Determining Family Relationships Among The Slaves of Agness & Andrew Boyd
By Anita Boyd ©2010
Prologue: None of this would have been possible without the generous help of Nancy Hoy, a local South Carolina researcher, who made me aware of this bible in 2007!
I had always thought of Starkville, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi as the ancestral home of my father’s family. I just assumed that when my slave ancestors were taken from Africa that they had gone directly to Mississippi. Since then, with the help of land records, I’ve been able to pinpoint the arrival of Andrew Boyd, Jr. and his-father-in-law, John McDowell, to Northeast Mississippi, to about 1834.
Several members of the Afro-American Genealogical & Historical Society of Chicago (AAGHSC) and I talked about visiting the “Palmetto State”, including Fairfield County. Wednesday, June 24, 2009, we did just that. After introductions, Linda Malone, the Director of Fairfield Archives and History, handled me her Boyd Family file, which included copied pages from a Boyd Family Bible.
I recognized several distant family members; but, it was the additional names that made me gasp. On pages 678 and 679, under two other “Births” columns, someone had added the words “of Negroes” and proceeded to list names and birthdates of several slave children belonging to the Boyd Family of Fairfield County, South Carolina.
Wondering if these slaves were also my relatives, I was immediately concerned about their welfare and wanted to know what became of them. Who belonged to whom? Who stayed in South Carolina? Who was removed to Mississippi? Who died before the end of the Civil War – not knowing that there would be better days ahead for all of them?
Several weeks after returning home, they continued to haunt me. It was because of them that I began compiling, comparing, and extracting data from previously obtained documents from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History (SCDAH). In the abstracts below, misspellings and non-standard punctuation were taken from the original sources.
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Will of Andrew Boyd (undated; recorded March 30, 1825)
“...I wish my Negros as folows with their Incraises Say Metilda and her three Children named Willas and Calleb and Jain – fillis and her Child Lewis…be Equaley divided betwixt my Children Named as follows Hugh Samuel and Margaret andrew and John and David by three men of their own choise.
– I also leaive and bequeath to my loving wife…a negro girl named Jemima with her incraise said Jemima is the oldest daughter of the above named Matilda.”
***
Inventory of the Estate of Andrew Boyd (January 24 1825)
1 Negro Wench & Child Named Til & Jacob $375
1 do Boy do Willis 300
1 do do do Caleb 300
1 do Girl do Jane 175
1 do Boy do Enoch 150
1 do Girl do Winna 125
1 do Wench do Phillis 175
1 do Boy do Lewis 350
1 do Wench & Child do Harriett & Eliza 450
***
Will of Agness Boyd (March 30, 1829; proved July 27, 1829)
“…I give and bequeath to my son Samuel my negro woman named Harriett and her son Nelson.
– I give and bequeath to my son John my negro girl named Eliza…
– I give and bequeath to my daughter Margaret my negro woman named Mimy, and negro girl named Charlotte
– Also my fourth part of negro Lewis I give to my son Samuel.”
