Boyd, Col. George

Abt 1779 - 1846  (~ 67 years)    Has no ancestors but 12 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Boyd, George
  Prefix	Col.
  Born	Abt 1779	, , Maryland, USA
  Gender	Male
  Moved	Abt 1831	Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA
  Died	25 Aug 1846	Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA   [1]
  Biography	Aft 1846
  From Find a Grave NOTE: George Boyd may have been buried at Woodlawn, but that is unconfirmed. He is buried in or near Green Bay. His son James M. Boyd is buried at Woodlawn in Allouez. -------------------- "Colonel George Boyd, Jr., was born about 1779 in the eastern part of Maryland. His father, George Boyd, Sr.[sic, actually Archibald], was a Scotchman, who came to this country before the Revolutionary War, and practiced law in Maryland; he was a brother of Walter Boyd, of Boyd & Keen, bankers in London and Paris. George Boyd, Jr., was truly one of the government's most faithful employees. His integrity bore the scrutiny of various administrative changes during his thirty-five years of official life. He began his service early in life, in the Bank of the Metropolis, at Washington, D.C. In the fall of 1811, he was chosen private secretary to William Eustis, then secretary of war, and continued to fill the same position under his successor, General John Armstrong. In August, 1814, Mr. Boyd was intrusted with private dispatches to the peace commissioners at Ghent. He remained in France until the spring of 1815, when he returned to America. In October, 1816, he was appointed special agent of the war department, and ordered to Europe to purchase arms for the use of the United States; he had also received orders to purchase material to be used in the construction of the capitol building and the president's house, at Washington. His purchase of building material at this time aggregated over $19,000, principally in fine hardware -- such as brass hinges, gold-plated knobs and locks, carpets, etc.; also an invoice of $2,000 worth of foreign books for the use of the war department. After transacting his business, he paid a short visit to his brother, Robert D. Boyd, and his uncle, Walter Boyd, in Paris. On his return to this country, he brought with him a stock of laces, which he opened for sale in Georgetown, D. C. On account of some change in the administration of the war department at this time, the government refused to fulfill its contract with him, by declining to accept a part of the arms which he had purchased. This involved him in financial ruin. After disposing of all of his property for the benefit of his creditors, he removed with his family to King George county, Virginia, near Port Royal. On the seventeenth of December, 1818, he received the appointment of Indian agent at what was then called Michillimackinac. He left for his post early in 1819. Returning, he took his family, consisting of his wife and four children, to Mackinaw in the spring of 1820. There he resided, discharging his duties as Indian agent, until 1832, when he was ordered to the Green Bay agency, succeeding Colonel S.C. Stambaugh. Colonel Boyd arrived in Green Bay on the second day of June, 1832. In 1837, to the care of the Menomonee and Oneida tribes, the charge of the Winnebagoes and Brothertowns was added to his duties. In 1840, after his long continuous service in government employ, he resigned his post, and on the fourteenth of August, 1846, quietly passed away, surrounded by his wife and family. He was known by all who came in contract with him, as a man of refined character, and generous to a fault. His early life was spent in and about Washington, where he married Miss Harriet Johnson, daughter of Joshua Johnson, a niece of Thomas Johnson, the first governor of Maryland, and a sister of Mrs. John Quincy Adams. Their married life was blest with a large family--eight boys and one girl. James Madison Boyd. the only surviving member of the family, now resides at Kaukauna, Wisconsin." [Herbert B. Tanner, Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Vol. 12, Sketch of George and James M. Boyd, pp. 284-316]
  Buried	Woodlawn Cemetery, Allouez, Brown, Wisconsin, USA
  Person ID	I161772	1FamilyTree
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2018

  
  

  Family	Johnson, Harriet,   b. 18 Jun 1771, , , , France ,   d. Abt 1850, De Pere, Brown, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 78 years)
  Children	+ 1. Boyd, Joshua Johnson,   b. Abt 1805, Washington, District Of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA ,   d. 21 Oct 1832, Sturgeon Bay, Door, Wisconsin, USA  (Age ~ 27 years) + 2. Boyd, Lieut. James M.,   b. 13 Jan 1816, Washington, District Of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA ,   d. 23 Feb 1897, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 81 years)
  Last Modified	27 Jun 2014
  Family ID	F56710	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map	Load the map	Born - Abt 1779 - , , Maryland, USA Moved - Abt 1831 - Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA Died - 25 Aug 1846 - Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA Buried - - Woodlawn Cemetery, Allouez, Brown, Wisconsin, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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  [S1178] The American Sketch Book, Volume III, History of Brown County, Wisconsin, French Bella, (The American Sketch Book, Volume III, History of Brown County, Wisconsin, by French Bella Vol. 3 has imprint: Green Bay, Wis., The American sketch book company, 1876 Historical and descriptive sketches of towns and counties in Wisconsin, together with stories, poems and other miscellaneous matter href="https://archive.org/details/americansketchbo03swis">archive.org Announced as a monthly publication, but v. 1(1874-75) was issued in 6 nos., v. 2(1875-76) in 3, and v. 3(1876) in 1. No more volumes were published in Wisconsin See book online at ... See online here at 1FamilyTree American Sketch Book - Vol III, History of Brown County, Wisconsin Publication continued at Austin, Texas, by Mrs. Bella French Swisher, 1878-82 under title: The American sketch book; an historical and home monthly v. 1, no.1. Eau Clair. 1874. no. 2. Augusta. 1874. no. 3. Chippewa Falls. 1874. no. 4. Black River Falls. 1875. no. 5. Neillsville and Clark county. 1875. no. 6. Menomonie and Dunn county. 1875.--v. 2, no. 1. History of Sparta. 1875. no. 2. History of Reedsburg. 1875. no. 3. History of Baraboo and Devil's Lake. 1876.--v. 3. History of Brown county), Page 116.