My initial source for this individual comes from Bill Hagan (email 28 June 2009).

His sources includes material from the Clan Boyd International and Families of Early Jessamine county, Kentucky:

History of Wayne County Indiana Page 231:

Samuel Boyd, from Tennessee, settled, in the spring of 1811, about 2 1/2 miles north-west of the present town of Jacksonburg. He was probably the first settler in the township. His land was that at present owned by Jacob Metzker's heirs.
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Boyds from the book Pioneer Life Autobiography and Sermons of Elder Elijah Martindale also Pioneer History of the Boyd Family Belle Stanford, 1892 published in Indianapolis, Indiana by Carlon and Hollenbeck, Printers.

Samuel Boyd was a large and somewhat corpulent man with a ruddy face and dark hair before it silvered with age. The loss of his left eye was a great deformity to his person as he never tried to conceal the blemish by shades or any kind of glasses. I can't say they were not in use for I think it was just about this time, or earlier, that Goldsmith represents the hopeful son of the vicar of Wakefield as making sale of the family nag and buying a whole gross of green spectacles. My grandfather chose to wear a path of black silk over the empty socket and the last time I sat on his knee and was bearded by his kisses I thought he was awfully sweet but still didn't like the looks of that eye.

Oh I wish we had a cycloramic view of those wounded, starving, bleeding-feeted soldiers marching over the frozen ground bowed down with disaster and defeat, yet willing to die in the last ditch to purchase a land of freedom.

In view of all this, will we surrender our rights as citizens of the great commwealth and allow our country so dearly bought to be ruled by monopolists and millionaires? Will we allow corruption, fraud, sham and boodle to take place of an honest election? What worse chains could England have forged for us?

The author of my history (Elizabeth Martindale) says that when she was seven years old her parents moved from Madison county, Kentucky, to a place on the Cumberland river called "Horseshoe Bend". After remaining there for a while they moved to Adair county, which was then a wilderness part of Kentucky. Samuel Boyd commenced the work of exhortation and soon became an earnest minister of the Gospel, and what is most worth recording, he made a life correspond to his profession, striving to do unto others as he would have them do unto him.

In the year 1811, Samuel Boyd learned that valuable land had come into martet in the territory of Indiana. He disposed of his land and some of his stock and with a wife and nine children left for Indiana where they settled at Jacksonburg. Samuel Boyd died 27 November 1835 at the age of seventy-two years.

When Samuel Boyd moved to Indiana he had five sons. Robert, the youngest was thirteen years old. James, John, William and Samuel were stalwart young men, with the exception of a rheu- matic affection which seemed to be a family disease. He also had four daughters. All of them settled on farms in Wayne and Henry counties, Indiana. All but Isabel, the youngest daughter lived and died in those counties. Most are buried at the old Jacksonburg cemetery. When Mrs. Edna Swiggert, of Indianapolis, daughter of John and Caroline Smith, and granddaughter of Abiram Boyd, visits that old burying ground, she can stand by the headstones of three generations of grandfathers.
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Samuel was of scotch decent. His father, James Boyd, had previously emigrated thither from Virginia. Samuel came near to losing his life by a ball from a Tory gun during the Revolutionary War. He recovered, however, with the loss of his left eye, and servered through the war, having enlisted at the age of 16. Samuel married Isabella, who was also of Scotish decent, in 1785. In 1788 he and Isabella moved to Kentucky where they lived for 23 years. To provide a home for his nine children, he removed to Whitewater Valley, and in November of 1811 he built a tent of bark and limbs of trees on martindale creek, 2 miles north of Jacksonburg, where he entered a quarter section of land, on which he lived until his death in 1835.

In 1801, during the famed Kane revival, in Kentucky, he made a proffession of the Christian religion, and during the remainder of his life he labored faithfully, as a minister, for the salvation of others. During a missionary tour to the Indians, he again came near losing his life. As an Indian boy thoughtlessly touched a burning branch to a keg of powder, blowing the rude hut to pieces, killing two children, and injuring Samuel, who was laid out as dead. He recovered, and for more then a score of years was an active laborer in the cause of his master. He was a member of the Christian church, then often termed "newlights". As a public speaker he was earnest an animated, and for one of so limited educational advantage was an efficient Christian teacher (History of Wayne County, page 238).