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Early settlers in America
This is a
summary of information extracted by Larry Nelson from "A
Genealogical and Historical Atlas of the United States of
America". by E. Kay Kirkham,1976. It serves to give an
indication where to look for the earliest Scots Irish
ancestors.
The term
Scots-Irish is used to describe the Scots settled into
Northern Ireland in the late 17th and early 18th century.
In Ireland and the United Kingdom, they are known as
Ulster Scots. There were some 200,000 Scots that were
settled into Ireland and from their descendants some
2,000,000 eventually settled in North America.
The Lowland
Scots were by and large Protestant (Presbyterians), the
Highland Scots were primarily Gaelic speaking and
therefore in tension with the Scots of the Central Belt.
Irish Catholics and Protestant Irish and Scots were all
unable to practice their faiths as they saw fit and were
required to pay tithes (taxes) to the Anglican Church.
The main
Scots-Irish emigration to the US began around 1714 with
the earliest known migration in 1652. Many went to the
western counties of Pennsylvania, between the Susquehanna
River and the Allegheny Mountains. A large group went down
the Shenandoah Valley in 1732. By 1745, the Scots-Irish
were 1/4 of the population of PA. That increased to 1/3 of
the population by 1770. According to a PBS special on
immigrants, Protestant Irish formed 4/5ths of the
Pennsylvania Continental line units of the Revolutionary
War. It should be noted that these were overwhelmingly
Presbyterians from Ulster. The native `Irish` emigrants
were a feature of the post Famine period in Ireland in the
1850s.
Delaware
Dutch
(1651) [1 settlement]
Scots
(1692-1750) [14 settlements] (Census says most were
Presbyterians)
Swedes
(1627) [1 settlement]
Georgia
English
(1751) [1 settlement]
Germans
(1732-1757) [2 settlements]
Scots
(1732-1798) [20 settlements] (Most were not Highland
Scots)
Kentucky
Catholics
(1785) [1 settlement]
Presbyterian Scots (1775-1793) [42 settlements]
Massachusetts
English
(1630-1660) [3 settlements]
French
(1662-1721) [5 settlements]
Irish
(1675-1714) [2 settlements] (54 ships)
Scots
(1652) [1 settlement]
Scots-Irish
(1718-1783) [18 settlements]
Maine
Irish
(1735) [1 settlement]
Scots
(1736-1785) [13 settlements]
Acadians
(1755) [1 settlement]
Maryland
English(1634) [1 settlement]
Swedes
(1638) [1 settlement]
Germans
(1757) [1 settlement]
Quakers
(1660) [1 settlement]
Huguenots
(1666) [1 settlement]
Scots-Irish
(1720-1788) [20 settlements]
Scots
(Presbyterian) (1649-1715) [8
settlements]
New
Hampshire
Scots-Irish
(1719-1776) [16 settlements]
New
Jersey
Dutch
(1617) [1 settlement]
Quakers
(1676) [2 settlements]
Scots
(1700-1775) [60 settlements]
New York
Dutch
(1614) [5 settlements]
Scots-Irish
(1640-1768) [70 settlements]
Italian
(1656) [1 settlement]
Quakers
(1657) [3 settlements]
Huguenots
(1688) [1 settlement]
Scots
(1741-1796) [9 settlements]
Irish
(1764) [1 settlement] (300 persons)
North
Carolina
Barbadians
(1665) [1 settlement]
Quakers
(1680) [22 settlements]
Scots
(1683) [5 settlements]
Huguenots
(1700) [1 settlement]
German
(1710) [6 settlements]
Scots-Irish
(1719-1800) [67settlements]
Moravians
(1753) [1settlement]
Pennsylvania
Quakers
(1680) [7 settlements]
Irish
(1683) [1 settlement]
Scots-Irish
(1698-1800)
[150
settlements] [1745 = 25%, 1770
= 33% of Popn]
Amish
(1700) [1 settlement]
Huguenots
(1700) [1 settlement]
Germans
(1810) [9 settlements]
Rhode
Island
French
(1686) [1 settlement]
South
Carolina
Huguenots
(1562) [3 settlements]
Barbadians
(1670) [3 settlements]
Scots-Irish
(1684-1799) [76 settlements]
Quakers
(1680) [4 settlements]
English
(1695) [1 settlement]
Germans
(1732) [5 settlements]
Irish
(1732) [1 settlement]
Vermont
Scots-Irish
(1763-1778) [13 settlements]
Virginia
English
(1607) [ 1 settlement]
Quakers
(1660) [ 19 settlements]
Scots-Irish
(1603-1798) [ 80settlements]
Huguenots
(1685} [2 settlements]
West
Virginia
Scots-Irish
(1737-1798) [19 settlements] |
