(CD), (J&S), Probably the John BOYE on the John and Sara ListRunciman Andrew. However, letting them go could prove to be very dangerous. (LLNV), of Lynn, MACahoon,William. * THE SECTION BELOW TO INSERT DYNAMIC VALUES FROM YOUR The English then drove the Scottish POWs like cattle to London. Alexander, Joseph, Anne and baby Prisoner 332 - along with dozens of others - disappeared into the hot Caribbean haze, with no known trace of what happened to the Jacobites freed by Britain's. They learned this trade at Valentine Hill , which is where they had been indentured servants. Thanks for pointing out the error! Henry Magoon married Elizabeth Lissen in 1661 and Alexander Gordon then married Mary, the youngest of lessin's daughters, in 1664. Henry Brown and James Orr,Oar,Ore lived together their entire lives. 1. They worked as woodcutters to supply the wood to make charcoal, or as forge hands, as blacksmiths, as miners and farmhands. (CD)McCallum, Malcolm. Britain Sent Thousands of Its Convicts to America, Not Just Australia By Matt Novak Published May 29, 2015 Comments ( 136) The joke about Australia is that it was founded by a bunch of. In 1654, Blacke assaulted and beat up his master, and a court sent him to prison in 1654. The list also details where each person was tried. (CD), 1661: Lynn, MA; Believed to have died childless.Archibald, John. If you are descended from a SPOW, you are likely to be descended from other colonial Americans too, and so you cannot be sure. In 1681 a surprise attact by Indians distroyed most of the dwellings.in the area. After another indian attack in 1711 he sold the Garrison to the Macintire Family. Biography They were as follows: The following settled in what is now Berwick, Maine: There is also an extensive list of Scot prisoners on the John and Sara which sailed from London 1651. (CD)Murray/Morrey, James. Subscribe now for regular news, updates and priority booking for events.Sign up, All content is available under the Open Government Licence (IWI), yDNA Study, of Lynn and Springfield, MA.Stewart, William. (CD), of Roxbury and Boston, MALadle/Luddle, James. In 1667 a seat was assigned for him at the Amsbury Church. fot fo the West Indies where yow are to deliver them to Mr. Charles Rich to be disposed of by him for the Joinet accont of the frightr's & so to be Retou'ned home in stocke vndevided thus desiring wee remajme your loving friends Sinatum et Recognitum John Beex Rob't Rich Will Greene in pneia Jo Nottock: notar Publ; 13 May 1652 Entred & Recorded Edward Rawson Recorder. (CD), of Barnstable, MACone, Daniel. There are eight other ships, however with destinations like Barbados and the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean, finding the debarkation lists seems a formidable challenge. Isla Bryson, who transitioned from a man to a woman while awaiting trial for raping two women in 2016 and 2019, was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in prison in Scotland. (CD), of South Berwick, ME:yDNA StudyCorser,Hercules. were the Grant brothers, Peter and James. Transportation was not formally abolished until 1868, but it had been effectively stopped in 1857 and had become unusual well before that date. The conditions in which Becx and Foote, took the Scots was a commercial venture . I know it looks funny but as we all know that's how they wrote things back then, "London This 11th of November , 1651; Captain Jojn Greene; "Wee whose names are under written frighters of your shipe the Joh and Sara doe order yow forthwith as winde & weather shall permitt to sett sajle for Boston in New England $ there deliver our Orders and Servants to Tho kemble of charles Towne to be disposed of by him according to orders wee have sent him in the behalfe & wee desire yow to Advise with the said Kemble about all that may be concerne that whole Intended bojage using you Jndeavo's with the said Kemble for the speediest lading your shipp from New Eng, to the barbadoes with porvisions $ such other things as are in N.E. Bostonians viewed them with scorn and classed them with African-Americans and Indians. He married John Pearce's daughter . (LLNV),Hampton, NHBurbean/Burbeen,John. In 1651, William Tingle hired four men for a period of three years, for which the company deducted 6 pence from every load of charcoal that Tingle produced. Sentences of transportation were still passed, with convicts held in prison while the government considered alternative destinations. (CD), of Salem, MAMcCall, James. In total, somewhere between 4,000 and 5,000 Scots were banished to the Americas during the Colonial period (whereas England transported around 50,000 and Ireland in excess of 10,000), all of whom. Most of the Scots were hired out to other employers and went to colliers. Seven of Valentine Hills Scottish POWs, for example, were listed as taxpayers in Dover, N.H., after their slavery ended. Check your matches