Publisher's Synopsis
"History of the Lowlands of Scotland in the 1700's and the life of William Gregory, who migrated from Kilmarnock, Scotland, to Alexandria, Virginia in the United States. This book tells why the Scottish Lowlands became so crowded, and what life was like there. The reasons that caused people to leave everything they knew, climb aboard a crowded ship, and sail in unspeakable squalor for many weeks to start a new life, penniless, in an unforgiving land.One man, 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"--.
