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Adam Boyd (21 March 1746 – 15 August 1835) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-NJ) from 4 March 1803 to 3 March 1805 (succeeding John Condit and preceding Ezra Darby) and from 8 March 1808 to 3 March 1813 (succeeding Darby and preceding Ezra Barker).

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Adam Boyd was born in Mendham, Morris County, New Jersey in 1746, and he moved to Hackensack a few years later. He served on the Bergen County Board of Freeholders in 1773, 1784, 1791, 1794, and 1798, as Sheriff of Bergen County from 1778 to 1781 and in 1789, in the General Assembly from 1782 to 1783, in 1787, and from 1794 to 1795, and as a judge of the Bergen County Court of Common Pleas from 1803 to 1805. He died in 1835.

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