Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607-1660

by Peter Wilson Coldham

Overview

This is a heroic attempt to bring together from English sources a complete list of immigrants to the New World from 1607 to 1660. No doubt records of passengers leaving for America were kept in this period, but while no systematic record has survived, the remaining records are substantial. Some were collected and published by John Camden Hotten over 100 years ago, and they were the passenger lists he found in the British State Papers. Since then a great many sources have been found and the time has been long overdue for these facts to be assembled in one comprehensive book. Hence the publication of this work by the English scholar Peter Wilson Coldham, the leading authority on early English emigration records.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780806311920
Publisher:	Genealogical Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/09/2009
Edition description:	NEW REVISED
Pages:	620
Sales rank:	455,417
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.25(d)

Editorial Reviews

This is the third volume in what will be a four-volume set (Vol. 1: 1607-1660 , Genealogical Pub., 1987; Vol. 2: 1661-1699 , Genealogical Pub., 1991); a final volume is being prepared that will end with 1775. The purpose of the series is to publish extracts from original records about as many emigrants to America as can be identified. The extracts are taken from a number of manuscript sources as well as books by the author and others which identify emigrants from England to America during this period. Each volume contains an index of persons and an index to ships mentioned in the extracts. Entries included from court and apprentice records contain more personal information than those from the port books. The latter were designed to record ships, their masters, departure dates, destinations, and shippers-owners of cargoes. The book is not a complete list of all emigrants leaving England for America during the period under study, because the records of many persons no longer exist or remain undiscovered. There have been many other similar books on 18th-century English emigrants that make valuable contributions to the literature, including John Wareing's Emigrants to America: Indentured Servants Recruited in London, 1718-1733 (Genealogical Pub., 1985) and Marion J. and Jack Kaminkow's Original Lists of Emigrants in Bondage from London to the American Colonies, 1719-1744 (LJ 8/67, o.p.). Coldham's index contains many of the same persons, but also many that were not included in these and other books on the subject. The origin of each extract is given, enabling the reader to find the source for more detailed information. Genealogists and other historians will welcome this resource for the study of colonial ancestors and immigration. Librarians serving this type of researcher will want all of the volumes in this series.-- Raymond S. Wright III, Brigham Young Univ., Provo, Ut.

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