Would someone be kind enough to tell me if this book is available in Seattle libraries? SGS? Fiske? LDS Family History centers (MLT or other locations?) Dobson, David. Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations 1650-1775, Baltimore: 1983. I have at least two ancestors who were white slaves in Barbados and I'll probably find more as my husband and I both have a lot of colonial Maryland ancestry. One was Ninian Beale / Bell, a Scotsman, and the other was Thomas Dowden, whom I believe was an Englishman - probably from the Somerset area. Both of them went to colonial Maryland when their terms of service were up. There were thousands of Irish slaves in the West Indies and a smaller number of Scots. I don't know what my Englishman was doing there - probably a religious dissenter. Most of the information on the web deals with prisoners transported to Australia, but that came later. I'd appreciate any suggestions for books, web site, Google keywords... Diane Hettrick Shoreline dhettrick@earthlink.net

Diane: This Dobson book is at Seattle Public Library (call # R929.373 D656Db). It's in the online catalog <http://ipac.spl.org/>. A keyword search for "Barbados" brings up 47 items. Some of the nongenealogy items including a novel may be of interest to you. A keyword search for "Barbados genealogy" (without the quotes) brings up 9 items. A search by author name (Dobson, David) brings up 16 items, some of which pertain to the Caribbean and Maryland genealogy but are _not_ on the other 2 lists above. You can e-mail the results of your SPL searches to yourself from the web site and thus have a handy list to take to the library. Seattle Public Library system will be closed August 25 through September 1 due to city-wide budget cuts. Even the online catalog will be shut down during that time. --Ida Skarson McCormick, idamc@seanet.com, Seattle At 04:35 PM 07/31/2003 -0700, Diane K. Hettrick wrote: >Would someone be kind enough to tell me if this book is >available in Seattle libraries? SGS? Fiske? LDS >Family History centers (MLT or other locations?) > >Dobson, David. Directory of Scots Banished to the >American Plantations 1650-1775, Baltimore: 1983. > >I have at least two ancestors who were white slaves in >Barbados<snip>