After another indian attack in 1711 he sold the Garrison to the Macintire Family. An incomplete list of Scots who were sent to New England in 1650 appeared in the Iron Works papers in 1653. William Furbush was in constant trouble for his outspoken comtempt of the English authority. In all, 639 of the those 1,301 were transported here. John Stewart was employed by John Giffard , as a servant, for a two year period, in his house, before being put out for blacksmithing. 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)Scollay, James. About 1600 died of dysentery, disease or starvation. Auburn Cemetery. The Puritan minister John Cotton defended the practice. 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. 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. He then moved to York, Maine, to an area where other Scots had settled. Transportation of prisoners. 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. And Who were the shared Scottish ancestors of the transported men and their modern Scottish relatives. 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. Nyven Agnew also called niven Agmeau and niven the Sct was taxed in Dover, in 1659. He was taken with other prisoners to the American Colonies. (CD), of Ipswich, MAForbes (alias Forbush),Daniel. New York Gov. (IWI)Thompson, William. 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. After the Battle of Worcester, the prisoners were marched to London and confined there for a few months on the artillery grounds at Tuthill fields, which were about a half mile from Westminster Palace. Of course that leaves me with an appetite for more. While this was going on, the Council had received several petitions from persons, who wished to transport the Scots overseas. Daneil Gill , age 81 and th e son of another Scotsman Junkins, were out fishing, when they were attacked and killed by Indians. (CD)Ross, Finlay/Fennel. John Becx and Joshua Foote conferred with their partners, the Undertakers of the Iron Works. Who were the shared Scottish ancestors of the transported men and their modern Scottish relatives. 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. (CD); yDNA StudyRankin, John. Micum McIntyre, the Scottish POW who ran for his life, worked in Cocheco Mills and then got a land grant in Kittery, Maine. The first goal of the project is to work on discovering more about the Unity and John and Sarah groups who reached New England. 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. In 1667 a seat was assigned for him at the Amsbury Church. 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. 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. Welcome to Geni, home of the world's largest family tree. Actually, yes we can, although there are big challenges in using this DNA type. 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. Archives, Open Government Licence There are tens of millions of slaves in the world today. (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. // IMPORTANT: Replace EXAMPLE with your forum shortname! James Adams went with Giffard's acrt and team. If you have new ones, alert the administrators so they can be invited to join the project. (IWI), of Lynn and Reading, MAUpton(Rubton), John. That includessex trafficking, forced labor, debt bondage, domestic servitude or unlawful recruitment. (IWI) 3. Most of the Scots were hired out to other employers and went to colliers. Among its early settlers were indentured royalist soldiers from Scotland. Later they lived in Rowley. He willed all his land and marshes to be used as the site for Scotish Church. Subscribe now for regular news, updates and priority booking for events.Sign up, All content is available under the Open Government Licence We can assume that it is accurate as it is 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. * https://disqus.com/admin/universalcode/#configuration-variables })(); (CD)Rose, Tormut. Others who have some evidence to support a possible connection to the Dunbar or Worcester prisoners. Zechariah Symmes, one of Charlestowns most prominent citizens. The American Revolution of 1776 meant that transportation to North America was no longer possible. Cooper's daughter Sarah married George Grey, another Scotsman. 1. They worked as woodcutters to supply the wood to make charcoal, or as forge hands, as blacksmiths, as miners and farmhands. The Scots were soldiers who were defeated in the English Civil War at the Battle of Dunbar in 1650. Some or all of the recommended publications below may be available to buy from The National Archives Bookshop. Much the same happened in 1715 and 1745. He was captured at the Battle of Dunbar in 1650 or Worchester in 1651. Bennett Senior changed the newspaper industry with such [], How Scottish POWS Were Sold as Slave Labor in New England, John Cotton defended the practice. About 275 Scottish POWs were sent to Boston about the John and Sara, where Thomas Kemble, a Charlestown merchant, took them on consignment. (IWI), of Lynn and Reading, MAWalter, Thomas. 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? Prisoners after Culloden View full image 00:00 00:00 List of rebel prisoners: with their rank and the number of witnesses against them, July 17 1746 (SP 54/32/41C). George S. Stewart's list, 35 Scots at Lynn 1653, Iron Works Inventory. 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. We must have money; a fathers debts are to be paid, an aged mother to be supported, a brothers ambition to be aided and so the factories are supplied. scpt.parentNode.insertBefore(elem, scpt); (CD), of Dover, NH and Saco, MEDill, Daniel. 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. (IWI)McWater, William. Transportation was not formally abolished until 1868, but it had been effectively stopped in 1857 and had become unusual well before that date. Frank S. Black traced his ancestry to the Scottish POW. (CD), of Boston, MAWilliamson, Duncan. 