Scotch-Irish merchants in colonial America /
MacMaster, Richard K.(Richard Kerwin),1935-
[Belfast] : Ulster Historical Foundation,
2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [302]-314) and index.
Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introd. -- Novel traffics -- Scowbanckers and redemptioners -- The flaxseed trade begins -- Transatlantic partners: patterns of trade -- Into the backcountry -- From Ulster to the Carolinas -- Merchants in politics -- A Scotch-Irish boom town -- Emigrations at high tide -- Patterns of emigration -- Non-importation, non-exportation, and the flaxseed trade -- Bibliography -- Index.
Scots-Irish
Flax industry
Merchants