Author: Duane Meyer
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469620626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Meyer addresses himself principally to two questions. Why did many thousands of Scottish Highlanders emigrate to America in the eighteenth century, and why did the majority of them rally to the defense of the Crown. . . . Offers the most complete and intelligent analysis of them that has so far appeared.--William and Mary Quarterly Using a variety of original sources -- official papers, travel documents, diaries, and newspapers -- Duane Meyer presents an impressively complete reconstruction of the settlement of the Highlanders in North Carolina. He examines their motives for migration, their life in America, and their curious political allegiance to George III.
The Highland Scots of North Carolina, 1732-1776
Author: Duane Meyer
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469620626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Meyer addresses himself principally to two questions. Why did many thousands of Scottish Highlanders emigrate to America in the eighteenth century, and why did the majority of them rally to the defense of the Crown. . . . Offers the most complete and intelligent analysis of them that has so far appeared.--William and Mary Quarterly Using a variety of original sources -- official papers, travel documents, diaries, and newspapers -- Duane Meyer presents an impressively complete reconstruction of the settlement of the Highlanders in North Carolina. He examines their motives for migration, their life in America, and their curious political allegiance to George III.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469620626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Meyer addresses himself principally to two questions. Why did many thousands of Scottish Highlanders emigrate to America in the eighteenth century, and why did the majority of them rally to the defense of the Crown. . . . Offers the most complete and intelligent analysis of them that has so far appeared.--William and Mary Quarterly Using a variety of original sources -- official papers, travel documents, diaries, and newspapers -- Duane Meyer presents an impressively complete reconstruction of the settlement of the Highlanders in North Carolina. He examines their motives for migration, their life in America, and their curious political allegiance to George III.
The Highland Scots of North Carolina, 1732-1776. (Reprinted.) [With Maps.].
Author: Duane MEYER
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Highland Scots of North Carolina
Author: Duane Gilbert Meyer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American loyalists
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Examines the causes of the Scottish migration to the Cape Fear Area of North Carolina and their loyalty to the crown during the American Revolution.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American loyalists
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Examines the causes of the Scottish migration to the Cape Fear Area of North Carolina and their loyalty to the crown during the American Revolution.
Carolina Scots
Author: Douglas F. Kelly
Publisher: Seventeen Thirty Nine Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
"Part I stands on its own as an historical study of early emigrations following the lead of the Argyll Colony in 1739 ... Part II provides a comprehensive listing of names and locations of Scottish North and South Carolina families beginning in 1739 and continuing with the descendents down to three, four or five generations for nearly a century."--Front flap of jacket.
Publisher: Seventeen Thirty Nine Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
"Part I stands on its own as an historical study of early emigrations following the lead of the Argyll Colony in 1739 ... Part II provides a comprehensive listing of names and locations of Scottish North and South Carolina families beginning in 1739 and continuing with the descendents down to three, four or five generations for nearly a century."--Front flap of jacket.
HIGHLAND SCOTS OF NORTH CAROLINA
Author: DUANE. MEYER
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033050583
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033050583
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Highland Heritage
Author: Celeste Ray
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469625806
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Each year, tens of thousands of people flock to Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, and to more than two hundred other locations across the country to attend Scottish Highland Games and Gatherings. There, kilt-wearing participants compete in athletics, Highland dancing, and bagpiping, while others join clan societies in celebration of a Scottish heritage. As Celeste Ray notes, however, the Scottish affiliation that Americans claim today is a Highland Gaelic identity that did not come to characterize that nation until long after the ancestors of many Scottish Americans had left Scotland. Ray explores how Highland Scottish themes and lore merge with southern regional myths and identities to produce a unique style of commemoration and a complex sense of identity for Scottish Americans in the South. Blending the objectivity of the anthropologist with respect for the people she studies, she asks how and why we use memories of our ancestral pasts to provide a sense of identity and community in the present. In so doing, she offers an original and insightful examination of what it means to be Scottish in America.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469625806
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Each year, tens of thousands of people flock to Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, and to more than two hundred other locations across the country to attend Scottish Highland Games and Gatherings. There, kilt-wearing participants compete in athletics, Highland dancing, and bagpiping, while others join clan societies in celebration of a Scottish heritage. As Celeste Ray notes, however, the Scottish affiliation that Americans claim today is a Highland Gaelic identity that did not come to characterize that nation until long after the ancestors of many Scottish Americans had left Scotland. Ray explores how Highland Scottish themes and lore merge with southern regional myths and identities to produce a unique style of commemoration and a complex sense of identity for Scottish Americans in the South. Blending the objectivity of the anthropologist with respect for the people she studies, she asks how and why we use memories of our ancestral pasts to provide a sense of identity and community in the present. In so doing, she offers an original and insightful examination of what it means to be Scottish in America.
The Highland Scots of North Carolina
Author: Duane Gilbert Meyer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scottish Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scottish Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America
Author: J. P Maclean
Publisher:
ISBN: 375243645X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P Maclean
Publisher:
ISBN: 375243645X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P Maclean
Scottish Emigration to Colonial America, 1607-1785
Author: David Dobson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820326437
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Before 1650, only a few hundred Scots had trickled into the American colonies, but by the early 1770s the number had risen to 10,000 per year. A conservative estimate of the total number of Scots who settled in North America prior to 1785 is around 150,000. Who were these Scots? What did they do? Where did they settle? What factors motivated their emigration? Dobson's work, based on original research on both sides of the Atlantic, comprehensively identifies the Scottish contribution to the settlement of North America prior to 1785, with particular emphasis on the seventeenth century.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820326437
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Before 1650, only a few hundred Scots had trickled into the American colonies, but by the early 1770s the number had risen to 10,000 per year. A conservative estimate of the total number of Scots who settled in North America prior to 1785 is around 150,000. Who were these Scots? What did they do? Where did they settle? What factors motivated their emigration? Dobson's work, based on original research on both sides of the Atlantic, comprehensively identifies the Scottish contribution to the settlement of North America prior to 1785, with particular emphasis on the seventeenth century.
The Highland Scots of North Carolina
Author: Duane Meyer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American loyalists
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Using a variety of original sources-- official papers, travel documents, diaries, and newspapers-- Meyer presents a complete reconstruction of the settlement of the Highlanders in North Carolina. He examines their motives for migration, their life in America, and their curious political allegiance to George III.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American loyalists
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Using a variety of original sources-- official papers, travel documents, diaries, and newspapers-- Meyer presents a complete reconstruction of the settlement of the Highlanders in North Carolina. He examines their motives for migration, their life in America, and their curious political allegiance to George III.