(IWI) 3. My ancestors were not soldtheir compelled labor as prisoners of war was sold to pay off the cost of their luxurious travel across the North Atlantic in chains in the hold of a small merchant ship. (function() { The surviving Scots presented the English with a problem. Up to 300 more may have been sent to Virginia too, although shipping records have not survived. */ In 1698 he had a grant of land, 50 acres,in Eastern Massachusetts. 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. (IWI)Thompson, James. (IWI), of Lynn and Reading, MAWalter, Thomas. His was one of several Scottish names that began appearing on . (LLNV)Thompson, George. * LEARN WHY DEFINING THESE VARIABLES IS IMPORTANT: In 1711. 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. the whip which brings us to Lowell is necessity. Holding such a large number of prisoners could be costly. They planned to sell each man for between 20 and 30 pounds, which would have made them a considerable profit, since they only paid five pounds for each man. They sold to James Smith of Oyster River, a tailor, land granted to them at Dover. })(); Finding out more about a person transported to North America or the West Indies is likely to be difficult, though legal records can be useful. People Affected By Crime. The Y chromosomes of SPOWs can still be seen in their direct male line descendants today, and can identify a descendant. (CD), of Cambridge and Marlborough, MAForbes, James. Some men were shot because they either could not or would not march. The ancestry proposed for David Hamilton, here treated, relies upon the pedigree published on the Phillips Family website. (IWI), of Lynn, MAMcDougall, Allan. Not many people know that between 1718 and 1775 over 52,000 convicts were transported from the British Isles to America, mainly to Maryland and Virginia, to be sold as slaves to the highest bidder. Three days later, Hasseltigge was directed to deliver 150 prisoners to New England, with conditions that these men were well and sound and free of wounds because Hasslrigge, was concerned that these men were all infected, They were sent to London by water. SC 373 Ballintine Wm. * In The History of Durham, N.H. several mini profiles of several of the Scot Prisoners have been recorded. (LLNV), of Cambridge, MAWyer, Edward. (LLNV), of Oyster River, NH, and ?New Haven, CT.Paul, John. Transcript Show entries. You can find the entire family history of Duncan Stewart in Sprague Journal Maine History. (IWI), of Lynn, MAEager,William. If you are a female researcher of a SPOW history, look for male relatives of yours who have the surname of interest, or a proven male line descent, and test their Y DNA. unmarried and childless.Brown,Henry. You may read a transcription of this warrant and view scans of John Barry died during an Indian attact in 1671. Finding all ten ships, listed together in one document, has been an illusive task They were given very little to eat. Livingstone, John. (CD), of Kittery, MEGrant/Graunt,James (2). Isla Bryson, 31, was found guilty on Jan. 24 of raping one woman in 2016 and . Many Irish prisoners were sent to America, primarily to Virginia and Maryland, until 1775. We can either copy our records onto paper or deliver them to you digitally, Visit us in Kew to see original documents or view online records for free, Consider paying for Grey paid his wife's fine " for breach of sabbath and for stricking of Patience Everinton". The best practice is to leave your results in the project to accumulate matches over time. 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. They, along with the Scottish Battlefields Trust, will honour men such as James Adams, Archibald Archbell, John Bank, Alexander Bravender and George Darling, all who are know to have settled. were the Grant brothers, Peter and James. The Scots Did have a bad time;however the Irish had a much Worse time. W SC "Wakefield" Capt Thomas BECK, bound for SC from Liverpool 21 April 1716 with 81 prisoners. JAMES TAYLOR/TAILOR, was born in Scotland, possibly about 163 Scottish Prisoners of War Society (IWI)Makiah, Daniel. Disease was rampant. Micum McIntyre, the Scottish POW who ran for his life, worked in Cocheco Mills and then got a land grant in Kittery, Maine. There are tens of millions of slaves in the world today. Among them was Thomas Doughty, a common foot soldier