Thanks for the additional view, Ms. Katie.  I am sure you also learned in your studies that the English did all within their authority to cause hardships, levy crippling taxes, charges and fees, and encourage food shortages in Scotland, all to the end that those folks migrate elsewhere.  Then too, while some of your own people may well have followed the avenues you suggest, an even greater number of those still easily identified in the vast area of the southern Appalachians have their roots in Philadelphia and surrounding areas, in the territory west and north of Cumberland Gap, and in the area of Salisbury, NC at that southern jumping off point of the "roads" south.  

I am firm in my view as set forth in the last sentence of my comments: "...Scots-Irish settled everywhere from Maine to New Orleans, and one must chase individuals to their destinations to confirm beliefs as to their direct ancestry."  

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  Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 7:17 AM
  Subject: beg to differ


  Having been a student of US frontier history in my earlier days, I must offer another version to the Scots-Irish migration within and into the US.  ....

  Katie Holland
  Washington, DC

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