Sylvester Proffitt

1698 - 1767  (69 years)

• Name	Sylvester Proffitt  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	1698	Scotland   [1, 4]
  Gender	Male
  _MILT	1715	Scotland
  	He fought in the Jacobite Rising, was captured, and transported to America
  		Crest-Jacobite Rose
  Immigration	29 Jun 1716	York County, Virginia, USA   [2, 3]
  	Jacobite captured at Preston. Transported from Liverpool for Jamica or Virginia on the Elizabeth and Anne, Master Edward Trafford, 29 June 1716. Landed at York, Virginia - unindentured.
  Death	10 Apr 1767	Goochland County, Virginia, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I23017	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Family	Alice Pleasants,   b. 1698, Henrico County, Virginia, USA d. 17 Apr 1771, Goochland County, Virginia, USA (Age 73 years)
  Children	1. Rev John Proffitt,   b. 1734, Goochland County, Virginia, USA d. 15 Nov 1813, Wilkes County, North Carolina, USA (Age 79 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F8852	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1698 - Scotland _MILT - He fought in the Jacobite Rising, was captured, and transported to America - 1715 - Scotland Immigration - Jacobite captured at Preston. Transported from Liverpool for Jamica or Virginia on the Elizabeth and Anne, Master Edward Trafford, 29 June 1716. Landed at York, Virginia - unindentured. - 29 Jun 1716 - York County, Virginia, USA Death - 10 Apr 1767 - Goochland County, Virginia, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Arms and Icons

  Crest-Jacobite Rose

  
  

• Sources

  [S34] Ancestry.com, Find a Grave, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [S567] Ancestry.com, U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Place: Virginia or Jamaica; Year: 1716; Page Number: 126. [S567] Ancestry.com, U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Place: York, Virginia; Year: 1716; Page Number: 180. [S110] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), Source number: 1727.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: BF1.