Granted Lots in Cambridge , 1664. Signed with "X", Name appears as Ffarabas, Ffarrabas,Farrabas,Forbush, Forbes Sold lots to Edmund Angier moved Marlboro. (Edmund was bro. to Samson Amgier, Kittery Main who hired Wm. Ffarabas. Daniel was prob bro. of Wm. and was sent with him to Georges Plantation,called Scotland,in Kittery, 5/27/1679 that part of Wells, by Cromwell after the battle of Dunbar Sept 3, 1650). Indentured servant to Edmund Wigley, c1620 Daniel in Concord in 1671 The Story of Daniel Forbes to Forbush or Furbush by Michael Forbush dr_forbush@mad.scientist.com
In 1650 Daniel and William Forbes were in their early twenties working on their father's rocky piece of land near Aberdeenshire. Scotland. In July Oliver Cromwell, a Puritan, who had overthrown King Charles II wanted to quiet the uprisings in Scotland. He advanced across the border with the intention of meeting his supply ships at Leith.
David Leslie quickly recruited thousands of Scots under the Calvinist banner. Among these recruits were Daniel and William Forbes. Leslie successfully pressed Cromwell into Dunbar up against the coast trapping Cromwell without his supply ships.
At this point, the Calvinist ministers dismissed all soldiers not living up to the Calvinist ideals. And, against Leslie's military expertise ordered the solders to attack Cromwell, leaving their prime position on Doune Hill. The result was a horrible defeat. The Scots lost 3 thousand men. Ten thousand were captured and held prisoners.Among these ten thousand were Daniel and William Forbes.
Holding ten thousand prisoners proved to difficult for Cromwell. Five thousand managed to escape over the next few weeks.Five thousand prisoners were sent to Durham but only three thousand arrived.
By November 11, 1650 Sir Arthur Haselrig was told to deliver 150 prisoners Augustine Walker the master of the ship Unity. Among these prisoners were Daniel and William Forbes. Walker sold Daniel and William Forbes to Samson Angier of Kittery, Maine for �30 each. William remained with Samson while Daniel was either sold or given to his brother Edmund Angier of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The first record of Daniel Fforbes, or Forbes, or Ffarrabas, that I can find in this country is in Cambridge, Mass. when he married, March 26, 1660, Rebecca Perriman, who is supposed to be the sister of Thomas Perriman, who was of Weymouth, 1652 an apprentice of Mrs. Dorothy Hunt; and of Frances Perriman who married, June 8, 1654; Isaac Andrew, of Cambridge. The son, Isaac Jr. b. 1656; m. Jane Rutter, and resided in Marlborough, where he was an early settler. The father died April 7, 1759(sic), and his widow, Frances, m. Febuary 14, 1662, Richard Cutter, and had several children. He died June 1693, and she died 1725.
It was customary in the early colonial times for the males over twenty to be admitted as freemen before they became entittled to suffrage, but I can not learn that Daniel was ever made a freeman. The priviledge was earnestly desired by every man, and all freemen at that early period were required to be "orthodox," members of the church, twenty years old, and worth �200. The oath sworn at admission required them to be "true and faithful" subjects of the common wealth; to "yield, assistance and support thereunto" with person and estate; maintain and preserve all her "liberties and privileges;" submit to her "wholesome laws;" never "plot and practice" evil against her; nor "consent to any that shall so do, but "timely discover and reveal the same to lawful authority for the speedy preventing thereof." Moreover, they solemnly bound themselves "in the sight of God," that whenever called to give voice "touching any such matter of the State" where freemen were to deal, they would give their "vote and suffrage" as they judged in their own conscience might best "conduce and tend to the public weal of the body" without respect of the persons or favor of man.
February 27, 1664 and March 27, 1665 Daniel Ffarrabas was granted by thee town of Cambridge these several lots as followeth; and also agreed that the interest of each person in the low commons shall be in proportion with the number herein inserted, and that no more proprietors shall be allowed without unanimous consent. [Cambridge town records.] Daniel Fferebas was in the employ of Edmund Angier, of Cambridge, and was warned out of town. (The footnotes explain that Edmund Angier was licensed to sell liquor, and his father owned a grocery and bar on the corner of Dunster and Mt. Auburn Streets. This Edmund was the brother of Samson Angier of Kittery and it was thought that Daniel Ffarabas went to Cambridge and entered the employ of Edmund through the efforts of Samson. If this is the case, Daniel is the brother of William.) But Daniel Ffarrabas was a man of character, stood well in Cambridge, was doubtless a church member; liad his land set off to him by the authorities. [The land was sold to Edmund Angier.]
"Warned out of town" was a common occurrence in those early days, by the constable of the town. The high and the low, the rich and the poor, all had warnings upon moving their residence into another town, or coming in to tarry there for a short time. No offense was taken at such messages from the constable, and they passed unheaded. Yet, not in every instance--for a family of property and good standing came in from other States who knew nothing of such a practice and upon setting down to abide in one of the towns was warned "by authority" and "without a what or a wherefore," to depart town. The astonished husband laid it to heart, and discussed inquiringly with his wife what it could mean. She could not for the life of her imagine what it was for! "Have you said or done anything here to give offense?" quoth she, looking up at his face. " I have done no more than civilly pass the time o'day with the people since we have been here." "Well then, who knows but they think we have got the small-pox?" Thus they querried, but could not account for it. The husband, having laid awake upon it during the night told his wife in the morning that he was going to pack up his things and go somewhere else, " for this is no great of a place after all!"
March 19, 1671, Daniel and Rebecca Ffarabas conveyed five acres of land in Cambridge to Edmund Angier, being land conveyed to Daniel by the town of Cambridge, March 27, 1665.
"When Daniel Ffarabas conveyed land to Edmund Angier, on moving to Marlboro he signed the conveyance with a cross-his name being put above and below, Daniel thus X the evidence that he could not write and, what more natural than a clerk Farrabas writing it in two syllables, and copying the broad Scotch dialect, should spell it Farrabas.
It is likely Daniel Forbush was among the 10,000 Scottish prisoners taken by Lord Cromwell at the Battle of Dunbar on September 3, 1650. Many of these prisoners were exiled to the British colonies.
