About This Book

First Edition is sold out. 2nd Edition to be printed August, 2022
First Edition Info:
ISBN: 978-0-9763725-1-6
Title: A Scottish Migration to Alexandria
Author: Ellen J. Hamilton
Editor: Vera A. Pastore, Word Choreography
Size: 9" x 9"
82 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
Publication date: October 28, 2021
Distribution:
United States by Yellow Dot Publishing
United Kingdom by Gazelle Book Services, Ltd.
Publisher: Yellow Dot Publishing
Retail price: $26.95 US dollars

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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.