Just 3,000 survived to be ordered into their temporary prison of Durham Cathedral, where the dying from infection and fever continued. (CD)Orr, James. George S. Stewart's list Captured at Dunbar, (CD) For this kind of project, the genealogical information you provide is as important as the DNA you test. /** (IWI), of Lynn and Boston MAKey, John. The Roundheads captured them at the Battle of Dunbar during the English Civil War [], [] was born James Gordon Bennett, Jr., on May 10, 1841, the son of a Scottish immigrant who founded the New York Herald. (IWI), of Lynn and Taunton, MA; Block Island, RIIrwin/Erwin/Dulen, Edward. (IWI), of Lynn, MAMcDougall, Allan. In 1681, he received 20 lashes on his bare skin, by the court, for calling court officials "Divills and hell Hounds". The Covenanter Risings of the later 17th century led to around 1,700 Scots being expelled as enemies of the state, and the Jacobite Rebellions of 1715 and 1745 resulted in an additional 1,600 men, women, and children being banished to the colonies. Robert Barber, son of John Barber sr. born Ansbury 1- March-1669/1670. (CD)McFarland, Purdie. (CD), of Dover, NH and Saco, MEDill, Daniel. (CD), of Hartford, CTForbes/Forbush, John (1). * LEARN WHY DEFINING THESE VARIABLES IS IMPORTANT: He had seven children and many descendants. In 1662, Brown and Orr of Sacco Falls belonging to Winter Harbor, for himself and Henry Brown. (LLNV), of Dedham, MAGrant,Peter. A list of the passengers of the John and Sara is given in the Suffolk Deed Records, book 1. pp. They learned this trade at Valentine Hill , which is where they had been indentured servants. Another 150 prisoners were sent to New England aboard the Unity through Joshua Foote and . With that authority Hasslrigge sent forty men to work as indentures servants at the salt works at Shields. (CD), of South Berwick and Upper Eliot, MEFerguson/Fargison, John. 62 went to John Giffard, the agent for the Undertakers of The Iron Works of Lynn (Saugus). (IWI), 1653: Lynn, MACleghorn,James. Dr. Andrew Millards list in,Lost Live, New Voices. (CD), of Charlestown and Concord, MA;yDNA StudyHay, James. His widow married another Scotchman, Micuim Mc Intyre. In 1654, Blacke assaulted and beat up his master, and a court sent him to prison in 1654. ( Mac Connell, Mc Connell), Mackdo(n)ell Sander Mac Donnell, Mac Donnell), MackDonnell John ( Mc Donnell, Mac Donell), MackCunnell Sander ( Mc Connell Mac Connell), MackCunnell Cana ( Mc Coornell, Mac Cornell), Macendocke Daniell Mcendocke, Mc Kendock ), Mackey Huge ( mackie, Mc Kay, Mc key, Maki ), Macky John ( Makie, maki. Many also worked at the Iron Works.They were as follows: Prisoners who worked at the Lynn Iron Works, now known as the Saugus Iron Works, were as follows: In Kittery Maine, there is a Unity parish, doubtless from the prisoners, who were sent there to work in the sawmills. elem.src = (document.location.protocol == "https:" ? (CD), of Ipswich, Massachusetts.Ross, Thomas. James Adams went with Giffard's acrt and team. (CD), of Oyster River, NH; Salem and Malden, MA: Kittery and Saco, MEDunbar,Robert. The names of these 272 prisoners have survived in time, many of those who survived their terms of indentured labour would settle in the colonies, and have living descendants today. 1-B. He was taken with other prisoners to the American Colonies. (CD), of Lynn, MassachusettsFassett/McPherson/Mackfassy,Patrick. Under his contract, he could never leave his masters premises without his permission and he couldnt marry. After the Battle of Worcester, the prisoners were marched to London and confined there for a few months on the artillery grounds at Tuthill fields, which were about a half mile from Westminster Palace. We place some essential cookies on your device to make this website work. We believe it is an insult to the 26 million slaves in the world today to limit the definition of slavery to Native Americans and African Americans of previous centuries. Henry Brown and James Orr,Oar,Ore lived together their entire lives. * RECOMMENDED CONFIGURATION VARIABLES: EDIT AND UNCOMMENT Isla Bryson, 31, was found guilty on Jan. 24 of raping one woman in 2016 and . Henry Magoon married Elizabeth Lissen in 1661 and Alexander Gordon then married Mary, the youngest of lessin's daughters, in 1664. Shelter is thought to be provided only for the sick. (IWI) 3. In about 1676 he administered the estate of John Barry and he lived on that same land in Kittery. (CD), of South Berwick and York, ME; yDNA StudyMerrow, Henry. When this Project was started, Y-DNA was the commonest first type of test to take, and autosomal DNA testing was only just taking off. On Jan. 6, 1657, several Scottish POWs formed