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From: "David Ewing" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA-R1B1C7] Check out Emigration of Scotch and
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:03:46 -0700
For a more comprehensive and nuanced view of some of this history, have a
look at these books, which are all written for the lay public and are
relatively easy reading, but they were written by professional historians
and contain references:
Leyburn, James G., The Scotch-Irish, A Social History, University of North
Carolina Press, Chapel Hill. 1962
Griffin, Patrick., The People With No Name, Ireland's Ulster Scots,
America's Scots Irish, and the creation of a British Atlantic World,
1689-1764, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. 2001
Devine, T.M., Scotland's Empire, 1600-1815, Penguin Books. 2004.
And if you want to read some primary source documents, including letters
from many immigrants, which will allow you to hear what the immigrants
themselves had to say about the matter, have a look at:
Miller, Kerby A. et al, Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan, Letters and
Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815, Oxford
University Press. 2003.
David Ewing
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