In a message dated 9/30/99 5:25:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time, doriskf@ibm.net writes: > Subj: Anderson of Scotland > Date: 9/30/99 5:25:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time > From: doriskf@ibm.net (Doris Fountain) > Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:doriskf@ibm.net">doriskf@ibm.net</A> > To: PatAnder73@aol.com, weanderson@evergo.net (Anderson, Bill) > > "History of Kilmarnock, Scotland," by Archibald M'Kay, , orig. pub. in > 1858, new edition 1995, Richard g. Boyd. > > page 24. Next year, 1679, six individuals, natives of the parish of > Kilmarnock, were sentenced to transportation to the plantations of Am. > for being engaged in the rising at Bothwell. Their names were Thomas > FINLAY, John CUTHERBERSON, Wm. BROWN,Patrick WATT, Robert ANDERSON, and > James ANDERSON. the number banished on that occasion amounted to 257; > and awful were the miseries they were compelled to suffer, not only > during their con-finement in the Greyfriar's Churchyard, Edinburgh, > where about 1200 were kept prionsers, but also after their embarkaton. > Their daily allowance of food in the Greyfriars was limited in the > extreme, being only 4 oz. of coarse bread to each man......and the ship > itself, which sailed from Leith on the 27th of Nov, encountered severe > storms, and was driven into a violent sea, near the Orkney isles, on the > 10th of Dec. The prisoners, perceiving the impending danger, entreated > the capt. to set them ashore rather than let them perish; but he was > deaf to their supplications and caused them to be locked under hatches. > The vessel at last was split upon a rock, and about 200 of the hapless > exiles were utterly lsot amid the tempestuous billows. The rest, among > whom was Patrick WATT, mentioned above, were saved by clinging to the > floating timbers. > Patrick J. Anderson http://members.aol.com/patander73/home.html