In many cases convicts appealed to be pardoned or to have their sentences reduced, while transportation itself was often used as a reduced sentence for a convict who might otherwise have been executed. Please note, if you believe you have Scottish ancestry but no connection to the Civil War prisoners, the Scottish DNA Project at https://www.familytreedna.com/public/Scottishdna/default.aspxis open to DNA testees who wish to explore their possible Scottish connections. W SC "Wakefield" Capt Thomas BECK, bound for SC from Liverpool 21 April 1716 with 81 prisoners. (CD), of Oyster River and Dover, NH; Kittery, MEGrant/Graunt, James (1). Many Irish prisoners were sent to America, primarily to Virginia and Maryland, until 1775. Abbott, Fred (eri)k-- EA, Va/Jam Abercromby, John-- EA,VA/Jam Allen James-- F.Md Anderson, Robert--EA,Va/Jam Arnott, David--EA,Va/Jam If they can prove a SPOW descent, then that is your descent as well. There were 4000 dead, 10,000 captured, and 4000 more escaped. Between the march and lack of food, many died along the way. colonial ancestor you may have received a small segment from. They are mainly from England and Wales but there are Scottish and some Irish cases and also courts martial from around the world. (CD), of Dover NH, Kittery ME;yDNA StudyToish, John. Payment for medical care and medicine as well as food was needed. (LLNV) 2. Isla Bryson, 31, was found guilty on Jan. 24 of raping one woman in 2016 and . If all of the Kelts From Ireland, Scotland,Wales and Cornwall fought together, Cromwell would have been defeated and Charles 11 would have kept his head! Assorted records of criminals, convicts and prisoners can be searched on on Findmypast.co.uk (), though many do not relate to criminal transportation. The Saugus Iron Works is now a national historic site. Note: Some of the Scotmans were at Block Island after being freeded. 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? In 1667 a seat was assigned for him at the Amsbury Church. Neither Nevin Agneau nor John Barry ever married. In The History of Durham, N.H. several mini profiles of several of the Scot Prisoners have been recorded. To Mr Webster [Minister] In Edinr. About 50 went to the Saugus Iron Works,the first successful iron works in the colonies. "Between 1650 and 1775 many thousands of Scots were banished to the American colonies for political, religious, or criminal offenses. Your book is dead wrong. (CD), of Lynn, MAWilson, William. Such as were sick of scurvy or other diseases have not wanted physick and chyrurgery. Is this freedom? Transcript Show entries. British Convicts In American Colonies. HO 10 and HO 11 can be downloaded free of charge from Discovery, our catalogue; however, please be aware that these are very large files, suitable only for download via a fast and unlimited broadband connection. On 10, Nov. 1658 [census? (CD), of Salem, MAMcCall, James. (CD),Oyster River, NH, Wells, ME;(No known offspring)Bruce,George. (d.head || d.body).appendChild(s); Alexander (Sander) Cooper settled near The Great Works with other Unity Scotsmen. Mackanur died in 1670. Ballintyne Wm Dunkell Perth 023 p FS 178 Bane Willm. with any of these companies then you can create an account (CD), of Oyster River and Great Island, NH; Kennebec, MEMiller, Games [James]. Across the sea, Oliver Cromwells new government had the costly and vexing task of managing thousands of Scottish POWs. var elem = document.createElement('script'); (CD), of Cambridge, Billerica, Malden, Concord, and Charlestown, MA;yDNA StudyFerguson,Daniel. Up to 300 more may have been sent to Virginia too, although shipping records have not survived. sites by using our customised search engine, Electric 2B Jam "Two Brother" Capt Edward RATHBON, bound for Jamaica from Liverpool 26 April 1716 with 47 prisoners. In the event you don't have an account Following the English Civil War, Cromwell transported thousands of Scots soldiers to Virginia, New England and the West Indies. Berry Tho. . His initial success, however, did not stop him over the intervening years from hunting in ever more obscure sources in North America and the UK--sources such as the Aberdeen Journal, Caledonian Mercury, the Dumfries and Galloway Archives, Justiciary Records of Argyll, Calendar of Home Office Papers, and more. (IWI), of Lynn and Reading, MAUpton(Rubton), John. Facebook or Yahoo. These can be found in various ways: Before transportation most criminal offences were punished by death, a fine or whipping. George