NOTE: George Boyd may have been buried at Woodlawn, but that is unconfirmed. He was buried in or near Green Bay. His son James M. Boyd is buried at Woodlawn in Allouez.
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   "Colonel George Boyd, Jr., was born about 1779 in the eastern part of Maryland. His father, George Boyd, Sr.[sic, actually Archibald], was a Scotchman, who came to this country before the Revolutionary War, and practiced law in Maryland; he was a brother of Walter Boyd, of Boyd & Keen, bankers in London and Paris. George Boyd, Jr., was truly one of the government's most faithful employees. His integrity bore the scrutiny of various administrative changes during his thirty-five years of official life. He began his service early in life, in the Bank of the Metropolis, at Washington, D.C.
   In the fall of 1811, he was chosen private secretary to William Eustis, then secretary of war, and continued to fill the same position under his successor, General John Armstrong.
   In August, 1814, Mr. Boyd was intrusted with private dispatches to the peace commissioners at Ghent. He remained in France until the spring of 1815, when he returned to America. In October, 1816, he was appointed special agent of the war department, and ordered to Europe to purchase arms for the use of the United States; he had also received orders to purchase material to be used in the construction of the capitol building and the president's house, at Washington. His purchase of building material at this time aggregated over $19,000, principally in fine hardware -- such as brass hinges, gold-plated knobs and locks, carpets, etc.; also an invoice of $2,000 worth of foreign books for the use of the war department.
   After transacting his business, he paid a short visit to his brother, Robert D. Boyd, and his uncle, Walter Boyd, in Paris. On his return to this country, he brought with him a stock of laces, which he opened for sale in Georgetown, D. C. On account of some change in the administration of the war department at this time, the government refused to fulfill its contract with him, by declining to accept a part of the arms which he had purchased. This involved him in financial ruin. After disposing of all of his property for the benefit of his creditors, he removed with his family to King George county, Virginia, near Port Royal.
   On the seventeenth of December, 1818, he received the appointment of Indian agent at what was then called Michillimackinac. He left for his post early in 1819. Returning, he took his family, consisting of his wife and four children, to Mackinaw in the spring of 1820. There he resided, discharging his duties as Indian agent, until 1832, when he was ordered to the Green Bay agency, succeeding Colonel S.C. Stambaugh. Colonel Boyd arrived in Green Bay on the second day of June, 1832. In 1837, to the care of the Menomonee and Oneida tribes, the charge of the Winnebagoes and Brothertowns was added to his duties.
   In 1840, after his long continuous service in government employ, he resigned his post, and on the fourteenth of August, 1846, quietly passed away, surrounded by his wife and family. He was known by all who came in contract with him, as a man of refined character, and generous to a fault.
   His early life was spent in and about Washington, where he married Miss Harriet Johnson, daughter of Joshua Johnson, a niece of Thomas Johnson, the first governor of Maryland, and a sister of Mrs. John Quincy Adams. Their married life was blest with a large family--eight boys and one girl. James Madison Boyd. the only surviving member of the family, now resides at Kaukauna, Wisconsin."
   [Herbert B. Tanner, Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Vol. 12, Sketch of George and James M. Boyd, pp. 284-316]

Father of:
   Lt. John Quincy Boyd
   Joshua Johnson Boyd
   Robert Dundas Boyd
   Thomas Alexander Boyd
   Catherine Ann Boyd
   Lt. James Madison Boyd
   William Henry Crawford Boyd