Scots-Irish Origins: Plantation of Londonderry c1600-1670. This volume sheds light on a segment of the 100,000 Scotsmen who were encouraged to migrate to Ulster as part of the British plantation scheme during the 17th century. Drawing upon primary source material from the vast archives of the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland in Belfast, Mr Forrest has sourced seventeenth century muster rolls and summonister court records that provide the names of hundreds of mostly Lowland Scots who settled in Ulster prior to 1670. Within a few generations, the descendants of these Ulster Scots...
Scots-Irish Origins: Plantation of Londonderry c1600-1670. This volume sheds light on a segment of the 100,000 Scotsmen who were encouraged to migrate...