who had survived the Battle of Dunbar, a . He wrote, The Scots, whom God delivered into your hands at Dunbarre, and whereof sundry were sent hither, we have been desirous (as we could) to make their yoke easy. However, by the time the Scots arrived in Boston, they were in poor health. Following the English Civil War, Cromwell transported thousands of Scots soldiers to Virginia, New England and the West Indies. John Paul (CD), of Charlestown and Concord, MA;yDNA StudyHay, James. This is an excellent addition to the information we have included here and if you prefer, Scottish Immigrants to North America, 1600s-1800s - The Collected Works of David Dobson. Item Vol. Join Geni to explore your genealogy and family history in the World's Largest Family Tree. (IWI), of Lynn, Salem and Marblehead, MADavison ye Scot. Some of the Scots who came to Massachusetts Bay Colony worked at the iron works. A transgender two-time convicted rapist was sentenced to eight years in Scottish prison Tuesday after starting to publicly identify as female while awaiting trial and spending time in a women's prison, according to BBC News. 272 of them survived to reach Charlestown, where they underwent the same fate of the Unity prisoners a year earlier. (CD), of Hingham and Scituate, MA, (Updating now, TR)McIntire, Malcolm. (CD)McFarland, Purdie. You may read a transcription of this warrant and view scans of Among its early settlers were indentured royalist soldiers from Scotland. In about 1676 he administered the estate of John Barry and he lived on that same land in Kittery. Please enable JavaScript to view the (CD); yDNA StudyRankin, John. Check your matches regularly. In 1681 a surprise attact by Indians distroyed most of the dwellings.in the area. This story was updated in 2022. Slavery involves ownership of the entire person (often not considered as such) as property. 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. Maxwell, eventually became a well-to-do taven Keeper. (CD), of Cambridge and Billerica, MassachusettsRoy, John. Assorted records of criminals, convicts and prisoners can be searched on on Findmypast.co.uk (), though many do not relate to criminal transportation. (CD), 1659: Dover, NH; Maine, Believed to have died childless.Anderson,Archibald. Scottish Emigration to Ireland [edit | edit source] Australia . June 3, 1675 Henry Brown and James Orr , Scotchmen, residents of Wells bought 200 acres from Henry Sayward, at Moresome. (CD)Scollay, James. (CD)Stark, James. Where to start. (2), (LLNV)Stewart, Daniel. George S. Stewarts list, 35 Scots at Lynn 1653, Iron Works Inventory. (CD)Philips, Charles. (CD)Morey, Walter. Some were executed. Your chances of success will be much better if you begin with some information about the person youre looking for. (LLNV),Hampton, NHBurbean/Burbeen,John. _qevents.push({ Thanks to Some or all of the recommended publications below may be available to buy from The National Archives Bookshop. 1. Seven of Valentine Hills Scottish POWs, for example, were listed as taxpayers in Dover, N.H., after their slavery ended. Note: Some of the Scotmans were at Block Island after being freeded. (CD), of Dorchester and Sudbury, MAEmery, William. (CD)Sinclair, John. until Hugh was fortunate enough to stumble upon a warrant, filed away for safekeeping They were still there in 1659. (CD), of Cambridge, Billerica, Malden, Concord, and Charlestown, MA;yDNA StudyFerguson,Daniel. which include use of any spider, robot, retrieval application or any device 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). (IWI), of Lynn and Boston, MAJordan,William. Firstly, this era is generally something between 8 to 13 generations back in time for today's family history researchers. For this kind of project, the genealogical information you provide is as important as the DNA you test. // Replace PAGE_URL with your page's canonical URL variable (CD), of Oyster River and Great Island, NH; Kennebec, MEMiller, Games [James]. DAVID HAMILTON=== Furbush was fined in N. H. for drinking with two Indians, named Henry and Richard. As Jonathan Tucker framed his reply in the context of early New England colonies in North America and our history in the USA, I believe your reply to him was more of a personal attack and off point. Thomas, (LLNV), of Scarborough, MaineChisholm, Duncan. (CD)McCallum, Malcolm. (CD)Rose, Tormut. They, along