Patrick Walker

• Name	Patrick Walker  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1679	Stirlingshire, Scotland
  	Tenant farmer or cottar
  Residence	1679	Stirlingshire, Scotland
  	Drumcree
  Imprisonment	16 Jul 1684	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [2]
  	Imprisoned in Edinburgh Tolbooth, to be kept in irons until further order
  Imprisonment	4 Dec 1684	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [3]
  	Imprisoned in Edinburgh Tolbooth
  Role	1685	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA
  	Transported prisoner
  Religion	1685	Scotland
  	Presbyterian - Covenanter
  Imprisonment	24 May 1685	Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland   [4]
  	Held in Dunnottar Castle until c12 August, then marched to Leith arriving 17 August
  Legal	18 Aug 1685	Leith, Midlothian, Scotland   [5]
  	Granted to George Scot for transportation
  Departure	5 Sep 1685	Leith, Midlothian, Scotland
  	Aboard the Henry and Francis. Prisoner - 'banished'. Also said to have escaped at Leith
  Arrival	7 Dec 1685	Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA   [6]
  Title Suffix	in Drumcree
  Origin	Stirlingshire, Scotland
  Person ID	I44718	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Occupation - Tenant farmer or cottar - 1679 - Stirlingshire, Scotland Residence - Drumcree - 1679 - Stirlingshire, Scotland Imprisonment - Imprisoned in Edinburgh Tolbooth, to be kept in irons until further order - 16 Jul 1684 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Imprisonment - Imprisoned in Edinburgh Tolbooth - 4 Dec 1684 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland 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 Legal - Granted to George Scot for transportation - 18 Aug 1685 - Leith, Midlothian, Scotland Departure - Aboard the Henry and Francis. Prisoner - 'banished'. Also said to have escaped at Leith - 5 Sep 1685 - Leith, Midlothian, Scotland Arrival - 7 Dec 1685 - Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA Origin - - Stirlingshire, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Not the Patrick Walker, aged 18, who was banished to Carolina, 24 July 1684, granted to Robert Malloch (RPCS 3rd, IX, p69)

  
  

• Sources

  [S3522] Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, (Name: Old Edinburgh Club; Location: Edinburgh; Date: 1916;), Vol. XII, 1923, p166. [S3522] Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, (Name: Old Edinburgh Club; Location: Edinburgh; Date: 1916;), Vol. IX, 1916, p141. [S3522] Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, (Name: Old Edinburgh Club; Location: Edinburgh; Date: 1916;), Vol. IX, 1916, p170. [S3610] Anderson, James, The Black Book of Kincardineshire, p10. [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, XI, p155. [S3601] Glasgow, W. Melancthon, History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America, pp 230-231. https://archive.org/details/historyofreforme00glas