The Original Scots Colonists of Early America, 1612-1783
Author: David Dobson
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lists of Scots who emigrated to America.
Author: David Dobson
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lists of Scots who emigrated to America.
Author: David Dobson
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780806316123
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A compilation of all extant records pertaining to the original Scottish emigrants to the American colonies. Over 7,100 people listed of the approximately 150,000 Scots who emigrated to America before the Revolutionary War.
Author: David Dobson
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Improving upon his Original Scots Colonists of Early America, 1612-1707 (1989), which was based solely on UK source material, the author also draws on US sources in this alphabetical listing of the mostly banished Scotch prisoners and indentured servants who settled in the US in the 17th century. The appendices include copies of documents used to encourage emigration from Scotland to Nova Scotia. No bibliography or index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: David Dobson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2011-03-15
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0820340782
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Before 1650, only a few hundred Scots had trickled into the American colonies, but by the early 1770s the number had risen to 10,000 per year. A conservative estimate of the total number of Scots who settled in North America prior to 1785 is around 150,000. Who were these Scots? What did they do? Where did they settle? What factors motivated their emigration? Dobson's work, based on original research on both sides of the Atlantic, comprehensively identifies the Scottish contribution to the settlement of North America prior to 1785, with particular emphasis on the seventeenth century.
Author: Ian Charles Cargill Graham
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Published: 2009-06
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0806345179
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This distinguished monograph is a treatise on the causes and character of Scottish emigration to North America prior to the American Revolution. Entire chapters are then devoted to Lowland and Highland emigration, forced transportation of felons and the drafting of Scottish troops to the colonies, rising rents and other factors in the Scottish social structure, and the British government's role in colonization. Three concluding chapters cover the geographical centers of Scottish settlement--especially the Carolinas.
Author: Stephen M. Millett
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Published: 2009-06
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 0806347619
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing upon research conducted in both Scotland and the United States in manuscript and in published sources, David Dobson has here amassed all the genealogical data that we know of concerning members of the Society of Friends in Scotland prior to 1700 and the origins of Scottish Quakers living in East New Jersey in the 1680s. While there is great deal of variation in the descriptions of the roughly 500 Scottish Quakers listed in the volume, the entries typically give the individual's name, date or place of birth, and occupation, and sometimes the name of a spouse or date of marriage, name of parents, place and reason for imprisonment in Scotland, place of indenture, date of death, and the source of the information.
Author: Larry J Hoefling
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0595359140
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of the Scots-Irish is one of the struggles and achievements of an American immigrant group that existed for only a short period, whose descendants continued to make their marks on the young country for generations. From the North of Ireland to the backwoods of the American frontier, the tale of the Scots-Irish includes a massive exodus to the New World, where they founded communities in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and the Irish Tract of North Carolina during the Revolutionary War era. Containing nearly six thousand names of documented settlers of the primarily Scots-Irish settlements of Virginia and North Carolina, Chasing The Frontier includes materials from church records, military records, early wills and deeds, and newspapers of the time. For the frontier families, life was a daily test of endurance and hardship, but the Scots-Irish also found time for horseracing, gambling, and socializing, and the migration of this hardy race and the lure of the frontiers of Kentucky and Tennessee led to the founding of churches and state charters, and elections to some of the highest offices in the country. Chasing the Frontier is a snapshot of everyday life for the pioneering Scots-Irish in early America.
Author: Peter Ross
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2015-06-24
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9781330263815
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from The Scot in America The materials for the present volume have been gathered from many and varied sources, and their collection has provided for the author a pleasant relaxation from other studies during several years. A wide acquiantance among Scots resident in this country and in Canada has not only directed him to original sources of information, but has, in various ways and for many reasons, shown him the desirability of the compilation of such a work. Even as now presented, the theme cannot be said to be exhausted. What is printed has been mainly selected from a mass of material, for it was found that the subject was too extensive to be fully covered in a single volume, while every day brings to the front some fresh incidents in this history-making age which deserve a place in such a record. Still, enough has been written, it is thought, to bring out into clear relief the main purpose the author had in entering upon its compilation, the demonstration of the fact that in the building up of this great Republic in all that has contributed to its true greatness and perfect civil and religious liberty, Scotsmen have, at least, done their share. It is a pity that a work like this was not attempted a century ago, for much of the early history of the Scot in America has now been lost or has become so mingled with the general trend of events that it has become undistinguishable from the mass. Most of the early Scotch colonists crossed the sea in search of fortune, but a large number found a domicile in America under circumstances which, though sad, reflected honor upon themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: David Dobson
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An alphabetical listing of Scots in the mid-Atlantic colonies from 1635 to 1783.