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. His wife's name was Sisey. * THE SECTION BELOW TO INSERT DYNAMIC VALUES FROM YOUR Again, many died of disease, starvation and exposure while the government debated what to do with them. Maxwell's Garrison survived. (function() { // REQUIRED CONFIGURATION VARIABLE: EDIT THE SHORTNAME BELOW In 1656, Thomas Kemble spent two hours in the stocks for kissing his wife on Sunday. Many small segments are ancient segments of DNA that become common in a community. (CD)Neill, Andrew. Biography Isla Bryson, 31, was found guilty on Jan. 24 of raping one woman in 2016 and . 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. 15 or 20 of the men went to Richard Leader for services at his Saw Mill , at Berwick, on the Pascataqua River,in Maine. Up to 300 more may have been sent to Virginia too, although shipping records have not survived. It was unfair, it was abusive, and it was misused, but they were never, ever, slaves. 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. 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. Although some returned to . Janice Farnsworth for sending (IWI), Braintree MA, Block Island RITower, Thomas. sites by using our customised search engine, Electric More than likely, many ended up deaf or at least hard of hearing because of the constant hammering . The lucky ones married the bosses daughters, won land grants and appeared on tax rolls. 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 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. David Hume, who came over on the John and Sara, settled in Dedham, Mass., where his name morphed into Holmes. 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. (CD), of Kittery, ME and Dover, NHFresell/Frizzell,James. From 1615 to 1870, more than 200,000 criminals were conditionally pardoned, exiled, and transported to penal colonies. 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. Seven of Valentine Hills Scottish POWs, for example, were listed as taxpayers in Dover, N.H., after their slavery ended. (CD), of Lynn, MAWilson, William. Dec, 26,1660 , he bought land from John Pearce of Yorke. (CD)Murray/Morrey, James. Indenture was not slavery. All content on these electronic pages may NOT be obtained by unacceptable means var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-249123-12"); 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. (CD) (J&S)Jameson,Andrew. Then he was moved to York, Maine, where he was killed on Sept. 28, 1691. (CD), of Oyster River and Great Island, NH; Kennebec, MEMiller, Games [James]. (d.head || d.body).appendChild(s); 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. If they can prove a SPOW descent, then that is your descent as well. Discovery is a catalogue of archival records across the UK and beyond, from which you can search 32 million records. (CD), of Charlestown, MAMimy (Meany), Robert. List of 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. Cromwell and his Puritan followers executed King Charles I in January 1649. (LLNV), 1662: Kittery, MaineBean,John. (CD), of Ipswich, Massachusetts.Ross, Thomas. were the Grant brothers, Peter and James. Ballintyne Wm Dunkell Perth 023 p FS 178 Bane Willm. elem.type = "text/javascript"; 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. comments powered by Disqus. Some of the Scots who came to Massachusetts Bay Colony worked at the iron works. Images: Saugus Iron Works By John Phelan Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16192079; Mt. Where to start. Smith : 5 Denis McIntyre: Still others were sold individually. He was received as an inhabitant of Exester 1678. Note: There was a Thomas Holmes / Hume listed as being sold to Henry Sayward of York for 30 Pounds. (LLNV), of Lynn, MACahoon,William. They are mainly from England and Wales but there are Scottish and some Irish cases and also courts martial from around the world. Alexander (Sander) Cooper settled near The Great Works with other Unity Scotsmen. (CD), of York and Scarborough, MEClark,John. (IWI), of Lynn, Salem and Marblehead, MADavison ye Scot. Robert Barber, son of John Barber sr. born Ansbury 1- March-1669/1670. Scots Charitable Society burial plot at Mt. display until the moderator has approved your comment. Every attempt has been made to ensure accuracy; please independently verify all data. (CD), of Barnstable, MACone, Daniel. You can find the entire family history of Duncan Stewart in Sprague Journal Maine History. The remainder were sold to local residents. For information about Alexander Gordon, we relied on A. J. Gordon: An Epic Journey of Faith and Pioneering Vision By Kevin Belmonte. He was to be sure that each load was of full measure. We place some essential cookies on your device to make this website work. the original by clicking on this line. Payment for medical care and medicine as well as food was needed. qacct:"p-a3iOnAvnvZ9sY" Scottish Emigration to Ireland [edit | edit source] Australia . 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. On Jan. 6, 1657, several Scottish POWs formed the Scots Charitable Society for the relief of Scotsmen, the oldest charity in the Western Hemisphere. (CD)Moore, Mathew. research. On September 16Th, the secretary,Gualter Frost, was ordered to confer with the petitioners, to terms under which they would undertake the project. (CD), 1659: Dover, NH; Maine, Believed to have died childless.Anderson,Archibald. 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 Sentences of transportation were still passed, with convicts held in prison while the government considered alternative destinations. Transcript Show entries. 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