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The Original Lists of Persons of Quality; Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels;
The original lists of persons of quality; emigrants; religious exiles; political rebels; serving men sold for a term of years; apprentices; children stolen; maidens pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700 : with their ages and the names of the ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars; from mss. preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England (1874)
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First published January 1, 1874
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October 22, 2019
There's no valid way to rate this book on the GR scale. I can't say I liked or enjoyed it or even thought it particularly useful to me. I am, however, glad it exists, and I think there is a lot of useful information in it...if only it could be put in some kind of functional format.
This is one of those mass-scanned public domain books produced into ebook format with zero effort to make it legible or usable. The format is a mess. It's headache inducing for many reasons, not the least of which are the mind-numbing dullness of lists written in all caps and the mind-boggling puzzle that is 17th century spelling. To make it worse, that archaic and random spelling is further scrambled by the weaknesses of the OCR software used. While there is a table of contents, it's basically useless. And it's not exactly what I'd call riveting reading material anyway unless you're just really into early Colonial migration patterns or genealogy. Fortunately, I am interested in both of those.
That's the bad news.
The good news is that there are some nice morsels in here for the right person. And by "right," I mean for researchers who are positive their family tree goes back to 1600s Colonial America and/or some of the Caribbean/West Indies Islands, or, less likely, has a twig that was the owner or captain of a ship running the Trade Triangle. If one is very, very lucky and very, very patient and not adverse to taking lots of aspirin for the inevitable headaches, it is possible to find gold in these lists. It's more dust than nuggets, but still gold.
And if one is not so fortunate, one might still pick up on some historical trivia concerning the profitable practice of shipping folks considered by those in power to be inconvenient, embarrassing, non-compliant -- or just a pain in the ass -- to distant places for abuse and profit.
The real finds here, if you luck out on the genealogy front, is that these are some of the few lists of the 1600s I've seen that contain info on women travelers. Many of the passenger lists and inventories include such details of the names of the wives, minor children, ages, occupations, and, in some cases, the villages from which the family was migrating. If a passenger traveled with servants, sometimes the servants' names are included. Unfortunately, people of color are not always listed by name, but there are a few passenger lists that do include names and ages of free blacks or paid servants of color, and this might be useful to those engaged in the daunting work of researching colonial ancestors of color.
It's rare to find that level of detail in old records. Too bad more of these 1600s ship lists aren't readily available. This is supposedly one volume of several that were planned. There is no information in the book about whether the others were ever printed or if the records even still exist.
The ebook is available free on Amazon. Given it is not searchable nor indexed, my advice is to use the Kindle highlight function to mark names for later reference. Still cumbersome, but given the random spelling of names, it's about the only way to go back to points of interest.
This is one of those mass-scanned public domain books produced into ebook format with zero effort to make it legible or usable. The format is a mess. It's headache inducing for many reasons, not the least of which are the mind-numbing dullness of lists written in all caps and the mind-boggling puzzle that is 17th century spelling. To make it worse, that archaic and random spelling is further scrambled by the weaknesses of the OCR software used. While there is a table of contents, it's basically useless. And it's not exactly what I'd call riveting reading material anyway unless you're just really into early Colonial migration patterns or genealogy. Fortunately, I am interested in both of those.
That's the bad news.
The good news is that there are some nice morsels in here for the right person. And by "right," I mean for researchers who are positive their family tree goes back to 1600s Colonial America and/or some of the Caribbean/West Indies Islands, or, less likely, has a twig that was the owner or captain of a ship running the Trade Triangle. If one is very, very lucky and very, very patient and not adverse to taking lots of aspirin for the inevitable headaches, it is possible to find gold in these lists. It's more dust than nuggets, but still gold.
And if one is not so fortunate, one might still pick up on some historical trivia concerning the profitable practice of shipping folks considered by those in power to be inconvenient, embarrassing, non-compliant -- or just a pain in the ass -- to distant places for abuse and profit.
The real finds here, if you luck out on the genealogy front, is that these are some of the few lists of the 1600s I've seen that contain info on women travelers. Many of the passenger lists and inventories include such details of the names of the wives, minor children, ages, occupations, and, in some cases, the villages from which the family was migrating. If a passenger traveled with servants, sometimes the servants' names are included. Unfortunately, people of color are not always listed by name, but there are a few passenger lists that do include names and ages of free blacks or paid servants of color, and this might be useful to those engaged in the daunting work of researching colonial ancestors of color.
It's rare to find that level of detail in old records. Too bad more of these 1600s ship lists aren't readily available. This is supposedly one volume of several that were planned. There is no information in the book about whether the others were ever printed or if the records even still exist.
The ebook is available free on Amazon. Given it is not searchable nor indexed, my advice is to use the Kindle highlight function to mark names for later reference. Still cumbersome, but given the random spelling of names, it's about the only way to go back to points of interest.
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July 4, 2015
No good
No what I thought it was going to be. I can't think of any thing to say.Good bye bye
.
No what I thought it was going to be. I can't think of any thing to say.Good bye bye
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