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*Books by David Dobson
**Sample pages ''Scots in the West Indies, 1707-1857'' by David Dobson [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=W2ilmBSkHY8C&pg=PP3 ''Volume 1'', 1998], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=afQEiAK8XD4C&pg=PP9 ''Volume 2'', 2006] Google Books.
**[https://archive.org/details/barbadosscotland00dobs/mode/2up ''Barbados and Scotland links, 1627 – 1877''] by David Dobson 2005. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. Includes records for baptism, marriage and death in Barbados for those from Scotland.**There are references to places in the West Indies in [https://archive.org/details/directoryofscots00dobs_0/page/n5/mode/2up ''Directory of Scots banished to the American plantations, 1650-1775''] by David Dobson 1983 Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
**There are references to places in the West Indies in [https://archive.org/details/originalscotscol00dobs/mode/2up ''The original Scots colonists of early America, 1612-1783''] by David Dobson 1989 Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
**There are references to places in the West Indies in [https://archive.org/details/directoryofscott04dobs/page/n5/mode/2up ''Directory of Scottish settlers in North America, 1625-1825, Volume IV''] by David Dobson 1985. Possibly the other volumes in this title may similarly also contain references. [https://archive.org/details/directoryofscott01dobs/page/n5/mode/2up ''Volume I''] 1985; [https://archive.org/details/directoryofscott02dobs/page/n5/mode/2up ''Vol. II''] 1984;[https://archive.org/details/directoryofscott03dobs/page/n5/mode/2up ''Vol. III''] 1984; [https://archive.org/details/directoryofscott05dobs/page/n5/mode/2up ''Vol. V''] 1985; [https://archive.org/details/directoryofscott06dobs/page/n3/mode/2up ''Vol. VI''] 1986; [https://archive.org/details/directoryofscott07dobs/page/n5/mode/2up ''Vol. VII''] 1993. All Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*:These seven volumes are available as a database on Ancestry (pay website), searchable with images, as "U.S., Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825", located in "Wills, Probates, Land, Tax & Criminal", introduced 2021/08/05.
*[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00001365/00001 ''The Jews of Jamaica: Tombstone Inscriptions, 1663-1880''] Richard D. Barnett and Philip Wright c 1997. Digital Library of the Caribbean.
*''Memorials of the discovery and early settlement of the Bermudas or Somers Islands, 1515-1685'' by J H Lefroy, sometime Governor of the Bermudas. For Volume II, the title date range changed to ''1511-1687''. [https://archive.org/details/memorialsofdisco01lefr/page/n5/mode/2up ''Volume I 1515-1652''] 1877, [https://archive.org/details/memorialsofdisco02lefr_0/page/n7/mode/2up ''Volume II 1650-1687''] 1879. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishnavaloper00nees/page/n1 ''The British Naval Operations in the West Indies, 1650-1700; a study in naval administration''] by Robert W Neeser. "Reprinted from the ''United States Naval Institute Proceedings'', vol. 40, no. 6, whole no. 154, Nov.-Dec., 1914." Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofcaledon00unse/page/n3/mode/2up ''The history of Caledonia: or, The Scots Colony in Darien in the West Indies. With an account of the manners of the inhabitants, and riches of the countrey''] by a Gentleman lately Arriv'd 1699. Archive.org
*[https://westindiacommittee.org/historyheritageculture/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Caribbean-Travel-Guide.pdf ''The English Empire in America: or, a view of the Dominions of the Crown of England in the West Indies''] by Robert Burton (Nathaniel Crouch). 7th edition, c 1729, first published 1685. Pdf from [https://westindiacommittee.org/historyheritageculture/archives/ westindiacommittee.org]. (Note, the underlying URL suggests another title)
*''The British Empire in America : containing the history of the discovery, settlement, progress and present state of all the British colonies, on the continent and islands of America. The Second Volume. Being an account of the country, soil, climate, product and trade of Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Vincents, Dominico, Antego, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Christophers, Barbuda, Anguilla, Jamaica, the Bahama and Bermudas Islands. With curious maps of the several places done from the newest surveys'' [by John Oldmixon] [https://archive.org/details/britishempireina04oldm/page/n3 1708 edition], [https://archive.org/details/britishempireina02oldm/page/n10 Second edition, Corrected and Amended 1741] Archive.org
