Georgia, Thanks! Is there a similar list following the Battle of Culloden (April 16, 1746)? Thanks again! ---Ellen * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Ellen Klingman Pettay Faculty Council Office Ballantine Hall 010 Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana 47405-6601 U.S.A. pettay@indiana.edu 812-855-5408 Fax: 812-855-4667 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > Mike Cummons wrote: > > > Taken from the "National Genealogical Society" Quarterly, March 1976, Vol 64, number 1. By Clifford Neal Smith (594 W. Lincoln Hwy, DeKalb, IL 60115): > > > > TRANSPORTED JACOBITE REBELS, 1716 > > > > Among the persons transported to the American colonies in 1716 were 637 Scottish rebels captured at Preston, Lancashire, on 14 Nov 1715. The rebels were supporters of the exiled James II of England and his heirs. There were many such adherents among the Roman Catholics of Scotland, and some in Ireland, and among the Nonjurors, a dissident group within the Church of England. > > > > During the rebellion of 1715 the rebel forces entered Preston on 9 Nov and, after proclaiming as their king the chevalier of St. George, remained there for several days, during which the government forces advanced upon them. The town was assaulted, and on 14 Nov the rebel general Thomas FORSTER surrendered his army to the King's forces. Persons shown below, as compiled from ten ship manifests, were taken prisoner and sent to the American Colonies the following spring as indentured servants for a seven-year period. Those who refused to be voluntarily indentured were forced into that condition upon arrival in the colonies. > > > > According to a receipt given to the commissary general of the rebel prisoners, 639 prisoners were transported, but, for reasons unknown to this writer, only 636 were named in the manifest. An additional prisoner (John DALZYEL) has been identified from other documents. In the interest of space conservation, ship names and destinations have been coded. It should be noted that not all prisoners reached the destinations originally designated. . . . > > Georgia Mathis Cummons > > Jacksonville, FL > > cummons@bellsouth.net > > > > ==== NCSCOTS Mailing List ==== > > Reminder: the Smartlist software will remove you from the mailing list > > if your mailbox becomes full and messages bounce. Unsubscribe before > > leaving on vacation. > > ==== NCSCOTS Mailing List ==== > "Although a number of Jacobite Highlanders were exiled to the Carolinas as early as 1716, the main thrust of Highland immigration to the Carolinas began in the 1730's and continued into the 19th century, much of this from Argyll to the Cape Fear Valley." Dobson