Adam Boyd (politician)
Adam Boyd (March 21, 1746 – August 15, 1835) was a United States Representative from New Jersey. Born in Mendham, he moved to Bergen County and to Hackensack a few years later. He was a member of the Bergen County board of freeholders and justices in 1773, 1784, 1791, 1794, and 1798, and was sheriff of Bergen County from 1778 to 1781 and again in 1789. Boyd was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1782, 1783, 1787, 1794, and 1795, and was judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Bergen County from 1803 to 1805.
Boyd was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Eighth Congress, serving from March 4, 1803 to March 3, 1805, and was elected to the Tenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ezra Darby. He was reelected to the Eleventh and Twelfth Congresses and served from March 8, 1808 to March 3, 1813. He was again judge of the court of common pleas from 1813 to 1833. Boyd died in Hackensack, and was interred there in the First Reformed Dutch Church, Hackensack.[1]
References
- ^ Adam Boyd, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 22, 2007.
External links
- United States Congress. "Adam Boyd (id: B000714)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- Adam Boyd at The Political Graveyard
- Adam Boyd at Find A Grave
- 1746 births
- 1835 deaths
- Politicians from Hackensack, New Jersey
- New Jersey state court judges
- New Jersey sheriffs
- Members of the New Jersey General Assembly
- Members of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey
- County freeholders in New Jersey
- New Jersey Democratic-Republicans
- Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives
- Burials at First Reformed Dutch Church, Hackensack
- People of colonial New Jersey