Ken, Thank you for your helpful information. It is appreciated. By the way, My Thomas Dinsmore (b. 1704-d. 1748 in Hollis, NH per GS, histories of Hollis, etc.) was reputed to have been a weaver. Didn't you report the same occupation of your William Dinsmore ancestor a while back? --Ann Ann McRoden Mensch, Genealogist-Researching at The Allen County Public Library *** http://home.att.net/~mensch-family/Resume.htm Ann's Temple, NH Genealogy & History http://home.att.net/~mensch-family/Temple-NH.htm Ann's Hollis, NH Genealogy & History http://home.att.net/~mensch-family/HollisNH.htm Ann's Royalston, MA Genealogy & History http://home.att.net/~mensch-family/worcester.htm McRoden-Mensch Family Home Page http://home.att.net/~mensch-family/ Ken Poole wrote: > A little more on early Boston Immigration > After the initial planting of Northern Ireland in 1610 those who had come > from Scotland, now called Ulster men in Northern Ireland, Scotch-Irish by > historians and just Irish by North Americans started to migrate to North > America as early as 1636. There was an attempt to emigrate on the ship > Eagle Wing on September 9, 1636. A Company of 140 persons, led by the > Clerk Robert Blair, set sail for Boston from Groomsport on Belfast Lough. > The trip was enlivened with one newborn named Seaborn, but severe storms > and a leaky hull, close to the banks of Newfoundland, convinced this > group that these were signs from God to return to Northern Ireland, which > they did, making port November 3, 1636. > By 1670 emigration was once again underway with the major ports being New > Castle Delaware/Philadelphia and Charleston, South Carolina. The first > major migration to Boston was in 1714 when five ships arrived, two more > in 1715, six in 1717 and fifteen in 1718, ten in 1719 and thirteen more > in 1720. All told, that between 1714 and 1720, 54 vessels landed in > Boston. > 4 August 1718 five small ships bearing 120 Scotch-Irish arrived at Boston > from the River Bann area of Northern Ireland. These contingents of > Scotch-Irish became the initial three groups that settled Massachusetts, > New Hampshire and Maine. 50 of these families were sent to settle > Worcester County. Others eventually settled the towns of Pelham, Warren > and Blandford, Mass. Another group left Boston and went north to settle > in Maine, spent a winter at the mouth of the Merrimac River, followed the > river to Dracut, Mass and eventually in 1719 settled Londonderry then > called Nutfield with 70families. > Londonderry so prospered that by 1734 church records show 700 > communicants present at the sacrament. Londonderry spawned such stock > that six Governors of New Hampshire, nine members of Congress and five > justices of the Supreme Court of the State were to trace their homes > there. Communities from Londonderry spread throughout Rockingham, > Hillsboro and Merrimac counties in New Hampshire. At least ten distinct > communities were comprised of settlers from Londonderry, all of which > became important towns. Numerous families moved northward and westward > over the Green Mountains joining other Scot-Irish groups that moved north > from the Worcester settlement settling along the Connecticut River in > Vermont and New Hampshire. > > ==== DUNSMOOR Mailing List ==== > How to unsubscribe. Send a message to [email protected] > that contains (in the body of the message) the command > unsubscribe > and no additional text.