Indentured servant pen portraits
John Reid of Hortencie (1655-1723)
John Reid, the gard’ner John Reid, author of The Scots Gard’ner, was born in 1655 at Niddry Castle near Kirkliston in West Lothian, where both
John Cockburn (c.1659- aft.1712)
John Cockburn was a mason from the Borders who emigrated as an indentured servant and was one of the very first freemasons in Colonial America.