THIS SITE IS DEDICATED TO ARMISTEAD JOSEPH CATON (OF TEXAS) AKA "UNCLE JOE"  2005 WHO IS STILL LIVING BUT WITHOUT HIS HELP THIS SITE WOULD NOT EXIST.

Scots-Irish?  Also known as Ulster Scots.  Scotch-Irish doesn't mean Scotch- Irish ancestry.  The Scots-Irish were Scots who had settled in Ulster,   Northern Ireland after 1600. Most of them were Calvanist or Presbyterian  farmers who had lived under oppressive English rule. They started migrating to  Virginia in 1715. During the 1740 famine in Ulster, many of them sailed to the  port of Philadelphia.  The Scots-Irish soon became the dominant culture of the  Appalachians from Pennsylvania to Georgia. Most of the Scots-Irish became  farmers in Pennsylvania, as they had been in Ulster.  Beginning around 1730,  the population exploded and by 1740 good farm land was becoming scarce.  The  prices for land rose, and Scots-Irish settlers began to occupy lands in western  Pennsylvania.

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