***
The Samuel Boyd/Malinda Boyd Keith, née Coleman Family Bible (dated 1866)
1. Willis…born 27th Augt 1813
2. Jemima…25th Sept., 1813
3. Lewis…born 15th Decr 1813
4. Caleb…born 24th Sept., 1815
5. Jane…born 25th Decr 1818
6. Enoch…born 24th June 1820
7. Eliza…born 18th Augt 1820
8. Winna…born April 9th 1821
9. Jacob…born May 15th 1824
10. Stephen…born 15th Decr 1826
11. Nelson…born Oct 21st 1827
12. Sarah…born November 12th 1828
13. Charlote…born 27th Jan? 1829
14. James…born 17th May 1830
15. Elihu…born 6th day of July 1830
16. Mary…born 6th day of July 1830
17. Sophie…born March 20th 1831
***
Determined Family Relationships Among The Slaves of Agness & Andrew Boyd
1) Matilda, mother of
Willis…born 27th Augt 1813
Jemima…born 25th Sept., 1813 Charlote…born 27th Jan 1829
Caleb… born 24th Sept., 1815
Jane …born 25th Decr 1818
Jacob…born May 15th 1824
2) Phillis, mother of
Lewis…born 15th Decr 1813
3) Harriett, mother of
Eliza…born 18th Augt 1820
Nelson…born Oct 21st 1827
James…born 17th May 1830
4) Unknown mother(s)
Enoch…born 24th June 1820
Winna…born April 9th 1821
Stephen…born 15th Decr 1826
Sarah…born November 12th 1828
Elihu…born 6th day of July 1830
Mary…born 6th day of July 1830
Sophie…born March 20th 1831
***
Epilogue: Chicagoland, Illinois – Monday, March 29, 2010
To date, however, I still have not found the family connection between the Boyd slaves of Fairfield County, South Carolina and the Boyd slaves of Oktibbeha County, Mississippi – but I know there is one.
Stay tuned for Harriet's Story!
By Anita Boyd ©2010
Prologue: None of this would have been possible without the generous help of Nancy Hoy, a local South Carolina researcher, who made me aware of this bible in 2007!
I had always thought of Starkville, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi as the ancestral home of my father’s family. I just assumed that when my slave ancestors were taken from Africa that they had gone directly to Mississippi. Since then, with the help of land records, I’ve been able to pinpoint the arrival of Andrew Boyd, Jr. and his-father-in-law, John McDowell, to Northeast Mississippi, to about 1834.
Several members of the Afro-American Genealogical & Historical Society of Chicago (AAGHSC) and I talked about visiting the “Palmetto State”, including Fairfield County. Wednesday, June 24, 2009, we did just that. After introductions, Linda Malone, the Director of Fairfield Archives and History, handled me her Boyd Family file, which included copied pages from a Boyd Family Bible.
I recognized several distant family members; but, it was the additional names that made me gasp. On pages 678 and 679, under two other “Births” columns, someone had added the words “of Negroes” and proceeded to list names and birthdates of several slave children belonging to the Boyd Family of Fairfield County, South Carolina.
Wondering if these slaves were also my relatives, I was immediately concerned about their welfare and wanted to know what became of them. Who belonged to whom? Who stayed in South Carolina? Who was removed to Mississippi? Who died before the end of the Civil War – not knowing that there would be better days ahead for all of them?
Several weeks after returning home, they continued to haunt me. It was because of them that I began compiling, comparing, and extracting data from previously obtained documents from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History (SCDAH). In the abstracts below, misspellings and non-standard punctuation were taken from the original sources.
***
Will of Andrew Boyd (undated; recorded March 30, 1825)
“...I wish my Negros as folows with their Incraises Say Metilda and her three Children named Willas and Calleb and Jain – fillis and her Child Lewis…be Equaley divided betwixt my Children Named as follows Hugh Samuel and Margaret andrew and John and David by three men of their own choise.
– I also leaive and bequeath to my loving wife…a negro girl named Jemima with her incraise said Jemima is the oldest daughter of the above named Matilda.”
***
Inventory of the Estate of Andrew Boyd (January 24 1825)
1 Negro Wench & Child Named Til & Jacob $375
1 do Boy do Willis 300
1 do do do Caleb 300
1 do Girl do Jane 175
1 do Boy do Enoch 150
1 do Girl do Winna 125
1 do Wench do Phillis 175
1 do Boy do Lewis 350
1 do Wench & Child do Harriett & Eliza 450
***
Will of Agness Boyd (March 30, 1829; proved July 27, 1829)
“…I give and bequeath to my son Samuel my negro woman named Harriett and her son Nelson.
– I give and bequeath to my son John my negro girl named Eliza…
– I give and bequeath to my daughter Margaret my negro woman named Mimy, and negro girl named Charlotte
– Also my fourth part of negro Lewis I give to my son Samuel.”
