American Scottish History
Part 2

Continued from Part 1

• General John McArthur
  Became a Captain of a militia company (Chicago Highland Guards), and would rise to the rank of Brevet Major General during the war.

• Scots in the American Civil War
  This is a very good site giving lots of information on the Scots in the American Civil War.

• Stones have a tale to tell
  It is what is left of the United Presbyterian Congregation of Dover and Yorkville, established by the Scottish settlers who moved to the eastern part of Dover in the mid-1800s. Here rest some of the areas first residents.

• Scotland County, North Carolina
  The earliest settlers in what is now Scotland County were composed largely of Highland Scots. It is fairly well established by several writers of Scottish history that there were Highlanders living in this area as early as 1729, when North Carolina became a royal colony.

• Walton County
  During the 1700's, Euchee Indians moved into the area and lived around Bruce Creek & Choctawhatchee Bay. Scottish settlers moved into the area soon after and befriended the Euchees.

• Life and Times of William Young
  Tennessee Frontiersman, Utah Pioneer.

• Reminiscences of James David McNitt
  A great story of the life of James McNitt from 1845 onwards.

• Creek Indian Chief William McIntosh
  William McIntosh, son of (Scottish) Captain William McIntosh and Senoia Henneha of the Coweta-Cussitta Towns of the Lower Creeks, was born about 1775 near Tuetumpla (now Alabama).

• Red Eagle
  Red Eagle had been born William Weatherford, the son of a Scottish trader. Though only one-eighth Indian, he chose to cast his lot with the Creeks.

• Westward Migration
  A wee story of Highland Scots and how they settled in America.

• Edinburgh's Scottish-American Memorial
  A tale of how Edinburgh's Scottish-American memorial came into being.

• Jesse Chisholm
  The man from whom the Chisholm Trail derived its name.

• Phillip Murray
  An important American labor leader born in Blantyre, Scotland.

• James Sinclair
  Scottish American Coal Miner

• Scottish Explorers and Fur Trappers
  An account of their activities in the North American West, 1790 - 1917.

• US Politicians who were born in Scotland
  A list of 67 US Politicians.

• Scottish Heritage Day in Pennsylvania
  The resolution to make April 6th "Scottish Heritage Day" in Pennsylvania

• The Great Philadelphia Wagon Road
  The Great Philadelphia Wagon Road is the story of the Scots- Irish settlement in America.

• America's Founding Fathers
  Some Scots are now more familiar with American history and icons than with their own. Yet were they to probe the roots of that history they would find that many of the key figures in the making of North America were Scots.

• The Forgotten Monarchy of Greenbriar County, West Virginia
  The tale of how America might have had a monarchy.

• John Stuart
  An account from the "History of Greenbriar County" about their most famous pioneer.

• The Family Buie
  A detailed account of this family in America.

• Mini Bios of Virginia Scots
  A collection of interesting stories.

• A Tale of Two Families
  The McDonald Family and the McDuffie Family were eventually joined in marriage in America.

• The Settlement of Darien, Georgia
  An account of the Scottish connection.

• My Backyard
  An account of a Highlander running a farm in America.

• General Lachlan McIntosh
  Who did much for the state of Georgia.

• Alexander Burr
  Justice of the Supreme Court, 1926-1937

• Salt is the Cry !!
  Story of the Salt industry in Kansas and the place Scots played in it.

• List of Scots prisoners sent to New England
  For the period around 1651.

• Bound for America
  The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775

• The Story of a Pioneer
  By Anna Howard Shaw, D.D., M.D.

• Ohio Tartan Day
  Information on Tartan Day in the State of Ohio

• Capt. Alex. Murchison
  One of the best known and most highly respected residents of this community

• Elmira Centennial and Scottish Pioneers
  1838 - 1938

• Patriot Joseph Nickell (1750-1829)
  A brief biography

• Scotch-Irish in New England
  By Rev. A. L. Perry, Professor of History and Politics, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.

• Atlas Dean Hall
  President of the Clan Hall Scottish Society

• Presbyterian Banner
  The January 4, 1900 issue.

• Scots in Michigan
  A book by Alan T. Forrester

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