Scotch-Irish Merchants in Colonial America by Richard K McMaster

Author:Richard K McMaster
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781903688786
Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation

Notes

1 Flax was widely grown for domestic use. In the 1760s tobacco planters were urged to diversify by planting flax. John Wily, A Treatise on the Propagation of Sheep, the Manufacture of Wool, and the Cultivation and Manufacture of Flax, with Directions for making several Utensils for the Business (Williamsburg, VA, 1765), 30.

2 South Carolina Gazette, August 1, 1761.

3 Robert L. Meriwether, The Expansion of South Carolina, 1729–1765 (Kingsport, TN, 1940), 241–3.

4 Leila Sellers, Charleston Business on the Eve of the American Revolution (Chapel Hill, NC, 1934), 250.

5 George Howe, History of the Presbyterian Church in South Carolina (Columbia, SC, 1870), I, 204, 255. The South Carolina Council allowed him 500 acres and another 600 acres “between Broad and Savannah Rivers” when the first bounty settlers received their land in 1763. Janie Revill, A Compilation of the Original Lists of Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina, 1763–1773 (Columbia, SC, 1939, reprinted Baltimore, 1968), 6.

6 E. R. R. Green, “Queensborough Township: Scotch-Irish Emigration and the Expansion of Georgia, 1763–1776,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, 17(April 1960), 183–99. Michael P. Morris, “Profits and Philanthropy: The Ulster Immigration Schemes of George Galphin and John Rea,” Journal of Scotch-Irish Studies, 1(2002), 1–11.

7 South Carolina Gazette, June 19, 1762.

8 Boonesborough, also known as Belfast Township, was named for Governor Thomas Boone. Both townships are in Abbeville and Greenwood counties, SC. Meriwether, Expansion of South Carolina, 250–52. Revill, Original Lists of Protestant Immigrants, 6.

9 “Ship Registers of the Port of Philadelphia,” PMHB, 27(1903), 106.

10 Belfast News Letter, August 17, 1762, October 26, 1762.

11 South Carolina Gazette, February 19, 1763.

12 This is near Abbeville, SC. Revill, Original Lists of Protestant Immigrants, 5–6.

13 William L. McDowell, ed., Documents Relating to Indian Affairs 1754–1765 (Columbia, SC, 1970), 495.

14 South Carolina Gazette, January 14, 1764. Pennsylvania Journal, February 2, 1764. Belfast News Letter, March 20, 1764.

15 South Carolina Gazette, January 21, 1764.

16 Pennsylvania Journal, February 2, 1764.

17 Harry Roy Merrens, Colonial North Carolina in the Eighteenth Century (Chapel Hill, NC, 1964), 54.

18 Petition, n.d. [1758] (Papers of the Marquess of Bath, Longleat, England, microfilm in North Carolina Department of Archives, Raleigh).

19 Peter N. Moore, World of Toil and Strife: Community Transformation in Backcountry South Carolina, 1750–1805 (Columbia, SC, 2007), 19, 21–3.

20 Meriwether, Expansion of South Carolina, 136–9. George Lloyd Johnson, Jr., The Frontier in the Colonial South: South Carolina Backcountry, 1736–1800 (Westport, CN, 1997), 50.

21 As few as eighteen families came on Dobbs’ ships. Dickson, Ulster Emigration, 128–34.

22 Charleston County Wills, 19:27. While in New York, Torrans married into a family of New York lawyers, Presbyterian in religion and Whig in politics, allied with the powerful Livingston clan. His much-younger wife, Elizabeth Blanche Smith, was the daughter of Judge William Smith, Sr., Attorney General and member of the Governor’s Council, and the sister of Chief Justice William Smith, Jr.

23 Truxes, Letterbook of Greg and Cunningham, 125.

24 Beekman Mercantile Papers, I, 292–4, 298. Truxes, Letterbook of Greg and Cunningham, 32–4, 115n.

25 R. Nicholas Olsberg, “Ship Registers in the South Carolina Archives 1734–1780,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 74(October 1973), 219.

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