Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-03-15

the origin and history of the term
"Scotch- h-Irish' as applied to an inn.
portant element of the population of
the United States. Early in the
Itch century, teosuse of a rebel
lion against the Crown and the flight
of the earls who ruled the northern
counties of Ireland, about 1000, 900
acres of "plantatlons" in Tyrone,
Londonderry, Derry, Donegal, AR.
magh, Down, Fermanagb, Antrim
and Cavan counties were confiscated
and taken possession of by the gov
ernment, divided into small estates,
(none larger than 1000 acres,) and
granted to English and Scotch
Protestants of known loyalty and
substance. The purpose of King
James was to protestanize the entire
district. In 1909 the forfeited lands
were surveyed and the plan of dis
tribution was thoroughly conceived
and well carried out. Fifty-nine
Scotch Presbyterians of high social
standing and wide influence were
chosen, each of whom received tract
of 1000 acres, upon the condition,
however, that they should live on
their grants aad also they should
each bring with them forty. eight able
yeomen of 1S years and upward, ma
tives of England or "the inward
parts" of Scotland. Each of these
men was given farm. They were
all Protestants and men of "piety,
industry and virtue" They pledged
themselves to build "fortified places
for defense, houses to live in and
churches in which for to worship"
The native Irish remaining on the
lands were forcibly transferred to the
least accessible districts, so that they
might not mix or intermarry with
the newcomers. Thus, northern Ire
land was populated by a new race
of lowland Scots, peace. loving, in
dustrious Protestants, frugal in their
habits, strong of character and vigor-
GUS in their theology.
The term "Scotch. Irish" is peculiar
to America and is generally applied
to the descendants of these families,
who during the eighteenth century
sought more promising careers and
homes in America and have borne an
active and important part in the set
Element and development of the
United States. Indeed, the sons and
daughters of those vigorous Calvin
lists have been leaders and builders in
every State in the Union. Prior to
the Revolution no other section of
the Old World sent so many emf
grants to the American colonies as
did the Scotch towns and villages in
the north of Ireland. Massachusetts
was settled by Puritans, Pennsyl-
vania by Quakers, Maryland by the
Catholics and Virginia by Episco-
palians, but the Scotch Irish Presby-
terians scattered all over the colo
MES. AT the time of the Revolution
they had seventy communities in
New England, forty in New York,
fifty in New Jersey, 1870 in Penns,l-
vania and Delaware, more than 100 in
Virginia, Maryland and the Cumber-
land Mountains, fifty in North Caro-
lima, seventy in South Carolina and
Georgian all more than 500 settle
ments, with population of $4,000,
almost without exception people of
education and wealth. They were
active leaders in the Revolution and
their descendants have ever since
taken an acLive part in the affairs of
the nation.--Chicago Record Herald.
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According to the Catholic directory
just issued there are 12,462, ,793 Catholics
in the United States, and 300, COO more |
in the island possessions.