His father, Samuel Polk, was a slaveholder, successful farmer and surveyor of Scots-Irish descent.

Carson's father, Lindsey Carson, a farmer of Scots-Irish descent, had fought in the Revolutionary War under General Wade Hampton.

So-called " Confederate Southern Americans ", defined as white Christian descendents of those resident in the Confederate States of America at the onset of the Civil War ( preferably having Scots or Scots-Irish descent ), are seeking a " natural right to self-determination " by claiming " oppressed minority " status through Neo-Confederate groups such as the League of the South.

His father was of Scots-Irish descent and his mother was of Norwegian ancestry.

The Pattons were an affluent family of Scots-Irish and English descent.

His father, who was of Scots and Scots-Irish descent, was an actor, initially in vaudeville, and later in films.

In contrast, a large portion of the settlers encroaching on their territories and against whom the Cherokee ( and other Indians ) took most of their actions were Scots-Irish, Irish from Ulster of Scottish descent, a group which also provided the backbone for the forces of the Revolution ( a famous example of a Scots-Irishman doing the reverse is Simon Girty ).

He was born in Timber Ridge in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, of Scots-Irish descent.

She is of Scots-Irish, English, and German descent.

Most of those claiming to be of " American " ancestry are actually of Scots-Irish and / or English descent, but have family that has been in the country for so long, in many cases since the early seventeenth century that they choose to identify simply as " American ".

Stevenson's parents, John Turner Stevenson and Eliza Ewing Stevenson, were Wesleyans of Scots-Irish descent.

Jane Johnston was of Ojibwa and Scots-Irish descent, and wrote in Ojibwe and English.

71. 14 % of people in Pierce County were of English descent, 11. 37 % were of Scots-Irish descent and 10. 91 % were of African descent.

68. 14 % of people in Bacon County were of English descent, 12. 3 % were of Scots-Irish descent and 15. 7 % were of African descent.

He was the first child of Caroline Cowperthwait Eakins, a woman of English and Dutch descent, and Benjamin Eakins, a writing master and calligraphy teacher of Scots-Irish ancestry.

Farragut was born in 1801 to Elizabeth Shine ( b. 1765 – d. 1808 ), of North Carolina Scots-Irish descent, and her husband George Farragut, a native of Minorca, Spain, at Lowe's Ferry on the Holston River.

* Lonnie Burr, American actor, dancer / choreographer, singer, director and author of Danish, French, Scots-Irish and German descent, best known for having been a star on the original Mickey Mouse Club television show from 1955 to 1959

Lindsey Carson, was a farmer of Scots-Irish descent, who had fought in the Revolutionary War under General Wade Hampton.

The area around present-day Walden was purchased in 1736 by Alexander Kidd, and settlers of Scots-Irish, English and German descent started arriving not long afterwards.

Large-scale European settlement of the region came in the mid-18th century via two primary waves: immigrants of Dutch, Scots-Irish and German descent moved from Pennsylvania and New Jersey seeking enhanced religious and political tolerance, while immigrants of English backgrounds came to the region from Virginia and the Cape Fear River Basin in Eastern North Carolina.

By 1777, most of the area residents were of either German or Scots-Irish descent.

Geneva was founded by Scottish and Scots-Irish immigrants.

He had German, Scots-Irish, and English ancestry, and was the seventh of nine children born to Cynthia Ann ( née Stanton ) and Benjamin Ward Baum, only five of whom survived into adulthood.

In fact, most Presbyterians found in England can trace a Scottish connection, and the Presbyterian denomination was also taken to North America mostly by Scots and Scots-Irish immigrants.

She was of African, Cherokee-Creek, and Scots-Irish ancestry.

His ancestry was Scottish and Scots-Irish.

Her ancestry was said to include Scots-Irish, English, Irish, French Huguenot, and American Indian ( Tuscarora ).

Kinzie was born in Quebec City, Canada ( then in the Colonial Province of Quebec ) to John and Anne McKenzie, Scots-Irish immigrants.

It was named after Scotland, as many of its early European settlers were Scots-Irish and Scottish Highlanders.

The western Piedmont was settled by many Scots-Irish and German immigrants in the mid-to-late 18th century.

Barren County, like most of south central Kentucky, was settled by the Scots-Irish, and still bears many cultural aspects that trace back to that heritage.

* Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States, was born in 1767 in the predominantly Scots-Irish Waxhaws area on the border of North Carolina and South Carolina two years after his parents left Boneybefore, near Carrickfergus.

It was founded in 1821 by Scots-Irish American Ephraim Dukes on a land grant.

Blandford was first settled in 1735 by Scots-Irish settlers and was officially incorporated in 1741.

Initial settlement in the nearby Pioneer Valley was by English Puritans whereas Blandford's Scots-Irish settlers were Presbyterian and their English was still somewhat influenced by Gaelic.

Born in Athelstan ( now Hichinbrooke ), Huntingdon County, Quebec of Scots-Irish parents, Brown was educated at McGill University where he received an Honours B. A.

Many Williamite troops at the Boyne, including their very effective irregular cavalry, were Protestants from Ulster, who called themselves " Inniskillingers " and were referred to by contemporaries as " Scots-Irish ".

In 1780, Colonel Amis built a fort at Big Creek with the assistance of fellow settler and Scots-Irish John Carter, on the outskirts of the present-day town.

Evelyn Bishop, a Pi Phi who arrived at the school in 1913, reported that the mountain peoples ' relative isolation from American society allowed them to retain a folklore that reflected their English and Scots-Irish ancestries, such as Elizabethan Era ballads:

The factions were ethnically at odds, with the Murphy faction mostly Irish Catholic, while Tunstall and his allies were mostly Scots-Irish Protestants.

The Scots-Irish army was located at Inniskeen, ten miles north.

On 14 October 1318, the Scots-Irish army was badly defeated at the Battle of Faughart by de Bermingham's forces.

The location of the village now called Unadilla was first settled about the same time by a group of Scots-Irish at the junction of the Ouleout Creek and the Susquehanna River.

Ruins of Olderfleet CastleIn the 13th Century the Scots-Irish Bissett family built Olderfleet Castle at Curran Point.

By the 1760s the English, both at home and in the American colonies, applied the term “ cracker ” to Scots-Irish and English American settlers of the remote southern back country, as noted in a passage from a letter to the Earl of Dartmouth: " I should explain to your Lordship what is meant by Crackers ; a name they have got from being great boasters ; they are a lawless set of rascalls on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia, who often change their places of abode.