If I remember what I gleaned from some info a few years back, that my Quaker ancestors moved from the Ireland Scotland area and back to England and over to America.. It has been a number of years since I researched these lines, but I remember that they used a strange route. Marlene On Mar 1, 2010, at 8:43 PM, Montgomery Michael wrote: > Hello Linda > > Your recent exposition, with many links, on indentured servants is a > posting to be kept, and I have printed it off and put it securely into > my box of "indentured servant" materials.  One statement that you made > in particular caught my eye, which is about the estimate of 90% of the > early settlers in some parts of Virginia being from Ulster.  You say > "it is estimated," but by whom?  I cannot use this information without > a source.  Is it from Leyburn?  And which parts of Virginia? > > Michael > > --- On Wed, 2/3/10, [email protected] > <[email protected]> wrote: > From: [email protected] > <[email protected]> > Subject: SCOTCH-IRISH Digest, Vol 5, Issue 13 > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 3:01 AM > > Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 14:57:51 +0000 (UTC) > From: [email protected] > Subject: [S-I] Indentured Servants > To: List <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > > Hi folks, > > I am forwarding on the URL for this website although it does not > directly relate to the so-called "Scotch-Irish" who supposedly > evacuated from Ulster, not London. My reasons are that so many came > over that they dominated an area of the Americans that is roughly the > size of Europe. We call this area today, roughly, "Appalachia". What > this dominance means, according to the books I've read, such as > Leyburn's "The Scotch-Irish", is that their culture predominated. We > are all familiar with cultural dominance. It is like when anyone comes > here: the immigrant generation talks funny, dresses funny, has funny > customs, eats funny food, but the children are indistinguishable from > children 'born here' to native Americans -- they eat American food, > they talk American, they dress American, they have American values, > etc. The same works for migrants to Australia, England, France, > Mongolia....where-ever. Small groups or families moving into a larger > culture tend to > assimilate into the large!. > > So while there are areas of Virginia where it is estimated 90% of the > early settlers originated in Ulster, there is the 10%. And in some > areas the percentage is believed to be much higher. But they all > became "Scotch-Irish", which is actually the name of an American > ethnic group, not an Ulster one.... > > ... > > Linda Merle > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >