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Religion & Spirituality

Kennedy, Billy

Christian Books & Bibles

Pinon Pr

The Carolina regions of the United States of America were settled in large numbers during the 18th century by tens of thousands of Ulster-Scots Presbyterians, who left their native shores for reasons of religious persecution and economic deprivation. 
In this third volume of the series on the hardy Scots-Irish communities who tamed the wilderness of the American frontier, journalist-author Billy Kennedy heads on a journey from the north of Ireland to the port of Charleston, South Carolina and the Carolina Piedmont, along the Great Wagon Road from Pennsylvania, through the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, into the western highlands of North Carolina and down to the historic Waxhaws, where President Andrew Jackson spent his childhood and early youth. 
On this trail of the Scots-Irish in the Carolinas, five American Presidents emerge as direct descendants of the first frontier Carolina settlers. Also, John C. Calhoun, American Vice President for two terms, was the son of an Ulsterman who settled in the Carolina upcountry and literally hauled himself up by his bootlaces from a log cabin to a position as one of the nation's most influential policy makers. 
The culture, political heritage, and legacy of the Scots-Irish so richly adorn the historical fabric of American life. Through this series on the Scots-Irish, people on both sides of the Atlantic may develop an awareness of our illustrious past which will assist them in facing the future with renewed insight and wisdom. The contributions of the Scots-Irish to the building of the great American nation were profound and deserve our full recognition.

The Scots-Irish in the Carolinas

History

Americas

Emerald House Group, Inc.

Faith and Freedom were the consuming watchwords of the Scots-Irish Presbyterians who settled on the American frontier in the 18th century. The noble, high-minded ideals of one of the most influential ethnic strains in American life became the cornerstone of the United States as a nation and was indelibly enshrined in its libertarian all-inclusive Constitution. 
Northern Ireland journalist and author Billy Kennedy, in the fifth of the highly popular chronicles on the Scots-Irish diaspora from Ulster to America, considerably widens out the inspiring story of how a highly determined and very courageous God-fearing people stamped their distinctive character on the various facets of American society. 
The latest journey extends back 200 years in time when the Scots-Irish pioneers were moving the American frontier to its outer limits; setting up townships that became great centers of population, founding log cabin churches that were to spiral the message of the gospel, and establishing schools, which were to expand into some of the foremost educational institutions in the United States. 
From Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, and Maryland on America's eastern seaboard, the immigrants from Ulster moved in a westerly direction, some stopping to settle the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and the Carolinas; others heading into Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, and Missouri, and their sons and daughters settling Texas, Mississippi, and Alabama in the south; Kansas, Oklahoma, and California in the west. 
This book vividly records the human stories of plain ordinary people whose outstanding level of achievement had to be measured against the great pain and suffering that their families endured to survive during the early formative years of settlement on the American frontier. 
The legend "Fortune Favors the Brave (Fortuna Audaces Iuvat)"--accurately capsules the raison d'etre of the Ulster-Scots in America. In the words of President Theodore Roosevelt: "They were bold and hardy people who pushed beyond the settled regions of America and plunged into the wilderness as the white advance. The Scots-Irish were the first and last set of immigrants to do this." 
Their contribution will forever be marked on the pages of American history!

Faith & Freedom : The Scots-Irish in America

Europe

Heroism was a distinct characteristic of the Scots-Irish immigrants who settled on the American frontier during the 18th century and the raw courage shown by these dogged, determined people in very difficult circumstances helped place the United States on the high plain where it is today. 
Forging a civilization out of a wilderness was a real challenge for the tens of thousands of immigrants from Ulster and how well they succeeded in molding a decent, law-abiding society from the eastern seabord states through the Appalachian region and into Texas and the Pacific regions. 
The Scots-Irish heroes and heroines (the wonderful womenfold who made the family, the home, and Christianity the cornerstone of frontier life), have beomce enshrined in American history; not just the Presidents, the statesmen, soldiers, and churchmen, but the many plain ordinary citizens whose quiet, unselfish deeds were worthy of note and a shining example to others. 
In this, the sixth volume of the highly popular chronicles of the Scots-Irish diaspora, Northern Ireland journalist Billy Kennedy records the lives and careers of those who heroically set the standard and, when danger and personal risk confronted them, did not stand back from the challenge. 
As the epitaph at the historical Greenville Presbyterian Church in the South Carolina Piedmont states: "From their home land they brought their faith to enrich the South, their brave hearts and strong arms to subdue the wilderness." 
The exceptional qualities and the outstanding achievements of the Scots-Irish provide real meaning to the term, "Heroes." They leave us a legacy from their proud and illustrious history that we can seek to emulate.

Heroes of the Scots-Irish in America

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Northern Ireland journalist and author Billy Kennedy, in this seventh of the highly popular chronicles on the Scots-Irish diaspora, charts the Ulster Presbyterian influences in the series of historic, mold-breaking events which resulted in the creation of the United States of America. 
In the establishment of the United States, the Scots-Irish were one of the most highly influential groups, both in the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the Revolutionary War which followed. This group of dedicated stalwarts, whose families emigrated to America from the Irish province of Ulster throughout the 18th century, were resolute and uncompromising champions of the movement for American independence. 
Bitter experiences of religious discrimination and economic deprivation in their Scottish Ulster homelands gave impetus to the Scots-Irish throwing off the shackles of the old order when they moved to the American colonies and opened the great frontier lands. 
The Scots-Irish were in the vanguard of American patriot involvement on all fronts of the war, but it was in the frontier that they made their most significant contribution. Quite uniquely, as a people they rose to the awesome challenge of the American frontier--its danger, inaccessibility, and sheer enormity.

