Ulster Sails West
Personal Note (Jody Gray): I transcribed portions of the book to this Blog Post as a Tribute to our Ulster-Scottish Ancestors.
War of Independence - Names - The Revolution - The Army
pg 11-13. General Reid, of New Derry, held a command in the New Hampshire forces all through the war… and later he commanded all the forces of his State. *Anne Reed Wait
General James Millar, of New Derry (Miller)
Pg 29-30… A number of patriotic citizens, [Ulster-Scots] hopeless of Congress action, subscribed a large sum of money to purchase equipment, clothing and food for their fighting men… John Murray was born in Belfast. He gave 30,000 dollars.
[pg 31] General Richard Montgomery was born near Convoy in County Donegal.
[pg 31-34] General James Miller was from New Derry and so also was General George Reid.
[pg 31-34] General James Miller was from New Derry and so also was General George Reid.
[pg 34] General Joseph Reed was the son of Ulster parents who settled in New Jersey.
[pg 34] General William Henry
[pg 34] General William Henry
[pg 34] General William Campbell, one of the five Presbyterian colonels at the battle of King’s Mountain.
Ancestors who may have been Ulster-Scots
Adams, Nimrod and Etchison, Nancy
Pg 20-21. North Carolina. *Nimrod Adams and Nancy Etchison - In 1735 Henry McCullock, an Ulsterman, was granted 64,000 acres in North Carolina, and to these lands he brought between 3,000 and 4,000 of his countrymen. The historian of South Carolina says that there was no country gave them so many of their inhabitants as Ireland. The historians of Georgia says that its prosperity is largely due to the Ulster people and their descendants, and from them, he adds, the blood was scattered throughout the South and South-Western States. “Kentucky was first settled by Ulstermen from Virginia and North Carolina.
Pg 20-21. North Carolina. *Nimrod Adams and Nancy Etchison - In 1735 Henry McCullock, an Ulsterman, was granted 64,000 acres in North Carolina, and to these lands he brought between 3,000 and 4,000 of his countrymen. The historian of South Carolina says that there was no country gave them so many of their inhabitants as Ireland. The historians of Georgia says that its prosperity is largely due to the Ulster people and their descendants, and from them, he adds, the blood was scattered throughout the South and South-Western States. “Kentucky was first settled by Ulstermen from Virginia and North Carolina.
Movies and Books
Pg 13-14 Major Robert Rogers, of New Derry, commanded the famous Rangers raised in New Hampshire in 1756, the forerunners of the gallant band of riflemen that fought the British so valiantly under Morgan in the War of Independence. It is interesting to note that the Rangers, who were in the beginning companies of Home Guard raised to protect the settlers against the Indians, and, later, rifle companies in the British service, are once again fighting alongside British troops in Italy. Most of Rogers’ men in 1756 were from his own district in New Hampshire, and of the same Ulster stock. My readers can remember that as they watch his exploits and theirs in that famous picture –North-West Passage. The film is a strange jumble, and some of it is reminiscent of the later expedition of George Rodgers Clarke, but as it is presented, it can only be related to Rogers of New Hampshire.
Pg 20-21 ...Thomas Jefferson, United States President said that the Irish held the valley between the Blue Ridge and the North Mountain, and that they formed a barrier there which none could venture to leap. You can read about that in Mary Johnston’s novel, “The Great Valley.”
Pg 20-21 ...Many of my readers will have seen another well-known picture, “Sergeant Yorke,” which gives a glimpse of life in the border country between Kentucky and Tennessee. It adds interest to that picture to know that the people there were largely of Ulster stock, that they retain some remnant of Ulster speech, and that of such people is Daniel Boone, the Indian Scout and fighter. His memory is still cherished in that region, as the picture testifies, and his name is the greatest to be found in the long annals of American frontiersmen.
Montgomery and Hamilton, the first Scotland landowners to create Plantations in Ulster, Ireland.
Sir Hugh Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of the Great Ards (c. 1560-may 15, 1636) was an aristocrat and a soldier, known as one of the “founding fathers” of the Ulster-Scots along with Sir James Hamilton, 1st Viscount Claneboye. Montgomery was born in Ayrshire at Broadstone Castle, near Beith (son of Adam Montgomery, the 5th Laird of Braidstone, by his wife and cousin).
Montgomery established a relationship with King James VI. He was able to gain some influence in the king’s court due to his correspondence with his brother George Montgomery, who had been named Dean of Norwich in 1602…
Ulster Settlement Montgomery’s friendship with the king was useful to him (next) in establishing the Plantation of Ulster in 1606 (preceding the Plantation of Ulster in 1610).
