Starting June 3 at Saugus Ironworks, they will be resuming Guided Tours of the Industrial Site (60 minutes) Saturday & Sunday at 2 pm. The NPS employee who was there when I visited told me that this t

Thanks, Doug Cahoon, for sharing your SPOW ancestor's experiences. There was certainly plenty of hardship to go around. Both of my SPOW ancestors seem to have done well enough, living full lives into

RE: the SPOWs "were not colonists." Though it was not the SPOWs' intent to become colonists, the moment they stepped onto the docks in Boston they became colonists. Their indenture was an admission by

Charles, I have been reading about the Three Chimneys Inn ~ ffrost Sawyer Tavern in Durham, NH, apparently built at least in part by SPOWs indentured to Valentine Hill. I live in NH and hope to get th

Someone asked about the two books I recommended whether they could expect to find their ancestor's name in them. The answer is probably not, but the fact is that records about any of these specific in

Once freed, they were still strangers in a strange land. Little wonder this small band stayed close, and that one line of descendants would be traced to four SPOWs.

To Sandy Chacko and others ... while there's lots available online, two terrific books are available on Amazon: The Dunbar Martyrs: Scottish Prisoners of War in Durham Cathedral, 1650 | Webb, Simon Th