I just recently discovered an ancestor Daniel Forbes who has been suspected by researchers to have been a POW from The battle of Dunbar. He was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland and immigrated voluntary or involuntary to New England, specifically Massachusetts around the mid 1650s. His name was written as Forbush from then on. So from what I’ve read it’s some what luck that he survived considering the conditions they treated POWs.

What was the true likelihood of a POW surviving and was there any reasons why they would be chosen to ship off to the New World?

And what was the story behind the battle of Dunbar?