{"id":2206,"date":"2014-02-18T07:26:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T12:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morrison-q.com\/wp\/?p=2206"},"modified":"2014-04-14T07:26:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T11:26:31","slug":"resources-ulster-scots-migration-to-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morrison-q.com\/wp\/?p=2206","title":{"rendered":"Resources \u2013 Ulster Scots migration to America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some resources available about the Ulster Scots in Ireland and how they came to America and then spread from the middle colonies – mainly to the south. With comments by John Morrison – Q7.
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Carolina Cradle: Settlement of the Northwest Carolina Frontier, 1747-1762.<\/strong> <\/span> By Robert W. Ramsey. The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill. Copyright 1964. ISBN 0-8078-0934-9.
\nThis is an excellent description of how the Scots-Irish migrated into North Carolina. One must keep in mind that this is the story of how a large group of people migrated – Germans, English, Scotch-Irish – and is not a good genealogical reference. It was not written for that purpose, although the author necessarily used real people as examples of the group migration. It seems to me he did not, and had no intention to, document that people having the same name in, say, Pennsylvania in 1748, were the same people in Carolina in, say, 1753.<\/p>\n

The Great Wagon Road: From Philadelphia to the South. (How Scotch-Irish and Germanics Settled the Uplands).<\/strong><\/span> By Parke Rouse, Jr. The Dietz Press, 109 East Cary Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. Copyright 1995. ISBN 0-07-054101-9.
\nAnother excellent book. From a wild animal path to Indian Trail to a wagon road that led from Pennsylvania down the east side of the Appalachians into southwest Virginia, central North Carolina, and eventually into northeast Tennessee and through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky. Until the Indians were subdued in western Pennsylvania this was the way into the interior of what is now the United States.<\/p>\n

The Dixie Frontier; A Social History of the Southern Frontier from the First Transmontane Beginnings to the Civil War. <\/strong><\/span> By Everitt Dick. The University of Oklahoma Press Norman and London, 1993. Originally published New York: Knopf, 1948. This book tells us a great deal of how our ancestors really lived, and is of little use in genealogy, if any. But it is well written, and by a man who lived long enough in the past to have spoken with some of the pioneers. Reading about the wildness of the country through which pioneers traveled, it is difficult to understand how such a wild place at the time of the American Revolution could be settled so rapidly that by 1819 Missouri was a state in the Union, more than a thousand miles west of the narrow eastern seaboard.<\/p>\n

The Scotch-Irish: A Social History. <\/strong><\/span> By James G. Leyburn, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press. Copyright 1962. ISBN 0-8078-4259-1. I think this is the definitive history of the Scotch-Irish, from roots in Scotland to Ulster, mainly to the Chesapeake Bay region in North America (most to Pennsylvania) and then down through the valley of Virginia into the Carolina Piedmont. I believe after the settlement of the Carolina Piedmont, the Scotch-Irish as a people began to vanish, and rather quickly, through intermarriage with the members of the rest of the American “melting pot” (although they endured much longer in the mountain areas.) For over 200 years, though, they are seen clearly through Leyburn’s eyes.<\/p>\n

From Ulster to Carolina: The Migration of the Scotch-Irish to Southwestern North Carolina.<\/strong><\/span> By H. Tyler Blethen and Curtis W. Wood, Jr. Raleigh, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Office of Archives and History. Printed by Edwards Brothers, Inc. Another good book, although largely duplication of other works, but it is a good treatment that emphasizes the settlement of the Southwestern North Carolina mountains.<\/p>\n

Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America. <\/strong><\/span> By James Webb. Broadway Books, New York. Copyright 2004. ISBN 0-7679-1688-3. Read this one and make your own mind up. It appealed to my sense of pride in my ancestors, but I think it is somewhat over the top. It largely ignores the Scots-Irish who fought for the Union during the Civil War, and, I believe, just as ferociously and at a similar cost, as did their southern cousins. But this book doesn’t pretend to be a balanced history; it is a prideful reminder of the heritage of the Scots-Irish people who helped to found our nation.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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