Further Details on the Five Ships – Interview with Bob Starratt
January 30, 2019
Interview with researcher Bob Starratt about the Five Ships … More Further Details on the Five Ships – Interview with Bob Starratt
Category: Worcester 1718
Samuel Shute – The Governor Who Said Yes
January 18, 2019
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 Winter of 1718-19 in Worcester
December 13, 2018
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. … More The Winter of 1718-19 in Worcester
Five Ships from Ulster, and What They Left Behind
November 23, 2018
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
The House at 830 Pleasant Street
October 24, 2018
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
The Rev. Elam Smalley Tells the Story of the Burnt Church
August 9, 2018
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
First Scotch-Irish Families in Worcester 1718
August 2, 2018
Who were the first to arrive in Worcester from Ulster? Are your ancestors on the list? … More First Scotch-Irish Families in Worcester 1718
The Fergusons of Worcester
August 1, 2018
Dig into the history of one of the first Ulster Scots families to arrive in Worcester in 1718 … More The Fergusons of Worcester
Flax, Farming, and Food: How Scotch-Irish Immigrants Contributed to New England Society in the 18th Century
July 11, 2018
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
Thornton’s Climb
July 5, 2018
From child of immigrants to signer of the Declaration of Independence – follow Matthew Thornton’s climb … More Thornton’s Climb
