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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
Downing
Given Name:
John
Soundex Code:
D520
Birth, Christening and Other Information
Gender:
Male
Nation:
Ireland
Orphan:
Unknown
Position in Parent's Family:
Unknown
Landowner:
Unknown
Literate:
Unknown
Convict:
Unknown
Length of Indenture
Year of Indenture:
1654
Place of Indenture
County:
Essex
Colony:
Massachusetts
Research Notes
Proof of Immigrant Servant Status:
"John Downing testifed that William Downing and Phillip Welch, with several of their countrymen, were taken up and stolen by the ship master or some one whom he hired. The shipmaster, George Dill, was fain to go away and leave his water and much of his provisions behind for fear the country would have taken them from him. Sworn, June 24, 1661, before Daniel Denison. John Downing further made oath that he knew that he and three or four others of his townsmen were taken up by force; that he did not know the two parties in question, but they said in the ship that they were stolen and brought by force." (1)
Comments:
Kidnapped.
Source Citations:
(1) Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, Vol. II 1656-1662 (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1912), 294-297.