Kerr's Creek Massacre on Scots-Irish Settlers by Cornstalk's Shawnee Warriors, Virginia, 1759 & 1763

In this episode we read from "A History of Rockbridge County, Virginia" by Oren Frederic Morton, published in 1920 about the massacres that took place in 1759 and 1763 in Kerr's Creek Virginia. But first, we read about the Scots-Irish clan McKee, and some of their history in Ireland and Scotland, because they immigrated to western Virginia around 1738. William McKee participated in the heroic defense of Londonderry in 1689, and many of his sons and daughters would flee oppression by coming to America.
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[@1-SmallStep]

My ancestor was chased on his horse by Chief Cornstalk and his braves until his horse collapsed. The chief was so impressed with my granfather's horsemanship leaping over large creeks and chasms and then running on foot wearing out most of the braves' ponies that when he captured my grandfather he celebrated him and became friends.

[@patsaylor8973]

Cornstalk was my ancestor.

[@alejandrovargas7592]

Very interesting.

[@johannarhymer1093]

What an amazing story how wonderful to be related to such a strong man

[@user-zb6sx7zd3s]

😊

[@majcorbin]

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[@kiltman1961]

My 7th GGF and my 6th GGF were Thomas and John Gilmore killed in 1759 at Kerr's Creek. Great video. I had another relative killed a few years later, after Cornstalk was captured. His death was one of the reasons Cornstalk was dragged out of his cell and killed.

[@bobwallace9814]

The Gilmores were also the same to me.

[@edmanwood2936]

John Gilmore is my 8 GGF

[@johndaugherty4127]

Excellent job. We Daugherty's came from Donegal, in Ulster, to North Carolina. In the late 1700's to Wayne County Kentucky. I have a chest that has writing inside that says it was carried over the Appalaichan Mountains in 1796.

[@unworthyhistory]

Nice!

[@astrialindah2773]

Wow how cool they have that piece of History!❤

[@lauriedavis5137]

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[@godschild3640]

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[@dmeinhertzhagen8764]

My ancestor was a Huguenot (French Protestant) who was enrolled by force in the French army in 1698 and forced to convert to Roman Catholicism. Then he was sent to New France to fight the Iroquois. He settled and married in New France after serving for 9 years.

[@jamesmills4850]

I live a 5 minutes walk from the Wallace Monument which is placed at the site where Margaret Wallace's ancestral home once stood. Small world.

[@jamesmills4850]

Another masterclass from Unworthy History. I really appreciate hearing these actual historical accounts about what happened to those who had to leave their homelands and start a new life in North America. We in the old countries don't hear or know much at all about the adversity our blood relatives endured whislt they carved out a life in the new world. Cheers!

[@shirleybalinski4535]

Are you in the old Country? Americans have great admiration for these early settlers & take pride in our families histories. At least a good share of us do. They were tough folks in every respect.

[@jamesmills4850]

@@shirleybalinski4535 I'm a Scot who lives about a 5 minutes walk from the site where William Wallace's family home once stood, it's just a monument now. And just 3 miles north-west of me is the town of Houston, Renfrewshire...It is named after Sam Houston's forebears, who once owned Houston Town, as well as some of the surrounding towns and lands. Yes, I have great admiration for the early settlers too, and of course, many of my ancestors had also taken similar arduous journey's to and across America.

[@shirleybalinski4535]

@@jamesmills4850 ..My maiden name was Taylor. Some sea captain came over in the 1700's. A member of Dad's family traced the family back to 1200's in England( naturally). Mom's family came over late 1860's from Germany

[@shirleybalinski4535]

@@jamesmills4850 ..You have a interesting family heritage too!! My family never made it to Texas. Most got as far as Michigan & Indiana( the Mid West) & settled down. One branch went to Iowa. That branch had a gentleman who was a captain on a wagon train going further west. That train had one run in with Native Americans but it didn't amount to much. My parents got a copy of his diary from that trip. The fellow didn't write much, mostly weather & how many miles they traveled each day. Each wagon master was obligated to keep a diary of the trip.. I would love to go West but, the US is so big( app.2,000 miles to Texas from where I live) & of course the expense. Thank you for your reply.

