Leader put the Scottish laborers to work sawing Maine white pine trees, needed for the British Navy. 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. Facebook or Yahoo. In 1654 he married Ann Winchurst of Ipswich. (CD), of Cambridge and Marlborough, MAForbes, James. Spurious Pedigree He and his wife Rebecca often refused to attend church on the Sabbath. Mc Kay, Mc Key ), Macky Sander ( makie, Mackie, Maki, Mc kay, Mc Key ), Mack Farson Origlais ( Mc Farson, Mc Phearson ). 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 FIRST GENERATION IN THE NEW WORLD 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. Cromwells army released thousands of sick and wounded Scotts, but marched the Scottish POWs like cattle to Durham, 100 miles away. Whenever I raise the point that it is immoral to shut us up in a room twelve hours a day in the most monotonous and tedious employment I am told that we have come to the mills voluntarily and we can leave when we will. * PLATFORM OR CMS. 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: Zechariah Symmes, one of Charlestowns most prominent citizens. Many were sent to Berwick Maine after the demise of the Iron Works. (CD)McPherson, Angus. 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. British Convicts In American Colonies. (IWI), 1653: Lynn, MABurgess, Robert. There is a profound difference between indenture and slavery. (IWI), 1653: Lynn, Carlisle, and Concord, MA; yDNA StudyAgnew, Niven. The best practice is to leave your results in the project to accumulate matches over time. (IWI), yDNA Study, of Lynn and Springfield, MA.Stewart, William. A sawmill owner in Exeter, N.H., named Nicholas Lissen bought him and six other Scottish POWs. (function() { // REQUIRED CONFIGURATION VARIABLE: EDIT THE SHORTNAME BELOW James mackall, John Mackshane, and Thomas Tower became forge hands under John Vinton, John Turner jr, , Henry Leonard and Quenten Prey. The number at the Iron Works stayed at 28 until around August 28, 1652 , when there were as many as 37 there. 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. 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. 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. var _qevents = _qevents || []; until Hugh was fortunate enough to stumble upon a warrant, filed away for safekeeping (CD), of Taunton, MA, and Block Island, RI;yDNA StudyCanade/Kennedy. (LLNV)Rose, Roger. James Taylor (b c 1630 - d 27 October 1703) from the Scottish Prisoners of War Society The infusion of Scottish blood into the New England and Virginian population was to provide the United States with a very rich genetic base for their further development. 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 . 1671 he had a grant of upland, at York Bridge. If you are descended from a SPOW, you are likely to be descended from other colonial Americans too, and so you cannot be sure. The English then drove the Scottish POWs like cattle to London. "https://secure" : "http://edge") + ".quantserve.com/quant.js"; 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 Boston, MABohannon/Buchanen,John. The English had them buried in mass graves, only recently discovered. Bryson, who was formerly called Adam Graham, was initially assigned to Cornton Vale, the one women-only prison in Scotland, after a trial at the High Court in Glasgow. (LLNV), of York, ME. They went with an Englishman named Richard Leader, who got hold of an abandoned mill. (CD), (J&S)McLeod, Mordicai. (IWI), of Lynn & Wenham, MA; Prob. (LLNV),Died enroute from Boston, MA.Denmark,Patrick. (CD)Neill, Andrew. We also remembered the 2000 Scottish prisoners who were sent as forced labour to North America in 1652. In The History of Durham, N.H. several mini profiles of several of the Scot Prisoners have been recorded. Those who believe they may be descended from Scottish Civil War prisoners sent to other colonies e.g. Another 25 Scottish POWs were taken to the Newichwannock River, now the Salmon Falls River in Berwick, Maine. (CD)Purdie, John. Daniel Livingston in 1694 was attacked by Indians. (CD), of Dedham, MA, yDNA StudyMcShane, John. These men were captured at the battle of Worcester. Again, many died of disease, starvation and exposure while the government debated what to do with them. The Iron Works at that time covered over 600 acres, from what is now Saugus Center to Walnut street up towards what is now North Saugus, almost out to where Route one is now and over as far as Lynn Commons. 5-6. and in Drake's work on the Founders of New England. var scpt = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; The Scottish POWs were all still of marriageable age when freed from bondage, and many did marry. (CD), John & Sarah, of Boston, MABow,Alexander. He then moved to York, Maine, to an area where other Scots had settled. 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. We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. He had no children. They had three sons, one of which was Joseph who was a soldier at Crown Point in 1726. Just 3,000 survived to be ordered into their temporary prison of Durham Cathedral, where the dying from infection and fever continued. It was unfair, it was abusive, and it was misused, but they were never, ever, slaves. Daneil Gill , age 81 and th e son of another Scotsman Junkins, were out fishing, when they were attacked and killed by Indians. Isla Bryson, who transitioned from a man to a woman while awaiting trial for raping two women in 2016 and 2019, was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in prison in Scotland. (IWI), of Lynn and Braintree, MA; yDNA StudyMcCallum, John. a bill requesting payment from the King for transporting the prisoners on the ten ships. (LLNV), of Hartford and Haddam, CTCoombs/Comby, Allister,(LLNV), of York, ME, and Portsmouth, NHCooper,Alexander. But the Y chromosome is very powerful for earlier ancestry because it changes very little as it is passed from father to son. On 1 July 1706 he was killed by Indians. More than likely, many ended up deaf or at least hard of hearing because of the constant hammering . Unfortunately, this type of DNA test is not useful for researching ancestors from the 1650s, or from colonial New England. 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. In 1662, Brown and Orr of Sacco Falls belonging to Winter Harbor, for himself and Henry Brown. Again he was fined in Maine for selling liquor to Indians and getting them drunk. His widow Dorothy then married another Scotsman, Micuim Macintire, who bought land from Maxwell. 62 went to John Giffard, the agent for the Undertakers of The Iron Works of Lynn (Saugus). Alexander Maxwell, was at The Great Works in 1654 when relations between him and the English master turned violent. If they can prove a SPOW descent, then that is your descent as well. All comments are moderated so they won't Hi Admin , King Charles was born in Dunfermline , Fife , Scotland not Edinburgh . (IWI), of Oyster River, NH and Kittery, ME; yDNA StudyGrant, Thomas, (1). John Bean wound up in the Exeter sawmill. This guide will help you find records of people sentenced to transportation. 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. His slavery did end, however, and he married the bosss daughter, Mary Lissen. The men worked long hours, 12-hour shifts. 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 (IWI) 3. anyone without the express written consent of the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild LLC. (IWI), of Lynn and Boston, MAJordan,William. (IWI), of Lynn and Boston, MAMaxey/Macxy/Maxsy/Maxy, Alexander. (IWI), of Lynn, MAEager,William. Cooper's daughter Sarah married George Grey, another Scotsman. A list is available through the Findmypast () search page, though not all the documents mentioned are available online. Among the men who were sent to the sawmills of Berwick along with other workers from the Iron Work. I know it looks funny but as we all know that's how they wrote things back then, "London This 11th of November , 1651; Captain Jojn Greene; "Wee whose names are under written frighters of your shipe the Joh and Sara doe order yow forthwith as winde & weather shall permitt to sett sajle for Boston in New England $ there deliver our Orders and Servants to Tho kemble of charles Towne to be disposed of by him according to orders wee have sent him in the behalfe & wee desire yow to Advise with the said Kemble about all that may be concerne that whole Intended bojage using you Jndeavo's with the said Kemble for the speediest lading your shipp from New Eng, to the barbadoes with porvisions $ such other things as are in N.E. Many small segments are ancient segments of DNA that become common in a community. They, along with Edward Errin, bought in 1662, a farm at Bradboate harbor in Pischalaq River at Wadering Place, with 59 acres upland. (CD), of York and Scarborough, MEClark,John. (d.head || d.body).appendChild(s); Henry Magoon married Elizabeth Lissen in 1661 and Alexander Gordon then married Mary, the youngest of lessin's daughters, in 1664. * LEARN WHY DEFINING THESE VARIABLES IS IMPORTANT: 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. 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. 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. 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), of Lynn, MAWilson, William. (CD), of Kittery, MEGrant/Graunt,James (2). (CD), not much known about this James.Stewart, John. Firstly, this era is generally something between 8 to 13 generations back in time for today's family history researchers. (CD), of Charlestown, MA and Middletown, CT;yDNA StudyBravender/Braband/Brebner/Brabiner, Alexander. Dr. Andrew Millard's list in, Lost Live, New Voices. 