This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EJB.2ACE/551.1 Message Board Post: Hi Gail, I've been researching the area for some time and I'm not familiar with New Scotland. Very few Scots fresh off the boat came to the MS Territory. The majority arrived in the Carolinas and other eastern ports and, typically, their children made their way west. Some stopped off in Georgia or Alabama and, as the west continued to open, they moved on to the MS Southwest Territory or, sometimes, it was their children who came. Several of my lines converged at the Scottish Settlement of Union Church in Jefferson County in the early to mid-1800's. Many were second generation Scots from North Carolina, a few were third generation English from VA, SC and GA. I know the location is not the one you referred to, but take a look at my "History of the Scotch Settlement" page and see if this might not be what people were talking about: http://www.geocities.com/twincousin2334/History_Scotch_Settlement.html Nancy, researching in SW MS: Baldridge, Carmichael, Courtney, Curtis, Dawkins, Garrett, McCormick, Osborne, Stampley, Stringer, Warren