{"title":"Immigration Records","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt;\"\u003eImmigration records trace the movement of families from their homelands to America and document the moment of arrival in the New World. Heritage Books carries published passenger lists, emigration records, ship indexes, and compiled studies of specific immigrant groups and migration streams. The collection includes colonial-era passenger lists, 19th-century port arrival indexes, and ethnic-specific emigration studies covering German, Irish, Scandinavian, British, and other immigrant communities.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"101-b5237","title":"History of the Huguenot Emigration to America: Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis extensively-researched two-volume series offers a detailed account of \"the coming of the persecuted Protestants of France to the New World, and their establishment, particularly in the seaboard provinces [New England] now comprehended within the United States....The volumes now submitted to the public treat first of these antecedent movements, and then take up the narrative of the events that led to the more considerable and more effective emigration, in the latter years of the seventeenth century.\" This very readable narrative history is rich with details about persons, places and events. Much of the information preserved on these pages was gleaned from unpublished documents found in the United States, France and England: \"Manuscripts in the possession of the descendants of refugees; memorials, petitions, wills, and other papers on file in public offices;\" as well as numerous church records and other original documents.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVolume 2 includes: The Revocation: Flight from Saintonge, (Poitou and Touraine); The Revocation: Flight from the Northern Provinces (Bretagne, Picardy, Orléanais, Maine, the Ile de France, and Berri); The Revocation: Flight from the Eastern and Southern Provinces (Lorraine, Champagne, Lyonnais, Languedoc, Dauphiny, Languedoc, Guyenne, and the Comté de Foix); The Refuge: England; The Emigration: On the High Seas; and The Settlements: Boston, Oxford, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Illustrations, maps, and an appendix enhance the text. An index to full-names, places and subjects for both volumes is contained in this volume. Volume 1 is available \u003ca href=\"\/products\/101-b5236\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"History of the Huguenot Emigration to America: Volume 1\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharles W. Baird\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1885), 2011, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, 466 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788452376\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-B5237\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39253391179894,"sku":"101-B5237","price":43.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-b5237.png?v=1727712906"},{"product_id":"101-cd3254","title":"CD-History of the Irish Settlers in North America from the Earliest Period to the Census of 1850","description":"\u003cp\u003eCovers the early explorations of North America, the settlements of the Irish, their role in the American Revolution and the early Federal Period, the famines of 1846-48 and the Irish in Mexico and South America.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book is presented as graphic images, so the user sees the work just as it was originally published. It is intended to look and function very much like a \"real\" book. There is no electronic index, and there is no electronic text to search. However, numerous electronic bookmarks have been added which make it easy to move through the book. Image numbers will match the page numbers for all of the main text, as well as the index. Any unnumbered portraits and illustrations are at the back of the actual file, to keep page numbering consistent.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThomas D'Arcy McGee\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1851), 2004, CD-ROM, index, Graphic Images, Adobe Acrobat, PC or Mac, 185 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788432545\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-CD3254\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39319345791094,"sku":"101-CD3254","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-cd3254.png?v=1757620224"},{"product_id":"101-cd3265","title":"CD-An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders In America","description":"\u003cp\u003eNow on CD-ROM! This detailed tome opens with a brief history of the Highlanders in Scotland, followed by an account of Highlanders in the Colonies. Other topics include settlement in North Carolina, and Georgia, Captain Campbell's NY Colony, settlement on the Mohawk, Prince Edward Island and Pictou (Nova Scotia), Highlanders in the French and Indian War and on both sides of the Revolution, and distinguished Highlanders in America.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book is presented as graphic images, so the user sees the work just as it was originally published. It is intended to look and function very much like a \"real\" book. There is no electronic index, and there is no electronic text to search. However, numerous electronic bookmarks have been added which make it easy to move through the book. Image numbers will match the page numbers for all of the main text, as well as the index. Any unnumbered portraits and illustrations are at the back of the actual file, to keep page numbering consistent.