Overview of the Immigration Patterns of Scot Irish The following history will help some researchers get perhaps a better grip on just when their Dinsmore might have come to America and what were the contributing factors at that time. Hope you enjoy. 1636 -1714-These settlers paved the way for the mass migrations to follow, filled with fear and apprehension they left family, farms and for most all that they knew, to be followed by thousands more who felt there was no other choice. They landed in Boston, Philadelphia, Charleston and New Castle, Delaware. Boston records showed fifty-five ships in six years, one with 200 passengers, another with 150. In the years 1714-16 the ships Robert, William, and William & Mary landed in Boston all carrying settlers from Northern Ireland's River Bann area. It is thought that the Londonderry contingent came in the ship Robert. Most paid their passage in Sterling in Ireland making them unindentured. 7 Ships were at Belfast carrying off one thousand people (140 settlers +/- per boat) and in July of that year, twenty five ships were stated to have already left or were preparing to leave the port of Londonderry for American with 3,500 emigrants. 5000 settlers, including 3,500 from Ulster, are said to have landed in America from Ireland between 1725 and 1727 in vessels and conditions little different from slave ships. Of those emigrants who were Protestant, two thirds came from Ulster County. However, only 1 of 6 Scot-Irish emigrants landed in New England, the majority of them landed in New York, Philadelphia, New Castle, Virginia and Charleston, South Carolina. 1729-68-It is estimated that Ulster lost a quarter of her population that had been engaged in manufacturing, (Linen Weaving) and the Presbyterian population declined by one half between 1729-1775. It is thought that 3000 to 6000 migrated annually from 1725 to 1768. Driven by famine they came to Philadelphia and southern ports in droves. Over 400,000 persons died in Ireland during 1740-41. Those with farms under 30 acres were especially vulnerable to the potato blight. They now went to the rich farmlands of Shenadoah Valley and opened out toward North and South Carolina. Mathew Clark of the Route came to Boston in 1729. 1768-1800 It is estimated that 200,000 people migrated in the last half of the century. Ships from Londonderry, Belfast, Newry, Larne and Portrush whose total tonnage fully equaled the number of emigrants they carried landed at more southern ports. 1800-1850-The crop failures of 1830's left many in Ireland destitute, this was the source of the mass migration so commonly known to American Culture. Particularly hard hit were farmers with under 30 acre farms. Reasearch has shown that the famine didn't need to happen, there was enough food, it was being shipped to England for financial gain, and the government had no policy to help those in need. By the 1790 Census the numbers of Scotch-Irish are estimated to be somewhere between 200,000 and 550,000 depending how the nationality of a Scottish or Irish names was assigned.