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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.
    Just what you need  for genealogy research.
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