Colonial Immigration Presentation Outline

1) Colonial History a) The immigrant experience b) The context of record keeping c) Maryland example 2) Challenges of finding records 3) Research Methodology a) Preparing to conduct research i) Know your ancestor ii) Know where you are going b) Using Indexes i) Passengers and Immigration Lists, Filby ii) Alternative Indexes (1) Place of Settlement (2) Port of Entry (3) Homeland (4) Lists of Ships c) Passenger Records d) Alternative Sources i) Original Records (1) Pre-Federal Naturalization Records (2) Oaths of Allegiance (3) Colonial Land Grants (4) Servitude Records (5) Newspaper Accounts (6) Emigration Records (7) Probate Records (8) Founding Church Records (9) Journals ii) Compiled Records

Original Records Passenger Lists Massachusetts ▪ 17th Century . The Planters of the Commonwealth: A study of the Emigrants and Emigration in Colonial Times; to which are added Lists of Passengers to Boston and to the Bay Colony; the Ships which brought them; their English Homes, and the Places of their Settlement in Massachusetts 1620-1640. Banks, Charles Edward, Author. (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1972) (MGC - 974.402 B226) Massachusetts ▪18th Century . Port Arrivals and Immigrants to the City of Boston 1715-1716 and 1762-1769 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1973) . Immigrants to New England 1700-1775, Stanwood Bolton, Ethel, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1966) (MGC - 929.3 B6392) Pennsylvania ▪ 17th Century . Emigrants to Pennsylvania, 1641-1819 : a consolidation of ship passenger lists from the Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography Tepper, Michael (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1975) (MGC - 974.8 EM44) Pennsylvania ▪ 18th Century . Pennsylvania German Pioneers : a publication of the original lists of arrivals in the port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808, Strassburger, Beaver, Ralph (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1992) (MGC - 325.243 ST81P) New York ▪ 18th Century . The Palentine Families of New York: A Study of German Immigrants who arrived in Colonial New York in 1710, Jones, Henry Z. (Universal City, CA, 1985) Naturalization . Denizations and naturalizations in the British colonies in America, 1607-1775, Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2005) (MGC - 929.371 B631) Maryland ▪ 17,18th Century . Colonial Maryland Naturalizations, Florence L. Wyand, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1975, reprint 1983) (1660-1775) New York ▪ 17th Century . Denizations, Naturalizations, and Oaths of Allegiance in Colonial New York, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1975) Land Records Massachusetts ▪ 17th Century . Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, ed. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, 12 vols. (Boston, 1861) 1623 Division of Land of Plymouth Colony (MGC - 974.4 R2452) Virginia ▪ 17th Century . Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants 1623-1732, Nell M. Nugent (1934; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1963) (MGC - 975.5 C314) Maryland ▪ 17th Century . The Early Settlers of Maryland : an index to names of immigrants compiled from records of land patents, 1633-1680, in the Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland,

Beth Foulk Colonial Immigration Genealogy © 2009 [email protected] Skordas, Gust, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1968) (MGC - 975.2 SK57) South Carolina ▪ 17th Century . A Compilation of the Original Lists of Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina, 1763- 1773, Revill, Janie (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1968) (MGC - 975.7 R326C) Servitude 18th Century . Record of indentures of individuals bound out as apprentices, servants, etc. : and of German and other redemptioners in the office of the Mayor of the city of Philadelphia, October 3, 1771, to October 5, 1773. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1973) (MGC - 974.8 P53) . Runaway Servants, Convicts, and Apprentices Advertised in the Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1796, Grubb, Farley (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1992) 17-18th Century . The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775, Coldham, Peter Wilson (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1973) (MGC - 929.373 C673C) . Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775, Dobson, David (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1983) (MGC - 929.3 D656) 17th Century . Emigrants to America: Indentured Servants Recruited in London, 1718-1733. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1985) . The Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654-1686 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1988) (MGC - Passenger List Shelf #81) Emigration England . 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. Hotten, John Camden, Editor. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co.,Inc., 1986 (MGC - 929.3 H798OR) . The complete book of emigrants, Coldham, Peter Wilson (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1973) (MGC - Passenger List Shelf #78) . A list of emigrants from England to America, 1682-1692, Ghirelli, Michael (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1989) (MGC - Passenger List Shelf #89) . A list of emigrants from England to America, 1718-1759, Kaminkow, Jack (Baltimore: Magna Carta Book Co, 1981) (MGC - Passenger List Shelf #74) Ireland . Emigrants from Ireland to America, 1735-1743 : a transcription of the report of the Irish House of Commons into enforced emigration to America, McDonnell, Frances. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1973) (MGC - 929.3415 M146) Scotland . The Original Scots Colonists of Early America, 1612-1783, Dobson, David (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1989) (MGC - Passenger List Shelf #84)

Compiled Records Histories New England ▪ 17th Century . The Great Migration Begins : Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Robert Charles Anderson, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1995 (MGC - 929.3 AN24) Massachusetts ▪ 18th Century . Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America, Bolton, Charles Knowles, (Maryland: Heritage Books, 1989)

Finding Aids . Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. William P. Filby, Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2009, . Immigrant and passenger arrivals : a select catalog of National Archives microfilm publications, United States. National Archives and Records Administration, National Archives Trust Fund Board, 1991 (MGC - 016.929 UN3I 2ND)

Background Information . They Came in Ships A Guide to Finding your Immigrant Ancestor’s Arrival Record, John Phillip Colletta, Ancestry Publishing 2002 . American Passenger Arrival Records, Michael Tepper, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1993) . Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas, Christina K. Schaefer, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1998) . Printed Sources: A Guide to Published Genealogical Records, edited by Kory L. Meyerink, (Salt Lake City: Ancestry, Inc., 1998) . “Immigration: Finding Immigrant Origins,” The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy, edited by Loretto Dennis Szucs, Ancestry, 2006