The average length of servitude was 6 to 8 years.
Some of the men of the “John and Sara” were sold to work at hard labor at the Saugus Ironworks, and others to sawmills in New Hampshire and Maine. The second ship was the “John and Sara” and it carried 272 men to Boston.
They died at a rate of about 30 a day until the ships left London, when the first ship “Unity” left with 150 prisoners. Oliver Cromwell sent these undesirables to the New World to be sold into forced servitude. Thousands were captured as prisoners of war, and forced to march to London. In 1650 the Scots sided with the monarchy in the English Civil War, and fought against the Puritans in the Battle of Worcester. The Ship “John and Sara” Prisoners of War, 1651 Join us and add your "Scots Prisoner of War" ancestors to the project.
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