The Entire History of Scots-Irish Migration Into America

The Entire History of Scots-Irish Migration Into America — the complete story of Scotch-Irish and Ulster Scots immigration, from the Plantation of Ulster in 1606 to the Appalachian backcountry. If your family has always just said they were American, and nobody could ever name a country, a ship or a year, this video is very likely about your family. Between 1717 and 1775, up to a quarter of a million Ulster Presbyterians crossed to America — around one in eight people in the new United States by 1790. Today under one percent of Americans claim the ancestry. They did not go anywhere. They stopped knowing what they were. This covers who the Scots-Irish actually were before Ulster, why they left, every county they settled down the Great Wagon Road, the surnames, and the four things that actually prove the ancestry when a surname cannot. In this video: The Border Reivers and the Lowland Scots. The Hamilton and Montgomery settlement of 1606 and the Plantation of Ulster in 1609. The Flight of the Earls. Rack-renting and the Test Act of 1704. The Year of Slaughter famine of 1740 and 1741. The five waves of emigration. The five ships to Boston in 1718 and the founding of Londonderry, New Hampshire. James Logan and the deliberate policy of settling Ulster families on the Pennsylvania frontier. The Great Wagon Road. Beverley Manor and the Shenandoah Valley. The Waxhaws. The Paxton Boys and the Conestoga massacre. The Regulators and Alamance. The Log College and Princeton. The Overmountain Men and the Battle of Kings Mountain. The Whiskey Rebellion. And the truth about Scots-Irish surnames, Ulster records after the 1922 Four Courts fire, and what DNA testing can and cannot tell you. Chapters 0:00 The people who came from no country 2:15 Ten percent of America, one percent today 4:30 Where the name Scots-Irish actually came from 7:00 Lowland Scots and the Border Reivers 10:00 The Plantation of Ulster, 1606 and 1609 15:00 Why they left — rent, the Test Act, and famine 20:00 The five waves of emigration 23:30 The 1718 ships to Boston 26:00 James Logan and the frontier policy 28:30 Find your county — Pennsylvania 30:00 The Great Wagon Road 31:30 The Shenandoah Valley 33:30 The Carolina backcountry and the Waxhaws 35:30 Watauga, Tennessee and Kentucky 37:30 The Paxton Boys 40:00 The Regulators and Alamance 42:00 The Presbyterian church and the Log College 45:00 Why the Scots-Irish went Patriot 47:30 The Mecklenburg problem 49:30 Kings Mountain 53:00 Whiskey, ballads and the honour myth 56:30 The presidents — what holds up 59:00 Scots-Irish surnames 62:00 Why a surname cannot prove it 64:30 The trap — they were recorded as Irish 66:30 Ulster records and the 1922 fire 70:30 What DNA can and cannot tell you 73:30 Why nobody in your family knows #ScotsIrish #UlsterScots #Genealogy #AppalachianHistory