- Scotch Irish Pioneers In Ulster and America
by Charles Knowles Bolton
This is a study of the emigration from Northern Ireland of persons of
Scottish and English descent. Chapters are devoted to the Scotch- Irish
settlements in Pennsylvania, Maryland, South Carolina, and Massachusetts
and include valuable lists of early pioneers. In addition, considerable
space is devoted to the redoubtable settlers of Londonderry, New Hampshire.
The book's extensive appendices contain lists of great genealogical
importance, including: (1) petitioners for transport from Northern Ireland
(1718); (2) hometowns of Ulster families, with names of the Scotch-Irish
in New England from presbytery and synod records (1691-1718); (3) members
of the Charitable Irish Society in Boston (1737-1743); (4) names of
fathers in the Presbyterian baptismal records in Boston (1730-1736);
and (5) names of ships carrying passengers from Ireland to New England
(1714-1720).
- The Scotch-Irish. Or the Scot in North Britain, North Ireland
and North America, 2 Volumes
by Charles A. Hanna
This is the basic sourcebook on the Scotch-Irish in America, a massive
compilation of source records pertaining to the Scots who settled in
the north of Ireland and their descendants in America. Volume I describes
in detail the conditions occurring in both Scotland and Ireland at the
time of the Scottish migrations to Ireland and America. Volume II contains
a detailed survey of Scotch Irish settlements in America in the 17th
and 18th centuries, featuring lists and records referring to tens of
thousands of individuals. Also included in this volume are chapters
devoted to Scottish names, Scottish families, and locations of Scottish
families in Ireland.
- Scots-Irish Links, 1575-1725. 2 Volumes
by David Dobson
This resource can help persons of Scotch-Irish descent make the linkage
first to Ulster and then back to Scotland. The work identifies some
1,200 Scotsmen who resided in Ulster between the early 1600s and the
early 1700s. Many of them were young men from Ireland — many bearing
Scottish surnames — attending universities in Scotland. Still other
Scots-Irish links were apprentices, ministers, merchants, weavers, teachers,
or persons in flight. In a number of cases, Mr. Dobson is able to provide
information on the man or woman's spouse, children, local origins, landholding,
and, of course, the source of the information. While there is no certainty
that each of the persons identified in Scots-Irish Links or their descendants
ultimately emigrated to America, undoubtedly many did or possessed kinsmen
who did.
- The Scotch-Irish in America
by Henry Jones Ford
Professor Ford's history of the Scotch-Irish, though still considered
by many to be the starting point for studying the history of the Ulster
Plantation, has been out of print for many years. 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. Professor Ford
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., some prominent Scotch-Irish preachers, the Scotch-Irish
in the American Revolution and the birth of the new nation, and the
role of the Scotch-Irish in the spread of popular education in America.
Among the valuable resources at the back of the volume are a list of
the "Scottish Undertakers" who applied for land in Ulster in 1609, a
list of sources consulted in the preparation of the work, and a subject/name
index with references to many early Scotch-Irish luminaries.
- Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, Extracted
from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, 1745-1800,
3 Volumes
by Lyman Chalkley
Referencing 50,000 individuals, this monumental work consists of court
records pertaining to the Scotch-Irish pioneers who first breached the
mountain barrier sealing off the Atlantic seaboard from the country
west of the Blue Ridge. In 1745, when Augusta County, Virginia was erected,
its domain extended from the Alleghenies to the Mississippi River, and
from the northern part of Tennessee to the Great Lakes. So, this stands
as the supreme source of genealogical information for hundreds of thousands
who trace their ancestry to Augusta County, and the Great Valley of
Virginia.
- The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania
by Wayland F. Dunaway
The best history of the Scotch-Irish of colonial Pennsylvania ever written,
Dunaway's classic is indispensable to the genealogist. 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. This volume further traces 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.
- Pennsylvania Genealogies, Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German
2nd edition
by William Henry Egle
This collection of Pennsylvania genealogies is concerned primarily with
families which, for the most part, settled in the extreme regions of
colonial Chester County, an area for which source material is notoriously
scarce. Fully two-thirds of the families included are of Scotch-Irish
ancestry, and most, though not all, are brought down to the late nineteenth
century. More than 3,000 names are found in the index.
- Vital Records of Londonderry, New Hampshire, 1719-1910
by Daniel Gage Annis
In April 1719, a small band of Scotch-Irish settlers, under the guiding
spirit of Rev. James MacGregor, founded the town of Londonderry in New
Hampshire, which was destined to be an early Presbyterian stronghold
in America. The keeping of vital records in Londonderry commenced almost
at once. Years later, when the town voted to fund the printing of these
vital records for the period from 1719 to 1910, there were approximately
25,000 records of births, marriages, marriage intentions and deaths.
Compiled by the former town clerk and tax collector, Daniel Annis, the
records are given here in alphabetical order under those four main headings.
Not all persons in these records are Scotch-Irish or of Scotch-Irish
descent, but the historically significant Scotch-Irish element is traceable
through all the nearly 200 years of records.
- Scotch-Irish Migration to South Carolina, 1772: Rev. William
Martin and His Five Shiploads of Settlers
by Jean Stephenson
This book began as Jean Stephenson's effort to validate the family tradition
that her great-great-grandparents emigrated from Belfast to South Carolina
under the leadership of Covenanter Presbyterian minister William Martin
in 1772. Not only was the author able to authenticate the crux of the
story, but, in the process, placed nearly 500 Scotch-Irish families
in South Carolina on the eve of the Revolutionary War. The author references
records of the South Carolina Council Journal and tax lists, passenger
lists, church histories, and other sources housed at the South Carolina
Department of Archives and History.
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