| Name |
John Mathieson |
| Birth |
Abt 1640 |
Closeburn, Dumfries-shire, Scotland |
| Gender |
Male |
| Occupation |
1683 |
Closeburn, Dumfries-shire, Scotland |
| Tenant farmer in Rosehill |
| Legal |
19 Jun 1684 |
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland [1] |
| Found guilty for reset and converse with rebels and sentenced to transportation |
| Departure |
21 Jul 1684 |
Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland [2] |
| Aboard The Carolina Merchant , commanded by James Gibson and owned by his brother Walter. One of 35 transportees. |
| Arrival |
2 Oct 1684 |
Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA |
- Insh, George Pratt, ‘The “Carolina Merchant”: Advice of Arrival’, The Scottish Historical Review, 25.98 (1928), pp. 98-108
|
| Residence |
Abt Feb 1684/85 |
Virginia, USA |
| Residence |
Abt Jun 1685 |
Pennsylvania, USA |
| Where he "was near to death, by a great weighty sickness" |
| Residence |
Abt Feb 1685/86 |
New Jersey, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA |
| Where he and other survivors from the Carolina venture "met with our banished brethren" |
- W.D. Carslaw (1908), Exiles of the Covenant (Paisley: Alexander Gardner), p.160
|
| Residence |
Abt Jun 1686 |
New England, USA |
| But left "being sorely grieved by the miscarriages of some of our friends there" |
| Residence |
Abt Sep 1686 |
East Jersey, New Jersey, USA |
| Fell sick, was cared for a husband and wife, "with whom I had bound myself" |
| Departure |
Abt Apr 1687 |
New York, New York, USA |
| Returned to Scotland via London |
- Glad to return as "I was sorely grieved witht he vain and wicked coversation [sic] of the inhabitants of that land". Between being taken from his home in 1684 and his return: "somehting more than three years"
|
| Title Suffix |
in Rosehill |
| Death |
1710 |
Closeburn, Dumfries-shire, Scotland |
- Left a testimony of his experience of persecution and time in America
|
| Burial |
Closeburn, Dumfries-shire, Scotland |
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| Person ID |
I46688 |
East Jersey Genealogies |
| Last Modified |
16 Apr 2026 |