with Edward Errin, bought in 1662, a farm at Bradboate harbor in Pischalaq River at Wadering Place, with 59 acres upland. Gen. Soc of Boston. Although some returned to . However, his violent temper got the best of him there also. (IWI)Taylor, John. Is this freedom? In the absence of official Scottish passenger lists for the period, he initially derived his information from the records of the Privy Council of Scotland, the High Court of Justiciary, Treasury and State Pagers, and prison records, the sources of the majority of extant information available on the Scots who were banished to the colonies prior to 1775. Page Notes US POWS 36 29 2 33 1776 name, rank, regiment, 6 pages Navy Officers 44 37 474 1781 That led naturally to the ten ships they came in, especially since the embarkation passenger lists were there in the archives also. Approximately 15 Scots worked there. (CD), of Woburn MAMacDonald/Mackdaniel/Mackneile/Daniel. Steve Carlson article on The Saugus iron Works. 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. 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. Convict censuses, musters, pardons and tickets of leave, including series HO 10, HO 11 and CO 209/7, can be searched at ancestry.com.au (). Charles Bateson, The Convict Ships 1787-1868 (1983), Alan Brooke, and David Brandon, Bound for Botany Bay: British convict voyages to Australia (2005), P G Fidlon and R J Ryan (eds), The first fleeters: a comprehensive listing of convicts, marines, seamen, officers, wives, children and ships (1981), Michael Flynn, The second fleet: Britains grim convict armada of 1790 (2001), Mollie Gillen, The founders of Australia: a biographical dictionary of the first fleet (1989), David T Hawkings, Bound for Australia (2012), David T Hawkings, Criminal ancestors: a guide to historical criminal records in England and Wales (2009), Robert Hughes, The fatal shore: a history of transportation of convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 (1987), L L Robson, The convict settlers of Australia (1981), R J Ryan (ed), The second fleet convicts: a comprehensive listing of convicts who sailed in HMS Guardian, Lady Juliana, Neptune, Scarborough and Surprise (1982), For quick pointersTuesday to Saturday The ship was ordered to depart on Nov 11, 1651, probably left in early December and arrived in New England sometime in early 1652. Payment for medical care and medicine as well as food was needed. Auburn Cemetery. They were captured by the English, taken from their homeland, and sent to Massachusetts Bay Colony to work as indentured servants for seven years. Bennett Senior changed the newspaper industry with such [], How Scottish POWS Were Sold as Slave Labor in New England, John Cotton defended the practice. 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. Again he was fined in Maine for selling liquor to Indians and getting them drunk. 6 July 1675 his wife Ann was taken to court for not frequenting the publique worship of God on the lord's day. * (CD), of Woburn and Reading, MAMiddleton, James. 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. Your history of Alexander Gordon is wrong. He was captured at The Battle of Worchester. They went with an Englishman named Richard Leader, who got hold of an abandoned mill. (CD)Guthrie/Gutridg, Robert. Across the sea, Oliver Cromwells new government had the costly and vexing task of managing thousands of Scottish POWs. Later they lived in Rowley. Geni requires JavaScript! Robert got interested in folklore while he studied at [], [] Is anyone such a fool as to suppose that out of six thousand girls in Lowell, sixty would be there if they could help it? The Scots of Hammersmith. (CD)Paul, William. Of the prisoners captured there, some 300 including William Cahoon and Thomas Ross were sent to New England in the " John and Sarah ". (CD), John & Sarah, of Boston, MABow,Alexander. Who were the shared Scottish ancestors of the transported men and their modern Scottish relatives. Scots Prisoners and their Relocation to the Colonies, 1650-1654 Project Profiles share Log In Join - It's Free Home People Projects Genealogy DNA Tests Projects Scots Prisoners and their Relocation to the Colonies, 1650-1654 Profiles show advanced controls Sorted by date added close settings 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. He