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William Boyd

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William Boyd (died 1772), was an Irish Presbyterian minister. He is known as the bearer of a petition to Samuel Shute, the governor of Province of Massachusetts Bay, embodying a proposal for an emigration from County Londonderry to that colony. Boyd fulfilled his mission in 1718; the intended emigration did not take place. In the same year (without awaiting the issue of Boyd's negotiation), James McGregor (minister of Aghadowey, County Londonderry, from 1701 to 1718), who had not signed the document, emigrated to New Hampshire with some of his people and founded a town to which was given the name of Londonderry.

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Not who you're looking for? Others named William Boyd: Scottish novelist, short story writer, and screen writer (bo · (1874-1962) · American actor (1895–1972) · Scottish Canadian pathologist (1885–1979)

William Boyd (died 1772), was an Irish Presbyterian minister. He is known as the bearer of a petition to Samuel Shute, the governor of Province of Massachusetts Bay, embodying a proposal for an emigration from County Londonderry to that colony. Boyd fulfilled his mission in 1718; the intended emigration did not take place. In the same year (without awaiting the issue of Boyd's negotiation), James McGregor (minister of Aghadowey, County Londonderry, from 1701 to 1718), who had not signed the document, emigrated to New Hampshire with some of his people and founded a town to which was given the name of Londonderry.

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