In a message dated 8/21/2005 9:19:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time, leeworks@tds.net writes: > I find the > mention of the iron woirks Sailing Ship John and Sara List of Servants (Scottish prisoners) sent to Thomas Kemble of Charles Town, New England, on the John &Sara of London. Gravesend, on November 8, 1651. Capt. John Greene dated November 11, 1651, Passengers to America pages 146-149 Scottish prisoners taken at Dun-bar (1650) and at Worcester in 1651 were sold into service in the colonies. (1652 on the ship John and Sara/sarah) The Scots Charitable Society of Boston-—the earliest Scottish society in America. A list of the passengers of the John and Sara is given in the Suffolk Deed Records, book 1. pp. 5-6. and in Drake's work on the Founders of New England. These prisoners worked out their terms of servitude at the Lynn/Saugus iron works This is a quote from "Clan MacThomas" Two hundred and seventy-two of these prisoners were sent to Thomas Kemble of Charlestown, Massachusetts aboard a ship called the “John and Sara .” Thomas Kemble and his partner Valentine Hill owned mills at Durham Falls and Lamprey River. Likewise, Kemble owned extensive lands in Maine from which he conducted a successful lumber business. Kemble utilized the strong young Scots in his mills in Massachusetts and his sawmills in Maine. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------- Ship UNITY is mentioned on "The Ross Clan" http://www.110.net/~pq1013/rossclan/ the passenger list was mentioned somewhere on the archives at rootsweb a year or so ago (still looking for it)