The Original Lists of Persons of Quality, 1600 to 1700

The Original Lists of Persons of Quality, 1600 to 1700Published more than 125 years ago, this important resource compiles documents listing seventeenth century English immigrants to New England, the Chesapeake, and the Caribbean. It remains an invaluable resource for anyone with such ancestry. Includes a comprehensive index. Compiled documents include: Surviving records from the London Port Books Lists from some of the English outports Muster rolls from Virginia Other items listing early settlers

Published more than 125 years ago, this important resource compiles documents listing seventeenth-century English immigrants to New England, the Chesapeake, and the Caribbean. It remains an invaluable resource for anyone with such ancestry. Includes a comprehensive index.

Compiled documents include:

• Surviving records from the London Port Books
• Lists from some of the English outports
• Muster rolls from Virginia
• Other items listing early settlers
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 "Despite the passage of more than a century, and despite the publication of several more versions of some of these records in the intervening years, this volume by Hotten remains the best source for seventeenth-century passenger records, and should be preferred to all others."

 —foreword by Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Study Project

By John Camden Hotten

Foreword by Robert Charles Anderson

Published: December 2012