the Scots Charitable Society for the relief of Scotsmen, the oldest charity in the Western Hemisphere. "https://secure" : "http://edge") + ".quantserve.com/quant.js"; (IWI)Thompson, William. November 11Th, the Council issued sailing orders to the Unity. Dr. Dobson has made some modifications as well; for example, some men who were thought to have been Covenanters are now classed as rebels and English transportees have been omitted, while the references used have been enhanced to facilitate further research. Brown and Orr lived for many years in Wells, Maine. These men had in fact no civil rights, could not marry, were not allowed to leave their masters property without consent, and were shown as collateral on the owners inventory list. W SC "Wakefield" Capt Thomas BECK, bound for SC from Liverpool 21 April 1716 with 81 prisoners. Archives, Open Government Licence Geni requires JavaScript! (CD), of Dorchester, and Rehoboth, MAGray,George. John Curmuckhell, also called Carnicle, came on the John and Sara. The shipmaster, Augustine Walker, paid five pounds for each man and sold them for 20 to 30 pounds. A list of them can be found here. Lissen then welcomed two other Scots into the family. (CD)Parsons/Palson, Thomas. * (CD), of Woburn and Reading, MAMiddleton, James. Seven of Valentine Hills Scottish POWs, for example, were listed as taxpayers in Dover, N.H., after their slavery ended. Voluntarily! Cooper's daughter Sarah married George Grey, another Scotsman. SC 373 Ballintine Wm. In all, 639 of the those 1,301 were transported here. Between the march and lack of food, many died along the way. var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-249123-12"); Transportation of prisoners. (CD), not much known about this James.Stewart, John. (IWI)McWater, William. This guide will help you find records of people sentenced to transportation. Puritan minister John Cotton wrote in his letter to Oliver Cromwell, "The Scots, whom God delivered into your hands at Dunbarre, and whereof sundry were sent hither, we have been desirous (as we could) John Paul (abt. To my mind it is slavery. Auburn burial plot, By Bill Ilott from Boston, USA https://www.flickr.com/photos/bostonphotosphere/4185723469/ Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10902508. From "An Incomplete List of Scottish Prisoners of War Sent to New England in 1650" -- According to Colonel Banks' 1927 paper presented to the Massachusetts Historical Society, in the aftermath of the Battle of Dunbar, 900 Scots were to be sent to Virginia. Cromwell and his Puritan followers executed King Charles I in January 1649. The Great Migration of Puritans had ended, and the colonists badly needed workers. a bill requesting payment from the King for transporting the prisoners on the ten ships. this.page.url = PAGE_URL; (IWI), of Lynn, MA (Updated 24 Feb 2020)Dowty [Doughty],Thomas. In the event you don't have an account He had at least 2 sons, John and Robert. They are as follows: Aside from the Scot prisoners, there were other Scots, who also arrived on The Unity. v3.0, except where otherwise stated, https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/education/prisoners-after-culloden-sp-54-32-41c.mp3, Friends of The National Prisoners to the Lynn Iron Works John Clarke George Thompson Robert MacIntire John Toish James Adams John Archbell James Danielson John Banke Alexander Braband Alexander Burgess George Darling Micam Downing Alexander Dugle James Dunsmore Alexander Eaton Alexander Ennis James Gourdan Peter Grant Thomas Gaulter Alexander Grimes Andrew Jempson A list of men and women transported to North America between 1614 and 1775 is included in The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage 1614-1775 by Peter Wilson Coldham. He wrote, , Augustine Walker, paid five pounds for each man and sold them for 20 to 30 pounds, first successful iron works in the colonies, Maine white pine trees, needed for the British Navy, Nicholas Lissen bought him and six other Scottish POWs, Recommended Scholars and litterature on medieval slavery in Europe. (LLNV), of Oyster River, NH, and ?New Haven, CT.Paul, John. 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 contributed to the settlement and development of Colonial America."--Genealogical.com. 