Download or read book Scots in the American West, 1783-1883 written by David Dobson and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2003 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thework at hand is an alphabetical listing of all free African-American heads of household listed in the five U.S. censuses for the State of New York taken between 1790 and 1830. Since it was during this 40-year period that the New York legislature passed a series of statutes resulting in the gradual emancipation of the state's slave population, the scope of this work documents the emergence of a completely free black population by 1830. In all, there are 15,000 references to freedmen, many of whom appear in more than one census.