Scot Prisoners sent to New England after the Battle of Worcester, 1651

Sources

WIkipedia:Battle of Worcester

Rapaport, 2002, NEGHS Very accessible transcription.

Suffolk Deeds, Book 1, Boston, 1880

Robin Family Society

Nutfield Genealolgy

Rootsweb (inlcudes altrntive spellings of surnames

Background

From Wikipedia:
The Battle of Worcester took place on 3 September 1651 at Worcester, England, and was the final battle of the English Civil War. Oliver Cromwell and the Parliamentarians defeated the Royalist, predominantly Scottish, forces of King Charles II. The 16,000 Royalist forces were overwhelmed by the 28,000 strong "New Model Army" of Cromwell. ...About 3,000 men were killed during the battle and a further 10,000 were taken prisoner at Worcester or soon afterwards. The Earl of Derby was executed, while the other English prisoners were conscripted into the New Model Army and sent to Ireland. Around 8,000 Scottish prisoners were deported to New England, Bermuda, and the West Indies to work for landowners as indentured labourers. Parliamentary casualties numbered in the low hundreds.

Data

Scot prisoners sent to New England on the "John and Sarah", John Green, master. The following list of prisoners sent to New England is available on the internet on various sites. The original transcription may have appeared in the Historical and Genealogical Registers,New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847, October 1847, 1:378-379. Diane Rapaport, at NEHGS 2002, notes that "We know their names, or at least the phonetic equivalents. A London scribe penned a list before the ship left port, and he must have strained to comprehend unfamiliar names and dialects, judging from creative entries such as “Murtle Mackjlude,” “Origlais Mackfarson,” “Almister Mackalinsten...This list, dated at Gravesend, November 8, 1651, and other documents about the voyage, were filed in Boston with the Suffolk Recorder of Deeds several months after the John and Sara landed. The follow list of names is from Rapaport, 2002, reordered alphabetically. Note that the spelling of the names is phonetic.