Naturalizations of Foreign Protestants in the American and West Indian Colonies (pursuant to Statute 13 George II, C. 7)


Book Description

While the title says "foreign Protestants", the lists also include "persons professing the Jewish religion". The localities herein represented are Jamaica, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, New York, and Pennsylvania with the latter having the largest representation. The time period covers from ca. 1740 to the late 1700s.



















Naturalizations of Foreign Protestants in the American and West Indian Colonies, 1740-1772


Book Description

By: Montague S. Giuseppi, Pub. 1921, reprinted 2023, 210 pages, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-120-3. This book contains copies of all the Returns of Naturalizations of foreign Protestants sent from the Colonies to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations during the period 1740 to 1772. It covers approximately 6,500 persons who were naturalized. These Returns are from the colonies of South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New York, and Pennsylvania, along with some from Jamaica in the West Indies. The Returns from Pennsylvania making up the bulk of these persons within. The entries generally include name, religion, town and county of residence, and date of naturalization.







Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas


Book Description

Covers the period of colonial history from the beginning of European colonization in the Western Hemisphere up to the time of the American Revolution.