How important is the Declaration of Arbroath..

[macwilkin]

OMG, they're on the wrong track there! But how to inform them without making them militant in the other direction?...? Better leave well enough alone unless they start contributing to the "Widows and Orphans Funds" AKA the "Making Widows and Orphans Funds" -which now that I've said it are supposedly things of the past.

And yes, the Scots Irish migration included Hugenots, Border English, and other protestant groups who had sought refuge in Ulster. There aren't many heroes of the Frontier and Wild West era who were not descendants of them. They say Boone was not but I think that just needs work.

Boone was of English Quaker stock, although his neighbors were certainly of Ulster-Scots blood, although as we've already discussed, to be "Scots-Irish" is to really be a mixture of different ethnic groups. Also, The Scots-Irish were an "invisible" immigrant group that quickly became Americans as soon as they began to push west, thus confirming somewhat Turner's Frontier Thesis of American history.

T.