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John Boyd (ca. 1735-1800) was born in England and immigrated to America, becoming one of the earliest settlers of Berkeley County, Virginia (now West Virginia). He married Sarah Gryfyth (or Griffith), a native of Wales, ca. 1754. They had seven children. Descendants live throughout the United States.
An index from manuscript public claims of the Revolutionary War in the Virginia State Library.
Robert Boyd (ca. 1705-1751) was of Scottish descent. He immigrated from Ulster Province, Ireland and settled in Cumberland (later Franklin County), Pennsylvania about 1737. Descendants and relatives eventually scattered throughout the United States.
Because of its location, Berkeley County, Virginia was a natural magnet for migration and a focal point of westward expansion. The bulk of Berkeley County's early records--including its marriage records--can be found today in the courthouse in Martinsburg, West Virginia. The present work is a digest of the Berkeley marriage records for the entire period from 1781 through 1854. It is arranged in alphabetical order by the names of both brides and grooms and contains the records of nearly 6,000 marriages. At least 15,000 persons are mentioned in this work, not counting ministers.
James Nourse was born in 1731 at Weston-under-Penyard, Herfeordshire, England, and married Sarah Fouace in 1753. They immigrated in 1769 to Hampton, Virginia and settled on a plantation near Charleston, in what is now Berkeley County, Virginia. He died in 1784.
Originally, Berkeley County incorporated all the territory in what is now the "Eastern Panhandle" (including present Jefferson and Morgan Counties), and extended from the Potomac to the Shenandoah Rivers on the north and east. This volume begins with desc