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North American immigrants

We are researching early immigrants to the USA and Canada.

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Latest Activity: Nov 7, 2025

Early arrivals

Many Canadian and American families can be traced back to early arrivals in 'America', but making the connection across the pond is often not so straight forward.

I am keen that we should use this forum to identify those key people, and then work together to trace their ancestors back to Scotland (or Ireland, or England). In some cases, families arrived via the West Indies. It would be good to identify them as well.

A starting point is the list in The Douglas Archives of 'Early Douglas settlers in America'. Suggestions for additions to this list would be very welcome.

Please make your contributions as full as possible, with dates and places included, as appropriate.

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Comment by Ronald Drysdale on July 28, 2024 at 23:46
Comment by Ronald Drysdale on July 28, 2024 at 23:32
Comment by Ronald Drysdale on July 28, 2024 at 23:24
Comment by Ronald Drysdale on July 23, 2024 at 15:35

Hi 

One of the best sources of information on Early American settlers is the 34 volumes of Virginia Colonial abstracts compiled by Beverly Fleet.

These volumes are available online in a number of places, but frequently only a few of the volumes are available for download at any one location.  

The FamilySearch website is one location where all 34 volumes may be viewed and downloaded for free, the relevant web address is;

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1949959?availability=Fa...

If you are unable to access the FamilySearch site but are searching for a specific volume. Please add a comment here and I will upload the relevant pdf to this page.

Best regards

Comment by Lane Kraft on April 3, 2020 at 19:45

That is his gravestone, William!

Comment by Lane Kraft on April 3, 2020 at 4:02

I am a descendant of the Douglas's mentioned in the J. Lufkin Douglas book. My last ancestor listed was Cynthia Etta Douglas, my gg grandmother. Her father was Alonzo Douglas, who homesteader 80 acres in Western Kansas (he's buried in Norton Cemetery). He was a northern veteran of the Civil War and contracted dysentery, which he suffered from all his life. He managed to make a dugout in the rocky outcropping on the side of a hill. His heart was always frail, and when one day he was feeling poorly he walked a mile to the doctor's office, sat down and died.

.>>>>  Is this him? 
 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48934443/alonzo-douglas  William Douglas

Comment by Maria Mahala on November 9, 2019 at 21:19

I am a decendent of the Douglas and Boyd families.  I am searching for those that might also be so that we can help one another.

Most of mine I have records of are from 1800-1900 and they immigrated through Canada.

Comment by Steve Douglas on March 19, 2019 at 21:28

I descend through John Douglas, (5/13/1651 - ca. 1712), who immigrated at the ripe old age of 9, without his family. Here's a great page with excellent detail: https://georgiadouglases.wixsite.com/genealogy/copy-of-john-douglas-1

Comment by William Douglas on December 7, 2018 at 11:34

Russ,

Re the settlers, do you know what the abbreviations Ch B and Adj L mean?

Comment by Patti Oldham Pinkley on March 16, 2015 at 0:31
I have a download of that chapter and the entire book. I am a direct lineal female descendant of the daughter of Archibald that is mentioned at the bottom of page two of Chapter 7. She married Conrad Rutter who came on the ship America in 1683 as a member of Daniel Francis Pastorius entourage, Pastorius being agent for William Penn and the Frankfort company.
Everything on that page is all a part of original documents and family lore passed down to me from my female line. I can conclusively document that the Douglass sister/daughter was Conrad's wife. However, I am still working away on the pre- marriage connection, especially since Conrad was purportedly from the Duchy of Kleve.
I am proud that my mother's family has lived in Lancaster County's Earl Township from Conrad Rutter's time until the death of my Grandmother in 1991. That's a very long time for an American family to maintain its position and holdings continuously in a single community.
 

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Making conections

The more information you can give about the people you mention, the more chance there is of someone else connecting with your family.

Dates and places of births, deaths and marriages all help to place families.

Professions also help.

'My great-grandmother mother was a Douglas from Montrose' does not give many clues to follow up! But a bit of flesh on the bones makes further research possible. But if we are told who she married, what his profession was and where the children were baptised, then we can get to work.

Maybe it is time to update the information in your profile?


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