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I am trying this approach as all others have failed...
In Sept. 1650 Battle of Dunbar in Scotland, one Engram/Engrome/Ingram/Ingraham MOODIE/Moody was captured by Cromwell's men and marched to England where hundreds if not thousands of men were imprisoned until they could figure out what to do with them.
Then one brilliant (or not so brilliant), man decides to send them to America as indentured slaves/servants to work meanial labor jobs as their punishment for defending their country etc.
This Engram Moodie was sent on the first ship out, the UNITY, to Boston, MA and then he went on to Lynn, MA where he was "purchased" and put to work in the Saugus Iron Works in Lynn, MA as an indentured servant.
He must have stayed there because according to the Essex Co. Probate records he died in Essex Co., MA in 1693.
His "guesstimated" year of birth was around c1619.
Engram had a wife and children in MA, but it is not known if he was married before he left Scotland. Many of the men who were captured were and I guess they never saw their families again. I don't know.
Anyway, because I cannot find one shred of the name Engram/Ingraham Moodie anywhere in Scotland, I am wondering if perhaps he didn't make up this name for himself and he's using his mother's maiden name as his own name or something?? Grasping at straws here now, I'm desperate.
I know he came from Scotland and that he was born around c1619. He named a son Engrome Moodie only in Lynn, MA they changed the spelling of his last name to MOODY which was how the other Moody's from England who had come in the early 1630's spelled their last name, and this son was born c1661. Also "Engrome" may be the way the name was spelled due to his heavy Scottish accent too. It was probably Ingram.
I am here searching in case anyone has Scottish ancestry of Ingraham's/Ingram's who married into a Moodie/Moody family waaaay back in about 1600 or the very late 1500's.
I believe Engram Moodie is the father of Clement Moody of Exeter, NH for whom no one can find his lineage line.
Since his father was a POW from Scotland, this is probably why they didn't have good records taken of their families.
If anyone here has ever seen this name, I sure would be tickled pink to hear about it.
Thank You for anything at all.
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