This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Montgomery Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EJB.2ACE/551 Message Board Post: Has anyone ever heard of an area called New Scotland....it is suppose to be the area about 30 miles east of Natchez and the area around the rivers that feed into the Homochitto River? I grew up in Brookhaven, which is close to, but not in that area, I was amazed when I came across something mentioning it...It said that in the 1790s or so that so many Scottish, fresh off the boat, and Scottish born in NC came to this area that it became known as New Scotland...I was surprised, growing up down there, never to have heard this...I guess it does explain why we are so stubborn when we are right! gail