James Boyd

AUDITED 2 Aug 2026 (rewritten later the same day - SUPERSEDES the first version, which misattributed the Revolutionary War service). James Boyd is entered solely on The Daily Union (Washington, D.C.), 6 Mar 1852, p. 3, a biographical sketch of his grandson Speaker Linn Boyd: Abraham Boyd 'accompanied his father - James Boyd - to South Carolina'. CORRECTION: in that sentence it is ABRAHAM, not James, who at 'the unripe age of sixteen entered the service of his country in the revolutionary war'. The chronology proves it - James is Abraham's father, so James turned sixteen c.1760, before the war; Abraham b. 1 Oct 1765 turned sixteen in 1781, the southern campaign. The service belongs to [1668] Abraham. NOTHING IS KNOWN OF JAMES beyond this one sentence: no birth, death, dates, places or wife, and none have been invented. ProofFather on the child link is deliberately 0 (unset), NOT 1: a campaign-adjacent newspaper that cites nothing, and Boyd is a common surname. SEARCHED AND NOT FOUND 2 Aug 2026: the U.S. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files hold 49 Boyd entries and NO Abraham or Abram - a controlled zero, the control being those 49. Abraham left no federal pension file. NEXT: South Carolina Audited Accounts (state service claims); the SCDAH online index was offline for maintenance until 6 Aug 2026. CAUTION: the same sketch calls Abraham 'a native of Virginia' while Perrin 1884 says North Carolina, and no source names Bedford County, which this tree asserts. Do not import a birthplace for James from this source.