[@maxinefreeman8858]

​@NVMVNV ..Daniel Boone led the first settlers thru the Cumberland Gap. Dr Thomas Walker had surveyed the mountains and found the Gap. No one had seen over the mts. I live on the KY side of the mt, about 3 miles from the tunnel that takes you into Tenn. Daniel Boone went on and established Boonsboro, a fort. His daughter and a friend were kidnapped by Indians, they'd gone out to get water. The book, "The Last of the Mochians." was based on that. When my ancestors came they stayed here in the mountains of southeast Kentucky. They wanted to stay in the mountains. They were Scots-Irish. No one knows why but the Indians wouldn't live in the mountains. They called "Kaintuc" the dark and bloody ground. The Indians came here to hunt.

[@karentrimmer]

My ancestors were Scotch-Irish and Quaker traced back to Lancaster PA. By 1762 they were in Illinois establishing the towns of Friend's Creek (Decatur), Shelby County (Stewardson) and Springfield. I've never heard the European history behind their emigration but it sure fits into what I do know. Thank you for sharing.

[@JesusRunsMyHouse]

Im Irish and Ojibwe from the Bay Mills band of Ojibwe on the Bay Mills reservation in the upper peninsula of Northern Michigan on Lake Superior by Sault Ste Marie. My ancestors on my father's side have been here since the early 1500's his mother, my Nokomis ( grandma) was a full blooded Ojibwe was born in a wigwam in 1894 on the St. Mary's river she died in 1970. My ancestors were here when the French Jesuits came with voyageurs ( french trappers) and tried to convert my people to Catholicism but Father Marquette settled here and married an Ojibwe woman and stopped a massacre in the mid 1600's and some of my ancestors have their pictures in the county library. They are just drawings because cameras didn't exist back then but the trapper who drew them wasn't very good at drawing for sure. Ive seen pictographs on rocks more detailed than that!

[@karentrimmer]

Interesting. I've been camping on St Mary's River east of Sault Ste Marie. I also had French fur traders in the family, (rumors of Chippawa ancestry) but they settled in Banff, Alberta, Canada then Idaho (family is actually mentioned in some memoirs from the Oregon Trail) then on to Roy, Washington where my grandfather was born in 1898.

[@patriciasmith4277]

I'm from the western end of the Upper Peninsula.

[@sandy-quimsrus]

I can't express how much I'm enjoying your readings. Words betray me. Find this episode absolutely intriguing as a bit of my family's history is involved. Thankyou for your time and work. But I must say we ended up in Australia instead, in fact South Australia which prides itself on not being settled by convicts! Very unusual for Australia.

[@andreweden9405]

I'm a 7th generation Hoosier, but my ancient ancestors also hail from Rockbridge County, Virginia! I'm descended from the German minority who inhabited that area, specifically, the Zollman and Miller families. The Zollmans arrived by ship at Philadelphia in 1754, and chose to settle in Rockbridge County, VA. The specific branch from which I am descended later settled in Washington County, Indiana in 1817, then resettled again across the Muscatatuck River in Jackson County in about 1820.

[@unworthyhistory]

Interesting, seems like a lot of Germans and Scots-Irish settlers went to western Virginia and Pennsylvania around this time.

[@ludwigderzanker9767]

The most famous playboy of Berlin was baptized as Rolf Eden. Greetings from Northern Germany.

[@andreweden9405]

@@ludwigderzanker9767 , The Eden branch of my family were a little poorer, so I haven't been able to find as much information on them. But they were also German! They also immigrated to the United States later than the other branches of the family mentioned in my original comment, like about 1890. In any case, I never knew about Rolf Eden, so thank you for giving me a new person to look up!😁

[@karentrimmer]

My family history is similar but they went from Lancaster PA to Ohio, Indiana and Illinois by 1762, establishing Friend's Creek (Decatur), Shelby (later Stewardson where Spain Cemetery 1832-1972 is all family ) and Springfield where my great grandmother was born in 1820. My grandmother was very close to her and told lots of stories about traveling across the country.

[@user-qs7gx7rp7m]

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[@ashtonmarshall5900]

I'm an ancestor of James Gillmore, who died among twelve others. His wife, and him and others.

[@melissaarellano5177]

You're his descendant, he is your ancestor.

[@peterfrandsen1948]

The Scottish people are known as "Scots" not to be confused with "Scotch" LOLZ!. "Scotch" is malt whisky or grain whisky or a blend of the two, made in Scotland.

[@jkeithgarner3396]

Thank you, I was about to say virtually the same thing.

