"Searching for Scotch-Irish Roots is the first book to collect the evidence scattered throughout manuscripts and some published works held in libraries and archives throughout Scotland, especially in the southwest. Mr. Dobson divides the records into five main categories: Church Records, Town (Burgh) Records, Court Records, Miscellaneous Government Records, and University and other private record collections. Subsumed within these categories, researchers...

"This publication aims to identify members of the Society of Friends in Scotland prior to 1700 and the Scots origins of many of the Quakers who settled in East New Jersey in the 1680s."--Introduction.