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJ. P. MacLean\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1900), 2004, CD-ROM, Adobe Acrobat, PC or Mac, 458 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788432651\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-CD3265\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":443819687952,"sku":"101-CD3265","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-cd3265.png?v=1757620510"},{"product_id":"101-b3592","title":"I Came to America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI Came to America\u003c\/em\u003e recounts the incredible life story of François Alain Borny, written in a charming style that conveys his sense of adventure and wonder. It is a treasure for anyone that reads it; a riveting tale of places and events that few people will ever experience. From pre-World War II era Europe to today's United States, \u003cem\u003eI Came to America\u003c\/em\u003e relates a physical, emotional and sometimes spiritual journey. The author's childhood in occupied France was an ordeal: \"starvation, curfew, arbitrary arrest, torture, execution of resistants, and deprivation of freedom.\" His father worked in the secret underground despite continuous harassment from the German Gestapo and SS until the American Expeditionary Corps debarked in Provence on August 15, 1944, and liberty was restored. France struggled in the aftermath of the war, \"torn apart by the multiplicity of political parties, some of which were more inclined on the Soviet ideology than on the western principals.\" Join François Alain Borny as he leaves his homeland in search of the American dream, and experience a multitude of adventures—some too marvelous to believe. Readers will travel with the author from Europe to Africa to Haiti and to many other exotic places with a flare for the unusual and romantic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrancois Alain Borny\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2006, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, 390 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788435928\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-B3592\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39394677817462,"sku":"101-B3592","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-b3592.png?v=1727713442"},{"product_id":"101-c0582","title":"The King's Passengers to Maryland and Virginia","description":"\u003cp\u003eNearly 400 convict ships carrying 50,000 men, women and children left British waters bound for the southern colonies of America where their human cargos were sold. With remarkably few exceptions, the transportation ships frequented the ports of Chesapeake Bay where, for almost 100 years, facilities had been developed for the reception and sale of convicted prisoners. This tidal wave of involuntary laborers became known, officially and informally, as \"His Majesty's Seven-Year Passengers\": they have been characterized as the largest body of identifiable emigrants ever recorded, but until now, no attempt has been made to bring together the hundreds of individual passenger lists which survive in English and American archives. Some 25,000 passengers are listed here. 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\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Wilson Coldham\u003c\/strong\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, Inc.","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.png?v=1727738703"},{"product_id":"101-h0697","title":"Across the Atlantic and Beyond: The Migration of German and Swiss Immigrants to America","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe author discusses several aspects of life of the German and Swiss immigrants to America, based on his research of his ancestors: the mechanics of name changes; the world in which his ancestors lived and the circumstances that led them to migrate; the rapid spread of Protestantism; the rise in literacy. Includes: changes in Germanic surnames; changes in city an villages names; Mennonite and Quaker settlements of Pennsylvania; Protestantism behind the German migration; and the push and pull of the Germans--in America, war, kings and queens, the Rhine, crossing the Atlantic, and the prairies of Kansas.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharles R. Haller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1993), 2008, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, index, 324 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781556136979\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-H0697\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":438176743440,"sku":"101-H0697","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-h0697.png?v=1727797472"},{"product_id":"101-m0212","title":"History of the Irish Settlers in North America from the Earliest Period to the Census of 1850","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume begins with a brief account of early explorations of North America. Several chapters are then devoted to a discussion of the first settlements of Irish immigrants in the various colonies of North America, followed by descriptions of the Irish role in the American Revolution and the early Federal period. There are also discussions of the Irish Famines of 1846-7 and 1848, the Irish in Mexico and South America, and the Irish population of the United States as revealed in the Federal Census of 1850. Copies of the original printing of this book are difficult to find. An every name index has been added as an aid to researchers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThomas D'Arcy McGee\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1851), 2008, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, index, 188 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781556132124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-M0212\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39287765696630,"sku":"101-M0212","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-m0212.png?v=1727798042"},{"product_id":"101-m1742","title":"An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders In America [paper]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrior to the Peace of 1783 Together with Notices of Highland Regiments and Biographical Sketches\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis detailed tome opens with a brief history of the Highlanders in Scotland, followed by an account of Highlanders in the Colonies. Other topics include settlement in North Carolina, and Georgia, Captain Campbell's NY Colony, settlement on the Mohawk, Prince Edward Island and Pictou (Nova Scotia), Highlanders in the French and Indian War and on both sides of the Revolution, and distinguished Highlanders in America.