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Scotland and the New World In general, people associate Scottish settlement in early seventeenth Worcester 1650-1651. After the Restoration, the Scottish Privy century America with Nova Scotia and overlook the virtually permaCouncil followed the English precedent by banishing crintinals, nent Scottish presence in the contemporary West Indies, which had social undesirables and religious dissidents to the English Plantaa far greater impact on the society and economy of Scotland. tions in the West Indies. Its records outline numerous requests by The earliest mention of a Scottish merchant ship leaving for merchant-skippers for felons to be shipped to the English colonies. the West Indies is 1611. In 1626 a Scotsman, lames Hay, earl of Scottish indentured servants were also sailing via the English ports Carlisle, was first to be appointed by Charles I as Proprietor of of London, Bristol and Liverpool. During the 1660s the Dutch Barbados. Subsequently a number of Scots were sent there as islands ofCuracao, Saba and St Eustacia also were home to numbers administrators. William Powrie, planter from Peebles was one such. of Scots. By the 1680s serious consideration was being given to the There is evidence of direct trade links between Scotland and Barbaestablishment of an independent Scots colony in the West Indies, but dos, Martinique and other Caribbean islands during the 1630s and this plan did not come to fruition. I 640s, which led to settlement by merchants and planters. The The Scottish connection began with small scale success in English Civil War led to a marked increase in the numbers of Scots Barbados but ended in large scale failure in Darien. These links, in these islands because of the transportation of hundreds ofScottish however, were the foundation ofthe substantial trade and settlement prisoners-of war by Cromwell after the battles of Dunbar and in the following century. CuffofMexico· Atlantic Ocean o ~Bahamas (1) Co ~ D ~~, Anguilla (2) (3) r----"'J '00 to \..--' t? t7 (\I"\,~ 0 Antigua (2) (3) :