Re: Middle TN Scots
Originally Posted by
cajunscot
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The Ulster Scots and Pennsylvania Germans both followed the Great Wagon Road down the Appalachians into Western Virginia and the Carolina backcountry before pushing West through the Cumberland Gap (thanks to Dr. Walker and Daniel Boone) into Kentucky and Tennessee. Others pushed west from Pennsylvania directly into the Ohio Country; some of my Scottish ancestors followed this route and ended up in a colony of Scots in SE Iowa in the 1840s, where they intermarried with German immigrants.
T.
Oddly enough the only ancestors I have that don't predate the American revolutionary war are also the strongest Scottish ties, via the Bruces of South Carolina... the only ancestors I have that didn't come from Ohio or NC.
Have fun and throw far. In that order, too. - o1d_dude
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