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United States Maine

By the 1850s the United States became the main destination for over 50% of immigrants from Scotland. Middle class and
educated Scots chose migration to the United States seeking opportunity and wealth. Sorne settlers to the Northeast came
to urban areas, while other settlers came to the Mid-Atlantic and south to farm.

This section is organized north to south, then heading west.

Paekets & Simpli:fied Prepaid Rates: British Colonial & U.S. Exchange Office Accounting UK- US Rate. Convention of 1848
Credits and Debits Split for 1/- British or 24~ Packet Letter
1S40-1S6
186&-1869 6d
18 0 Jd
l Gfl e

li- paid

To :P'ortia:nd, Maine., 2.6 fe.bfua:ry, 18·63-12 days
Paid letter from Glasgo , Rate 1/-: British debit l ,: 16-jt sea postage, inland.
on:treal Oœan team bip Compan , Allan Llne, per .. Anglo-Sa:wn _6 Febrnary from
February ï oville Irish port of Londonderry in Loch Foyle. l am at Portland,
ed and han<lstamped a! the Ex hange office next da .
AI;glo-Saron wreclœd off Cape Race on her next voyage, 2

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Paid letter from ..
Glasgow British
packet, redit
Br. handstamp 19
December Boston. \

To Bowdoinhams, Maine, 5 December, 1863-16 days