3 A quantitative analysis of British emigrant registers (1773-76) by American historian Bernard Bailyn yields the following occupational data for those who came from the borders:
Occupation |
Emigrants from Northern England |
Emigrants from Scottish Borders |
Gentry |
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Merchandising |
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High skilled crafts and trades |
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Ordinarily skilled crafts and trades |
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Farming |
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Laborers |
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Total |
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Note: Northern England includes the six counties of Cumberland, Westmorland, Northumberland, Durham, Lancashire and Yorkshire; the Scottish Borders include the seven counties of Wigtown, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries, Roxburgh, Selkirk, Peebles, and Berwick. The source is Bailyn, Voyagers to the West, 162-63.
4Ibid., 170-71.
5 Cheesman A. Herrick, White Servitude in Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1926), 164-66; Abbot E. Smith, Colonists in Bondage: White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776 (Chapel Hill, 1947), 171, 289.