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. Berry Tho. Ninety percent of them stayed in Maryland and Virginia. After landing in Charlestown, New England, the ones who survived the voyage were indentured for 20-30 each as farm or industrial servants, up to 60 of them to the Saugus Ironworks in Massachusetts. 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), (J&S), see John and Sara ListKidd/Skid, James. (CD), of Charlestown, MADaniel, Davey. colonial ancestor you may have received a small segment from. (IWI), of Lynn, MAEager,William. They clashed at the short, brutal Battle of Dunbar. If you do not know how to do this please contact the administrators for advice. This project will be of interest to people who have tested Y-DNA (for themselves or a family member) and who are, or believe you may be: The Battles of Dunbar (1650) and Worcester (1651). elem.src = (document.location.protocol == "https:" ? The remainder were sold to local residents. Alexander Maxwell, was at The Great Works in 1654 when relations between him and the English master turned violent. (LLNV)2. Micum McIntyre, the Scottish POW who ran for his life, worked in Cocheco Mills and then got a land grant in Kittery, Maine. // IMPORTANT: Replace EXAMPLE with your forum shortname! He was captured at the Battle of Dunbar in 1650 or Worchester in 1651. Just 3,000 survived to be ordered into their temporary prison of Durham Cathedral, where the dying from infection and fever continued. (IWI)Makiah, Daniel. Daniel Livingston in 1694 was attacked by Indians. 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. Grey paid his wife's fine " for breach of sabbath and for stricking of Patience Everinton". Sentences of transportation were still passed, with convicts held in prison while the government considered alternative destinations. They were as follows: The following settled in what is now Berwick, Maine: There is also an extensive list of Scot prisoners on the John and Sara which sailed from London 1651. While this was going on, the Council had received several petitions from persons, who wished to transport the Scots overseas. /* Recently I discovered that the record of his trial as a Rebel was available in the British Archives in London. Daniel was born in 1630 in Scotland, place and parents unknown. The less lucky Scottish POWs drifted to Boston when their slavery ended, destitute and without jobs. Husband of Lydia (Jenkins) Paul m https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Worcester#/media/File:Battle_of_Worcester.jpg. 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. (CD), of Exeter, ME; Dover, NH, yDNA Study, (Updating now, TR)MaGoon, John. or an account you already have with Google, Twitter, Frank S. Black traced his ancestry to the Scottish POW. Few of these contain any other biographical information, so further research usually involves legal records. Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown] (CD) (J&S)Jameson,Andrew. 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. 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. 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. (CD), possibly Hugh STEWARD/STUARD of Falmouth/Yarmouth and Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts?Stewart, James. (IWI), of Lynn, MAWarren, James. Havith Roxburgh 031 c WF 582 Barry Wm. (CD)Moore, Mathew. (CD), of Kittery, MEGrant/Graunt,James (2). Furbush was fined in N. H. for drinking with two Indians, named Henry and Richard. the original by clicking on this line. Born about 1635 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts John Touish had the job of taking stock of ore and making charcoal. The Scottish people had largely sided with Cromwell, but they turned on Cromwell and declared Charles son king. (CD)Ross, Finlay/Fennel. (IWI), yDNA Study, of Lynn and Springfield, MA.Stewart, William. (CD), of Dorchester and Sudbury, MAEmery, William. Daniel Salmon employed some of the Scots on his company farm., where they kept the community cattle. 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. 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. (CD), John & Sarah, of Boston, MABow,Alexander. pageTracker._trackPageview(); (CD) of Roxbury, MAFrizzell/Frissell, Alexander. Barnet William Kinedles Angus 056 p GS 229 Barry Thos. The Scottish Covenanters' army was heavily defeated by Cromwell at the Battle of Dunbar (3rd Sept 1650), and some 5,000 prisoners were marched south of the border by the Parliamentary army to Durham. The Scots Did have a bad time;however the Irish had a much Worse time. (CD), of Boston?, MABogle,Alexander. 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. Few ever returned home to Scotland. Many were sent to Berwick Maine after the demise of the Iron Works. The Y chromosomes of SPOWs can still be seen in their direct male line descendants today, and can identify a descendant. W SC "Wakefield" Capt Thomas BECK, bound for SC from Liverpool 21 April 1716 with 81 prisoners. 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. (LLNV), of Salem and Marblehead, MAForbes/Furbush/Farbush, Thomas. (CD)McDonald, Daniel. It is likely that most descendants will not have any detectable autosomal DNA from ancestors this far back in time. In America today there are many who believe themselves descendants of these men, and DNA will be used to explore family links between them. v3.0. */ Payment for medical care and medicine as well as food was needed. (IWI), 1653: Lynn, MA and New Haven, CTBank, John. Please dont leave the project if you think you have few results. (LLNV), of Lynn, MAElder/Elyer,Daniel. (CD), of New Haven, CT and Elizabeth, NJ.Ross, Gilchrist. 