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AMERICAN IMMIGRATION AND REVOLUTION Autograph letter signed by James Aitken, an immigrant from Scotland newly arrived at Wilmington, North Carolina, to his parents in Scotland, Wilmington, 5 January 1775
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AMERICAN IMMIGRATION AND REVOLUTION
Footnotes
'THE DEFENCE OF THERE RIGHTS AND LIBERTYS IN OPPOSITION TO THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE PARLIAMENT OF BRITAIN' – a young immigrant writes home at the beginning of the War of Independence. The author of this letter was a Presbyterian minister and school teacher who had settled in North Carolina; the Siege of Boston, to which he refers, having begun on 19 April. A copy of this letter is deposited at the London School of Economics, British Library of Political and Economic Science, Emigrants' Letters, PA11273 (where the address is incorrectly given as Wilmington, Delaware). Included in the lot is a Disposition and Assignation made by Aitken's father in favour of his son in 1793 (PA11274).





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