Author: David Dobson
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Scots banished to the American plantations by Scottish courts due to various crimes between 1650-1775.

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Category : Scots
Languages : en
Pages : 239

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Author: David Dobson
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780806355047
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This second edition contains fully 30% more convict passengers than in the original.Dr. Dobson has made some modifications as well; for example, some men who were thought to have been Covenanters are now classed as rebels and English transportees have been omitted, while the references used have been enhanced to facilitate further research. In total, somewhere between 4,000 and 5,000 Scots were banished to the Americas during the Colonial period (whereas England transported around 50,000 and Ireland in excess of 10,000), all of whom contributed to the settlement and development of Colonial America.

Author: David Dobson
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806310359
Category : Scots
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Scots banished to the American plantations by Scottish courts due to various crimes between 1650-1775.

Author: David Dobson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820340782
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277

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Before 1650, only a few hundred Scots had trickled into the American colonies, but by the early 1770s the number had risen to 10,000 per year. A conservative estimate of the total number of Scots who settled in North America prior to 1785 is around 150,000. Who were these Scots? What did they do? Where did they settle? What factors motivated their emigration? Dobson's work, based on original research on both sides of the Atlantic, comprehensively identifies the Scottish contribution to the settlement of North America prior to 1785, with particular emphasis on the seventeenth century.

Author: David Dobson
Publisher: Baltimore : Genealogical Publishing Company
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Seven volumes of lists of Scottish immigrants to North America between 1625 and 1825.

Author: David Dobson
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Lists of Scots who emigrated to America.

Author: David Dobson
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806346868
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 69

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Part seven of Scots-Irish Link, 1575-1725 attempts to identify some of the Scottish settlers in Ulster during this period (116 p.).

Author: Robert W. Barnes
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806353686
Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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Researchers on the trail of elusive ancestors sometimes turn to 18th- and early 19th-century newspapers after exhausting the first tier of genealogical sources (i.e., census records, wills, deeds, marriages, etc.). Generally speaking, early newspapers are not indexed, so they require investigators to comb through them, looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack. With his latest book, Robert Barnes has made one aspect of the aforementioned chore much easier. This remarkable book contains advertisements for missing relatives and lost friends from scores of newspapers published in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia, as well as a few from New York and the District of Columbia. The newspaper issues begin in 1719 (when the "American Weekly Mercury" began publication in Philadelphia) and run into the early 1800s. The author's comprehensive bibliography, in the Introduction to the work, lists all the newspapers and other sources he examined in preparing the book. The volume references 1,325 notices that chronicle the appearance or disappearance of 1,566 persons.

Author: Angela Jane Weisl
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9780859914604
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Close study of Chaucer's most important works shows how he used gender issues to extend the range of romance. The paradox of romance as a genre is that it contains multiple possibilities, yet remains profoundly constrained by its own terms and conventions. Through a close reading of several of Chaucer's most important works, Dr Weisl examines Chaucer's use of gender issues to explore and challenge this genre. She argues that Chaucer's complex treatment of the romance, following both continental and Middle English traditions, experiments with and tests romance conventions. Each chapter looks indetail at one or more of Chaucer's works, examining their different approaches to the problems of gender, and showing how this is closely connected with genre. Subjects addressed include the feminised private spaces in Troilus and Criseydewhich protect Criseyde, but are inevitably penetrated by male power; the masculine imperatives of the epic which challenge the limits of the feminised romance in the Knight'sTale(and the speech of its heroine Emelye, who questions the assumptions of the genre itself); Canacee in the Squire's Tale, who rejects the stereotyped role of the heroine, and the romance world in the Tale of SirThopas, without a heroine at all.Dr ANGELA JANE WEISLis visiting assistant professor of English and Women's Studies at Wittenberg University, Ohio.