[@OpinionatedChicken59]

THANK YOU! God the very first time he said it I cringed so hard I think I broke some ribs!

[@karentrimmer]

Someone else made a similar comment but my family has always said "Scotch-Irish dating back a couple of centuries. Any thoughts on why that would be? I'd rather be ButterScotch than Scotch Whiskey!

[@OpinionatedChicken59]

@@karentrimmer How can you possibly know your ancestors 200 years ago were saying scotch-irish?

[@karentrimmer]

@@OpinionatedChicken59 We have letters written by my great grandmother in 1838, family history that she wanted passed down.

[@conemadam]

i have been listening to your stories night and day since I discovered your channel. You are doing a monumental job in sharing these rare books . Thank You!!!!

[@funsmasher7018]

I regret that I have but one thumbs up to give this content. Nate Hale.

[@jacobrush8280]

I'm creek-scots-irish born and raised in Oklahoma and it's so wonderful you're putting out this information! The dynamics and nuance around these subjects are so lacking in the education system including muscogee history that's taught out here in Oklahoma and I'm highly appreciative of this channel for illustrating history that otherwise would be far more difficult to find on the "mainstream" historical channels. Good work

[@unworthyhistory]

thank you, good to hear!

[@garrettsaunders8654]

Phenomenal video. This is the kind of content that we need more of on KZbin.

[@bobsmoot2392]

What rich gifts of history you bring to us. You are a river to your people.

[@godschild3640]

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[@jeffreygraf3358]

My 6th Great Grandmother was Jane "Jenny Logan" McKee.

[@michaelleblanc7283]

Great Stuff. Keep it up. Regarding 'Honors' for valor, stumbled on the story of Bernard John Dowling Irwin (June 24, 1830 - December 15, 1917). An assistant army surgeon during the 'Apache Wars vs Cochise' and the first (chronologically by action) Medal of Honor recipient (ex-post-facto award). His actions on February 13, 1861, are the earliest for which the Medal of Honor was awarded. They were part of the so-called 'Bascom affair'. Hope you cover it (if you haven't already) in detail some day.

[@silverarrowslk]

One of your best ever posts. Absolutely great as these people had such a big influence in forging the modern USA

[@ritaputhoff3569]

Jacob Cunningham was my ancestral grandfather

[@sheepdog1102]

Love hearing the history of our people.

[@rayjarrad463]

Outstanding information; your work is commendable.

[@joshmontgomery4040]

❤ love this channel Bob Benge’s story is worthy of being told as it have been many times before.

[@kbennett3274]

Great video! 👍

[@gregconner4460]

I live in the area and grow up on the Fork Farm where the Cowpastor river meets the Jackson to make the head of the James River. The old Fort site was across the river and I have heard of a fortified house that was part of the first attack you talked about. Great job on the history

[@samsmom1491]

I've been watching your videos almost back-to-back. I'm really interested in the Pennsylvania Dutch as my ancestors, including Quakers, go far back in the area. Looking forward to more!

[@tphvictims5101]

Well worth BINGE WATCHING 😉👍🏻

[@lr5450]

With respect, it is Scots or Scottish. Never Scotch. I am enjoying your stories very much and a recent subscriber. Thank-you for your excellent work.

[@karentrimmer]

Interesting, my family has always said Scotch-Irish dating back to the 1800s, now you have me curious.

[@lr5450]

@@karentrimmer I think it might depend where you are. As an Australian whose grandfather was Irish-Scot he was offended to be called "Scotch" and we were all taught never to say it (unless we were talking about whisky.)

[@marshagill1542]

You have an awesome family history!!!

[@loraleelogan1554]

Hi! We are apparently related. I'm also a descendent of Robert Hamilton of Rockbridge County. My grandmother was Lora Lee Hamilton, of Unionville MO. I knew of the massacre from another Hamilton cousin, but I really appreciate hearing more about it. Thank you!

