Descendants of the Scottish POWs from the Battles of Dunbar and Worcester have a web site. Hamilton came over on the John and Sara and got sold to a saw mill owner in Southern New Hampshire. Each and every Dunbar and Worcester prisoner who made it to New England and survived their indenture was then free to create their own liveslives that were in almost every case better than they could possibly have had in Scotland. Few ever returned home to Scotland. (CD) 1654: Exeter, NH, see John Beme on the John & Sara listBennett,John. By October 23rd, the council was ordered to stop the project until is was confirmed that the Scots were not being sent anywhere where they could be dangerous. Leslie, I agree with your view on indenture. The names below are compiled from the following three lists:1. (IWI), of Lynn, MAMoody, Ingraham. Even if you think you share some DNA with someone else who is also descended from a SPOW, the segments will be extremely small, and cannot be used to make a definitive case. Augustine Walker, the ship's master who had settled in Charlestown,1640, had , which was where the Unity had been built,by shipwright, Benjamin Gilman,weighed anchor more than likely right away, after receiving his orders.The trip from London to Boston, which normally took six weeks and was mostly likely unpleasant. John Barber Jr, son of above John Barber, married Ann Smart, daughter of Robert Smart, in 1696 They lived at Hilton's MIlls Grant In 1725 he had a land grant of 69 acres. (CD), (J&S), see John and Sara ListKidd/Skid, James. James mackall, John Mackshane, and Thomas Tower became forge hands under John Vinton, John Turner jr, , Henry Leonard and Quenten Prey. On Jan. 6, 1657, several Scottish POWs formed the Scots Charitable Society for the relief of Scotsmen, the oldest charity in the Western Hemisphere. They were as follows: A few years later, a small group of Scots were brought to Scotland, Maine. 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. It was reported he stayed in Canada and converted to Catholicism. (CD), of Dedham, MA, yDNA StudyMcShane, John. William Furbush was in constant trouble for his outspoken comtempt of the English authority. In 1662, Brown and Orr of Sacco Falls belonging to Winter Harbor, for himself and Henry Brown. var _qevents = _qevents || []; Unfortunately, this type of DNA test is not useful for researching ancestors from the 1650s, or from colonial New England. (CD), of Ipswich, MAForbes (alias Forbush),Daniel. . (IWI), of Lynn, MAJunkins,Robert. John Bean wound up in the Exeter sawmill. Founder of Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild (CD), of Charlestown and Woburn MABurges, Alexander. Trevor Schakohl on February 28, 2023. Cromwells army released thousands of sick and wounded Scotts, but marched the Scottish POWs like cattle to Durham, 100 miles away. Archives, Open Government Licence They arrived in Boston in December. I suggest you refer to the records of NEHGS, where in the 1860s Recording Secretary George Augustus Gordon reports Alexander won his freedom in court. A Common Man's Survival After Being Captured at the Battle of Dunbar and Sold into Servitude in America In the winter of 1650-51, one hundred fifty ragged and hungry Scottish prisoners of war arrived at Massachusetts Bay Colony, where they were sold as indentured laborers for 20 to 30 pounds each. colonial ancestor you may have received a small segment from. Slavery is forever. 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. Micum McIntyre, the Scottish POW who ran for his life, worked in Cocheco Mills and then got a land grant in Kittery, Maine. elem.src = (document.location.protocol == "https:" ? (LLNV), of York, MEDouglas/McDougall, Alexander. Gen. Soc of Boston. (CD)McCallum, Malcolm. Mc Kay, Mc Key ), Macky Sander ( makie, Mackie, Maki, Mc kay, Mc Key ), Mack Farson Origlais ( Mc Farson, Mc Phearson ). The lucky ones married the bosses daughters, won land grants and appeared on tax rolls. Across the sea, Oliver Cromwells new government had the costly and vexing task of managing thousands of Scottish POWs. Barnet William Kinedles Angus 056 p GS 229 Barry Thos. Note: There was a Thomas Holmes / Hume listed as being sold to Henry Sayward of York for 30 Pounds. Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775, Rezensionen werden nicht berprft, Google sucht jedoch gezielt nach geflschten Inhalten und entfernt diese. Many of those deported were later pardoned on the condition that . The Scottish people had largely sided with Cromwell, but they turned on Cromwell and declared Charles son king. Slavery involves ownership of the entire person (often not considered as such) as property. Again, many were ordered for transportation and on 8th November 1651, the John and Sarah took sail with around 300 Scottish prisoners on board. They are as follows: Aside from the Scot prisoners, there were other Scots, who also arrived on The Unity. In our book, thats slavery, whether temporary or not. (CD)Parsons/Palson, Thomas. Please dont leave the project if you think you have few results. (CD), (J&S)MacMallen, John. Note: We deliberately chose the words slave, slavery and slave labor because we view any kind of forced labor as slavery. 