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJ. P. MacLean\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1900), 2008, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, index, 478 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788417429\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-M1742\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":438336815120,"sku":"101-M1742","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-m1742.png?v=1727798185"},{"product_id":"101-m7105","title":"An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders In America [cloth]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrior to the Peace of 1783 Together with Notices of Highland Regiments and Biographical Sketches\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis detailed tome opens with a brief history of the Highlanders in Scotland, followed by an account of Highlanders in the Colonies. Other topics include settlement in North Carolina, and Georgia, Captain Campbell's NY Colony, settlement on the Mohawk, Prince Edward Island and Pictou (Nova Scotia), Highlanders in the French and Indian War and on both sides of the Revolution, and distinguished Highlanders in America.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJ. P. MacLean\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1900), 2008, 5.5\" x 8.5\", cloth, index, 478 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788471056\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-M7105\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41279070480,"sku":"101-M7105","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-m7105.png?v=1727798356"},{"product_id":"102-1467","title":"Scots in the Mid-Atlantic States, 1783-1883","description":"\u003cp\u003eNaming an additional 3,000 Scots immigrants to the mid-Atlantic region, this book covers the hundred-years immediately following the Revolutionary War and provides a series of sketches conveying such information as the immigrant's place and date of birth and death, occupation, date of arrival and place of settlement in the U.S., and names of spouse and children.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWho were these Scottish immigrants to the mid-Atlantic states? Little exists to record their departure from Scotland, but probably the most informative source of vital data on Scots who settled abroad are the birth, marriage, and death columns of local newspapers. This compilation depends heavily on such sources, together with certain documentary sources in the National Archives of Scotland, as well as a few other sources both printed and manuscript.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is another volume in Dobson's indispensable regional immigration series, which includes \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Scots in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies, 1635-1783\" href=\"\/products\/102-1466\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eScots in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies, 1635-1783\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Scots in the Mid-Atlantic States, 1783-1883\" href=\"\/products\/102-1467\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eScots in the Mid-Atlantic States, 1783-1883\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Directory of Scots in the Carolinas Volume 1\" href=\"\/products\/102-1483\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDirectory of Scots in the Carolinas Volume 1\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Directory of Scots in the Carolinas Volume 2\" href=\"\/products\/102-9811\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDirectory of Scots in the Carolinas Volume 2\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Scots on the Chesapeake, 1621-1776, Revised Edition\" href=\"\/products\/102-8095\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eScots on the Chesapeake, 1621-1776, Revised Edition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Scots in Georgia and the Deep South 1835-1845\" href=\"\/products\/102-1471\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eScots in Georgia and the Deep South 1835-1845\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Scots in New England 1625-1873\" href=\"\/products\/102-1469\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eScots in New England 1625-1873\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Dobson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2002, paper, 150 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806317007\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-1467\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29410823995510,"sku":"102-1467","price":19.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-1467.png?v=1744984226"},{"product_id":"102-4870","title":"A Compilation of the Original Lists of Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina, 1763-1773","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 4,000 immigrants listed in this volume were Protestant refugees from Europe who came to South Carolina on the encouragement of an act passed by the General Assembly of the Colony on July 25, 1761, called the Bounty Act. Arranged chronologically, and taken verbatim from the original Council Journals, 1763-1773, the information given in the certificates and petitions for lands under the Bounty Act includes the date and the location and acres granted. In some cases the immigrants are listed with their age, country of origin, and name of the vessel on which they arrived. An excellent index provides references to more than 4,000 names in the text. This book is indispensable in attempting to locate an ancestor's place of settlement in South Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJanie Revill\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1939), 2008\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806305998\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-4870\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29981771464822,"sku":"102-4870","price":29.