British emigrants in bondage, 1614-1788
"Historians tell us that a large percentage of the population of colonial Virginia and Maryland consisted of men and women who had been transported from Great Britain and Ireland for crimes ranging from bigamy to highway robbery. Given the unique role of transportation in the peopling of colonial America ... Coldham has made it his task ... to abstract from every surviving record the names and histories of all those sentenced in England and Ireland to be transported to America for their alleged crimes. This work has been in progress since 1974 and has finally achieved its culmination in [this] ... definitive record of 48,000 felons carried [via convict ships] from the jails of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland to help populate colonial America"--Genealogical Publishing web site
Computer File, English, ©2005
CD-ROM ed
Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, Md., ©2005