Mr. Bill Crews, Dr. Tarter:
I am not aware of any official statement that called for the
importation specifically of Ulster Scots to settle western Virginia
as buffer to both Indians and French expansion. Though such
settlement was clearly an objective of the colonial authorities of
the period and no doubt it was generally expected that the settlers
would be North British and Scots Irish. Warren Hofstra's excellent
1998 paper that Dr. Tarter mentioned does not cite such a specific
statement though it well describes the general situation in the 1730s.
Perhaps the particular official document that Mr. Crews cannot find
referenced in his notes is the November 1720 petition of the General
Assembly to the Board of Trade which speaks of the need for
settlement because of "...danger from the Indians and the late
settlements of the French to the westward of the said mountains."
See: Charles E. Kemper, "The Early Westward Movement in Virginia,
1722-1734 (part 1 of five parts). "The Virginia Magazine of History
and Biography XII: 337-352, 1904, in the footnote on page 341.
Available on line at http://books.google.com/books?id=T1t2lNXTF9AC.
This series of five articles provides a very useful documentary
compliment to the work of Professor Hofstra.
Jim Glanville
Blacksburg
At 11:07 AM 8/10/2010, you wrote:
>Brent, thanks very much
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>There is an excellent scholarly article that cites all of the relevant
>documents and gives much valuable context on this point: Warren R.
>Hofstra, "'The Extention of His Majesties Dominions': The Virginia
>Backcountry and the Reconfiguration of Imperial Frontiers," Journal of
>American History 84 (1998): 1281-1312. Hofstra later published a very
>fine book that also includes much of this information, The Planting of
>New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley
>(Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004).
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>Brent Tarter
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