William Boyd

Who is William Boyd?

William Boyd, was an Irish Presbyterian minister. He is known as the bearer of a commission to Colonel Samuel Suitte, governor of New England, embodying a proposal for extensive emigration from County Londonderry to that colony. Boyd fulfilled his mission in 1718; the intended emigration did not take place. In the same year, James McGregor, 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.