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Subject: Re: [RIPROVID] Ship Unity (to saugus /lynn iron works)
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 14:41:17 -0700
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Again, thank you.
Carole


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Subject: Re: [RIPROVID] Ship Unity (to saugus /lynn iron works)


> In a message dated 8/20/2005 5:26:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> writes:
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> > I find your forebear connection to the Saugus Iron Works
interesting,
> > along with the fact that your forebears who were at Saugus later
> >
> The committee suggested using the men as labour in the coal mines or
> transporting them to America, France or Ireland. In preparation for this
the prisoners
> were moved to London. On November 11th Haselrig was told to deliver 150
> prisoners to Augustine Walker, the master of the ship 'Unity' who would
take them
> to New England. Walker sold his cargo for £20 to £30 per man. 60 men went
to
> the Saugus iron works at Lynn (the first iron manufactory in N. America)
and 15
> men were sent to Berwick, Maine (a few others, exact number not given,
went to
> nearby York Maine). This accounts for about half of Walker's cargo, we
have
> to assume that the rest died as the last mention of the prisoners by the
> committee was that some of the sick men should be sent to the Blackwall
pest house
> where the proprietor should be responsible for their keep and their
recovery.
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> this is a quote from MacThomas clan
> On the 18th of September, A.D. 1650 one hundred and fifty Scots, who were
> deemed well and sound, and free from wounds, were ordered to be sent to
John Beex
> (Beech) and Joshua Foote to be shipped to New England.
> Captain Augustine Walker of the “Unity ”
> Beech and Foote consigned most of the Scottish prisoners to two businesses
in
> Maine and Massachusetts in which Beech had an interest.
> Sixty-two of the Scots are known to have been sent to the Saugus Ironworks
at
> Lynn, Massachusetts.
> The rest were sold as indentured servants to local residents
> source as cited by the Clan :
> Stephen P. Carlson, Scots at Hammersmith, [article on-line] (n. d.
accessed
> 10 July, 2002); available from members.tripod.com/graytim/Saugus.htm;
Internet.
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