I got this from your site, about a week ago. It was about moving around this country in the early Days...Roy 1. Motivations of original colonial ancestors> THE ENGLISH 1. Social and economic dislocation, caused in part by pressure on feudal system by inflation resulting from vast amount of new gold and silver introduced through Spain. > 2. Political rivalry between a recently strengthen England and Spain. > 3. Richard Hakluyt's "Discourse of Western Planting" provides an > intellectual rationale for colonizing both in Ireland and the New World. > 4. Religious upheaval in England encourages various groups to leave. > 5. The success of Francis Drake leads englishmen to perceive of the New World as a land of instant riches, thus serving as a catalyst for > colonization. > 6. Development of joint stock companies provides economic base for > colonization (think the Jamestown-Virginia Stock Co, pocahontas timeframe). > 7. Failure of the Spanish Armada gives English greater confidence. > Plus more >Resent-Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 18:08:43 -0700 >X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Thu Aug 3 18:08:43 2000 >X-Sender: [email protected] >Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 19:13:12 -0600 >Old-To: [email protected] >From: Nancy Cluff Siders <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [SACKETT-L] Re: From another list >To: SACKETT-L >Resent-From: [email protected] >Reply-To: [email protected] >X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/2662 >X-Loop: [email protected] >Resent-Sender: [email protected] > > >Roy, > >I too found the article you shared thought provoking. I'd >love to know the source of the information. Do you think you >could ask the list from which you secured the article to see >if the original sender would share the source. I'd like to >read the article/book? in its entirety. > >It's interesting about the Scotch-Irish moving so much. That's >exactly what the family of McKAY's did of which Alexander McKAY >and his wife Mary SACKETT descended. They hopscotched between >MA, CT, PA, and NY so many times. Alexander and Mary were at >the Battle of Wyoming, PA and skirted back we think to CT then >died in western NY. > >I agree with Sandy. Before we can get very far in genealogy, we >need to understand what was going on historically during the >period. That's why I love all of Chris and Thurmon's work. > >And I won't pick on Thurmon..., he's got a good point. I wish Blanche >and Harry were home from their summer research trip to get their >reactions. > >Later...Nancy >List Admin > > > > > >==== SACKETT Mailing List ==== >Tried the RootsWeb Archives and Search Engine on the Web yet...? > http://lists.rootsweb.com/~archiver/lists/ > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > >============================== >Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. >RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: >http://pml.rootsweb.com/