***
The Samuel Boyd/Malinda Boyd Keith, née Coleman Family Bible (dated 1866)
1. Willis…born 27th Augt 1813
2. Jemima…25th Sept., 1813
3. Lewis…born 15th Decr 1813
4. Caleb…born 24th Sept., 1815
5. Jane…born 25th Decr 1818
6. Enoch…born 24th June 1820
7. Eliza…born 18th Augt 1820
8. Winna…born April 9th 1821
9. Jacob…born May 15th 1824
10. Stephen…born 15th Decr 1826
11. Nelson…born Oct 21st 1827
12. Sarah…born November 12th 1828
13. Charlote…born 27th Jan? 1829
14. James…born 17th May 1830
15. Elihu…born 6th day of July 1830
16. Mary…born 6th day of July 1830
17. Sophie…born March 20th 1831
***
Determined Family Relationships Among The Slaves of Agness & Andrew Boyd
1) Matilda, mother of
Willis…born 27th Augt 1813
Jemima…born 25th Sept., 1813 Charlote…born 27th Jan 1829
Caleb… born 24th Sept., 1815
Jane …born 25th Decr 1818
Jacob…born May 15th 1824
2) Phillis, mother of
Lewis…born 15th Decr 1813
3) Harriett, mother of
Eliza…born 18th Augt 1820
Nelson…born Oct 21st 1827
James…born 17th May 1830
4) Unknown mother(s)
Enoch…born 24th June 1820
Winna…born April 9th 1821
Stephen…born 15th Decr 1826
Sarah…born November 12th 1828
Elihu…born 6th day of July 1830
Mary…born 6th day of July 1830
Sophie…born March 20th 1831
***
Epilogue: Chicagoland, Illinois – Monday, March 29, 2010
To date, however, I still have not found the family connection between the Boyd slaves of Fairfield County, South Carolina and the Boyd slaves of Oktibbeha County, Mississippi – but I know there is one.
Stay tuned for Harriet's Story!
Determining Family Relationships Among The Slaves of Agness & Andrew Boyd
By Anita Boyd ©2010
Prologue: None of this would have been possible without the generous help of Nancy Hoy, a local South Carolina researcher, who made me aware of this bible in 2007!
I had always thought of Starkville, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi as the ancestral home of my father’s family. I just assumed that when my slave ancestors were taken from Africa that they had gone directly to Mississippi. Since then, with the help of land records, I’ve been able to pinpoint the arrival of Andrew Boyd, Jr. and his-father-in-law, John McDowell, to Northeast Mississippi, to about 1834.
Several members of the Afro-American Genealogical & Historical Society of Chicago (AAGHSC) and I talked about visiting the “Palmetto State”, including Fairfield County. Wednesday, June 24, 2009, we did just that. After introductions, Linda Malone, the Director of Fairfield Archives and History, handled me her Boyd Family file, which included copied pages from a Boyd Family Bible.
I recognized several distant family members; but, it was the additional names that made me gasp. On pages 678 and 679, under two other “Births” columns, someone had added the words “of Negroes” and proceeded to list names and birthdates of several slave children belonging to the Boyd Family of Fairfield County, South Carolina.
Wondering if these slaves were also my relatives, I was immediately concerned about their welfare and wanted to know what became of them. Who belonged to whom? Who stayed in South Carolina? Who was removed to Mississippi? Who died before the end of the Civil War – not knowing that there would be better days ahead for all of them?
Several weeks after returning home, they continued to haunt me. It was because of them that I began compiling, comparing, and extracting data from previously obtained documents from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History (SCDAH). In the abstracts below, misspellings and non-standard punctuation were taken from the original sources.
***
Will of Andrew Boyd (undated; recorded March 30, 1825)
“...I wish my Negros as folows with their Incraises Say Metilda and her three Children named Willas and Calleb and Jain – fillis and her Child Lewis…be Equaley divided betwixt my Children Named as follows Hugh Samuel and Margaret andrew and John and David by three men of their own choise.
