John Watt

• Name	John Watt  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Role	1685	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA
  	Transported prisoner
  Religion	1685	Scotland
  	Presbyterian - Covenanter
  Legal	5 Feb 1684/85	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [2]
  	While fugitive, ordered to be brought to Privy Council in order to be banished
  Imprisonment	24 May 1685	Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland
  	Held in Dunnottar Castle until c12 August, then marched to Leith arriving 17 August
  Imprisonment	Abt Jul 1685	Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland   [3]
  	One of 15 Covenanter prisoners who escaped and were recaptured and subjected to torture
  Legal	27 Aug 1685	Leith, Midlothian, Scotland   [4]
  	Ordered, with John Smith and John Marshall, to be delivered to George Scot and banished on pain of death.
  	NOte that a John Watt had been set free on 18 August, having sworn the oath of allegiance (PRCS, 3rd, XI, p155)
  Departure	5 Sep 1685	Leith, Midlothian, Scotland   [5]
  	Aboard the Henry and Francis. Prisoner - 'banished'
  Arrival	7 Dec 1685	Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA   [6]
  Person ID	I44720	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	7 Dec 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Religion - Presbyterian - Covenanter - 1685 - Scotland Legal - While fugitive, ordered to be brought to Privy Council in order to be banished - 5 Feb 1684/85 - 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 subjected to torture - Abt Jul 1685 - Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland Legal - Ordered, with John Smith and John Marshall, to be delivered to George Scot and banished on pain of death. - 27 Aug 1685 - Leith, Midlothian, Scotland Departure - Aboard the Henry and Francis. Prisoner - 'banished' - 5 Sep 1685 - Leith, Midlothian, Scotland Arrival - 7 Dec 1685 - Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S3522] Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, (Name: Old Edinburgh Club; Location: Edinburgh; Date: 1916;), Vol. XII, 1923, p166. [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, X, 129. [S3610] Anderson, James, The Black Book of Kincardineshire, p19. [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, XI, pp167-168. [S3610] Anderson, James, The Black Book of Kincardineshire, p10. [S3601] Glasgow, W. Melancthon, History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America, pp 230-231. https://archive.org/details/historyofreforme00glas