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Battle:	Battle of Dunbar in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland
Ship/Arrival:	Unity, Dec 1650
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Published: 02 Sep 2018, Updated: 09 May 2019
Page contributors: Dr. Andrew Millard, Teresa Rust

James Miller, #79 on George S. Stewart’s Captured at Dunbar list

IMPORTANT UPDATE! (July 2018)
According to, Christopher Gerrard, Pam Graves, Andrew Millard, Richard Annis, and Anwen Caffell, Lost Lives, New Voices: Unlocking the Stories of the Scottish Soldiers at the Battle of Dunbar 1650, (England: Oxbow Books, 2018), on page 251, James is categorized as:

Probable [that he is a Dunbar prisoner transported on the Unity]

Miller, Games/James. Residences: Charlestown, MA. Appears: 1662. B.bef.1618. D.1688. [Exiles; DR; SPOWS; Ch.7]

For explanations of the category, abbreviations and references see List of Dunbar prisoners from Lost Lives, New Voices.

The Dunbar Prisoners Page 4 of 4 The Bartlett Collection, R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department, New England Historic Genealogical Society (Boston, Massachusetts)

First Generation in the New World

1. JAMES¹ MILLER, was born presumably in Scotland before 1618 and died in Massachusetts in 1688.

Biographical Notes:
He lived in Charlestown (now Boston), Massachusetts.