Scottish Quakers And North America 1650-1700 Genealogy Book

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Scottish Quakers And Early America
1650-1700
David Dobson
Softbound    volume  totaling
52
pages. Book  is in new  condition. Per the publisher;
Mr. Dobson continues with his series of booklets pertaining  to unexplored aspects of Scottish genealogy.
Scottish Quakers and Early  America
aims to identify members of the Society of Friends in Scotland prior  to 1700 and the Scottish origins of many of the Quakers who settled in East  Jersey in the 1680s.
Quakerism came to Scotland with the Cromwellian occupation  of the 1650s. Scottish missionaries eventually spread the faith to various  locations throughout the country, including Aberdeen in the Northeast, Edinburgh  and Kelso in the southeast, and Hamilton in the west. The Society of Friends  never grew to large numbers in Scotland, however, owing to its persecution by  both the Episcopal and Presbyterian churches, as well as civic authorities.  Understandably, a number of Scottish Quakers ultimately emigrated to the North  American colonies; for example, there were some Scottish Quakers among the  landowners of West Jersey as early as 1664, and between 1682 and 1685 several  shiploads of emigrants left the ports of Leith, Montrose, and Aberdeen for East  Jersey.
Drawing upon research conducted in both Scotland and the  United States in manuscript and in published sources, David Dobson has here  amassed all the genealogical data that we know of concerning members of the  Society of Friends in Scotland prior to 1700 and the origins of Scottish Quakers  living in East New Jersey in the 1680s. While there is great deal of variation  in the descriptions of the roughly 500 Scottish Quakers listed in the volume,  the entries typically give the individual's name, date or place of birth, and  occupation, and sometimes the name of a spouse or date of marriage, name of  parents, place and reason for imprisonment in Scotland, place of indenture, date  of death, and the source of the information. Without a doubt this is a  ground-breaking work on the subject of Scottish emigration to North America  during the colonial period.
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Genealogical Dictionary of New England  Volume 3
Surnames K-R
James  Savage
Volume totaling
664
pages. Book is in excellent  condition.  Originally published 1860-1862 this is a 1998 reprint. This is  the first place to look to find your New England Ancestors. Probably one of the  most quoted and sourced set of books for that area.  Per the publisher;
This is the basic genealogical dictionary of early New England settlers,  giving the name of every settler who arrived in New England before 1692  regardless of their station, rank, or fortune. Alphabetically arranged for each  it gives the dates of his marriage and death, dates of birth, marriage and death  of his children, and birthdates and names of the grandchildren. According to the  author, "nineteen twentieths of the people of these New England colonies in 1775  were descendants of those found here in 1692, and probably seven-eighths of them  were offspring of the settlers before 1642."
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