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About John Richard Boyd
Source: Virginia Historical Magazine "Alexander Boyd and Family"
At the time of his father's death, he was in partnership with his younger brother, Alexander, and his father under the name of Alexander Boyd and Sons operating Boyd Tavern and a general mercantile business.
Richard and Alex Jr. were the owners (together with Major John Nelson of "Oak Hill") of the celebrated running horse "Dungannon", described by Patrick N. Edgar, in his Sportsman's Herald and Stud Book, as "one of the handsomest and best formed horses in America of his day." Sired by "Hart's Old Medley", he was 15 hands high, a "beautiful dark iron gray." Mecklenburg County at this time was one of the leading centers both for breeding and racing of Thoroughbreds.
In the division of the family property Richard received "the Castle tract" a plantation.
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John Richard Boyd's Timeline
| 1771 |
October 16, 1771
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Mecklenburg County, Virginia, United States
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| 1801 |
January 28, 1801
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1802
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June 9, 1804
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December 26, 1805
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1808
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May 21, 1810
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May 4, 1812
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May 29, 1814
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