llll lllllllll 1mm1mm Illllllllllllllmllll llll ll~mlllllllll lllm llllll II lllll 1111111 fI Ill II Ill llllllll lllll llllll II llllll llllll ll Ill llll lllll lllll Ill~ m= · === === === THE SCOTCH-IRISH - AND Charles Scott's - - Descendants - AND - RELATED FAMILIES - - - - - - ·­ ·-- ·­- ·-- - - - - -= === BY = ==__.. ORION C. SCOTT, M. A. -=== A Great Grandson - - [ffl 11111111111m 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111t111111111111111111111111m111 IIJIII IIIIIIII IIIIII IIIII Ii ill Ii II~ Copyright, 1917, by Orion C. Scott ORION C. SCOTT, M. A. ''We live in deeds, not years; thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in ~gures on the dial. We should count time by heart-throbs; he most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." TO THE MEMORY of my beloved parents; to father, who, loyal to his country, served as private, chaplain, and prisoner of war in a Confederate prison 1862-1865 and loyal to his Master served as Circuit Rider and Pastor three score years and more,: and loyal to his faith in God brought up his children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, and to intelligent, patient mother, who was his loyai helpmeet. FOREWORD In preparing this book the object of the writer and compiler was two-folci. A f~inily tree or g~nealogical chart was first in mind. Research Ie·d_"io _a .discovery : That there we~e, back in the family history, stories ·and iegends of clans, Jiighlanders, ca·st1es and lords; also great migra­ tions that history verifies; and too, that a strong and virile people, whom research in the records of war and peace in America has in -these recent years placed at the front of the. stage next the footlights-the Scotch- Irish from Ulster, Ireland-were ioremost among· the founders and builders of this great republic. A ·:second object was to tell as a brief chapter__ will permit, the s•ory of the Scotch:-Irish, their migration from Scotland to ·ulster, and from Ulster to Ame,ica, and to tell the youth _of tod~y the names of a number of. Scotch­ Irish prominent jn history, past and· present. ·- During the past twelve years access has be~n had to Crerar Library, the Public Library, and to ·Newberry Library, Chicago, noted-for its large depart­ ment devoted .fto genealogy: Much has· been learned from and credit-is given Chas. A. Hanna's excel­ len1 volumes,Qn. "The .Sc_otch-lrish"-the Scot in North Britain, North. Irela1:1d and North Am'erica; Henry Jones iFord's fine work on ",The Sc9tch-lrish 1n America''; Reid's history of the "Irish Presbyterians"; C. K. Bolton/-~ '·'Scotc'1- Iris~ Pio~_eers➔ in Ulster and America"; the Pennsylvania state documents, the "Pfoceedlngs of !he Scotch.,Jrish Society of America'? JlO -volumes), and -to other books, and magazine articles. The record of Charles Scott's dese:endants had ·its beginning in 1880. ·when the· birth :of a ·spn· suggested·-~that 'he was entitled to kno,v more than his father's -parents had-· been able.. to tell·· of. ... the ancestors·... _The collection of data of the:. respective familiesr on both ··the. paternal and the. maternal sides grew as the years advanced. -- Through many discouragements inspiration .to pro·ceed w~s given by Uncle Wilson Scot(bf Spokane, Wash__.. Uncles, aunts and cousins:, pleased with the idea of a complete and permanent family reco~d, gladly sear~ed _their Bibles, and old records, and old letters. Their dicta­ tions were recorded. Acknowledgn1ent is inade with thanks for aid in collect~ng data of their respective_ tant_ilies and help fo bring the record up to date,_.to Emmett L. Scott and Geo~--.W. Scott of o·es Moines, Iowa; Mrs .. J._W. Campbell of Sen­ ecaville, Ohio.;' Mrs. Mathew l)oyle of Cambridge, Ohio; Mrs. 'Y- B. Gregg of· Barnes City, Iowa. ~the manuscript was carefUlly read by· Hon. Joseph T. Scott of~,Couer d'Alene, Idaho, in August, 1915, a few weeks ~efore his death. "Charles Scott I" Js_ used because- no authentic record· was found of an ea_r~ier member,of the family. _ ~'McCulloc·h;' is the more common spelling in Ulster ~nd,for that reasoi:i'. is adopted in this book. BERWYN, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS January, 1917 / ,:,,~~.-~ ,,,, - ...