Hi Joan, check the exact location where they lived. There was an early Scots colony in New Jersey. I learned this in a book by Dobson. It is on the CD: " Scottish Immigrants to North America, 1600s-1800s. The Collected Works of David Dobson. Volume One ." Though I have the book. His work is invaluable for distinguishing between the Scots and the Scotch Irish as well as various types of Scots who manifested in English colonies. Some willingly, some not. The worse news was that apparently the Scots engaged in a brisk illegal trade business. Often the product was tobacco, which was loaded from tiny dockings on the Chesapeake. Meaning there are no records of who lived there illegally or who jumped off the boat. Linda Merle ----- Original Message ----- From: JYoung6180@aol.com To: scotch-irish@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 6:40:57 PM Subject: Re: [S-I] Free indexes Further on this same topic...in South Jersey I have run into some DENNYs and CLARKs that seem to puzzle their descendants because it had been assumed (and still is by many) that both were Scotch-Irish but when you look at who they married and the churches they belonged to you find they ALWAYS married Swedes and almost always belonged to Lutheran and Moravian Churches frequented by the Swedes and Germans. Joan In a message dated 12/29/2011 6:36:35 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, JYoung6180@aol.com writes: The same goes for MARTIN -- I found as many German MARTINs as I did Scotch-Irish...and York County, PA is a melting pot where you will find both...so never ASSume. There are also Swedish COOKs! Many of the Jersey COOKs were Early Swedes who descend from a COCK (the ship's cook...when the immigrants adopted an "alias" because they didn't have an actual surname they often used their occupation for their surname). Joan ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message