The Crow nation

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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.

Horace Kephart also talks about this in his writings about the people of Appalachia. The common assumption is that Mountain people supported the Revolution and the Confederacy, but it was quite the opposite.