Directory
of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 Vol. VI
by David Dobson
This is the sixth volume of Dobson's unique Scottish Settlers series
and it contains abstracts of data from the Edinburgh Register of Deeds,
which recorded not only deeds but any document thought to be important,
such as marriage contracts, powers of attorney, and commercial agreements.
The material in this volume relates to Scots living or dying in North America,
or having any commercial or legal intercourse with America, for the period
1750-1825. About 600 Scots and their activities are covered.
Epitaphs
and Images from Scottish Graveyards
by Betty Willsher
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The
Great Historic Families of Scotland 2nd edition (2 Vols)
by James Taylor
Book Description: One of the great genealogical compendia of
Scottish families, Taylor's Historic Families of Scotland has been in constant
demand since its original appearance at the end of the 19th century. According
to one review, it would be welcome by those who valued high standards of
genealogical research and delighted in the romance of history. Equally
important, from the genealogist's point of view, is the fact that the fifty
or so main families selected for inclusion are thoroughly representative
in character and are the progenitors of untold numbers of people living
today. As might be expected of such a work, the narrative traces the families
from their earliest recorded origins all the way up to the end of the 19th
century.
Hardcover: 841 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 2.00 x
8.75 x 5.75
Publisher: Clearfield Co; ; 2nd edition (December )
ISBN: 0806314648
Scots
in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies, 1635-1783
by David Dobson
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company;
Scots
in the Mid-Atlantic States, 1783-1883
by David Dobson
Scottish-American
Wills 1650-1900
by David Dobson
Book Description Between the years 1650 and 1900, over 2,000
Scots, resident in North America, chose to have their wills registered
and confirmed in Scotland rather than in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury,
which traditionally had jurisdiction in probate matters affecting British
subjects who died overseas. This book is essentially an index to those
wills, with supplementary data extracted from a government publication
titled Index to Personal Estates of Defuncts, 1846-1866. Information given
with each entry includes the name of the testator, his place of residence
in North America, his occupation (where known), sometimes his former place
of residence in Scotland, and the date of his death or the date the will
was registered.
Scottish-American
Court Records, 1733-1783
by David Dobson
Book Description The political union of Scotland and England
in 1707 led to a rapid expansion of Scottish economic links with the American
colonies, especially on the Chesapeake, where in the years prior to the
Revolution the tobacco trade was controlled by Glasgow-based merchants
and their factors. Evidence of this economic expansion and the subsequent
settlement of Scots in America exists in a wide range of documentary sources
in Scotland, including the records of the Scottish court system which have
been deposited in the Scottish Record Office in Edinburgh. This present
work is a digest of such evidence and is based on the minute books of the
Court of Session (the highest civil court) and those of the High Court
of the Admiralty (which had jurisdiction in all seafaring and maritime
cases) for the period 1733-1783. In essence it identifies those people
resident in North America who were engaged in litigation in Scotland and
whose cases came before the aforementioned courts.
Scots
In Georgia and the Deep South, 1733-1845
by David Dobson
During the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the area
now known as Georgia was a buffer zone between British-governed South Carolina
and Spanish-governed Florida. Settlement of the region by the British did
not take place until 1732 when James Oglethorpe established the colony
of Georgia as a refuge for English debtors, paupers, and discharged prisoners.
Scottish immigration to the colony commenced almost at the same time, however,
and was made up of two distinct categories of immigrants: Lowlanders and
Highlanders. Lowlanders immigrated for purely economic reasons, as farmers
and later as merchants; while Highlanders were recruited to the colony
for strategic purposes, basically to guard the southern frontier from Spanish
incursions.
Somewhat later, at the conclusion of the French and Indian War in 1763,
the Spanish withdrew from Florida. The removal of the Spanish threat and
the acquisition of new lands by the British led to an influx of settlers,
including Scots, into Florida and as far west as Mobile. Many of the earliest
settlers in the area were former Scottish soldiers and indentured servants,
awarded land on the condition that they develop it and settle other immigrants
on the land within a few years.
