John Barber was taxed at Dover 1659. The English then drove the Scottish POWs like cattle to London. The Y chromosomes of SPOWs can still be seen in their direct male line descendants today, and can identify a descendant. Finding all ten ships, listed together in one document, has been an illusive task until Hugh was fortunate enough to stumble upon a warrant, filed away for safekeeping On September 16Th, the secretary,Gualter Frost, was ordered to confer with the petitioners, to terms under which they would undertake the project. Bostonians viewed them with scorn and classed them with African-Americans and Indians. 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. They had three sons, one of which was Joseph who was a soldier at Crown Point in 1726. If you are descended from a SPOW, you are likely to be descended from other colonial Americans too, and so you cannot be sure whichcolonial ancestor you may have received a small segment from. (CD), of Dedham, MA, yDNA StudyMcShane, John. Others went to York as servants. Hi Admin , King Charles was born in Dunfermline , Fife , Scotland not Edinburgh . (CD)McDonald, Daniel. 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. (LLNV)Rose, Roger. 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. 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. 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. In 1662, Brown and Orr of Sacco Falls belonging to Winter Harbor, for himself and Henry Brown. (IWI), of Lynn and Braintree, MA; yDNA StudyMcCallum, John. They became most respected section of early settlers. Please keep this updated as you discover new information. 61 of the men did make it to the iron Works. 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 var d = document, s = d.createElement('script'); Daniel Blacke, who came over on the John and Sara, probably got sold to the son of the Rev. The usual period of transportation was 14 years for convicts receiving conditional pardons from death sentences or seven years for lesser offences. The Scottish people had largely sided with Cromwell, but they turned on Cromwell and declared Charles son king. 2B Jam "Two Brother" Capt Edward RATHBON, bound for Jamaica from Liverpool 26 April 1716 with 47 prisoners. For each person cited in this directory, some or all of the following information is provided: name, occupation, place of residence in Scotland, place of capture and captivity, parents? 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. In 1681, he received 20 lashes on his bare skin, by the court, for calling court officials "Divills and hell Hounds". The order was given to transport 900 of the healthiest prisoners to the American colonies in New England and Virginia to undertake compulsory indentured labour, for terms of around 5 years. After being captured, they were marched from Durham to Newcastle. The Scottish diaspora flowed in three streams: Lowland Scots, Highland Scots, and Ulster Scots. this.page.url = PAGE_URL; But the Y chromosome is very powerful for earlier ancestry because it changes very little as it is passed from father to son. Before 1776, all convicts sentenced to transportation were sent to North America and the West Indies. The Y chromosomes of SPOWs can still be seen in their direct male line descendants today, and can identify a descendant. They clashed at the short, brutal Battle of Dunbar. v3.0. Those who believe they may be descended from Scottish Civil War prisoners sent to other colonies e.g. The best practice is to leave your results in the project to accumulate matches over time. If you are out to educate people, being confrontational doesnt work. Daniel Livingston in 1694 was attacked by Indians. George Grey and wife Sarah Cooper had five children. (CD), of Cambridge, MAMcCoy, John. 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 John Bean wound up in the Exeter sawmill. 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. In was in court again for stricking and abusing fellow Dunbar Scosman, Alexander Mackanur, who was lame and in poor health. qacct:"p-a3iOnAvnvZ9sY" James Adams went with Giffard's acrt and team. Shelter is thought to be provided only for the sick. (CD), (J&S)MacMallen, John. (CD), of Charlestown, MA and Middletown, CT;yDNA StudyBravender/Braband/Brebner/Brabiner, Alexander. James mackall, John Mackshane, and Thomas Tower became forge hands under John Vinton, John Turner jr, , Henry Leonard and Quenten Prey. (CD), of Boston and Braintree, MAMason, John. They can include information aimed at establishing the convicts good character and proving them worthy of merciful treatment, often including details of their personal circumstances and family background. From 1615 to 1870, more than 200,000 criminals were conditionally pardoned, exiled, and transported to penal colonies. Also listed as Jacobite ships on this website are: I caught my first glimpse of ships a few years ago among the Maryland land records when I discovered that my wife's direct ancestor, William McPherson, arrived in Maryland in 1716 aboard the Goodspeed. The ship was ordered to depart on Nov 11, 1651, probably left in early December and arrived in New England sometime in early 1652. Cromwells army released thousands of sick and wounded Scotts, but marched the Scottish POWs like cattle to Durham, 100 miles away. (CD), John & Sarah, of Boston, MABow,Alexander. 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: (CD)Parsons/Palson, Thomas. If you feel you are not gaining much from your membership, please contact the administrators first and dont just leave! (J&S), Adams, James. Alexander Gordon died in Exeter in 1697, and his children had many descendants. Images: Saugus Iron Works By John Phelan Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16192079; Mt. 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. List of This is essential so that your matches and you can begin to work out who your shared ancestors may be. Names in prison, names on the embarkation list, names at debarkation and names from the Land records auction. 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? On 1 July 1706 he was killed by Indians. 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 Dorchester, and Rehoboth, MAGray,George. During the infamous death march some escaped, some were shot as a warning to the rest, some were set to work around Newcastle and many died of famine fever at Morpeth after eating cabbage raw from the fields. His widow Dorothy then married another Scotsman, Micuim Macintire, who bought land from Maxwell. In our book, thats slavery, whether temporary or not. Some of the Scots who came to Massachusetts Bay Colony worked at the iron works. There is a profound difference between indenture and slavery. 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. the original by clicking on this line. John Becx and Joshua Foote conferred with their partners, the Undertakers of the Iron Works. (CD), of York and Scarborough, MEClark,John. George S. StewartslistCaptured at Dunbar, (CD), While some of the names below are found on Dunbar lists they are actually POW on the John and Sara Passenger List, hence they are POW from the Battle of Worcester. The contemporary English judicial system was harsher than in Scotland, which explains why the Hanoverian government had the Jacobite prisoners taken south to England for trial. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the poet, was sixth in descent from him. 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. You may read a transcription of this warrant and view scans of * https://disqus.com/admin/universalcode/#configuration-variables of York. The head of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has refused to reveal who made the decision to send transgender double rapist Isla Bryson to a women's prison after a furious row over Nicola Sturgeon . 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. Such as were sick of scurvy or other diseases have not wanted physick and chyrurgery. Some of the Scottish POWs like David Hamilton survived Cromwells forces only to die at the hands of Indians. A similar list for the second fleet, which left in 1789 and suffered 278 deaths during its voyage, is included in The Second Fleet Convicts, compiled and edited by R J Ryan. 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. 1659 they removed to Newbury, in Byfield Parish, where they lived for 30 years. (LLNV)Patterson, Edward. 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