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17th Century Hollanders - Sketches of Seventeenth-Century Hollanders

Seventeenth-Century Persons Who Lived in Holland and North America: Genealogical and Historical Notes on Their Lives, Families and Activities. Original research projects by Cor Snabel and Elizabeth A. Johnson. Within these pages you will find articles on many persons from Holland and the neighboring countries near it. Many of these people came to the North American colonies in the 1600's, or had family members who did. Interesting information we would like to share here may include family and genealogical data on persons living on both sides of the Atlantic, and sometimes in Brazil or even in places in Eurpoe before they moved to Holland.

Ancestry.com - Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775 $

Original source: by David Dobson. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Geni.com Projects - Scots Prisoners and their Relocation to the Colonies, 1650-1654

Old South Meeting House - List of Tea Party Participants

Boston, Massachusetts. Over 5,000 colonists participated in the fateful meetings at Old South Meeting House that decided the fate of the tea in December of 1773, but only about 100 to 150 men actually boarded the ships to destroy the tea.

People of the Founding Era

A scholarly reference work that provides biographical information on over 75,000 people born between 1713 (the end of Queen Anne's War) and 1815 (the end of the Napoleonic War), drawn from the digitized papers of the Founding Fathers and other documentary editions of the Founding Era.