This event is not affiliated with the Worcester Historical Museum, We are attending the conference and promoting it on our Blog. … More American Ancestors Online Conference Researching Northern Irish Ancestors
Interview with researcher Bob Starratt about the Five Ships … More Further Details on the Five Ships – Interview with Bob Starratt
We are including here a biography of Samuel Shute taken from The Dictionary of National Biography (editors Sir Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee, Oxford University Press). It was Samuel Shute for whom the so-called Shute Petition was named, the document on which “three hundred and nineteen people either signed or ‘made their mark’ … seeking … More Samuel Shute – The Governor Who Said Yes
The following is a chapter excerpt from Charles Knowles Bolton’s Scotch Irish Pioneers: Cotton Mather had in mind very early that the emigrants from Ulster would be useful settlers on the frontier. In 1718 the village of Worcester could claim a position on the Massachusetts frontier, although it lay only forty miles from Boston. First settled … More The Winter of 1718-19 in Worcester
In the summer of 1718, the first organized company of this class (Presbyterians), of which we have any knowledge, left the shores of Ireland in 5 vessels, containing 120 families, for the new world, and arrived safely in Boston, August 4, 1718. Here all was new, the wilderness and the world before them. Imagine this little … More Five Ships from Ulster, and What They Left Behind
What’s the story behind 830 Pleasant Street, and what is its relationship the the Scotch-Irish emigration of 1718? … More The House at 830 Pleasant Street
Another account of what happened to the first Presbyterian Ulster Scots in Massachusetts … More The Rev. Elam Smalley Tells the Story of the Burnt Church
Who were the first to arrive in Worcester from Ulster? Are your ancestors on the list? … More First Scotch-Irish Families in Worcester 1718
Dig into the history of one of the first Ulster Scots families to arrive in Worcester in 1718 … More The Fergusons of Worcester
What did the Scotch-Irish immigrants bring to New England? How did they contribute to their new society? … More Flax, Farming, and Food: How Scotch-Irish Immigrants Contributed to New England Society in the 18th Century
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