The Making of America

This is the absorbing story about a race of people who created a civilization in a wilderness and helped lay the solid foundations for what is today the greatest nation on earth. The Scots-Irish Presbyterians who settled in the American frontier lands during the 18th century were a unique breed of people with an independent spirit which boldly challenged the arbitrary powers of monarchs and established church prelates. 
After making the hazardous journey across the Atlantic in simple wooden ships, these brave emigrant families landed at ports in Pennsylvania, Delaware, South Carolina, and New York, and were in the forefront of the push west to territories that hitherto had been inhabited by the native Indian tribes. A determination to carve out for themselves a lifestyle which would take into account their dissenting Calvinistic faith and the desire to break completely from the shackles of autocracy experienced in Ireland and Scotland kept these families going. 
The battles with British forces, the native Indian tribes, and the elements in a harsher climate took a terrible toll on men, women, and children, but with a doggedness and a steely character inherent in their culture, the brave Scots-Irish pioneers won through, initially to the Appalachian states of Virginia, Tennessee, the Carolinas, Kentucky, and Georgia, and eventually to points west and south, like Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Texas, and Ohio. 
This book records for posterity the daring exploits of a people who tamed the frontier. It is a story that deserves retelling so that the light of democracy and freedom can shine brightly in the complex world in which we live. These were indeed a people undeterred--the Ulster-Scots who moved to America in the 18th century. Their exploits deserve our recognition.

Scots-Irish in the Hills of Tennessee (Scots-irish Chronicles)

Scots-Irish in the Hills/Tenne:

Emerald House Group

Absorbing stories of a race of people who created the civilization in the American wilderness and helped lay the solid foundations for the greatest nation on earth. The Scots-Irish Presbyterians settled in the American frontier during with the 18th century were a unique breed of people with an independent spirit which boldly challenged the arbitrary powers of monarchs and established the church.

The Scots-Irish in the Shenandoah Valley

The beautiful Shenandoah Valley alongside the majestic backdrop of the Blue Ridge Mountains is the idyllic setting for the intriguing story of a resolute people who tamed the wilderness of the American frontier. The Ulster Presbyterian stock, or the Scots-Irish, as they were known, created a civilization in the Shenandoah during the 18th century that was to be the springboard for further frontier advance and settlement to the West. These hardy Calvinist families had endured extreme hardships in the bleak homelands they left behind in the north of Ireland, and, after overcoming nightmarish conditions on board wooden ships in the long journey across the Atlantic Ocean, they set about planting their roots with an industrious zeal that is so manifestly peculiar to their tradition and culture. From Pennsylvania to the Valley of Virginia and the Carolinas they moved out and were successful in pushing the American territories west to Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Kansas, Ohio, Texas, Nebraska, Oregon, and the California coastline. In the Shenandoah Valley, the Scots-Irish were real achievers and leaders in their community, church and state. American President Woodrow Wilson came of their ilk; so too did distinguished American Civil War General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson and J. E. B. Stuart; innovative farm reaper inventor Cyrus McCormick; celebrated author Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), and the soldier/statesman General Sam Houston, the Governor of Tennessee and Texas. The Ulster-Scots were a breed of people who could move mountains; they did it literally with their bare hands 200 years ago, standing up to the arbitraty diktats of monarchs and prelates and winning the day for freedom and liberty of conscience.

Causeway Press / Ambassador Productions

American frontier women of the 18th century were an extraordinary people whose contribution to the creation of the United States is one of the most enduring stories in history. The gallant women of the frontier have never been given the full credit they deserve for settling with their families in an uninhabited wilderness. Women of the Frontier places on record the notable achievements of these heroines. Northern Ireland author/journalist Billy Kennedy, in the eighth of his Scots-Irish Chronicles, gives recognition to the women whose lot was far from glamorous in the bleak and lonely frontier territories. They faced personal hardships and tragedies in hazardous conditions. While the men toiled arduously from dawn to dusk to lay down a stake in the New World, the women were the cornerstones of the home, the church, and the wider community. Women had to be strong, self-reliant, resourceful, and loyal to their families. Through their honest and dedicated endeavours on the frontier, a democratic and decent civilization emerged which now extends across the great American expanse from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Indeed, the women of the American frontier deserve our honor and admiration. 
Women of the Frontier tells the stories of more than 50 women who were part of the making of America from the 1700s through the early 1900s.

Women of the Frontier (Scots-Irish Chronicles)

Emerald House Group, Incorporated

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Reaching Out: A Guide to Helping Friends Follow Jesus (Freshresource Series)

The Scots-Irish in the Carolinas

Faith & Freedom : The Scots-Irish in America

Heroes of the Scots-Irish in America

The Making of America

Scots-Irish in the Hills of Tennessee (Scots-irish Chronicles)

Scots-Irish in the Hills/Tenne:

The Scots-Irish in the Shenandoah Valley

The Scots-Irish in the Shenandoah Valley

Women of the Frontier (Scots-Irish Chronicles)