S. Stewart's list Captured at Dunbar, (CD) Much the same happened in 1715 and 1745. However, letting them go could prove to be very dangerous. It was reported he stayed in Canada and converted to Catholicism. Ships Passenger list for the John and Sara. To use mtDNA you would be looking at descent from one of the SPOW's daughters, who would have his wife's DNA. (CD), of Taunton, MA, and Block Island, RI;yDNA StudyCanade/Kennedy. (CD), possibly Hugh STEWARD/STUARD of Falmouth/Yarmouth and Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts?Stewart, James. (LLNV), of York, MEInnes,Alexander. (LLNV),Died enroute from Boston, MA.Denmark,Patrick. Hamilton came over on the John and Sara and got sold to a saw mill owner in Southern New Hampshire. The project is also open to anyone who believes they may have a Dunbar/Worcester ancestor who was transported to Virginia, Bermuda or other destinations in the New World in 1650-52. He was evedently well reguarded by its owner and selectman Nichilas Lissen, as he married Lissen's daughter Hannah after being there only two years. (CD), of Oyster River, NH; Salem and Malden, MA: Kittery and Saco, MEDunbar,Robert. Descendants of the Scottish POWs from the Battles of Dunbar and Worcester have a web site. [] 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. Daniel Blacke, who came over on the John and Sara, probably got sold to the son of the Rev. He and his wife Rebecca often refused to attend church on the Sabbath. Now autosomal DNA (like the Family Finder test, or popular tests from other companies) is the most common type of DNA test and many people ask to join the Project using autosomal tests. For information about Alexander Gordon, we relied on A. J. Gordon: An Epic Journey of Faith and Pioneering Vision By Kevin Belmonte. An incomplete list of Scots who were sent to New England in 1650 appeared in the Iron Works papers in 1653. (CD), of Cambridge and Malden, MAEaton,Alexander. According to tradition, the English lined up the Scottish POWs in order to shoot every tenth man. ], they lived in Oyster River. (IWI)Makiah, Daniel. (CD) of Roxbury, MAFrizzell/Frissell, Alexander. They became most respected section of early settlers. During its 80-year history 158,702 convicts arrived in Australia from England and Ireland, as well as 1,321 from other parts of the Empire. (CD)Moore, Mathew. An additional 1700 Scots were expelled as enemies of the state after the Covenanter Risings and 1600 men, women and children were banished as a result of the Jacobite Rebellions of 1715 and 1745. Daniel was born in 1630 in Scotland, place and parents unknown. Janice Farnsworth for sending })(); v3.0. The shipmaster, Augustine Walker, paid five pounds for each man and sold them for 20 to 30 pounds. The court said if there were any more problems with Maxwell, the master could sell him off to Virginia or Barbados or any other English plantation. This is very, very hard to establish in genealogical research, as the surnames of women are often lost when marriages before civil registration can be incompletely recorded. A year to the day from Dunbar, the Royalist army under Charles II went down to its final defeat at Worcester, and again several thousand Scottish soldiers supporting Charles found themselves prisoners of war in England. (CD), of South Berwick and Upper Eliot, MEFerguson/Fargison, John. John Becx and Joshua Foote conferred with their partners, the Undertakers of the Iron Works. 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. 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. it was there they ran a sawmill. Is this to act from free will? Ship Wakefield 21 April 1716 Briggantine Two Brothers 26 April 1716 Ship Susannah 26 April 1716 Friendship of Belfast 24 May 1716 Ship Hockenhill 25 June 1716 Ship Elizabeth and Anne 29 June 1716 Ship Good Speed 14 July 1716 Ship Africa Gally 15 July 1716 Ship Ann 31 July 1716 Also listed as Jacobite ships on this website are: Auburn Cemetery. But the Y chromosome is very powerful for earlier ancestry because it changes very little as it is passed from father to son. Kemble sold others in Exeter, N.H., and in Durham, where he partnered with Valentine Hill. Many of those captured Scots were sent to the American colonies. Of course that leaves me with an appetite for more. He had no children. Scotch Prisoners sent to Massachusetts in 1652 (this presents the names in order as given) The John and Sarah 1651-1652 ( also presents the names in order as given) Jeam