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SPROUL, WILLIAM Clontarch(?) Covenanter. Prisoner at Edinburgh, Dunnotar and Leith. Banished to the Plantations at Leith 18 August 1685. Transported from Leith to East New Jersey by George Scott of Pitlochie on the Henry and Francis, master Richard Hutton, 5 September 1685.

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