• Emigrants in Chains - (Book - Genealogical.com) : A Social History of Forced Emigration to the Americas of Felons, Destitute Children, Political and Religious Non-Conformists, Vagabonds, Beggars and Other Undesirables, 1607-1776. -

• Genealogical Abstracts from The American Weekly Mercury, 1719-1746 - (Book - Genealogical.com) : The American Weekly Mercury was the first newspaper published in Pennsylvania and the third in British North America. -

• Genealogies of Mayflower Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (3 Volumes) - (Book - Amazon.com) : This three-volume work represents a complete collection of articles from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register devoted exclusively to Mayflower passengers and their progeny. The three encyclopedic volumes contain hundreds of articles on families and individuals of Mayflower descent and comprise not only the largest body of such materials in print but the most comprehensive collection of writings of the foremost Mayflower scholars of the 19th and 20th centuries. -

• Mayflower Increasings - Second Edition - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Building on the previously published work of John Landis--the 1922 Mayflower Descendants and Their Marriages for Two Generations After the Landing--Mrs. Roser's work provides an accurate and reliable summary of all that is presently known about the passengers of the Mayflower for the first three generations in America--names, dates, places, spouses, children, etc. Unique to the Roser work, each third generation listing includes references to records or sources that will help the researcher find fourth generation children. And new to this edition is a "Probate Appendix" which will assist the reader in identifying fourth and fifth generation children. -

• Pocahontas - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Mr. Brown, the author of three volumes on the descendants of Pocahontas, has here assembled all that is known about the famous Powhatan Indian princess who reputedly saved the life of Captain John Smith, the leader of the Jamestown expedition. Diminutive in size, the book transports the reader back to 17th-century Virginia by weaving the quotations of people who knew the Indian maiden with reproductions of more than a dozen contemporary etchings, drawings, or maps. -

• Scottish Emigration to Colonial America, 1607-1785 - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Before 1650, only a few hundred Scots had trickled into the American colonies. However, by the early 1770s the number had risen to 10,000 per year and would reach a total of around 150,000 by 1785. Who were these Scots? What did they do? Where did they settle? What factors motivated their emigration? David Dobson's work draws on original research on both sides of the Atlantic to comprehensively identify the Scottish contribution to the early settlement of North America. -

• The Association Oath Rolls of the British Plantations (New York, Virginia, Etc.) A.D. 1696 - (Book - Genealogical.com) : In February 1696, following several unsuccessful plots to overthrow William III and reinstate the deposed Stuart monarch, Parliament enacted a statute requiring citizens to sign an Oath of Allegiance to King William. The work at hand is a transcription of the surviving Oath Rolls for the following Crown possessions or diplomatic outposts in 1696: Barbados, Virginia, New York, Bermuda, Antigua, Nevis, Montserratt, Antego, St. Christopher, Dort, Rotterdam, The Hague, Malaga, and Geneva. The great virtue of this work, of course, is that it establishes the existence of 1,200 colonists in a particular place before the turn of the 18th century. -

• The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607-1660 - (Book - Genealogical.com) : This is a heroic attempt to bring together from English sources a complete list of emigrants to the New World from 1607 to 1660. The book is a reworking of the Chancery records and records of the Exchequer, the 1624 and 1625 censuses of Virginia, the records of licenses and examination of persons wishing to "pass beyond the seas." To John Camden Hotten's basic list, which he has revised and augmented to 1668, Coldham has added fascinating records of vagrants, waifs, and prostitutes who were transported to the colonies. He has also added new transcriptions of records of servants sent to "foreign plantationes" from Bristol, 1654-1660. And he has added much more from port books, court records, and from any types of official papers and documents. -

• Witch Hunt DVD - (DVD - The History Channel) : 17th century New England clung to the end of a vast and virtally unknown continent. Deeply religious and intensely 'superstitious, the settlers turned on each other in 1692, when some 20 people were tortured and killed for practicing witchcraft. -

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