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