For those pursuing the 1718-1719 Scotch-Irish emigration to Boston or Philadelphia from Ireland, I have one ship which has two documented voyages from Londonderry, Ireland. The MACCALLUM arrived at Boston from Londonderry with 100 passengers 2 Sept 1718, (Capt. James Law). The MACCALLUM arrived at Philadelphia from Londonderry with passengers and servants 15 Oct 1719, (Capt. Linn). The large contingency aboard the Maccallum to Boston was led by James Woodside, Presbyterian minister. These settlers went directly to Casco Bay (Maine). Sources thus far are not able to address the problematic migration problem from New England to Pennsylvania. Hopefully, someone on this list will be able to make a breakthrough with a positive I.D. showing their ancestor's move to the Penn Colony. I am not familiar with any overland migrations during the period in question, but there was "The Boston Post Road" which ran from New York to Boston starting in 1673. This was a two week trip by horseback and had 3 routes and was constantly used for mail. There is a lot of local history publications for Pennshylvania counties and townships on Google Books. Lee Ramsey

In mentioning the MACCALLUM, Lee, you have in fact named one of *the* five famous ships who arrived in the Boston harbor with nearly 700 Ulster Presbyterians, along with their ministers; this began a further emigration of 2,600 more in the following two years and up to another 250,000 in the next half century. These were those who would become known as the Scotch-Irish. The MACCALLUM was well used! You will see the names of all five ships (which, given their passengers' impact on a nation, should in my estimation share at least some fame with the Mayflower) at <http://www.1718migration.org.uk/s_theirArrival.asp>. For those researching their Scotch-Irish families who arrived in 1718, or in the following years, will find this whole website great reading. It's a site hard to leave alone once begun. Thanks for your info about that Boston Post Road. One does wonder about details like what roads there would have been by the early 18th c—so you've provide one answer. What about to the Philly area? Did people travel inland or was it more by sea? Records often refer to the Casco Bay people (at least the men) walking out of Maine in the spring. Supposedly there were well-established Indian trails that would make that possible to get them to Haverhill and from there to the site of Nutfield. This is the point at which it was said, in that quotation that began this thread, that many of the Casco group decided not to stay any longer in the north and headed to PA. As Linda puts it, she doesn't understand why they didn't all didn't head to PA! :-) Ruth On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Lee K. Ramsey <[email protected]> wrote: > > For those pursuing the 1718-1719 Scotch-Irish emigration to Boston or > Philadelphia from Ireland, I have one ship which has two documented voyages > from Londonderry, Ireland. > > The MACCALLUM arrived at Boston from Londonderry with 100 passengers 2 Sept > 1718, (Capt. James Law). > > The MACCALLUM arrived at Philadelphia from Londonderry with passengers and > servants 15 Oct 1719, (Capt. Linn). > > The large contingency aboard the Maccallum to Boston was led by James > Woodside, Presbyterian minister. These settlers went directly to Casco Bay > (Maine). > > Sources thus far are not able to address the problematic migration problem > from New England to Pennsylvania.  Hopefully, someone on this list will be > able to make a breakthrough with a positive I.D. showing their ancestor's > move to the Penn Colony. > > I am not familiar with any overland migrations during the period in > question, but there was "The Boston Post Road" which ran from New York to > Boston starting in 1673.  This was a two week trip by horseback and had 3 > routes and was constantly used for mail. > > There is a lot of local history publications for Pennshylvania counties and > townships on Google Books. > > Lee Ramsey