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? */ 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. SC 373 Ballintine Wm. Approximately 15 Scots worked there. Doesnt matter how we try to dress this up, it was definitely slavery. (CD), of Cambridge and Billerica, MassachusettsRoy, John. 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. s.setAttribute('data-timestamp', +new Date()); 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. (LLNV),Died enroute from Boston, MA.Denmark,Patrick. A horseman chased after him and wounded him, but spared his life. We place some essential cookies on your device to make this website work. In London, the English confined them outdoors on artillery fields. 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. 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. 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. Many Irish prisoners were sent to America, primarily to Virginia and Maryland, until 1775. Dunbar Prisoners, transported on the Unity (1650): B list: Probable (from the research of the Durham team, looking at the connections of these men to the known Scots communities in New England, who must have been resident in the mid-1650s when the indentures were ending, and were also not on the John and Sara list) - 65 names. The names below are compiled from the following three lists:1. qacct:"p-a3iOnAvnvZ9sY" var d = document, s = d.createElement('script'); }); Search just our 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. Across the sea, Oliver Cromwells new government had the costly and vexing task of managing thousands of Scottish POWs. As a young ma https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54698137/john-wattles#view-photo=157220557. (CD), of Boston, MABohannon/Buchanen,John. Thanks to The surviving Scots presented the English with a problem. Scots Charitable Society burial plot at Mt. Of course that leaves me with an appetite for more. Leader put the Scottish laborers to work sawing Maine white pine trees, needed for the British Navy. 5-6. and in Drake's work on the Founders of New England. The Scottish diaspora flowed in three streams: Lowland Scots, Highland Scots, and Ulster Scots. 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. 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. (CD), of South Berwick and Upper Eliot, MEFerguson/Fargison, John. The list also details where each person was tried. 1. Neither Nevin Agneau nor John Barry ever married. You may read a transcription of this warrant and view scans of 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 conditions in which Becx and Foote, took the Scots was a commercial venture . In the more than twenty-five years since Dr. David Dobson first endeavored to account for the individual Scots who took part in this forced emigration (1984)--the ancestors of thousands of Americans living today--he has established himself as the undisputed authority on Scottish emigration to the New World. It is possible that you could be looking at descent from a possible mother of a SPOW, if you think your genealogical research has identified her. About 275 Scottish POWs were sent to Boston about the John and Sara, where Thomas Kemble, a Charlestown merchant, took them on consignment. reproduced in whole or part in any format for presentation, distribution or profit by Note: Duncan Stewart was born in the highlands of Scotland about 1623. Blacke apparently left prison, married and had children. (LLNV), of Cambridge, MAWyer, Edward. John Stewart was employed by John Giffard , as a servant, for a two year period, in his house, before being put out for blacksmithing. (CD)Orr, James. 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. 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. 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. (CD)Sinclair, John. On 3 Sep 1650, the English defeated the Scots at the Battle of Dunbar. * PLATFORM OR CMS. 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. Biography Search the index to Tasmanian convicts (archives council of Tasmania) by name to see some digitised records, including conduct records, indents and descriptions. In 1662, Brown and Orr of Sacco Falls belonging to Winter Harbor, for himself and Henry Brown. try { The number at the Iron Works stayed at 28 until around August 28, 1652 , when there were as many as 37 there. the original by clicking on this line. Discovery is a catalogue of archival records across the UK and beyond, from which you can search 32 million records. To Mr Webster [Minister] In Edinr. One solution: deport them to New England, Virginia and Barbados. 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. (IWI) 3. (LLNV),Hampton, NHBurbean/Burbeen,John. Zechariah Symmes, one of Charlestowns most prominent citizens. On 1 July 1706 he was killed by Indians. His widow Dorothy then married another Scotsman, Micuim Macintire, who bought land from Maxwell. It was the last battle of the English Civil War. (CD)Stewart, Alexander. 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 was near Kitteryand York, Maine. Four separate lists straight from original documents recorded around the time of the voyages. 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.. Steve Carlson article on The Saugus iron Works. We can assume that it is accurate as it is 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. (IWI), 1653: Lynn, Carlisle, and Concord, MA; yDNA StudyAgnew, Niven. They associated with Robert Stewart and left everything to him. 6 July 1675 his wife Ann was taken to court for not frequenting the publique worship of God on the lord's day. display until the moderator has approved your comment. In our book, thats slavery, whether temporary or not. Assimilated to English ways, the Lowland Scots were primarily skilled tradesmen, farmers, and professionals pulled by greater economic opportunity in America. Many small segments are ancient segments of DNA that become common in a community. From 1788 to 1869, over forty thousand Irish prisoners were sent to Australia. (CD),McLachlan, Robert. (CD)Morey, Walter. (CD), of Charlestown, MAMimy (Meany), Robert. Most of the Scots were hired out to other employers and went to colliers. Add a pedigree (GEDCOM) to your FTDNA account. Between 1650 and 1775, many thousands of Scots were banished to the American colonies for political, religious, or criminal offenses. Descendants of the Scottish POWs from the Battles of Dunbar and Worcester have a web site. (CD), of Taunton, MA, and Block Island, RI;yDNA StudyCanade/Kennedy. 