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About 150,000 Scots emigrated to America before the Revolutionary War, but the records on them are notoriously hard to find. However, it has been clear for some time that in archives in Scotland and England there is much information on a number of these emigrants.

David Dobson has extracted data from a wide variety of sources including family and estate papers, testamentary and probate records, burgh muniments, sasine and deed registers, Sheriff's Court records, Court of Session and High Court of Judiciary records, port books, customs registers, contemporary diaries and journals, contemporary newspapers and magazines, professional and university records, Privy Council and colonial records, records of Episcopalian and Presbyterian churches, monumental inscription lists, and the 1774-75 Register of Emigrants.

For each of the 7,000 persons listed, a maximum of twenty-three points of information is provided: name, date of birth or baptism, place of birth, occupation, place of education, cause of banishment (where applicable), residence, parents' names, emigration date and whether voluntarily or involuntarily transported, port of embarkation, destination, name of ship, place and date of arrival, place of settlement, names of spouse and children, date and place of death, where buried, probate record, and source citation.

This volume is also available on our Family Archive CD 7268.

RELATED BOOKS:
The Original Scots Colonists of Early America. Caribbean Supplement 1611-1707
The Original Scots Colonists of Early America. Supplement 1607-1707


EDITORIAL REVIEWS

"David Dobson has become the leading authority on early Scottish migration to America, and each new title from him adds to our knowledge of this major element in the American ethnic mix. Anyone searching an early American family that may be Scottish should look here for a possible immigrant and further leads."--THE NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, Vol. 29, No. 3 (July 1998), p. 213.

"This is the first source to examine when searching for the origin of Scots colonists."--THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST, Vol. 67, No. 1 (January 1992).

"Dobson has created a very useful source for researching Scottish ancestors, bringing together a great deal of biographical detail in one easily referenced volume. For that, all who seek to study Scottish immigrants in the pre-Revolutionary period will be grateful."--NATIONAL GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY, Vol. 79, No. 1 (March 1991).

"Mr. Dobson has served his readers well. His book joins an increasing number of easily available books which save valuable time for the researcher."--THE PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE, Vol. 36, No. 2 (1989).