regularly. In 1711. Cooper's daughter Sarah married George Grey, another Scotsman. David Hume, who came over on the John and Sara, settled in Dedham, Mass., where his name morphed into Holmes. The York County Court admonished Cooper , his wife, John taylor and other Scotsmen, " for their use of profane speeches" and referring to ' devill in their common talk". requires you to be logged in through either a Disqus account In The History of Durham, N.H. several mini profiles of several of the Scot Prisoners have been recorded. Alexander Gordon died in Exeter in 1697, and his children had many descendants. [] sold (there is no other word for it) in New England, where a Puritan minister commented, The Scots, whom God delivered into [Cromwells] hands at Dunbarre, and whereof sundry were sen [], [] in Bangor, Maine, on September 2, 1888. The solution was to develop new penal colonies in modern day Australia, and on 13 May 1787 the first fleet set sail. His daughter, Fanny Kemble Knight, took a famous horseback ride alone along the Boston Post Road. On 3 Sep 1650, the English defeated the Scots at the Battle of Dunbar. June 3, 1675 Henry Brown and James Orr , Scotchmen, residents of Wells bought 200 acres from Henry Sayward, at Moresome. Archives, Open Government Licence William Furbush and Daniel Fergison bought land together in what is now Elliot, Maine. 1635) Auburn Cemetery. Page Notes US POWS 36 29 2 33 1776 name, rank, regiment, 6 pages Navy Officers 44 37 474 1781 George S. Stewarts list, 35 Scots at Lynn 1653, Iron Works Inventory. About 1600 died of dysentery, disease or starvation. })(); Lessons Learned Review of Transgender Individual. of York. Many of those deported were later pardoned on the condition that . John Barry died during an Indian attact in 1671. (IWI), of Lynn and Reading, MAUpton(Rubton), John. Alexander (Sander) Cooper settled near The Great Works with other Unity Scotsmen. Unlike all other ancestors in this genealogy, Daniel Davisson is unique. The surviving Scots presented the English with a problem. Barry William Ferfar Angus 079 p SS 441 Baton Alen Barton Wm Kertome Lancashire 093 c v3.0, the name of the ship on which they were transported, whether each settler came free or as a convict, or was born in the colony, the name of their ship and their year of arrival, search and download () images of prison registers from the, for petitions received between 1819 (although there are some earlier petitions) and 1839, in the series, for petitions received between 1839 and 1853 in, through judges reports from 1784-1829, which are in series, through judges circuit letters from 1816-1840, which are arranged by date in series. (IWI), of Lynn, MAMoody, Ingraham. A letter written by James Stanhope at Whitehall to the Commanding Officer of his Majesty's Forces in Liverpool. Scots prisoners sent to New England around 1651 (CD), of Oyster River and Dover, NH; Kittery, MEGrant/Graunt, James (1). Trevor Schakohl on February 28, 2023. There were 4000 dead, 10,000 captured, and 4000 more escaped. Bennett Senior changed the newspaper industry with such [], How Scottish POWS Were Sold as Slave Labor in New England, John Cotton defended the practice. This story was updated in 2022. These can be found in various ways: Before transportation most criminal offences were punished by death, a fine or whipping. The History of The Town of Durham New Hampshire, Source Historical and genealogical Reg, N.E.H.G. Daniel was born in 1630 in Scotland, place and parents unknown. ], they lived in Oyster River. These men were captured at the battle of Worcester. (CD), of Cambridge and Malden, MAEaton,Alexander. He was captured at the Battle of Dunbar in 1650 or Worchester in 1651. 62 went to John Giffard, the agent for the Undertakers of The Iron Works of Lynn (Saugus). James Adams went with Giffard's acrt and team. (LLNV), of York, ME. [sibling%28s%29 unknown] (LLNV)2. Id DateRoll No. What a scoop. Founder of Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild On 10, Nov. 1658 [census? Few records of these individuals survive, though legal records from this period may contain useful information. In 1654 he married Ann Winchurst of Ipswich. "https://secure" : "http://edge") + ".quantserve.com/quant.js"; (CD), of Barnstable and Edgartown, MA.Stewart, Duncan. He was to be sure that each load was of full measure. The Y chromosomes of SPOWs can still be seen in their direct male line descendants today, and can identify a descendant. When he died he devided his property between Peter Grant and John Taylor. They associated with Robert Stewart and left everything to him. If you do not know how to do this please contact the administrators for advice. (CD),McLachlan, Robert. s.setAttribute('data-timestamp', +new Date()); As the descendant of at least two Dunbar prisoners, I strenuously object to confusing indenture with slavery out of emotion and ignorance, or for dramatic effect. Discovery is a catalogue of archival records across the UK and beyond, from which you can search 32 million records. Their son George jr. was capturd by Indians and carried off to Canada. In 1686 Brown and Orr brought suit against John Bray for carrying away their grass at Brave Boat Harbor. (CD), of Ipswich, Massachusetts.Ross, Thomas. 