Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America

Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America
Author: David Dobson
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 73
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 080634718X

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The book under consideration here marks the second in a series on Scottish colonial soldiers compiled by emigration authority David Dobson. (The first volume was published as two parts in one.) Working from manuscripts in the Acts of the Privy Council and the Calendar of British State Papers and published sources such as the Aberdeen Journal, the Edinburgh Advertiser, and the Georgia Gazette, the author has uncovered information on an additional 750 Scottish colonial solders not found in his earlier book. One such soldier was "John Wright, born in High Calton, Edinburgh, during 1728, an army sergeant who fought in the French and Indian War and in the American War of Independence, witnessed to death of Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham, died in Joppa, Edinburgh, in 1838, father of a Roman Catholic priest in Montreal."

Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America, Part Six

Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America, Part Six
Author: David Dobson
Publisher: Clearfield
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2021-08-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9780806359274

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Mr. Dobson here identifies about 1,000 Scottish soldiers, arranged alphabetically. While descriptions vary widely, some or all of the following information is given: soldier's name, rank, military unit, date(s) and campaign(s) of service, place of birth, time of arrival in North America, civilian occupation, date and place of death, and the source of the information. Mr. Dobson searched manuscripts in the Acts of the Privy Council and the Calendar of British State Papers and published sources, such as the Aberdeen Journal, the Edinburgh Advertiser, and the Georgia Gazette.

Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America, Part Seven

Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America, Part Seven
Author: David Dobson
Publisher: Clearfield
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9780806359625

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In the 17th and 18th centuries, many Scottish soldiers serving in the Americas permanently settled in the British colonies in North America, Canada, and the Caribbean.

Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America, Part Eight

Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America, Part Eight
Author: David Dobson
Publisher: Clearfield
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-03-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780806359687

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In the 17th and 18th centuries, many Scottish soldiers serving in the Americas permanently settled in the British colonies in North America, Canada, and the Caribbean.

Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America

Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America
Author: David Dobson
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2009-06
Genre: Canada
ISBN: 0806352388

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The book under consideration here marks the second in a series on Scottish colonial soldiers compiled by emigration authority David Dobson. (The first volume was published as two parts in one.) Working from manuscripts in the Acts of the Privy Council and the Calendar of British State Papers and published sources such as the Aberdeen Journal, the Edinburgh Advertiser, and the Georgia Gazette, the author has uncovered information on an additional 750 Scottish colonial solders not found in his earlier book. One such soldier was "John Wright, born in High Calton, Edinburgh, during 1728, an army sergeant who fought in the French and Indian War and in the American War of Independence, witnessed to death of Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham, died in Joppa, Edinburgh, in 1838, father of a Roman Catholic priest in Montreal."

Scottish Emigration to Colonial America, 1607-1785

Scottish Emigration to Colonial America, 1607-1785
Author: David Dobson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2011-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0820340782

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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.