Purdie, John

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Battle:Battle of Dunbar in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland
Ship/Arrival:Unity, Dec 1650
Prisoner and List:Pardee, John1, Purdie, John2, Pudney, John1 ; Lost Lives, New Voices1
Name Variations:Pardee, Purdie, Pudney, Putney
Residences:Lynn, Massachusetts
Other SPOW Associations:
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Published on: 18 August 2018, Updated: 24 May 2019
Page contributors: Dr. Andrew Millard, Teresa Rust

Purdie, John, #26 on Scots at Lynn 1653. Iron Works Inventory (Saugus)

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 248, John is categorized as:

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

Pardee/Purdie/Pudney, John. Residences: Lynn MA. Appears: 1653. [Banks; DR; SPOWS; Ch.7]

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

First Generation in the New World

1. PURDIE, JOHN, was born presumably in Scotland and died most likely in Massachusetts.

  1. List of Dunbar prisoners from Lost Lives, New Voices. /list-of-dunbar-prisoners-from-lost-lives-new-voices/ [↩] [↩] [↩]
  2. George S. Stewart’s list, 35 Scots at Lynn, 1653, Iron Works Inventory [↩]