How the Scotch-Irish Settled in Chester, South Carolina

How the Scotch-Irish Settled in Chester, South Carolina

During the Royal Period, there was a great migration of Scottish and Irish persons into South Carolina. They through the Charleston Port, as well as that in Philadelphia, laying over in Bucks County. But the Indian raids along the Pennsylvania frontier presented problems, and many Scots-Irish took to the Great Wagon Road from Pennsylvania through the Shenandoah valley, down to North Carolina and South Carolina. The Scotch-Irish virtually settled the back country of South Carolina before the Revolutionary War. The greater portion of the were Protestant. The Irish in Northern Ireland came down a little later. Here is an example of a plain Irish family migrating from Ireland into Pennsylvania an finally to Chester, South Carolina. According to his pension, William Boyd was born in Ireland and brought to Charleston, South Carolina by his father when he was five years old. He was just fifteen years old when he enlisted as a substitute for his father in the Revolutionary War and served four months, then three months as a private in the South Carolina Troops under Lt. Archibald Gill, Colonel Lacy, Colonel Thomas Taylor and Colonel Bratton. Although he appears to have only substituted in the war, his widow applied for a pension.

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