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]
Getting started -- Vital records -- Church records -- Cemetery records -- Town records -- Probate records -- Land records -- Court records -- City directories -- Military records and seaman's records -- Tax lists -- Business papers, account books, and diaries -- Censuses -- Voters' lists -- Teachers' records -- Passenger lists -- Naturalizations -- Immigrants in print -- Some miscellaneous sources -- Boston in print -- Towns that are now part of Boston -- Articles on Boston families -- Boston area repositories -- Massachusetts divorce records, where to find them -- Ministers in Boston up to 1846 -- Home for destitute Catholic children -- Boston Record Commissioners report -- Inventory of the estate of Amasa Davis -- 1860 census Ward One, Boston -- Examples from institutional records.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [302]-314) and index.
Contents
Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introd. -- Novel traffics -- Scowbanckers and redemptioners -- The flaxseed trade begins -- Transatlantic partners: patterns of trade -- Into the backcountry -- From Ulster to the Carolinas -- Merchants in politics -- A Scotch-Irish boom town -- Emigrations at high tide -- Patterns of emigration -- Non-importation, non-exportation, and the flaxseed trade -- Bibliography -- Index.
Pennsylvania Federation of Museums and Historical Organizations,
Date of Publication
c2000.
Physical Description
vi, 149 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes
"... with support from Institute of Museum and Library Services, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, and Pennsylvania Heritage Tourism Initiative."
Mapping the Ulster diaspora 1607-1960 by Patrick Fitzgerald -- Where the twain meet: an account of Samuel Langhorne Clemens's Ulster connection by Doreen McBride -- 'For Philadelphia, boys, are we bound': the Rev. Joseph Rhea comes to America in 1769 by Richard K. MacMaster -- Our onomastic heritage: the Gaelic system of personal names, surnames and tribal names by Paul Tempan -- From townland to metropolis: patterns of migration in the Hastings and McKitterick familes 1860-1910.
