Books written by David Dobson

Huguenot and Scots Links 1575-1775

This book has been compiled from both primary and secondary sources in Scotland and is based to some extent on distinctive French surnames, some which have become Scotticized and may vary from the original; for example, Dieppe and its ...

Scottish Highlanders on the Eve of the Great Migration, 1725-1775: The People of Inverness-shire

In some cases, we also learn the identities of relatives, the individual's employment, vessel traveled on, and so forth.See also the other volumes in this series: The People of Argyll The People of Highland Perthshire The Peopl

The People of Cork, 1600-1799

Scottish Genealogy Research

David Dobson brings his expertise to bear in a shrewd distillation of facts about Scottish genealogical research.

Irish Emigrants in North America

The work at hand, a consolidated reprint of three pamphlets by Mr. David Dobson, endeavors to shed light on some 1,000 Irish men and women and their families who emigrated to North America between roughly 1775 and 1825.

Directory of Scots in the Carolinas, 1680-1830

In this work Mr. Dobson presents, for the first time, a comprehensive list of Scottish settlers in the Carolinas from 1680 to 1830.

Ships from Ireland to Early America, 1623-1850

In the compilation of the volume, Mr. Dobson combed through contemporary newspapers, government records in Great Britain and North America, and a small number of published works.

Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775

Scots banished to the American plantations by Scottish courts due to various crimes between 1650-1775.

Scottish Emigration to Colonial America, 1607-1785

The book is arranged by geographic location within a chronology that frames the major periods of Scottish emigration, which were, by definition, periods of great sociopolitical change in Britain: the half-century before Restoration, ...

Scottish Trade with Colonial Charleston, 1683 to 1783

'This is a very welcome book which makes a contribution both to the burgeoning field of Scots in the Empire and to Atlantic history. Dobson has fresh things to say...

Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825

Seven volumes of lists of Scottish immigrants to North America between 1625 and 1825.

Directory of Scots in the Carolinas, 1680-1830

This is an important addition to the literature of Scottish immigration to colonial America, and, given the difficulty of identifying the participants in this extraordinary emigration, one worth waiting for.

The People of the Northern Highlands and Isles, 1800-1850

The early 19th century in Scotland marked the time of the notorious Highland Clearances, when landowners evicted their tenants to establish large sheep farms that were more profitable than collecting rent.

The Jacobites of Angus, 1689-1746: (A-L)

Burgess Rolls of Fife 1700-1800 and St. Andrew's 1700-1750

The Original Scots Colonists of Early America, 1612-1783

David Dobson has extracted data about the 150,000 Scots who emigrated to America before the Revolutionary War from a wide variety of sources, including family and estate papers, testamentary and...

Scots in Georgia and the Deep South, 1735-1845

Given in memory of Dorothy Clark by the Texas Research Ramblers.

Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America

The book under consideration here marks the second in a series on Scottish colonial soldiers compiled by emigration authority David Dobson. (The first volume was published as two parts in one.) Working from manuscripts in the Acts of the ...

Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America: Part one and part two

SCOTS-DUTCH LINKS IN EUROPE &

By 1675 some Scots scholars, merchants, and Covenanters (Calvinists) were gravitating to Holland, Zealand, and Flanders, but the majority were soldiers fighting for the United Provinces for independence from the Spanish Hapsburgs and later ...