Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot View Post
Were they Highlanders, or Ulster-Scots? The Overmountain Men were mostly Ulster-Scots, and Sevier was a Huegenot. There were Ulster-Scots who were descendants of Highlanders like the Gallowglas, but more recent immigrants from the Highlands did not usually support the Patriots.

Don't blame me; blame scholars such as Calloway, Duane Meyer, etc. There are always exceptions, but Meyer's research on the Highlander communities of NC pretty much confirm that they tended to support the Crown over their rebel neighbors.

T.
Didn't most of the Highlanders have some sort of "agreement" or "contract" with the loyalists just to live over in the colonies?, sorta like indentured servants but not... I forget where I read, it might of been a book I real long ago.