Henry & Francis of New Castle
Leith, Scotland to Perth Amboy, New Jersey
December 1685
Ship "Henry and Francis" of New Castle, departed from the port of
Leith, September 5, 1685, arrived at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, in the
middle of December, 1685. Three hundred and fifty tons, twenty great
guns, Richard Hutton, master.
Perth Amboy. In 1685, George Scot,
Laird of Pitlochie, was given his liberty in Scotland provided he
transported to East Jersey many of the Covenanters who had refused to
take the oath of allegiance to a tyrannical and profligate ruler.
Thus authorized, he proceeded to gather his company from those
confined in the tolbooth of Leith. He had to give security to land them
there prior to September, 1686, and the penalty was to be five hundred
merks in case of failure in any instance.
In May, 1685, Scot
chartered the Henry and Francis of New Castle, a ship of three hundred
and fifty tons and twenty great guns, with Richard Hutton as master.
On the eve of their banishment, twenty-eight of them signed the
following conjunct testimony; bearing:
"That, now to leave their own
native and Covenanted land by an unjust sentence of banishment for
owning truth and. standing by duty, studying to keep their Covenants
engagements and baptismal vows, whereby they stand obliged to resist and
testify against all that is contrary to the Word of God and their
Covenants; and that their sentence of banishment ran chiefly because
they refused the oath of allegiance which in conscience they could not
take, because in so doing they thought utterly declined the Lord Jesus
Christ from having any power in His own house, and practically would; by
taking it, sat, "He was not King and Head of His Church and over them
consciences. And, on the contrary, this was to take and put in His room
a man whose breath is in his nostrils; yea, a man who is a sworn enemy
to religion; an avowed papist, whom, by our Covenants; we are bound to
withstand and disown, and that agreeably to Scripture: When thou art
come unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess
it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a King over me,
like as all the nations that are about me, thou shalt in any wise set
him King over thee, whom the Lord thy God shalt choose: one from among
thy brethren shalt thou set King over thee: thou mayest not set a
stranger over thee, which is not thy brother. Deut. 17: 14-15. They then
bore their testimony against the defections of the day, and for
preaching in the fields and homes, and then signed their names.
Amongst the 125 passengers, were Charles and
William Douglas.
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