William Maclay....
Mother of Adam Boyd Hamilton, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Senate.
ADAM BOYD (1745-1814) was a Revolutionary War soldier who settled in Lancaster County. He arrived in Harris ferry about 1783, married Jeannette Macfarlane, and settled permanently as a farmer in Harrisburg in 1784. He was active in the affairs of the county, the city, and the organization of the Presbyterian church in Harrisburg.
See Find A Grave Memorial# 35143804
Lineage:
1 Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Kilmarnock
+Mariota Janet Maxwell
2 Alexander Boyd
+Janet Colville
3 Robert Boyd
+Helen Somerville
4 Robert Boyd, 5th Lord
+Margaret Colquohoun
5 Thomas Boyd, 6th Lord
+Margaret Campbell
6 Andrew Boyd, Bishop
+ Eliz. Cunningham
7 Capt. Adam Boyd 1599-1649* Scotland to Ire.
+Mary Boyd (or Janet?)
8 Rev. Adam Boyd II
+Agnes Forsythe
9 Rev. Adam Boyd III, Presbyterian
+ Mary Norton
10 John Boyd to PA 1714
10 Rev. Adam Boyd IV 1682-1768 (to Philadelphia 1714), minister to the Marsh Creek settlement (Hans Hamilton & McKean families)
10 John Boyd to PA 1714 (above)
+Jane Craig, to Irish Settlement, Northampton Co. 1728
11 John Boyd 1716-1759
+Elizabeth Young 1720-1803
12 Adam Boyd 1745-1814
+Jeanette Macfarlane 1764-1790
13 Rosanna Boyd
+Hugh Hamilton
14 Adam Boyd Hamilton (1808-1896)
(*Generations 1-7 from "The SACHNIK-BOYD CONNECTION" by Katherine Sachnik-Mitchell; also appearing in numerous other family trees online.
Mike Boyd, of the Historical Committee of the House of Boyd Society, stated he has seen no proof that Bishop Andrew Boyd (Generation 6) was the father of Capt. Andrew Boyd, as appears in a number of charts on the internet. Some family trees claim Capt. Andrew Boyd was born 1623 but Mike Boyd stated 1599 (Boyd List Archives, Rootsweb, 2 Jun 2015).
Adam Boyd Hamilton (1808-1896), Secretary of the Pennsylvania State Senate, recorded his paternal lineage in his "Hamilton Family Record" (1874), from his great-grandfather John Hamilton, who came from County Down, Ireland to Pennsylvania in 1729 with his own uncle Col. Hance Hamilton who led a colony of Scots-Irish settlers to Marsh Creek in Adams County. Rev. Adam Boyd was the minister to this Scots-Irish settlement.
PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGIES; CHIEFLY SCOTCH-IRISH AND GERMAN.
By WILLIAM HENRY EGLE, M. D., M. A. (HARRISBURG, PA.:
Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1886), p. 276-77:
Adam Boyd, son of John Boyd and Elizabeth Young, was a native of Northampton county, Pa., born in 1746. His ancestors were of that sturdy and fearless race, who, after winning religious liberty at home, braved the perils of the ocean and a life in the wilds of America, that they might establish civil and religious freedom in the New World. The ancestor of this family was Adam Boyd, an officer of the rank of captain in the army sent by Charles I. to Ireland, on the roll of Scottish division June 5, 1649. As was usual in Scotland, one of the sons, Adam (2) went into the Church ; his son Adam (3) was also a Presbyterian clergyman. Early in 1714, his son John (4) and a younger brother, Rev. Adam Boyd, left their native land, Scotland, arriving at Philadelphia in the summer of that year. John m., the year following, Jane Craig, daughter of Thomas Craig, and subsequently became (1728) one of the first emigrants to the " Irish Settlement," now in Northampton county. His son John, born in Philadelphia in 1716, m., in 1744, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Young, "an Ulster baronet. Their eldest son was Adam Boyd, the subject of this sketch. He learned the trade of a carpenter, and was following that avocation when the War of the Revolution called to arms.
