Scottish Soldiers In Colonial America Part 4 Genealogy Book

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Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America
Part Four
David Dobson
Volume  totaling
98
pages. Book is in excellent  condition. Just what you need  for genealogy research. Per the publisher;
This marks the third volume (and fourth part) in a series on      Scottish colonial soldiers compiled by emigration authority David Dobson.      (The first volume was published as two parts in one.) Of particular      relevance for the latest installment, the British Crown recruited a number      of Scots regiments (e.g., Fraser’s Highlanders) to serve on its behalf      during the French and Indian War. A number of these veterans received land      for their service, which helped to inspire a massive increase in Highlander      settlement in the years leading up to the American Revolution. Scots fought      on both sides of the latter conflict. After that war, large numbers of      Scottish soldiers from former Loyalist units and the regular British Army      settled in what would become Nova Scotia as well as Prince Edward Island,      elsewhere in the Canadian Maritimes, Ontario, and Quebec.
Working from various burgess rolls, the Calendar of Home      Office Papers, the Nova Scotia Archives, and published sources such as      Blackwood’s Magazine, the Caledonian Mercury, and the Dictionary of Canadian      Biography, Dr. Dobson has uncovered information on an additional 1,000      Scottish colonial solders not found in his earlier books in this series.
By way of illustration, one such soldier was “Peter McDonald,      from Inverness-shire, emigrated via Fort William on 4 September 1775 aboard      the Glasgow bound for New York, arrived there on 31 October 1775. Impressed      into the 84th (Royal Highland Emigrants) Regiment on 1 November 1775, then      sent to Boston and later Halifax, Nova Scotia.”
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