This new work by the prolific Scottish author David Dobson contains
the names of several thousand Scots who immigrated to Georgia and the Deep
South, settling in the area sometime between 1735 and 1845. Based on probate
records, court records, family papers, newspapers and journals, naturalization
papers, church registers, gravestone inscriptions, printed sources, and
census returns, the information provided in this book is of a broad and
mixed character, generally giving some or all of the following details:
name, place and date of birth, occupation, place and date of settlement
in Georgia or the Deep South, and names of wives and children.
If you're looking for a Scottish ancestor who hasn't shown up in any
of Mr. Dobson's other books, this could be your answer.
Scottish
Maritime Records 1600-1850 : A Guide for Family Historians
by David Dobson
The aim of this pamphlet is to provide a Scottish sourcebook for the
period 1600-1850 which identifies the range of maritime sources available
and where relevant information both published and manuscript can be located
within Scotland. The author breaks down the broad range of maritime records
into the following seven categories: Royal Navy, Merchant Navy, Fishing,
Whaling and Smuggling, Privateers and Pirates, The Slave Trade, and Court
Records (including the High Court of Admiralty of Scotland, and the Court
of Session). In each case, he provides an historical introduction to a
particular record classification, as it impinges on the availability of
the records in question. Mr. Dobson then goes on to itemize the key manuscript
collections, the repositories where they may be found, and a number of
books and articles which promise to shed additional light on each of the
record groups.
Surnames
of Scotland: Their Origin, Meaning and History
by George F. Black
Hardcover: 910 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.75 x
9.00 x 6.25
Publisher: New York Public Library; ; Reprint edition
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ISBN: 0871041723
Scottish
Monuments and Tombstones Volume 1
by Charles Rodgers, Charles Rogers, LL.D Charles Rogers
Book Description: Information from about 250 parishes, grouped
by county. While the two volumes do not cover every Scottish parish, "the
omissions are not very numerous." Volume 1. The counties covered in this
volume are: Ayrshire, Berwickshire, Dumfriesshire, Edinburghshire, Hadding-tonshire,
Kirkcudbrightshire, Lanarkshire, Linlithgowshire, Peeblesshire, Renfrewshire,
Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire and Wigtonshire. Tombstones are dated as early
as the 13th century.
Paperback: 534 pages
Publisher: Heritage Books Inc; ; Reprint edition
ISBN: 0788406841
Scottish
Medical Societies 1731-1939 : Their History and Records
by Jacqueline Jenkinson
Scottish
Traveler Tales : Lives Shaped Through Stories
by Donald Braid
Hardcover: 313 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.17 x
9.18 x 6.34
Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi; ;
ISBN: 1578064503
American Data from the Records of the High Court of the Admiralty
of Scotland, 1675-1800
by David Dobson
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Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to Canada Before Confederation:
Volume 1
by Donald Whyte
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Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America : In Two Parts (2 Volumes in
1)
by David Dobson
Scottish soldiers played an important role in defending the American
colonies and in settling them. Around the middle of the 18th century, the
British government began to dispatch Highland Regiments, such as Fraser's
Highlanders, the Black Watch, and Montgomery's Highlanders, to America.
The French and Indain War of 1756-1763, in particular, led to significant
recruitment in Scotland for service in the American colonies. The experience
gained by these soldiers was to influence their decision to settle or emigrate,
subsequently, to America. In this regard the allocation of land to former
military personnel in the aftermath of that war was a major incentive.
Not surprisingly, the massive increase in emigration to America from the
Scottish Highlands that occurred in the decade of the French and Indian
War resulted to some extent from the influence of returning soldiers. Scottish
soldiers and former soldiers fought on both sides of the American Revolution,
and following that conflict a number of Scottish Loyalists settled in what
were to become Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Ontario,
and Quebec.
For this book, Scottish emigration authority David Dobson identified
over a thousand Scottish solders in colonial America. The list of soldiers
is arranged alphabetically and, while the descriptions vary widely, the
researcher will discover some or all of the following information in each
one: soldier's name, rank, military unit, date(s) and campaign(s) of service,
place of birth, when arrived in North America, civilian occupation, date
and place of death, and the source of the information. Because the Highlanders
found here offer potential links between the New and Old Worlds, this ground-breaking
book will be welcomed by all students of Scottish genealogy.
