Dear Listers If you bring up Kerby Miller's book on Amazon.com, a "Search inside" facility kicks in. This may well give you the page number in the book and the surrounding phrase, if you're lucky also an image of the actual page. Regards Dave Mitchell -------------------------------------------------- From: "Hugh Nevin" <hnevin@nycap.rr.com> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 3:23 PM To: <scotch-irish@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [S-I] Thoughts on replying to an American etc letter > Hello Tom, > > The book is IRISH IMMIGRANTS IN THE LAND OF CANAAN: LETTERS AND MEMOIRS > FROM COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA, 1675-1815. It is written and > edited by Kerby A. Miller, Arnold Schrier, Bruce D. Boling, and David N. > Doyle. Oxford University Press published it in 2003. > > Perhaps the best brief description of the book is in this Preface > paragraph: "Each of the book's chapters focuses on one or more specific > immigrants and on the documents they wrote or dictated. Thus, the > chapters constitute a series of historical essays, each can stand alone, > but together they represent at once the disparate character, the common > themes, and the mosaiclike texture of early Irish migration." > > I did not find Spier/Speer in the Index. > > Regards, > > Hugh > > On Jan 22, 2012, at 6:39 AM, Tom Speer wrote: > >> Hugh, >> I am trying to trace the origin of a gggrandfather William Speer whose >> tombstone in Donegal gives his date of birth as 1781and age 84 years. He >> was a presbyterian who lived at Ballyboencuragh on the Ramelton road from >> Letterkenny. An 1847 survey of the then Manor Grove Estate shows a >> William >> Spier Sen. (and a William Spier Jun.) as tenants of part of >> Ballyboencuragh. >> I should appreciate details of the book to which you refer as it seems >> relevant. Thank you and kind regards. >> Tom Speer >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Hugh Nevin" <hnevin@nycap.rr.com> >> To: <scotch-irish@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 3:50 PM >> Subject: Re: [S-I] Thoughts on replying to an American etc letter >> >> >>> Joe and Linda, >>> >>> I happened to be online as Linda's reply came in. I've just looked >>> quickly at the County Donegal listings in the Index of Irish Immigrants. >>> I didn't see the specific phrase. Of the two references that caught my >>> eye, the following (p. 107) seems a possible reference: "By at least >>> the >>> 1720s the fertile parishes of east Donegal,...were a major source of >>> Presbyterian emigration that continued and perhaps accelerated after the >>> American Revolution." >>> >>> Hugh Nevin >>> >>> On Jan 21, 2012, at 10:07 AM, lmerle@comcast.net wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Joe, actually it is from that book. I am busy and cannot promise you >>>> that I will find the time to research this for you. Perhaps try again. >>>> Google books is not likely to be useful for searching a book that is in >>>> copyright. The traditional way -- reading the book -- or using the >>>> index >>>> may help and if I get some time, I will try the index. >>>> >>>> Linda Merle >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Joe Flock" <joe.flock@yahoo.com> >>>> To: SCOTCH-IRISH@rootsweb.com >>>> Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 6:04:17 AM >>>> Subject: Re: [S-I] Thoughts on replying to an American etc letter >>>> >>>> Hi Linda, >>>> >>>> Is this in Emigrants and Exiles? Do have the page reference or even the >>>> exact phrase? I have the book and have searched it several times but >>>> can't find this quote. I even tried using Google books to search it >>>> then >>>> reading the paper pages for the ones Google isn't displaying and still >>>> no >>>> luck. >>>> >>>> >>>> Joseph Flock III >>>> >>>> Linda wrote: >>>> >>>> Besides all that, Kirby Miller says in his book on Irish emigration >>>> that >>>> Donegal lost much of its population long before the (recent) Potato >>>> Famine. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>> SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >>>> the >>>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>>> >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>> SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >>>> the >>>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >>> the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >>> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message