James Kirkwood

• Name	James Kirkwood  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1684	Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
  	Tenant farmer or cottar
  Residence	1684	Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland   [2]
  	Auchingie
  Property	22 Oct 1684	Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland
  	On list of persons forfaulted for their part in the 1679 rebellion
  Role	1685	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA
  	Transported prisoner
  Imprisonment	24 May 1685	Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland
  	Held in Dunnottar Castle until c12 August, then marched to Leith arriving 17 August
  Departure	5 Sep 1685	Leith, Midlothian, Scotland
  	Aboard the Henry and Francis
  Arrival	7 Dec 1685	Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA   [3]
  Origin	Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
  Person ID	I44653	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Occupation - Tenant farmer or cottar - 1684 - Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Residence - Auchingie - 1684 - Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Property - On list of persons forfaulted for their part in the 1679 rebellion - 22 Oct 1684 - Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland Imprisonment - Held in Dunnottar Castle until c12 August, then marched to Leith arriving 17 August - 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 - - Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S3522] Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, (Name: Old Edinburgh Club; Location: Edinburgh; Date: 1916;), Vol. XII, 1923, p166. [S3526] National Records of Scotland, (Location: Edinburgh;), JC26/67. [S3601] Glasgow, W. Melancthon, History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America, pp 230-231. https://archive.org/details/historyofreforme00glas