ISBN: 1130269221

[EAN: 9781130269222], Neubuch, [PU: RareBooksClub], HENRY HARRISON METCALF,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 142 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.3in.This histori… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781130269222], Neubuch, [PU: RareBooksClub], HENRY HARRISON METCALF,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 142 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.3in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: . . . minister with a congregation to found and establish a Presbyterian church, and a school to teach even Bostonians how to spin. This church was the Federal Street church in Boston, where many of them settled. They met with a chilling reception from the Puritans of Massachusetts, and the part of the company which went to Worcester were soon compelled, on account of the hostility of the people there, to remove further west, where they founded the towns of Pelham, Palmer, and Coleraine. About twenty families, composing the congregation of Rev. Daniel McGregor, reembarked on a brigantine, sailed for Casco bay, where they spent the winter, and in the spring sailed up the Merrimack river to Haverhill, where they went ashore, and pushing on into the wilderness founded the town of Londonderry. The emigration of 1736 was partly from the same section of County Antrim and partly from the country immediately north and west of Lough Neagh. They reached the coast late in the fall. The people of Boston mistook them for Catholic-Irish, as they did those coming in 1718, and received them most inhospitably, so much so that they had difficulty in finding a place to pass the winter. But they soon vindicated their right to fair treatment, and when a Lexington farmer was taken to task for harboring them low Irish, he replied that he would like to live in a neighborhood filled with just such people. In the spring of 1737 many of them went to Lunenburg, Townsend, and other towns in that vicinity, where they settled. It was a marked trait of the Scotch Irish on their arrival in America, to push immediately for the frontier--they rarely remained in or near the older settlements. This was true of these emigrants to Londonderry and Lunenburg, and it was equally true of the . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

ISBN: 9781130269222

Henry Harrison Metcalf, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books The-Granite-Monthly-Volume-29-a-New-Hampshire-Magazine-Devoted-to-History-Biography-Literature… Mehr…

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