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. Kemble sold others in Exeter, N.H., and in Durham, where he partnered with Valentine Hill. Subscribe now for regular news, updates and priority booking for events.Sign up, All content is available under the Open Government Licence along with me). sites by using our customised search engine, Electric 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. The shipmaster, Augustine Walker, paid five pounds for each man and sold them for 20 to 30 pounds. research. They associated with Robert Stewart and left everything to him. 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. Biography Before 1776, all convicts sentenced to transportation were sent to North America and the West Indies. After being captured, they were marched from Durham to Newcastle. Transportation was not formally abolished until 1868, but it had been effectively stopped in 1857 and had become unusual well before that date. His was one of several Scottish names that began appearing on . s.setAttribute('data-timestamp', +new Date()); 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. /* (CD), of Braintree, MAFrizzell/Frissell, John (2). A list of them can be found here. On June 23, 1759, at the age of 83, his wife gave her deposition. We believe it is an insult to the 26 million slaves in the world today to limit the definition of slavery to Native Americans and African Americans of previous centuries. Carrying the label Jacobite Rebel he was sold into seven years indenture-ship and so became a piece of real property. About 1600 died of dysentery, disease or starvation. qacct:"p-a3iOnAvnvZ9sY" (CD); yDNA StudyRankin, John. (CD), of Dover, NH and Saco, MEDill, Daniel. There were 150 Scots who were were sent to New England on The Unity and arrived at Lynn, Ma. (LLNV), of Newton, MAMcDonald, Dennis. })(); (LLNV)Thompson, George. Following the English Civil War, Cromwell transported thousands of Scots soldiers to Virginia, New England and the West Indies. 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. Finding all ten ships, listed together in one document, has been an illusive task The names below are compiled from the following three lists:1. (CD), of Boston and Braintree, MAMason, John. 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. A list of the passengers of the John and Sara is given in the Suffolk Deed Records, book 1. pp. Applications are known as petitions, and may have been made by friends, relatives or other associates on behalf of the convict. 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. Hamilton came over on the John and Sara and got sold to a saw mill owner in Southern New Hampshire. (IWI), 1653: Lynn, MA and New Haven, CTBank, John. with Disqus. Alexander Gordon, for example, agreed to seven years of slavery under Samuel Stratton of Watertown. He landed in Ipswich ,Mass, where he was an indentured servent . Across the sea, Oliver Cromwells new government had the costly and vexing task of managing thousands of Scottish POWs. 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. Indenture is ownership of the labor of a person, usually in the form of payment of a debt, and, as the article above indicates, almost always under written contract. 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. He was taken with other prisoners to the American Colonies. Scotland's Classified Directory, http://www.rootsweb.com/~mecanaan/early.htm. He willed all his land and marshes to be used as the site for Scotish Church. (CD)Scollay, James. 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. The less lucky Scottish POWs drifted to Boston when their slavery ended, destitute and without jobs. What a scoop. In the event you don't have an account If you have new ones, alert the administrators so they can be invited to join the project. While this was going on, the Council had received several petitions from persons, who wished to transport the Scots overseas. In 1698 he had a grant of land, 50 acres,in Eastern Massachusetts. The usual period of transportation was 14 years for convicts receiving conditional pardons from death sentences or seven years for lesser offences. Where to start. (CD), of Woburn MAMacDonald/Mackdaniel/Mackneile/Daniel. Some of the Scottish POWs were sold individually as servants. 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. Note: We deliberately chose the words slave, slavery and slave labor because we view any kind of forced labor as slavery. Alternatively, search our library catalogue to see which are available to consult in the reading rooms. Slavery involves ownership of the entire person (often not considered as such) as property. You can find the entire family history of Duncan Stewart in Sprague Journal Maine History. 