ABSTRACT
The accounting migrants to the US described in this study came predominantly from four Scottish cities or towns – i.e. Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, and Glasgow. These were the major Scottish commercial or professional centres of the time and Aberdeen, Dundee, and Glasgow were major Scottish ports. Even Edinburgh had an adjacent port link of Leith. Most of the migrants arrived in the US at the Manhattan reception point in the port of New York, with the remainder entering at ports such as Chicago and Minneapolis. The following notes provide a brief background to these cities.
