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They are shown alphabetically by surname and in the order of the English cities or counties where they were condemned. A comprehensive list of convict \"runaways\" has been compiled from contemporary Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania newspapers and cross-referenced to the passenger lists. A separate section is devoted to the later careers in the colonies of twenty known felons from England, including one for whom there is some evidence of royal descent.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Wilson Coldham\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1997), 2006, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, index, 464 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781585495825\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-C0582\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32204759138422,"sku":"101-C0582","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-c0582-1500px.png?v=1776976270"},{"product_id":"101-c0045","title":"American Loyalist Claims, Volume 1: Abstracted from the Public Record Office, Audit Office Series 13, Bundles 1-35 and 37","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume offers for the first time a comprehensive account of the relationships and interests of that vast number of colonial Americns whose loyalty to the Crown during the Revolution earned them exile and confiscation of their property. It offers maximum usefulness to readers, including the key, by names of testators, to many wills, will abstracts, and administrations-- some of which may be the only copies extant.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Wilson Coldham\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1980, cloth, index, 616 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780915156450\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-C0045\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41320474064,"sku":"101-C0045","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-c0045-1500px.png?v=1776976137"},{"product_id":"101-c0023","title":"Lord Mayor's Court of London Depositions Relating to Americans, 1641-1736","description":"\u003cp\u003eDepositions providing unpublished information regarding American colonials or Englishmen having business interests in America. Extensive footnotes provide supplementary data.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Wilson Coldham\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1980, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, index, 119 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780915156238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-C0023\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41320475408,"sku":"101-C0023","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-c0023-1500px.png?v=1776976135"},{"product_id":"102-1089","title":"Maryland and Virginia Convict Runaways, 1725-1900: A Survey of English Sources","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor over thirty years, Peter Wilson Coldham has compiled and published information on more than 50,000 English convicts who were transported to the American colonies. This information was gathered in \u003cem\u003eThe Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage\u003c\/em\u003e and its supplements, and ultimately consolidated and published in the CD \u003ci\u003eBritish Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1788\u003c\/i\u003e. Recently, using an online index to runaways in eighteenth-century newspaper advertisements, Mr. Coldham has been able to add a final chapter to this body of work, which is presented here under the title \u003ci\u003eMaryland and Virginia Convict Runaways, 1725-1800.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBased on newspaper advertisements placed in the \u003ci\u003eVirginia Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eMaryland Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e this fascinating account of over 1,000 runaway convicts contains personal information not likely to be found in any other record, and includes colorful descriptions of the runaways themselves and details of their original offenses. Information furnished in the advertisements was meant to identify the runaway so he could be apprehended and returned, and it runs the gamut from physical descriptions to assessments of personal behavior. Nuggets like the following are not uncommon:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cblockquote\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Able . . . Landed from the \u003cem\u003eThornton\u003c\/em\u003e in Anne Arundel Co., VA [sic] in Jul 1771 having a red face and very rotten teeth, a great talker pitted with smallpox.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Alexander . . . Transported in Sep 1767 by the \u003ci\u003eJustitia\u003c\/i\u003e, much pitted with smallpox, wears a sober face and talks little.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Avery . . . Sentenced for stealing a linen sheet and transported to VA in Sep 1767 by the \u003cem\u003eJustitia\u003c\/em\u003e. Scotch convict servant, cunning and artful, recently flogged.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/blockquote\u003e \u003cp\u003eNoticeably different from the dry records of the English Assize courts (the source of most information previously published on transported felons), this listing of runaways from newspaper advertisements is as interesting as it is informative, and is a brilliant conclusion to Mr. Coldham's lifetime ambition to bring this little-known episode in American history to light.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Wilson Coldham\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2012, paper, 110 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806318912\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-1089\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32148565524598,"sku":"102-1089","price":21.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-1089-1500px.png?v=1777309780"},{"product_id":"101-c9044","title":"Lord Mayor's Court of London Depositions Relating to Americans, 1641-1736 [cloth]","description":"\u003cp\u003eDepositions providing unpublished information regarding American colonials or Englishmen having business interests in America. Extensive footnotes provide supplementary data.