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England's seventeenth-century colonial empire in North America and the Caribbean was created by migration. The quickening pace of this essential migration is captured in the London port register of 1635, the largest extant port register for any single year in the colonial period and unique in its record of migration to America and to the European continent. Alison Games analyzes the 7,500 people who traveled from London in that year, recreating individual careers, exploring colonial societies at a time of emerging viability, and delineating a world sustained and defined by migration.
List of contents
Introduction 1. Clearinghouse and Countinghouse: London and Overseas Expansion 2. The Colonial Travelers of 1635 3. Life, Death, and Labor in an Unsettled Land 4. The Trappings of Success in Three Plantation Colonies 5. Piety and Protest in the Puritan Diaspora 6. Persistence and Migration in Old and New England 7. Migration and the Atlantic World Appendix: Calculating Travelers Appendix: Supplementary Tables Notes Archival Sources Index
About the author
Alison Games is Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University.
Summary
England’s 17th-century colonial empire in North America and the Caribbean was created by migration, as captured in the London port register of 1635, the largest extant port register for any single year in the colonial period. Games analyzes the 7,500 people who traveled from London in that year.
