Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America Prior to 1783 — J. P. MacLean (1900) | Indexed Searchable Genealogy PDF

Trace Your Pioneer Highland Ancestors Across Colonial North America & Canada

Originally published in 1900 by historian and Clan MacLean scholar Dr. John Patterson MacLean (1848–1939), An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America Prior to the Peace of 1783, Together with Notices of Highland Regiments and Biographical Sketches is one of the most important primary-source compendiums ever written on early Scottish emigration to North America. Spanning the aftermath of the 1715 and 1745 Jacobite Risings, the post-Culloden dismantling of the clan system, the French and Indian War, and the American Revolution, this volume preserves hundreds of pioneer family names, passenger rosters, colonial land grants, and regimental officer rolls that are otherwise scattered across state and provincial archives.

This Fairbairn's Crests Restored & Indexed Digital Edition (472 Pages) preserves 100% of MacLean's original 1900 text, vintage engravings, and native embedded OCR searchability, enhanced with 4 pages of branded genealogical front matter (including a complete pagination offset guide) and a newly compiled 10-page Back-of-Book Surname & Place Index covering 400 distinct surnames and 255 parishes, settlements, ships, and regiments.

Major Colonial Settlements, Passenger Lists & Land Grants Inside

• Cape Fear, Cross Creek & Campbelton, North Carolina (Chapter V): Complete June 1740 Bladen County land patent table (acreages and grantees), the November 1767 Isle of Jura immigrant family roster at Brunswick (listing husbands, wives, children, and acreages), the 1772–1773 Campbelton freeholder petitions, the arrival of Allan and Flora MacDonald of Kingsborough, and the complete prisoner and officer rolls from the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge (1776).
• New Inverness (Darien), Georgia (Chapter VI): General James Oglethorpe's 1735–1736 recruitment of Inverness-shire and Badenoch Highlanders aboard the Prince of Wales under Capt. Hugh MacKay, Rev. John MacLeod, and John Mohr MacIntosh; the 1739 Darien anti-slavery petition; the defense of Fort Moosa; the victory at Bloody Marsh (1742); and the 1741 Darien freeholder signatories.
• Capt. Lauchlan Campbell's Islay Colony in Argyle, New York (Chapter VII): The 1738–1740 voyages of 83 Islay families (423 souls) to New York, the 1764 Argyle Patent in Washington County, and the complete numbered lot schedule (Lots 1–141) naming every grantee and exact acreage across Argyle, Greenwich, Salem, and Fort Edward.
• The Mohawk Valley & Glengarry County, Ontario (Chapter VIII): Sir William Johnson's 1773 Catholic Highland settlement at Kingsborough/Johnstown (Macdonells of Aberchalder, Leek, Collachie, and Scotas), the 1776 hostages and exodus to Canada, the family petition roster of 24 soldier households, complete officer returns of the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the King's Royal Regiment of New York and Butler's Rangers, and Loyalist land grants in Glengarry, Stormont, and Dundas, Ontario.
• Glenaladale Highlanders of Prince Edward Island (Chapter IX): Capt. John Macdonald Eighth of Glenaladale's 1772 emigration of 200 persecuted Catholic Highlanders from South Uist to Tracadie Bay, St. John's Island (PEI), and their service in the 84th Royal Highland Emigrants.
• The 1773 Ship Hector & Pictou, Nova Scotia (Chapter X): The epic 1773 voyage from Lochbroom and Greenock to Pictou Harbor, the complete reconstructed Hector passenger roster by family and origin, the 1783 West, Middle, and East River land grant schedules with acreages, and the post-war settlement of 84th Regiment veterans in Pictou and Hants Counties.
• The Darien Scheme of 1695–1700 (Chapter IV): Complete chronological transcription of Highland subscribers to the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (February–August 1696), with exact pound-sterling subscriptions, titles, and residences.
• The Ulster-Scots / Scotch-Irish in America (Chapter II): Early settlements across New England (Worcester, Londonderry NH, Pelham, Colerain, Maine), Pennsylvania (Donegal, Paxtang, Derry, Cumberland Valley, Pittsburgh), the Virginia Valley, the Carolinas (Mecklenburg, King's Mountain), Tennessee (Watauga), and Kentucky.

