I have heard that, like Australia, some of the first Americans came to these shores as convicts. Does anyone know what year this started.
2006-10-09 16:40:38 · 3 answers · asked by spudfarmer 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Started in the mid-1600s, with Scots prisoners taken in battle. Altogether about 50,000 English convicts were exported to nine American settlements before the Revolution forced them to look elsewhere.
2006-10-09 17:24:33 · answer #1 · answered by Jim P 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This would have been during the 17th century, probably the second half. After the american revolution they had to be sent to Australia
2006-10-10 00:11:49 · answer #2 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most of the 13 colonies were settled by adventurers, farmers, visionaries, religious fanatics ( my Puritan ancestors in New England)....with the exception of Georgia...most of the initial 'settlers' from, say, 1650 to 1750 were convicts sentence to 'transportation'..look up a history of Georgia's early years...
2006-10-11 09:04:54 · answer #3 · answered by yankee_sailor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