According to the Philadelphia City Directories of 1802 & 1803
Boyde _____________, Sea captain 381 S. FrontLloyd’s Register 1798 listed the following:
We now know that John was married to Ann Bessonet of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Ann's family lived for a time in Pennsylvania. Her father, Daniel was on the British side of the Revolutionary War, so was forced to leave this country at the end of the war. They settled in Halifax.
According to the Bessonet Cabeen Manuscript, Ann's two sisters died of consumption in the same year, 1796. "Benjamin Etter, the husband of Mary Bessonet, is said to have been very proud of his beautiful wife. After her death in 1796, he was anxious to marry her youngest and only remaining sister, Ann, Elizabeth and Mary having died in the same year. Persecuted by his attentions which were distasteful to her, she desired to leave Halifax. She had a kind and faithful friend in Mrs. Wright, the wife of a clergyman of the Established Church, who not only encouraged her in her desire, but gave her practical assistance. Ann Bessonett, having found a sum of money apparently mislaid upon a windowsill, took it to Mrs. Wright, and was told by her that it was not lost money, but her own. By this means she was enabled to go from Halifax to Philadelphia. She took passage in the vessel commanded by Captain John Boyd, sailing between Philadelphia and Halifax, and afterwards married Captain Boyd in Philadelphia. After her marriage --- probably immediately after -- she sailed with her husband on a voyage to Lisbon. Three years before his death, which occured in 1805, his health failed and he left the sea and removed with her to Bristol. Their son, John, was born in Philadelphia in 1802, their daughter, Mary Ann, in Bristol, PA in 1803. John Boyd died in 1805, aged 27 years, and was buried in Bensalem, PA. Soon after she married Robert Cabeen " We are questioning the age of 27 years noted in the manuscript, as the grave in Bensalem, PA states an age of 38 years. Also, John Boyd was the Master of the Ship Superb in 1797. At age 27 at the time of death, that would have made him Master of a Ship at age 19 years. Somehow that seems very young to be in command of a ship.John and Ann had 2 children - John, Jr. and Mary Ann Boyd
John Boyd & sister Mary Ann Boyd Bostwick
John Boyd b. April 9, 1802 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mary Ann Boyd b. 1803 in Bristol, PA
John Boyd with Grandchildren Lucy, Frank & Edith Boyd
Transcription of Letter Written by John Boyd to the Family in Pennsylvania during their Trek West
Letter Written By John Boyd during the Civil War John Boyd's Obituary
According to Bucks Co. Pennsylvania Newspaper Marriage Notices 1804 – 1834 John Boyd of Bristol m. Susan Yardley of Lower Makefield by C. Lombart @ Morrisville 10 – 30 – 1828 Susan Yardley Boyd Inscription on back of photo
Mary Ann Boyd b. Oct 25, 1829, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; d. March 11, 1898
Annie Boyd b. Jan. 17, 1834, Bristol, Bucks Co. Pennsylvania; d. April 12, 1914, Cambridge, Illinois
m. Thomas L. Attwater Oct. 5, 1868
Susan Yardley Boyd b. July 11, 1842; d. July 26, 1924
Photo taken @ Cambridge, Illinois.
Inscription on back reads: John "Think of Me" when you look on the other side of this posterboard. Lovingly, SYA
Robert Cabeen Boyd b. Feb. 7, 1847, Wilmington, Delaware; d. Dec. 20, 1930, Columbus, Nebraska
Robert Cabeen Boyd, Horatio Nelson Boyd, John Boyd
Authors – S. Schlichting & C. Chester
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