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. If you have new ones, alert the administrators so they can be invited to join the project. 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. John Curmuckhell died not long after. elem.type = "text/javascript"; (LLNV), of Lynn, MACahoon,William. 1 August 2007. Bonded Passengers to America, also by Peter Wilson Coldham, gives a detailed overview of all relevant records and published sources in The National Archives. Recently I discovered that the record of his trial as a Rebel was available in the British Archives in London. They worked as woodcutters to supply the wood to make charcoal, or as forge hands, as blacksmiths, as miners and farmhands. In America today there are many who believe themselves descendants of these men, and DNA will be used to explore family links between them. (CD) of Roxbury, MAFrizzell/Frissell, Alexander. (CD), of Upper Kittery, ME;yDNA Study (updates in progress 24 Feb 20)Gregory, John. 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. [], [] of Kittery, considered too poor and low to ever form a town. s.setAttribute('data-timestamp', +new Date()); (CD)McDonald, Daniel. (CD),McLeod, John. (CD), of Braintree, MAFrizzell/Frissell, John (2). If you have managed to do this, you are welcome to share that outcome with this Project. Between 1650 and 1775, many thousands of Scots were banished to the American colonies for political, religious, or criminal offenses. (CD)Purdie, John. (CD), of Bradford, Ipswich, Newbury and Rowley, MA.Stewart, Hugh. 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 (CD), of Dover, NH and Saco, MEDill, Daniel. [] 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. Indentured servants had rights, and had an agreed end to the terms, Slaves did not. 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. 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. June 3, 1675 Henry Brown and James Orr , Scotchmen, residents of Wells bought 200 acres from Henry Sayward, at Moresome. More than likely, many ended up deaf or at least hard of hearing because of the constant hammering . // Replace PAGE_URL with your page's canonical URL variable These men were captured at the battle of Worcester. Some of the Scottish POWs were sold individually as servants. Yes, indenture WAS slavery. Maxwell, eventually became a well-to-do taven Keeper. (CD), of Dorchester and Sudbury, MAEmery, William. In 1698 he had a grant of land, 50 acres,in Eastern Massachusetts. (CD), of South Berwick and York, ME; yDNA StudyMerrow, Henry. Steve Carlson article on The Saugus iron Works. All comments are moderated so they won't Auburn Cemetery. var d = document, s = d.createElement('script'); All this means that this Project is a Y DNA project, and we cannot use autosomal DNA (but you can use it to prove relationship to a proven Y line SPOW descendant). (CD), 1661: Lynn, MA; Believed to have died childless.Archibald, John. 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. 09.02.2023. Biography Zechariah Symmes, one of Charlestowns most prominent citizens. (function() { George S. Stewart's list Captured at Dunbar, (CD) (CD), of Roxbury and Boston, MALadle/Luddle, James. (LLNV)Rose, Roger. ( 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. 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 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. Scotland.4 The designation of Scots-Irish (for those of Scottish heritage living in Ireland) did not exist until the era of Britain's Jacobean kings in the early 1600s, when James VI/I (1603-1625), the Stuart king-made-heir to Elizabeth I's throne, instituted the voluntary John Curmuckhell, also called Carnicle, came on the John and Sara. })(); In 1667 a seat was assigned for him at the Amsbury Church. 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. Lissen then welcomed two other Scots into the family. /* 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. * (CD), of Woburn and Reading, MAMiddleton, James. Few of these contain any other biographical information, so further research usually involves legal records. var elem = document.createElement('script'); (LLNV) 2. comments powered by Disqus. Is this freedom? reproduced in whole or part in any format for presentation, distribution or profit by In 1681 a surprise attact by Indians distroyed most of the dwellings.in the area. (CD), of South Berwick, ME:yDNA StudyCorser,Hercules. 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. You can often find: HO 10 contains material about convicts pardons and tickets of leave from New South Wales and Tasmania, 1834-59. the whip which brings us to Lowell is necessity. Bostonians viewed them with scorn and classed them with African-Americans and Indians. Smith : 5 Denis McIntyre: After 1776, all criminal transportation was to modern-day Australia, specifically New South Wales and Van Diemens Land (modern-day Tasmania). He then moved to York, Maine, to an area where other Scots had settled. Subscribe now for regular news, updates and priority booking for events.Sign up, All content is available under the Open Government Licence This comment system He was to be sure that each load was of full measure. 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. 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