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

This is part of a series of books by David Dobson designed to identify the origins of Scottish Highlanders who traveled to America prior to the Great Highland Migration that began in the 1730s and intensified thereafter. This volume covers the Northern Highlands an area that includes the counties of Caithness Sutherland Ross and Cromarty. The main clans traditionally associated with the Northern Highlands were: Mackay McLeod Sutherland Sinclair Gunn Munro Ross and Mackenzie all of whom are represented in this volume. The Northern Highlanders were among the pioneers of colonial Georgia North Carolina Pennsylvania New York and the Canadian Maritimes.