While the title says "foreign Protestants", the lists also include "persons professing the Jewish religion". The localities herein represented are Jamaica, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, New York, and Pennsylvania with the latter having the largest representation. The time period covers from ca. 1740 to the late 1700s.

Ill. on lining papers. Includes index.

By: Montague S. Giuseppi, Pub. 1921, reprinted 2023, 210 pages, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-120-3. This book contains copies of all the Returns of Naturalizations of foreign Protestants sent from the Colonies to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations during the period 1740 to 1772. It covers approximately 6,500 persons who were naturalized. These Returns are from the colonies of South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New York, and Pennsylvania, along with some from Jamaica in the West Indies. The Returns from Pennsylvania making up the bulk of these persons within. The entries generally include name, religion, town and county of residence, and date of naturalization.