Article on Jacobite Prisoner John Cameron (#2)
Maryland Gazette
March 13, 1755
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Daniel Meconekin, living on Kent Island (at Broad Creek), reports a runaway
servant man named Thomas Johnson, about age 24. He's probably gone
off with a servant man named John Cameron, and they're probably headed for
St. Mary's County.
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Editor's Note:
John Cameron was a Jacobite prisoner in the prisons at Carlisle
and Chester, and was one of four Camerons (two were named John)
who departed Liverpool on either April 22 or May 5, 1747
(records vary). They were placed aboard the transport
"Johnson," which arrived in "Choptank" at Port
Oxford, Maryland on July 16/17, 1747. Unlike the other John
Cameron (#1), who was "free" by early 1753, this man had
to escape from his owner. Based on his reported age at this
time, he must have been a very young soldier when captured. |
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