4. Assimilated to English ways, the Lowland Scots were primarily skilled tradesmen, farmers, and professionals pulled by greater economic opportunity in America. He completed his indenture with no more incidents. ( Mc Kendra, Mc kandra, Mac Kandra ), Mac Kane John ( Mc Canne , Mac Kane, Mc Kane), Mac Kane patricke ( Mc kane , Mc Cane ), Mac Kannell Daniel ( Mac Connell, Mc Connell ), Mac Kannell Wm. John Touish had the job of taking stock of ore and making charcoal. John Curmuckhell died not long after. Technically they signed contracts agreeing to indentured servitude, but in reality most spoke Gaelic and many couldnt read or write. The lucky ones married the bosses daughters, won land grants and appeared on tax rolls. Among its early settlers were indentured royalist soldiers from Scotland. 09:00 to 17:00. For each person cited in this directory, some of the following information is given: name, occupation, place of residence in Scotland, place of capture and captivity, parent's names, date and cause of banishment, name of the ship and the date and place of arrival in the colonies. Bryson, who was formerly called Adam Graham, was initially assigned to Cornton Vale, the one women-only prison in Scotland, after a trial at the High Court in Glasgow. pageTracker._trackPageview(); Unfortunately, this type of DNA test is not useful for researching ancestors from the 1650s, or from colonial New England. The ship was ordered to depart on Nov 11, 1651, probably left in early December and arrived in New England sometime in early 1652. Leslie, I agree with your view on indenture. The first edition of this work has been enlarged by the addition of fresh material, particularly from American sources but also from more obscure sources in Scotland. (CD),Oyster River, NH, Wells, ME;(No known offspring)Bruce,George. The records of these appeals can be very useful. In the following years, many Scots who were were taken prisoners at the Battle of Worcester [England] were sent to Virginia, Massachusetts, and Maine aboard the John and Sara. All those who are descended from the Scottish transportees who arrived around 1650 (with reasonable documentary evidence), Any of their Y-DNA matches who may be discovered (with the same surname or different surnames). (CD)McFarland, Purdie. 1657 he was taxed at Oyster River. * (CD), of Woburn and Reading, MAMiddleton, James. Any Scottish/UK resident testee who has a Y-DNA result close enough to the prisoners descendants Y-DNA to suggest that they could share a common ancestor in Scotland from before the key year of 1650. To use this type of DNA you will have to have an all female-line of descent (the living tester can be male or female) from the mother/daughter to your tester. . (CD), of Taunton, MA, and Block Island, RI;yDNA StudyCanade/Kennedy. (CD), of Charlestown, MADaniel, Davey. (IWI)Thompson, William. Two months after the battle, 150 Scottish POWs boarded the Unity and sailed to London, then to Charlestown, Mass. // Replace PAGE_IDENTIFIER with your page's unique identifier variable So many ended up in York, Maine, that for years the town had the nickname Scotland.. (CD)Purdie, John. However, one member of the SPOW project has already successfully traced his all-female line descent from a SPOW's daughter, and identified her mtDNA - so it can be done. The infusion of Scottish blood into the New England and Virginian population was to provide the United States with a very rich genetic base for their further development. (LLNV), of Oyster River, NHDanielson [Daniels], James. One week after the battle, the Council of State, which was England's governing body, decided to turn the problem over to the committee and informed Sir Arthur Hasenlrigge, that he could deposed of as many of the Scots as he felt proper to work in the coal mines. Again, many were ordered for transportation and on 8th November 1651, the John and Sarah took sail with around 300 Scottish prisoners on board. it was there they ran a sawmill. (CD)McDonald, Daniel. There were 150 Scots who were were sent to New England on The Unity and arrived at Lynn, Ma. Lissen then welcomed two other Scots into the family. After 1718, approximately 60,000 convicts, dubbed "the King's passengers," were sent from England to America. _qevents.push({ (IWI)Thompson, James. Some men were shot because they either could not or would not march. The Saugus Iron Works is now a national historic site. (CD), of Dover NH, Kittery ME;yDNA StudyToish, John. 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