James Muir

• Name	James Muir
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1683	Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
  	Tenant farmer or cottar
  Role	1684	New York, New York, USA
  	Transported prisoner
  Legal	25 Apr 1684	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [1, 2]
  	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
  Imprisonment	13 May 1684	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [2, 3]
  	Held in Canongate Tolbooth when he wrote a testimony to relatives bemoaning his fate
  Departure	21 Aug 1684	Leith, Midlothian, Scotland
  	Aboard the Seaflower
  Arrival	Aft Sep 1684	New York, New York, USA
  Legal	9 Feb 1684/85	New York, New York, USA
  	One of a group of four servants (James White, James Muire, William Busie and Robert Muire) to George Lockhart who were subject of a 'hue and cry'
  Title Suffix	in Stonebyres  [4]
  Occupation	9 Feb 1684/85	New York, New York, USA   [5]
  	Servant to George Lockhart
  Origin	Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
  Person ID	I46383	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2026

  
  

• Event Map

  Occupation - Tenant farmer or cottar - 1683 - Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland Role - Transported prisoner - 1684 - New York, New York, USA 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 Imprisonment - Held in Canongate Tolbooth when he wrote a testimony to relatives bemoaning his fate - 13 May 1684 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Departure - Aboard the Seaflower - 21 Aug 1684 - Leith, Midlothian, Scotland Arrival - Aft Sep 1684 - New York, New York, USA Legal - One of a group of four servants (James White, James Muire, William Busie and Robert Muire) to George Lockhart who were subject of a 'hue and cry' - 9 Feb 1684/85 - New York, New York, USA Occupation - Servant to George Lockhart - 9 Feb 1684/85 - New York, New York, USA Origin - - Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Not the James Muir in Crossford Boat, Lesmahagow who was executed on 22 February 1684 in Edinburgh.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3526] National Records of Scotland, (Location: Edinburgh;), PC12/8. [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, VIII, pp709-710. [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, VIII, pp706-708. [S3526] National Records of Scotland, (Location: Edinburgh;), JC10/3 f81v. [S3742] O’Callaghan, Edmund Bailey, Calendar of Historical Manuscripts in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, N.Y.: English Manuscripts, 1664-1776, p134.