Scottish Ancestry I

Scottish Ancestry I

Introduction... 1

A Brief Pre-History of the British Isles....... 2

Prehistoric Developments... 2
The Bronze Age... 3
The Celts... 3
The Culture of the Britons... 5
The Picts & the Highland Scots... 5

The Historical Invasions....... 6

The Roman Invasion & Hadrian’s Wall... 6
The Departure of the Romans... 8
The Germanic Wave, the Angles, Saxons and Jutes... 10
An oblique look at the Bronze Age Brits... 11
Map of the invaders... 13

The Formation of Scotland....... 14

Beginning Scotland: Early History of the four tribes... 14
A United Scotland... 15
The Anglicization of Scotland... 15

Scottish/English relations: Trends until the Exile....... 17

Scottish kings with Angle blood vs. Scottish citizens with Celtic ancestry... 17
English aggression pushes Scotland into French Alliance... 19
The Political/Religious Issue... 20

The Presbyterian Revolution in Scotland....... 21

The Celtic Reformation... 21
Scottish Presbyterianism... 24
A Decentralizing Century... 25

Uh Oh! The Counter Reformation in Scotland....... 27

James VI of Scotland, (1581-1624) James I of England (1603-1624)... 27
Charles I (1625-1649)... 28
A matter of Organization, not Faith... 29
Cromwell (1650-1660)... 29
The Restoration: Charles II (1661-1684) and James VII (1685-1688)... 29
The Accession of William and Mary of Orange... 30

Highlanders migrate to the New World....... 31

North Carolina, the Cape Fear... 32

Highland Scots in America....... 36

The Revolutionary War... 36
Ratification of the Constitution... 38
Slavery and the Civil War... 39

Archibald MacLaughlin....... 42

P.S. Virginia & the Scottish Influence....... 43

Scottish immigrants in Virginia, early 1700s... 43
The first west in Virginia (Seven Years War), mid 1700s... 44
Presbyterians through Henry attack Anglican hierarchy, 1763... 44
Patrick Henry... 45
Virginia through Henry leads the Revolutionary effort, 1775... 46
Virginia resists constitution, 1780... 47
Alien & Sedition Laws of the Federalists, 1798... 47
Jeffersonian Republican Presidency, 1800... 48
Thomas Jefferson... 48
The End of the Republicans and Slavery, 1829... 49

Prologue....... 49

Summary... 5