SCOTTISH AMERICAN COURT RECORDS

Scottish researcher David Dobson has produced another book of clues to
the ancestries of North Americans of Scots origins.

``Scottish-American Court Records, 1733-1783'' contains 88-pages of
index to court records of cases in which people in the colonies --
mostly merchants -- sued people in Scotland, again mostly merchants.

A typical entry would be: ``SIMPSON, William. William Simpson in
Charleston, South Carolina, only son of Andrew Simpson of Pendreich,
V(ersus) Charles Rioch, merchant in Edinburgh, 16 Dec. 1780.
(CS16.1.181)''

The parenthesized number at the end is the index code at the Scottish
Record Office in Edinburgh, to which you can write for details of the
cited cases. The book is arranged by the names of the chief plaintiffs
in cases, but there is also an index to all colonists cited anywhere
in the title of the suit. (The accused in Scotland are not indexed.)
Another index covers ships cited in cases.

``Scottish-American Court Records'' should be arriving in
genealogical libraries now, or may be ordered from Genealogical
Publishing Company, Dept. SM, 1001 North Calvert Street, Baltimore,
Md., 21202-3897 (1-800-727-3897) at $18 plus $2.50 postage and
handling. Also available are Mr. Dobson's earlier index-type
compilations, ``Scottish-American Wills'' and ``Scottish-American
Heirs.'' --J.F.S.
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