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About Capt. James MyCall, I
Another Scots 1650 Battle of Dunbar POW indentured to the colonies for 7 years: http://scottishprisonersofwar.com/james-mccall/
Family
James Mycall and Mary Farr were married in Braintree on "the 10th. mo. 11th. 1657" (December 11, 1657) by Major Atherton of Dorchester.[9][10]
James and Mary had the following children, born at Braintree:
- James (twin), b. January 22, 1658/9.[11][12] May be the James McCall who married Anna (Winter) Batson, settled in Marshfield and died there on May 9, 1693.[13]
- Rebecca (twin), b. January 22, 1658/9, m. July 16, 1679 Richard Thayer in Braintree, d. January 28, 1732 in Braintree
Death
Based on the fact that his widow Mary married Joseph Niles on November 15, 1661,[14] James died sometime between late 1657 and November 1661.
https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/mccall-caithness/about
- James MacKall, Baron of Caithness b. circa 1555
- 2) Samuel MacKall, Gentleman of Glasgow & Spouse - Margaret Dundas
- 3) Capt. James MacKallroy - b. 1620, d. 1660 McCall's flee to Ulster, Ireland due to non-conformity to the Roman Catholic church James and his brother Robert along with other McCall's join King Charles II to regain throne James and Robert captured at Battle of Dunbar POW James and Robert marched to Durham Cathedral, later shipped on the "Unity" to the Colonies. Sold to the Saugus Iron Works. Indenturement ended 1658. James stayed and Robert went south. & Spouse - Mary Farr - b. 1637, d. 1717
- 4) James MacKall II - b. 1659, d. 1693 & Spouse - Anna Winter - b. 1656, d. 1708
- 5) James MacKall III - b. 1690, d. 1755 married twice, First American McCall to have more than one son
- 5) James MacKall III - b. 1690, d. 1755 married twice, First American McCall to have more than one son
- 4) James MacKall II - b. 1659, d. 1693 & Spouse - Anna Winter - b. 1656, d. 1708
- 3) Capt. James MacKallroy - b. 1620, d. 1660 McCall's flee to Ulster, Ireland due to non-conformity to the Roman Catholic church James and his brother Robert along with other McCall's join King Charles II to regain throne James and Robert captured at Battle of Dunbar POW James and Robert marched to Durham Cathedral, later shipped on the "Unity" to the Colonies. Sold to the Saugus Iron Works. Indenturement ended 1658. James stayed and Robert went south. & Spouse - Mary Farr - b. 1637, d. 1717
- 2) Samuel MacKall, Gentleman of Glasgow & Spouse - Margaret Dundas
Comments
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mycall-2
Some secondary sources flatly state that James Mycall who married Mary Farr in Braintree in 1657 was a former Scotch prisoner named James Mackall who was captured in 1650 at the Battle of Dunbar and sold to the agents of the Massachusetts iron works company.[1][2] However, while likely, the proposition is unproven and is based on (i) evidence that there was a James Mackall who was a Scottish prisoner of war who was working at the iron works in Lynn in the early 1650s, (ii) the fact that Mackall and Mycall are sufficiently close phonetically to be different spellings of the same name, and (iii) the absence of strong evidence that indicates that James Mycall or James Mackall were different persons.
