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Locations of Early Scots-Irish

 
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More research submitted by Bill McKeen of the Maine Ulster-Scots Project. Please be aware that this is a work in progress. If you have any information to share or to add to this research, please post it or email Bill at bill@minutemansigns.com.

LOCATIONS OF EARLY SCOTS IRISH WHO SETTLED EASTERN AMERICA AND DID NOT GO SOUTH:
Ulster Immigration to Colonial America, R. J. Dickson, pg 20
Before 1718 only a trickle of Scots-Irish immigrated, maybe only a few hundred.


NEW HAMPSHIRE:
Londonderry / MacGregor

MASSACHUSETTS:
Worcester / MacGregor

MAINE:
Brunswick / Topsham / Freeport by Dummer
Cork / Kennebec by Temple
Damariscotta / Boothbay by Dunbar
Falmouth by MacGregor
Ulster Immigration to Colonial America, R. J. Dickson, pg 22
James Woodside, a Presbyterian minister led one of the largest cpmpanies of immigrants, their numbers being variously stated as 100-160 persons. These immigrants sailed from Londondery in the McCallom (Other sources name this ship the Robert) and arrived in Boston September 1718 only to leave a week later for Casco Bay in Maine where indians gave them a most unenviable time.
(Also on this page it refers to the Bann immigrants as being a separate immigration from the Londonderry one)
Ultster Immigration to Colonial America, R. J. Dickson, pg 234
McCullom, London to Boston, 70 tons, 100 passengers
Dolphin, London to Boston, 70 tons, 34 passengers
Mary & Elizabeth, London to Boston, 100 passengers
Belfast by Londonderry, NH

NOVA SCOTIA:
Truro / McNutt
Ulster Immigration to Colonial America, R. J. Dickson, pg134
St. John's Island (now PEI) / Thomas Desbrisay
Ultster Immigration to Colonial America, R. J. Dickson, pg 152

Acadians expelled from Nova Scotia in 1755 followed by substantial immigration from the colonies, 1761-1762 to the Cobequid district.
Maugerville, Nova Scotia (now New Brunswick / Londonderry, NH


NEW YORK: William Johnson
Ulster Immigration to Colonial America, R. J. Dickson, page 54
William Johnson, the Indian agent settled an Irish colony of 16 families at Fort Hamilton, NY in 1740. In 1741, he transported 60 families from Ireland to Warrenbush, NY

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