Scottish-American court records, 1733-1783/ David Dobson

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"The political union of Scotland and England in 1707 led to a rapid expansion of Scottish economic links, and subsequent settlement, in the American colonies. By mid-century an influential network of Scottish merchants and planters, connected through blood and business, had been established throughout North America and the West Indies. This network was at its most powerful on the Chesapeake, where in the years prior to the Revolution the tobacco trade was controlled by Glasgow-based merchants and their factors.".

"Evidence of this economic expansion and subsequent settlement in America exists in a wide range of documentary sources in Scotland, including the records of the Scottish legal system, which have been deposited in the Scottish Record Office in Edinburgh. This volume is based on the minute books of the Court of Session (the highest civil court) and those of the High Court of the Admiralty (which had jurisdiction in all seafaring and maritime cases) for the period 1733-1783. In essence it identifies those people resident in North America who were engaged in litigation in Scotland and whose cases came before the aforementioned courts"--Introd.

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