John Ford

• Name	John Ford
  Gender	Male
  Role	1685	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA
  	Transported prisoner
  Religion	1685	Scotland
  	Presbyterian - Covenanter. One of the signatories of the testimony aboard the Henry and Francis protesting their banishment
  Imprisonment	24 May 1685	Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland   [1]
  	Held in Dunnottar Castle until c12 August, then marched to Leith arriving 18 August
  Departure	5 Sep 1685	Leith, Midlothian, Scotland
  	Aboard the Henry and Francis.
  Arrival	7 Dec 1685	Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA
  	Prisoner, not banished
  Name	John Foord
  Occupation	Abt 1686	Bound Brook, Somerset, New Jersey, USA   [2]
  	Carpenter
  Residence	Abt 1690	Hunterdon, New Jersey, USA   [2]
  Religion	20 Jan 1708	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA   [3, 4]
  	Presbyterian - Deacon, Church of Christ
  Person ID	I44612	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2026

  
  

• Event Map

  Religion - Presbyterian - Covenanter. One of the signatories of the testimony aboard the Henry and Francis protesting their banishment - 1685 - Scotland Imprisonment - Held in Dunnottar Castle until c12 August, then marched to Leith arriving 18 August - 24 May 1685 - Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland Departure - Aboard the Henry and Francis. - 5 Sep 1685 - Leith, Midlothian, Scotland Arrival - Prisoner, not banished - 7 Dec 1685 - Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA Occupation - Carpenter - Abt 1686 - Bound Brook, Somerset, New Jersey, USA Residence - Abt 1690 - Hunterdon, New Jersey, USA Religion - Presbyterian - Deacon, Church of Christ - 20 Jan 1708 - Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  The John Ford who married Elizabeth Freeman was a different John, born Duxbury, Massachusetts 1659 (Monnette, p416

  
  

• Sources

  [S3610] Anderson, James, The Black Book of Kincardineshire, p9. [S3827] Kler, Joseph H., God's Happy Cluster, 1688-1963, p17. [S3604] Dally, Joseph W., Woodbridge and Vicinity, p167. [S3538] Landsman, Ned C., Scotland and Its First American Colony, 1683-1765, p321.