Evidence needed to support Mary Bloyd as daughter of Zachariah Mackubin & Sarah McCubbin

John Bloyd married Mary (b. ca 1754 in Rockingham Co., NC) ca 1780 in Baltimore, MD.

They had children.

Surname also found as Bloyed ~ Bloid ~ Boid

From the notes of Russell Perkins

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/204873226/mary-bloyd

Disputed identity

I have read, although I have not found the proof, that he married a woman named Mary in Maryland--somewhere around Chesapeake Bay. The bill of sale for their property gives her first name as "Mathew", also Martha, but everywhere else she is called Mary. I think this is a case of a nickname. Most of the women in this family go by their nickname. There is some debate about her last name; some sources say it might be McCubbins, but I doubt it. I think it may be Riggen/Riggan/Riggens. One McCubbins source descended from John/Mary Bloyd says this, and it fits with the fact that Riggins was given to a grandson as a middle name. There were several Riggen families in the Chesapeake area prior to the Rev. War, so it's possible. He purchased land from James McCubbin in Rockingham Co, NC in 1792, where he and Mary raised their family.

Family

Generation No. 2

2. JOHN2 BLOYD (JOHN1) died Aft. 1831 in Carthage, Hancock Co., IL. He married MARY MCCUBBIN.

Fact 4: Gleason McCubbin's book says Elizabeth's mother was Mary RIGGEN. FindAGrave has his parents as John Bloyd and Mary Riggins.

Children

• i. WILLIAM RIGGEN(S)3 BLOYD.
• ii. JOHN BLOYD, JR., b. Abt. 1780; m. MATILDA _____.
• 4. iii. LEVI BLOYD, b. Aft. 1780, Rockingham Co., NC; d. 1847, American Bottom, IL.
• iv. ELIZABETH "BETSY" BLOYD, b. 1782, Rockingham Co., NC; d. 1845, Brush Creek. Green Co., KY; m. NICHOLAS MCCUBBIN, Abt. 1802, Rockingham Co., NC.
• 5. v. THOMAS BLOYD, b. 1785, Rockingham Co., NC; d. February 01, 1874.
• 6. vi. RHODA BLOYD, b. Bet. 1787 - 1790, Rockingham Co., NC or Green Co., KY; d. Bef. 1835, Washington Co., AR or Indiana or IL.
• 7. vii. LEAH BLOYD, b. Bet. 1787 - 1792; d. 1836, Big North Fork of White River.
• viii. MARTHA "PATSY" BLOYD, b. Abt. 1789, Rockingham Co., NC; m. JOHN JARVIS, JR., June 15, 1809, Green Co., KY.
• ix. ELIJAH BLOYD, b. 1791, Rockingham Co., NC; m. DEBORAH WINN.
• x. SARAH "SALLY" BLOYD, b. 1793, Rockingham Co., NC; m. JESSE PHILLIPS, July 19, 1813, Green Co., KY.

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John Bloyd and Mary, his wife, moved from Maryland to North Carolina and then to South Carolina and finally to Green County, Kentucky, about the same time William Bloyd was making this same migration.

William and John Bloyd owned adjoining farms in Rockingham, North Carolina in 1792. William was in Green County, Kentucky by the fall of 1805 and John was in Green County by 1806.

Both John and William settled on Little Brush Creek where the settlement of Bloyd, Kentucky was later established. In this area was located the Bloyd Post Office, Bloyd's Bluff School, and Bloyd's Bluff Cemetery. William Bloyd's family continued to live in the area.

John and Mary Bloyd left Green County, Kentucky in the spring of 1831 to settle in Hancock County, Illinois.

John was known as "The Old Patriarch".

References

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/204873226/mary-bloyd
• https://sites.google.com/site/biashamptongenealogy/bloyd-line
• http://www.clingram.com/famhis/getperson.php?personID=I36342&tree=t...