The Scots-Irish in the Carolinas.
Author: KENNEDY, Billy.
Belfast: Causeway Press, 1997. 207 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.
The Carolina regions of the United States of America were settled in large numbers during the 18th century by tens of thousands of Ulster-Scots Presbyterians, who left their native shores for reasons of religious persecution and economic deprivation.
In this the third of his absorbing series on the hardy Scots-Irish communities who tamed the wilderness of the American frontier, journalist-author BILLY KENNEDY heads on a journey from the north of Ireland to the port of Charleston in South Carolina and the Carolina Piedmont, along the Great Wagon Road from Pennsylvania, through the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, into the western highlands of North Carolina and down to the historic Waxhaws, where President Andrew Jackson spent his childhood and early youth.
On this trail of the Scots-Irish in the Carolinas, five American Presidents emerge as direct descendants of the first frontier Carolina settlers. Also John C. Coulhoun, American Vice-President over two terms, was the son of an Ulsterman who settled in the Carolina up-country and literally hauled himself up by his bootlaces from a log cabin to a position as one of the nation’s most influential policy makers.
The culture, political heritage and legacy of the Scots-Irish so richly adorn the historical fabric of American life and, through these literary works, people on both sides of the Atlantic can develop an awareness of our illustrious past which will assist them in facing the future with renewed insight and wisdom. The contributions of the Scots-Irish to the building of the great American nation were profound and deserve our full recognition.
List of contents:-
Foreword from the United States
Foreword from Northern Ireland
1. Northern Ireland
2. South Carolina
3. North Carolina
4. Early movement to America
5. Scots-Irish influences in Charleston
6. American Presidents from the Carolinas
7. The Scots-Irish roots of President Jimmy Carter
8. Maghera’s Charles Thomson - “the venerable patriot”
9. First Carolina townships founded by Scots-Irish
10. Covenanting stock who peopled the Carolinas
11. Journey to America for four shillings and eight pence and the settlement of the Hearst family
12. ‘Poor Calvinists’ in Williamsburg
13. The Moores of Walnut Grove and heroine Kate Barry
14. From Co. Antrim to Fairview, South Carolina
15. The formidable John C. Calhoun
16. The Kings of the wild frontier
17. Arthur Dobbs - founding father of North Carolina
18. Leading the way on the frontier
19. Sowing the seeds of Independence
20. Harshness of life on the frontier
21. Hardy breed in the highlands
22. Administering the law on the frontier
23. Native Americans of the South East
24. Frontier community pioneers at Watauga
25. Scots-Irish loyalists in the American Revolution by DR. BOBBY GILMER MOSS
26. Typical Ulster families in the Carolinas
27. Presbyterianism in the Carolina highlands
28. Ulster victims of the potato famine
29. The best Carolina cultural and musical tradition
30. Co. Down colonies in Virginia, and South Carolina
Author’s acknowledgments
Bibliography and references consulted
Pictures and illustrations Index
ISBN: 1840300116
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