Rake and Rambling Boy- Aimer Boyd (NY) 1826
[Single stanza from History of the Boyd Family, and Descendants. Obviously the first stanza of C, Rambling Boy
R Matteson 2017]
26. AIMER BOYD,
the youngest son of Philip and Elizabeth (Barrett) Boyd; was born in Newburgh, Orange Co., N. Y. Oct. 17, 1808: died at Conesus, Livingston Co., N. V. June 21, 1837.
Aimer was a young man of very mild disposition, kind, generous hearted and loved by all who knew him. A few years before his death, he became very impatient to be roaming about, as his mind would not let him rest. While examining an old account book of his, now belonging to my father, I found the following piece of poetry, and under the same, was this date " September 17, 1826." This would make the writer but eighteen years of age at the time of composing the same, and plainly shows the state of his mind at that time. The poetry was thus:
"I am a raking and rambling boy,
I seek my lodging, 'too and fro,'
A rambling boy, I soon shall be,
I forsake my lands, and go to sea."
The death of Aimer was caused by general derangement of the system; through his last days, he was a great sufferer. He was buried beside his father and mother, in Conesus, N. Y.