When the State of Pennsylvania had formed its little navy for the protection of the ports of Delaware, in 1776, Adam Boyd received his first commission.
In 1777 he was honorably discharged. He at once entered the army proper, holding the same rank therein. He was at the battles of Brandywine and Germantown, with two of his brothers, one of whom, John, was killed in the latter engagement. Subsequently, Lieut. Boyd acted as " master of wagons," with the rank of captain, and as such remained with the army until the surrender of Yorktown. Passing Harris Ferry, in the spring of 1782, to the home of his mother, near Newvillo, Mr. Boyd was struck with the immense advantages offered by the location of the proposed town. He subsequently purchased of the proprietor a lot on the corner of Second and Mulberry streets. In 1784 he became a permanent resident. Under the first charter of Harrisburg in 1791 he was chosen a burgess. In 1792 he was elected treasurer of the county, and held the office until 1806, when he declined a re-election. In 1809 Mr. Boyd was elected a director of the poor, and during his term of office the county poorhouse and mill were erected under his direction. He d. on the 14th of May, 1814 ; was interred in the Presbyterian graveyard, of which he was an elder. In private trusts Mr. Boyd was frequently employed. His correspondence and accounts are precise and methodical, particularly the care with which he managed the estate of the younger William Maclay....
Daughter of Adam Boyd. Wife of Hugh Hamilton.
Mother of Adam Boyd Hamilton, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Senate.
ADAM BOYD (1745-1814) was a Revolutionary War soldier who settled in Lancaster County. He arrived in Harris ferry about 1783, married Jeannette Macfarlane, and settled permanently as a farmer in Harrisburg in 1784. He was active in the affairs of the county, the city, and the organization of the Presbyterian church in Harrisburg.
See Find A Grave Memorial# 35143804
Lineage:
1 Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Kilmarnock
+Mariota Janet Maxwell
2 Alexander Boyd
+Janet Colville
3 Robert Boyd
+Helen Somerville
4 Robert Boyd, 5th Lord
+Margaret Colquohoun
5 Thomas Boyd, 6th Lord
+Margaret Campbell
6 Andrew Boyd, Bishop
+ Eliz. Cunningham
7 Capt. Adam Boyd 1599-1649* Scotland to Ire.
+Mary Boyd (or Janet?)
8 Rev. Adam Boyd II
+Agnes Forsythe
9 Rev. Adam Boyd III, Presbyterian
+ Mary Norton
10 John Boyd to PA 1714
10 Rev. Adam Boyd IV 1682-1768 (to Philadelphia 1714), minister to the Marsh Creek settlement (Hans Hamilton & McKean families)
10 John Boyd to PA 1714 (above)
+Jane Craig, to Irish Settlement, Northampton Co. 1728
11 John Boyd 1716-1759
+Elizabeth Young 1720-1803
12 Adam Boyd 1745-1814
+Jeanette Macfarlane 1764-1790
13 Rosanna Boyd
+Hugh Hamilton
14 Adam Boyd Hamilton (1808-1896)
(*Generations 1-7 from "The SACHNIK-BOYD CONNECTION" by Katherine Sachnik-Mitchell; also appearing in numerous other family trees online.
Mike Boyd, of the Historical Committee of the House of Boyd Society, stated he has seen no proof that Bishop Andrew Boyd (Generation 6) was the father of Capt. Andrew Boyd, as appears in a number of charts on the internet. Some family trees claim Capt. Andrew Boyd was born 1623 but Mike Boyd stated 1599 (Boyd List Archives, Rootsweb, 2 Jun 2015).
Adam Boyd Hamilton (1808-1896), Secretary of the Pennsylvania State Senate, recorded his paternal lineage in his "Hamilton Family Record" (1874), from his great-grandfather John Hamilton, who came from County Down, Ireland to Pennsylvania in 1729 with his own uncle Col. Hance Hamilton who led a colony of Scots-Irish settlers to Marsh Creek in Adams County. Rev. Adam Boyd was the minister to this Scots-Irish settlement.
PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGIES; CHIEFLY SCOTCH-IRISH AND GERMAN.
By WILLIAM HENRY EGLE, M. D., M. A. (HARRISBURG, PA.:
Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1886), p. 276-77:
Adam Boyd, son of John Boyd and Elizabeth Young, was a native of Northampton county, Pa., born in 1746. His ancestors were of that sturdy and fearless race, who, after winning religious liberty at home, braved the perils of the ocean and a life in the wilds of America, that they might establish civil and religious freedom in the New World. The ancestor of this family was Adam Boyd, an officer of the rank of captain in the army sent by Charles I. to Ireland, on the roll of Scottish division June 5, 1649. As was usual in Scotland, one of the sons, Adam (2) went into the Church ; his son Adam (3) was also a Presbyterian clergyman. Early in 1714, his son John (4) and a younger brother, Rev. Adam Boyd, left their native land, Scotland, arriving at Philadelphia in the summer of that year. John m., the year following, Jane Craig, daughter of Thomas Craig, and subsequently became (1728) one of the first emigrants to the " Irish Settlement," now in Northampton county. His son John, born in Philadelphia in 1716, m., in 1744, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Young, "an Ulster baronet. Their eldest son was Adam Boyd, the subject of this sketch. He learned the trade of a carpenter, and was following that avocation when the War of the Revolution called to arms.
When the State of Pennsylvania had formed its little navy for the protection of the ports of Delaware, in 1776, Adam Boyd received his first commission.
In 1777 he was honorably discharged. He at once entered the army proper, holding the same rank therein. He was at the battles of Brandywine and Germantown, with two of his brothers, one of whom, John, was killed in the latter engagement. Subsequently, Lieut. Boyd acted as " master of wagons," with the rank of captain, and as such remained with the army until the surrender of Yorktown. Passing Harris Ferry, in the spring of 1782, to the home of his mother, near Newvillo, Mr. Boyd was struck with the immense advantages offered by the location of the proposed town. He subsequently purchased of the proprietor a lot on the corner of Second and Mulberry streets. In 1784 he became a permanent resident. Under the first charter of Harrisburg in 1791 he was chosen a burgess. In 1792 he was elected treasurer of the county, and held the office until 1806, when he declined a re-election. In 1809 Mr. Boyd was elected a director of the poor, and during his term of office the county poorhouse and mill were erected under his direction. He d. on the 14th of May, 1814 ; was interred in the Presbyterian graveyard, of which he was an elder. In private trusts Mr. Boyd was frequently employed. His correspondence and accounts are precise and methodical, particularly the care with which he managed the estate of the younger William Maclay....
Mother of Adam Boyd Hamilton, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Senate.
ADAM BOYD (1745-1814) was a Revolutionary War soldier who settled in Lancaster County. He arrived in Harris ferry about 1783, married Jeannette Macfarlane, and settled permanently as a farmer in Harrisburg in 1784. He was active in the affairs of the county, the city, and the organization of the Presbyterian church in Harrisburg.
See Find A Grave Memorial# 35143804
Lineage:
1 Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Kilmarnock
+Mariota Janet Maxwell
2 Alexander Boyd
+Janet Colville
3 Robert Boyd
+Helen Somerville
4 Robert Boyd, 5th Lord
+Margaret Colquohoun
5 Thomas Boyd, 6th Lord
+Margaret Campbell
6 Andrew Boyd, Bishop
+ Eliz. Cunningham
7 Capt. Adam Boyd 1599-1649* Scotland to Ire.
+Mary Boyd (or Janet?)
