Bailyn Bernard - Voyagers to the West: a passage in the peopling of America on the eve of the Revolution

Departures for Western Hemisphere Recorded in Register of Emigrants, December 1773 March 1776 , by Residence

Size of Emigrant Shiploads for Ships Leaving English and Scottish Ports

Monthly Departure Figures and Destinations for Registered Ships and Emigrants, December 1773-March 1776

Regional Residences for English and Scottish Emigrants

Major Ports of Embarkation

Age Distribution of English and Scottish Emigrants Compared with That of the Home Populations by Residence

Comparison of Ages: Emigrants and Settled Population of America

Comparison of Ages: Emigrants and the White Population of Connecticut

Sex Distribution of Emigrants by Residence

Age Groups and Residences of Emigrants Classified by Gender

Emigrants Who Traveled Alone vs. Those Who Traveled in a Group

Regional Residences of Emigrants Traveling Alone vs. Emigrants Traveling in Groups

Types of Families in Migration

Composition of Families

Regional Differences in Family Size

Occupations

Occupations of English Emigrants According to Age Group and Gender

Occupations of Scottish Emigrants According to Age Group and Gender

Regional Variations in Occupations

Occupations of Indentured Servants and Redemptioners by Residence

Occupations Within Region of Residence: Indentured and Non-indentured Emigrants

Occupations of English Indentured Servants

Occupations of Scottish Indentured Servants

Ages of Indentured Servants and Free Emigrants: Averages and Medians by Residence

Occupations of Heads of Households by Residence

Occupations of Indentured Heads of Households by Residence

Occupations and Average Ages of Emigrants Leaving from London, Comparing Total Emigrants with Long-Distance Migrants

Regional Differences in Motivation to Emigrate

Occupational Differences in Motivation to Emigrate

Destinations of Emigrants by Residence

Destinations of People Traveling in Families

Occupations of Emigrants According to Destinations

Regional Residences of English and Scottish Emigrants and Their Colonial Destinations

Mean Ages and Numbers of Emigrants: Occupations and Destinations

Mean Ages and Numbers of People in Families: Occupations and Destinations

Mean Ages and Numbers of Indentured Servants: Occupations and Destinations

Average Shiploads: Ports of Departure and Destinations

Passengers-per-ship According to Destination

Stated Reasons for Emigrating and Destinations of Decision Makers

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Benjamin Franklin. Portrait by David Martin
Courtesy: White House Collection

The Earl of Hillsborough. Portrait by John Downman
Courtesy: The Marquess of Salisbury

Sir Thomas Miller. Medallion by James Tassie
Courtesy: National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

Henry Dundas. Portrait by John Rising
Courtesy: The Collection of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queens-berry, KT, on loan to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

The 2nd Earl of Dartmouth. Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough
Courtesy: The Earl of Dartmouth

A page of the Register
Public Record Office, London: T47/9/19. Reproduced
by permission of the Controller of Her Majestys Stationery Office

A page of the Register
Public Record Office, London: T47/9/121. Reproduced
by permission of the Controller of Her Majestys Stationery Office

The Dock Yard at Deptford, London
Courtesy: The National Maritime Museum, London

Section of John Rocques map of London (1769)
Courtesy: London School of Economics and Political Science

William Hogarth, A Harlots Progress, Plate 1
Courtesy: Harvard College Library

Roofscape of surviving eighteenth-century attic workrooms and
weavers windows, Spitalfields, London
Photo from Fournier Street Conservation Area (1979)
Courtesy: London Borough of Tower Hamlets

William Hogarth, The Fellow Prentices at Their Looms
Courtesy: Trustees of the British Museum

Gravesend
Courtesy: The National Maritime Museum, London

Between-decks area on a merchant ship
Courtesy: The National Maritime Museum, London

Cross-section of a merchant vessel
From: Fredrik H. Chapman, Architectura Navalis Mercatoria
(1769), plate 23. Courtesy: Harvard College Library

Foundering in a severe gale
Courtesy: The National Maritime Museum, London

Disposition of indentured servants: Neaves notebook
Courtesy: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Manuscript map of Egmonts grant in Nova Scotia
Courtesy: The British Library, London

Egmont Harbor, Nova Scotia
From: J. F. W. DesBarres, Atlantic Neptune
Courtesy: Harvard College Library

Three Views of Newby Hall, North Yorkshire
Courtesy: Newby Hall Estates

The Cumberland Basin area of Nova Scotia
From: J. F. W. DesBarres, Atlantic Neptune
Courtesy: Harvard College Library

Shipwreck in the approaches to Nova Scotia
From: J. F. W. DesBarres, Atlantic Neptune
Courtesy: Harvard College Library