{"id":2115,"date":"2019-03-20T18:57:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T01:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/?p=2115"},"modified":"2019-03-20T18:57:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T01:57:51","slug":"scots-irish-characteristics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/20\/scots-irish-characteristics-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Scots-Irish Characteristics&#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4) <strong><u>Fierce Land Hunger<\/u>.<\/strong> Land was the source of wealth; the basis for political power and voting rights; the anchor for family stability and growth. Your Scots-Irish ancestors earned or bought military land warrants from soldiers as a <strong>commercial investment<\/strong>\u2013they speculated in Western lands.\u00a0They bought up military warrants from soldiers who offered them for sale and advertised the \u201cbest prices\u201d for those warrants.\u00a0And your shrewd Scots-Irish forebears carefully marked and protected their boundary lines\u2013 they processioned these lines every 2-3 years by actually walking the boundary lines with their neighbors from the age of 16 years on.\u00a0Every male resident in each military district knew his neighbors\u2019 boundaries as well as his own and could so testify in a court of inquiry to prevent boundary disputes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is your checklist of sources to search:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>property records<\/strong> including pre-emptions, land entries, surveys, bounty awards for iron forges, mills, and stockades<\/li>\n<li><strong>deeds, including mortgages<\/strong> if recorded separately.\u00a0In Georgia, deeds often include the <em>exact<\/em> travel itinerary your ancestors took to arrive on their lands:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jones County GA M-246<br \/>\nJames McBryde<br \/>\nage 22&#8211;born in Luch parish<br \/>\nGallowayshire, Scotland<br \/>\nsailed 24 Oct 1820 from Belfast<br \/>\narrived 24 Dec 1820 at Savannah<br \/>\nto Clinton GA 1 Feb 1821<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>land warrants and assignments<\/strong> are especially valuable because these will be the earliest records for the Scots-Irish<\/li>\n<li><strong>court minutes<\/strong> covering local boundary squabbles as well as the formal process of walking the boundaries, including which local men were assigned to each district<\/li>\n<li><strong>bounty-land claims\u2014<\/strong>almost as soon as they arrived, they claimed their lands or bought lands from someone else.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your favorite genealogist, Arlene Eakle\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/arleneeakle.com\">http:\/\/arleneeakle.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PS I am 3\/4 Welsh. I have been told that I am likely part Irish because of it. I hope so! Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4) Fierce Land Hunger. Land was the source of wealth; the basis for political power and voting rights; the anchor for family stability and growth. Your Scots-Irish ancestors earned or bought military land warrants from soldiers as a commercial investment\u2013they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/20\/scots-irish-characteristics-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1729,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions\/2116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}