emigration somewhat, but in 1728 it began anew and ships could not be procured to carry the emigrants as fast as they desired to emigrate. Dr. Baird states that from 1729 to 1750 12,000 persons annually came from Ulster to America. In 1771 to 1773 another tide from Ulster poured into Pennsylvania, 25,000 in

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, as did the Paxton Boys in 1763. While the Quakers and non-com- batants and non-resistant Germans were in sympathy in religious intoler- ance of war, the Scotch-Irish and Catholics of Pennsylvania and Mary- land, with others of the same sectarian proclivity in the other colonies, had one bond of union