Is anybody here descended from Scottish families who left Scotland because of

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23. googling: scotland emigration 1790

http://www.scotlandsfamily.com/ships-passengers.htm

Below is listed some of the principal internet sources for searching for Scottish emigrants, and also a year-on-year compilation of ships known to have left a Scottish port, or holding Scottish passengers, from 1680 to 1910.

If you wish to contribute to this useful work of transcribing passenger lists, we recommend that you contact the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild to offer your assistance.

link to Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
http://www.immigrantships.net/departures/scotland.html
with a very few ships transcribed.

There looks to be useful info at the scottishfamily site, but unfortunately at least one link I tried is dead.

The google results included:
http://www.thereformation.info/scotemgn.htm

which does have some general info about reasons for emigrating and emigration patterns.

About 20,000 Scots ( two thirds Highlanders) migrated in the period 1768-75. Included were some 831 persons from Ross and Cromarty, 288 from Bute and Argyll, and 735 from Sutherland during 1772-3. Some 50 from Glenorchy and 77 from Appin set out for North Carolina in 1775 where families settled on small plantations and farms. There were eight large ships from Skye between August 1771 and October 1790 that carried away some 2,400 emigrants, while 176 persons (of a total population of 399) emigrated from the tiny isle of Eigg between 1788 and 1790.

I wonder whether he was on one of those eight large ships, or even came from the tiny isle of Eigg!