Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-238) and index.
The Scots who had moved to Ulster in Ireland suffered under economic and religious pressures, and many chose to emigrate to the American colonies in the years before the war for independence. In the colonies, they then faced economic, religious and cultural challenges as they adapted to the new land.
Contents
Chapters: 1 The transformation of Ulster society in the wake of the Glorious Revolution / 2. Crisis and community in Ulster / 3. Ulster Presbyterian migration 1718 - 1729 / 4. Settlement and adaptation in a new world / 5. Responding to a changing frontier / 6.Surveying the frontiers of an Atlantic world
Summary
"Drawing on a vast store of archival materials, The People With No Name is the first book to tell this fascinating story in its full, transatlantic context. It explores how these people -whom one visitor to their Pennsylvania enclaves referred to as 'a spurious race of mortals known by the appellation Scotch-Irish'- drew upon both Old and New World experiences to adapt to staggering religious, economic, and cultrual change...The book moves from a vivid depiction of Ulster and its Presbyterian community in and after the Glorious Revolution to a brilliant account of religion and identity in early modern Ireland. Griffin then deftly weaves together religion and economics in the origins of the transatlantic migration, and examines how this traumatic and enlivening experience shaped patterns of settlement and adaptation in colonial America. In the American side of his story, he breaks new critical ground for our understanding of colonial identity formation and the place of the frontier in a larger empire." [book cover]
Chapters: : INDIAN AND ENGLISH GEOGRAPHIES -- SHAPING THE NETWORKS OF MARITIME TRADE -- MARINERS AND COLONISTS -- INTERCOLONIAL MIGRATION -- ENGLISH ATLANTIC NETWORKS AND RELIGION IN VIRGINIA -- CHESAPEAKE SLAVERY IN ATLANTIC CONTEXT -- CROSSING BORDERS -- VIRGINIA , NORTH AMERICA , AND ENGLISH ATLANTIC EMPIRE
Summary
"Through networks of trails and rivers inland and established ocean routes across the seas, seventeenth-century Virginians were connected to a vibrant Atlantic world. They routinely traded with adjacent Native Americans and received ships from England, the Netherlands, and other English and Dutch colonies, while maintaining less direct connections to Africa and to French and Spanish colonies. Their Atlantic world emerged from the movement of goods and services, but trade routes quickly became equally important in the transfer of people and information. Much seventeenth-century historiography, however, still assumes that each North American colony operated as a largely self-contained entity and interacted with other colonies only indirectly, through London. By contrast, in Atlantic Virginia, historian April Lee Hatfield demonstrates that the colonies actually had vibrant interchange with each other and with peoples throughout the hemisphere, as well as with Europeans." [from the dust jacket]
Marriages performed in the city of Reading, Berks County, PA, July 1, 1876 to October 1, 1885 : Register of Wills and Clerk of the Orphans Court Division of the Court of Common Pleas of Berks County, Pennsylvania
The Manchester townships, Manchester, West Manchester and East Manchester : and that portion of Hellam Township outside of the Manor of Springettsbury, York County, Pennsylvania
History of Scottish dissentng Presbyterianism in Lancaster County, PA : an account of Associate, Associate Reformed, and United Presbyterian Church of North America clergy and congregations
"America’'s Dissenting Presbyterians have somewhat difficult histories to understand but basically they are unified in this fact, for some reason, they chose to separate from the Church of Scotland, and upon arriving in America they could not in good conscience join the mainline Presbyterian Church...There are today only two groups of dissenting Presbyterians left in the United States and they are the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, and the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America. Both have different yet somewhat similar histories. The Reformed Presbyterians are known as “Covenanters†they are the Society people that at the time of Revolution Settlement could not in good conscience go back into the Church of Scotland. The Associate Reformed Presbyterians or ARP are a merger of two Presbyterian groups, the Associate Church and the Reformed Presbyterians, to form a uniquely Scottish and American Presbyterian Church in the United States. The things that set the Dissenting Presbyterians apart from their mainline counterparts were strict confessional adherence to the point of becoming in many ways countercultural, holding strictly to the Regulative Principle of Worship, and never assimilating as quickly into American Society as their mainline counterparts." [https://purelypresbyterian.com/2017/09/23/americas-dissenting-presbyterian-heritage/]
CD for these records located at (MD 285.8 F527L CD).
"These records have been abstracted from the actual handwritten records of the First Reformed Church."
"This is a series of volumes covering the period 1730-1980...This volume is not all inclusive, as to do so would require 10-12 volumes alone and would be repetitive. It is a volume with a select number of years, spread over the 250 years of the Church."
Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 195 #2.
