Hello folks: Hoping there's somebody out there with some expertise on the transport of Scots across the Atlantic to Barbados and Maryland in the middle 1600s. Specifically. I'm trying to find out exactly how and whenNinian Beall (born in Lower Largo, Fife in 1625, son of Dr. James Bell) made it across to the Americas. Ninian was a cornetist fighting for General David Leslie's Scottish Royalist cavalry when captured at the Battle of Dunbar, Sept. 3, 1650. He was one of 5,000 Scottish prisoners marched south to Durham, England by the New Model Army for imprisonment in Durham Cathedral (only 1,400 survived the march and the imprisonment). As far as I've been able to determine, Ninian was transported to Barbados in late 1650 or early 1651 from Durham or environs or possibly from Newcastle, where surviving Scottish officers were taken in late October of 1651. He was an indentured POW for eight years and probably ended up cutting sugar cane for a time there. He was also probably one of the 1,500 or so indentured "volunteers" drafted in Barbados and St. Kitts by the Cromwellians to aid the regular army in the attack on Hispaniola and later Jamaica. I believe Ninian wangled his way north as a result of his Caribbean service ,to Maryland in 1656, 1657 or early 1658. The only hint I have is that he might have been transported by a man named James Sinkler, who may have been a ship's captain. The problem is that I haven't been able to find any passengers' lists anywhere covering the two time periods. Is there anybody whose hobby has been following the indentured Bealls, Bells and other Scots from Dunbar and the Battle of Worcester a year later? Has anybody got some ideas on where I might be able to latch onto the appropriate ship names and passenger lists? The passenger lists I've checked so far show some huge gaps in the 1650s. I need all the help I can get. Many thanks. dennis bell (of the Largo, Fife Bells) burnaby bc Canada