THE JAMES CLOYD FAMILY IN AMERICA The following genealogy traces family relationships from James Cloyd (1680-1769) through the male line to Lucy Colston Cloyd Miller (1883-1960). The information included here is largely drawn from Genealogy of the Cloyd, Basye and Tapp Families in America with information collected and prepared by AD. Cloyd, MD. and published by The Champlin Press, Columbus, Ohio, in 1912.
JAMES CLOYD (1680-1769) James Cloyd, a Scotsman, born in Ireland in 1680 and said to have been in the Siege of
Derry when nine years old, died in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1769. It is said he would often lecture the young folks, his grandchildren, on wastefulness and tell them of the privations endured by the besieged in 1689. Nothing definite is known about him, but he is supposed to have been the father of the following James (1707), David (1710), Joseph, John, Thomas, and Jane.
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