Complete Book of Emigrants, 1751-1776

by Peter Wilson Coldham

Book Overview

In this fourth and final volume of "The Complete Book of Emigrants," Peter Wilson Coldham brings the story of English emigration in the colonial period to a natural if uneventful close. Voluntary emigration from the British Isles went into a steep decline after the year 1750, only to rise again sharply from 1770 and to reach epidemic proportions by 1773, a year of great economic hardship in Britain. Involuntary emigration, on the other hand, the forced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806313765
• ISBN13: 9780806313764
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"