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Book Scotch Irish Merchants in Colonial America

Download or read book Scotch Irish Merchants in Colonial America written by Richard Kerwin MacMaster and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the course of the eighteenth century, migration from Europe and Africa shaped the emerging consciousness and culture of the American Colonies. Whether free, bond servant, or slave, migrants brought skills and folkways from their motherlands, contributing to the agricultural and commercial development as well as to the peopling of North America. Emigrants from Ulster, the northern province of Ireland, did all of this and more. Ulster exported an economy. This new book tells the story of the transatlantic links between Ulster and America in the eighteenth century. The author draw.

Book The Scotch Irish in America

Download or read book The Scotch Irish in America written by Henry Jones Ford and published by Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1915 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scotch-Irish in America tells the story of the Ulster Plantation and of the influences that formed the character of the Scotch-Irish people. The author commences with a detailed discussion of the events leading to the Scottish migration to Ulster in the seventeenth century, followed by an examination of the causes of the secondary exodus of these same "Scotch-Irish" to North America before the end of the century. Entire chapters are then devoted to the Scotch-Irish settlement in New England, New York, the Jerseys, Pennsylvania, and along the colonial frontier. Special chapters take up the role of the Scotch-Irish in the development of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S., the Scotch-Irish in the American Revolution, and the role of the Scotch-Irish in the spread of popular education in America.

Book A Social History of the Scotch Irish

Download or read book A Social History of the Scotch Irish written by Carlton Jackson and published by Madison Books. This book was released on 1999-08-12 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the origins of their population in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the author traces the Scotch-Irish development from Lowland Scotland to Northern Ireland to the American colonies. Arriving in the East, the Scotch-Irish were characterized by other colonists as being fiery tempered, stubborn, hard drinking, and very religious, and they quickly made lasting impressions. Though the Scotch-Irish were in the minority, they managed to impact history. Most notably, they introduced the appeals system and the checks and balances system.

Book The Scotch Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania

Download or read book The Scotch Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania written by Wayland Fuller Dunaway and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best history of the Scotch-Irish of colonial Pennsylvania ever written, Dunaway's classic is indispensable to the genealogist because it outlines the circumstances behind the settlement of Lowland Scots in Ulster, their life in that Province for two or three generations, and the reasons for their emigration to America, further tracing the important migratory movements of the Scotch-Irish from Northern Ireland to Pennsylvania, and from Pennsylvania down the foothills of the Appalachians through the Great Valley of Virginia to the Carolinas and Georgia.

Book Scotch Irish Merchants in Colonial America

Download or read book Scotch Irish Merchants in Colonial America written by Richard Kerwin MacMaster and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the course of the eighteenth century, migration from Europe and Africa shaped the emerging consciousness and culture of the American Colonies. Whether free, bond servant, or slave, migrants brought skills and folkways from their motherlands, contributing to the agricultural and commercial development as well as to the peopling of North America. Emigrants from Ulster, the northern province of Ireland, did all of this and more. Ulster exported an economy. This book tells the story of the transatlantic links between Ulster and America in the eighteenth century. The author draws upon a remarkable range of sources gleaned from numerous repositories in America and Ireland as he explores the realities of life and work for the merchants. The trading networks and connections established and the economic background to the period are examined in some detail. This volume provides fascinating insights into the connections between Ulster and Colonial America through the experiences of the Scotch-Irish merchants.

Book The Scotch Irish in Northern Ireland and in the American Colonies

Download or read book The Scotch Irish in Northern Ireland and in the American Colonies written by Maude Glasgow and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to show from authoritative sources the important and beneficent part the Protestant Scotch-Irish, who themselves or whose ancestors were born in Northern Ireland, have played in Anglo-Irish and American civilization. Dr. Glasgow received her education and medical training in the United States after arriving from her native Ulster. She has collected the materials for this book from historians of excellent status and from authentic records. Dr. Glasgow substantiates her argument with quotations from a great number and variety of historical writers.

