William Boyd and Martha Cowden

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Husband William Boyd ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 5 Jan 1776 or 1778 1 4
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         Father: Joseph Boyd (1740-1781) 1 5 6 7
         Mother: Elizabeth Wallace (1746-1802) 5 6 7

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       Marriage: 6 Mar 1802 1

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Wife Martha Cowden ^{2 3}

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           Born: 1780 3 8
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         Father: Col. James Cowden (1737-1810) 3 9 10 11 12
         Mother: Mary Crouch (1757-1848) 3 9 10 12

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Children

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1 F Elizabeth Boyd ^{1 13}

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         Spouse: [Unk] Dallas (      -      ) 13

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2 M James C. Boyd ^{1 13}

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         Spouse: [Unk] McMurray (      -      ) 13

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3 M Joseph Boyd ^{1 13}

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4 M Edward C. Boyd ^{1 13}

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5 M William Boyd ^{1 13}

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           Born: 27 Feb 1815 1
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         Spouse: Catharine Lackens (      -      ) 1
           Marr: 1853 1

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6 M Matthew B. Boyd ^{1 13}

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7 F Mary Boyd ^{1 13}

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8 F Martha Boyd ^{1 13}

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General Notes: Husband - William Boyd

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He came with his wife to Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, settling one mile and a half southwest of Newville, and there they lived and died.

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Notes: Marriage

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They were married June 4, 1837. [PGCSIG, 117, 146]

1 Editor, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 846.

2 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 115, 146.

3 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 20.

4 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 115.

5 William Henry Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1894), Pg 120.

6 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 113, 694.

7 Mary Craig Shoemaker, Five Typical Scotch-Irish Families (Unknown Publisher: Albany, NY, 1922), Pg 73.

8 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 146.

9 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 476.

10 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 174.

11 William Henry Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1894), Pg 402.

12 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 143, 145.

13 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 117.