Hmmm...can't find a Rachel on my chart?

Which Gilbert are you related to? Brother of Benjamin and son of Benjamin (b. 1859)?

Are you related to the Gross family from Michigan? I thought they were descendants of Gilbert (my grandfathers brother).  

Hi Julie,  I'm  on this site and still searching for the "guys".  As of now I'm thinking the start of my ancestors was sent to Lynn, MA after the Battle of Dunbar.

Battle of Dunbar prisoners

By the end of October 1650, approximately 1,600 Scots had died horrible deaths in Durham’s much-revered House of God. Only 1,400 of the 5,100 men who started the march from Dunbar in September were still alive less than two months later, when England’s traders in human flesh came for them. Nine hundred of those survivors went to the New World, mainly Virginia, Massachusetts and Barbados colony in the Caribbean. Another 500 were indentured the following spring to Marshall Turenne for service in the French army, and were still fighting seven years later against the Spanish, side by side with a contingent of English soldiers sent over by Cromwell.

The shocking reality is that far more Scots died as English prisoners than were killed at Dunbar. In Durham, disposal of the bodies had become a major problem. The mystery of what became of them was not solved until almost three centuries later, in 1946, when workers installed a central heating system in the cathedral’s music school. They came upon a mass grave while digging a trench for heating pipes on the north side of the cathedral. That grave went in a straight line from the cathedral’s North Door under a line of trees and then under the music school. The bodies had been buried without coffins or Christian services. The corpses had been tossed into the trench, one on top of the other, like so much garbage.

I have found the following lists, but they fall far short of the total.

There is an Alex Douglas listed as a Dunbar prisoner on this list: http://www.stclairresearch.com/content/Dunbar-Prisoners.pdf

There might be 2x William Duglis on this list, which I am having difficult reading: http://www.stclairresearch.com/content/Dunbar-Prisoners.pdf  These, I think, were employed draining the Cambridgeshire Fens.

This list http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-NYS/1997-12/08820... of Scotch Prisoners sent to Massachusetts in 1652 does not include any Douglases, as far as I can see.

The "John & Sara" out of London 1651 and bound for New England with Scottish Prisoners appears not to have carried any Douglases

There is a Yahoo group studying cots Covenanter ancestors who were taken prisoner after the Battles of Dunbar (1650) and Worcester (1651): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scottish_war_prisoners/