Scots In The Mid-Atlantic Colonies 1635-1783

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Scots in  the Mid-Atlantic Colonies, 1635-1783
David Dobson
Hardbound volume totaling
139
pages. Book  is in excellent condition. Just what you need  for genealogy research. Per the publisher;
This contribution from Scottish genealogist David Dobson names  some 3,000 Scots who settled in the mid-Atlantic colonies prior to the  Revolutionary War. In point of fact, Scottish settlement in the Middle Colonies  of America dates from the early 17th century, and Mr. Dobson demonstrates that  even before the establishment of English colonies in that region in the 1660s,  there were a number of Scots pioneers living with the Dutch settlers of New  Netherland, and probably also in the Swedish settlements along the Delaware.
Scottish immigration to the Middle Colonies was at first small  scale and sporadic, with the notable exception of Quakers and Covenanters who  settled in East New Jersey during the 1680s. The immigration of Highlanders to  New York began in 1738, and by the year 1742 over 400 people had arrived from  the island of Islay led by Captain Lauchlan Campbell. The main phase of  immigration from Scotland during the colonial period actually occurred in the  aftermath of the French and Indian Wars and before the outbreak of the American  Revolution.
In the main, several distinct groups of immigrants made up the  Scottish inflow: settlers of the Argyle Patent in New York, Covenanters and  Quakers in East New Jersey, Highlanders, and a rather large and unexpected  contingent of discharged soldiers. As would be expected, these new immigrants  came from all over Scotland. While the Lowland Scots integrated quickly with the  existing population, the Gaelic-speaking Highlanders tended to move as a group  and settle along the frontier. In the Revolution of 1776, however, many of them  took up arms in support of the Loyalist cause and later found it expedient to  move north to Canada.
This is another volume in Dobson's indispensable regional  immigration series, which includes
Directory  of Scots in the Carolinas
,
Scots on the  Chesapeake
,
Scots in Georgia and the  Deep South
, and
Scots in New England
.
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