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Sylvester Proffitt

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Sylvester Proffitt Veteran

Birth
Perth, Perth and Kinross, Scotland
Death
10 Apr 1767 (aged 68–69)
Goochland County, Virginia, USA
Burial
Goochland, Goochland County, Virginia, USA Add to Map
Memorial ID
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Suggested edit: Please move this memorial to the family cemetery
Proffitt Cemetery, Goochland, Goochland County, Virginia, USA.
Thank you. Contributor: KRF1962 (47307506) • [email protected]

spelling of name made by suggestion 49687320
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Fought in the Jacobite Rising in Scotland.

From "Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775":
PROPHET Sylvester
-Jacobite captured at Preston. Transported from Liverpool for Jamaica or Virginia on the Elizabeth and Anne, master Edward Trafford, 29 Jun 1716. Landed at York, Virginia - unindentured
Suggested edit: Please move this memorial to the family cemetery
Proffitt Cemetery, Goochland, Goochland County, Virginia, USA.
Thank you. Contributor: KRF1962 (47307506) • [email protected]

spelling of name made by suggestion 49687320
*********************************************************
Fought in the Jacobite Rising in Scotland.

From "Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775":
PROPHET Sylvester
-Jacobite captured at Preston. Transported from Liverpool for Jamaica or Virginia on the Elizabeth and Anne, master Edward Trafford, 29 Jun 1716. Landed at York, Virginia - unindentured


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  • Maintained by: CCM
  • Originally Created by: gst14
  • Added: Nov 29, 2014
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139366528/sylvester-proffitt: accessed ), memorial page for Sylvester Proffitt (1698–10 Apr 1767), Find a Grave Memorial ID 139366528, citing Proffitt Cemetery, Goochland, Goochland County, Virginia, USA; Burial Details Unknown; Maintained by CCM (contributor 49520926).