Hi folks, to follow on with Dr. McMaster's post, there is Agnew's book "Belfast Merchant Families in the SEventeenth Century". Where to find? LIbraries and bookstores. The genealogical appendixes (NOT indexed) are abstracted and in the archives of this list. (www.rootsweb.com, scroll to Mail Lists, click on Interactive Search, type in Scotch-Irish (SPELLING COUNTS) and search. I can't recall the year...not last, maybe 2002??? (If anyone finds, let us know!!) Also "Ulster Emigration to Colonial America 1718-1775" by R J Dickson ... well, covers the topic <grin>. Lastly folks reading these books will learn that in those days ships were small. They did NOT book point to point trips. They could put in along the coast about anywhere, or wait offshore while someone transported some cargo to or from in small boats. Ships often picked up people in both Ireland and Scotland on a single trip, and would stop at every 'port' to use the term very losely on Ireland. They would head up around the coast from Dublin, maybe cross the **** TWELVE MILES **** (think: close!) to Scotland and dump some cargo or pick up more on any shoreline where you could again put in small boat, and then head around Ireland's northshore, down the coast, and after filling up with water and food at Cork, cross the Pond. This is well documented. Among other sources the diary of the Rev. Charles Clinton Beatty documents his journey on just such a ship in 1729. By the time they got to Cork people were already sick from the measles and the smart ones jumped ship. A third died in the crossing in cluding the Rev's father, my ancestor, and four other family members. (It was a very bad crossing!). Also you should read Bailyn's books 'The Peopling of British North America" and "Voyagers to the West" if you hope to understand shipping and immigration. "Voyagers to the West" won a Pulitzer. You can find these books at your local library or buy a copy at www.amazon.com or your local Borders. The index to the Belfast Newsletter is free on line (see our website: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~merle or google) and it has advertisements and letters of successful migrants. Also see www.genealogy.com/university.html for a free course on immigration research. The methods the courses teach WORK because they rely on records that exist. Best of luck! Linda Merle ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: RKMacmaster@aol.com Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:29:02 EDT >I'm coming in late on this, so don't know who "he" is or what the context. > >Eighteenth-century Dublin newspapers, of which there were a great many, often >short-lived, carried shipping news less regularly than the American papers >did and also published paid advertisements for passengers for ships sailing to >various ports. > >Nearly all the surviving newspapers were microfilmed years ago and can be >consulted in large reference libraries - a tedious and not always rewarding >process. > >Audrey Lockhart, Some Aspects of Emigration from Ireland to the North >American Colonies Between 1660 and 1775 (NY, 1976) has lists of ships (in an >appendix, pp. 175-208) based largely on Dublin newspapers and serving as a kind of >index to the originals. > >Since these are nearly all vessels sailing from Dublin, rather than northern >ports, you will not get much help with Ulster emigrants -- and, of course, >even a notice that a ship "sailed with passengers for Philadelphia" will tell no >more than that, no names. > >All the best, >Richard > > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mail.fea.net