{"id":479,"date":"2013-07-04T12:57:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T12:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nelsonboydlaw.com\/blog\/?p=479"},"modified":"2016-06-27T20:35:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T20:35:05","slug":"independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nelsonboydlaw.com\/blog\/news-updates\/independence-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Boyd Family History in the Revolutionary War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_487\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nelsonboydlaw.com\/blog\/news-updates\/independence-day\/attachment\/008greatgreatgreat-grandfather-1-version-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-487\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-487\" class=\" wp-image-487 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.nelsonboydlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/008GreatGreatGreat-Grandfather-1-Version-2-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"Boyd History\" width=\"400\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nelsonboydlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/008GreatGreatGreat-Grandfather-1-Version-2-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nelsonboydlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/008GreatGreatGreat-Grandfather-1-Version-2.jpg 363w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Boyd &#8212; Revolutionary War<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lester Boyd<\/p>\n<p>Blanchard Boyd<\/p>\n<p>Harry Boyd<\/p>\n<p>John Boyd<\/p>\n<p>David Boyd<\/p>\n<p>John Boyd<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>6 generations&#8211; that\u2019s all that separates me from the Revolutionary War.\u00a0 My Great-great-great-great grandfather, John Boyd, was born in 1847, in Scotland, we believe.\u00a0 While we will never know his motivation for leaving, he must have thought it quite an opportunity to come to America as a free man and make war against the English!\u00a0 He lived for 57 years after the end of that war on a farm in western Pennsylvania, in peace, in a new nation.\u00a0 During that time, he raised many children; one son, David, moved across the Ohio River to Jefferson county, where the Boyds have lived ever since.<\/p>\n<p>The past seems so in the past, but my grandfather\u2019s grandfather fought in the Civil War, my father was born only 13 years after women were granted the right to vote, and I am the first child in my family\u2019s history to be raised from birth in a home with indoor plumbing and electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever our challenges as a nation, I am grateful for those who sacrificed to win our freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[44,43,23,46,45],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-updates","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-independence-day","tag-jeff-boyd","tag-nelson-boyd-attorneys","tag-revolutionary-war"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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