The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1700-1750

The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1700-1750
Author: Peter Wilson Coldham
Publisher: Baltimore : Genealogical Publishing Company
Total Pages: 776
Release: 1987
Genre: History
ISBN:

A comprehensive listing compiled from English public records of those who took ship to the Americas for political, religious, and economic reasons; of those who were deported for vagrancy, roguery, or non-conformity; and of those who were sold to labour in the New Colonies.

The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1751-1776

The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1751-1776
Author: Peter Wilson Coldham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1993
Genre: British
ISBN:

Voluntary emigration from the British Isles to the American plantations went into a steep decline after the year 1750, only to rise again sharply from 1770 and to reach epidemic proportions by 1773, a year of great economic hardship in Britain. Involuntary emigration, on the other hand, the forced transportation of criminals of almost every degree, rose sharply during the period, from a yearly total of 500 in 1750 to 1000 in 1774-75, showing that English jails continued to provide a numerous and regular source of labor for the colonies.

The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1607-1660

The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1607-1660
Author: Peter Wilson Coldham
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 630
Release: 1987
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780806311920

"This book was conceived as an attempt to bring together from as many English sources as survive a comprehensive account of emigration to the New World from its beginnings to 1660"--Introduction.

More Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775

More Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775
Author: Peter Wilson Coldham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN:

The original volume of "Emigrants in Bondage" published in 1988 acknowledged that there were some notable omissions from the list of transported felons then printed, which remained to be researched and remedied. The Supplement of 1992 began to supply the omissions, but now with the publication of "More Emigrants in Bondage," Mr. Coldham has closed the remaining gaps. Altogether there are some 9,000 new and amended records in this important work, which is arranged and annotated in the same way as the parent volume. To the original list of 50,000 records, these additions come as a windfall, arising from the availability of previously closed archival resources and the re-examination of conventional transportation records such as Assize Court records, Circuit Court records, and the quaintly-named Sheriffs' Cravings, to which can be added newspapers and printed memoirs. The addition of 9,000 records to the canon makes this the most important list of ships' passengers to be published in years. Whether as a list of additions or corrections, this new work is an indispensable tool in the researcher's arsenal, and anyone using the parent volume and supplement cannot possibly ignore this volume.

The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775

The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775
Author: Peter Wilson Coldham
Publisher: Baltimore : Genealogical Publishing Company
Total Pages: 952
Release: 1988
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

Between 1614 and 1775 some 50,000 English men, women, and children were sentenced by judicial process to be sent to the American colonies for a variety of crimes. The data on these involuntary colonists came from a variety of official records which the author of this work spent over fifteen years studying. Among those covered were minutes of eleven Courts of Assize and Jail Delivery and of twenty-eight Courts of Quarter Session, as well as Treasury Papers, Money Books, Patent Rolls, State Papers, and Sessions Papers. The names of those deported are printed in alphabetical order and form what can be considered the largest passenger list of its kind ever published. The data presented in this volume is highly condensed but most entries include some or all of the following information: parish of origin, sentencing court, nature of the offense, date of sentence, date and ship on which transported, date and place landed in America, and the English county in which the sentence was passed.

The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1661-1699

The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1661-1699
Author: Peter Wilson Coldham
Publisher: Baltimore : Genealogical Publishing Company
Total Pages: 920
Release: 1987
Genre: History
ISBN:

A list of around 30,000 emigrants sailing to America from English ports, not Irish, Scottish, or Welsh.

Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan

Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan
Author: Kerby A. Miller
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 820
Release: 2003-03-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780195348224

Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan is a monumental and pathbreaking study of early Irish Protestant and Catholic migration to America. Through exhaustive research and sensitive analyses of the letters, memoirs, and other writings, the authors describe the variety and vitality of early Irish immigrant experiences, ranging from those of frontier farmers and seaport workers to revolutionaries and loyalists. Largely through the migrants own words, it brings to life the networks, work, and experiences of these immigrants who shaped the formative stages of American society and its Irish communities. The authors explore why Irishmen and women left home and how they adapted to colonial and revolutionary America, in the process creating modern Irish and Irish-American identities on the two sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan was the winner of the James S. Donnelly, Sr., Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences, American Council on Irish Studies.