---2131480384-342241519-924790691=:15270 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline For your info. Terry note: forwarded msg attached. === Terry Wilson 40 S. Gamble Street Shelby, OH 44875 Researching: ALLEN, COLTMAN, EDMAN, FERRIS, HARLAN/HARLAND, HOLLENBAUGH, HORNER, JANNY/JANNEY/JENNING, KELLER, KLINKLE, KRUNK/CRUNK/CRONK,MARING/MEARING, MAY, McCORMIC/McCORMICK, SEAMAN, SHOMO, SIFFERLIN, TOUSLEY/TOSELEY, & WILSON _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ---2131480384-342241519-924790691=:15270 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Return-Path: <OHVANWER-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (204.212.38.30) by mta2.rocketmail.com with SMTP; 22 Apr 1999 06:29:10 -0700 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA16384; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 06:47:38 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 06:47:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Dlkgen@aol.com Message-ID: <acaaa71d.24508225@aol.com> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 09:46:13 EDT Old-To: OHCLINTO-L@rootsweb.com, OHVANWER-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 4 Reply-To: Dlkgen@aol.com Subject: [OHVANWER-L] English emigration to the American colonies Resent-Message-ID: <6xgbDC.A.2_D.6hyH3@bl-14.rootsweb.com> To: OHVANWER-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: OHVANWER-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <OHVANWER-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/388 X-Loop: OHVANWER-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: OHVANWER-L-request@rootsweb.com Content-Length: 2221 A correspondent asked for more specifics on the records kept in England of people emigrating to the American colonies. He had been unable to find any information. One source to check is "The Complete Book of Emigrants." This is a series of books compiled by Peter Wilson Coldham and published by the Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Co. The complete set is available on CD ROM: <http://www.familytreemaker.com/catalog/index.html>. Coldham consulted many sources in England and the U.S. when abstracting the information for his books. Here are two examples of actions that resulted in "emigration records": (1) English law in 1606 required emigrants to obtain a license, take an oath of allegiance, and submit to examination (few of these records survive); (2) Planters in the American colonies were awarded acreage for each indentured servant brought to the colonies. And as a result, many children and young people were forcibly deported or abducted. Bridewell, a home for the destitute, became a source for indentured servants. Not all went willingly. In 1645 the English parliament Ordered that departing ships be searched to apprehend and bring to justice those who were conveying or receiving children. In 1654 the Bristol Common Council ordered that a register be kept of indentures in an attempt to stop the trade in kidnapped children. Coldham says, "It would have been inconceivable to a 17th-century Englishman to picture Virginia as anything but a disreputable colony since it was largely peopled by the scourings from English prisons, vagrants, waifs, and strays, and those lured into migration by promises of land and wealth." His publications are a good place to start the search. He cites his sources. PERMISSION TO REPRINT articles from ROOTSWEB REVIEW is granted unless specifically stated otherwise, PROVIDED: (1) the reprint is used for non-commercial, educational purposes; and (2) the following notice appears at the end of the article: Written by Brian Bonner Mavrogeorge, email Brian_Mavrogeorge@broder.com Previously published by RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative, RootsWeb Review, Vol. 2, No. 16, 21 April 1999. Please visit RootsWeb's main Web page at <http://www.rootsweb.com/> ---2131480384-342241519-924790691=:15270--