Early New Jersey records show the 1684
importation into the colony of Alexander Scott as an indentured
servant (along with ten others) by a John Campbell. Adjacent pages of
the reference show other entries of other importations of indentured
servants by others at the same time. Campbell was from Duncrosk, Killin,
Perthshire, Scotland. The ship they came on, The Thomas and Benjamin,
sailed from Montrose, Angus, Scotland and landed at Sandy Hook, NJ.
It sailed with Campbell, his
wife and three children and eleven servants. No full passenger list
has yet been found; this is pieced together from the history of East Jersey
immigration and letters of those on the 1684 voyage published by Insh.
Evidently Campbell called his estate in NJ by the name of his home in Perth.
Alexander Scott sold his headland rights in Duncrosk, NJ to John Campbell.
Headlands were the rights of each
indentured servant to land at the completion of their indenture.
