Improving upon his Original Scots Colonists of Early America, 1612-1707 (1989), which was based solely on UK source material, the author also draws on US source
A compilation of all extant records pertaining to the original Scottish emigrants to the American colonies. Over 7,100 people listed of the approximately 150,00
Before 1650, only a few hundred Scots had trickled into the American colonies, but by the early 1770s the number had risen to 10,000 per year. A conservative es