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From 1710 to 1775, over 200,000 people settled from Ulster to the original thirteen American colonies. The largest numbers went to Pennsylvania. From that base some went south into Virginia, the Carolinas and across the South, with a large concentration in the Appalachian region. Others headed west to western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and ...
This is a list of notable hereditary and lineage organizations, and is informed by the database of the Hereditary Society Community of the United States of America.It includes societies that limit their membership to those who meet group inclusion criteria, such as descendants of a particular person or group of people of historical importance.
William Whitley (August 4, 1749 – October 5, 1813), was an American pioneer in what became Kentucky, in the colonial and early Federal period. Born in Virginia, he was the son of Scottish Presbyterian immigrants from northern Ireland, then the Ulster Plantation.
Three years ago, I launched a Facebook page dedicated to Lenawee County history and genealogy, a place where people could share photos and make family tree research inquiries. This year marks a ...
While those historians note that renewed usage of "Scotch-Irish" after 1850 was motivated by anti-Catholic prejudices among Ulster Protestants, [96] [97] considering the historically low rates of intermarriage between Protestants and Catholics in both Ireland and the United States, [list 3] as well as the relative frequency of interethnic and ...
Andrew Jackson, 7th U.S. President (1829–1837) James K. Polk, 11th U.S. President (1845–1849) James Buchanan, 15th U.S. President (1857–1861) Andrew Johnson, 17th U.S. President (1865–1869) Ulysses S. Grant, 18th U.S. President (1869–1877) Chester A. Arthur, 21st U.S. President (1881–1885) Grover Cleveland, 22nd & 24th U.S. President (1885–1889 & 1893–1897) Benjamin Harrison ...
Houston, given his father's name, was born in 1689 or 1690 in Ulster in the northern reaches of the Kingdom of Ireland (1542–1800). [1] [5] [b] Around 1735, Houston, his wife, four sons, two daughters, and his widowed mother left Ireland for Pennsylvania; [1] [c] one of their seven children, James, stayed in Ireland and died there.
Ulster Scots is the local dialect of the Lowland Scots language which has, since the 1980s, also been called "Ullans", a portmanteau neologism popularised by the physician, amateur historian and politician Ian Adamson, [33] merging Ulster and Lallans – the Scots for 'Lowlands' [34] – but also said to be a backronym for 'Ulster-Scots ...