Remains Of John Lewis

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John Lewis is buried at Bellefonte, Augusta, Virginia

Settled Near Brandywine Creek

. Memoirs of Ann [Baker] Carson (published in 1822):

Partial Map - Brandywine Creek, Delaware (LOC)

James McCutchen, a native of Ireland, emigrated to America and settled near Brandywine Creek in Delaware, afterwards removing to Philadelphia.

"Captain Thomas Baker (Born in England) and Jane McCutcheon (Born in Ireland) met in Philadelphia in the late 1700s and had a son James McCutcheon Baker. Everything listed below stems from them. We have no information on Captain Thomas Baker other than he was born in England 1758 and died of yellow fever in 1820." [Message Board]

McMillan Genealogy

 "McMillan genealogy and] history; a record of the descendants of John McMillan and Mary Arnott, his wife, who were born and married in Scotland, removed to the north of Ireland and thence to Washington County, New York, about the middle of the eighteenth century":

See John McMillan (1)'s profile at Wikitree.

City Of Cork

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A reference to a Power in Ireland:

The present Earl of Clancarty claims descent from Ellena McCarthy, daughter of Cormac Og, Lord Muskerry, who died in 1640, and who was married to David Power his ancestor. 

Plight Of The Irish Onboard

Passage from New York to Savannah (circa 1850):

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Who? Scotch Irish Pioneers In Maryland

Owls At The Salisbury Zoo In Wicomico County, Maryland

Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America,  By Charles Knowles Bolton

"Before 1690 there were three and perhaps four congregations in Somerset County which then included Worcester County, Maryland with their meetinghouses at Snow Hill (1684 ), Manokin, Wicomico and Rehoboth. These places lie south of the present southern boundary of Delaware."

History Of The Clan Donald

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Gaelic Letters

Filidh na coille,  By John MacLean, Alexander Maclean Sinclair

Social History Of Ancient Ireland

A Social History of Ancient Ireland: Treating of the Government ..., Volume 1,  By Patrick Weston Joyce:

Divided Into Tribes And Clans

A Smaller Social History of Ancient Ireland...., By Patrick Weston Joyce:

Of Sceptred Race

"Of Sceptred Race,"  By Annah Robinson Watson:

Margaret Atheling was one who was mentioned in this book.  She married Malcolm Canmore, King of Scotland.  What caught my attention was this:  "(Malcolm's) long line of royal ancestors....(included) Heremon, King of Ireland...who it is claimed married the Princess Tea-Tephi, a direct descendant of King David of Israel."

Lament For Arthur O'Leary

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"He [Arthur O'Leary] had been an officer in the Hungarian service and was married to a daughter of Daniel O'Connel [Eileen*] of Derrynane (grandfather to the Liberator). On his becoming a resident in Ireland, his influence over the peasantry of his old patrimonial district excited the jealousy of Mr. [Abraham] Morris... ."

"Two men were placed in ambuscade...who, on O'Leary's approach, fired at him." "Another shot from the soldiers laid him dead on the road."

"It seems that Morris was tried in Cork for O'Leary's death, but was acquitted. The relatives of the deceased, animated now by wild feelings of revenge, watched their opportunity [7 July 1773]...".

*--Eibhlín Dhubh Ní Chonaill (ca 1743-1800)

Reminiscences Of Sir Charles Alexander Cameron

Sir Charles Alexander Cameron of Dublin described "A Link Between Me And The Battle Of Culloden...":

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My ancestors were adherents of the Royal Family of Stuart; and although my father fought for King George III, and received eight wounds in his service (a French bullet and an American bullet accompanying him to his grave).....

Henry Hamilton's Background

From Henry Hamilton and George Rogers Clark in the American Revolution, with the unpublished Journal of Henry Hamilton:

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First, he was a descendant of a noble Scottish family with a record of service in government and in the army which dates back to the time of Mary Queen of Scots. Secondly, he was an army man in the French and
Indian War.... . He was also an office-holder, for he served first as lieutenant-governor of Detroit and then of Quebec, and as governor of Bermuda and finally of Dominica.

If his family is traced back to the fifteenth century, a Sir James Hamilton is found, who was the husband of Mary, a sister of James III of Scotland and a great-great-aunt of Mary Queen of Scots.

The educational opportunities offered to Henry were those which might be expected in a family such as his. He wrote that his mother encouraged him to read works of travel, history, and literature; that a French teacher corrected his pronunciation; and that he spent his vacations in learning to fence, draw, and dance.
In school he was often flogged, and, although he was frank enough to say that he always deserved the punishment, he decided to join the forces rather than submit to continued embarrassment.

His army life began at the age of twenty-one when he received a commission as an ensign in the Fifteenth Regiment of Foot. As a young officer he traveled over Ireland, Wales, and England, and a little later in Canada and the American Colonies.


