Most settlers in the American Mid-Atlantic and New England were Calvinists, including the English Puritans, the French Huguenot and Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam ( New York ), and the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians of the Appalachian back country.

The county's first Anglo settlers were what John Nova Lomax described as " Scotch-Irish backwoods folk.

British settlers were mostly English, Scotch-Irish and Welsh in ethnicity.

These first settlers included German Reformed and Lutherans in the east, British Quakers in the south and west, and Scotch-Irish Presbyterians in the center of today's Guilford County.

The first white settlers, primarily of Scotch-Irish descent, came to White County, Illinois between 1807 and 1809.

A steady flow of settlers then followed, most of whom were Scotch-Irish Presbyterians.

Scotch-Irish settlers from New Hampshire later named the town New Aberdeen.

Hamilton's earliest population contained soldiers from General Wayne's army, and early merchants and settlers, primarily with Scotch-Irish or German heritage.

The town's first settlers were a mix of eastern Pennsylvanians and newly arrived immigrants of Scotch-Irish, German and English background, other ethnic groups would arrive in the early 20th century in small numbers.

The first settlers were Scotch-Irish immigrants.

The town was named either after a small town in County Donegal, Ireland, a suburb of Belfast of the same name in County Antrim, or Greencastle, County Down or possible in consideration of all as the local area has place names of both County Antrim and County Donegal and was settled by Scotch-Irish settlers.

From looking at what records do exist, and by the people still living in the Palmyra area, it is clear that the first settlers to live near Palmyra came from two distinct nationalities, the Scotch-Irish and the German Palatinates.

Of the first Scotch-Irish settlers in the Palmyra area, the surnames of Aspey, Campbell, Caruthers, Ewing, Galbraith, McCallen, McClure, McCord, Mitchell, Sawyer, Walker and Wilson are recorded.

Like the Scotch-Irish, the Germans kept to themselves and did not interfere with settlers of other backgrounds.

Most colonial settlers coming from the Irish province of Ulster came to be known in America as the " Scotch-Irish ".

The descendants of Scotch-Irish settlers had a great influence on the later culture of the United States through such contributions as American folk music, Country and Western music, and stock car racing, which became popular throughout the country in the late 20th century.

By the 19th century, through intermarriage with settlers of English and German ancestry, the descendants of the Scotch-Irish lost their identification with Ireland.

Joseph Martin ( 1740 – 1808 ) was a brigadier general in the Virginia militia during the American Revolutionary War, in which Martin's frontier diplomacy with the Cherokee people is credited with averting Indian attacks on the Scotch-Irish American and English American settlers who helped win the battles of Kings Mountain and Cowpens.

Scotch-Irish Presbyterians began immigrating to the region in increasingly large numbers, though occasional violence persisted until 1759, when the French and Indian Wars ended in Maine.

Byrd died August 26, 1744 as the Land of Eden began to be surrounded by the settlement of Scotch-Irish whom Byrd had compared to the " Goths and Vandals.

" It was not until more than a century later, following the surge in Irish immigration after the Great Irish Famine of the 1840s, that the descendants of the Protestant Irish began to refer to themselves as " Scotch-Irish " to distinguish them from the predominantly Catholic, and largely destitute, wave of immigrants from Ireland in that era.

It began as a mostly ethnic Scottish denomination, but after some years it grew somewhat more and more ethnically diverse, although universally English-speaking, and was geographically centered in Western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, areas of heavy Scottish and Scotch-Irish settlement on the American frontier.

Records show that Presbyterian Scots and Scotch-Irish also moved into Colerain Township very early into its settlement.

Craig's Scotch-Irish Settlement was established in 1728, and is the oldest settlement in Northampton County along the Catasauqua Creek.

The opening of the Pennsylvania Government Land Office in the area in 1769, and the contract of the Pennsylvania Proprietaries with the Indians opened up the Loyalhannah Valley for settlement for pioneers, many of whom were of German and Scotch-Irish descent.

" Chalkey's Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia ": extracted ..., Volume II " states: " In 1770 William Herbert made a settlement upon wasted and unappropriated land on Cubb Creek in Washington County, and occupied it until 1776, when his overseer was killed by the Indians when Rawley Duncan took possession.

The Scotch-Irish settled mainly in the colonial " back country " of the Appalachian Mountain region, and became the prominent ethnic strain in the culture that developed there.

The Scottish-born James Johnston and Thomas J. Watson, of Scotch-Irish descent, developed an early tabulating machine in 1916 and founded IBM in 1917.