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. Seven of Valentine Hills Scottish POWs, for example, were listed as taxpayers in Dover, N.H., after their slavery ended. (LLNV)Patterson, Edward. (CD), (J&S), see John and Sara ListKidd/Skid, James. Neither Nevin Agneau nor John Barry ever married. comments powered by Disqus. 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. Leslie, I agree with your view on indenture. They are as follows: Aside from the Scot prisoners, there were other Scots, who also arrived on The Unity. 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 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. Geni requires JavaScript! Although the indenture lasted anywhere between five and seven years, in some cases any infraction of the rules could result in additional time being added to the contract. (CD)Gordon,James. Discovery is a catalogue of archival records across the UK and beyond, from which you can search 32 million records. (CD)Power, Walter. (CD), of Ipswich, MAForbes (alias Forbush),Daniel. (CD), 1659: Dover, NH; Maine, Believed to have died childless.Anderson,Archibald. (LLNV), of York, MEInnes,Alexander. (CD), of York, MEGrant/Graunt, James (3) the Drummer, (LLNV), of Dover, NH; York, ME.Grant/Graunt, James (4). 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. 1635) (LLNV), of Dover, NHHolmes/Holme/Homes/Hume, Thomas. 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. Unfortunately, this type of DNA test is not useful for researching ancestors from the 1650s, or from colonial New England. Maxwell, eventually became a well-to-do taven Keeper. 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. })(); Many of those captured Scots were sent to the American colonies. This is essential so that your matches and you can begin to work out who your shared ancestors may be. (CD), of Oyster River, NHNeal, John. (CD), 1661: Lynn, MA; Believed to have died childless.Archibald, John. As the descendant of at least two Dunbar prisoners, I strenuously object to confusing indenture with slavery out of emotion and ignorance, or for dramatic effect. Still others were sold individually. Long afterwards it was called Scotchman's Neck. From 1788 to 1869, over forty thousand Irish prisoners were sent to Australia. 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. His wife's name was Sisey. It is likely that most descendants will not have any detectable autosomal DNA from ancestors this far back in time. (CD), of Dorchester, and Rehoboth, MAGray,George. Search the index to Tasmanian convicts (archives council of Tasmania) by name to see some digitised records, including conduct records, indents and descriptions. ], they lived in Oyster River. 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. The Saugus Iron Works is now a national historic site. unmarried and childless.Brown,Henry. Of course that leaves me with an appetite for more. 1659 they removed to Newbury, in Byfield Parish, where they lived for 30 years. 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. 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. [] Just came through on my FB feed thought it might be of interest: How Scottish POWS Were Sold as Slave Labor in New England New England Historical Society []. Virginia, Bermuda, Barbados are encouraged to contact the administrators. They were given very little to eat. Before 1775, more than 50,000 prisoners were sent to Americaprimarily to . (CD), of Cambridge and Billerica, MassachusettsRoy, John. He then sold another forty men as general laborers and set up a trade of Linen Cloth, twelve prisoners became weavers. - Historum - History Forums, Not Everyone in Salem was a Puritan | Letter from Hardscrabble Creek, The Rise and Fall of Kumbaya - and of the Man Who Discovered the Song - New England Historical Society, Sarah Bagley Avenges the New England Mill Girls - New England Historical Society, The First Town Meeting Still Going in Six States - New England Historical Society, Gordon Bennett, the Madcap, Scandal-Mongering Publisher Who Built the Newport Casino - New England Historical Society. 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. 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. George S. Stewart's list, 35 Scots at Lynn 1653, Iron Works Inventory. Again, many were ordered for transportation - and on 8 th November 1651, the John and Sarah took sail with around 300 Scottish prisoners on board. Please keep this updated as you discover new information. var d = document, s = d.createElement('script'); The Great Migration of Puritans had ended, and the colonists badly needed workers. 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. Shelter is thought to be provided only for the sick. Shelter is thought to be provided only for the sick he had a grant of,... 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