John Gairdner

• Name	John Gairdner
  Birth	New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland
  	Son of John Gairdner in Gartlie
  Gender	Male
  Military service	Jul 1679	Lanarkshire, Scotland   [1]
  	Captured following the Battle of Bothwell Bridge and made a deposition that he carried a sword and a fork
  Legal	Dec 1679	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
  	Banished and placed aboard the Crown of London with other Covenanter prisoners. Survived the wreck of the ship ar Deerness.
  	Thomson, John Henderson (ed.), A Cloud of Witnesses, for the Royal Prerogatives of Jesus Christ: Being the Last Speeches and Testimonies of Those Who Have Suffered for the Truth in Scotland, since the Year 1680 (Edinburgh : Oliphant, Anderson, & Ferrier, 1871) p520<http://archive.org/details/cloudofwitnesses00thom> [accessed 14 December 2023]
  Legal	19 Oct 1683	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [2]
  	Forfeited have failed to appear, indicted for treasonable crimes
  Role	1684	New York, New York, USA
  	Transported prisoner
  Occupation	1684	New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland
  	Tenant farmer or cottar's son
  Imprisonment	Apr 1684	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [3]
  	Held in Edinburgh or Canongate Tolbooth
  Legal	25 Apr 1684	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [3, 4]
  	Ordered to be transported [sea hazards and pirrits being excepted] to the plantations in America by George Lockhart Merchant in New York in a ship belonging to him for public disorders and irregularities to the Plantations. Bond dated 19 May 1684
  Departure	21 Aug 1684	Leith, Midlothian, Scotland
  	Aboard the Seaflower
  Arrival	Bef 1 Dec 1684	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA   [5]
  	Indentured for two years by John Barclay
  Name	John Gardner
  Name	John Garner  [5]
  Origin	New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland
  	Gartlie
  Person ID	I46382	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2026

  
  

  Father	John Gairdner
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F31914	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - - New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland Military service - Captured following the Battle of Bothwell Bridge and made a deposition that he carried a sword and a fork - Jul 1679 - Lanarkshire, Scotland Legal - Banished and placed aboard the Crown of London with other Covenanter prisoners. Survived the wreck of the ship ar Deerness. - Dec 1679 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Legal - Forfeited have failed to appear, indicted for treasonable crimes - 19 Oct 1683 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Role - Transported prisoner - 1684 - New York, New York, USA Occupation - Tenant farmer or cottar's son - 1684 - New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland Imprisonment - Held in Edinburgh or Canongate Tolbooth - Apr 1684 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Legal - Ordered to be transported [sea hazards and pirrits being excepted] to the plantations in America by George Lockhart Merchant in New York in a ship belonging to him for public disorders and irregularities to the Plantations. Bond dated 19 May 1684 - 25 Apr 1684 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Departure - Aboard the Seaflower - 21 Aug 1684 - Leith, Midlothian, Scotland Origin - Gartlie - - New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S3526] National Records of Scotland, (Location: Edinburgh;), JC39/21. [S3526] National Records of Scotland, (Location: Edinburgh;), JC26/65. [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. [S3607] Nelson, William, Calendar of Records in the Office of the Secretary of State, 1664-1703, p62.