• On the manifest of the ship John J. Boyd the surname is spelled "Bosie." He and his family joined the Elsworth company at Florence, Nebraska. Evidence that he came in 1856 is confirmed in information found in 1857 Church financial records.

Edmund Ellsworth Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: 45
• Head of Household

Sources

• Barker, Margaret Stalle, Reminiscences, 8, in Rebecca Cardin Hickman, "History of Susanna Goudin Cardon," item 2, in [Biographical sketches of the Cardon family, 1934-1960].
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger A, p. 217.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B, p. 148.
• Piedmont Project family group sheets.