Download or read book The King's Passengers to Maryland and Virginia written by Peter Wilson Coldham and published by Willow Bend Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 400 convict ships carrying 50,000 men, women and children left British waters bound for the southern colonies of America where their human cargos were sold. With remarkably few exceptions the transportation ships frequented the ports of Chesapeake