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Sources for Research in Scottish Genealogy:
Emigration

Compiled by Judith P. Reid



1.	Adams, Ian.
	Cargoes of despair and hope : Scottish emigration to North
	America, 1603-1803 / Ian Adams and Meredyth Somerville. --
	Edinburgh : J. Donald Publishers, c1993. -- 258 p. : ill., maps.
							E49.2.S3 A33 1993

2.	Bumsted, J.M.
	The people's clearance : Highland emigration to British North
	America, 1770-1815 / J.M. Bumsted. -- Edinburgh : Edinburgh
	University Press ; Winnipeg, Canada : University of Manitoba
	Press, c1982. -- xvii, 305 p. : ill.        
							F1035.S4 B85 1982

	Bibliography: p. [288]-295.

3.	Cameron, Viola Root.
	Emigrants from Scotland to America, 1774-1775. Copied from a
	loose bundle of Treasury papers in the Public Record Office,
	England. -- Baltimore : Southern Book Co., 1959. -- 117 p.
							E187.5.C18 1959

4.	Dickson, R.J.
	Ulster emigration to colonial America, 1718-1775 / by R.J.
	Dickson. -- London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966. -- xiv, 320 p.
	: map, tables.                                        
							E184.S4 D47

5.	Dictionary of Scottish emigrants into England & Wales / /
	compiled by members of the Anglo-Scottish Family History Society
	; edited by J.D. Beckett. -- Manchester : The Society, c1984. --
	vi, 70 p. : map.                                
							CS432.S3 D53 1985

6.	Dobson, David.
	Directory of Scots banished to the American plantations,
	1650-1775 / by David Dobson. -- Baltimore : Genealogical Pub.
	Co., 1983. -- vii, 239 p. : ill.                 
							E184.S3 D6 1983

7.	Dobson, David.
	Directory of Scottish settlers in North America, 1625-1825 / by
	David Dobson. -- Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., 1984-<1997>
	. -- v. <1-7> : ill.                         
							E184.S3 D63 1984

8.	Dobson, David.
	The original Scots colonists of early America, 1612-1783 / by
	David Dobson. -- Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., c1989. -- xi,
	370 p.                                         
							E49.2.S3 D63 1989

	Bibliography: p. viii-xi.
	
9.	Dobson, David.
	Scottish emigration to Colonial America, 1607-1785 / David
	Dobson. -- Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1994. -- 266 p.
							E184.S3 D66 1994

	Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-241) and
	index.

10.	Donaldson, Gordon.
	The Scots overseas. -- London : Hale, 1966. -- 232 p. : [ill.],
	plates, ports.                                  
							DA774.5.D6 1966

	Reprinted in Westport Conn. by Greenwood Press in 1976.

11.	Graham, Ian Charles Cargill, 1919-
	Colonists from Scotland : emigration to North America, 1707-1783.
	-- Ithaca, N.Y. : published for the American Historical
	Association [by] Cornell University Press, [1956]. -- x, 213 p. :
	map.                                                   
							E184.S3 G7

	Reprinted in Port Washington, N.Y. by Kennikat Press in
	1972.

12.	Harper, Marjory.
	Emigration from north-east Scotland / Marjory Harper. --
	[Aberdeen] : Aberdeen University Press, <1988->. -- v. <1-2>
	: ill., maps, ports.                              
							JV7701.H37 1988

	Contents: v. 1. Willing exiles -- v. 2. Beyond the Broad
	Atlantic --

	Bibliography: v. 1, p. 350-362.

13.	Hill, Douglas Arthur, 1935-
	The Scots to Canada / by Douglas Hill. -- London : Gentry Books,
	1972. -- vii, 136 p. : ill. maps.                  
							JV7285.S35 H5

14.	Insh, George Pratt.
	Scottish colonial schemes, 1620-1686. -- Glasgow : Maclehose,
	Jackson & Co., 1922. -- 6 p. leaves, 283 p. plates, 2 ports.
	(incl. front)., facsim.                                
							E188.I6

15.	Perceval-Maxwell, M.
	The Scottish migration to Ulster in the reign of James I / [by]
	M. Perceval-Maxwell. -- London : Routledge & Kegan Paul ; New
	York : Humanities Press, 1973. -- xx, 411 p. : ill.
							DA990.U46 P47

16.	Steuart, Archibald Francis.
	Papers relating to the Scots in Poland, 1576-1793 / ed. with an
	introduction by A. Francis Steuart. -- Edinburgh : printed by T.
	and A. Constable for the Scottish History Society, 1915. --
	xxxix, 362 p.                                   
							DA750.S25 vol. 59

	Also issued as Publications of the Scottish History Society,
	vol. 59.

	A collection made by and in part edited by Beatrice
	Baskerville. Translations from Latin by J. Mackay Thomson.

17.	Whyte, Donald.
	A dictionary of Scottish emigrants to Canada before
	confederation. -- Toronto : Ontario Genealogical Society, 1968.
	-- xvi, 443 p.                                    
							CS83.W48 1986
	
	Bibliography: p. 439-443.

18.	Whyte, Donald.
	A dictionary of Scottish emigrants to the U.S.A. -- Baltimore :
	Magna Carta Book Co., 1972-1986. -- 2 v.            
							E184.S3 W49
	Includes bibliographies and indexes.
	"Volume 2: with an appendix of additions and corrections to
	volume 1."
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