Background

What was the background to the Scottish emigration?

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