Between 1997 and 2024, Genealogical.com published the nine-volume series, Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America, by Dr. David Dobson. Those books are now available in a new, two-volume, fully indexed, consolidated edition.
Although Scottish soldiers could be found in the Americas during the seventeenth century—oftentimes originally transported as prisoners of war and subsequently recruited into the British army--it was not until the mid-eighteenth century that the British Government began to raise Highland regiments, such as Fraser’s Highlanders, to fight in North America. The French and Indian War led to significant recruitment in Scotland, particularly in the Highlands, for service in America. On the outbreak of the American Revolution, former soldiers, who had received land grants in America, were recalled for duty by the British Government. After the war, large numbers of soldiers from former Loyalist units and from the regular British Army regiments were settled in what would become Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Ontario, and Quebec. The practice of settling former soldiers in the colonies continued into the nineteenth century.
This consolidation edition of Dr. Dobson’s nine-part series identifies over 10,000 Scottish soldiers who served in the Americas. The new comprehensive index of names enables genealogists and historians to easily identify every person named in the soldier descriptions—spouses, children, parents, ship captains, and so on--and not just the soldiers themselves.
David Dobson
2024, paper, indexed, xx, 408 pp., xx, 588 pp.
ISBN: 9780806359731
102-8693
