Andrew Corbet

• Name	Andrew Corbet
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1683	Ruthwell, Dumfries-shire, Scotland
  	Tenant farmer or cottar
  Role	1685	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA
  	Transported prisoner
  Religion	1685	Scotland
  	Presbyterian - Covenanter
  Imprisonment	24 May 1685	Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland   [1, 2, 3]
  	Date of arrival at Dunnottar Castle. Left c12 Aug 1685, arriving Leith, 18 Aug 1685
  Departure	5 Sep 1685	Leith, Midlothian, Scotland
  	Aboard the Henry and Francis
  Arrival	7 Dec 1685	Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA
  	Aboard the Henry and Francis
  Title Suffix	in Shaws  [4]
  Name	Andrew Corbit  [5]
  Name	Andrew Corbitt
  Origin	Ruthwell, Dumfries-shire, Scotland
  Person ID	I44586	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	7 Dec 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Occupation - Tenant farmer or cottar - 1683 - Ruthwell, Dumfries-shire, Scotland Religion - Presbyterian - Covenanter - 1685 - Scotland Imprisonment - Date of arrival at Dunnottar Castle. Left c12 Aug 1685, arriving Leith, 18 Aug 1685 - 24 May 1685 - Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland Departure - Aboard the Henry and Francis - 5 Sep 1685 - Leith, Midlothian, Scotland Arrival - Aboard the Henry and Francis - 7 Dec 1685 - Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA Origin - - Ruthwell, Dumfries-shire, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [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, p11. [S3526] National Records of Scotland, (Location: Edinburgh;), JC26/63. [S3610] Anderson, James, The Black Book of Kincardineshire, p9.