Book Chasing the Frontier

Download or read book Chasing the Frontier written by Larry J Hoefling and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Scots-Irish is one of the struggles and achievements of an American immigrant group that existed for only a short period, whose descendants continued to make their marks on the young country for generations. From the North of Ireland to the backwoods of the American frontier, the tale of the Scots-Irish includes a massive exodus to the New World, where they founded communities in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and the Irish Tract of North Carolina during the Revolutionary War era. Containing nearly six thousand names of documented settlers of the primarily Scots-Irish settlements of Virginia and North Carolina, Chasing The Frontier includes materials from church records, military records, early wills and deeds, and newspapers of the time. For the frontier families, life was a daily test of endurance and hardship, but the Scots-Irish also found time for horseracing, gambling, and socializing, and the migration of this hardy race and the lure of the frontiers of Kentucky and Tennessee led to the founding of churches and state charters, and elections to some of the highest offices in the country. Chasing the Frontier is a snapshot of everyday life for the pioneering Scots-Irish in early America.

Book The Scotch Irish in America

Download or read book The Scotch Irish in America written by Henry Jones Ford and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scotch-Irish in America tells the story of the Ulster Plantation and of the influences that formed the character of the Scotch-Irish people. The author commences with a detailed discussion of the events leading to the Scottish migration to Ulster in the seventeenth century, followed by an examination of the causes of the secondary exodus of these same "Scotch-Irish" to North America before the end of the century. Entire chapters are then devoted to the Scotch-Irish settlement in New England, New York, the Jerseys, Pennsylvania, and along the colonial frontier. Special chapters take up the role of the Scotch-Irish in the development of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S., the Scotch-Irish in the American Revolution, and the role of the Scotch-Irish in the spread of popular education in America.

Book The Scotch Irish

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  • Author : Ron Chepesiuk
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2005-04-15
  • ISBN : 9780786422739
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book The Scotch Irish written by Ron Chepesiuk and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2005-04-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scotch-Irish began emigrating to Northern Ireland from Scotland in the seventeenth century to form the Ulster Plantation. In the next century these Scottish Presbyterians migrated to the Western Hemisphere in search of a better life. Except for the English, the Scotch-Irish were the largest ethnic group to come to the New World during the eighteenth century. By the time of the American Revolution there were an estimated 250,000 Scotch-Irish in the colonies, about a tenth of the population. Twelve U.S. presidents can trace their lineage to the Scotch-Irish. This work discusses the life of the Scotch-Irish in Ireland, their treatment by their English overlords, the reasons for emigration to America, the settlement patterns in the New World, the movement westward across America, life on the colonial frontier, Scotch-Irish contributions to America's development, and sites of Scotch-Irish interest in the north of Ireland.

Book Scotch Irish in America

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  • Author : Henry Jones Ford
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9780243706969
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Scotch Irish in America written by Henry Jones Ford and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Scotch Irish

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  • Author : Charles Augustus Hanna
  • Publisher : New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
  • Release : 1902
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 654 pages

Download or read book The Scotch Irish written by Charles Augustus Hanna and published by New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons. This book was released on 1902 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ulster Emigration to Colonial America  1718 1775

Download or read book Ulster Emigration to Colonial America 1718 1775 written by R. J. Dickson and published by London : Routledge & Kegan Paul. This book was released on 1966 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early emigration from Northern Ireland and its influence on the American Revolution.

Book The Scotch Irish in America

Download or read book The Scotch Irish in America written by Scotch-Irish Society of America and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Scotch Irish

