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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Wars of the Three Kingdoms occurred from 1638 until 1652 between Scotland, England, and Ireland. This book attempts to identify the Scottish soldiers captured in battle and sent in chains to labor in English plantations in America.The Wars of the Three Kingdoms began in 1638 when King Charles I attempted to impose Anglicanism on a mainly Presbyterian Scotland. Subsequently, King Charles increasingly lost support in England where his policies (e.g., suspending the English Parliament, imposing a ship-tax, and an apparent move toward Roman Catholicism) contributed to the English Civil War in 1642 and an Irish revolt in 1641. Following the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell used the prisoners of war to populate the recently acquired colony of Jamaica, as well as existing colonies like, Barbados, Montserrat, Nevis, and Bermuda. Some Scots prisoners were sent to the Balkans to resist the Turks; others to France and Ireland; and some were shipped to Virginia and New England.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mr. Boyle has transcribed about 1,500 advertisements, naming about 3,000 persons in all. He examined 34 newspapers covering the mid-Atlantic region of Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, and New York, as well as papers as far away as North Carolina and Georgia. The majority of the persons here are runaway servants, apprentices, and slaves; however, quite a number were horse thieves, debtors, runaway wives, an occasional murderer, and other lowlifes. While the majority of the runaways were from Maryland, the author includes out-of-state fugitives when there is a Maryland connection. The work includes an informative Introduction, extensive bibliography, and a comprehensive name index.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This consolidated edition combines the two volumes of Mr. Dobson's Directory of Scots in the Carolina, 1680-1830 [GPC, 1986; Clearfield, 2004], with Chapter Four: The Emigrant Trade, from his Scottish Trade with Colonial Charleston, 1683-1783 [Clearfield, 2018]. These elements have now been formed into a single volume with a comprehensive index of names. For these works Mr. Dobson conducted his research mainly in Scotland and in the United States. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Marston Watson traces the descendance of the Manchester Lees through its progenitor in America, Henry Lea/Lee, who was born in 1618 in Lancashire, England. Henry was in Boston in 1656 and, two years earlier, in Manchester. The author's line to the Lees extends directly from the marriage of Lucy Lee of Manchester to Colonel Marston Watson of Plymouth in 1779. Mr. Watson is the third great-grandson of these two families.As documented here, readers will discover the names of other notable families of Manchester, Gloucester, Beverly, Marblehead, and other colonial Essex County families who are connected to this Lee genealogy. Besides details of the family history itself, Mr. Watson has added an extensive bibliography and a name index with thousands of references to the Lees and allied families.…