Ulster to America: The Scots-Irish Migration Experience, 1680–1830

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: From the North of Ireland to North America: The Scots-Irish and the Migration Experience xi Warren R. Hofstra Searching for a New World: The Background and Baggage of Scots-Irish Immigrants 1 David W. Miller Searching for Land: The Role of New Castle, Delaware, 1720s–1770s 25 Marianne S. Wokeck Searching for Order: Donegal Springs, Pennsylvania, 1720s–1730s 51 Richard K. MacMaster Searching for Community: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1750s–1780s 77 Richard K. MacMaster Searching for Peace and Prosperity: Opequon Settlement, Virginia, 1730s–1760s 105 Warren R. Hofstra Searching for Status: Virginia’s Irish Tract, 1770s–1790s 123 Katharine L. Brown and Kenneth W. Keller Searching for Security: Backcountry Carolina, 1760s–1780s 147 Michael Montgomery Searching for “Irish” Freedom—Settling for “Scotch-Irish” Respectability: Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1780–1810 165 Peter Gilmore and Kerby A. Miller Searching for Independence: Revolutionary Kentucky, Irish American Experience, and Scotch-Irish Myth, 1770s–1790s 211 Patrick Griffin Afterword: Historic Political Moderation in the Ulster-to-America Diaspora 233 Robert M. Calhoon Contributors 251 Index 255 ...