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. * RECOMMENDED CONFIGURATION VARIABLES: EDIT AND UNCOMMENT Facebook or Yahoo. var elem = document.createElement('script'); "https://secure" : "http://edge") + ".quantserve.com/quant.js"; this.page.identifier = PAGE_IDENTIFIER; The exact number of Scots banished to the Americas may never be known because records are not comprehensive; moreover, some Scottish felons sentenced in England were shipped from English ports. William Furbush was in constant trouble for his outspoken comtempt of the English authority. There are tens of millions of slaves in the world today. elem.type = "text/javascript"; 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. Scots prisoners sent to New England around 1651 Neither married. Moreover, from the 1650s to 1830, when it became illegal, banishment and transportation to the colonies was a traditional punishment for certain serious?but over time petty?crimes, thereby contributing even further to the Scottish population of colonial America. (CD)Purdie, John. Among its early settlers were indentured royalist soldiers from Scotland. George S. Stewarts list, 35 Scots at Lynn 1653, Iron Works Inventory. Every attempt has been made to ensure accuracy; please independently verify all data. Archives, Open Government Licence His widow married another Scotchman, Micuim Mc Intyre. 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. James Adams went with Giffard's acrt and team. Note: Alexander Gorthing was purchased by Samuel Stratton of Waterown. Many of those deported were later pardoned on the condition that . (CD), of South Berwick and York, ME; yDNA StudyMerrow, Henry. 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). which include use of any spider, robot, retrieval application or any device From 1615 to 1870, more than 200,000 criminals were conditionally pardoned, exiled, and transported to penal colonies. 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. 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 } catch(err) {}. (IWI), of Lynn, MAGowen (alias Smith),William. 4. 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. 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. 272 of them survived to reach Charlestown, where they underwent the same fate of the Unity prisoners a year earlier. Bostonians viewed them with scorn and classed them with African-Americans and Indians. Indenture was not slavery. // Replace PAGE_URL with your page's canonical URL variable (IWI), 1653: Lynn, MABurgess, Robert. Ballintyne Wm Dunkell Perth 023 p FS 178 Bane Willm. Daniel Blacke, who came over on the John and Sara, probably got sold to the son of the Rev. (CD)Gordon,James. You can find the entire family history of Duncan Stewart in Sprague Journal Maine History. (Steve is a fellow member of the Saugus Historical Soc. (CD), of Lynn, MAWilson, William. Few records of these individuals survive, though legal records from this period may contain useful information. In 1681, he received 20 lashes on his bare skin, by the court, for calling court officials "Divills and hell Hounds". Most of the Scots stayed at The Scot Boardman's house in what is now the Oaklandvale area of Saugus. Many perished of hunger or disease on the march, though some escaped. Shelter is thought to be provided only for the sick. FTDNA sells a popular mtDNA full sequence test. 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. 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. That includessex trafficking, forced labor, debt bondage, domestic servitude or unlawful recruitment. (CD), of South Berwick, ME:yDNA StudyCorser,Hercules. (CD), not much known about this James.Stewart, John. 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. (CD), of Lynn, MAMcKay, Daniel. In 1654 he married Ann Winchurst of Ipswich. Leslie, I agree with your view on indenture. 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 Dover NH, Kittery ME;yDNA StudyToish, John. 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. He married John Pearce's daughter . (CD), of Cambridge and Malden, MAEaton,Alexander. Contact details can be found using find an archive. You can often find: HO 10 contains material about convicts pardons and tickets of leave from New South Wales and Tasmania, 1834-59. We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. It's corect. John Curmuckhell, also called Carnicle, came on the John and Sara. (LLNV), of Lynn, MACahoon,William. Trevor Schakohl on February 28, 2023. For this kind of project, the genealogical information you provide is as important as the DNA you test. The National Archives holds records of many criminal trials and convictions as well as convict voyages, censuses and pardons and this guide explains how these are indexed and how they can be searched. He was taken with other prisoners to the American Colonies. If you want to comment that its racist to call white indentured servants slaves, we suggest a better use of your time would be to help one of the many anti-slavery organizations in the world today. 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?
