From the Publisher
On page 5 is this description of a Scotch-Irish frontiersman: The dress of the Scotch-Irish frontiersman has passed into American folklore: "a linen or buckskin hunting shirt, often decorated with fringe, and matching linen or leather breeches. The men frequently wore their hair long, in Indian fashion, and tied back. The long Pennsylvania (Kentucky) rifle they acquired from the Germans completed the picture, along with tomahawk and knife, a horn of powder, and a pouch containing bullets, patches, spare flints, steel, tinder, whetstone, oil and tow for cleaning the rifle. On their feet they wore mocassins. While away from their cabin, hunting or fighting, they carried a blanket and a wallet containing rockahominy and jerked venison."
The author includes over 25 maps, Scotch-Irish Music and Dance festival information and the member societies of the Federation for Ulster Local Studies. She discusses:
* past years of immigration from Old Ulster to America
* migration within the New World, especially the Watauga and Holston areas of East Tennessee and the Yadkin and Catawba valleys of western North Carolina
* where the Scotch-Irish settled in Colonial America
* participation in the Revolutionary War as Patriots, Regulators, and Tories
* sources and addresses for research
There is also a partial list of Elders serving in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland Presbyterian congregations, 1713-1745 and a partial list of Tax Assessors serving in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1737-1753.
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