Grisel Gammell

• Name	Grisel Gammell
  Gender	Female
  Role	1685	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA
  	Transported prisoner
  Religion	1685	Scotland
  	Presbyterian - Covenanter
  Imprisonment	24 May 1685	Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland   [1]
  	Held in Dunnottar Castle until c12 August, then marched to Leith arriving 17 August
  Imprisonment	17 Aug 1685	Leith, Midlothian, Scotland   [2]
  	Held in Leith Tolbooth when ordered to be banished
  Departure	5 Sep 1685	Leith, Midlothian, Scotland
  	Aboard the Henry and Francis. Prisoner - 'banished'
  Arrival	7 Dec 1685	Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA   [3]
  	Aboard the Henry and Francis
  Name	Girsell Gammell
  Name	Girsell Gemmell  [1]
  Name	Grisel Gamble
  Name	Grisel Gamrie
  Name	Grisel Gemrie
  Name	Grizel Gemble  [2]
  Origin	Dumfries-shire, Scotland   [4]
  Person ID	I44621	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Religion - Presbyterian - Covenanter - 1685 - Scotland Imprisonment - Held in Dunnottar Castle until c12 August, then marched to Leith arriving 17 August - 24 May 1685 - Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland Imprisonment - Held in Leith Tolbooth when ordered to be banished - 17 Aug 1685 - Leith, Midlothian, Scotland Departure - Aboard the Henry and Francis. Prisoner - 'banished' - 5 Sep 1685 - Leith, Midlothian, Scotland Arrival - Aboard the Henry and Francis - 7 Dec 1685 - Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA Origin - - Dumfries-shire, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S3610] Anderson, James, The Black Book of Kincardineshire, p11. [S3533] Wodrow, Robert, The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution, Volume 4, p221. [S3601] Glasgow, W. Melancthon, History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America, pp 230-231. https://archive.org/details/historyofreforme00glas [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, XI, pp289-294.