A List Of Emigrant Ministers To America, 1690-1811

Ministers who crossed the Atlantic remade congregations and communities. A directory for family historians. Gerald Fothergill’s A List of Emigrant Ministers to America, 1690-1811 is a painstakingly compiled register that gathers names, origins and movements of clergy who emigrated from Britain to the American colonies, revealing the networks of faith that underpinned settlement across 18th century America. Compact in presentation but generous in leads, this emigrant ministers directory converts scattered archival references into a coherent resource for anyone exploring colonial American history. It is simultaneously a point of entry for transatlantic migration studies and a working repository of historical clergy records, valuable to social and religious historians, local archivists and those tracing familial lines.Particularly useful for presbyterian church history, the list helps situate individual ministers within denominational shifts and the broader story of protestant religious leaders who shaped congregations in the colonies. Researchers of ancestry and amateur genealogists will welcome the clarity of the entries and the direct leads it offers for early American genealogy. Librarians and university departments will prize it as an academic reference collection, while casual readers following a family story and classic-literature collectors alike will find the plain-speaking tone and archival integrity appealing. The compiler’s restraint yields records that speak plainly: no embellishment, only verifiable data that invites further enquiry. For students building prosopographies, local-history societies compiling parish narratives, and independent scholars assembling clerical networks, the volume provides a firm starting point and a practical genealogical sourcebook that complements British emigration records. By assembling these strands, Fothergill’s list enriches the historian’s toolkit: it highlights clerical mobility, exposes the channels through which ideas and practices travelled, and supplies a dependable base for statistical or narrative studies of settlement and worship. Its sober, documentary character makes it a work historians return to again and again.Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.