A Scottish Migration to Alexandria, 2nd Edition
About This Book

Published August, 2022
ISBN: 978-0-9763725-3-0
Title: A Scottish Migration to Alexandria
Author: Ellen J. Hamilton
Editor: Vera A. Pastore, Word Choreography
Size: 9″ x 9″
88 pages, paperback
Subject: Scottish history, American history, History of Migration, History of Alexandria, Virginia
Biographical: William Gregory
Illustrations: 58 color and black & white images and diagrams
Age range: 17 and up
Distribution:
United States by Yellow Dot Publishing
Available in Scotland at: Burns Monument Library, Kilmarnock; Greenock Central Library; Mitchell Library, Glasgow; Bishopton Library

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The United States of America began as a colony of the Kingdom of Britain. The first immigrants to this “New World” were Britons. One of the largest groups to arrive came from Scotland. This is the story of a migration, told through the experience of William Gregory, and the two places at each end of his journey; Kilmarnock in Lowland Scotland, and Alexandria, Virginia in America. William Gregory, left his family’s carpet factory in Kilmarnock in 1807. He boarded a wooden sailing ship and sailed to America. William found work and a home in Alexandria, Virginia. Letters written home to his family in Kilmarnock and letters to America tell the story of this migration.

Ellen speaks at Mount Vernon on June 23, 2022
This video was created as a fund-raiser for the film project. The fund raising website has been closed.
Interview at “On the Go” in October of 2018. The title was later changed to “A Scottish Migration to Alexandria.”
This video was created to advertise the film project. So far no film has been made.