Boyd placed this ad in 1841, twenty years before the Civil War. Her daughters had been sold about twenty years earlier [ca 1821] by George Boyd, of Nashville, to Blount Robertson, of Louisiana.
"Gracy Boyd searching for her daughters Mary Boyd and Peggy Boyd," The Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA), June 13, 1841, Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery, accessed September 19, 2024, https://informationwanted.org/lastseen312/items/show/3227
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