John Black

• Name	John Black
  Gender	Male
  Role	1685	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA
  	Transported prisoner
  Religion	1685	Scotland
  	Presbyterian - Covenanter
  Residence	Abt Apr 1685	Urr, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland   [1]
  	Residing 'on the Water of Or'
  Imprisonment	Abt 15 May 1685	Dumfries, Dumfries-shire, Scotland   [1]
  	Held in Dumfries Tolbooth before being set to join the Covenanter prisoners in Burntlisland
  Imprisonment	24 May 1685	Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland   [2, 3]
  	Held in Dunnottar Castle until c12 August, then marched to Leith arriving 17 August. Not formally banished.
  Departure	5 Sep 1685	Leith, Midlothian, Scotland   [4]
  	Aboard the Henry and Francis
  Arrival	7 Dec 1685	Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA
  Origin	Urr, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland   [1]
  	Water of Urr
  Person ID	I44560	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Religion - Presbyterian - Covenanter - 1685 - Scotland Residence - Residing 'on the Water of Or' - Abt Apr 1685 - Urr, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Imprisonment - Held in Dumfries Tolbooth before being set to join the Covenanter prisoners in Burntlisland - Abt 15 May 1685 - Dumfries, Dumfries-shire, Scotland Imprisonment - Held in Dunnottar Castle until c12 August, then marched to Leith arriving 17 August. Not formally banished. - 24 May 1685 - Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland Departure - Aboard the Henry and Francis - 5 Sep 1685 - Leith, Midlothian, Scotland Arrival - 7 Dec 1685 - Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA Origin - Water of Urr - - Urr, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  A John Black was witness to several wills in Burlington, West Jersey before 1730 and took part in a vendue (public auction) of the possessions of Robert King of Woodbridge in November 1719. See Nelson, Calendar of Wills, p275

  
  

• Sources

  [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, XI, pp289-294. [S3589] Somerset, Douglas W. B., "The Dunnottar Prisoners of 1685", p115. [S3589] Somerset, Douglas W. B., "The Dunnottar Prisoners of 1685", p202. [S3610] Anderson, James, The Black Book of Kincardineshire, p10.