AbstractFor an essay on quality of immigrant life in the age of sail objective data are rare. Here, a process of estimation is enhanced, and qualified, using stages of the emigration process. Two journals of the era, those of Scots, Janet Schaw, and John Harrower, provide a personal link to events in the three-stage model of the
experiences of travelers, many of whom were indentured servants. With the information from the Scots’ journals and a stochastic model of emigration we come a little closer to understanding the quality of life experienced by vital, energetic people seeking a higher quality of life across the Atlantic, in the age of sail. Keywords- Immigrant
- Chesapeake
- Indenture
- Janet Schaw
- John
harrower
- Redemption
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Corresponding authorCorrespondence to Thomas Jordan . AppendicesAppendix 1: John Harrower’s Wife and Bairns and the
Plight of an Emigrant Male’s DependentsJohn Graunt’s Life Table Viz of 100 there dies within the first six years … 36 The next ten years, or Decade … 24 The second Decad … 15. The third Decad…08 The Fourth … 6 the next …3 The next …2 The next …1 From whence it follows, that of the said 100 conceived there remains alive at six years end 64. At Sixteen years end … 40 At 26… 25 At tirty (sic) … 16 At Fourty six …10
At fifty six …6 At sixty six …3 At seventy six…1 At eighty …()
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