Scot Irish Settlers to North Carolina

[@scottyfritts2225]

Good commentary. My ancestors were German coming down the Wagon Road to near New Market, Va. then about 1770 to Rowan Co., N.C. Where they were there during the Revolution.

[@bobapbob5812]

Mine too. Germans who went to Randolph county. Also Welsh Quakers.

[@xoMiaBambinaxo]

Very helpful! Very interested in how my ancestors got to where our family grew. My grandpa's family on my my moms side got to Virginia from England in 1619 and settled in north carolina in mid 1600s and finally moved permanently to Alabama where our family farm had been for the last 200 years! The research I did on the couple generations they spent in North carolina is intriguing!

[@sven8957]

Thank you for posting this video!

[@knockshinnoch1950]

Thanks for sharing this video. I'm Scottish and on retiring last year decide to take a DNA test and research my family tree. It has been a truly fascinating experience and one of the most interesting and educational exercise I've ever undertaken. I never expected to uncover the wealth of knowledge that has come tumbling forth. I've discovered distant relatives in every part of the world and with a particularly strong link with Northern Ireland and with North America and Canada.I have discovered a particularly strong connection to Pennsylvania with ancestors emigrating there over several centuries as far back as the late 1600s. Videos like this help fill in important gaps in the jigsaw that is finally coming together that outlines my family history.

[@Evanmonster1]

Hiya! I'm related to Williamsons that settled in York County, South Carolina. They came over around the mid/late 1700's. We think they were from Scotland originally, but can't seem to find hard evidence for that. But based on the time and where they settled, we're thinking that's the case. Nice video!

[@joegibbs1454]

Good info. Im trying to figure out how my scottish ancestors got to north carolina by the mid 1600s

[@rayleewayne9109]

Scotland County NC might be a good place to start. Highland Scots settled there. They may have traveled up the Pee Dee River from Georgetown SC. My Scots-Irish ancestors came over with Andrew Jackson's father, we're cousins with AJ.

[@user-rk5cz6kv2q]

Recommend sharing the map as a video slide. Hard to see the map on the clip board.

[@Occident.]

Im "English" born on Tyneside. However my recent DNA test result showed me to be 50% Irish. 44% Scots. 6% Germanic Europe. These are my people. 👍

[@okiefred8399]

My Foley ancestors settled in Virginia in the early 1700s.

[@larryreese6146]

Mam, I think the encintive was not free land but cheap land. Where you could buy a small amount of land in Pennsylvania you could buy a lot of land in the Piedmont for the same money.

[@spirithawk2418]

Shes correct. Beginning with colonial taking of native American land in Virginia 1613 land grants were given to Crown plantation owners of tobacco first from 3 to 50 acres given FREELY to all newly classified as White males as their 4 to 7 year indentureship ended . This was decreed by Sir Thomas Dale Royal Decree 1616 . By 1617 the Free Land decree was upgraded to include all Colonists who paid in full for the journey to Crown Colonies were by granted by Virginia Company decree 50 square acres of free land. This was 246 years before The Homestead Act of 1862. See also Doctrine of Discovery Papal Bull given to Spanish and Portuguese trading companies, East and West respectively.

[@larryreese6146]

@@spirithawk2418 that was at the beginning of settlement along the east coast, particularly in Jamestown, Virginia. By the 1700s land was was being granted by the king to large proprietors who, in turn, parceled it off to settlers and like today as settlement increased so did the price of land. The N. Carolina Piedmont area wasn't opened up until sometime in the 1730s. Most of its settlement came through Pennsylvania and the Virginia frontier, with the exception of those who came into the area by way of Cape Fear. By that time Pennsylvania land was at a premium. For the same price you could buy 3 times the amount of Piedmont land than you could in Pennsylvania for the same price.

[@mikeleach4201]

Read a history of Daniel Boone to learn more about this.

[@cindymolander4183]

My ancestor, William Wallace, was born in Ireland in 1751.He arrived in North Carolina in 1773. He married Mary Elizabeth MacDonald there in 1778. By 1873 they had migrated to Hants County, Nova Scotia. I am curious about which part of North. Carolina he might have settled in.