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Book

Scotch Irish pioneers in Ulster and America

Call Number

  • H 929.3411 B6943 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Boston, Massachusetts : New England Historic Genealogical Society, [2013]

Physical Description

x, 398 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm

Notes

Reprint of edition published in 1910 by Bacon and Brown.

Contents

  • Ireland and New England before 1714
  • Ireland's relation to Maryland, Pennsylvania and South Carolina before 1718
  • Economic conditions in Ulster, 1714-1718
  • Political and religious conditions in Ulster, 1714-1718
  • The Rev. William Homes and the Rev. Thomas Craighead
  • Ulster and the Presbyterian ministry in 1718
  • Aghadowey and the session book
  • The arrival of "five ships" in August, 1718
  • The winter of 1718-1719 in Boston
  • The years 1718 and 1719 in Worchester; and in the settlements at Rutland, Pelham and Palmer
  • The winter of 1718-1719 in Dracut, Andover, and in Casco Bay
  • The years 1718 and 1719 at Merrymeeting Bay
  • Nutfield and Londonberry, 1719-1720
  • The Scotch Irish in Donegal, Derry, and Neshaminy, Pennsylvania, after 1718
  • The Scotch Irish in Charleston and Williamsburg, South Carolina, after 1718
  • The character of the Scotch Irish.

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