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  • Author : Charles River
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-07-27
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book The Scotch Irish written by Charles River and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It was no more sin to kill me then to kill a dogg, or any Scotch-Irish dogg" "Scotch-Irish" is an American term that became popular in the latter 1800s, referring to the largely Protestant immigrants to the United States originating in the northern Irish province of Ulster. The majority of Scotch-Irish were people intentionally settled in Ulster as a counter to the native Catholic Irish, who immigrated to Ulster from the lowlands of Scotland and the borderlands between England and Scotland. The Ulster settlers were a solution to depopulation caused by the wars in Ireland, and it was hoped that the Protestant settlers would counterbalance the habitually rebellious Catholic Irish. The regions they came from had a history of violence and poverty. The heritage of violence was thought to have prepared them for withstanding Irish disorder, and poverty made migration to Ulster an attractive proposition. They were deliberately selected by various proprietors, landowners, and King James (1601-1623). The large number of Ulster immigrants to British American colonies in the 1700s were usually simply called "Irish," but modern historians prefer the term Scots-Irish, on the grounds that "Scotch" refers to whiskey. This is unnecessarily pedantic, not to mention that Scotch-Irish is deeply embedded in the history books and in American tradition. During the colonial era, it is estimated that some 200,000 Scotch-Irish migrated to the mainland colonies. How many may have migrated to Canada (British after 1763) or various Caribbean colonies is not well-known. The colonies, particularly Pennsylvania, attracted the Scotch-Irish for several reasons, the most important of which was the ready availability of farmable land, but also, there was no established church (the official and politically dominant religion in Ireland was the Church of England) that discriminated against dissenters such as the Presbyterians. The colonies were also more stable. In Ireland, wars between Irish and Protestants and Irish rebellions were periodic and sometimes extremely destructive when it came to life and property. Yet another reason was that the colonies had nothing much in the way of social hierarchy-there was no class of aristocrats and no class of gentleman property owners who saw themselves as the social betters over what was predominantly a population of renters. The stereotypes are based on the simplified view that the Scotch-Irish originated in Scotland, migrated to Ulster, and then to Pennsylvania. They are commonly supposed to have all been Presbyterian, but the Scotch-Irish were a quite mixed group. Not only did the British settle Lowland Scots in Ulster but English from the borderlands. There were also Quakers who settled in Ulster because of its relative religious tolerance, and some French Protestants who had fled repression in Catholic France. There was also a scattering of people from elsewhere, including Germans and Flemish Calvinists. The standard view is that the Scotch-Irish moved south from Pennsylvania to settle all of Appalachia and that they were tough Indian fighters. Their animosity to British rule has also been credited with helping provoke the American Revolution, but they also played vital roles in the Confederate armies, and their courage accounted for much of the offensive power of those armies during the Civil War. At the same time, there is a countercurrent that sees the Scotch-Irish in Appalachia as lost in time, a Celtic bubble of poverty, Elizabethan English, quilts, fiddle tunes, and old Irish songs. Obviously, these views create a mishmash of stereotypes, but what's clear is that Scotch-Irish history in America is amazing enough, in and of itself. The Scotch-Irish: The History and Legacy of the Ethnic Group in Scotland, Ireland, and America profiles the people, from their origins to their histories across the Americas.

Book Hard Times in Ireland

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  • Author : Jeremy Thornton
  • Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
  • Release : 2003-08-01
  • ISBN : 9780823989560
  • Pages : 30 pages

Download or read book Hard Times in Ireland written by Jeremy Thornton and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines how the Scotch-Irish came to Ireland, and the events that caused their immigration to the United States.

Book Essays in Scotch Irish History

Download or read book Essays in Scotch Irish History written by Edward Rodney Richey Green and published by Humanities Press International. This book was released on 1969 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Scotch Irish in America  1915   By  Henry Jones Ford

Download or read book The Scotch Irish in America 1915 By Henry Jones Ford written by Henry Jones Ford and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scotch-Irish in America tells the story of the Ulster Plantation and of the influences that formed the character of the Scotch-Irish people.... Henry Jones Ford (1851-1925) was a political scientist, journalist, university professor, and government official.Ford worked as a managing editor and editorial writer from 1872 to 1905, at six different newspapers in three cities (Baltimore, New York and Pittsburgh). Later returning to Baltimore (his hometown), Ford taught at Johns Hopkins University, and afterwards taught at the University of Pennsylvania. He later took a job as professor of politics at Princeton University, at the request of the university's then-president, Woodrow Wilson. Ford's association with Wilson would take him also into politics. When Wilson became governor of New Jersey, he appointed Ford Commissioner of Banking and Insurance; after Wilson became president, Ford was sent to the Philippines on a special mission, reporting directly to the president, and toward the end of Wilson's presidency Ford was named to a position on the Interstate Commerce Commission. Their association would also result in Ford's book Woodrow Wilson, the Man and His Work, which was an account of Wilson's experience on the presidential campaign trail. Ford served as president of the American Political Science Association from 1918 to 1919.