--part1_5f.928a026.26c9e42e_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi lists, I received this from another list I belong to, and thought is most appropriate to all names. Myrna In a message dated 8/14/2000 4:45:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time, CSCUNC@aol.com writes: << Would anyone care to hazzard a guess as to the populations of the largest towns in Ulster in the census of 1659? We live in country with a population approching 275 million people and it is difficult to think of a society where the largest town has fewer people than good sized suburban neighborhood. Well here are the populations of the eight LARGEST towns in Ulster according to Jonathan Bardon's "History of Ulster," page 146. Derry (population 1,052); Carrickfergus (962), Coleraine (633), Belfast (589), Armagh (409), Lisburn (357), Downpatrick (308), and Enniskillen (210). What this tells the researcher is when you can tie a specific person to a definite location in the 1600's in Ireland you are on the something. These settlers who came from Scotland and served on the various plantations for the benefit of the Lord Montgomery's and Hamiltons, and Colquhouns for the most part were soldiers or merchants and they came one by one, had families and hung around unless they were killed during the many uprisings and famines. How many different distinct genealogical lines made up the poulation of Belfast consdering there were 589 people in total. The probability of there being several unrelated lines of any one family is quite small. We think of the great migration to Pennsylvania in much the same light. History books tell us that THOUSANDS came in relentless waves on never ending ships, one after another. Listen to what Bardon says on page 177 of the same work: This migration across the Atlantic got under way just at the time that the coming of Scots into Ulster had almost completely ceased. Catholics had neither the resources nor the inclination to go to colonies, which were in any case overwhelmingly Protestant. The momentum of Presbyterian emigration gathered pace -around 3,500 left Ulster between 1725 and 1727-to reach a peak in 1728-9. Thomas Whitney, a seaman waiting to sail from Larne Lough, wrote in July 1728: "Here are a vast number of people shipping off for Pennsylvania and Boston, here are three ships at Larne, five at Derry, two at Coleraine, three at Belfast, and four at Sligo." This gives an idea from where they left and to where they were going during the precise time the Walkers and Cowans were alleged to have sailed. Three thosand or five thosand, still what we would call a village-this great wave of humanity wouldn't fill a decent high school football stadium on a nice Friday evening. We are a tight group-this little band of warriors. >> --part1_5f.928a026.26c9e42e_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <COWAN-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-za01.mx.aol.com (rly-za01.mail.aol.com [172.31.36.97]) by air-za05.mail.aol.com (v75_b3.11) with ESMTP; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 19:45:41 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lis