Surcharge (auto-tip) Yay? Nay?
On 2/6/2013 7:52 AM, Ophelia wrote:
> "jmcquown" > wrote
>> That's how my father's family got to the US. They were Scots captured
>> at the battle of Bothwell Bridge, 1679 by the Brits. Father and son
>> were transported to the "colonies". They had been sold to a Virginia
>> planter as indentured servants. During the crossing the captain of
>> the ship died. The man who assumed command was a friend of the
>> McQuown's. He changed the course of the ship. They landed at Amboy,
>> NJ (now Perth Amboy, so named by the Scots). From there they made
>> their way to Pennsylvania. They received land grants from William
>> Penn and became farmers. If the Captain hadn't died things would have
>> turned out very differently for the McQuown's...
>
> I think they were probably captured by the English.
>
You beat me to it!
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