This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------4DC9A38660587E1E42D231DD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------4DC9A38660587E1E42D231DD Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 09:29:06 -0700 From: Jennifer Ryan <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] X-Mozilla-Draft-Info: internal/draft; vcard=0; receipt=0; uuencode=0; html=0; linewidth=0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: STEWARTSTOWN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I want to thank everyone for their invaluable input on the question of Coventaners/Dissenters and the Scotch Irish in America. I trust noone minds my using these lists as a sounding board to verify the accuracy of my information, it is invaluable to me as a researcher. I have another very important area to research that is the basis of my question regarding Covenanters and Dissenters. Briefly, in 1682, Henry, Lord Cardross and more than thirty other Scots (the history actually writes Scotchmen!!!! but I will avoid that pitfall this time) authorised by the Lords Proprieters (a group of noblemen loyal to the Stuart cause) set sail on a ship called the Carolina Merchant to found a settlement in South Carolina they called StuartsTown. The ship also transported a group of Covenanters from the toll booths of Edinburgh and Glasgow. The reason I am extremely interested in locating whatever PRIMARY source material may still exist in the form of journals etc is that these men and women as well, I presume, all came from that corner of the northeast known now as Kincardine and Angus. They included a Urie, presumably from the Stonehaven area? I am making the assumption that Cardross was Erskine of the House of Dun? there is supposedly a `Journal' written of the venture, which proved illfated - does anyone know where it may be located? If anyone has any insights to offer on this ill starred colonial venture, which indirectly led to the Panama Disaster - I would be happy to hear from you. Again, thanks for your valuable input. Jennifer Guthrie Ryan --------------4DC9A38660587E1E42D231DD--