British Penal Colonies In America ??'s

[mwruckman]

A fair number of those convicts were the survivors of the Jacobite rebels and the survivors of the Highlands Depopulation campaign " Bloody Culloden". THose Scots not killed, were rounded up and deported the the Amreicas or got out while getting was good.

[ddmhughes]

Originally Posted by kevxu

Interesting. I can clearly remember being taught in school that Georgia was colonized with numbers of convicted persons.

I heard this too. It turns out that Georgia was chartered to recieve convicts but it never panned out. No convicts were ever sent to Georgia.