Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-10-02
genealogical table and noting the blood
which flows in their Veins

genealogical table and noting the blood
which flows in their veins.
The first corners were English from
Nansemond, Virginia, and their num-
bers were largely increased by
Quakers and -Conformists whofed
from persecution in the parent Colony,
which had established the Church of
England as the State religion, and
passed laws unfavorable to all other
forms. This unhappy spirit of intol-
Councils attempting to show their
loyalty to the home government, which
was then prosecuting one, and forci-
bly, reminds us of many wicked things
of recent times, done also in the name
of loyalty. It helped, however, to
people North Carolina rapidly, and
the rich lowlands of the east received
some of the best citizens of cur State
from that source.
To the south, the county of Claren-
don, embracing all the region of
THE LOWER CAPE FEAR,
the English again came, from Barba-
does, and laid the foundation of that
grand old community which has ever
been such an honor to the name of
North Carolina. Whilst our begin
nings in both Albemarle and Claren-
don counties were thus almost exclu-
sively Englisi we have received no
other accession from that source of
any consequence. Occasional settlers
dropped i'll from various parts of the
world, but so gradually as to become
lost in the general mass and leave no
particular marks upon our national
features The streams from which we
| were to derive our most n arked char
| acteristics were yet to come; the
Scotch, the Scotch-Irish and the Ger
man. The colony of Swiss and Pala-
tines under DeGraffenried was not re-
cruited and made no visible impress
sion upon our blood, or manners.
The Scotch and Scotch-Irish are en-
tirely different, and the latter do not,
as the casual reader might suppose,
arise from Scotch parents on one side
and Irish on the other. They are ma
tive Irish of original Scotch descent,
to whose pedigree reference will be
| made again.
The Scotch who settled the Upper
| Cape Fear were principally followers
and adherents of Prince Charlie, who
were out in the '45 with him. After
their great
DEFEAT AT CULLODEN
large colony of them came to the
State and settled near the present
town of Fayetteville. Their descen-
dants and constantly arriving country
men soon spread over all the region
watered by the Cape Fear, and have
ever since constituted one of the most
striking elements of our population
| Their religion was Presbyterian, but
unlike most of that denomination, they
were generally monarchists in politics.
They brought with them and have
preserved habits of thrift. industry. a
| love OF education and most of the
characteristics of the Scottish people.
They came direct by, way of of the Cape
Fear Inlet or harbor. They were
Highlanders. The Scotch-Irish, one
| of the most remarkable members of
the great British family, were Scot
tish resbyterians, planted by King
James I. in the north of Ireland, on
lands forfeited by the treason of the
| O'Dogherty and the Earls of Tyrcon-
nell and Tyrone. There they grew
and fourisbed, preserving their bloc d
as exclusively as if they had remained
in the mother country, and also their
manners and religion. They called
| themselves Scotch in contradistinction
to the natives, whilst to distinguish
themselves from their Scotch kindred,
| they were called Scotch Irish, a name
| they have to this day retained. They
were Lowlanders.
The story of their prosecutions,
their adherence to principle, their
massacres, their splendid courage, their
attempted emigration to New Eng
land, and return to Ireland from mid
sea by stress of weather and a leak in
their ship, the Eagle Wing of their
final triumph in the flight of their
tyrant James, and the elevation to the
throne of
THE DELIvERER, WILLIAM OF ORANGE,
is one of the most striking and in
structive episodes in modern hi9tory.
They became mighty in Irelano-es-
pecially in Ulster, and from that prov
ince poured ship loads of emigrants
into North America. They came
mostly by way of Pennsylvania, and
finding lands east of the Alleghanys
difficult to obtain, and no settlements
yet made west of that chain on account
of French and Indian hostility, they
drifted steadily southwark. Leaving
many of their numbers in Virginia,
they finally reached North Carolina
and spread all over that beautiful
champagne country from the Dan to
the Catawba. Soon after these, and
by the same route, came our Ger
man settlers and located on the banks
of the Yadkin and Catawba covering all
the beautiful rolling country between
) these streams and far mp the right bank
} of tie latter i'll sight of the Blue Ridge.
In agriculture, as general rule, they
have excelled all ouc people. especial
ly in thrift, economy. and the art OF
preserving their lands from sterility.
To this day there is less of that desc
, lation which is called in the South
cold field" to be seen among the
/ lands of theirdescendants than amongst
} any others of our people. In religion
they are Lutheran, and in politics
, Democratic, and they are as steadfas
as the hills in each.
!, STURDIER RACE
of upright men and substantial citi
zens is not to he found in this or an,
= other State. Their steady progress IL
= wealth and education is one of thei
J characteristics, and their enduring
= D ,tience and unfinching patriotism
u tested by MANY severe trials-DrocIain