[Lexicog] plough mud

[Dick Watson]

Richard Gravina asked, " Are there strong Scottish connections in Charleston?"

 

Histories of the early immigration to Pennsylvania and down through the Shenandoah to the Carolinas tell of a great many Scots who had earlier moved to northern Ireland under the British government's program of settling as many Protestants there as possible in order to strengthen Britain's claim and hold. Unfortunately, many of the promises turned out to be false and people were suffering and many moved back to Scotland or directly to the new promised land. So many Scots came to America and specifically to the Carolinas via Ireland or back through Scotland.

Articles that I read on the pluff mud of Charleston referred to Irish settlers, but I think further research would show that most were Protestant Scots. (I've been told of an earlier immigration of Gaels from Ireland to Scotland, but I don't think that is relevant to the immigration to the Carolinas.)

 

Dick



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