Scottish Highlanders on the Eve of the Great Migration 1725-1775

This volume covers Highlanders from the county of Inverness a location from which many of the pioneer emigrants who settled in colonial Georgia Pennsylvania upper New York Jamaica and the Canadian Maritimes originated. Inverness-shire is also the county where the Fraser's Highlanders regiment which played a prominent part in the French and Indian War and in the settlement of Canada was raised. While the present volume is not a comprehensive directory of all the people of Inverness-shire during the mid-18th century it does pull together references on more than 2100 18th-century inhabitants. Coverage extends to all regions within Inverness. In all cases Mr. Dobson gives each Highlander's name a place within Inverness-shire (birth residence employment etc.) a date and the source. In some cases we also learn the identities of relatives the individual's employment vessel traveled on and so forth.