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-4870.png?v=1727805348"},{"product_id":"102-9008","title":"The People of the Windward Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and Curaçao, 1620-1860","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Windward Islands form part of the Lesser Antilles, which stretch from Puerto Rico to the fringes of Venezuela. Since the 17th century, these islands attracted immigrants from Europe, initially from Spain but soon also from the British Isles, France, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia. The Windward Islands include Guadaloupe, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, the Grenadines, Carriacou, Dominca, and Grenada. This volume covers 200 years of inihabitants of the Windward Islands, as well as those of Curacao, Trinidad, and Tobago, which lie close to the coast of Venezuela.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome of the early settlers to this region were transported there as prisoners of war or were escaping from persecution, including Jews and Huguenots. The economy and society of the West Indies was very much dependent on slaves brought from Africa. In due course some of the descendants of these various population groups chose to move to North America or to Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn all, Mr. Dobson identifies over 2,000 inhabitants of these islands between the years 1620 and 1860. For each, we are given a name, occupation, date and the source, and sometimes the names of family members, additional dates (marriage, death, etc.), vessels traveled upon, and other details.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book is based on research into manuscript and published sources, mainly located in Great Britain, but also in the West Indies. A list of those sources is included at the back of the volume.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Dobson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2019\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806358857\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-9008\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30318838349942,"sku":"102-9008","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-9008.png?v=1727805571"},{"product_id":"102-9009","title":"Scottish Highlanders on the Eve of the Great Migration, 1725-1775, The People of the Hebrides, Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Hebrides are those islands lying off the coast of the Western Highlands of Scotland. They form parts of the counties of Ross and Cromarty, Inverness, and Argyll, and contain thirty-six parishes. During the Seven Years War, 1756 to 1763, Hebrideans comprised part of the Highland regiments raised to fight in America, namely Fraser's Highlanders and Montgomery's Highlanders. They and the Black Watch played a significant role in the campaigns and afterwards many former soldiers chose to settle in the former French Canada and in America rather than return to Scotland. These military settlers with their friends and families formed a substantial portion of the Highlanders who settled in the years before the outbreak of the America Revolution in 1776.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGenealogical research in this region can be challenging because the parish registers, which are the backbone of Scottish genealogical research, only exist for about a quarter of the Hebridean parishes before 1800—and then only for Presbyterian ones. Such alternative sources as do exist include court records, estate papers, wills and testaments, services of heirs, registers of sasines, registers of deeds, port books, rent rolls, tax records, monumental inscriptions, and published works-on both sides of the Atlantic—and they comprise the basis for Dr. David Dobson's second volume of Hebridean source records. In all of the roughly 1,500 completely new entries for Volume 2, Dobson identifies a Hebridean by name, location, occupation, date, and source. In many instances the records also indicate an individual's kinsmen, intention to emigrate, military service, and other valuable characteristics. Since Celtic was still spoken in the Hebrides in the 18th century, researchers will find evidence of this in the surnames and place names that arise in the entries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Dobson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2019, paper, 150 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806358871\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-9009\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30318843166838,"sku":"102-9009","price":25.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-9009.png?v=1727805571"},{"product_id":"102-9016","title":"Scottish Highlanders on the Eve of the Great Migration, 1725-1775, The People of the Grampian Highlands","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 2005, Clearfield Company launched a new series of books by David Dobson designed to identify the origins of Scottish Highlanders who traveled to America prior to the Great Highland Migration that began in the 1730s and intensified thereafter. The first five volumes cover Scottish Highlanders from Argyll, Perthshire, Inverness-shire, the Northern Highlands, and the Northern Isles. This sixth and concluding volume pertains to the Grampian Highlands.