Macarory first appears in Dedham records of the 11th day of the 12th month, 1660 when he was taxed 11 shillings. Many more records survive from this period but, as few are indexed by name, finding an individual can still be difficult. Bennett Senior changed the newspaper industry with such [], How Scottish POWS Were Sold as Slave Labor in New England, John Cotton defended the practice. The History of The Town of Durham New Hampshire, Source Historical and genealogical Reg, N.E.H.G. He willed all his land and marshes to be used as the site for Scotish Church. v3.0, except where otherwise stated, Assorted records of criminals, convicts and prisoners, The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage 1614-1775, Friends of The National (LLNV), of Lynn, MACahoon,William. Check your matches regularly. (IWI), of Lynn and Reading, MAWalter, Thomas. John Bean wound up in the Exeter sawmill. (IWI), of Lynn and Taunton, MA; Block Island, RIIrwin/Erwin/Dulen, Edward. Archives, Open Government Licence George S. Stewarts list, 35 Scots at Lynn 1653, Iron Works Inventory. 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. (CD)Marshall, John. Most of the Scots were hired out to other employers and went to colliers. (IWI), of Lynn, MA (Updated 24 Feb 2020)Dowty [Doughty],Thomas. He had to do everything Stratton told him to do, so long as it was legal. Assorted records of criminals, convicts and prisoners can be searched on on Findmypast.co.uk (), though many do not relate to criminal transportation. 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. Among the Northern Neck iron manufacturers who used convict labor was John Tayloe at his Neabsco Company iron mine in Prince William County. It is likely that most descendants will not have any detectable autosomal DNA from ancestors this far back in time. 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. Alexander Maxwell, was at The Great Works in 1654 when relations between him and the English master turned violent. On 1 July 1706 he was killed by Indians. The prisons soon became overcrowded and extra accommodation had to be provided in derelict ships (or hulks) moored in coastal waters. James mackall, John Mackshane, and Thomas Tower became forge hands under John Vinton, John Turner jr, , Henry Leonard and Quenten Prey. Smith : 5 Denis McIntyre: Few records of these individuals survive, though legal records from this period may contain useful information. Leader put the Scottish laborers to work sawing Maine white pine trees, needed for the British Navy. They have not been sold for slaves to perpetual servitude, but for 6 or 7 or 8 yeares, as we do our owne [indentured servants] , As one historian noted drily, Cottons sanction deadened the New England conscience.. DAVID HAMILTON=== There were 150 Scots who were were sent to New England on The Unity and arrived at Lynn, Ma. (IWI)Thompson, William. Item Vol. They arrived in Boston in December. (IWI)Taylor, John. 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. Firstly, this era is generally something between 8 to 13 generations back in time for today's family history researchers. var disqus_config = function () { His slavery did end, however, and he married the bosss daughter, Mary Lissen. (LLNV), of Charlestown, MAMcCall, Duncan. Note: Duncan Stewart was born in the highlands of Scotland about 1623. Page Notes US POWS 36 29 2 33 1776 name, rank, regiment, 6 pages Navy Officers 44 37 474 1781 They were captured by the English, taken from their homeland, and sent to Massachusetts Bay Colony to work as indentured servants for seven years. Scotland's Classified Directory, http://www.rootsweb.com/~mecanaan/early.htm. Assimilated to English ways, the Lowland Scots were primarily skilled tradesmen, farmers, and professionals pulled by greater economic opportunity in America. 