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Colonists from Scotland: Emigration to North America, 1707-1783
by Ian Charles Cargill Graham
This distinguished monograph, published originally by the Cornell University
Press, 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, the formation
of a Scottish merchant class, the role of the Society of Saint Andrews
among Scottish-Americans, and the political conservatism or Toryism of
many Scottish settlers during the American Revolution.
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The Historical Families of Dumfriesshire and the Border Wars
by George F. Black
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Scottish Quakers and America, 1650-1700
by David Dobson
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Scottish-American Heirs, 1683-1883
by David Dobson
In Scotland on the death of a landowner, the local sheriff held an
inquest to establish the credentials of any person claiming to be the true
and rightful heir to lands which were in the possession of the deceased
at the time of his or her death. The documentary evidence associated with
the inquest--taken by the sheriff to determine identities, relationships,
and claims to property and known as the Services of Heirs--is a particularly
valuable if little known genealogical source. The records of the Services
of Heirs, now located at the Scottish Record Office in Edinburgh, provide
authentic and reliable confirmation of the relationship between deceased
individuals and their heirs. This makes the records an invaluable source
for those seeking a trans-Atlantic family connection, as many of the entries
link families in North America with Scotland. Indeed, David Dobson, the
well-known Scottish authority, has found 2,657 trans-Atlantic links in
the records--links providing irrefutable evidence of the relationship between
families in America and families in Scotland. Taken directly from the records
of the Services of Heirs, his new work contains abstracts of every Scottish-American
connection found in the records in the 200 years between 1683 and 1883!
As a rule, the abstracts give, for the deceased, his name, occupation,
residence in Scotland, date of inquest, and relationship to heirs; for
the heirs, name, occupation, place of residence in America, and relationship
to the deceased. For convenience the abstracts are arranged alphabetically
by the name of the deceased, while all other names mentioned in the abstracts
are listed in the index. As far as Scottish genealogy goes, this is so
good it's almost cheating!
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Scottish-American Gravestones, 1700-1900
by David Dobson
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Emigrants from Scotland to America 1774-1775
by Viola R. Cameron
Transcribed from old Treasury Papers in the Public Record Office in
London, this work lists some 2,000 persons by age, station, occupation,
residence in Scotland, destination in America, and reasons for emigrating.
Various states along the eastern seaboard are noted as places of embarkation.
This work is of great value in bridging the Atlantic during the tumultuous
years 1774-1775.
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Scottish Settlers of America. The 17th and 18th Centuries
by Stephen M. Millett
Originally published in thirteen installments of U.S. Scots magazine,
Dr. Millett's account of Scottish emigration to colonial America is, arguably,
the best introduction to its subject. Based upon a careful reading of the
recent secondary literature, the author draws the following conclusions
about Scots colonists: (1) The principal motivation for Scottish emigration
was self-improvement and economic gain; (2) Scottish settlers were ambitious
and self-reliant; (3) Scottish emigrants arrived as families intending
to stay; (4) Most Scottish settlers readily assimilated into colonial society;
(5) The Scots favored certain parts of the colonies over others; and (6)
The principal sources of identity for Scots were surname and family.
Dr. Millett develops these findings in considerable detail, of course,
in chapters devoted to the Scottish homeland and its peoples, the push/pull
of emigration/immigration, Scottish colonial settlements prior to 1707,
and the establishment of the principal 18th-century Scottish communities
along the Chesapeake, the Carolinas and Georgia, and throughout the Middle
Colonies. In addition, a special chapter treats the role of Scots during
the American Revolution, including the part played by Scottish Loyalists.
While this is a book that is primarily historical and not genealogical,
researchers will nonetheless find in it sketches of famous Scots like John
Paul Jones and Hugh Mercer, not to mention invaluable narrative and statistical
background information on the Scottish presence in the colonies.
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