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMuch of the Highland emigration was directly related to a breakdown in social and economic institutions. Under the pressures of the commercial and industrial revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries, Highland chieftains abandoned their patriarchal role in favor of becoming capitalist landlords. By raising farm rents to the breaking point, the chiefs left the social fabric of the Scottish Highlands in tatters. Accordingly, voluntary emigration by Gaelic-speaking Highlanders began in the 1730s. The social breakdown was intensified by the failure of the Jacobite cause in 1745, followed by the British military occupation and repression in the Highlands in the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden. In 1746, the British government dispatched about 1,000 Highland Jacobite prisoners of war to the colonies as indentured servants. Later, during the Seven Years' War of 1756-1763 (known as the French and Indian War in the North American colonies), Highland regiments recruited in the service of the British crown chose to settle in Canada and America rather than return to Scotland.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOnce in North America, the Highlanders tended to be clannish and moved in extended family groups, unlike immigrants from the Lowlands who moved as individuals or in groups of a few families. The Gaelic-speaking Highlanders tended to settle on the western frontier, whereas the Lowlanders merged with the English on the coast. Highlanders seem to have established \"beachheads,\" and their kin subsequently followed. The best example of this pattern is in North Carolina, where they first arrived in 1739 and moved to the Piedmont, to be followed by others for more than a century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnother factor that distinguishes research in Highland genealogy is the availability of pertinent records. Scottish genealogical research is generally based on the parish registers of the Church of Scotland, which provide information on baptisms and marriages. In the Scottish Lowlands, such records can date back to the mid-16th century, but, in general, Highland records start much later. Americans seeking their Highland roots, therefore, face the problem that there are few, if any, parish records available that pre-date the American Revolution. In the absence of Church of Scotland records, the researcher must turn to a miscellany of other records, such as court records, estate papers, sasines, gravestone inscriptions, burgess rolls, port books, services of heirs, wills and testaments, and especially rent rolls. (Some rent rolls even pre-date parish registers.) This series, therefore, is designed to identify the kinds of records that are available in the absence of parish registers and to supplement those registers when they are available.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Grampian Highlands stretch from the Braes of Angus in the south, north-eastwards following a geological fault line known as the Highland Line to Aberdeenshire, then west as far as Strathspey. The region embraces the mountainous areas of Angus, Kincardineshire, Aberdeenshire, Banffshire, and Morayshire but does not include the fertile coastal plain nor Strathmore. The main clans associated with the Grampian Highlands were Davidson, Farquharson, Forbes, Gordon, Grant, Keith, Lindsay, Mackintosh, MacPherson, and Ogilvie. As northeast Scotland tended to be a stronghold of Jacobitism, many of its supporters from the Grampian Highlands were transported to America and the West Indies after 1715 and 1745. In the 18th century, there were small-scale emigrations from north-east ports, such as Aberdeen, as most of emigrants chose to leave via Clyde ports (such as the Grants from Strathspey, who left Greenock bound for New York on the George in 1774). From the late 18th century, the rise of the transatlantic timber trade enabled many from northeastern Scotland to emigrate via Aberdeen to the Canadian maritimes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhile the present volume is not a comprehensive directory of all of the Grampian Highlanders, it does pull together references on 1,500 18th-century inhabitants from that region. 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Margaret Krug Palen's personal recollections of her German-Scottish family breathe life into this narrative that includes school days, family and community celebrations, medical care, the Great Depression, World War II, and much more. The author presents detailed accounts of farm life on an Iowa farm in the early twentieth century. Tending animals, growing crops, and maintaining farm buildings and agricultural equipment requires a substantial amount of daily labor and the entire family pitched in. Even young children had numerous daily chores that included gathering eggs, working in the garden, moving cattle, and helping with food preparation. This joint effort was rewarded with simple pleasures, strength of character, and steadfast bonds within the family and the community. 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Dr. Don Heinrich Tolzmann has here translated and edited selected chapters from Koerner covering the states of Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana and adding extensive references to additional sources. This marks the second volume adapted by Dr. Tolzmann from the Koerner opus; \u003ci\u003eThe German Element in the North East: Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and New England\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2010.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDisinclined to write a history of German immigration to the United States, Gustav Koerner set about to describe and assess the 19th-century contributions-his coverage substantially exceeded 1848-of Germans to American life and society. In this context he considers the role of Germans and German-Americans in helping to establish Cincinnati as the center of Ohio Valley commerce, the plethora of German-language newspapers, the various religious denominations, the German Democratic Party, struggles against Nativism, Germans in the American Civil War, and so forth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the most part, however-and genealogists are the beneficiaries-the work portrays the German element through the lives of individuals. Accordingly, Koerner offers a wealth of biographical information about people such as Martin Baum, Wilhelm Nast, Dr. Joseph H. Pulte, Heinrich A. Ratterman, Georg Walker, Ludwig Rehfuss, General Gotfried Weitzel, Nikolaus Hoffer, Pastor August Kroll, Gustav Tafel, Christian Heyl, Wilhelm Schmidt, Johann H. Ropke, G. W. Barth, Albert Lange, Johann Georg Rapp, and many others. 