From a reader over at Larry Lambert's place:
"I like to think that my Scots-Irish ancestors came to America in the early 1700s because it later gave them one more chance to shoot at the British."
Now why is that so instantly believable? Could be because I have Scots and Irish ancestors as well . . .
Peter
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my blood is mostly Scot, 2nd is Scots-Irish, 3rd Nordic, 4th Saxon.
Bred nd raised in Appalachia.
Got to Texas asap (18).
Proud of every bit of it.
I sympathize some for those still in not so great briton, but, they only had a few centuries to see the writing on the wall.
Hilariously, one side of my family's Scots-Irish, French, and Native, and Appalachian to the bone - while the other's British and Cornish. I guess we put aside the old feud and decided to focus on the 'stubborn American' in all of those lines!
James Witherspoon escaped from Doune Castle (of Monty Python fame) in 1748, after being imprisoned for suspicion of participating in the failed Jacobite rebellion of "Bonny" Prince Charlie. Look where Doctor Witherspoon ended up, signing the Declaration of Independence and serving as the chaplain for the 2nd Continental Congress.
It took a while, but he ultimately got his revenge on the bloody Sassenach.
I never thought about it that way.
My heritage would identify with this.
Jason's Scottish ancestor came to the US after being charged with treason against the crown and having his printing presses thrown into the ocean. I suspect he came after the 1700s but would have approved of the sentiment.
Considering my Scots heritage/genealogy, that statement was my conclusion. According to family legends, however many greats-grandfather thought it was his religious duty to pick off Red Coats whenever he could. And his wife was just as plucky.
The English side of the family wasn't any more enamored with the Crown than the Scots side.
A reader here too.
Scots, Irish, French, and Norman for me. I don't know that we came here specifically for that reason, but it was certainly a bonus.
My distant great*19 grandfather McGuire came over on a ship from Ireland in 1680. He was 15 years old and the ship captain sold him on the Philadelphia docks to a Pennsylvania family. Yes, a indentured servant aka a slave. The family all died of Cholera 30 years later and my great*19 grandfather inherited their farm.
The Overmountain Men were largely Scots-Irish, and legend says that they took care of Patrick Ferguson, and gave him a posthumous baptism as well!
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