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. Page Notes US POWS 36 29 2 33 1776 name, rank, regiment, 6 pages Navy Officers 44 37 474 1781 James Taylor (b c 1630 - d 27 October 1703) from the Scottish Prisoners of War Society (CD)Stark, James. var scpt = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; Please keep this updated as you discover new information. John Becx and Joshua Foote conferred with their partners, the Undertakers of the Iron Works. They are as follows: All the prisoners were freed by 1656 or 1657. So the Scots waited in the Thames, for passage to New England. (CD), residence unknownWilson, Robert. scpt.parentNode.insertBefore(elem, scpt); Maxwell received 30 lashes on his bare skin "for exobitant and abusive carage toward the master and his wife." anyone without the express written consent of the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild LLC. (CD)Sinclair, John. That led naturally to the ten ships they came in, especially since the embarkation passenger lists were there in the archives also. (IWI), of Lynn, MADowning,Malcolm. In our view, indenture was a euphemism used by John Cotton and others to disguise the cruel fact that the Scots were (a) sold and (b) had no freedom under their masters and had to do everything they were told. A Highlander named Micum McIntyre saw his number would soon be up, broke rank and ran for his life. There were 150 Scots who were were sent to New England on The Unity and arrived at Lynn, Ma. In the aftermath of the English Civil War, for example, Oliver Cromwell transported thousands of Scots soldiers to Virginia, New England, and the West Indies. The New South Wales census (HO 10/21 HO 10/27) is the most complete. In 1654 he married Ann Winchurst of Ipswich. (IWI), of Lynn, Salem and Marblehead, MADavison ye Scot. 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. The usual period of transportation was 14 years for convicts receiving conditional pardons from death sentences or seven years for lesser offences. (CD), possibly Hugh STEWARD/STUARD of Falmouth/Yarmouth and Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts?Stewart, James. Born about 1635 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts Neither Nevin Agneau nor John Barry ever married. the original by clicking on this line. Note: Alexander Gorthing was purchased by Samuel Stratton of Waterown. Some men were shot because they either could not or would not march. (LLNV), of Dover, NHHolmes/Holme/Homes/Hume, Thomas. It is a profound and self-serving insult to the enslaved Native Americans and Africans who, along with their children and family members, were truly slaves and disposable property for generation. But the Y chromosome is very powerful for earlier ancestry because it changes very little as it is passed from father to son. 2B Jam "Two Brother" Capt Edward RATHBON, bound for Jamaica from Liverpool 26 April 1716 with 47 prisoners. Autosomal DNA is most powerful when looking at ancestors born since 1800. Lessons Learned Review of Transgender Individual. It was then called the Scotsman's House, it had been framed by Samuel Bennett, a master carpenter who also worked on constructing the Iron Works. Published: 14 April 2013Updated: 30 Mar 2020Researchers: Dr. Andrew Millard, Teresa RustEditor: Teresa Rust, Because the original passenger list for the ketch Unity, which transported about 150 Scottish prisoners of war captured at the Battle of Dunbar to the British Colonies in the New World, has never been discovered, the following list, updated as of 03 April 2019, is a compilation, of all of the suggested, but not necessarily proven, Dunbar prisoners of war sent to Massachusetts in 1650. When they reached their destination, they happened upon a field of cabbage.They ate all of it, which of course made them even sicker than they already were. About 50 went to the Saugus Iron Works,the first successful iron works in the colonies. They associated with Robert Stewart and left everything to him. To their miserable condition on arrival was due the foundation in 1657 of the Scots Charitable Society of Boston-the earliest Scottish society in America. The Iron Works at that time covered over 600 acres, from what is now Saugus Center to Walnut street up towards what is now North Saugus, almost out to where Route one is now and over as far as Lynn Commons. Micum McIntyre, the Scottish POW who ran for his life, worked in Cocheco Mills and then got a land grant in Kittery, Maine. It is hoped that DNA can also help to identify relatives of the transported men who still live in Scotland today, to help answer the questions Where in Scotland had these men been taken from? In 1650-1651 the Third Civil War of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms was fought largely on Scottish soil when Cromwell's English Parliamentary Army invaded Scotland. On June 23, 1759, at the age of 83, his wife gave her deposition. Yes, indenture WAS slavery. The Scottish people had largely sided with Cromwell, but they turned on Cromwell and declared Charles son king. 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