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Scotland and Its First American Colony, 1683–1765. Princeton University Press., on East New Jersey. Prebble, John (1969). The Darien Disaster: A Scots Colony in the New World, 1698–1700. Reid, John G. (1981). Acadia, Maine, and New Scotland: marginal colonies in the seventeenth century. University of Toronto Press. Sandrock, Kirsten (2015).
The first Scots in North America came with the Vikings. A Christian bard from the Hebrides accompanied Bjarni Herjolfsson on his voyage around Greenland in 985/6 which sighted the mainland to the west. [30] [31] The first Scots recorded as having set foot in the New World were a man named Haki and a woman named Hekja, slaves owned by Leif ...
Scottish people have a long history in Canada, dating back several centuries. Many towns, rivers and mountains have been named in honour of Scottish explorers and traders such as Mackenzie Bay and the major city of Calgary, Alberta, is named after a Scottish beach. Most notably, the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia is Latin for New Scotland ...
The Dutch initially settled in territories now referred to as New York, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and New Jersey. The Dutch controlled New Netherland for forty years, an area now known as New York. In 1664, the Dutch settlement area was taken over by the English. In 1696, almost 30,000 people lived in the Province of New York.
She first left Lewis for New York in 1930, at the age of 18, to seek work as a domestic servant. ... life during and after World War One, in which 1,000 islanders died, was very hard and many ...
[101] (28th Governor of New York, 1883–1885; 34th Mayor of Buffalo, New York, 1882; Erie County, New York Sheriff, 1871–1873) Benjamin Harrison 23rd president, 1889–1893: His mother, Elizabeth Irwin, had Ulster-Scots roots through her two great-grandfathers, James Irwin and William McDowell.
Unlike New England, the Mid-Atlantic region gained much of its population from new immigration and, by 1750, the combined populations of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania had reached nearly 300,000 people. By 1750, about 60,000 Irish and 50,000 Germans came to live in British North America, many of them settling in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Large populations of Scottish people settled the 'New World' lands of North and South America, Australia and New Zealand. The highest concentrations of people of Scottish descent in the world outside of Scotland are in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island in Canada, Otago and Murihiku/Southland in New Zealand, the Falkland Islands, and Northern ...