We are including here a biography of Samuel Shute taken from The Dictionary of National Biography (editors Sir Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee, Oxford University Press).  It was Samuel Shute for whom the so-called Shute Petition was named, the document on which “three hundred and nineteen people either signed or ‘made their mark’ … seeking … More Samuel Shute – The Governor Who Said Yes

Who were the Ulster Scots? Why were they in Ireland? What caused them to move to New England? … More The Water is Wide: Scottish Journeys to Ireland and New England, 1603-1718