Two articles here
Scottish Emigration from Ulster
(The Scots-Irish) by Janet Cook
and
The Scots-Irish in the Southern United States: An OverviewSome of the best resources for Scotch-Irish research are: Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, by David Hackett Fischer (Oxford University Press, 1989) The Scotch-Irish, a Social History, by James G. Leyburn (University of North Carolina Press, 1962) The Scotch-Irish, from the North of Ireland to the Making of America, by Ron Chepesiuk (McFarland & Company, 2000) Online Resources: GENUKI (http://www.genuki.org.uk/) This large, free site for genealogical information focuses on the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Scottish Emigration from Ulster
(The Scots-Irish)
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by Janet Cook
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Scottish emigrants from Ulster, the first to leave in companies
sufficiently large to form settlements entered the United States by two
routes: (I) by the Delaware River through New Castle, Delaware, and
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and (2) at Charleston, South Carolina.
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1670 (about): Colonel
Ninian Beall, pioneer Scot, settled in Maryland between the Potomac and Patuxent rivers. He was joined
later by about 200 of his Scottish friends.
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1683: Reverend Francis
Makemie of Ramelton, sent to Snow Hill, Worcester County, Maryland, by the Irish Presbytery of Logan. He
is considered to have been the pioneer minister of Presbyterianism in America.
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1683: Snow Hill on the
eastern shore of Maryland, was the cradle of American Presbyterianism.
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1684: Many
"Scotch-Irish" refugees found sanctuary in East New Jersey. Later, New Jersey was to become a Presbyterian
stronghold.
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1684 (about): The Rehoboth
Church in Maryland was organized.
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1690 and before:
Presbyterian settlements in Somerset County, Maryland, included Snow Hill (now in Worcester County), Pitt's Creek, Wicomico, Manokin and
Rehoboth.
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1690 and before: There
were twelve Presbyterian churches in America. Five in Maryland at Manokin,
Rehoboth, Snow Hill, Wicomico and Patuxent; two in Virginia at Accomac and
Elizabeth River; two in Delaware at Lewes and New Castle; one in Pennsylvania
at Philadelphia; one in New Jersey at Freehold, now Tennant; and one in South
Carolina at Charleston.
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1700 to 1720: Presbyterian Churches were in Delaware at Head of Christina, Drawyers, Cedar
Creek, Dover, Murderkill, and White Clay Creek or Lower Brandywine. In Pennsylvania, they were located at Norriton, Great Valley, Abington, and Upper Octorara. In Maryland, south of the Pennsylvania line, they were located at Rock and Lower Octorara. In South Carolina at Cainhoy, John's Island, Edisto, Bethel and Wilton. In New Hampshire at Londonderry. In New Jersey at Hope-well, Maidenhead, Whippany,
and probably Baskinridge and Bound Brook. In New York at New York City.
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1700: There were
repeated and large colonies of Scotch-Irish and other Presbyterians that
poured into the State of North Carolina before and soon after 1700.
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1700: Reverend
Archibald Stobo arrived at Charleston, South Carolina, to be minister of the Scotch
Presbyterian Church.
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1706: The first
presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America was organized.
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1714 to 1720: Fifty-four vessels brought "Scotch-Irish" to Boston, Massachussetts.
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1718: A great number
of "Scotch-Irish" arrived in New York to settle Orange and Ulster Counties.
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1718 (4 August): Five
small ships bearing 120 "Scotch-Irish" families arrived at Boston, Massachusetts. Fifty of these families were to
settle Worcester, Massachusetts. Others settled the towns of Pelham,
Warren and Blandford in 1741.
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1719: Some
"Scotch-Irish" families settled Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia, and established the congregations of
Falling Water and Tuscarora.
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1720 and before: Scotch-Irish settled in Goshen, Orange County, New
York.
Later, about four families from the north of Ireland settled along the Wallkill River in Orange County and Ulster County, NewYork.
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1720 to 1730: Many Scotch-Irish settled in southeastern Pennsylvania near the Maryland border in Cecil County, Maryland, and
in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in the townships of East and West Nottingham. In New Castle County, Delaware, hundreds settled in the towns of Mill
Creek and White Clay. Other settlements wee made in Chester County, Lancaster County and part of present-day Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
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1723:
"Scotch-Irish" settled in Voluntown (now Stirling, Windham County), Connecticut. They came from Massachusetts and New Jersey settlements.
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1728: James Oglethorpe
settled a colony of "Scotch-Irish" on the Altamaha River in Georgia. The settlement first was called New
Inverness. Now it is Darien, Mclntosh County, Georgia.
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1729 to 1783: Largest settlement of "Scotch-Irish" Highlanders in
North Carolina along the Cape Fear River, then Bladen County, now Cumberland
County, North Carolina.
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1730 and before: Large
settlement of "Scotch-Irish" in townships of Colerain, Pequea and
Leacock in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
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1732: James Pringle
and other Irish Protestants from Ulster were granted a township twenty miles
square called Williamsburg, to include the village of Kingstree, Williamsburg County, South Carolina.
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1734: Williamsburg on the Black River and Camden on the Wateree River were settled predominantly by the
Irish.
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1734: Samuel Waldo of Massachusetts and others settled Warren, Knox County, Maine. This group was originally from the
North of Ireland.
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1736 (about): A colony
of Presbyterians introduced into North Carolina from Ulster, Ireland. They went into Bladen and Duplin Counties. Descendants are now in Sampson, New
Hanover and Duplin Counties.
