Colonial American 'Irish' were mostly 'Scotch-Irish' emigrating Northern 
Ireland during 1700-1775.  For the most part they moved into the inland 
areas of MD-PA and many thence to frontier areas of VA and further south but 
including a 'new' frontier of western PA by the mid-late 1700's -- along 
with many English frontiersmen from the Scots-English borderland area and 
other English origins.  So English-'Irish' marriages were indeed fairly 
common in frontier areas of Colonial America.  Comparatively, there weren't 
many Irish immigrants in Eastern Seaboard areas in Colonial American times, 
these came later resulting from the potato famines.

 Neil McDonald

Anita Wills said, in part:

Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Mulatto


....There were divivisions within the white community, as to who would marry 
whom, based on economics.  I would venture to say that there were not a lot 
of English and Irish marriages in Colonial America.

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