had no children. There is a profound difference between indenture and slavery. Sentences of transportation were still passed, with convicts held in prison while the government considered alternative destinations. To use mtDNA you would be looking at descent from one of the SPOW's daughters, who would have his wife's DNA. According to tradition, the English lined up the Scottish POWs in order to shoot every tenth man. Valentine Hill also bought some of the Scottish POWs from the Battle of Dunbar, and worked them in his sawmills at Durham Falls and the Lamprey River in New Hampshire. (LLNV), of Falmouth, MAGibson,William. Founder of Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild James Taylor (b c 1630 - d 27 October 1703) from the Scottish Prisoners of War Society New York Gov. So I made a project of it and in London collected the complete information set on all the Rebels at the trial, all 1,301 of them, expecting that there were plenty of other Rebel descendants here in America who would be excited to hear about these men. This information will help us make improvements to the website. 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. research. (CD), (J&S), of Lynn, MA.Taylor, James. A directory of Scots banished to the American plantations is available at Genealogical 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 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. Husband of Lydia (Jenkins) Paul m https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Worcester#/media/File:Battle_of_Worcester.jpg. So the Scots waited in the Thames, for passage to New England. It is not clear how many of these were in the end transported, but on 7th November 1650, about 150 Scottish prisoners of Dunbar were transported aboard the Unity. var scpt = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; (IWI), Braintree MA, Block Island RITower, Thomas. Machum), Mackie Hill ( Mac Kay, Mv Key, Maki ), MackNeile Dan ( Mc Neile, Mc Neale, Mac Neale ), Mack Neile Patricke ( Mc Neale, Mc Neil, Mac Neal), Mack Nell Daniell ( Mc kell, Mac Kell ), Mack Nester Allester ( Mc Nester, Mac Nester ), Mack Neth Semell ( Mc Nith , Mc Kenneth ), Mack Nith Daniell ( Mc Nith, Mc Kenneth), Mack Nith Daniell ( Mc Knith , Mc Kenneth ), MackKnith Patricke ( Mc Knith, Mc Kenneth ), MackTentha Cana ( Mc Tentha. Well correct. (CD)Murray/Morrey, James. His daughter, Fanny Kemble Knight, took a famous horseback ride alone along the Boston Post Road. Yes, indenture WAS slavery. He was captured at the Battle of Dunbar in 1650 or Worchester in 1651. Alternatively, search our library catalogue to see which are available to consult in the reading rooms. 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. You can often find: HO 10 contains material about convicts pardons and tickets of leave from New South Wales and Tasmania, 1834-59. More than likely, many ended up deaf or at least hard of hearing because of the constant hammering . (CD)McDonald, Daniel. Kemble found a ready market among planters and mill owners for the human cargo, as the news spread about the first shipment of Scottish POWs. Prisoners after Culloden View full image 00:00 00:00 List of rebel prisoners: with their rank and the number of witnesses against them, July 17 1746 (SP 54/32/41C). Berry Tho. In 1667 a seat was assigned for him at the Amsbury Church. James mackall, John Mackshane, and Thomas Tower became forge hands under John Vinton, John Turner jr, , Henry Leonard and Quenten Prey. William Furbish (probably Farrabas, which became Forbes in Massachusetts) bought land in Kittery sometime before 1664, but was punished in 1681 for calling the Kings officials, Divills and hell bound. Furbish apparently had not forgiven the English for the Battle of Dunbar. In the event you don't have an account November 11Th, the Council issued sailing orders to the Unity. Biography Mc Kay, Mc Key ), Macky Sander ( makie, Mackie, Maki, Mc kay, Mc Key ), Mack Farson Origlais ( Mc Farson, Mc Phearson ). Barry William Ferfar Angus 079 p SS 441 Baton Alen Barton Wm Kertome Lancashire 093 c (LLNV), of Lynn, MACahoon,William. About 50 went to the Saugus Iron Works,the first successful iron works in the colonies. On 3 Sep 1650, the English defeated the Scots at the Battle of Dunbar. About 275 Scottish POWs were sent to Boston about the John and Sara, where Thomas Kemble, a