 A full rigged Fluyt, "Hector" (built in the Netherlands before 1750) was employed in local trade in waters off the British Isles as well as the immigrant trade to North America, having made at least one trip c. 1770 carrying Scottish emigrants to Boston, Massachusetts.In 1762 the earliest of the "Fuadaich nan Gàidheal" (Scottish Highland Clearances) forced many Gaelic families off their ancestral lands.The first ship loaded with Hebridean colonists arrived on "St.-John's Island" (Prince Edward Island) in 1770, with later ships following in 1772, and 1774.