William Boyd

William Boyd (1685 - 1772), was an Irish Presbyterian minister.

Life Boyd studied at the university of Edinburgh and read divinity at Glasgow; he was ordained minister of Macosquin, County Londonderry, by the Coleraine presbytery on 31 January 1710. In the same year (without awaiting the result 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. Boyd stayed in Boston for several months and then returned to Macosquin.

Boyd died on 2 May 1772; he was buried at Taughboyne.

Family He was married with several children.

Works Boyd published only "A Good Conscience, a Necessary Qualification of a Gospel Minister: a Sermon on Hebrews 13:18 Preached at Antrim on 15 June 1731 at a General Synod of the Protestants of the Presbyterian Persuasion in the North of Ireland" in Derry in 1731.