James Todd

James Todd: Laird of Dunbar. Captured in the Battle of Bothwell Bridge (near Glasgow on the River Clyde).

Marched to Edinburgh and held prisioner with others in an open pen into the winter. Loaded on a ship (the Crown) with about 250 others to be shipped to the West Indies and sold as slaves. Sank in a storm off the Orkney Islands. Could not escape, as the hold remained locked when the ship went down. Son John captured by Graham, but escaped to Northern Ireland. Battle of Bothwel Bridge 1679

http://www.scotclans.com/clans/1679.htm

Following success against the military at the recent Battle of Drumclog, the Conventiclers support had swollen to six thousand when they came together at Hamilton in June 1679. Differences between Covenanters which had undermined them through the 1650s, again created factions among their numbers. While some argued that their direction should be decided by a General Assembly which acknowledged the established powers, others denounced the governing bodies and their Indulgences. Meanwhile, with ten thousand men and discipline, the Duke of Monmouth, the Earl of Linlithgow and the vengeful Graham of Claverhouse mustered by the Clyde Bridge at Bothwell.

On 22 June they attacked the disorganised Covenanters and won easily. Although deaths on the field were few, two hundred were killed later. Of the fourteen hundred who were captured or surrendered, another two hundred and fifty eight were shipwrecked while being transported in The Crown of London.

• *Todd, Sir James from Ellerslie Posted by: Donna Dexter July 15, 1998

Sir James Todd, Laird of Dunbar who drowned off Orkney after being captured by Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Bothwell Bridge. I have found nothing except that his son John was captured and taken prisoner after his father's death...I would also like to know if anyone knows anything of their ancestral home in Ellerslie.

Sir James Todd, Lord of Dunbar Posted by Donna Dexter on July 03, 1998 In Reply to: Scottish ancestry? posted by Bob Esselmont on February 26, 1997 ...looking for information on the Todd family. Sir James was captured at the Battle of Bothwell Bridge, and was scheduled to be transported as a slave. He was drowned off Orkney when the ship sank and the men were locked belowboard. His son John fled to Ireland, and his children went to Philadelphia after his death. From there, the decendants include Generals, US Governors, and even the wife of President Lincoln. Jim and Donna Dexter

http://www.agescape.com/agescape/meetings/genealogy/data/194.html

read sir walter scotts classic "old mortality" which covers the events of your ancestor with great flair and accuracy. By 1638 Protestantism had taken a firm hold with Scottish ministry and laity signed the National Covenant. This Covenant reaffirmed the Presbyterian faith and ritual which was counter to the new canon being imposed by the English King Charles. The new Covenant urged that the local church was separate from the state. It also believed that oaths of loyalty should only be given to God not to man or government, and especially not to an English king. Charles ordered the dispersal of the Glasgow Assembly which was charged with treason and sent a 21,000 man army to Scotland. The so called "Covenanters" raised an army of 26,000 men of nationalistic and religious fervor. The Covenanter Risings ended in many being killed and some 1700 men and women were banished to the plantations of the colonies [source of this text unknown].

Hisroric Sketches of the Edwards and Todd Families and Their Descendants by George Hortense Edwards, H.W. Rokker Printer, Springfield IL 1894 p.22 "What is known or the antecedents of the Todd family is most honorable. Of the covnanters captured at Bothwell Brigg [Bridge], two hundred and fifty were sentenced to be transported to America; and two hundred of these were drowned in the shipwreck of the vessel conveying them, off Orkney. They had been shut up below the hatches of the ship by the order of

Patterson, the cruel merchant who had contracted for their transportation and sale. Fifty escaped and afterward took part in the defense of Londonderry. Among those who were drowned were Robert Todd of Fenwick and James Todd of Dunbar. In 1679 -the year in which Robert Todd of Fenwick was drowned - John Todd fled from the persecutions of Claverhouse, in Scotland, to find refuge in the north of Ireland. Two of his grandsons, Andrew and Robert Todd, came with their families to America in 1737."

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Thw MyHeritage side is listing him as - with either parents unknown as listed here - and many are assigning his children to Isabelle Parker

James "lord Of Dunbar" Todd
MyHeritage Family Trees

• CHARLE4 in Wolfe-Homan-Surbeck-Gut Web Site, managed by Ueli & Charlotte Surbeck (Contact)
• Birth: 1630 - Forfar, Angus, Scotland
• Death: June 22 1679 - Lanarkshire, Scotland
• Parents: Robert Smith Todd, Elizabeth Todd (born Humphreys)
• Siblings: James Todd, James Todd, Robert Smith Todd, Margaret Kellogg (born Todd), Samuel Briggs Todd, David Humphrey Humphreys Todd, Martha Todd, Emilie Todd, Captain Alexander " Aleck " Todd, Elodie "Dedee or Jane" Todd, Katherine " Todd, Catherine Bodley Todd, Alex Todd
• Wife: Isabella Todd (born Parker)
• Children: John Todd, Robert Todd, James Todd, William Constitutional Con. Todd

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1. James TODD was born 1639 in Scotland, and died 1669 in Battle of Bothwell Bridge, Scotland. He married Rebecca CALDWELL.

Children of James TODD and Rebecca CALDWELL are:

+ 2 i. John TODD was born 1650 in Forfar, Angus, Scotland, and died ABT 1719 in Drumgare, Co. Armagh, Ireland.

 3   ii. Robert TODD was born ABT 1669 in Fenwick, Scotland, and died 1679. 