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 Few ever returned home to Scotland. research. JAMES TAYLOR/TAILOR, was born in Scotland, possibly about 163 Scottish Prisoners of War Society 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. Please keep this updated as you discover new information. Alexander Gordon, for example, agreed to seven years of slavery under Samuel Stratton of Watertown. Many were sent to Berwick Maine after the demise of the Iron Works. (IWI), Lynn and Salem, MAGrimes, Henry. Unlike all other ancestors in this genealogy, Daniel Davisson is unique. In 1662, Brown and Orr of Sacco Falls belonging to Winter Harbor, for himself and Henry Brown. Neither married. With that authority Hasslrigge sent forty men to work as indentures servants at the salt works at Shields. (CD), of Lynn and Reading, MA;yDNA StudyMcIntire, Robert. Barry William Ferfar Angus 079 p SS 441 Baton Alen Barton Wm Kertome Lancashire 093 c 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. Subscribe now for regular news, updates and priority booking for events.Sign up, All content is available under the Open Government Licence They were still there in 1659. Contact details can be found using find an archive. Exactly one year after the Battle of Dunbar, Cromwells much larger force defeated 16,000 mostly Scottish army at Worcester, England. (CD), of York and Scarborough, MEClark,John. (CD)Neill, Andrew. This information will help us make improvements to the website. Holding such a large number of prisoners could be costly. All comments are moderated so they won't (CD),McLeod, John. So when the second shipment arrived, Kemble easily sold the Scottish POWs in the Massachusetts towns of Boston, Charlestown, Cambridge, Dedham, Concord, Hingham, Ipswich, Reading and Salem. The Scottish POWs worked 12-hour days at hard, dangerous labor. which include use of any spider, robot, retrieval application or any device (LLNV), of Braintree, MA and Block Island, RIHamilton,John. Their son George jr. was capturd by Indians and carried off to Canada. (CD), 1659: Dover, NH; Maine, Believed to have died childless.Anderson,Archibald. (CD), of Ipswich and Wenham, MAMaxwell, Alexander. A horseman chased after him and wounded him, but spared his life. Three thousand men died in battle, and 10,000 taken prisoner. Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown] (CD), of Boston?, MABogle,Alexander. Cromwell and his Puritan followers executed King Charles I in January 1649. When the constable arrived, his wife Rebecca struck the constable and he, Furbush, "tooke up a dreadful weapon and sayd that he would dy before his goods should be carried away." (CD), of Kittery, MEGrant/Graunt,James (2). (LLNV)Rose, Roger. (CD), of Dedham, MA, yDNA StudyMcShane, John. They clashed at the short, brutal Battle of Dunbar. (IWI), of Lynn, MA; Block Island, RI; Danielson, CTDarling,George. John Curmuckhell died not long after. Spurious Pedigree (CD), of Roxbury and Boston, MALadle/Luddle, James. Since charcoal was expensive to make, the company had Giffard employ most of the Scots full- time as woodcutters to supply the colliers. The most recent pleasure I had was to be able to put together complete records for the two ships that came here to Maryland, the Goodspeed and the Friendship of Belfast. (IWI), 1653: Lynn, MassachusettsBarry, James. While this was going on, the Council had received several petitions from persons, who wished to transport the Scots overseas. In 1681, he received 20 lashes on his bare skin, by the court, for calling court officials "Divills and hell Hounds". A Highlander named Micum McIntyre saw his number would soon be up, broke rank and ran for his life. Ninety percent of them stayed in Maryland and Virginia. (IWI), 1653: Lynn, MABurgess, Robert. We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. He was taken with other prisoners to the American Colonies. Seven of Valentine Hills Scottish POWs, for example, were listed as taxpayers in Dover, N.H., after their slavery ended. Maxwell's Garrison survived. 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. (CD), of Charleston, MA (Updated 22 Feb 2020), Original List of Dunbar Prisoners Profiles, yDNA Study (updates in progress 24 Feb 20), Durham University Scottish Soldiers Project, 35 Scots at Lynn 1653, Iron Works Inventory, Bravender/Braband/Brebner/Brabiner, Alexander, Forbes/Furbush/Farbish/Furbish/Farsbush/Farbuish, John (2), Forbes/Furbish/Furbush/Forbush/Ferbush,William, Livingstone/Levingstone/Lewiston/Levestoon, Daniel. 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. Add a pedigree (GEDCOM) to your FTDNA account. The surviving Scots presented the English with a problem. They sold to James Smith of Oyster River, a tailor, land granted to them at Dover. The English then drove the Scottish POWs like cattle to London. (IWI)McWater, William. 