Peter Wilson Coldham

Transporting felons, "rogues, vagabonds and sturdy beggars" to the colonies.

The King's Passengers to Maryland and Virginia

This volume contains an alphabetical listing of about 7,000 Maryland Land Grants issued between 1731 and 1750.

Settlers of Maryland, 1731-1750

A comprehensive listing compiled from English public records of those who took ship to the Americas for political, religious, and economic reasons; of those who were deported for vagrancy, roguery, or non-conformity; and of those who were sold to labour in the New Colonies.

The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1700-1750

Settlers of Maryland, 1701-1730

"In 1654 the Bristol City Council passed an ordinance requiring that a register of servants destined for the colonies be kept, the purpose being to prevent the practice of dumping innocent youths into servitude. The registers, covering the period 1654 to 1686, are the largest body of indenture records known, and they also are a unique record of English emigration to the American colonies" -- publisher website (December 2007).

The Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654-1686

Great Britain. High Court of Admiralty

Cases brought before the High Court of Admiralty involving court cases involving ships which reflect the individual hands who signed onto those ships sailing to Colonial America.

Abstracts of Examinations in the High Court of Admiralty with Reference to Colonial America

English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1609-1660

More Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775

"This book was conceived as an attempt to bring together from as many English sources as survive a comprehensive account of emigration to the New World from its beginnings to 1660"--Introduction.

Peter Wilson Coldham

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