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  • Home
  • Background
    • Scottish colonial and trade endeavours
    • Dissent – Covenanters
    • Dissent – Quakers
    • Scots East Jersey venture
    • East Jersey voyages
    • East Jersey 1680s
  • Findings
    • Who emigrated to East Jersey?
    • Why did the Scots leave for East Jersey?
    • What became of the emigrants?
  • People
    • Free emigrant pen portraits
    • Indentured servant pen portraits
    • Transported prisoner pen portraits
    • Investor pen portraits
    • Covenanter pen portraits
    • Quaker pen portraits
  • About
    • About the East Jersey research
    • About the database
    • Searching the database
    • Resources
      • East Jersey timeline
      • East Jersey terms
      • Scottish legal terms
      • Other Scots terms
    • Site Policies
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What was the background to the Scottish emigration?

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Scottish colonial and trade endeavours

John Slezer, 'New Aberdeen', 1693

Religious dissent: Covenanters

Painting by William Harris Weatherhead, The Covenanters (1889). Gallery Oldham CC BY-NC-ND

Religious dissent: Quakers

The Quakers Meeting by Egbert van Heemskerck, c1685

The East Jersey venture

A Mapp of New Jersey in America, by John Seller and William Fisher, 1677

East Jersey voyages

Extract from 'Prospect of Leith from the East', Greenvile Collins, c1693, CC-BY (NLS)

East Jersey in the early 1680s

Lenni-Lenape at home in New Jersey in the 17th century, coloured wood cut

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