We know that things changed over time.  My point was that historically there was a disdain for the Irish and the Scotch Irish, by the English. America was not settled by the royalty of England, they were the landless, and some were criminals, and ne'er do wells. I am sure that once class was defined by race, in the Americas, many of the social barriers existing in Europe disappeared.  
 
 
Anita  > Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:07:30 -0500> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Mulatto +Scotch-Irish> To: [log in to unmask]> > Patrick Henry, who's father was from Aberdeen (last I checked in > Scotland), around 1732 married Sarah Winston Syme, a wealthy widow > from a prominent Hanover County family of English ancestry. In 1754 > Patrick Henry married Sarah Shelton, from the name also of English > stock.> > That took all of 2 minutes to find. I'm sure there are lots of other > Scots and Scots-Irish that married people of English descent. While > religion might have been a bigger factor among the plantation families > of the coastal plain, upcountry you married who was available and by > the mid 1700s not everyone was an Anglican anyway.> > ______________________________________> To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at> http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html
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