English Civil War and Scottish Prisoners

"Scotch [sic] Prisoners to Massachusetts, 1652, by Order of the English Government"

The following from Governor Hutchinson's Collection of Original Papers ...

Extract from a Letter written by Rev John Cotton to Lord General Cromwell, dated at "Boston in NE 28. of 5th 1651," respecting some prioners of the same class of persons included in the above list sent over before these arrived. They all probably were taken at the battle of Dunbar [Dunbarre], Sept. 3 1650, wehn Cromwell was victorious and four thousand were slain and ten thousand made prisoners.

The Scots whom God delivered to your hands at Dunbarre, and whereof sundry were sent hither, we have been desirous (as we could) to make their yoke easy. Such as were sick of the scurvy or other diseases have not wanted physick and chyrurgery. They have not been so for slaves to perpetual servitude, but for 6 or 7 or 8 yeares, as we do our owne; and he tat bougt the most of them (I heare) buildeth houses for them, for every four an house , layeth some acres of ground thereto, which he giveth them as their owne, requiring 3 dayes in the weeke to work for him (by turnes) and 4 dayes for themselves, and promiset as soone as they can repay him the money , he layed out for them, he will set them at liberty."

Accompanying list of passengers aboard the John and Sarah of London John Greene mr bound for New Englan[d].

London this 11 : of Nouember 1651:
Mr. THO:KEMBLE
Wee whose names are vnder written , freighters of the shipp John & Sara whereof is Comander John Greene Doe COnsigne the said shipp & servants to be disposed of by yow for our best advantage & account the whole proceed of the Servants and vojage retourne in th a jounct stocke without any Division in such goods as you conceive will turne best to accott [sic] in the Barbadoes & consigne them to MrCharles Rich .... [consignment noted May 3 1652] ..among them John Scott, John Macklude, Henry Mack

Among passengers in Aprilis 1635; a transport from Faulcon de London to the Barbadoes The Irish Minister .. etc is one Irish "John Scott".

Scotch-Irish & Stuart themes interplayed in Boston March 17, 1776 - celebrated as Evacuation Day - when Gen'l Washington waited the day of the 16th to the next to unveil the cannon against the British Fleet at Dorchester Heights and force the British Naval withdrawal from Boston.
Though Washington also served faithfully, a constitution and a balanced legislative power. [We're checking .. but we're sure he slept at Limerick .. he got at least as far north as Bucksport.]
The William Durgin of Ipswich and Portsmouth New Hampshire sailed to and from Barbadoes and the WI, c. 1630-60 .. and Massachusetts Bay Colony, then was the most Cromwellian Colony in North America. [Ipswich famous today for 'fried clams' is north of Boston between Portsmouth, NH and near Salem.]

An ancestral John Scott of Maine connection joins that history to deportations of prisoners like this one .. a John Scott is amng them also in other 'transport' lists with new allegiances sworn in the 1651 era. A famous 'John Scott' was also son of James Scott -Duke of Monmouth, who also opposed Parliament, lost a battle at Bothwell Bridge, and was beaded. He was son by a mistress, of King Charles II. Two other John's Scott also settled western Massachusetts -Springfield Plantations in the period 1630-90.
After William & Mary, Britain tasted the Stuarts once again with Queen Anne -who had no children - and was thus acceptable. On her death, Parliament assertive [Act of Succession -requiring a Protestant monarch acceptable to Parliament] again denied the Stuart succession, and selected the Elector of Hanover, who became King George I -- who speaking little English, became a perfectly balanced monarch for an English Parliament.
many more Scottish lost fortunes and lands in rebellio again for James V and 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' 'the Spirit of 1745" [just like the Drambuie bottle].

The Georgian period also brough an appreciation of early expanded German imigration -- but those are myMay ancestors in the first third of the 19th century; afer the early Germans from Hesse (including some US Revolutionary War prisoners).
By 1775, a new America would rebel and make its independence. Limerick, Maine was settled from a Sokoki Indian training camp on the Saco River in 1775 [safe name now] and a Cap't'n John Scott would be mentioned in packet dispatches to Commissioner John Adams.

New England Genealogical Historical Society .. with no frown on good amateur genealogy the NEGHS also publishes many fine standard reference works and invites membership ..and certifies genealogists.