He was a Scottish soldier. He was captured as a prisoner of war by Oliver Cromwell at the Battle of Dunbar on September 3, 1650. Cromwell trounced the Scottish and Jacobites and took many prisoners, but let most of them go. He only kept the more "dangerous" prisoners and transported them to a church in England. They trashed the church. Cromwell got permission to "sell" them into indenture and this is how Alexander Innes came to Lynn, Massachusetts.
Alexander Ennis was recorded in a 1653 inventory of the Saugus Ironworks (Massachusetts Bay Colony) in a list of Scots indentured to the company. These Scots were soldiers taken as prisoners of war at the Battle of Dunbar in 1650. The uninjured prisoners who survived imprisonment, including Alexander, were sold to various ventures, including the ironworks, to prevent them from rejoining the Scottish army too soon after the English victory. Alexander's ancestry is currently unknown and no parents have been proven. He married an Irishwoman named Catherine. Catherine committed adultery while Alexander was away and was whipped at both Taunton and Plymouth. During her trial, she was accused of blasphemy and forced to wear a red letter B on her dress. The couple moved to Rhode Island, where Alexander is found buying land in first Portsmouth, then Block Island. He died there, at the home of William Harris, who had married Alexander and Catherine's probable daughter, Elizabeth "Enos."
Alexander Ennis was recorded in a 1653 inventory of the Saugus Ironworks (Massachusetts Bay Colony) in a list of Scots indentured to the company. These Scots were soldiers taken as prisoners of war at the Battle of Dunbar in 1650. The uninjured prisoners who survived imprisonment, including Alexander, were sold to various ventures, including the ironworks, to prevent them from rejoining the Scottish army too soon after the English victory. Alexander's ancestry is currently unknown and no parents have been proven. He married an Irishwoman named Catherine. Catherine committed adultery while Alexander was away and was whipped at both Taunton and Plymouth. During her trial, she was accused of blasphemy and forced to wear a red letter B on her dress. The couple moved to Rhode Island, where Alexander is found buying land in first Portsmouth, then Block Island. He died there, at the home of William Harris, who had married Alexander and Catherine's probable daughter, Elizabeth "Enos."
He was a Scottish soldier. He was captured as a prisoner of war by Oliver Cromwell at the Battle of Dunbar on September 3, 1650. Cromwell trounced the Scottish and Jacobites and took many prisoners, but let most of them go. He only kept the more "dangerous" prisoners and transported them to a church in England. They trashed the church. Cromwell got permission to "sell" them into indenture and this is how Alexander Innes came to Lynn, Massachusetts.
Alexander Ennis was recorded in a 1653 inventory of the Saugus Ironworks (Massachusetts Bay Colony) in a list of Scots indentured to the company. These Scots were soldiers taken as prisoners of war at the Battle of Dunbar in 1650. The uninjured prisoners who survived imprisonment, including Alexander, were sold to various ventures, including the ironworks, to prevent them from rejoining the Scottish army too soon after the English victory. Alexander's ancestry is currently unknown and no parents have been proven. He married an Irishwoman named Catherine. Catherine committed adultery while Alexander was away and was whipped at both Taunton and Plymouth. During her trial, she was accused of blasphemy and forced to wear a red letter B on her dress. The couple moved to Rhode Island, where Alexander is found buying land in first Portsmouth, then Block Island. He died there, at the home of William Harris, who had married Alexander and Catherine's probable daughter, Elizabeth "Enos."
Alexander Ennis was recorded in a 1653 inventory of the Saugus Ironworks (Massachusetts Bay Colony) in a list of Scots indentured to the company. These Scots were soldiers taken as prisoners of war at the Battle of Dunbar in 1650. The uninjured prisoners who survived imprisonment, including Alexander, were sold to various ventures, including the ironworks, to prevent them from rejoining the Scottish army too soon after the English victory. Alexander's ancestry is currently unknown and no parents have been proven. He married an Irishwoman named Catherine. Catherine committed adultery while Alexander was away and was whipped at both Taunton and Plymouth. During her trial, she was accused of blasphemy and forced to wear a red letter B on her dress. The couple moved to Rhode Island, where Alexander is found buying land in first Portsmouth, then Block Island. He died there, at the home of William Harris, who had married Alexander and Catherine's probable daughter, Elizabeth "Enos."
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