The purpose of this diminutive bipartite book is to help persons of Scotch-Irish descent make the linkage first to Ulster and then back to Scotland.

This book is the first thorough account of the Jacobite rebellion that might have killed the Act of Union in its infancy.

For this book, Scottish emigration authority David Dobson identified over a thousand Scottish solders in colonial America.

Chiefly consists of a translation of the fictional biography "Life, adventures, and many great vicissitudes" attributed to the pseudonymous Rev. Archibald Arbuthnot.

Lord Winton was taken prisoner in the Battle of Preston, and although he was sentenced to death, he escaped from the Tower to France and died in Rome, December 19, 1749. Cf. DNB.

An attack on the Jacobites, occasioned by the Rebellion of 1715.