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Published on: 1 Jul 2014
Updated: 1 Nov 2015
The prisoners on the ship Unity and John and Sara were deported to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the American Colonies in 1650 and 1652. It is presumed that the prisoners were mainly indentured in Massachusetts. After their indenture some of them moved-on into other surrounding states, such as New Hampshire, Maine and Connecticut, etc.
For more information see:
Rapaport, Diane. “Scots for Sale, The Fate of the Scottish Prisoners in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts,” (New England Ancestors. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2000-2009.) (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.)
John Winthrop, Jr. and the Hammersmith Iron Works, on the website Mass Moments
The Scots Charitable Society of Boston, Massachusetts
Saugus Iron Works at Lynn, Massachusetts