It is well established that the backers of the iron works company that established the first iron works in New England imported a number of Scottish prisoners from the Battle of Dunbar to serve as free labor in their iron works.[3][4] The records cited for a James Mackall at the iron works are (i) an entry in the accounts of the Lynn iron works showing that William Emmory and James MacKall got "two Stuffe Suites".[5] and (ii) an 1653 inventory of the assets of the Lynn iron works that lists 35 Scots, including a James MackalI or James M'Call.[6][7] Curiously, the 1653 Lynn inventory recorded in the Essex County Quarterly Courts records does not include a James Mackall but instead includes a "Jno. Mackcall".[8] The weight of the evidence, however, does support the correct name being "James". The explanation may lie in the fact that there were apparently two 1653 inventories (one in March and one in September) and perhaps one contained the probably erroneous "Jno. Mackcall" and the other "James Mackall".[4]
From these records, Charles Edward Banks and others have concluded that a James Mackall was one of the Scottish prisoners from Dunbar who was transported to New England aboard the Unity, probably arriving in December 1650 or January 1651, and sent to work at the Lynn iron works as an indentured servant.[6][7][2]
The "Scottish Prisoners of War" webpage for James M'Call contains unsourced colorful background about James M'Call, the presumed Dunbar prisoner of war, which says that he and his brother Robert were grandsons of Baron James MacKall of Caithness and were captains in the King's Lyfe Guard of Foote at the Battle of Dunbar.[7]
The "Scottish Prisoners of War" webpage for James M'Call also contains the following interesting unsourced excerpt from a manuscript listing information about the Scottish indentured iron workers:
Mackall, James -- In 1653 he lived with finer John Vinton, from whom he learned the forge worker's trade. In that year he possessed a musket, bandolier, and sword belonging to the company. He may be the James "Mycall" who married Mary Farr at Braintree in january 1657 (O.S.)[7]
References
- Nathan J. Rogers, "Mary (Farr) (Mycalls) Niles of Braintree, Massachusetts, and Mary (Farr) Farnsworth of Lynn and Groton, Massachusetts," The American Genealogist, Vol. 75 (2000), p 149-150
- Clare M. McCall, Captain John McCall, 1726-1812: His Ancestors and Descendants, (Boston, 1985), pp I-5
- Charles Edward Banks, "Scotch Prisoners Deported to New England by Cromwell, 1651-52," Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Volume 61, pp 4-29, reprinted in New World Immigrants: A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists and Associated Data from Periodical Literature, Vol 2, Michael Tepper, ed., Genealogical Publishing Company, 1979, pp 135-156
- Company of Undertakers of the Iron Works in New England. Records of the iron works at Lynn, Mass., 1650-1685 (inclusive): A Finding Aid, Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School, Harvard University
- Charles Edward Banks, "Scotch Prisoners Deported to New England by Cromwell, 1651-52," Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Volume 61, pp 4-29, reprinted in New World Immigrants: A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists and Associated Data from Periodical Literature, Vol 2, Michael Tepper, ed., Genealogical Publishing Company, 1979, p 154
- Charles Edward Banks, "Scotch Prisoners Deported to New England by Cromwell, 1651-52," Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Volume 61, pp 4-29, reprinted in New World Immigrants: A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists and Associated Data from Periodical Literature, Vol 2, Michael Tepper, ed., Genealogical Publishing Company, 1979, pp 143-146
- "James M’Call, #19 on the 'Scots at Lynn, 1653, Iron Works Inventory'", Scottish Prisoners of War, www.scottishprisonersofwar.com, accessed January 8, 2017
- "Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County Massachusetts Volume VIII 1680-1683," Essex Institute, 1921, p 202
- Samuel A. Bates, ed., Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640-1793..., Randolph, MA: 1886, p 716
- "Early Records of Boston," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 12 (1858), p 347
- "Boston Records," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 13 (1859), p 213
- Samuel A. Bates, ed., Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640-1793..., Randolph, MA: 1886, p 818
- Clare M. McCall, Captain John McCall, 1726-1812: His Ancestors and Descendants, (Boston, 1985), pp 6-8
- Samuel A. Bates, ed., Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640-1793..., Randolph, MA: 1886, p 717
- Sprague, Waldo Chamberlain. Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, MA. 1640-1850. New England Historic Genealogical Society, CD/ROM, 2001. #3183
- Nathan J. Rogers, "Mary (Farr) (Mycalls) Niles of Braintree, Massachusetts, and Mary (Farr) Farnsworth of Lynn and Groton, Massachusetts," in The American Genealogist, 75(2000):149-150
- Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jun 3 2018, 21:42:51 UTC
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Capt. James MyCall, I's Timeline
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Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland (United Kingdom)
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June 22, 1658
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Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial america
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January 20, 1659
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Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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1660
Age 40
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Braintree Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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