Montgomery and Hamilton recruited Scots of many families and trades to populate their settlement. In May 1606 the first wave of settlers arrived…
His son Hugh Montgomery, 2nd Viscount Montgomery of the Great Ards, succeeded him, married in 1623 Lady Jean Alexander, who died in 1670, daughter of the 1st Earl of Stirling, and died on Nov 15, 1642. Their son was Hugh Montgomery, 1st Earl of Mount Alexander...
James Hamilton (family of Ayshire, Scotland)
James Hamilton, 1st Viscount Claneboye (c. 1560-1644) was a Scot who became owner of large tracts of land in County Down, Ireland, and founded a successful Protestant Scots settlement there several years before the Plantation of Ulster. Hamilton was able to acquire the lands a result of his connections with King James I of England, for whom he had been an agent in negotiations for James to succeed Queen Elizabeth I of England.
Agent for King James VI of Scotland Hamilton and Fullerton were also agents and informants for King James VI of Scotland. They provided James with information about Queen Elizabeth I of England’s activities in Ireland and sought Irish support for James’s succession to the English throne on Elizabeth’s death…
Settlement in County Down The Nine Years’ War in Ireland had ended in 1603, and Hamilton and Montgomery both recruited tenants from the Scottish Lowlands to migrate to Ulster to farm their newly acquired lands for low rents. They persuaded members of their extended families to come and, in May 1606, the first group of farmers, artisans, merchants and chaplains arrived to form the Ulster Scots settlement, four years before the Plantation of Ulster in 1610. The settlement was a success and Hamilton was knighted by the king at Royston on Nov 14, 1609. By 1611, a new town of eighty houses had been established at Bangor, where Hamilton lived. His brother John acquired lands in County Armagh and founded Markethill, Hamiltonsbawn and Newtownhamilton.
Google: ulster muster rolls
The Muster Roll of the County of Donnagall (1630) *Donegal
Undertakers
Barony de Rapho; The Lord Duke of Lynox
Henry, Walter
Graham, Dunkan
Barony de Rapho; Sir John Cunningham Knight
Marshall, William
Barony de Rapho;The Lady Conningham widdow of Sir James Conningham
Reed, David... Porter, Patrick... Miller, Patrick... Mountgomery, Robert
Barony de Rapho; Sir John Kingsmell Knight; Captain Ralph Mansfield
Hammilton, Robert ... Hammiltion, Andrew
Gray, Thomas... Browne, Alexander
Barony de Rapho;Captain Ralph Mansfield
Adam(s), Robert... Gray, Thomas
Barony de Rapho; Sr John Willson Barronet
Porter, Robert... Read, David... Gray, George younger... Browne, John... Hendry, John... Browne, Thomas... Hendry, John... Read, Robert... Read, Patrick
Barony de Rapho; Peter Benson Esqr
Browne, Mathew
Barony de Rapho; William Steward Esqr. Lard of Dunduff
Browne, John... Browne, Andrew... Marshell, Steaphen... Davidson, John
Barony de Rapho; Mr. Cahoune Lard of Luce
Mountgomery, Humphrey
Barony de Rapho; Captain Robert DavisBarony de Rapho; Robert Harrington esqr
Miller, George... Miller, William
Barony de Rapho; Mr. Alexander StewardBarony de Rapho; James Conningham Esqr
Browne, John... Browne, Joseph... Browne, Andrew... Harper, John... Graham, Robert... Adam, John... Davison, John
Barony de Rapho; Mr. John StewardBarony de Rapho; The Earle of Annandall
Miller, George... Murray, Richard... Read, James... Reed, Hugh... Murry, James... Murry, John
Barony de Rapho; The Lo: Bpp of Rapho his churchlands
Henry, William... Harper, John... Graham, John... Mountgomery, Dunkan... Graham, Symond... Wylly, John... Hammilton, John Esqr.... Porter, William
Barony de Rapho; The Deane of Rapho, his churchlands
Hamilton, James
Barony de Rapho; The Lo: Chichester, his servitor’s lands
Hammilton, John... Porter, James... Adams, Alexander... Porter, Adam... Porter, James... Mountgomery, John... Browne, Alexander... Browne, Robert... Browne, Hugh... Hamilton, Robert... Porter, William... Mountgomery, William... Miller, John... Browne, Robert
http://www.ulsterancestry.com/ulster-scots.html
The Ulster Irish: The Thirteenth Tribe - TAB: The Ulster Scots
The Ulster Irish: The Thirteenth Tribe - TAB: The Ulster Scots
The R.J. Hunter Collection - Hamilton
Search the Muster Rolls c.1630
The Scots-Irish Journey to the New World - The 1718 Migration
Ulster Genealogy ***This Website looks really good***
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