 4   iii. James TODD was born 1671 in Dunbar, Scotland, and died 1679. 

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=jtr-todd&...

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LDS Individual Record John Or James TODD (AFN: 121B-XDX) Sex: M Family Event(s): Birth: 1639 , , Scotland, Laird Of Dunbar Death: 1718 , Bethwell Bridge, Scotland Parents: Marriage(s): Spouse: Isabella PARKER (AFN: 14RG-H3S) Marriage: Abt 1658 , , Scotland

Of Toddstown, County Down, Ireland. He emigrated rather fled from the covenanters from Larkshire, Scotland after the Battles of Landon Hill and Bothwell Bridge near Glasgow in 1679 to the neighborhood of Saintsfield, County Down, Ireland where he founded the village of Toddstown.   He was killed at the Battle of Bothwell Bridge in 1669 

He was the grandson of Patrick of Kilconquhier and wife Margaret Gordon, and was a native of Scotland.

James Todd: Laird of Dunbar. Captured in the Battle of Bothwell Bridge (near Glasgow on the River Clyde).

Marched to Edinburgh and held prisioner with others in an open pen into the winter. Loaded on a ship (the Crown) with about 250 others to be shipped to the West Indies and sold as slaves; the men were locked belowboard. Sank in a storm off the Orkney Islands. Could not escape, as the hold remained locked when the ship went down. Son John captured by Graham, but escaped to Northern Ireland, and his children went to Philadelphia after his death.

Battle of Bothwel Bridge 1679 http://www.scotclans.com/clans/1679.htm Following success against the military at the recent Battle of Drumclog, the Conventiclerssupport had swollen to six thousand when they came together at Hamilton in June 1679. Differences between Covenanters which had undermined them through the 1650s, again created factions among their numbers. While some argued that their direction should be decided by a General Assembly which acknowledged the established powers, others denounced the governing bodies and their Indulgences. Meanwhile, with ten thousand men and discipline, the Duke of Monmouth, the Earl of Linlithgow and the vengeful Graham of Claverhouse mustered by the Clyde Bridge at Bothwell. On 22 June they attacked the disorganised Covenanters and won easily. Although deaths on the field were few, two hundred were killed later. Of the fourteen hundred who were captured or surrendered, another two hundred and fifty eight were shipwrecked while being transported in The Crown of London.

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James Todd Birth 1639 in Bigger, lanarkshire,scot Death 1679- June -22 in ,,Lanarkshire,Scotland

m. Margaret Ludley Birth in Biggar, Lanarkshire, , Scotland children: Margaret Tod 1767 – James Todd 1770 – 1669 John Todd 1772 – Alexander Tod 1776 – 1776 Robert Todd 1780 – 1669

m. Racheal Nielson Birth 1632 m. Isabelle Parker Birth1639 in ,,,Scotland child: John Todd 1660 – 1719

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RECORD:

1. Houston C. Johnson & Annetta Galogher, Todd Family.

2. Emilie and Katherine Helm , TODD & HELM FAMILY PAPERS.
, http://beauproductions.com/marylincoln/biography/geneology.htm. NOTOE Emilie and Katherine protected, and often changed, ages of women in the family. Emilie’s grandmother commented that a woman’s age was a ‘changeable number," and Emilie heeded her grandmother’s advice on several occasions. Even in census records, Emilie changed her daughters’ ages. To further protect their age, Emilie listed family members by listing all the male children in their order of birth, and then listing the female children in their birth order. Here, when information is available, the lists have been changed from Emilie’s original order to placing the children in their descending order of birth. If information is not available, the lists have been left as Emilie originally wrote them. "

JAMES TODD died June 22, 1679 in Lanarkshire, Scotland."

• Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: Aug 23 2017, 1:58:38 UTC
• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Aug 23 2017, 2:03:28 UTC

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Covenanters Prison, Greyfriars Kirkyard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bothwell_Bridge#/media/File...

James Todd, born in Scotland in 1639, the Laird of Dunbar found himself fighting on the side of the Covenanters during the English Civil War.

James Todd fought in the Battle of Bothwell Bridge in 1679, and like so many other Covenanter soldiers that day, was captured, forced marched to Edinburgh and held as prisoner in an open pen deep into the harsh winter.

It is here that the story takes a dramatic turn.
The Royalists contracted with a merchant named Patterson to transport 250 of these rebel prisoners to the West Indies where they were to be sold as slaves. James Todd was aboard this ship, The Crown, when it sank in a storm just off the Orkney Islands. James Todd could not escape the ship as he had been locked in a hold at the time.

John Todd, the son of James, fled from the persecutions of Claverhouse, in Scotland, to find refuge in the north of Ireland. Two of his grandsons, Andrew and Robert Todd, came with their families to America in 1737.

Children of Racheal Nielson and James Marion Somervell Todd Laird of Dunbar (1)

• Esther Todd 1665–1765 ● K2NM-7W4
  

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Parents Robert Smith Todd 1610–1638 ● LBHW-7G3
Marriage: 1636 Scotland
Elizabeth Humphreys 1620–1639 ● LTGD-259

Children of Elizabeth Humphreys and Robert Smith Todd (1)

• James Marion Somervell Todd Laird of Dunbar 1639–1679 ● 9N32-SJJ

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  James Marion Somervell Todd Laird of Dunbar 1639 – 10 December 1679 • 9N32-SJJ
  

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