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During the 18th century and the early 19th century, the Germans were largely accepted by English and Scotch-Irish who also lived in the valley. The backcountry was relatively free of some of the class competition of the coastal areas, as most of the new settlers were subsistence farmers.
Cohee was a name that Irish, Scotch-Irish and German immigrants to the colonial-era Southern United States gave themselves. [2] The word comes from the Scots and Ulster Scots phrase "quo he", which corresponds to "quoth he" in standard English. [1] It has come to mean "a backwoods settler of Scots or northern Irish origin". [1]
The Scotch-Irish immigration to America began in 1717, with a majority of these immigrants from northern Ireland arriving first in Pennsylvania. [13] It is believed that most of the early settlers of Augusta County, Virginia were first or second generation Scotch-Irish immigrants who came from Pennsylvania.
Two early citations include: 1) "a grave, elderly man of the race known in America as 'Scots-Irish '" (1870); [26] and 2) "Dr. Cochran was of stately presence, of fair and florid complexion, features which testified his Scots-Irish descent" (1884). [27]
Along with the first German settlers, known as "Shenandoah Deitsch", many Scotch-Irish immigrants came south in the 1730s from Pennsylvania into the valley, via the Potomac River. The Scotch-Irish comprised the largest group of non-English immigrants from the British Isles before the Revolutionary War , and most migrated into the backcountry of ...
Alexander McNutt (1725, near Derry, Ireland – 1811, Lexington, Virginia) was a British Army officer, colonist and land agent, responsible for seeing an approximate 500 Ulster Scottish emigrants arrive in Nova Scotia during the early 1760s. McNutt emigrated to America some time before 1753 by which time he had settled in the town of Staunton ...
By 1745, Samuel Stalnaker was living on the New River in southwestern Virginia, which was the far frontier and populated mainly by Scots-Irish and German immigrants, as well as English settlers from farther east in Virginia. He and his wife Susanna had a daughter, Maria Barbara, in 1743, who was not christened until November 1755.
John Mathews settled in Augusta County, Virginia around 1737 and held several local offices in the community. [8] [9] Several of his sons took part in patriot efforts during the American Revolutionary War; Sampson Mathews (c. 1737–1807) and George Mathews (1739–1812) were members of the Augusta County Committee of Safety, which drafted the Augusta Resolves and the Augusta Declaration. [10]