[@unworthyhistory]

Good to meet you cousin! Robert’s daughter Jean Hamilton was my last Hamilton ancestor. Her family moved to Kentucky, Tennessee, then Texas by the 1850. The Hamilton’s are related to Robert the Bruce, and were part of Scottish royalty until they took up sides with Mary Queen of Scots. I hope to do an episode on that in the future. This is one of Robert Hamilton’s (and our) ancestors. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hamilton,_Duke_of_Ch%C3%A2tellerault

[@geneotrexler8246]

Good video 👍

[@susanrankin4887]

Very interesting 😎👍

[@tobyplumlee7602]

Well said brother!! ❤

[@darrenmcg97]

I'm going to have to watch this one again Daryl' lot of information in there. Anyway one small point. You did not mention the English add defeated a large Viking army 2 or 3 days prior to the Battle of Hastings and then had to March 150 miles.

[@unworthyhistory]

That’s true. Need to do a video on the battles of Hastings and Stamford Bridge.

[@duchessstudioband7896]

I have Colonial Ancestors out of Charles Parish in Virginia, most of what I know are births and deaths. I know my great great grandfather Francis Eppes Manson left Virginia circa 1830 ish and was a doctor and preacher in McDonough Georgia. His last wife Mary Jane Ayer was a northern school teacher from Maine. I've often wondered about the Virginia Manson's most what Zi know is the Manson's were of Scots origins, Clan Gunn. A form of Magnuson. Would love to know more about Manson's from.Virginia.

[@elliottd296]

Good story well read Sir

[@elliottd296]

@NVMVNV what you referring to pilgrim

[@johnreynolds6499]

Thanks for sharing. You might want to order the series of books about this by Alan Eckhart. Very good and pulls no punches.

[@kristinabates7787]

These were a mighty bunch, because this particular land is very mountainous and not easy for trekking by any means. Thanks 🙏🙏

[@jamesjenkins1680]

Very interesting

[@johndaugherty4127]

All of the names you read are names of friends I had growing up. Waddells, Gilmore's, Stevensons...

[@jkeithgarner3396]

Ha same here. Very common names where I grew up.

[@silverarrowslk]

All lowland Scots names originally as king James expelled these and other border reivers to Ulster as a bulwark against the Catholics. So many Ulster Scots went to America and made their mark. I’m a Scot and have relatives in USA

[@nonyabiz550]

Me too

[@karentrimmer]

I have "Waddells" in my ancestry but they were in Illinois. I've never heard of anyone else with that surname.

[@jkeithgarner3396]

@@karentrimmer there are many of them in Mississippi.

[@tanyas8596]

I just realized this is about my ancestors lol. I am descended from William McKee/Mariam Brown, and Robert Brown McKee, directly - he is my 6th great grandfather. I'm going to get a copy of this book too. Thank you very much!

[@unworthyhistory]

Interesting! My records indicate that Robert Brown McKee died at Kerr’s creek in 1774.

[@tanyas8596]

@@unworthyhistory Yes, that's what I have in my family tree too! His son William Alexander to his son James to his daughter Elizabeth Mariah McKee. She married Andrew Smith Kerr....generations after Kerr's creek! They moved to Arkansas, where that line of my family ended up. So interesting! This has gotten me back into verifying and fact checking on my tree. Very much enjoying listening to your channel while working on it. God bless!

[@kristinabates7787]

I'm a resident of Rockbridge!!! And my partner is from Kerr's Creek/ Collierstown! So glad I stumbled upon this. We have always been curious to history, but sadly, this is a poor, rural area, though very beautiful, and not many records have survived

[@jamesvinch2484]

An excellent speech for today,

[@silverarrowslk]

No wonder they made great frontiersmen for from Highland clan to border reiver they were used to violence! Here’s a wee tune per the rebellion of 1745 and sung by the Corries. The drums used are called Bodrans kzbin.info/www/bejne/onyamX-EraiMb6c

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

My ancestry is both Shawnee and Scottish, amongst others. I’ve never known how to feel about this war.😔💔

[@melodiepatton2651]

I understand exactly what you mean, Chief Cornstalk, my 6th great grandfather. I’m also of Cherokee descent, Irish, Scottish, German, and African. My 5th great grandfather was a slave in Virginia and was freed upon his master’s death. He married a Cherokee, my 5th great grandmother. So I understand, I don’t know how to feel.

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

@@melodiepatton2651 it’s a strange feeling to be divided like that. It’s hard to explain, as you know. I have asked myself for years how my people could have done that to my people. 💔

[@peggyhall2763]

@@melodiepatton2651I understand how you may feel. My 7th great uncle was Cornstalk’s father, Johannes Abeel. I also think some of this history is biased in favor of white Europeans.

