Sender:"turkeypt2"
Post Date/Time:2010-11-22 09:08:23
Subject:Was the Woodbridge Buckskin Planter Daniel Robinson/Robins?

"Charles Gordon an immigrant from Aberdeen, wrote from Perth Amboy, New Jersey on 5 March 1685 to Andrew Irvine, a merchant in Edinburgh, saying, "I am just now drinking to one of them the old Buckskin planters our countrymen, who was sent away by Cromwell to New England; a slave from Dunbar, living now in Woodbridge like a Scots laird, wishes his countrymen and his native soil well, though he never intends to see it."  From David Dobson's "Scottish Emigration to Colonial America (1667-1785)" published 1994 by University of Georgia Press, pg. 34. The footnote indicates Mr. Dobson's source for the quote was from G.P.Insh, "Scottish Colonial Schemes" published Glasgow;Maclehose 1922, pg. 256.
                            Sara


Sender:todd.d.robbins
Post Date/Time:2010-11-22 12:17:08
Subject:Re: [robbinsfamilysociety] Was the Woodbridge Buckskin Planter Daniel Robinson/Robins?

One of Daniel's fellow prisoners? What a find Sara!



Sender:"Sara Hoffman"
Post Date/Time:2010-11-22 13:28:00
Subject:Re: [robbinsfamilysociety] Was the Woodbridge Buckskin Planter Daniel Robinson/Robins?

I don't know the identity of this man or if he was a fellow prisoner of Daniel or Daniel himself. Mr. Charles Gordon links the "Buckskin Planter" to Dunbar meaning the Battle of Dunbar. However, according to records we know Daniel was taken prisoner at the Battle of Worcester. This is only speculation but possibly this man was Daniel Robinson/Robins. He certainly could be called a "Buckskin Planter" & was living at Woodbridge when the letter was written. Possibly, Mr. Gordon mentioned the wrong battle.There was only one year between the two battles fought on the same month & day. Dunbar on Sept 3, 1650 & Worcester on Sept. 3, 1851. Woodbridge wasn't a large community when Daniel lived there & the number of Scots were minimal. I've done some research on the other Scots at Woodbridge, none of which appear to have been Scottish POW's.
                                                                                     Sara


Sender:todd.d.robbins
Post Date/Time:2010-11-22 14:07:20
Subject:Re: [robbinsfamilysociety] Was the Woodbridge Buckskin Planter Daniel Robinson/Robins?

I just realized you stated where you found it. Funny thing, I had a fun
meeting with David Dobson in a cafe in St. Andrews when I was in Scotland.
Very nice guy.


Sender:todd.d.robbins
Post Date/Time:2010-11-22 14:05:20
Subject:Re: [robbinsfamilysociety] Was the Woodbridge Buckskin Planter Daniel Robinson/Robins?

Fascinating! I do remember coming across some other records about a prison
ship that brought prisoners of the Battle of Dunbar to the colonies. So two
tangential sets of prisoners from Scotland in the 1650s. Do you have a link
to that link? A scan?



Sender:John German
Post Date/Time:2010-11-22 14:23:04
Subject:Re: [robbinsfamilysociety] Was the Woodbridge Buckskin Planter Daniel Robinson/Robins?

This link will take you to some small list in addition to those on the
John&Sarah:<br>
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/america/scots_prisoners.htm



Sender:"todd.d.robbins
Post Date/Time:2010-11-25 00:04:49
Subject:Re: [robbinsfamilysociety] Was the Woodbridge Buckskin Planter Daniel Robinson/Robins?

Here's a link to the full text/scanned pages of "Scottish Colonial Schemes,
1620-1686 (1922):

http://www.archive.org/details/scottishcolonial00inshuoft

Also, the page from which Dobson cites:

http://www.archive.org/stream/scottishcolonial00inshuoft#page/114/mode/2up/search/Woodbridge