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The Scotch House

Essex County · dedicated 1930 · Howard Street, Saugus · location approximate

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Erected in 1615 or 1651 by The Undertakers of the Iron Works in Lyn (Saugus) to house Scotch prisoners captured by Cromwell at the Battle of Dunbar and sold into seven years' service in New England as indentured servants.

1930 text, presented as a historical document.

Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library

Marker data: Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission, 1930 (Commonwealth of Massachusetts)

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