– I also leaive and bequeath to my loving wife…a negro girl named Jemima with her incraise said Jemima is the oldest daughter of the above named Matilda.”
***
Inventory of the Estate of Andrew Boyd (January 24 1825)
1 Negro Wench & Child Named Til & Jacob $375
1 do Boy do Willis 300
1 do do do Caleb 300
1 do Girl do Jane 175
1 do Boy do Enoch 150
1 do Girl do Winna 125
1 do Wench do Phillis 175
1 do Boy do Lewis 350
1 do Wench & Child do Harriett & Eliza 450
***
Will of Agness Boyd (March 30, 1829; proved July 27, 1829)
“…I give and bequeath to my son Samuel my negro woman named Harriett and her son Nelson.
– I give and bequeath to my son John my negro girl named Eliza…
– I give and bequeath to my daughter Margaret my negro woman named Mimy, and negro girl named Charlotte
– Also my fourth part of negro Lewis I give to my son Samuel.”
***
The Samuel Boyd/Malinda Boyd Keith, née Coleman Family Bible (dated 1866)
1. Willis…born 27th Augt 1813
2. Jemima…25th Sept., 1813
3. Lewis…born 15th Decr 1813
4. Caleb…born 24th Sept., 1815
5. Jane…born 25th Decr 1818
6. Enoch…born 24th June 1820
7. Eliza…born 18th Augt 1820
8. Winna…born April 9th 1821
9. Jacob…born May 15th 1824
10. Stephen…born 15th Decr 1826
11. Nelson…born Oct 21st 1827
12. Sarah…born November 12th 1828
13. Charlote…born 27th Jan? 1829
14. James…born 17th May 1830
15. Elihu…born 6th day of July 1830
16. Mary…born 6th day of July 1830
17. Sophie…born March 20th 1831
***
Determined Family Relationships Among The Slaves of Agness & Andrew Boyd
1) Matilda, mother of
Willis…born 27th Augt 1813
Jemima…born 25th Sept., 1813 Charlote…born 27th Jan 1829
Caleb… born 24th Sept., 1815
Jane …born 25th Decr 1818
Jacob…born May 15th 1824
2) Phillis, mother of
Lewis…born 15th Decr 1813
3) Harriett, mother of
Eliza…born 18th Augt 1820
Nelson…born Oct 21st 1827
James…born 17th May 1830
4) Unknown mother(s)
Enoch…born 24th June 1820
Winna…born April 9th 1821
Stephen…born 15th Decr 1826
Sarah…born November 12th 1828
Elihu…born 6th day of July 1830
Mary…born 6th day of July 1830
Sophie…born March 20th 1831
***
Epilogue: Chicagoland, Illinois – Monday, March 29, 2010
To date, however, I still have not found the family connection between the Boyd slaves of Fairfield County, South Carolina and the Boyd slaves of Oktibbeha County, Mississippi – but I know there is one.
Stay tuned for Harriet's Story!
By Anita Boyd ©2010
Prologue: None of this would have been possible without the generous help of Nancy Hoy, a local South Carolina researcher, who made me aware of this bible in 2007!
I had always thought of Starkville, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi as the ancestral home of my father’s family. I just assumed that when my slave ancestors were taken from Africa that they had gone directly to Mississippi. Since then, with the help of land records, I’ve been able to pinpoint the arrival of Andrew Boyd, Jr. and his-father-in-law, John McDowell, to Northeast Mississippi, to about 1834.
Several members of the Afro-American Genealogical & Historical Society of Chicago (AAGHSC) and I talked about visiting the “Palmetto State”, including Fairfield County. Wednesday, June 24, 2009, we did just that. After introductions, Linda Malone, the Director of Fairfield Archives and History, handled me her Boyd Family file, which included copied pages from a Boyd Family Bible.
