This is the research page for a book I’ve started, with it’s roots in Galloway family genealogy. Watch for links to story segments and to information on Scottish emigration & settlement of colonial America, ca. 1650-1850.

Story Segments, on Medium

• Chronicle: Arrival (3m)
• Chronicle: First Steps in the New World (7m)

Research Threads

• Language branches – Scots and Scotch-Irish
• Scottish Lowlands – the land & the people
• Scottish Lowlands – a swath of history, from the Mull of Galloway to the borders of North Umbria.
• Scottish Emigration – West Coast ports – Greenock, Glasgow, Ayr?
• Scotch-Irish Emigration – the Ulster Scots (protestant Northern Island)
• Colony of New York
• Orange County (then Monroe County) & Woodbury Clove, NY
• Revolution, along the Hudson
• Migration North (to Rochester/Palmyra)
• Migration West (to Michigan) on the Erie Canal
• Frontier Life (in SE Michigan)
• Galloway on Wikipedia
• Galloway Genealogy, courtesy Paul R. Galloway

This project will be collaborative, as we trace history and events over +200 years. Interest in connecting? Shoot me an email.

Chris Jones aka @sourcepov Charlotte NC