James Claghorn

was born in 1628 or 1630 in near Edinburgh, Costerphile, Scotland. He died before 25 Oct 1683 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA. (476)(380) (193) [Yellow sheet had death date of 1677; Cushman Family Group Sheets indicates will proved 25 Oct 1683.] IMMIGRANT - "... colonial record spells CLEAGUEHORNE." (Savage) Bonnie Hubbard reports that C.E. Banks states he came to America on the ship Unity.

From Yellow Sheet Notes: "Battle of Dunbar, deported by order of Cromwell"

From Claghorn Study: ".. a native of Scotland emigrated 1st from his home either Glasgow or Arberdeen to New England prior to 1654, where he settled in Barnstable Mass. taking the oath of fidelity in 1657. He removed to Garmouth about the year 1662, where his wife committed suicide in Oct. 1677. He married again Jan 6th, Abigail daughter of Bernard Lumbard."

"When the English executed Charles I in 1649 and Cromwell rose to power, it was inevitable that there would be clashes in Scotland. The Scottish economy was already weakened and as the English army occupied more and more of the best farming land supplies became scarce. The Battle of Dunbar, 3 Sept 1650, resulted in some 3000 Scots dead and more than 9000 captured. Of these about 5000, the wounded, were released and the rest sent to England. And of this last group, hundreds were sold as indentured servants in the colonies. This was, in the words of Rosalind Mitchison, 'A History of Scotland,' Methuen, NY 1982, p. 231, 'a monstrous infringement of the normal conventions of war.'

"Mr. Claghorn (The Barony of Claghorn, A.D. 1203. Lanarkshire, Scotland, to the Family of Claghorn, A.D. 1912, United States of America," compiled by William Crumby Claghorn, Lyon and Armor, Printers, Philadelphia, ~1912) thinks that James Cleghorne of Corstorphine (near Edinburgh) is the same person as James Claghorn (or Cleghorne, or Cleagehorne as in his will) who was indentured to Lt. Bernard or Barnard Lumbard or Lumbert. Spelling was an art form in those days! Obviously he was a soldier, at least when Cromwell invaded Scotland. Mr. Claghorn puts his birth date at probably 1628-30. Plymouth Colony records show "James Cleaguehorne marryed Abigaill Lumbert the sixt of January 1654." She was the daughter of Lt. Bernard Lumbard and familiarly known as Abia. They lived in Yarmouth, near Barnstable, and he was admitted to citizenship in 1657. On 21 March 1663/4 James was appointed Hayward, an officer whose duties were to keep cattle from straying into cultivated fields. He (or possibly his first son James) fought in King Phillip's War and contributed to the war fund. When he died in October 1683 he willed his gun and sword to his son Shubael. James and Abia had four sons and four daughters. Unfortunately the Barnstable town records were burned in 1674 and there is no birth date known for Shubael, the third son." (Bonnie Hubbard)

He was married to Abigail "Abia" LUMBERT on 6 Jan 1653/54 in Barnstable, Barnstable, MA.