Download or read book English Adventurers and Emigrants 1661 1733 written by Peter Wilson Coldham and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Admiralty Sessions 1536 1834 written by Gregory J. Durston and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growth in England and Britain’s merchant marine from the medieval period onwards meant that an increasing number of criminal offences were committed on or against the country’s vessels while they were at sea. Between 1536 and 1834, such crimes were determined at the Admiralty Sessions if brought to trial. This was a special part of the wider Admiralty Court, which, unlike the other forums in that tribunal, used English common law procedure rather than Roman civil law to try its cases. To a modest extent, this produced a ‘hybrid’ court, dominated by the common law but influenced by aspects of Europe’s other major legal tradition. The Admiralty Sessions also had their own (highly singular) regime for executing convicts, used the Marshalsea prison to hold their suspects and displayed the Admiralty Court’s ceremonial silver oar at their hearings and hangings. During the near three centuries of its existence, the Admiralty Sessions faced enormous legal and logistical problems. The crimes they tried might occur thousands of miles and months of sailing time away from England. Assembling evidence that would ‘stand up’ in front of a jury was a constant challenge, not least because of the peripatetic lives of the seafarers who provided most of their witnesses. The forum’s relationship with terrestrial criminal courts in England was often difficult and the demarcation between their respective jurisdictions was complicated and subject to change. Despite all of these problems, the court experienced significant successes, as well as notable failures, in its battle to deal with a litany of serious maritime crimes, ranging from piracy to murder at sea. It also spawned a series of Vice-Admiralty Courts in English and British colonies around the world. This book documents the origins, development and abolition of the Admiralty Sessions. It discusses all of the major crimes that were determined by the forum, and examines some of the more arcane and unusual offences that ended up there. Some of the unusual challenges presented by the maritime environment, whether the impossibility of preserving dead bodies at sea, the extensive power given to captains to physically punish sailors, the difficulty of securing suspects in small vessels, or the often gruesome problems occasioned by the marginal legal status of slaves, are also considered in detail.
Download or read book Scottish Emigration to Colonial America 1607 1785 written by David Dobson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 estimate of the total number of Scots who settled in North America prior to 1785 is around 150,000. Who were these Scots? What did they do? Where did they settle? What factors motivated their emigration? Dobson's work, based on original research on both sides of the Atlantic, comprehensively identifies the Scottish contribution to the settlement of North America prior to 1785, with particular emphasis on the seventeenth century.
Download or read book The Complete Book of Emigrants 1661 1699 written by Peter Wilson Coldham and published by Baltimore : Genealogical Publishing Company. This book was released on 1987 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A list of around 30,000 emigrants sailing to America from English ports, not Irish, Scottish, or Welsh.
Download or read book The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine written by and published by DIANE Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Genealogist s Guide to Discovering Your Immigrant Ethnic Ancestors written by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack and published by North Light Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research techniques specific to the reader's own ancestors' national and ethnic backgrounds enable them to learn where and how to find information they need. Ethnic research techniques and ethnic resources make this book unique from any we've ever published. Ethnic research techniques lead researchers to records based on customs or migration patterns of specific ethnic groups. Ethnic resources are organized around national and cultural backgrounds rather than geography and social statuses such as married, divorced, sued, and so on. Clear, authoritative instruction typifies both the content of this book and the reputation of its author, Sharon DeBartolo Carmack.
Download or read book More English Adventurers and Emigrants 1625 1777 written by Peter Wilson Coldham and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coldham examines criminal examinations, minutes and drafts, assignation books, instance (equity) papers, exemplars (drafts & miscellaneous documents), and treasury board papers in High Court of Admiralty Records for references to American colonists for the period 1625 to 1777.
Download or read book Before the Melting Pot written by Joyce D. Goodfriend and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its earliest days under English rule, New York City had an unusually diverse ethnic makeup, with substantial numbers of Dutch, English, Scottish, Irish, French, German, and Jewish immigrants, as well as a large African-American population. Joyce Goodfriend paints a vivid portrait of this society, exploring the meaning of ethnicity in early America and showing how colonial settlers of varying backgrounds worked out a basis for coexistence. She argues that, contrary to the prevalent notion of rapid Anglicization, ethnicity proved an enduring force in this small urban society well into the eighteenth century.
Download or read book Sailing East West Indian Pirates in Madagascar written by Baylus C. Brooks and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five West-Indian pirates attempt to recapture 17th-century pirate glory on the East-Indian isle of Madagascar. Edward England, Edward Congdon, Olivier LeVasseur, and Richard Taylor sail to Madagascar in 1720 and join with Jasper Seager to make havoc against the East-Indian Company. These are the stories of their misadventures and lives. Some lived opulently - some died horrible deaths. They met Dutch, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and the native Betsimisaraka with whom they shared their short lives. They also captured a Portuguese Viceroy, the Fort at Delagoa, East-India Company officials, including an angry Scottish captain, and traded with a Royal Navy Commodore intent upon an illicit trade in gold and jewels!
Download or read book The Complete Book of Emigrants 1700 1750 written by Peter Wilson Coldham and published by Baltimore : Genealogical Publishing Company. This book was released on 1987 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive listing compiled from English public records of those who took ship to the Americas for political, religious, and economic reasons; of those who were deported for vagrancy, roguery, or non-conformity; and of those who were sold to labour in the New Colonies.
Download or read book The Descendants of Robart Page of the King s House written by George Wilson Page and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descendants are to be found residing in New York, Missouri, California, Connecticut and elsewhere.
Download or read book The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record written by Richard Henry Greene and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indentured Migration and the Servant Trade from London to America 1618 1718 written by John Wareing and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full examination of the English trade in indentured servants, who paid for their transportation and keep, and continued to work unpaid for years on their arrival. Often these people were deceived and coerced, despite half-hearted government efforts to curtail the activities of what was, after all, a useful crime for the English state.
Download or read book A Student s Guide to British American Genealogy written by Anne E. Johnson and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1996 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A step-by-step guide to genealogical research for students of British American descent or those interested in British Americans.
Download or read book The Augustan Society Omnibus written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Complete Book of Emigrants 1661 1699 written by Peter Wilson Coldham and published by . This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Virginia Carrolls and Their Neighbors 1618 1800s written by Elizabeth Carroll Foster and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows the Carrolls from Ireland to Virginia. On Sir Richard Greenville's fourth voyage in 1587 to the colony of Virginia, he left (Denice) Dennis Carrell and Darbie Glaven on shore to procure the necessary supplies. Other early Carrolls to Virginia John Kerill in 1623/1624 and Christopher Carnoll (Carroll) in 1634/1635. In 1635 Henry Carrell (age 16) disembarked on Virginia's shores as did Elizabeth Carrill in 1638. .
