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The book under consideration here marks the second in a series on
Scottish colonial soldiers compiled by emigration authority David
Dobson. (The first volume was published as two parts in one.)
Working from manuscripts in the Acts of the Privy Council and the
Calendar of British State Papers and published sources such as the
Aberdeen Journal, the Edinburgh Advertiser, and the Georgia
Gazette, the author has uncovered information on an additional 750
Scottish colonial solders not found in his earlier book. One such
soldier was "John Wright, born in High Calton, Edinburgh, during
1728, an army sergeant who fought in the French and Indian War and
in the American War of Independence, witnessed to death of Wolfe on
the Plains of Abraham, died in Joppa, Edinburgh, in 1838, father of
a Roman Catholic priest in Montreal."
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