Author: John P. MacLean
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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This is a reprint of J. P. MacLean's celebrated study of the Scottish Highlanders in America, the first work devoted exclusively to the subject. It presents an interesting account of Highland emigration, giving first an overview of the Highlanders of Scotland and then a description of the events which led to the various emigration and resettlement schemes, subsequently detailing the history of Highland settlements in the American colonies and Highlander participation in the French and Indian Wars and the Revolution. And it is laced throughout with lists of early land grants, petitioners, and officers of Highland regiments. In addition, some forty-five pages of the book are devoted to biographical sketches of distinguished Highlanders who served the cause of either Great Britain or America during the Revolution.
Author: J. P Maclean
Publisher:
ISBN: 3752412208
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Reproduction of the original: An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P Maclean
Author: John Patterson Maclean
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Author: John Patterson MacLean
Publisher: Cleveland : Helman-Taylor
ISBN:
Category : Canada History Seven Years' War, 1755-1763
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Author: J. P. MacLean
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780788471056
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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This detailed tome opens with a brief history of the Highlanders in Scotland, followed by an account of Highlanders in the Colonies. Other topics include settlement in NC, and GA, Captain Campbell's NY Colony, settlement on the Mohawk, Prince Edward Island and Pictou (Nove Scotia), Highlanders in the French and Indian War and on both sides of the Revolution, and distinguished Highlanders in America.
Author: Duane Meyer
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469620626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
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Meyer addresses himself principally to two questions. Why did many thousands of Scottish Highlanders emigrate to America in the eighteenth century, and why did the majority of them rally to the defense of the Crown. . . . Offers the most complete and intelligent analysis of them that has so far appeared.--William and Mary Quarterly Using a variety of original sources -- official papers, travel documents, diaries, and newspapers -- Duane Meyer presents an impressively complete reconstruction of the settlement of the Highlanders in North Carolina. He examines their motives for migration, their life in America, and their curious political allegiance to George III.
Author: Anthony W. Parker
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820327182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Between 1735 and 1748 hundreds of young men and their families emigrated from the Scottish Highlands to the Georgia coast to settle and protect the new British colony. These men were recruited by the trustees of the colony and military governor James Oglethorpe, who wanted settlers who were accustomed to hardship, militant in nature, and willing to become frontier farmer-soldiers. In this respect, the Highlanders fit the bill perfectly through training and tradition. Recruiting and settling the Scottish Highlanders as the first line of defense on the southern frontier in Georgia was an important decision on the part of the trustees and crucial for the survival of the colony, but this portion of Georgia's history has been sadly neglected until now. By focusing on the Scots themselves, Anthony W. Parker explains what factors motivated the Highlanders to leave their native glens of Scotland for the pine barrens of Georgia and attempts to account for the reasons their cultural distinctiveness and "old world" experience aptly prepared them to play a vital role in the survival of Georgia in this early and precarious moment in its history.
Author: St. Louis Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 938
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Author: St. Louis Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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"Teachers' bulletin", vol. 4- issued as part of v. 23, no. 9-
Author: Southern History Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Includes reports of the annual meetings.
