http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/2067.htm Scots-Irish Description: This large and informative overview of the history of the Scots-Irish outlines the most noteworthy events of Scottish history. Use this database to acquaint yourself with this group as they appear in North Britain, North Ireland, and North America. The record mentions many prominent Scots-Irish individuals in the revolutionary war and other parts of American history, as well as lengthy discussions of the Great Plantation of Ulster. THE SCOTCH-IRISH OR THE SCOT IN NORTH BRITAIN, NORTH IRELAND, AND NORTH AMERICA CHAPTER I THE SCOTCH-IRISH AND THE REVOLUTION: North Carolina Line, nine regiments: 1st, Colonels James Moore and Francis Nash; 2d, Colonels Robert Howe and Alexander Martin; 3d, Colonel Jethro Sumner; 4th, Colonel Thomas Polk; 5th, Colonel John A. Lillington; 6th, Colonel Edward Buncombe; 7th, Colonel James Hogan; 8th, Colonel James Armstrong; 9th, Colonel Abraham Shephard page 25 Proceeding to analyze the list of the other generals created during the Revolutionary period, we further find as of probable Scottish blood: John Armstrong (Pa.) CHAPTER III THE SCOTCH-IRISH IN AMERICAN POLITICS In the Presidents' Cabinets, the Scotch have been represented as Secretaries of War, Henry Knox, James McHenry, John Armstrong... CHAPTER XII WHO ARE THE SCOTCH-IRISH? page 167 Another strong proof of the Scottish blood of the Ulstermen may be found by taking the annual reports presented to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ireland, held in June, 1887. Here are the names of the men, lay and clerical, who sign these reports, the names being taken as they occur: J. W. Whigham, Jackson Smith, Hamilton Magee, Thomas Armstrong... CHAPTER XX FROM MALCOLM CANMORE TO KING DAVID page 328 The list of lowland clans, amounting in all to thirty-nine, if it is authentic, which is very doubtful, as given in the recently published MS. of Bishop Leslie, who wrote during the reign of Queen Mary, shows that the greater number were of Saxon or Norman extraction. The following is the list: Armstrong... CHAPTER XXXIII THE SCOTTISH PLANTATION OF DOWN AND ANTRIM John Adair, Thomas Aiken, Widow Alexander, William Alexander, Robert Allan, Andrew Anderson, James Anderson, James Anderson's widow, Robert Anderson, James Aniston, William Armstrong... CHAPTER XXXVIII LONDONDERRY AND ENNISKILLEN Alexander Acheson, Francis Aldrich, Daniel Armstrong, John Armstrong, Martin Armstrong, Thomas Armstrong...