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British naval and land attack; another Berkeley County militia troop would be the first to reach Washington, D.C. after the British burned the new nation's capitol. His first father in law, Andrew Waggoner, would be cited for heroism at the Battle of Lundy's Lane. For his services defending
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Confederacy. His son John E. Boyd (1811-1888) would marry, inherit the plantation and slaves, have two sons and remained in Berkeley County despite losing the slaves during the American Civil War. His
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District 9, Martinsburg, Berkeley County Virginia p. 17 of 22 on ancestry.com; John "B." Boyd owned 12 slaves in the 1860 U.S. Federal Census for Berkeley County, p. 10 of 18 on
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died in 1863. His grandson Edmund Boyd
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daughter Mary Wagner Boyd
Faulkner (1817–1894) inherited Boydville. His daughter Sarah Ann Boyd Pendleton (1797-1868) also survive him and the American Civil War, although her husband Judge
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