✓-..,,,... ,. - ... ...,,,,._ ..... _ . - . l UNST IRELAND AND- ULSTER 7 IRELAND AND ULSTER Ireland. Ireland, one· of the · Britrnh Isles, is 302 miles in its greatest length, :with a-n average breadth of I 10 miles. It is four­ sevenths the size of Iowa or Illinois, which have nearly equal area, and its present population is double that of Iowa and nearly equal to that of Illinois. It has four provinces, viz: Ulster, the northern­ most; Leinster in the east; !vhinster ·in the southwest; and Con- naught in the middle west. · Ireland has no dominating mountain mass. Small clusters of mountains stud the rim of a• central plain, ·portions of -which extend almost to the coast. · Ulster. Nine counties are co·mprised in Ulster. In the center is Tyrone, with C0urities Donegal, Londonderry, _and Antrim to the north bord~ring the sea .. These four counties constitute the he.art of the Scotch-Irish country, with Belfast their chief city. · · South of Antrim and bordering on the Irish Sea is County Down, whose shores are but thirteen and one-half miles from the Scottish coast in Ayrshire. Running west are Coun~ies Armagh, Monaghan, and Fermanagh, with Cavan south of them and -bordering on the Roman Catholic province· Leinster, the chief city of which is Dublin. · The surface of Ulster is varied by low mountains, rocky foothills, moorlands and green pastures. Lakes ·dot the int~rior, and fro:rµ these and. the high lands silver streams · run to the sea, northward, chiefly. The temperature of Ulster is milder than that of New England, and warmer even than northern England. Snow rarely lies· on the ground more than a month in winter. · The Celts were the foremost wave of westward moving tribes of the Indo-European migration to occupy Ireland. They were fel­ lowed by Picts an_d· the Romans. ·Danes, Norsemen, and Saxons likewise made their invasions, fixed some· of their customs and na.mes, and were absorbed or expelled and lost. · Populat_ion. ·For greater safe~y the people· dwelt__ in .:villages, near a st"ream on which was a. mill for grinding grain or for sawing lumber. The houses of the better sort were built with thick walls qf sto_ne, often buttressed and turretted. It was not uncommon to see . a thatched roof. This was · 1n' the early I 8th · century, and patches of flax spread upon the green grass to bleach in the sun were common, for linen manufacture, in cottage as well as factory, was the indu-try of Ulster. The wcolen industry had been ruined in 1698 by an English law that forbade export of woolens from Ire- land except to England and Wales. _ . _· The Irish or Celts, largely Roman Catholics, were early occu­ pa_nts. The Scotch-Irish followed, invited by the_ king to occupy 8 . THE ScoTCH-lRISH confiscated Irish lands, and were in almost every village, as their Presbyterian chapels bear witness. The third element in- the ,population was th.e ruling class, largely English, supplemented by Scotch anq. Irish landowners. Of those migrating to Ulster in the sev.ente~hth century the English were Episcopalians, the Scotch were Scotch Pres.byterians, and the French were Huguenots. THE SCOTC~-lRISH James VI of Scotland took also the· throne of England: in: t603 · as James I of England. Six years-later, because the Irish chiefs in.the north of Ireland had arisen in rebellion against his rule,· he· killed and expelled the chiefs, matured a scheme to transplant his' royal subjects in the south of Scotland· to occupy the vacated ·lands in Ulster, and in 1610 the se:ttleme_nt began. The breed:. :know:n as''the Scotch-Irish was formed. in the Ulster plantation·; · ln·-:i 1640 there were 100,000 Scots in the north of Ireland, and 20,000 .. English. - · The farms· in Ulster were small, each :having its'·£.eld of potaioes. The soil was enriched. by manure and lime, and~after ·-thei :e-rop· of ,,potatoes had been gathered the flax was. sown, -perhaps a bush.eL.of J seed by a family. Each farm had. also its bleaching green: where the flax fibers were whitepe_d in the sun,· ·the drying · season lasting for more than half the year. Ulster, prior to the plant~tion of Scotch and English, had been the mqst backward province of Ireland. It immediately became; and has ever since been, the most . populous, progressive, '·and wealthy, says H. J. Ford. · .- The International Cyclopedia says: Scotch-Irish are the descen<;lants of Scotch settlers .. in ·ulster, Ir:eland~- · In 1608 the esta.tes of the reb.el earls of Tyrone, and TyrconneU;· in: .the Counties Armagh, Cavan, Fermanagh, Derry, Tyrone, and Dop~gal.:, 1we~e: fwf~i!ed ·!9. the crown, and the fertile land cleared of dis1oyal Irish and parceled QYi.,,.tQ Scotch and Engli~h settlers. These · were largely augmented by refugees from the ·persecµtion: ·"··'tiiid~:r Charles IL All these coalesced into one Presbyterian people :whose;:.d_esce111l; ants now number about half a millip:µ~ -~elf~st, to"':ard. 'Y~.i~h,:J~~--~otch tended to converge, shows signs of the· Scotch ·'thrift, s~rewdneS§,. ·e_ii.~fgy ,- a11cl prosperity. · · In 1625 Charles I succeeded Jam·es 1 ·as }{ihg~,. ., . Lord Strafford was in 1633 appointed .Lord Depufy' of lrela~g. He and Archbishop Laud supported the king in his c~a.ims for ab.so~ lut_e government, and in a 'letter to Laud a little la:ter St,r$.fforq_re.7 marked "So as now I can say, the king is .as absolµte here Jin lr~-~ larid] as any prince in the whole world can· b.e", .