john_fraser – The Reformation
| JOHN FRASER. Prisoner Newgate, Bass, Dunnottar, “Henry & Francis”, America, and return.
vol 7 p 26 Alness, 1695 JOHN FRASER of Pitcalzean; during the reign of Charles II. suffered great hardships on account of the stand he took against the Episcopal government of the Church. He was imprisoned at Newgate and was afterwards sent to Dunnottar Castle. In Sept. 1685 he was banished by the Scottish Privy Council to the American Plantations, where after a voyage of seventeen weeks he landed at New Jersey; licen. to preach in New England, and took charge of a congregation at Woodbury, Conn.. He returned to Scotland at the Revolution and was ord. to Glencorse 23rd Dec. 1691. As a Gaelic speaker he was app. by the General Assembly to supply in Ross, Sutherland, and Caithness, and trans, and adm. here 6th Nov. 1695; died 7th Nov. 1711, aged about 53. He marr. in America, Jean, daugh. of James Moffat, farmer, Netherbarngs (on the Selkirkshire side of the Tweed, opposite Abbotsford). She had suffered persecution like himself, survived him and marr. (2) George Gordon, min. of Cromarty), and had issue John, a youth of high promise, died 9th June 1712; James, min. of this parish; Catherine (marr. John MArthur, min. of Logie-Easter); Isobel. |