Good article at the link below *The Migration of the Scots-Irish to Southwestern NC http://www.scottishtartans.org/ulster.html **by Matthew A. C. Newsome, curator of the Scottish Tartans Museum * ©2001 Matt Newsome mirrored at albanach.org/ulster.html <http://albanach.org/ulster.html> / for information on reproducing this article, please contact the author/ *Southern Scotland in the 16th Century * To follow the route of the Scots-Irish people, we must look at the path taken by their church, the Presbyterian Church. And to better understand the culture and mind set of these immigrants, we must be aware of the history of their church. Scotland was first Christianized in the 5th and 6th centuries by great men of the church such as St. Columba, St. Kintigern, St. Ninian, etc. It was part of the Catholic Church for its entire Christian history up until the turbulent times of the 1500s. While the Reformation swept Europe and Protestantism took hold in England, there was initially very little support for Protestantism in Scotland. The Auld Alliance with France was still strong, and France was a very Catholic nation. This alliance was seen by many Scottish nobles as an unbalanced one, and it was a thorn in the side of the English, as we shall see later. When one reads of the Reformation in Scotland, the common complaints against the Church are that it was overly rich in its lands and overly corrupt in its clergy. To have a balanced look, one must also consider that this is the church whose many religious orders in Scotland had no property, owned no land, and subsisted on donations only. *edited*** *Bibliography * Blethen, H. Tyler and Curtis W. Wood Jr. /From Ulster to Carolina: The Migration of the Scotch-Irish to Southwestern North Carolina./ NC Dept of Cultural Resources Division of Archives and History. Raleigh, NC: 1998. Carroll, Warren H. /The Cleaving of Christendom: A History of Christendom Vol. 4. / Christendom Press. Front Royal, VA: 2000. Kennedy, Billy. /The Scots-Irish in the Carolinas/. Causway Press. Greenville, SC: 1997. Leyburn, James G. /The Scotch-Irish: A Social History/. University of NC Press. Chapel Hill, NC. 1962. All material on this site ©1994-2005 Scottish Tartans Museum 86 East Main St. * Franklin NC 29734 * (828)524-7472 * tartans@scottishtartans.org <mailto:tartans@scottishtartans.org> -- Faugh A Ballagh Lámh Dhearg Abú *Tha Hamely Tongue:-* Houl yer whist - keep quiet / don`t butt in Ye hallion - you tearaway Skreigh o day - crack of dawn / day Scundered - fed up -- Faugh A Ballagh Lámh Dhearg Abú *Tha Hamely Tongue:-* Houl yer whist - keep quiet / don`t butt in Ye hallion - you tearaway Skreigh o day - crack of dawn / day Scundered - fed up <http://fta.firetrust.com/index.cgi?id=7520&page=1>

Don't profess to know anything about the Colonial experience, and it might be a good article in that context. However the Church history is not very good. A simple example, the Church of Knox was not Presbyterian, and the reason why Irish Presbyterianism was different from the Church of Scotland up to 1638 was that the Church of Scotland was Episcopalian, while Irish Presbyterianism had imported a number of ideas from the (also Calvinist English Independents). The analysis of the situation of the pre Reformation Church is also rather deficient As I say, the Colonial period might be OK, it's not my thing, but I think that I would fail the bit about Southern Scotland in the 16th Century if it were an undergraduate essay. Edward Andrews -----Original Message----- From: Alan [mailto:alan@ulster-scots.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 2:39 PM To: Scotch-Irish-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [Sc-Ir] The Migration of the Scots-Irish to Southwestern NC Good article at the link below *The Migration of the Scots-Irish to Southwestern NC http://www.scottishtartans.org/ulster.html **by Matthew A. C. Newsome, curator of the Scottish Tartans Museum * ©2001 Matt Newsome mirrored at albanach.org/ulster.html <http://albanach.org/ulster.html> / for information on reproducing this article, please contact the author/ *Southern Scotland in the 16th Century * To follow the route of the Scots-Irish people, we must look at the path taken by their church, the Presbyterian Church. And to better understand the culture and mind set of these immigrants, we must be aware of the history of their church. Scotland was first Christianized in the 5th and 6th centuries by great men of the church such as St. Columba, St. Kintigern, St. Ninian, etc. It was part of the Catholic Church for its entire Christian history up until the turbulent times of the 1500s. While the Reformation swept Europe and Protestantism took hold in England, there was initially very little support for Protestantism in Scotland. The Auld Alliance with France was still strong, and France was a very Catholic nation. This alliance was seen by many Scottish nobles as an unbalanced one, and it was a thorn in the side of the English, as we shall see later. When one reads of the Reformation in Scotland, the common complaints against the Church are that it was overly rich in its lands and overly corrupt in its clergy. To have a balanced look, one must also consider that this is the church whose many religious orders in Scotland had no property, owned no land, and subsisted on donations only. *edited*** *Bibliography * Blethen, H. Tyler and Curtis W. Wood Jr. /From Ulster to Carolina: The Migration of the Scotch-Irish to Southwestern North Carolina./ NC Dept of Cultural Resources Division of Archives and History. Raleigh, NC: 1998. Carroll, Warren H. /The Cleaving of Christendom: A History of Christendom Vol. 4. / Christendom Press. Front Royal, VA: 2000. Kennedy, Billy. /The Scots-Irish in the Carolinas/. Causway Press. Greenville, SC: 1997. Leyburn, James G. /The Scotch-Irish: A Social History/. University of NC Press. Chapel Hill, NC. 1962. All material on this site ©1994-2005 Scottish Tartans Museum 86 East Main St. * Franklin NC 29734 * (828)524-7472 * tartans@scottishtartans.org <mailto:tartans@scottishtartans.org> -- Faugh A Ballagh Lámh Dhearg Abú *Tha Hamely Tongue:-* Houl yer whist - keep quiet / don`t butt in Ye hallion - you tearaway Skreigh o day - crack of dawn / day Scundered - fed up -- Faugh A Ballagh Lámh Dhearg Abú *Tha Hamely Tongue:-* Houl yer whist - keep quiet / don`t butt in Ye hallion - you tearaway Skreigh o day - crack of dawn / day Scundered - fed up <http://fta.firetrust.com/index.cgi?id=7520&page=1>