The links between Scotland and the countries lying along the southern shores of the Baltic can be traced back as far as the late Medieval period, when Scottish knights accompanied the Teutonic knights on their Baltic Crusade. Since then there have been economic links, which led any number of western merchants--Scots included-- to settle in the main seaports of Eastern Europe, such as Danzig.

The French and Indain War of 1756-1763, in particular, led to significant recruitment in Scotland for service in the American colonies. The experience gained by these soldiers was to influence their decision to settle or emigrate, subsequently, to America. Not surprisingly, the massive increase in emigration to America from the Scottish Highlands that occurred in the decade of the French and Indian War resulted to some extent from the influence of returning soldiers. For this book, Scottish emigration authority David Dobson identified over a thousand Scottish solders in colonial America. The...

This book is excerpted from Clute's Annals of Staten Island From Its Discovery to the Present Time. It contains concise genealogical essays or notes on eighty early Staten Island families.

Thework at hand is an alphabetical listing of all free African-American heads of household listed in the five U.S. censuses for the State of New York taken between 1790 and 1830. Since it was during this 40-year period that the New York legislature passed a series of statutes resulting in the gradual emancipation of the state's slave population, the scope of this work documents the emergence of a completely free black population by 1830. In all, there are 15,000 references to freedmen, many of whom appear in more than one census.

A registry of names abstracted from a number of archival sources.

"This book is designed as an aid to family historians researching their origins in Lanarkshire or Clydesdale, as it was once known"--P. v.

Originally published separately in St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, 2007-2008.