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Faced with this crisis and opportunity, Reverend Martin persuaded his parishioners that they had nothing to lose by leaving Ulster, and before long he was in charge of a small fleet of vessels bound for South Carolina. This story is recounted by Ms. Stephenson from the records of the South Carolina Council Journal and tax lists, passenger lists, church histories, and other sources housed at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGenealogists will want to pore over the land evidence assembled by the author from entries found in the Council Journal, namely, authorizations, survey abstracts, wills, deeds and other records which demonstrate where each family settled, or was entitled to settle. 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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\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Wilson Coldham\u003c\/strong\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.png?v=1727805717"},{"product_id":"102-9754","title":"Scots-Dutch Links in Europe and America, 1575-1825, Volume I","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs early as 1575, a number of Scottish scholars and merchants gravitated to the cities of Holland, Zealand, and Flanders because of the educational and commercial opportunities they offered. For their part, Scottish Covenanters went to the Netherlands to flee persecution under the Stuarts and to live among their Calvinist brethren. Probably the largest number of Scots found in the Netherlands were soldiers fighting in the service of the United Provinces in its 80-year struggle for independence against the Spanish Habsburgs and later France. The Scottish presence in the Netherlands was such that by 1700 about a thousand Scots lived in the city of Rotterdam alone. Over the course of the 17th and 18th centuries, some of these Scots or their descendants participated in the Dutch emigration to America.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor his latest book, Scottish emigration expert David Dobson has combed primary and secondary sources on both sides of the Atlantic in order to document these links between Scotland, the Netherlands, and America. Mr. Dobson provides over 2,000 separate references to this traffic. In each case, he states the individual's name, occupation (soldier, merchant, student, etc.), date of the reference, and the source. Marriage entries typically give the Scot's name and place of origin, those of his spouse, and sometimes the name(s) of parents, or more. In a few cases, the references are to Dutch persons who migrated in the opposite direction, attracted by Scotland's offer of full naturalization. The author cautions researchers to note that the names brought to America by these immigrants were generally modified by the Dutch and, on occasion, provide no clue to their actual Scots origin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Dobson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(2004), 2006, paper, 161 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806352251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-9754\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32238863122550,"sku":"102-9754","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-9754.png?v=1727805843"},{"product_id":"102-9515","title":"Scots-Dutch Links in Europe and America, 1575-1825, Volume II","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs early as 1575, a number of Scottish scholars and merchants gravitated to the cities of Holland, Zealand, and Flanders because of the educational and commercial opportunities they offered. For example, Antwerp and Rotterdam were the great emporiums of northern Europe where colonial products from America, Africa, and Asia were distributed. For their part, Scottish Covenanters went to the Netherlands to flee persecution under the Stuarts and to live among their Calvinist brethren. Probably the majority of Scots in the Netherlands were soldiers fighting in the service of the United Provinces in its 80-year struggle for independence against the Spanish Habsburgs and later France. The Scottish presence in the Netherlands was such that by 1700 about a thousand Scots lived in the city of Rotterdam alone, many of them members of the famous Scots Brigade. Over the course of the 17th and 18th centuries, some of these Scots or their descendants participated in the Dutch immigration to America.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 2004, Scottish emigration expert Dr. David Dobson combed primary and secondary sources on both sides of the Atlantic in order to document these links between Scotland, the Netherlands, and America. The result was \u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/102-9754\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Scots-Dutch Links in Europe and America, 1575-1825\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eScots-Dutch Links in Europe and America, 1575-1825\u003c\/a\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e which provides over 2,000 separate references to this traffic. Now Dr. Dobson has assembled a second collection of Scots-Dutch links from primary and secondary sources. In each case, he states the individual's name, occupation (soldier, merchant, student, etc.), date of the reference, and the source. Marriage entries typically give the Scot's name and place of origin, those of his spouse, and sometimes the name(s) of parents, or more. In a few cases, the references are to Dutch persons who migrated in the opposite direction, lured by Scotland's offer of full naturalization. The author cautions researchers to note that the names brought