#HenryBoyer: Roswell Daily Record, Friday, May 7, 1920

“Son of former slaves in Milledgeville GA., he was the only one of his parents’ 17 children who was born free.”
Las Cruces Sun-News, Sunday, March 30, 1947

Frank Boyer’s grandmother, Aggie Boyer, was born free in Africa. For people under the conditions of Blackness in America, the trajectory from freedom to sovereignty was often interrupted by slavery. On October 29, 1822, Henry Boyer was born in Hancock County, Georgia on the plantation of Elias Boyer. Henry married Hester Hill and Frank Boyer was the last of their 17 children. Frank was also the first of a generation born free.

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Since 1875, Henry Boyer nurtured his belief in sovereignty through liberation theology as a member of the African Baptist Church (Morehouse College). Henry passed away at the age of 103 at the home of his son, Henry Boyer Jr., in Rowell, New Mexico on South Kansas Street at 10 o’clock, February 24, 1926. Henry was survived by 5 of his children, John Henry Jr., Robert S., Frank and Henry’s daughter, Mrs. M. V. Johnson. Henry’s great wealth at his passing was measured in 38 grandchildren.

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#HenryBoyer Obituary "Centenarian Dies" | Roswell Daily Record February 24, 1926

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Henry Boyer, aged one hundred and three years, died at the home of his son, Henry Boyer Jr., on South Kansas Street, yesterday morning at ten o'clock. Henry Boyer was born in Hancock county, Georgia on October 29th 1822 on the plantation of Elias Boyer. His mother was Aggie Boyer, she being a slave who was born in Africa and brought to America by the early slaveholders. He was married to Hester Hill and from this union there are surviving four sons, John, Henry Jr., Robert S, and Frank. Also one daughter Mrs. M. V. Johnson. He also leaves thirty-eight grandchildren. He was a member of the African Baptist Church, having joined them in 1876. Funeral services will be held tomorrow, afternoon at two thirty o’clock from the Colored Baptist Church with Rev. Wm. Profitt in charge of same and burial will be at Sout Park.

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#BlackColonizer | Roswell Daily Record, May 27, 1920

“There were 170 Negroes in New Mexico when Boyer arrived here. He says the Negro population now numbers 12,000. One thousand New Mexico Negroes are members of the Negro Masonic Lodge of which Boyer is the grand corresponding secretary.”
Las Cruces Sun-News, Sunday, March 30, 1947

#BlackColonizers’ from a 1519 project continued to evolve into a loose network of Black intellectuals, who by 1619, streamlined transformation from free to sovereign. Before “the Americas,” the Black Colonization Continuum included Moorish conquest of “Europe,” specifically “Spain.” The end of Moorish rule in Spain birthed new social technologies in an alchemical process that nurtured #BlackColonizers. Blackdom’s colonization model intersected with the American Revolution and liberation movements led by Bishop Richard Allen of the African Methodists Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church, and Prince Hall of the African Masonic Lodges. Black illuminated peoples were forged in the fires of a unique American Alchemy building institutions to enlighten people under the condition of Blackness in the art of colonization.

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#BoyerMyth | Roswell Daily Record, May 20, 1920

“After he returned to Georgia and was discharged from the Army, he decided to come back to the West. He and a companion walked from Southwestern Georgia to Abilene, Texas, a distance of 2178 miles. They ‘beat the freights’ from Abilene to Texas, and then walked from Pecos to Eddy (now Carlsbad) in New Mexico Territory. That was in 1899.”
Las Cruces Sun-News, Sunday, March 30, 1947

After exhausting his military service, Frank Boyer returned to Georgia to attend Atlanta Baptist College (Morehouse College). Frank’s New Mexican Myth included a 2200 mile walk. He could have walked, but Frank had access to more efficient ways to travel the distance. In 1899, Frank Boyer (27) and Daniel Keys (20) (brother-in-law) traveled together from Georgia to New Mexico and stopped in Abilene, TX. Frank and Daniel “beat the freights.” At the turn of the 20th Century, riding freight trains (“Beating the Freights”) was less expensive, less comfortable and how poor people afforded the ride. Frank took a job as a buggy driver for New Mexico District Judge A. A. Freeman, in part because of his knowledge on how to get around in the Borderlands. Shortly after settling into the job, Frank sent word for the family to join him and they too traveled by train.

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#AmericanAlchemy2 | Roswell Daily Record, May 24, 1920

“Boyer was a cook for J.J. Hagerman, who established the Pecos Valley Line, when Clovis was being planned and assisted when the survey of the city was made.”
Las Cruces Sun-News, Sunday, March 30, 1947

At the turn of the 20th Century, Frank Boyer had the vision to build an all-Black county in Southeastern New Mexico while working as a cook for J. J. Hagerman, one of the wealthiest power brokers in the state of New Mexico. Hagerman donated forty acres of land north of Roswell and Captain Joseph Lea (Confederate Army) founded the Goss Military Institute named for the Confederate Colonel. Boyer’s time as a cook for Hagerman was a time of apprenticeship on how to turn stolen Indigenous desert land into personal sovereignty.

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