Charlestown merchant, took them on consignment. (CD), of Roxbury and Boston, MALadle/Luddle, James. The names of convicts transported with the first fleet, which sailed in May 1787 and reached Australia in January 1788, are listed in The First Fleeters, edited by P G Fidlon and R J Ryan. Maxwell's Garrison survived. Mackanur died in 1670. Covenanters. This Y-DNA Project aims to discover descendants of the Scots captured in the battles of Dunbar and Worcester (1650-51) by Oliver Cromwell's army, and transported to the Americas. In 1681, he received 20 lashes on his bare skin, by the court, for calling court officials "Divills and hell Hounds". s.setAttribute('data-timestamp', +new Date()); (d.head || d.body).appendChild(s); Ninety percent of them stayed in Maryland and Virginia. Note: Duncan Stewart was born in the highlands of Scotland about 1623. Assorted records of criminals, convicts and prisoners can be searched on on Findmypast.co.uk (), though many do not relate to criminal transportation. Neither married. (CD), of Charlestown, MA and Middletown, CT;yDNA StudyBravender/Braband/Brebner/Brabiner, Alexander. 09:00 to 17:00. If you are descended from a SPOW, you are likely to be descended from other colonial Americans too, and so you cannot be sure. George Grey and wife Sarah Cooper had five children. If they can prove a SPOW descent, then that is your descent as well. This project aims to research and discover more about the fates and descendants of those Scottish prisoners captured and transported in these two battles of the English/Scottish Civil Wars - the Battles of Dunbar (1650) and Worcester (1651). [sibling%28s%29 unknown] Many perished of hunger or disease on the march, though some escaped. (CD), of South Berwick and Upper Eliot, MEFerguson/Fargison, John. (LLNV), of Newton, MAMcDonald, Dennis. (CD), of Kittery, MEWebster, James. A list of the passengers of the John and Sara is given in the Suffolk Deed Records, book 1. pp. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, Caribbean Migration (To and From U.S.) Prior to 1900, Emigration from Europe - Ports of Departure, Passengers of the ship John and Sara: Scots Prisoners of War, 1651, Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775. Most are records of trials, and though a few can be searched by name you will usually need to know where and when the trial took place: This information has been digitised from many different records. Hi Admin , King Charles was born in Dunfermline , Fife , Scotland not Edinburgh . (CD), of Cambridge and Malden, MAEaton,Alexander. Note: There was a Thomas Holmes / Hume listed as being sold to Henry Sayward of York for 30 Pounds. Here they were allowed daily rations of a pound of bread and a half a pound of cheese. John Clark was taught the trade of blacksmith by Samuel Hart. (IWI), 1653: Lynn, MABurgess, Robert. Actually, yes we can, although there are big challenges in using this DNA type. (CD), of Lynn and Reading, MA;yDNA StudyMcIntire, Robert. Many of those deported were later pardoned on the condition that . Late [apprentice] to Pat Black Surgeon in Perth. His wife's name was Sisey. It records the names and aliases of the convicts who arrived in New South Wales and Van Diemens Land between 1788 and 1842 and also contains an index of ships. They had three sons, one of which was Joseph who was a soldier at Crown Point in 1726. 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. 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. (CD), of Oyster River, NH; Salem and Malden, MA: Kittery and Saco, MEDunbar,Robert. Many more records survive from this period but, as few are indexed by name, finding an individual can still be difficult. (CD), of Lynn, MAWilson, William. On 10, Nov. 1658 [census? (LLNV)2. (CD), of Oyster River, NHNeal, John. (CD)Orr, James. He has brought together a bulk of information available. In America today there are many who believe themselves descendants of these men, and DNA will be used to explore family links between them. Daniel was born in 1630 in Scotland, place and parents unknown. (CD)Stewart, Alexander. 62 went to John Giffard, the agent for the Undertakers of The Iron Works of Lynn (Saugus). After 1718, approximately 60,000 convicts, dubbed "the King's passengers," were sent from England to America. 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