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  • http://tommckn ight.com/famil y/sprott/Scotl and%20-%20Scot ch-Irish.htm: 1603.. Elizabeth I dies and James VI, King of Scotland, becomes King James I of England 1606.. The first Ulster colonies are settled. Ironically, by private entrepreneurs, and Scottish at that. Some Scottish entrepreneurs had come up with the idea of acquiring some land and transplanting their own countrymen to farm them. These beginning colonies were successful and word quickly spread back to Scotland. 1607.. King James I declared that the land held by the defeated Irish rebel leaders, who had fled to the continent, was reverted to the Crown. This legal action was over-reaching, but when you're the King, what the heck. King James I took control of 3,000,000 acres of Ulster land. 1609.. James I inform the Privy Council of Scotland: "the King.. out of his unspeakable love and tender affection for his Scottish subjects, has decided that they will be allowed to participate in this great adventure" ;. Remember, James I, becoming King of England in 1603, had already been King of Scotland
  • Welcome to the Ulster Scots Website: The Scots-Irish embraced America and gradually lost their distinct Scotch-Irish identity to be Americans period. The name Scotch-Irish fell out of use for a period of time until the arrival of the Catholic Irish almost a century later following the potato famine. In order to differentiate themselves from the famine refugees who were Catholic Gaelic Irish, the term Scots-Irish was reintroduced. The Irish tended to congregate in Catholic Irish communities in cities such as New York, Chicago and Boston and maintained their Irish identity, while the Scots-Irish population was spread throughout America, particularly in the American Mid West and the Southern States. Today there are approximately 27 million Protestant Scots-Irish Americans and 17 million Catholic Irish Americans (although a fair percentage of those from Protestant backgrounds and bearing Scottish surnames wrongly regard themselves to be Irish-American s).
  • Scotch-Irish Heritage: It is said that emigrants are either the best or the worst of their race. Those who leave the land of their birth because they refuse to submit to oppression by church or state, and who are unafraid of the hazards waiting them in a new land, are among the best of their kind. Those who leave their old homes simply because they are incapable of holding their own in the competitive struggle for existence are among the worst. The Scotch-Irish were screened three times?when they left Scotland for Ulster, when they quitted Ulster for America, and again when they followed the expanding American frontier to the South and West.

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