Are you Scotch-Irish?

If you are Scotch-Irish, you might want to know more about your origins — — where your family lived before coming to America — where they landed in America — and where they went after that. This type of information is essential to people interested in tracing their family history. Why not give this article a try?

A valuable source of information concerning the movements of the Scotch-Irish comes from reading church histories. The reason is that migrants often traveled with their congregation, and the history provides their location in Ireland and other interesting data.

It is simply amazing considering the thousands of Scotch-Irish emigrants who flowed into the port of Philadelphia and settled for a while in Bucks County. Perhaps Bucks County was where the decision was made among friends and relatives of which direction to take. Over the mountains into Indian country, or southward into the Carolinas?

We know that it was the emigrants from the North of Ireland who first settled in Bucks County, northeast of Pennsylvania, before moving into Chester, Lancaster, and York, South Carolina. By 1735 congregations of emigrants were directed towards Williamsburg, South Carolina, and further into Sumter, Darlington, Marion, and Horry.

Their ministers were nearly all of liberal education. Some had taken their degrees in Scotland, and some in…