East Jersey Bound provides background to these questions and holds genealogical records for 600 emigrants and >2,000 kin and associates. Aimed at researchers and genealogists. tinyl.co/3tQ0 #newjerseyhistory #scottishhistory #emigrants #genealogy #familyhistory #eastjersey

What became of the emigrants? Some thrived as merchants, farmers, estate owners and craftspeople. Others barely got by, moved or returned to Scotland. tinyl.co/3tPV #Covenanters #Quakers #QuakerHistory #royalists #newjerseyhistoryy #scottishhistory #emigrants #eastjersey #PerthAmboy

Why did the Scots come to East Jersey? Visions of a new settlement set out by Quaker Robert Barclay and Presbyterian George Scot. Prospects of economic gain, social mobility & religious freedom. The prisoners: no choice. tinyl.co/3tPR #Covenanters #Quakers #scottishhistory #emigrants

Who were the emigrants? Young & diverse. Episcopalians, Presbyterians & Quakers, mainly from east Scotland. Free emigrants, indentured servants & transported Covenanters. tinyl.co/3tPS #Covenanters #Quakers #royalist #newjerseyhistory #emigrants #leith #edinburgh #aberdeen #montrose

There is more to the tale, about what became of the survivors (free emigrants and indentured servants as well as the prisoners), as they took their place in what has been described as Scotland's only successful colonial venture. #EastJersey

The passengers aboard the Henry and Francis were racked by fever and many did not last the crossing. Amongst their number were transported Covenanters who were soon be regarded as martyrs to the cause. #Covenanters #transportedprisoners #martyrs #Dunnottar

You can't have a list like this without including Jaffa Cakes... introduced by McVities in 1927. I recall that there has been some dispute over who should get the credit for their invention, but it was created in Edinburgh.

There's lots of other interesting stuff in the latest Book of the Old Edinburgh Club @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social
oldedinburghclub.org.uk/boec/boec-ne...

Read about what happened to members of the Sweet Singers. Some were transported to America. Did their leader John Gibb really engage in diabolical practices with native Americans, as his contemporaries claimed (“much admired by the heathen, for his familiar converse with the devil bodily”)?

The Sweet Singers were a thorn in the flesh of the authorities, despite their small numbers, and regarded as mad by other Covenanters. They camped in the Pentlands to await Biblical destruction of Edinburgh: another Sodom or Gomorrah?

Freddie’s, Frederick Street. Been there for a Fringe show

My (vague) recollection is that John Gray was a very independent councillor, a thorn in the flesh of friends and foe alike, always in the Evening News. Popular with his constituents. Populist?