John or William Beverly, Jacobite Prisoner, 1746

[wdbev777]

I am interested in a John (may be William) Beverly (or Beverlie), a Jacobite prisoner from Aberdeen taken prisoner at Culloden in 1746 and transported on the "Johnson" from Liverpool.  He arrived in Port Oxford, Maryland, US.  I suspect he is my g-g-g-g-grandfather but I have not been able to prove it.  Any ideas on how or where to inquire in the Aberdeen area for additional information on this individual or his family?

[JMStrachan]

There's a good family history society in Aberdeen who might be able to help.

Unfortunately, there's scant documentation for people back inn the 1700s unless they were especially rich, royal or infamous. There is quite a lot of information about Jacobites, but mostly it simply gives names and perhaps location, with not much else.

If you are sure of his name and when and where he was born, you can look in the Parish Registers for a possible birth, but there will be nothing to link someone of that name being baptised with the same name being in a Jacobite listing. And you'd have the added problem of Scottish OPRs from that time lacking detail and by no means covering everyone.

[Jamieson]

I did a search using a well know search engine, don't want to use the name because I might be violating copyright or something, entered your mans name and found this.

I don't know if you are aware of this, it was dated 2006, from ancestry forum. There is more, if you want the contact details mail me or do the search yourself.

QUOTE BELOW

I also have been researching for years the possibility of a connection between a young Jacobite rebel named William or John Beverly who was transported to Oxford, MD, in 1747. It is curious that Herman Husband's home was in the next county of MD at that time and that Husband migrated to
NC in about 1750. If William/John Beverly was bought as an indentured servant, which most of the Jacobite rebel prisoners were, by Herman Husband or by the Husband family, the seven-year indenture typical would have expired in 1754, just about the time a John Beverly first appears in Orange County, NC. Could Husband have brought Beverly to NC from MD until his indenture
was over? Interesting possibility, but no proof - yet.