Alexander Montgomery

Abt 1656 -

• Name	Alexander Montgomery
  Birth	Abt 1656
  Gender	Male
  Imprisonment	3 Feb 1674/75	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [1]
  	Imprisoned with others, including George Higgins and John English
  Legal	22 Jan 1675/76	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [2]
  	Granted to Captain James Maitland, with others, to be transported 'beyond seas' to France, for having attended a field conventicle at Bathgate
  	James Maitland was son of Robert Maitland, Keeper of the Bass
  Religion	1682	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
  	Covenanter. Member of the Sweet Singers
  Imprisonment	4 Jan 1682/83	Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland   [3]
  	Imprisoned for religious disorder with David Jamieson, James Clerskon, George Higgins and others until they paid their fines.
  Legal	25 Oct 1683	Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland   [4]
  	On list of church non-attendees and accused of a disorderly baptism
  Occupation	25 Oct 1683	Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland   [4]
  	Sievewright
  Role	1684	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA
  	Transported prisoner - returned
  Legal	25 Apr 1684	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [5, 6]
  	One of the Sweet Singer prisoners to be transported by George Lockhart
  Legal	25 May 1684	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [6]
  	Sentenced to be transported to America by George Lockhart, merchant in New York
  Imprisonment	27 May 1684	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [7]
  	Imprisoned in Canongate Tolbooth with James Clarkson, David Jamieson, George Higgins and others and odrered by the Privy Council to be banished; to be delivered to Walter Gibson
  Legal	29 May 1684	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [8]
  	Petition to the Privy Council by Robert Malloch, merchant in Edinburgh, to ship James Clarkson, David Jamieson, Alexander Montgomery, George Higgins and others to Carolina from Leith rather than with Walter Gibson from Glasgow - granted
  Departure	21 Aug 1684	Leith, Midlothian, Scotland
  	Aboard the Seaflower
  Arrival	Oct 1684	Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA   [9]
  	'Imported by' (indentured by) Thomas Gordon
  Name	Alexander Monteith  [9]
  Name	Alexander Montgomrie  [3]
  Name	Sanders Monteith
  	As reported by fellow prisoner, Helen Alexander c July 1683. See 'Passages in the Lives of Helen Alexander and James Currie of Pentland' (Belfast, 1869), p8
  Name	Saunders Montieth
  Residence	1691	Bo'ness, West Lothian, Scotland
  	When he was reported as meeting with the Cotmuir Folk or Harlites
  	Source: [Andrew Harley and John Harley], The Ravished Maid in the Wilderness, or, A True Account of the Raise, Causes and Continuance of the Deference between a Suffering Party of Presbyterians, Commonly Called Cotmure Folk (s.n., 1708), pp. 19, 23
  Origin	Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland
  Person ID	I45008	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2025

  
  

  Family	Margaret Stevenson
  Children	1. child 2 Montgomery,   b. 19 Jun 1683, Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. child 1 Montgomery,   b. 5 Aug 1679, Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F31733	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Imprisonment - Imprisoned with others, including George Higgins and John English - 3 Feb 1674/75 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Legal - Granted to Captain James Maitland, with others, to be transported 'beyond seas' to France, for having attended a field conventicle at Bathgate - 22 Jan 1675/76 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Religion - Covenanter. Member of the Sweet Singers - 1682 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Imprisonment - Imprisoned for religious disorder with David Jamieson, James Clerskon, George Higgins and others until they paid their fines. - 4 Jan 1682/83 - Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland Legal - On list of church non-attendees and accused of a disorderly baptism - 25 Oct 1683 - Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland Occupation - Sievewright - 25 Oct 1683 - Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland Legal - One of the Sweet Singer prisoners to be transported by George Lockhart - 25 Apr 1684 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Legal - Sentenced to be transported to America by George Lockhart, merchant in New York - 25 May 1684 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Imprisonment - Imprisoned in Canongate Tolbooth with James Clarkson, David Jamieson, George Higgins and others and odrered by the Privy Council to be banished; to be delivered to Walter Gibson - 27 May 1684 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Legal - Petition to the Privy Council by Robert Malloch, merchant in Edinburgh, to ship James Clarkson, David Jamieson, Alexander Montgomery, George Higgins and others to Carolina from Leith rather than with Walter Gibson from Glasgow - granted - 29 May 1684 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Departure - Aboard the Seaflower - 21 Aug 1684 - Leith, Midlothian, Scotland Arrival - 'Imported by' (indentured by) Thomas Gordon - Oct 1684 - Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA Residence - When he was reported as meeting with the Cotmuir Folk or Harlites - 1691 - Bo'ness, West Lothian, Scotland Origin - - Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S3522] Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, (Name: Old Edinburgh Club; Location: Edinburgh; Date: 1916;), Vol. VI, 128. [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, IV, pp667-668. [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, VIII, p6-7. [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, VIII, pp629-630. [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, VIII, pp709-710. [S3526] National Records of Scotland, (Location: Edinburgh;), PC12/8 f.192. [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, VIII, pp523-524. [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, VIII, pp526-527. [S3607] Nelson, William, Calendar of Records in the Office of the Secretary of State, 1664-1703, p64.