Battle: | Battle of Dunbar in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland |
Ship/Arrival: | Unity, Dec 1650 |
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Published: 11 Sep 2018, Updated: 22 Mar 2019
Page contributors: Dr. Andrew Millard and Teresa Rust
John Fresell, #31 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, in, Lost Lives, New Voices: Unlocking the Stories of the Scottish Soldiers at the Battle of Dunbar 1650, (England: Oxbow Books, 2018), on page 253, John is categorized as:
Possible [that he is a Dunbar prisoner transported on the Unity]
Frizzell/Fresell/Frissell, John. Residences: Braintree MA. Appears: 1663. D.1663. A Scot who died “having been drunk and miserably frozen”. [Exiles; DR; SPOWS]
For explanations of the category, abbreviations and references see List of Dunbar prisoners from Lost Lives, New Voices.