I recognized several distant family members; but, it was the additional names that made me gasp. On pages 678 and 679, under two other “Births” columns, someone had added the words “of Negroes” and proceeded to list names and birthdates of several slave children belonging to the Boyd Family of Fairfield County, South Carolina.
Wondering if these slaves were also my relatives, I was immediately concerned about their welfare and wanted to know what became of them. Who belonged to whom? Who stayed in South Carolina? Who was removed to Mississippi? Who died before the end of the Civil War – not knowing that there would be better days ahead for all of them?
Several weeks after returning home, they continued to haunt me. It was because of them that I began compiling, comparing, and extracting data from previously obtained documents from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History (SCDAH). In the abstracts below, misspellings and non-standard punctuation were taken from the original sources.
***
Will of Andrew Boyd (undated; recorded March 30, 1825)
“...I wish my Negros as folows with their Incraises Say Metilda and her three Children named Willas and Calleb and Jain – fillis and her Child Lewis…be Equaley divided betwixt my Children Named as follows Hugh Samuel and Margaret andrew and John and David by three men of their own choise.
– I also leaive and bequeath to my loving wife…a negro girl named Jemima with her incraise said Jemima is the oldest daughter of the above named Matilda.”
***
Inventory of the Estate of Andrew Boyd (January 24 1825)
1 Negro Wench & Child Named Til & Jacob $375
1 do Boy do Willis 300
1 do do do Caleb 300
1 do Girl do Jane 175
1 do Boy do Enoch 150
1 do Girl do Winna 125
1 do Wench do Phillis 175
1 do Boy do Lewis 350
1 do Wench & Child do Harriett & Eliza 450
***
Will of Agness Boyd (March 30, 1829; proved July 27, 1829)
“…I give and bequeath to my son Samuel my negro woman named Harriett and her son Nelson.
– I give and bequeath to my son John my negro girl named Eliza…
– I give and bequeath to my daughter Margaret my negro woman named Mimy, and negro girl named Charlotte
– Also my fourth part of negro Lewis I give to my son Samuel.”
***
The Samuel Boyd/Malinda Boyd Keith, née Coleman Family Bible (dated 1866)
1. Willis…born 27th Augt 1813
2. Jemima…25th Sept., 1813
3. Lewis…born 15th Decr 1813
4. Caleb…born 24th Sept., 1815
5. Jane…born 25th Decr 1818
6. Enoch…born 24th June 1820
7. Eliza…born 18th Augt 1820
8. Winna…born April 9th 1821
9. Jacob…born May 15th 1824
10. Stephen…born 15th Decr 1826
11. Nelson…born Oct 21st 1827
12. Sarah…born November 12th 1828
13. Charlote…born 27th Jan? 1829
14. James…born 17th May 1830
15. Elihu…born 6th day of July 1830
16. Mary…born 6th day of July 1830
17. Sophie…born March 20th 1831
***
Determined Family Relationships Among The Slaves of Agness & Andrew Boyd
1) Matilda, mother of
Willis…born 27th Augt 1813
Jemima…born 25th Sept., 1813 Charlote…born 27th Jan 1829
Caleb… born 24th Sept., 1815
Jane …born 25th Decr 1818
Jacob…born May 15th 1824
2) Phillis, mother of
Lewis…born 15th Decr 1813
3) Harriett, mother of
Eliza…born 18th Augt 1820
Nelson…born Oct 21st 1827
James…born 17th May 1830
4) Unknown mother(s)
Enoch…born 24th June 1820
Winna…born April 9th 1821
Stephen…born 15th Decr 1826
Sarah…born November 12th 1828
Elihu…born 6th day of July 1830
Mary…born 6th day of July 1830
Sophie…born March 20th 1831
***
Epilogue: Chicagoland, Illinois – Monday, March 29, 2010
To date, however, I still have not found the family connection between the Boyd slaves of Fairfield County, South Carolina and the Boyd slaves of Oktibbeha County, Mississippi – but I know there is one.
Stay tuned for Harriet's Story!
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