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Excerpt from The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: Emigrants, Religious Exiles, Political Rebels, Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years, Apprentices, Children Stolen, Maidens Pressed, and Others Who Went From Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600 1700
Of the history Of the Colonies, and the eventual establishment of Independence, I have nothing to say. My Object is simply and brie¿y. To point out some of the causes which contributed to the early emigra tion Of English families to America; and then to estimate the practical value of the contents of the present volume as a means of assistance in making genealogical researches in the mother country.
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