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From: "Tim Robinson" <trobinson42(a)comcast.net>
To: <PA-OLD-CHESTER-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 7:48 PM
Subject: [PaOldC] New CD avail. on Immigrant Bondage
A New CD on Immigrants to America in Bondage is available, thru
Ancestry.Com, I have added the information on what is included on this CD.
Tim R.
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Brittish Immigrants in Bondage = 1614 - 1788 [ CD ]
By: Peter Wilson Coldham
Historians tell us that a large percentage of the population of colonial
Virginia and Maryland consisted of men and women who had been transported
from Great Britain and Ireland for crimes ranging from bigamy to highway
robbery. Given the unique role of transportation in the peopling of
colonial America, Peter Wilson Coldham has made it his task, as England's
foremost authority on 17th- and 18th-century emigration to America, to
abstract from every surviving record the names and histories of all those
sentenced in England and Ireland to be transported to America for their
alleged crimes. This work has been in progress since 1974 and has finally
achieved its culmination in the CD British Emigrants in Bondage, the
definitive record of 48,000 felons carried from the jails of England,
Wales, Scotland, and Ireland to help populate colonial America.
This CD supersedes all of Mr. Coldham's previous work on the subject and
includes a separate section on transported Irish felons and runaways. Also
included is a history of the British transportation system, an exhaustive
account of the records used in this work, and a complete list of convict
ships that sailed to America between 1671 and 1788.
Based on a detailed examination of previously unexplored records and some
recent discoveries by other immigration scholars, as well as Coldham's own
Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775 and its two Supplements,
the CD British Emigrants in Bondage may be said to be exhaustive. In
addition to a complete list of the names and the alleged crimes of the
felons, Mr. Coldham provides a list of sources designed to help the
researcher extend the history of every felon named.
To complete the survey of British records, a separate section entitled
"Irish Transported Felons and Runaways" has been assembled with the
cooperation of many of the best qualified American historians and
genealogists who have generously agreed to the use of their published and
unpublished work. In this way it has proved possible not only to "rescue"
the names of some 5,700 immigrant Irishmen but, in many cases, to link
their names with their likely place of origin.
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