[@urbanwarchief]

History is pretty wild

[@kristinabates7787]

Our town is so small, that yes sometimes it will return the Scotland location!!

[@geraldhamilton304]

My Grandmother was a Mckee , born in Ulster. I still have living Mckee relatives who reside in Ulster ... There is a high possibility the victims maybe be related, so will be interesting investigation for me.

[@geraldhamilton304]

Also the paternal side of my family are Hamilton's from Ulster. There is a possibility I maybe be related to the author of this channel.

[@unworthyhistory]

Nice! Yes we probably are some degree of cousins. I guess McKee's are still marrying Hamiltons after all these years...

[@pegzoconnor7205]

My father came from Derry, mother born Galway but lived most in Toombridge Northern Ireland. Our cousin married into McKee family they have a huge farm in Toombridge. Chances are good they are relatives.

[@jlaurelle]

We are direct descendants of that conflict. When Chief Cornstalk raided the lands and killed the men, my ancestor Fredrich Zeh (See) being one of them, they abducted my ancestor, Catherine “Kitty” Van der Poel Zeh, whom they called “Fighting Squaw” due to her willingness to fight for the survival of her children. Their daughter, Elizabeth, is said to have married Chief Cornstalk’s son, Ellinipsico, and birthed a son named Thomas aka Kumskaka.

[@Aly_M.]

@jlaurelle Hi Mary Polly See (Zeh) daughter of Frederick Michael See (Zeh) was my 5th Great Grandmother and her son John Petro was my 4th Great Grandfather. When the Shawnee captured Catherine and the children I always wonder what exactly went on it must have been terrifying for them.

[@jalen4984]

Recently found out that my 7th great grandfather, Valentine "felty" Yoakum and his wife were murdered and scalped in that massacre along with your ancestor Fredrich See. His son George who was taken prisoner then eventually fought in the battle of point pleasant a decade later. Fascinating.

[@brumboru]

The Scotch Irish took land off the Gaelic Irish , The English then set up penal laws that both penalised Catholic and Presbyterian in favour of Anglican . The rising of 1798 by a combined catholic and Presbyterian (The United Irish Men ) organisation. Was put down with an estimated 30’000 death toll by the British. Most of the early Irish Republicans were Protestant Napper Tandy Theobald Wolftone . This is conveniently overlooked by the British as it suited them with their divide and rule policies

[@BigRed2]

That’s why all Presbyterian Churches in Virginia for a long were called “Meeting Houses” because they couldn’t call it a Church as that was reserved for the Angelicans

[@caroljoan3792]

i am not very good with computers and i have searched every way i can think of but i can not find the stories of fanny and sarah in the correct order. i have only heard a few of them. is there a way to find all of them so i can finish them because they are so interesting that i want to know their full stories esp since their stories vary greatly.

[@unworthyhistory]

Yes, here is a link to the playlist on Fanny Parker and Sarah Larimer. I think it should show all of the videos: kzbin.info/aero/PL1uO4G7SZGkq4jXv0deG0qarcKXLyT5IW

[@ginapruett8040]

Robert Hamilton and Margaret Mckee are my 6th Great grand parents.

[@unworthyhistory]

Very interesting. They are my 7th great-grandparents, so that makes us distant cousins.

[@ginapruett8040]

Yes it does. 💛 It is a pleasure to cross paths with you.

[@DavidKcPrice]

Jean finney McKee nesbit is my 9th great grandmother, 1707 to 1790

[@chuckrobinson599]

I know a guy who is undoubtedly a descendant. He was our state representative for a while, and they're still Presbyterian.

[@anthonyeaster362]

🤝📈

[@badguy5554]

And they called them "The noble savages". Yeah Riiiiight!

[@pegzoconnor7205]

💯🎯

[@steveoconnor7069]

The outrages described against the Protestants in Ulster were payback for the outrages of Cromwell during his invasion which included the bayonetting of Irish babies. All of these acts of violence indirectly or directly were brought about by bad British policy.

