Person:William Duncanson (2)

Records of William Duncanson

William Duncanson listed on the following ship list in 1742:

Transported from Great Britain to Virginia, 1742, by John Graham

Christian Duncannon

William Duncanson

Virginia Ship Lists

William Duncanson possibly listed on the following list of Runaway Slaves in the Maryland Gazette:

• 2 December 1746: William Duncanson runaway servant, subscriber Hugh Wallace and Hugh West of Fairfax County. [Source: http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/gos/browse/browse_ads.php?state=&locale=&placetype=all&year=&month=&rows=10&numResults=4490&page=20] (Note: according to "The Private Punishment of Slaves in Eighteenth Century Maryland", by C. Ashley Ellefson, when Hugh Wallace and Hugh West advertised for their runaway servant, William Duncanson in December of 1746, they noted that he had "a remarkable scar on his forehead", Maryland Gazette, 2 December 1746 Article

Pub Date Paper Name Ad Type Runaways in Ad Geography in Ad Subscriber Associated Docs

December 2, 1746 Maryland Gazette, Green Runaway servant

William Duncanson

Jane Williams

Fairfax County, VA

HUGH WALLACE, HUGH WEST None (Note: it is thought by some researchers that William Duncanson ran away and married the Jane Williams listed in the record)

[Source: http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/gos/search/search_ads.php?page=0&rows=10&slaveid=003802&status=y&popUp=yes].

Information on William Duncanson

From "Genforum.com post:

William; Transported to the Va. Plantations, 1742 Posted by: mike arnott (ID *****2757) Date: October 31, 2005 at 05:50:55

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My GGGGG Grandfather, John Duncanson (b 1720) had a brother William Duncanson, b Clackmannan, Scotland, in 1726. At the age of 15, William was convicted of stealing 164 guineas belonging to John Campbell, Earl of Breadalbane, but had his death sentence commuted to indentured servitude in the Virginia Plantations. His transportation was arranged by the Edinburgh merchant Thomas Gardner and carried out in 1742. He possibly travelled, or was transported with, his sister Christian Duncanson. I understand their names appear on documents from Prince William County, Virginia at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Any information gratefully accepted. [Source: http://genforum.genealogy.com/duncanson/messages/99.html]