John Martin

• Name	John Martin
  Gender	Male
  Role	1685	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA
  	Transported prisoner
  Imprisonment	12 Mar 1685	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [1]
  	Warded in Edinburgh Tolbooth by order of the Privy Council, brought by guard from Leith
  	Fellow prisoners: Andrew Craffurd, William Cuningham, Charles Gray, John Forman, John Frazer, William Oliphant, Alex ander Shiell
  Imprisonment	24 May 1685	Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland   [2]
  	Held in Dunnottar Castle until c12 August, then marched to Leith arriving 17 August
  Legal	18 Aug 1685	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [3]
  	Granted to George Scot for transportation
  Legal	31 Aug 1685	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [4, 5]
  	Took oath of abjuration and was freed, bound for 500 merks to compear when called
  Departure	5 Sep 1685	Leith, Midlothian, Scotland
  	Aboard the Henry and Francis
  Arrival	7 Dec 1685	Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA   [6]
  Name	John Martine  [2, 7, 8]
  Name	John Mortine  [1]
  Residence	Abt 1686	Bound Brook, Somerset, New Jersey, USA   [8]
  Person ID	I44661	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2026

  
  

• Event Map

  Imprisonment - Warded in Edinburgh Tolbooth by order of the Privy Council, brought by guard from Leith - 12 Mar 1685 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Imprisonment - Held in Dunnottar Castle until c12 August, then marched to Leith arriving 17 August - 24 May 1685 - Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland Legal - Granted to George Scot for transportation - 18 Aug 1685 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Legal - Took oath of abjuration and was freed, bound for 500 merks to compear when called - 31 Aug 1685 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Departure - Aboard the Henry and Francis - 5 Sep 1685 - Leith, Midlothian, Scotland Arrival - 7 Dec 1685 - Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA Residence - Abt 1686 - Bound Brook, Somerset, New Jersey, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S3522] Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, (Name: Old Edinburgh Club; Location: Edinburgh; Date: 1916;), Vol. XI, 1922, p40. [S3610] Anderson, James, The Black Book of Kincardineshire, p9. [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, XI, p154. [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, XI, p173. [S3533] Wodrow, Robert, The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution, Volume 4, p223. [S3601] Glasgow, W. Melancthon, History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America, pp 230-231. https://archive.org/details/historyofreforme00glas [S3522] Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, (Name: Old Edinburgh Club; Location: Edinburgh; Date: 1916;), Vol. XII, 1923, p166. [S3827] Kler, Joseph H., God's Happy Cluster, 1688-1963, p17.