Harvard University holds some of Henry Hamilton's papers.

"Hamilton married Elizabeth Lee... . They had only one child, Mary Anne Pierpoint Hamilton, who died unmarried on 1871 Dec. 12. Hamilton died in 1796 at Antigua while still holding office."

Ulstermen To Coastal America

Pioneers of the Old Southwest:...

Twenty thousand Ulstermen, it is estimated, left Ireland for America in the first three decades of the eighteenth century. More than six thousand of them are known to have entered Pennsylvania in 1729 alone,
and twenty years later they numbered one-quarter of that colony's population. During the five years preceding the Revolutionary War more than thirty thousand Ulstermen crossed the ocean and arrived in America just in time and in just the right frame of mind to return King George's compliment in kind, by helping to deprive him of his American estates, a domain very much larger than the acres of Ulster.

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The Ulstermen who entered by Charleston were known to the inhabitants of the tidewater regions as the "Scotch-Irish." Those who came from the north, lured southward by the offer of cheap lands, were called the
"Pennsylvania Irish." Both were, however, of the same race--a race twice expatriated, first from Scotland and then from Ireland, and stripped of all that it had won throughout more than a century of persecution. To these exiles the Back Country of North Carolina, with its cheap and even free tracts lying far from the seat of government, must have seemed not only the Land of Promise but the Land of Last Chance.

The drumming of their feet along the banks of the Shenandoah, or up the rivers from Charleston, and on through the broad sweep of the Yadkin Valley, was a conquering people's challenge to the Wilderness which lay sleeping like an unready sentinel at the gates of their Future.

Foreigners In Spanish Texas In 1804

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From Lots of Land:

In 1804, according to Mrs. Hatcher, there were sixty-eight foreigners living in Spanish Texas, of whom fifty had been there more than three years. Thirteen of them were Americans, among them William Barr and Samuel Davenport. There were nine Frenchmen and eight Irishmen living at Nacogdoches. None of

them held land titles from the Spanish, nor did Gil Ybarbo and his clan. But they were there, with deep roots in the soil, and they were never budged, not even twenty-odd years later when a foreign empresario sought to evict them.

See It Was Americans Who Broke Through from the same source at Relatively Fiction.

Filidh

The Dublin Saga, from Edward Rutherfurd's The Princes of Ireland series:

"There were three classes of learned men on the island.  The humblest were the bards, the storytellers who would entertain the company at a feast; of a higher class entirely were the filidh, guardians of the genealogies, makers of poetry, and even sometimes prophesy; but above them both, and more fearsome, were the druids."


Now I know what at least one word means!:

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Muse Of History

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From The Irishman in Canada (1877):

"No source of education open to a people ought to be so fruitful as the story of their own country. But if it is to teach and correct and inspire it must be true. The muse of history [Clio] is the purest of all the Nine... ."

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Scots Of Erin

Source: Directory To Ireland

From The Irishman in Canada (1877):

"Early in our era the Scots of Erin colonised the west coast of Scotland and the adjacent islands."

"They acted with their friends in North Britain against the Roman and in the reign of Constantine's successor the Irish and Picts... ."

"There was a time when Clann nan Guidheal an guaillibha a cheile did not mean merely that a handful of Camerons or of Mackays or of Macdonalds should yoke themselves firmly together in crossing a burn or tracking a morass; far less did it teach that a small body of Celts was to be compacted together for purposes of offence towards another body of Celts."

"Even in the matter of war it is notorious how the Irish bore so brave a hand with the Highlanders in resisting the Danes, a fact of which the mixture of Irish and Scottish names and some of the confusion of Scottish and Irish history are the natural results. There is not a corner in our Scottish Highlands there is hardly a pedigree of an old Highland family which does not bear out this remark."

Le Poers (Powers)

From The Irishman in Canada (1877):

...we owe to the Normans the Clanrickards, the Butlers, the Le Poers (Powers), and many others who came afterwards....

Were my Powers ancestors originally Normans?  At my request, my brother submitted his DNA for genealogical purposes.  A partial explanation of the results:

Here are the results of my brother Dan's POWERS DNA test (37 markers).  Dan's results are most closely linked to...[brothers] both born in Ireland... .

Speculation about our Powers line is piggybacked on the research of  the Irish Power brothers:

"I think that all Waterford Powers go back to Blackborough, Devon, England, and to one of the six persons by name 'le Poher' who came as part of the Norman Invasion. They were the four brothers - Sir Robert, Sir Roger, Simon and William - and their two cousins, Henry and John. The four brothers were sons of Bartholomew, Lord of Blackborough." [It is believed that their line goes back to William].