The Appalachian region was largely settled in the 18th century by the Scotch-Irish, the majority of whom originated in the lowlands of Scotland.

However, Michael Montgomery, in From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of American English, states " In Ulster in recent years it has sometimes been supposed that it was coined to refer to followers of King William III and brought to America by early Ulster emigrants …, but this derivation is almost certainly incorrect … In America hillbilly was first attested only in 1898, which suggests a later, independent development.

Stella and LeRoy Pollock were Presbyterian ; the former, of Irish descent ; the latter, of Scotch-Irish descent.

* Scotch-Irish Americans, descendents of Ulster Scots who first migrated to North America in large numbers in the early 18th century.

Similarly, the Scots who settled in Ulster, many of whom later emigrated, are known non-pejoratively in North America as the Scotch-Irish.

20. 9 % were of American, 8. 8 % Irish, 8. 8 % German, 8. 8 % English and 7. 2 % Scotch-Irish ancestry according to Census 2000.

Bow's parents were descended from English and Scotch-Irish immigrants who had come to America the generation before.

The common Ancestry of Tucker includes 12. 5 % English, 10. 25 % Irish, 10. 0 % German, 3. 1 % Scottish, and 3. 85 % Scotch-Irish.

* Scotch-Irish 0. 6 %

It originates from 17th century Dutch dialects spoken by the mainly-Dutch settlers of what is now South Africa, where it began to develop independently.

Important settlements also began in the Beaubassin region of the present-day Isthmus of Chignecto, and in the St. John River valley, and settlers began to establish communities on Île-Saint-Jean and Île-Royale as well.

As the North American fur trade intensified, European settlers began expanding their trade westward into the uncharted territories.

By the time Allen reached his teens, the area, while still a difficult area in which to make a living, began to resemble a town, with wood-frame houses beginning to replace the rough cabins of the early settlers.

In the early 19th century some pioneering European settlers began occupying the land, for timber-cutting ( mainly ironbark and Australian red cedar ), lime production and grazing.

Soon Italians began taking positions in Albania's civil service, and Italian settlers were allowed into the country.

However, Portuguese settlers destroyed the trade and began a series of wars which left the empire in near collapse in the early 17th century.

In addition, as westward migration brought new settlers to the county, making it less isolated, the Harmonists began having troubles with neighbors who were not part of the Society.

John infamously offended the local Irish rulers by making fun of their unfashionable long beards, failed to make allies amongst the Anglo-Norman settlers, began to lose ground militarily against the Irish and finally returned to England later in the year, blaming the viceroy, Hugh de Lacy, for the fiasco.

The final disruption of nomadism began in the 1890s, when many Russian settlers were introduced into the fertile lands of northern and eastern Kazakhstan.

As successful English settlement of North America began to take place in 1607 in the face of the hostile intentions of the powerful Spanish, and of the native populations, it became immediately necessary to raise militia amongst the settlers.

In the nineteenth century, some members of these tribes who were more closely associated with settlers, began to purchase African-American slaves for workers.

The first American settlers began arriving in the region in the 1820s, soon outnumbering the Mexicans by 10 to 1.

A slow stream of white settlers began to arrive circa 1790.

European settlers observed this habit, and began bottling and selling the substance as a cure-all.

In the early 17th century, large-scale settlement by Protestant settlers from both Scotland and England began, especially in the province of Ulster, seeing the displacement of many of the native Roman Catholic Irish inhabitants of this part of Ireland.

In 1783, Loyalist settlers began to build upon the ruins of a former Acadian village called Ste-Anne-des-Pays-Bas.

However, settlers continued to enter Bhutan with a spurt from the 1960s when Bhutan's first modern 5-year plan began.

In 1814, the first German settlers arrived and mainly settled in the southern parts and Bessarabian Bulgarians began settling in the region too, founding towns such as Bolhrad.

At the same time, amicable relations with American settlers deteriorated as whites began claiming choice land for themselves.

The part of the province west of Montreal and Quebec in the upper river basin soon began receiving many English-speaking settlers from Great Britain.

Extensive settlement began in the Valley, again primarily by Hispanic farmers and ranchers from New Mexico in the 1850s after the construction of Fort Massachusetts by the U. S. Army for protection against the Utes, who previously barred settlers.

Early American settlers in south Texas began to use the modern ' English ' name Rio Grande.

During the 1850s, American miners and settlers began moving into Chiricahua territory, beginning encroachment that has been renewed in the migration to the Southwest of the previous two decades.