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1736 (about): A group
of Presbyterians composed of "Scotch-Highlanders" began settlements
that occupied most of Cumberland County, North Carolina, of that time.
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1736: Henry McCullock
introduced a colony from Ulster, Ireland, to settle his grant in Duplin County, North Carolina. The congregations of Goshen and the Grove started.
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1736: In Duplin County, North Carolina, Henry McCullock settled 4,000 of his
countrymen from Ireland on a tract of 64,000 acres.
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1737 (about): Captain
Lauchlin Campbell of Islay, a Highland soldier, visited America and was encouraged to settle here.
After some difficulties with the officials, he settled the present town of Argyle, Washington County, New York.
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1738: John Lindsay and
others obtained a land grant in Cherry Valley, Otsego County, New York. Some settlers arrived here from Londonderry, New Hampshire, from Scotland and from Ulster, Ireland
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1738: Pelham, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, was settled by Presbyterians. Also,
Coteraine, Franklin County, Massachusetts and Olsego Co., New York.
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1740: Western (now
Warren) Worcester County, Massachusetts and Blanford, Hampden County, Massachusetts were incorporated by Presbyterian
settlers.
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1740: Glen Township, Montgomery County, New York, was settled by sixteen families from Ireland.
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These same families were forced to
leave later.
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1740 (about):
"Scotch-Irish" started to settle in North Carolina in the counties of Granville, Orange, Rowan, Mecklenburg, Guilford, Davidson and Cabarrus.
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1742: Monroe Township, Orange County, New York, was settled by Scotch-Irish families.
1745: Cape Fear country in North Carolina received many settlers. A number of
ship loads arrived at Wilmington, North Carolina. Fayetteville, Cumberland County was a center of activity.
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1749: Neil McNeill, a
native of Argyleshire, Scotland, was a settler in the area of
present-day Fayetteville, (Campbelton) Cumberland County, North Carolina. He was instrumental later in bringing
300 immigrants into Brunswick, Bladen, Cumberland and Harnett Counties, North Carolina.
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1751 (about): Large
immigration of "Scotch-Irish" from Pennsylvania into the counties
of Lancaster, York, Chester, Fairfield, Union, Newberry, Abbeville and
Edgefield Counties, South Carolia. Others settled Spartanburg.
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1758: Benjamin Miller,
minister at Scotch Plains in New Jersey, followed a colony from New Jersey to the Yadkin River in North Carolina.
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1755: A Presbyterian
congregation from The Cowpasture River in present Bath County, Virginia, settled what was known as the Centre
Congregation in Iredell County, North Carolina. Their pastor was Alexander Craighead.
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1755 (about): The
reverend Alexander Craighead settled on the Rocky River in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He organized later the congregation
of Sugar Creek, a mother congregation of several Presbyterian churches in
that area.
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1761: Scottish
immigrants came to Cambridge township, Washington County, New York, from the "Scotch-Irish" settlements of Coleraine and
Pelham in Massachusetts.
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1761: 200 Irish
immigrants settled Nova Scotia; the town of Londonderry and the county of Dublin were named by them.
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1764 (2 March):
Alexander McNaughton and 106 others from the original Capt. Campbell group of
immigrants received grants to settle in what later came to be known as
townships of Greenwick and a part of the township of Fort Edward, Washington
County, New York.
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1764 (July):
"Scotch-Irish" from Monaghan and Ballebay, Ireland, settled Salem in Washington County, New York. A part of 300 families remained in Stillwater, Saratoga County, New York. Others went to South Carolina.
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1765: Reverend Thomas
Clark, a Presbyterian, bought land in Salem Township, Washington County, New York for himself and the congregation of
three hundred who had immigrated from Ballybay, County of Monaghan, Ireland. The group went to Stillwater, Saratoga County, temporarily, and then a part of the
congregation went to Abbeville District, South Carolina and a majority settled at Salem Township, Washington County, New York.
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1769 and later:
southwestern Pennsylvania was settled rapidly by immigrants from
east of the Allegheny
Mountains. This area, to
include the counties of Bedford, Somerset, Fayette, Westmorland, Allegheny, Washington and Greene, was predominantly
"Scotch-Irish."
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1770:
Balliston Township, Saratoga County, New
York,
was settled by a Presbyterian minister and some of his congregation who had
removed there from Bedford (probably Westchester County), New York. Stillwater Township, in Saratoga County, New
York
received many settlers from the vicinity of Litchfield, Connecticut
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1771: Harpersfield Township, Orange County, New York, was settled by
"Scotch-Irish" who were probably direct from Ireland. Kortright and Bovina Townships in the same county were settled later by
"Scotch-Irish".
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1778: About 400
persons from the Scottish Highlands (Roman Catholic Faith) arrived to settle
in Johnston (present-day Fulton County), New York They were from the
districts of Glengarry, Clenmorison, Urquart and Strathglass in Scotland. After the Revolutionary War many of
this group were granted lands in Canada in the province of Quebec.
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1801: In New England in this year a plan of union and
mutual assistance was entered into by the Congregational and Presbyterian
Churches. Through this plan Presbyterians might serve some Congregational
Churches and vice versa. Under this plan, Congregationalists
going West or South usually went to Presbyterian Churches.
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The Scots-Irish in the Southern United States one of the fine migration for Irish citizens. its look past and geographical migration for people of Europe.
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