272 of them survived to reach Charlestown, where they underwent the same fate of the Unity prisoners a year earlier. (CD), of Ipswich, Massachusetts.Ross, Thomas. Autosomal DNA is most powerful when looking at ancestors born since 1800. /* Bayne William Glames Angus 063 p WF 625 Barnet Thos. (1), (CD), of Charlestown and Marlborough, MA.Stewart, Alexander. These men were captured at the battle of Worcester. (CD), of Dorchester and Sudbury, MAEmery, William. Gordon complained to the court of ill-treatment and petitioned for his freedom, apparently without success. Doesnt matter how we try to dress this up, it was definitely slavery. We can assume that it is accurate as it is If you have managed to do this, you are welcome to share that outcome with this Project. Scots Charitable Society burial plot at Mt. 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. Where to start. 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. 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. John Paul Some of the Scottish POWs sent to New England were sold as a group to work in the Saugus Iron Works or the saw mills of Berwick Maine. The number at the Iron Works stayed at 28 until around August 28, 1652 , when there were as many as 37 there. The conditions in which Becx and Foote, took the Scots was a commercial venture . (Steve is a fellow member of the Saugus Historical Soc. [sibling%28s%29 unknown] unmarried and childless.Brown,Henry. Scottish Emigration to Ireland [edit | edit source] Australia . In Durham, the English imprisoned the Scottish POWs in the castle and cathedral. (CD), of Bradford, Ipswich, Newbury and Rowley, MA.Stewart, Hugh. "https://secure" : "http://edge") + ".quantserve.com/quant.js"; The Great Migration of Puritans had ended, and the colonists badly needed workers. 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. Your history of Alexander Gordon is wrong. 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. That includessex trafficking, forced labor, debt bondage, domestic servitude or unlawful recruitment. Livingstone, John. 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. Your chances of success will be much better if you begin with some information about the person youre looking for. Archives, Open Government Licence Thanks to Search criminal registers for England and Wales (HO 26 and HO 27), 1791 to 1892, on Ancestry.co.uk (). In our book, thats slavery, whether temporary or not. He then moved to York, Maine, to an area where other Scots had settled. It gives orders for the transportation of Jacobite prisoners in Liverpool Castle to plantations in America and provides instructions for the care of sick prisoners, 29 February 1716 (SP 35/5/13). We place some essential cookies on your device to make this website work. Thomas, (LLNV), of Scarborough, MaineChisholm, Duncan. 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. Search the index to Tasmanian convicts (archives council of Tasmania) by name to see some digitised records, including conduct records, indents and descriptions. Note: Alexander Gorthing was purchased by Samuel Stratton of Waterown. This guide will help you find records of people sentenced to transportation. The ancestry proposed for David Hamilton, here treated, relies upon the pedigree published on the Phillips Family website. // Replace PAGE_URL with your page's canonical URL variable Oliver Wendell Holmes, the poet, was sixth in descent from him. By the 19th century, the Scots Charitable Society maintained the Scots Temporary Home in Boston and a burial plot in Mt. (CD), not much known about this James.Stewart, John. names, date and cause of banishment, name of the ship carrying him or her to the colonies, and date and place of arrival in the colonies. An incomplete list of Scots who were sent to New England in 1650 appeared in the Iron Works papers in 1653. Unfortunately, this type of DNA test is not useful for researching ancestors from the 1650s, or from colonial New England. Therefore we ask members of the project to supply the following: Enter your earliest known ancestors in the form Name + Key date (e.g.birth or marriage) + Place (origin if known, or residence). The names below are compiled from the following three lists: 1. 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. Two months after the battle, 150 Scottish POWs boarded the Unity and sailed to London, then to Charlestown, Mass. Transportation was not formally abolished until 1868, but it had been effectively stopped in 1857 and had become unusual well before that date. (IWI), of Lynn & Wenham, MA; Prob. /** window.onload = function(){document.getElementById("printbtn").style.visibility = "visible"}; (CD), residence unknownWilson, Robert. 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