[@Irlcork1]

What a dreadful pity. To go into so much detail but skip over the millions of Irish Catholics who would not have been removed from their lands, and starved to death, if they would have denounced their religion. The Irish holocaust was the greatest per capita murder and expulsion of a nation's people in the history of the world, 15 out of every 16 poor souls died of starvation or were forced to emigrate. A huge portion to the Americas, where for instance the British had a thriving white slave trade with the Catholic Irish in Barbados. The book "To Hell or Barbados" is a shocking and incredible read on the savagery of the British colonies at that time. To then refer to the ones who took that land during that time of satanic cruelty in Ireland as Scots-Irish is incomprehensible. Still, the more I listen to the incredible details in this otherwise brilliant series, the more I see the deception of the British at that time clearly written between the lines. The viciousness used against the natives, who may or may not have been brutal beforehand, resulted in them despising the 'white man' who spoke with a forked tongue. That mirrors precisely what was done to the native Irish Catholics. The annihilation of their native culture and language is another exact comparison. The killing of the buffalo herd or the use of food deprivation as a weapon of war is a standard British tactic used in India, Africa, Australia, even Afghanistan, and of course the Irish holocaust. The first use of drugs as a vicious military weapon was another atrocity used by the British in the so-called Opium War against China, where millions have since died all over the world, which is directly attributable to the international drug cartel that originated by a British royal decree. The final and most outrageous onslaught against the victims of that dreadful barbarity is surely the rewriting of history to make the victims seem like the perpetrators or, as in the case of the Irish, as pagan savages that would either accept British civilization and the King's religion or be freed from their horrid lives through death by royal decree.

[@thomasfoss9963]

(((DOWN WITH THE BRITISH!!!)))

[@bcent5758]

In the past the British committed many acts of terrible cruelty.

[@theskycavedin]

Nope. The Catholics in Ulster slaughtered Protestant women and children way before any of that happened. Cromwell's campaign itself was venegence against that.

[@brittanyhayes1043]

​@Irlcork1 How many Protestants have been killed under Bloody Mary, man?

[@shh120]

Hey found another cousin 😊

[@user-rk1uz4ur4m]

My family name O'Gorman were Wild Geese mercenaries who fought in europe in the 100years war.

[@washingtondale]

Ugly fight for survival - incredibly resilient pioneers..

[@guymcmullan9297]

I was born in Newton county Mississippi Decatur, I think I have Scott and Irish heritage 🚬💀🐓

[@Empt109]

I mean they came in on the natives land . Gonna be blood shed .I Listen to your stories “real history “ every week .

[@oldspiritart]

Ok, I’m confused. At 13:33 a girl is “scalped but made a partial recovery”. Scalping does not normally cause death. She would have had to recover in the entirety or not at all, since she was an entire person, not a collection of parts, eh? I take it she either passed later from unaddressed blood loss, or she recovered and lived. Which is it? Confused listener here…

[@tuckhorse]

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[@garyjenkinson7189]

Ulster has 9 counties, 6 in Northern Ireland and 3 in the Republic. Armagh, Down, Antrim, Londonderry, Tyrone, Fermanagh. The 3 in the Republic are Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan. Great video though.

[@kristinabates7787]

But, yes very high population of Scot-Irish settlers. Our little town is named Glasgow. But still part of Rockbridge County.

[@pegzoconnor7205]

My mother's family lived in Glasgow as well as Galway and Toomebridge Northern Ireland. My great uncle James Grant was proprietor of Grant arms, which is still open today at 19 Argyle Street, 106 Main Street, Gorbals and 548 St. Vincent Street. Major stockholder Celtic board. My great grandfather, his brother was Francis Grant. Hotel in Toombridge also still in business today. My mother came to America 1936 age 16, Her father already here her mother passed away when she was eight. My father immigrated 1930 age 18.

[@secondhandlyon2603]

I'm from the area and my family has been here since the 1700s. My wife is also part shawnee so our ancestors probably attempted to kill each other at some point....lol

[@mrdogshit]

the company Kerr-McKee

[@johnblack7479]

In the video it states that the family came from 'the County of Ulster'. Ulster is a Province, not a County. It is one of 4 Provinces in Ireland. There are 9 Counties within the Province of Ulster which are; Down, Antrim, Derry, Armagh, Fermanagh Tyrone, Donegal, Monaghan, Cavan. Also, the surrounding introduction prior to their emigration to America is very bias, and wholly inaccurate in relation to the depiction of native Irish Catholics. Also there is a failure to mention the plantation of Ulster, and the land stolen from the Irish by the scots Presbyterians. This event eventually led to bombings and shootings in the 20th century.

