Emigrants from England, 1773-1776


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By: Gerald Fothergill, Pub. 1913, Reprinted 2020, 206 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-455-7. This book on English passenger arrivals to ports along the eastern seaboard during the years immediately preceding Independence presents a list of about 6,000 names copied from Treasury Records in the Public Record Office in London. For each passenger the following information is given: age, occupation, place of origin, name of ship, destination, and reason for emigration. These new immigrants were Georgia; North & South Carolina, Virginia; Maryland; Pennstlvania; New York, Massechuttes, Barbados, St. Kitts, St. Vincients, Jamacia, Antigua, Montreal, Quebec, Dominica, Fort Chamberland, St. Christophers, Tobago, Nevis, Greneda, and Bermuda.




A List of Emigrants from England to America, 1682-1692


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List of names of early emigrants to the American and West Indian colonies extracted from a series of manuscript volumes known as the Lord Mayor's Waiting Books. Entries are arranged alphabetically and may include name, age, place of residence, length of indenture, destination, name of witness, date, etc.







Voyagers to the West


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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Saloutos Prize of the Immigration History Society Bailyn's Pulitzer Prize-winning book uses an emigration roster that lists every person officially known to have left Britain for America from December 1773 to March 1776 to reconstruct the lives and motives of those who emigrated to the New World. "Voyagers to the West is a superb book...It should be equally admired by and equally attractive to the general reader as to the professional historian."--R.C. Simmons, Journal of American Studies







Emigrants from England, 1773-1776


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Reprinted from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vols. 62, 63, 64, 65.The lists contained in this work were discovered by the author among Treasury Records in the Public Record Office, in London, England. The lists comprise approximately 6,000 names. Information provided for each individual includes name, age, occupation, the place of origin, the name of the ship, the destination, the passenger's occupation, and the reason for the emigration. Softcover, (1913), 2010, Index, 206 pp.







"Asylum for Mankind"


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Baseler explains how British and colonial officials and landowners lured settlers from rival nations with promises of religious toleration, economic opportunity, and the "rights of Englishmen," and she identifies the liberties, disabilities, and benefits experienced by different immigrant groups. She also explains how the exploitation of slaves subsidized the living standards of Europeans who came by choice.




The Great Migration


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