The Scots Irish of Early Pennsylvania
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The Scots Irish of Early Pennsylvania

A Varied People

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The Scots Irish of Early Pennsylvania

A Varied People

About this book

The Scots Irish were one of early Pennsylvania's largest non-English immigrant groups. They were stereotyped as frontier ruffians and Indian haters. In The Scots Irish of Early Pennsylvania, historian Judith Ridner insists that this immigrant group was socio-economically diverse. Servants and free people, individuals and families, and political exiles and refugees from Ulster, they not only pioneered new frontier settlements, but also populated the state's cities—Philadelphia and Pittsburgh—and its towns, such as Lancaster, Easton, and Carlisle. 

Ridner provides a much-overdue synthesis and reassessment of this immigrant group, tracing a century of Scotch-Irish migration from 1720 to 1820. These men and women brought their version of Ulster to the colonies in their fierce commitments to family, community, entrepreneurship, Presbyterianism, republican politics, and higher education. The settlements they founded across the state, including many farms, businesses, meetinghouses, and colleges, ensured that Pennsylvania would be their cradle in America, and these settlements stand as powerful testaments to their legacy to the state's history and development.

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were 
vastly 
outnumbered 
by 
hostile 
Catholic 
natives, 
and 
many 
of 
them 
left 
in 
response. 
England’s 
first 
experiment 
with 
plantations 
ended 
in 
failure.
10
Success 
came, 
however, 
after 
the 
English 
victory 
in 
the 
Nine 
Years’ 
War 
of 
1594 
to 
1603 
(a 
war 
of 
resistance 
against 
English 
authority 
by 
Gaelic 
lords 
in 
Ulster), 
and 
the 
larger, 
more 
ambitious, 
and 
Scots-dominated 
Ulster 
plan-
tations 
of 
the 
seventeenth 
century.
11
ese 
settlements, 
which 
have 
left 
a 
leg-
This 
map 
of 
Ireland 
shows 
provinces, 
counties, 
and 
selected 
cities. 
Highlighted 
are 
selected 
port 
cities 
and 
some 
of 
the 
Ulster 
place 
names 
shared 
by 
towns 
or 
townships 
in 
Pennsylvania 
(for 
Ulster 
place 
names 
in 
Pennsylvania, 
see 
the 
map 
featured 
in 
the 
Conclusion). 
(Map 
by 
Scott 
Drzyzga.)

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Editors’ Foreword, by Allen Dieterich-Ward and Beverly C. Tomek
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: Defining These Varied People
  5. 1. Life in Ulster
  6. 2. Coming to Pennsylvania
  7. 3. Building Communities
  8. 4. Fighting Indians and Others
  9. 5. The Revolution and Beyond
  10. Conclusion: Their Varied Legacy
  11. Notes
  12. Index