Would sure like to know if anyone out there can connect to this Ross below. If so, I'd sure love to hear from you.. 30 May 1774 Commisioners of the Customs of Scotland "Report of the Examination of the Emigrants from the counties of Caithness and Sutherland (Scotland) on the board the Ship Bachelor of Leith bound for Wilmington, North Carolina" John Ross, aged 47, a widower hath six children, from 20 to 5 years old, who emigrat with him, by trade a farmer, last at Kabel in the parish of Farr and county of Sutherland, upon the Estate of Sutherland. Goes to Carolina, becasue the rent of his Posession was greatly advanced the price of cattle which must pay that rent reduced more than one half, and bread which they must always buy excessively dear. The Evil is the greater that the Estate being parcelled out to different Factors and Tacksmen, these must opress the subtenants, in order to raise a profit to themselves, particularly on the article of cattle, which they never fail to take at their own prices, lately at 20/_ or 20 merks, and seldom or never higher than 30/ tho' the same cattle have been sold in the Country from 50 to 55 sh. By these means reduced in his circumstances, and encouraged by his friends already in America, he hopes to live more comfortably in that Country. >From Page 147 and 148 of "Ship Passenger Lists The South (1538-1825) " edited by Carl Boyer, 3rd Audrey Orlando, FL