[@gerardodwyer5908]

A novel interpretation of the history of protestant Scots in Ireland. Interesting there is no mention of the Ulster plantation, nor the genocide that followed the "Flight of the Gaelic Earls" in 1607. This event resulted in the suppression of Gaelic Ireland, overturning by force of Gaelic Ireland's Brehon laws and legal systems, including land ownership laws, and seizing of lands from Catholic Gaelic property owners with title. The Scots who arrived in Ulster were part of the land confiscations and genocide on the indigenous Gaelic population, who were forced to flee or die. For their murderous efforts and "cleansing" lands in Ulster, the protestant Scots received "scalp money" for each Catholic killed with added grants of land stolen from dispossed Gaelic families. FYI, the Ulster city is Derry or Doire, meaning oak wood, not "Londonderry". Scots arriving in America, via Ulster, in the 16th and 17th centuries would have identified as protestant Scots, not Gaelic Catholics or Irish. The McKee planters arrived in Ulster in the 1690s as part of Dutch king Villem d'Orange's (William of Orange) protestant army comprising soldiers from across Northern Europe. The term "Hillbilly" in the US is derived from the protestant Scots (many via Ulster) who sold their land grants and emigrated to America's mid-western states. The "billy" part relating to their hero "king Willy", or as they pronounced it in their Scotch dialect, "billy". The descendants of most Scotch protestants populate, to this day, the controversially called "red neck" states. That should be a badge of honor. And most hold it so.

[@user-rk1uz4ur4m]

The catholic irish were against the english not the scots-irish who were settled or planted in northern ireland. We know here in England it was the Scots/irish who settled in Appalachia

[@user-rk1uz4ur4m]

My DNA has been traced to America from before 1776, 55% of me is southern irish i've since found out i'm also part scots with usual danish norwegian and swedish dna,commonly found amongst the english.

[@joannamcpeak7531]

I think I caught a pic of Uncle Sam's granddad

[@douganderson8219]

I am an ancestor of the hugenots

[@user-qs7gx7rp7m]

Ain't it great to know where your genes have been and what they got themselves caught up in ?

[@jesselejarzar9486]

History is often written by the victors in any light they see fit.

[@BigRed2]

You have it all wrong, the Scott Irish are scott’s who went to Ireland to help settle the plantations in Northern Ireland

[@brittanyhayes1043]

They also married irish and English man.

[@BigRed2]

@@brittanyhayes1043 Did i say they didn’t?

[@brittanyhayes1043]

@@BigRed2 Spundwd like you weren't going to mention that fact.

[@BigRed2]

@@brittanyhayes1043 Why would i? The point of my comment was he got the Scott-Irish term messed up as scott i irish are Scotts who’s ancestors came to Ireland to settle the plantations, you do know that’s why there is a country called Northern Ireland which is separate from the country of Ireland? lol

[@brittanyhayes1043]

@BigRed2 I knew that but you forgot to add that they also married Irish and English to form the enthic group too.

[@cherylpearson1963]

FYI, America is a Constitutional Republic

[@sheliabryant3997]

Brits use term, "SCOTCH," as gross pejorative. Particularly when it means to curse, sabotage, or just generally screw up a thing. And though a good shot of good Scotch can knock many a "good man" to his keister, a good Calvinist will damn him to hellfar 'n damnation

[@davidwhite4874]

Scotch is a drink, Scot, Scots or Scottish is the nationality.

[@Odonanmarg]

The narrator has the unfortunate habit of not pronouncing his mid-word “T’s”. Important - imporhant, impordant, impor’ant.

[@caroljoan3792]

what i hear i say. perhaps he hears what he says. its a hearing problem not a speech problem. sadly i also spell what i hear which causes far more problems then mispronunciation

[@samrush9624]

Yeah.... if I were you I'd stick to reading out except of others rather than having a go yourself.

[@ellymay1455]

Love your channel. But can you please stop calling the Scot’s, Scotch that’s a drink. The Scottish are the people a Scott is the singular.

[@johnc3177]

Ulster is part of the united kingdom (northern ireland)👍🏻

[@jimmsimmons993]

Indian were not innocent of

[@martinnicol9196]

Spooff😅

[@user-um2xw6he4d]

It's SCOTS not scotch, scotch is a drink SCOTS are the people of scotland!

[@firetakesall8000]

Nobody cares about your personal family personal history.

[@WyattHype]

Your a descendent of William Wallace that’s amazing ✅