"This book was conceived as an attempt to bring together from as many English sources as survive a comprehensive account of emigration to the New World from its

Between 1614 and 1775 some 50,000 English men, women, and children were sentenced by judicial process to be sent to the American colonies for a variety of crime

The forced emigration of convicts, destitute persons and children, "undesirables", and non-conformists from England to the Americas.

Before 1650, only a few hundred Scots had trickled into the American colonies, but by the early 1770s the number had risen to 10,000 per year. A conservative es