8 Rev. Adam Boyd II
+Agnes Forsythe
9 Rev. Adam Boyd III, Presbyterian
+ Mary Norton
10 John Boyd to PA 1714
10 Rev. Adam Boyd IV 1682-1768 (to Philadelphia 1714), minister to the Marsh Creek settlement (Hans Hamilton & McKean families)
10 John Boyd to PA 1714 (above)
+Jane Craig, to Irish Settlement, Northampton Co. 1728
11 John Boyd 1716-1759
+Elizabeth Young 1720-1803
12 Adam Boyd 1745-1814
+Jeanette Macfarlane 1764-1790
13 Rosanna Boyd
+Hugh Hamilton
14 Adam Boyd Hamilton (1808-1896)
(*Generations 1-7 from "The SACHNIK-BOYD CONNECTION" by Katherine Sachnik-Mitchell; also appearing in numerous other family trees online.
Mike Boyd, of the Historical Committee of the House of Boyd Society, stated he has seen no proof that Bishop Andrew Boyd (Generation 6) was the father of Capt. Andrew Boyd, as appears in a number of charts on the internet. Some family trees claim Capt. Andrew Boyd was born 1623 but Mike Boyd stated 1599 (Boyd List Archives, Rootsweb, 2 Jun 2015).
Adam Boyd Hamilton (1808-1896), Secretary of the Pennsylvania State Senate, recorded his paternal lineage in his "Hamilton Family Record" (1874), from his great-grandfather John Hamilton, who came from County Down, Ireland to Pennsylvania in 1729 with his own uncle Col. Hance Hamilton who led a colony of Scots-Irish settlers to Marsh Creek in Adams County. Rev. Adam Boyd was the minister to this Scots-Irish settlement.
PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGIES; CHIEFLY SCOTCH-IRISH AND GERMAN.
By WILLIAM HENRY EGLE, M. D., M. A. (HARRISBURG, PA.:
Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1886), p. 276-77:
Adam Boyd, son of John Boyd and Elizabeth Young, was a native of Northampton county, Pa., born in 1746. His ancestors were of that sturdy and fearless race, who, after winning religious liberty at home, braved the perils of the ocean and a life in the wilds of America, that they might establish civil and religious freedom in the New World. The ancestor of this family was Adam Boyd, an officer of the rank of captain in the army sent by Charles I. to Ireland, on the roll of Scottish division June 5, 1649. As was usual in Scotland, one of the sons, Adam (2) went into the Church ; his son Adam (3) was also a Presbyterian clergyman. Early in 1714, his son John (4) and a younger brother, Rev. Adam Boyd, left their native land, Scotland, arriving at Philadelphia in the summer of that year. John m., the year following, Jane Craig, daughter of Thomas Craig, and subsequently became (1728) one of the first emigrants to the " Irish Settlement," now in Northampton county. His son John, born in Philadelphia in 1716, m., in 1744, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Young, "an Ulster baronet. Their eldest son was Adam Boyd, the subject of this sketch. He learned the trade of a carpenter, and was following that avocation when the War of the Revolution called to arms.
When the State of Pennsylvania had formed its little navy for the protection of the ports of Delaware, in 1776, Adam Boyd received his first commission.
In 1777 he was honorably discharged. He at once entered the army proper, holding the same rank therein. He was at the battles of Brandywine and Germantown, with two of his brothers, one of whom, John, was killed in the latter engagement. Subsequently, Lieut. Boyd acted as " master of wagons," with the rank of captain, and as such remained with the army until the surrender of Yorktown. Passing Harris Ferry, in the spring of 1782, to the home of his mother, near Newvillo, Mr. Boyd was struck with the immense advantages offered by the location of the proposed town. He subsequently purchased of the proprietor a lot on the corner of Second and Mulberry streets. In 1784 he became a permanent resident. Under the first charter of Harrisburg in 1791 he was chosen a burgess. In 1792 he was elected treasurer of the county, and held the office until 1806, when he declined a re-election. In 1809 Mr. Boyd was elected a director of the poor, and during his term of office the county poorhouse and mill were erected under his direction. He d. on the 14th of May, 1814 ; was interred in the Presbyterian graveyard, of which he was an elder. In private trusts Mr. Boyd was frequently employed. His correspondence and accounts are precise and methodical, particularly the care with which he managed the estate of the younger William Maclay....
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