Highland Regiments & Biographical Sketches

• French & Indian War Regiments (Chapter XI): Full 1756–1757 officer rosters, commissions, and casualty tables for the 42nd Royal Highlanders (The Black Watch), 77th Montgomery's Highlanders, and 78th Fraser's Highlanders at Ticonderoga, Louisburg, Fort Duquesne / Fort Pitt, Quebec (Plains of Abraham), and Bushy Run.
• American Revolutionary War Regiments (Chapter XIII): Complete 1776–1778 officer returns, battle narratives, and casualty tables for the 84th Royal Highland Emigrants (1st & 2nd Battalions), 42nd Royal Highlanders, 71st Fraser's Highlanders, 74th Argyle Highlanders, and 76th Macdonald's Highlanders.
• 16 In-Depth Biographical Portraits (Chapters XIV–XV): Gen. Sir Alan Cameron of Erracht, Gen. Sir Archibald Campbell of Inverneil, Gen. John Campbell of Strachur, Lord William Campbell, Brig.-Gen. Simon Fraser of Balnain, Gen. Simon Fraser of Lovat, Lt.-Gen. Simon Fraser, Gen. James Grant of Ballindalloch, Gen. Allan Maclean of Torloisk, Sir Allan Maclean of Brolass (22nd Chief), Gen. Francis Maclean, Gen. John Small, Heroine Flora Macdonald, Maj.-Gen. Alexander McDougall, Brig.-Gen. Lachlan McIntosh, Maj.-Gen. Arthur St. Clair, and Sgt. Donald Macdonald.

Surnames Featured in This Volume (Partial List of 400 Indexed Families)

Abercromby, Alexander, Allan, Anderson, Archibald,Arnot, Baillie, Bain,aird, Balneaves, Barclay, Bayne, Bethune, Blackwood, Blaikie, Blair, Boyd, Brown, Buchanan, Buie (Buea), Cameron, Campbell, Cargill, Chisholm (Chissim), Christie, Clark, Clephane, Cockburn, Colquhoun, Crocket, Cumming (Cumyng), Cunningham, Cuthbert, Dalrymple,Darroch, Davidson, Donaldson, Douglas, Drummond, Duff, Dunbar, Duncan, Duncanson, Dundas, Erskine, Falconer, Farquhar, Farquharson, Ferguson, Finlayson, Forbes, Fraser (Frazer), Gilchrist,frame, Gillis, Gillespie, Glen, Gordon, Graham (Graeme), Grant, Gray,macgregor, Gregorson, Gunn, Haldane, Hamilton, Henderson, Hepburn, Home, Houston, Hunter, Innes, Irvine, Johnston, Keith, Kennedy, Kerr, Kinloch, Lamont, Lawrie, Leslie, Lindsay, Livingston, Logan, MacAlister (McAlister, McAllister), MacAlpine, MacArthur (McArthur), MacBain (McBane), MacBean, MacBride, MacCabe, MacCallum (McCullom), MacCarter, MacCaskill (McAskell), MacCleland, MacColl, MacConnell, MacCormick, MacCoy, MacCracken, MacCraine, MacCrea, MacCulloch (McCulloch), MacDonald (McDonald, Macdonell, McDonell), MacDougall (McDougall, McDougald), MacDowell, MacDuffie (McDuffie), MacEachern, MacElroy, MacEwen, MacFadden, MacFarlane (McPharlane), MacGill, MacGillivray (McGuilvery), MacGowan, MacGregor (McGregor), MacGuire, MacInnis, MacIntosh (Mackintosh, McIntosh), MacIntyre (McIntire), MacIver, MacKay (McKay), MacKean, MacKellar (McKallor), MacKenzie (McKenzie, McKinzie), MacKeithen, MacKinnon, MacKown, MacLachlan (McLachlen), MacLaren, MacLean (McLean, Maclaine), MacLellan, MacLeod (McLeod), MacMaster, MacMillan, MacMullin, MacNab, MacNair, MacNaughton (McNachten), MacNeill (McNeill, McNeil, McNeal), MacNicol, MacNish, MacPherson (McPherson), MacQuarrie, MacQueen, MacRae (McRaw), MacRitchie, MacTavish, MacVicar, MacVorran, Maitland, Malcolm, Marshall, Martin, Matheson, Maxwell, Menzies, Mercer, Middleton, Miller, Mitchell, Moncrieff, Monroe (Munro, Munroe), Montgomery, Moore, Morgan, Morrison, Murchison, Murray, Nairne, Nelson, Nevin, Nicholson, Ogilvie, O'Neill, Pagan, Paterson, Patterson, Pollock,Polson, Porterfield, Pringle, Ramsay, Rattray, Reid,junkin, Robertson, Rose, Ross, Rutherford,Polk,rutledge, Scott, Seton, Shaw, Shelby, Sim, Sinclair (St. Clair), Skelly, Small, Smith,297, Spalding, Speir, Stewart (Stuart), Stirling,Polk,strang, Sutherland (Southerland), Taylor, Thompson, Tolmie, Torrey, Turnbull, Urquhart, Walker, Wallace, Watson, Waugh, Weir, White, Williams, Wilson, Witherspoon, Wood, Wright, Young.

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