Peter Russell

• Name	Peter Russell
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1683	Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland
  	Tenant farmer or cottar
  Residence	1684	Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland   [1]
  	Muirhead
  Role	1685	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA
  	Transported prisoner
  Imprisonment	14 Feb 1685	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [2]
  	Imprisoned in Edinburgh. Examined by the Privy Council, found "ane obstinate and obdure fellow" and ordered to be put in irons
  	"Patrick Russell, ane obstinate and obdure fellow and «aspect to have been on the late societies and sent in prisoner, being examined before the Council!, was remanded to prison, having given no satisfactory account of himselfe and principles, and ordered to be put in the irons."
  Imprisonment	24 May 1685	Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland   [3, 4]
  	Held in Dunnottar Castle until c12 August, then marched to Leith arriving 17 August
  Imprisonment	Abt Jul 1685	Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland   [5]
  	One of 15 Covenanter prisoners who escaped and were recaptured and endured torture by lit matches attached to their fingers
  Religion	Aug 1685	Leith, Midlothian, Scotland   [3]
  	Presbyterian - Covenanter. One of the signatories of the testimony aboard the Henry and Francis protesting their banishment
  Departure	5 Sep 1685	Leith, Midlothian, Scotland
  	Aboard the Henry and Francis. Prisoner
  Arrival	7 Dec 1685	Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA
  Title Suffix	in Muirhead
  Name	Patrick Russell  [2, 3, 6]
  Name	Pieter Russell  [4]
  Residence	1688	Newark, Essex, New Jersey, USA
  	Living with another Scots emigrant in Newark, in the house of Mistress Perow
  	North Lanarkshire Council Archives, GB1778/U21/433/164
  Origin	Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland   [1]
  Person ID	I44692	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	7 Dec 2025

  
  

  Father	Russell
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F31692	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Occupation - Tenant farmer or cottar - 1683 - Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland Residence - Muirhead - 1684 - Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland Imprisonment - Imprisoned in Edinburgh. Examined by the Privy Council, found "ane obstinate and obdure fellow" and ordered to be put in irons - 14 Feb 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 Imprisonment - One of 15 Covenanter prisoners who escaped and were recaptured and endured torture by lit matches attached to their fingers - Abt Jul 1685 - Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland Religion - Presbyterian - Covenanter. One of the signatories of the testimony aboard the Henry and Francis protesting their banishment - Aug 1685 - Leith, Midlothian, Scotland Departure - Aboard the Henry and Francis. Prisoner - 5 Sep 1685 - Leith, Midlothian, Scotland Arrival - 7 Dec 1685 - Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA Residence - Living with another Scots emigrant in Newark, in the house of Mistress Perow - 1688 - Newark, Essex, New Jersey, USA Origin - - Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  No land records in East Jersey

  
  

• Sources

  [S3533] Wodrow, Robert, The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution, Volume 4, p151. [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, X, p143. [S3560] Anon., "Banishment from Scotland, 1685", p125. [S3610] Anderson, James, The Black Book of Kincardineshire, p9. [S3610] Anderson, James, The Black Book of Kincardineshire, p19. [S3522] Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, (Name: Old Edinburgh Club; Location: Edinburgh; Date: 1916;), Vol. XII, 1923, p166.