to America by these immigrants were generally modified by the Dutch and, on occasion, provide no clue to their actual Scots origin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Dobson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2011, paper, 136 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806355528\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-9515\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32238863712374,"sku":"102-9515","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-9515.png?v=1727805846"},{"product_id":"102-8119","title":"Scots-Dutch Links in Europe and America, 1575-1825, Volume III","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs early as 1575, a number of Scottish scholars and merchants gravitated to the cities of Holland, Zealand, and Flanders because of the educational and commercial opportunities they offered. For example, Antwerp and Rotterdam were the great emporiums of northern Europe where colonial products from America, Africa, and Asia were distributed. For their part, Scottish Covenanters went to the Netherlands to flee persecution under the Stuarts and to live among their Calvinist brethren. Probably the majority of Scots in the Netherlands were soldiers fighting in the service of the United Provinces in its 80-year struggle for independence against the Spanish Habsburgs and later France. The Scottish presence in the Netherlands was such that by 1700 about a thousand Scots lived in the city of Rotterdam alone, many of them members of the famous Scots Brigade. Over the course of the 17th and 18th centuries, some of these Scots or their descendants participated in the Dutch immigration to America.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDr. Dobson here has assembled a third collection of Scots-Dutch links from primary and secondary sources. In each case he states the individual's name, occupation (soldier, merchant, student, etc.), date of the reference, and the source. Volume III contains a significant number of marriages of Scottish immigrants that occurred in Rotterdam, often with local residents. Most occurred in the Scots Kirk or church there but others were held in other Protestant churches. There are also entries based on 17th-century Dutch wills or deeds of Scots, some of whom were bound for the Dutch colonies. Another source was the Court Book of the Scottish Staple at Veere, which identified Scots resident or trading there.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Dobson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2016, paper, 139 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806358208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-8119\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32238864662646,"sku":"102-8119","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8119.png?v=1727805847"},{"product_id":"102-8716","title":"Scots-Dutch Links in Europe and America, 1575-1825, Volume IV","description":"\u003cp\u003eScotland has had strong economic, social and military links with the Netherlands since the medieval period, but the main period of Scottish settlement in the Low Countries occurred in the 17th century. Scottish scholars and merchants had long been attracted by the opportunities available in the universities and cities of Holland, Zealand, and Flanders, especially by courses in law and medicine. Scottish merchants and craftsmen could be found in towns and cities throughout the Netherlands, especially in Veere, Middelburg, Amsterdam, and Rotterdam. During the 17th century, Scots communities, with their own churches, could be found throughout Holland and Zealand in particular, and by 1700 around 1,000 Scots lived in Rotterdam alone. Some of the Scots found in the Netherlands were religious or political refugees, such as the Covenanters, who fled persecution under the Stuart kings to live among their Calvinist brethren. A small number of Dutch merchants and craftsmen also settled in Scotland during the period, some of whom had been attracted in 1672 when the Scottish government-with the incentive of full naturalization-invited inhabitants of the United Provinces to come across.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor eighty years the Dutch fought to maintain their independence from Spain, and aiding them in their struggle were thousands of Scottish soldiers, who formed the Scots Brigade. The Scots Brigade in Dutch Service was founded in 1572 and continued in existence until 1782, during which time a significant number of men from Scotland fought and later settled in the Netherlands. A number of them and their descendants immigrated to the Dutch settlements in America, stretching from the Hudson River to the West Indies and Surinam.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book, the fourth in the series, identifies some of the Scots with links to the Low Countries, especially seafarers and merchants, but also planters in the Dutch colonies in and around the Caribbean. It is based mainly on primary sources, notably the records of the High Court of the Admiralty of Scotland. In each case, Dr. Dobson states the individual's name, occupation (soldier, merchant, student, etc.), date of the reference, and the source. Marriage entries typically give the Scot's name and place of origin, those of his spouse, and sometimes the name(s) of parents, or more. In a few cases, the references are to Dutch persons who migrated in the opposite direction, lured by Scotland's offer of full naturalization.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Dobson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2020, paper, 140 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806359137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-8716\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32238865809526,"sku":"102-8716","price":25.