John Corsan

• Name	John Corsan
  Gender	Male
  Role	1685	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA
  	Transported prisoner
  Religion	1685	Scotland
  	Presbyterian - Covenanter
  Occupation	Abt Apr 1685	Tynron, Dumfries-shire, Scotland   [1]
  	Farm servant, to James Hunter, tenant to John Douglas of Stenhouse in Nithsdale
  	James Hunter also refused the oath of allegiance in May 1685 and was sent to Burntisland. There had been a previous incident at Stenhouse, leading to a Privy Council, 5 Feb 1680, "The Lords of his Majesty's Privy Council being informed that John Douglas of Stenhouse, in Nithsdale, was lately invaded in his own house by a number of the rebels, who committed divers outrages and violences upon him, robbed and pillaged his house, and carried away his goods, out of malice and prejudice against him because of his affection to his Majesty's Government,—the said Lords do recommend to the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, to cause the said John Douglas of Stenhouse to have reparation of the damage he has suffered by the said rebels, out of the moveables of any persons in Galloway or Nithsdale who were in the late rebellion." Lt Col Stenhouse was a Catholic and was later (1688) appointed Secretary at War by King James VII,
  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]
  	Date of arrival at Dunnottar Castle. Left c12 Aug 1685, arriving Leith, 18 Aug 1685
  Residence	Abt Jun 1685	Tynron, Dumfries-shire, Scotland
  	Nithsdale
  Departure	5 Sep 1685	Leith, Midlothian, Scotland
  	Aboard the Henry and Francis. Prisoner (though not on list of those banished)
  Arrival	7 Dec 1685	Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA   [4]
  Name	John Carsan  [1]
  Name	John Carsend  [1]
  Name	John Casson  [4]
  Origin	Dumfries-shire, Scotland   [1]
  	Nithsdale
  Person ID	I44581	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	7 Dec 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Religion - Presbyterian - Covenanter - 1685 - Scotland Occupation - Farm servant, to James Hunter, tenant to John Douglas of Stenhouse in Nithsdale - Abt Apr 1685 - Tynron, Dumfries-shire, 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 - Date of arrival at Dunnottar Castle. Left c12 Aug 1685, arriving Leith, 18 Aug 1685 - 24 May 1685 - Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland Residence - Nithsdale - Abt Jun 1685 - Tynron, Dumfries-shire, Scotland Departure - Aboard the Henry and Francis. Prisoner (though not on list of those banished) - 5 Sep 1685 - Leith, Midlothian, Scotland Arrival - 7 Dec 1685 - Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA Origin - Nithsdale - - Dumfries-shire, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• 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. [S3601] Glasgow, W. Melancthon, History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America, pp 230-231. https://archive.org/details/historyofreforme00glas