(Looking north from the spot of the massacre of Lieut.Thomas Boyd and his Soldiers, by the Seneca Indians, September 13, 1779.)

History of the Northumberland Co. Boyd's of Pa.

In preparing the History of the Boyd's of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, we have connected them to the Boyd's of Kent, N. Y., as descendants from two brothers, in the following manner:

In the Summer of 1842, my father (Hiram Boyd) paid a visit to some friends in Lycoming County of that State, and there learned that Mary Boyd, the only daughter of that family was then living near Washingtonville, in an adjoining county, with one of her daughters whose name was Wilson. Desiring to discover the connection between her family and that of his own, he paid her a visit, and spent a short time with the family, in a social pastime. The two related to eachother the history of their ancestors, which was connected so near together, that John (as my father understood his name to be) and Ebenezer of Kent, N. Y. were brother's.

It seemed that John after parting with his brother in New York City, went into Orange Co., N. Y., for a short time, and then from there to Washingtonville, Northumberlan 1 Co., Pennsylvania, where he was living at the time of his death. Being no mail facility as in the present day, they became lost to each-other, and each died in a foreign land, unknown only to those of nearer kindre. There is one thing more that shows this to have been the case for several of the children of Ebenezer, went to the grave of the ill-fated Thomas, and also to the residence of Mary Jemison, the White Indian Captive of the Senecas, in seach of information of their lost uncle: but it was all in vain; yet by the description and history given them by their father, of his brother, they were well convinced, that Mary,--the daughter of John-to