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8716.png?v=1727805850"},{"product_id":"102-8718","title":"Irish Emigrants to North America, Part 10","description":"\u003cp\u003eIrish immigration to North America can be said to have commenced in earnest with the \"Scotch-Irish\" in 1718. By comparison, significant numbers of Irish people could already be found in the English colonies in the West Indies, and to a limited degree in the Dutch West Indies. By the early 18th century, however, the Irish were the largest immigrant group to settle in the thirteen American colonies. During this period, most immigrants to America were Presbyterians from the north of Ireland, though this would change dramatically in the 19th century. The greatest Irish exodus to America occurred between the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the conclusion of the potato famine in 1851. During that span around one million left Ireland, mainly for North America, but also in smaller numbers for Australia, as well as for the industrializing towns of Britain. Most of those bound for North America sailed from Irish ports, though others went via Liverpool or Glasgow.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume is based on primary sources located in Ireland, the United States, Canada, Scotland, England, and the West Indies. Such primary sources include manuscripts, newspapers and journals, monumental inscriptions, and government records. The author has arranged the list of roughly 1,000 new persons in this volume alphabetically by the emigrant's surname and, in the majority of cases, provides most of the following particulars: date of birth, name of ship, occupation in Ireland, reason for emigration, sometimes place of origin in Ireland, place of disembarkation in the New World, date of arrival, number of persons in the household, and the source of the information.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Dobson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2020, paper, 114 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806359151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-8718\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32238874787958,"sku":"102-8718","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8718.png?v=1727805853"},{"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\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Wilson Coldham\u003c\/strong\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.png?v=1727805887"},{"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. There are also indexes to places and ships.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Wilson Coldham\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1989, paper, 416 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806312354\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-1108\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39256433197174,"sku":"102-1108","price":43.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-1108.png?v=1727805889"},{"product_id":"102-1116","title":"American Wills Proved in London, 1611-1775","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhile Peter Coldham's \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"American Wills and Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury\" href=\"\/products\/102-1108\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmerican Wills and Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e succeeded in its objective of providing a complete listing of the hundreds of PCC wills and administrations with American connections, it does not provide all the information per will or administration that can be found in the following less comprehensive works: Henry Waters' \u003cem\u003eGenealogical Gleanings in England\u003c\/em\u003e, Lothrop Withington's \u003cem\u003eVirginia Gleanings in England\u003c\/em\u003e, and George Sherwood's \u003cem\u003eAmerican Colonists in English Records\u003c\/em\u003e. (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\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Wilson Coldham\u003c\/strong\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.png?v=1727805890"},{"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. 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While the majority of settlers were from the Scottish Lowlands, some, especially in the late 16th century, were Highlanders. It should also be noted that although the Presbyterians were in the majority, a sizable minority were Episcopalians, and a few were Roman Catholic. Also, though the main area of settlement was in Ulster, it is evident that a number of Scots settled further south.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart Eleven of \u003cem\u003eScots Irish Links, 1575-1725\u003c\/em\u003e attempts to identify more of these Scottish settlers. It is based on research carried out into both manuscript and published sources found in Scotland, Ireland, and England. This volume is heavily based on documents in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland and the National Records of Scotland, especially those that establish the economic links of the period, such as the contemporary port books of both Scotland and Ireland, and records from the High Court of the Admiralty of Scotland. Such records identify the ports and trading links that facilitated immigration to Ireland. Within a few generations, the descendants of these Ulster Scots emigrated in substantial numbers across the Atlantic where, as the Scotch-Irish, they made a major contribution to the settlement and development of Colonial America.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Dobson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2021, paper, 130 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806359199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-8720\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39299829825654,"sku":"102-8720","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8720.png?v=1727806014"},{"product_id":"107-vfbc","title":"Virginia's Foreign Born Confederates","description":"\u003cp\u003eMany immigrants came to America during a time between their birth and the beginning of the Civil War. 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