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Wilson Coldham\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1980, 5.5\" x 8.5\", cloth, index, 119 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781680348903\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-C9044\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32155068366966,"sku":"101-C9044","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-c9044-1500px.png?v=1777564262"},{"product_id":"102-1122","title":"American Migrations, 1765-1799","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe lives, times, and families of colonial Americans who remained loyal to the British Crown before, during and after the Revolutionary War, as related in their own words and through their correspondence\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmigration from England to the American Colonies, from the time of the first settlement in Virginia until the Revolutionary War, has become a highly specialized subject on both sides of the Atlantic, and within that narrow field no one has uncovered more information and provided the researcher with more source material than \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/author-peter-wilson-coldham\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Peter Wilson Coldham\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ePeter Wilson Coldham\u003c\/a\u003e, who has compiled twenty-five books on the subject of English emigration to the American Colonies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvery major archival source in England has been examined over the past forty years for evidence of emigrants and their families, all except one-Loyalists' claims submitted to the American Claims Commission between 1765 and 1799 for compensation for loss of land and property as a result of action taken against Loyalists before, during, and after the Revolutionary War. The last remaining archive to yield up its contents has proved the most difficult and time-consuming and yet probably the most productive of evidence. This major collection, the papers and volumes recording American Loyalist Claims-originally housed at Somerset House in London's Strand, then later transferred to the Public Record Office-was first examined by Mr. Coldham in 1980 when he published abstracts of about a quarter of the cases on record (\u003ca href=\"\/products\/101-c0045\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"American Loyalist Claims Volume 1\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eNational Genealogical Society Special Publications, No. 44\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Claims Commission examined claimants and witnesses and amassed a mountain of documentary materials which included applications, correspondence, depositions, affidavits, and legal transcripts which now form record class AO 13 (providing the raw material for most of the information in this book) and AO 12 (comprising 146 bound volumes which summarize the documentation already received). In this book, cases are grouped together as far as practicable according to the name and normal residence of the person in whose right each claim was rendered. This has the benefit of grouping together under the name of a sole original landowner the applications of many descendants who may have submitted claims under different names. All 5,800 individual claims-the entire contents of the papers of the Claims Commission that form record classes AO 12 and AO 13 at the Public Record Office-are abstracted in this comprehensive publication.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe importance of this collection lies in the fact that the papers cover a period in colonial history that is particularly difficult for genealogical research. The introduction of the Stamp Act of 1765 ushered in the most turbulent period yet experienced on the American mainland, culminating in the savage conflicts of the Revolutionary War. Not only families but sometimes the populations of whole towns, both Loyalists and Patriots, were uprooted and dispersed, some to far distant lands, and records of all kinds were abandoned or destroyed. The personal journals, correspondence, and recollections of those who lived through these times therefore acquire a special significance. Of the 15,000 individuals recorded in this work, some three-quarters took up residence outside the United States after 1783-hence the title of the work-but the remainder, including many who had been classed as Loyalists, became honorable citizens of the new Republic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Wilson Coldham\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2000, paper, 948 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806316185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-1122\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39256433066102,"sku":"102-1122","price":107.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-1122-1500px.png?v=1777309806"},{"product_id":"102-1108","title":"American Wills and Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1610-1857","description":"\u003cp\u003eThousands of Englishmen who immigrated to America between 1610 and 1857 died leaving estates in England. Proving their wills and granting administrations in England were matters dealt with by the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) which had jurisdiction in such matters. Obviously any information from such records concerning kinship links with Americans is highly important to the genealogist.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the preparation of this work entries from the Probate Act Books and Administration Act Books were abstracted only when it was possible to establish with certainty that the deceased or his relatives had some connection with mainland America. This material was then verified and supplemented by comparing it with the principal printed books listing American wills and administrations in the PCC, thus permitting the inclusion of a note of those wills of Englishmen who named relatives living in America or who had interests there.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe abstracts have been arranged in alphabetical order by the name of the deceased, and each abstract contains the name of the testator or intestate, his marital status at the time of his death, the place of death, the former place of residence, the date of probate or administration, the names of executors or administrators, and the names and relationships of family members. Altogether there are about 6,000 abstracts, and the index of names contains references to an additional 5,000 persons. 