Middle TN Scots

[macwilkin]

As an avid history nut I have noticed lots of the folks who settled in Middle Tennessee and Fort Nashboro area in 1779 were Scots. Robertson, Henderson, Donelson etc.

Seem theses families stuck together on the frontier of PA, then NC and then made the jump to the French Lick in the middle of the wilderness. Seemed like lots of German families came with them here.

How common was this tie as I have both Scottish and German ancestry.

Fairly common; remember that it was the "Pennsylvania Dutch" that gave the Ulster-Scots the PA/Kentucky long rifle and the Conestoga Wagon.

The Ulster-Scots tended to marry among other Protestants, so you'll find a German Palantine or a Huguenot in the mix -- David Crockett, for example, had a French Protestant grandfather named de la Croquetagne, which was later anglicized to "Crockett". One of the commanders of the Overmountain Men at King's Mountain, John Sevier, was also of Huguenot heritage. There were also the Moravians who settled in North Carolina.

T.