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Subject: [DNA-R1B1C7] 1729 to 1750 about twelve thousand annually came fromUlster to America."
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:13:08 EST

The truth should eventualy prevail , please no sugarcoating for
southerners..we know our ancestors
_Emigration of Scotch and Scotch-Irish to America_
(http://www.libraryireland.com/ScotchIrishSeeds/IX-2.php)
EMIGRATION TO AMERICA
James Logan, who at this period was president of the Proprietary Council of
Pennsylvania and identified with the Quakers, and who was unfriendly to the
emigrants arriving from Ireland, states that it is "the common fear that if
they [the Scotch-Irish] continue to come, they will make themselves proprietors
of the province." He further, in 1729, expresses "himself glad to find that
the Parliament is about to take measures to prevent their too free emigration
to this country. It looks as if Ireland is to send all her inhabitants
thither; for last week not less than six ships arrived, and every day two or three
arrive also." Another authority states that in 1729 "there arrived in
Pennsylvania from Europe six thousand two hundred and eight persons, and of these
more than five thousand were from Ireland." Dr. Baird, in his History of
Religion in America, states that "from 1729 to 1750 about twelve thousand annually
came from Ulster to America."
These emigrants entered the country mainly at the ports of Boston,
Philadelphia and Charleston. Those landing at Boston settled chiefly in Maine, New
Hampshire and Massachusetts. Previous to this period, and, in fact, from the
first settlement of New England, a large number of Presbyterians had found homes
in its several colonies. Cotton Mather tells us "that previous to the year
1640 four thousand Presbyterians had arrived." Writing a few years later, he
says: "We are comforted with great numbers of the oppressed brethren coming
from the north of Ireland. The glorious providence of God, in the removal of so
many of a desirable character from the north of Ireland, hath doubtless very
great intentions in it." Others estimate the number of Presbyterian colonists
in New England as high as twenty-two thousand. These it is difficult to
designate, as they united largely with Congregationalists in public worship, on
the terms of union that had been agreed upon in London prior to 1640; which
union Mather states "existed between these parties almost from the first
settlement of the country." The evidence of this union and the influence of this
Presbyterian element are seen in the fact that the early churches of Salem,
Charleston, Boston and elsewhere in New England had ruling elders, while in 1640
and in 1680 respectively all the ministers and elders from each church met
in synod at Cambridge, and by distinct act recognized the Presbyterian form of
church government.
Nor need there be any surprise expressed at the synod's action, for,
independent of the leavening influence of Presbyterianism upon the churches, the
form of order of the church of Leyden, the mother-church of the Plymouth colony,
was the same as that of the French Presbyterian churches. Plymouth was
modeled after Leyden, and the constitution of the Plymouth church was copied by all
the other churches.
Presbyterians, in comparatively limited numbers, also settled in New England
at the period when the largest emigration took place from Ireland. In 1719,
Derry was settled, and subsequently congregations were organized at Pelham and
Boston, Massachusetts, and a presbytery was formed in 1745, and a synod,
consisting of three presbyteries, in 1775 at Seabrook. Presbyterianism, however,
never acquired much strength, owing probably to the plan of union, and many
of the Presbyterian settlers subsequently found their way into Pennsylvania,
and helped to swell the tide which was pouring into that State through the
port of Philadelphia.
These immigrants first occupied the eastern and middle counties of
Pennsylvania and the adjoining regions of Delaware and Maryland. Such as landed at
more southern ports located themselves on the fertile lands of North and South
Carolina and Georgia, and were afterward joined by large numbers of their
brethren who had originally settled in the more northern provinces. Owing to the
rapid increase of emigration and the occupancy of the best farming-lands in
central Pennsylvania, many of the Scotch-Irish in the latter State were led to
turn their steps southward, and found homes for their families in the fertile
valleys of Virginia. At a later period western Pennsylvania was occupied by
the descendants of the settlers in the middle counties of the State, and
those of the more southern colonies passed westward to the country then called
"between the mountains," now known as Kentucky and Tennessee. From these points
of radiation the Scotch-Irish have extended to all parts of the Union, and
being an intelligent, resolute and energetic people have left their impress
upon the institutions of all the States where they have settled.
Referring to this great exodus from the north of Ireland, the Rev. Dr. Foote,
the historian of Virginia and North Carolina, says: "In the early part of
the eighteenth century the emigration began, and, like the mighty rivers in the
New World, went on in a widening and deepening current to pour into the vast
forests of America multitudes of hardy, enterprising people. All the
colonies from New York southward were enriched by shiploads of these people, that
came with little money, but with strong hands and stout hearts and divine
principles, to improve their own condition and bless the province that gave them a
home." Many of these voluntary exiles landed at Philadelphia, and after a
short stay with their friends and countrymen in Pennsylvania, removed to the
inviting valley of Virginia, or the more distant banks of the Catawba in the
Carolinas. It thus came to pass that "in the southern part of the valley of
Virginia and in the Mesopotamia _[4]_
(http://www.libraryireland.com/ScotchIrishSeeds/IX-3.php#4) of North Carolina and large districts of South Carolina,
the Scotch-Irish had the pre-eminence both in time and numbers."
With very rare exceptions, these colonists were Protestants, and were either
communicants in the Presbyterian Church or strongly attached to its doctrines
and polity. Families generally united in forming settlements, fixing their
residences sufficiently near each other to furnish mutual help and protection
from the savage foes who lurked in the surrounding forests, to gratify their
social feelings, and to enjoy the privileges of religious worship. Wherever
they formed a settlement, among the first things they did, after providing a
shelter for their families, was to organize congregations for Christian
worship and erect a tabernacle to the Lord. This being their custom, we are not
surprised to learn that in a decade from the time that these pioneer emigrants
ventured into the valley of Virginia, there were at least twelve Presbyterian
congregations organized. In answer to their earnest appeal, the synod of the
Presbyterian Church appointed two of its members to visit them and to secure
for them the favor of the governor, in order that they might enjoy their own
methods of worship. And about the same period Samuel Blair, writing
respecting a particular congregation, adds, "All our congregations in Pennsylvania,
except two or three, chiefly are made up of people from that kingdom"
(Ireland).



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