Author: Ellen Hamilton
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ISBN: 9780976372530
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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History of the Lowlands of Scotland in the 1700's and the life of William Gregory, who migrated from Kilmarnock, Scotland, to Alexandria, Virginia in the United States.This book tells why the Scottish Lowlands became so crowded, and what life was like there. The reasons that caused people to leave everything they knew, climb aboard a crowded ship, and sail in unspeakable squalor for many weeks to start a new life, penniless, in an unforgiving land.One man, William Gregory, left his family's carpet factory in Kilmarnock in 1807. He boarded a wooden sailing ship and sailed to America. William found work and a home in Alexandria, Virginia. Letters written home to his family in Kilmarnock and letters to America tell the story of this migration.
A Scottish Migration to Alexandria, Second Edition
Author: Ellen Hamilton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780976372530
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
History of the Lowlands of Scotland in the 1700's and the life of William Gregory, who migrated from Kilmarnock, Scotland, to Alexandria, Virginia in the United States.This book tells why the Scottish Lowlands became so crowded, and what life was like there. The reasons that caused people to leave everything they knew, climb aboard a crowded ship, and sail in unspeakable squalor for many weeks to start a new life, penniless, in an unforgiving land.One man, William Gregory, left his family's carpet factory in Kilmarnock in 1807. He boarded a wooden sailing ship and sailed to America. William found work and a home in Alexandria, Virginia. Letters written home to his family in Kilmarnock and letters to America tell the story of this migration.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780976372530
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
History of the Lowlands of Scotland in the 1700's and the life of William Gregory, who migrated from Kilmarnock, Scotland, to Alexandria, Virginia in the United States.This book tells why the Scottish Lowlands became so crowded, and what life was like there. The reasons that caused people to leave everything they knew, climb aboard a crowded ship, and sail in unspeakable squalor for many weeks to start a new life, penniless, in an unforgiving land.One man, William Gregory, left his family's carpet factory in Kilmarnock in 1807. He boarded a wooden sailing ship and sailed to America. William found work and a home in Alexandria, Virginia. Letters written home to his family in Kilmarnock and letters to America tell the story of this migration.
The School. Secondary Edition
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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More Scottish Settlers, 1667-1827
Author: David Dobson
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806352868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Listings of Scottish emigrants, either as immigrants or as residents in the Americas, including Canada, the USA, the West Indies and South America.
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806352868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Listings of Scottish emigrants, either as immigrants or as residents in the Americas, including Canada, the USA, the West Indies and South America.
Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Academy and Literature
Author: Charles Edward Cutts Birch Appleton
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Scottish Notes and Queries
Author: John Bulloch
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates
Author: Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Academy, with which are Incorporated Literature and the English Review
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Scottish Notes and Queries
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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Notes and Queries
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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