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A Scottish migration to Alexandria
Hamilton, Ellen J.2022
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"History of the Lowlands of Scotland in the 1700's and the life of William Gregory, who migrated from Kilmarnock, Scotland, to Alexandria, Virginia in the United States. This book tells why the Scottish Lowlands became so crowded, and what life was like there. The reasons that caused people to leave everything they knew, climb aboard a crowded ship, and sail in unspeakable squalor for many weeks to start a new life, penniless, in an unforgiving land.One man, William Gregory, left his family's carpet factory
Main title:
A Scottish migration to Alexandria / Ellen J. Hamilton.
Author:
Hamilton, Ellen J., author
Edition:
Second edition.
Imprint:
Alexandria, VA : Yellow Dot Publishing, [2022]
Collation:
88 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 84-85).
ISBN:
9780976372530 ((pbk.))
Dewey class:
929.20973
LC class:
F234.A3
Language:
English
Subject:
Gregory, William, III, 1789-1875Gregory, William, III, 1789-1875 -- FamilyGregory familyScottish Americans -- Virginia -- Alexandria -- BiographyTextile industry -- Virginia -- Alexandria -- History -- 19th centuryAlexandria (Va.) -- History -- 19th centuryAlexandria (Va.) -- BiographyKilmarnock (Scotland) -- Genealogy
BRN:
4352735
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