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Immigrant Stories is a research and archiving project run by the Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) at the University of Minnesota. Immigrant Stories helps immigrants, refugees, and their family members create digital stories: brief videos with images, text, and audio about a personal experience.
\n\nThis project defines \"immigrant\" broadly. Our collection contains digital stories from people living outside their country of birth as well as stories created by their children and grandchildren. Immigrant Stories also welcomes stories from international students, international adoptees, and people who do not feel that their stories fit a particular, or just one, category. All stories are important, and we invite you to make a video and share yours with us.
", "title": "Adam Chisholm", "title_s": "Adam Chisholm", "title_t": "Adam Chisholm", "title_search": "Adam Chisholm", "title_sort": "adamchisholm", "description": "Adam Chisholm was born around 1695 in Scotland. Due to being a rebel soldier in the Jacobite Rebellion, he was exiled to the American Colonies where he worked as an indentured servant for seven years before starting a family.", "date_created": [ "2018-11-27" ], "date_created_ss": [ "2018-11-27" ], "date_created_sort": "2018", "creator": [ "Davidson, Isabelle" ], "creator_ss": [ "Davidson, Isabelle" ], "creator_sort": "davidsonisabelle", "types": [ "Moving Image" ], "format": [ "Oral histories | http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595" ], "format_name": [ "Oral histories" ], "dimensions": "0:04:29", "subject": [ "Origin United Kingdom", "Origin United Kingdom (Scotland)", "Ethnicity Scottish" ], "subject_ss": [ "Origin United Kingdom", "Origin United Kingdom (Scotland)", "Ethnicity Scottish" ], "language": [ "English" ], "parent_collection": "Immigrant Stories; https://cla.umn.edu/ihrc/immigrant-stories", "parent_collection_name": "Immigrant Stories", "contributing_organization": "University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center", "contributing_organization_name": "University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center", "contributing_organization_name_s": "University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center", "contact_information": "University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center. 311 Elmer L. Andersen Library, 222 - 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455; https://cla.umn.edu/ihrc", "local_identifier": [ "cla-ihrc-is-0245" ], "dls_identifier": [ "cla-ihrc-is-0245" ], "rights_statement_uri": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/", "transcription": "My ancestor Adam Chisholm was forced to leave his home\ncountry, Scotland, and travel to America as a teenager. Adam Chisholm\nwas born in Scotland around 1695 into a period of contestation between\nEngland and Scotland. The two countries were fighting over control of\nthe crown. Many rebels in Scotland wanted control through the Stuart\nMonarchy with King James VII and later through his son, while England\nwanted King James’ nephew, William, for king. England did not want a\nCatholic monarch and king James was Catholic while William was\nProtestant. In 1715 a group of rebels organized and attempted to\noverthrow the king and replace him with James of the Stuart Monarchy.\nThe group was labeled as Jacobites and England quickly and easily\ndeployed an army to shut down the rebels. The Jacobite army was a\ngroup numbering around 2,000, made up of poorly trained commoners. My\nancestor, Adam Chisholm, was among them. The rebel group did not stand\na chance against the English army, which consisted of 3,000 well-trained\nmen with proper artillery. The English army attacked the\nJacobites in the town of Preston, England and within two days the\nJacobites had surrendered and were captured. In order to completely\nshut down the rebel threat, England decided they would deport the\nJacobites to the colonies where they would serve as indentured\nservants.\nIn just a few months the Jacobites left on ships from\nLancaster to go to America. Adam Chisholm left Scotland and his family\nbehind on June 2nd and traveled on the ships Elizabeth and Anne. The\ntrip usually took three months and would have been miserable with poor\nfood supplies and little substance along with the fact that there were\noften too many men on one ship. Upon hearing the news of the incoming\nmen, the southern colonies created campaigns to try and receive as\nmany men as they could. The southern colonies were practically begging\nfor these men because they were white and at this point in time the\nslave population outnumbered that of the white population. Also, the\ncolonies did not care about the wars between England and Scotland so\nthese Jacobite prisoners would not have to endure any negative stigma\nagainst them and were given a chance to start a new life in America.\nAdam Chisholm was taken to Hanover County in Virginia and was\nmost likely indentured to Mr. William Morris because he witnessed his\nwill and was beneficiary to that will in 1745. If he was not\nindentured to Mr. William Morris, he was definitely indentured to\nsomeone of means and influence because all of his sons were educated\nand they married educated wives. Adam Chisholm did not marry until\naround 1725 because his servitude lasted for seven years. He had three\nsons and they all remained in Hanover County. Adam Chisholm died in\n1756 at around the age of 60. The family did not leave Hanover County\nuntil the fifth generation when Oscar Fitz Alan Chisholm moved to\nLouisa County.\nAdam Chisholm’s story is remarkable to me because he was\naround my age, 19 years old, when he joined rebel forces to fight the\npowerful English army and then was exiled to the colonies. I am\ncurious to know his opinion on his story and how he managed to make a\nlife for himself in Virginia. I can only imagine the transition from\nScotland to the colonies was a difficult one and that being an\nindentured servant was strange and foreign. I have always felt a\nstrong joy in being from Virginia and I would like to believe that\nAdam Chisholm, my first ancestor to live in Virginia, did as well.", "kaltura_video": "1_k06k8lbe", "page_count": 0, "record_type": "primary", "first_viewer_type": "kaltura_video", "viewer_type": "kaltura_video", "attachment": "59.pdf", "attachment_format": "pdf", "document_type": "item", "featured_collection_order": 999, "date_added": "2021-01-26T00:00:00Z", "date_added_sort": "2021-01-26T00:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2021-01-26T00:00:00Z", "_version_": 1710348538350665729, "type": "Moving Image", "collection": "p16022coll554", "is_compound": false, "parent_id": "278", "thumb_url": "https://cdnapisec.kaltura.com/p/1369852/thumbnail/entry_id/1_k06k8lbe", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/9bb184141c7a2701215a3ba5acfcd125b058e54d.png", "children": [ ] }