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They killed her mother and youngest brother during the attack. William Boyd, oldest son, with his father and not present for the raid.
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Rhoda Boyd
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Nancy (Urie) Boyd (mother), killed after the attack
infant, possibly George Boyd, killed in the attack
John Boyd Senior (father), not present at the attack. He remarried, and died in 1788.
He was a blacksmith in Perry County, Pennsylvania.
John Boyd, Junior., captured and adopted by the Delaware. Returned from the Delaware in later years to visit relatives, but continued to live as an Indian.
David Boyd returned to his father by his Indian foster father, who originally captured him. Sarah (Sallie) Boyd, taken captive and lived with Delaware for several years, was returned to Fort Pitt, 1764
Taken captive at age eight, Rhoda lived with the Delaware for eight years, from the age of eight to sixteen, by which time she was assimilated to the band.
Liberated by Colonel Henry Bouquet at the forks of the Muskingum River, she and Elizabeth Studebaker, another English colonist adopted by the Delaware, escaped from his custody on their way to Fort Pitt in Pittsburgh, and returned to the Delaware.
United States historians such as Laurel Thatcher Ulrich have found that the younger children were when taken captive, the more likely they were to become assimilated to the tribe. Girls and young women who married into the tribe also wanted to stay with their new people, rather than making another adjustment to return to colonial British culture. Rhoda Boyd was ransomed in Detroit in 1764 and taken back to the British colonists.
Bouquet took her to Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1764.
They eventually moved to Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where there was a settlement of Christianized Delaware. Rhoda Boyd Smiley died there in 1823.