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(Information such as the names of close relations, legatees and witnesses, and references to ownership of property.) To redress this imbalance, Mr. Coldham has issued this present work containing complete summaries of all those wills not included in the works of Waters, Withington, or Sherwood, providing the researcher with an accessible compendium of American wills proved in London to complement and stand comparison with the other three, closing the circle on a priceless body of data.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Wilson Coldham\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1992, paper, 360 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806313634\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-1116\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39256433361014,"sku":"102-1116","price":47.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-1116-1500px.png?v=1777309800"},{"product_id":"102-1109","title":"Emigrants in Chains","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Social History of Forced Emigration to the Americas of Felons, Destitute Children, Political and Religious Non-Conformists, Vagabonds, Beggars and Other Undesirables, 1607-1776\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFew colonizing powers can have relied so heavily and consistently on the wholesale deportation of their prison population as did England through two-and-a-half centuries of imperial expansion. By the time America made her Declaration of Independence in 1776, the prisons of England had disgorged some 50,000 of their inmates to the colonies, most of them destined to survive and, with their descendants, to populate the land of their exile.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn a story largely untold until now-certainly never told as well-Coldham's groundbreaking study demonstrates once and for all that the recruitment of labor for the American colonies was achieved in large measure through the emptying of English jails, workhouses, brothels, and houses of correction. Supported by a massive array of documentary evidence and first-hand testimony, the book focuses on the emergence and use of transportation as a means of dealing with an unwanted population, dwelling at length on the processes involved, the men charged with the administration of the system of transportation or engaged in transportation as a business, then proceeding with a fascinating look at the transportees themselves, their lives and hapless careers, and their reception in the colonies. The whole unhappy saga of enforced transportation is here recounted with such force and eloquence that it is bound to set some popular notions about the peopling of the American colonies on their head.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Wilson Coldham\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1992), 2007, paper, 196 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806317786\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-1109\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39256434606198,"sku":"102-1109","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-1109-1500px.png?v=1777309797"},{"product_id":"102-1103","title":"English Estates of American Colonists: American Wills and Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1610-1699","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor this work, entries in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury Act Books from 1600 onwards were examined and abstracts made that related to settlers in America and their families. This was verified and supplemented by comparing it with the main printed works listing American wills in the PCC resulting in notes on wills made by Englishmen who named relatives living in the American colonies, or who had interests there.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 1,500 abstracts in this volume are arranged alphabetically by the name of the testator or intestate, with reference to his marital status when he died, the place of death, the date of probate or administration, names of executors and administrators, and the names and relationship of various family members. 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In this work Mr. Coldham has succeeded in bringing into view the host of people and events chronicled in these records during the period 1609 to 1660. Carefully selected and condensed, the abstracts refer only to cases brought before the court concerning colonial America. Therefore, we find in this work the names of hundreds of merchants, passengers, mariners, and adventurers who had some connection with the settlement of the original colonies. Certainly not all those named here settled in the colonies or even journeyed there, but a fair number did, and these abstracts may provide the long-sought proof of their emigration. For those who may miss a specific genealogical link, there is still enough fresh information in these curious records to sustain an unusually high level of interest. 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After years of painstaking research, the names of nearly all those transported were extracted from official court records by Peter Coldham and published in the landmark work \u003cem\u003eThe Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage\u003c\/em\u003e in 1988 and its \u003cem\u003eSupplement\u003c\/em\u003e in 1992, forming the largest and most complete passenger list of its kind ever published. From this unexpected source, the researcher at last had the means of learning the names of the persons transported to the colonies, the charges against them, the dates and places of sentencing, the ship names, and the places of arrival in the colonies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe original volume of \u003cem\u003eEmigrants in Bondage\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1988, acknowledged that there were some notable omissions from the list of transported felons then printed, which remained to be researched and remedied. 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