Ron Chepesiuk is a professor and head of special collections at Winthrop University. He is also the author of Sixties Radicals, Then and Now (1995), Raising Hell (1997) and Hard Target (1999). He lives in Rock Hill, South Carolina.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Introduction      Prologue: Going to America: The Thomas Mellon Experience      1. Ireland and Scotland Before the Plantation      2. The Ulster Plantation      3. Scotch-Irish Presbyterianism Takes Root in the Seventeenth Century      4. The Siege of Derry and the Protestant Triumph      5. Sailing West for the Promised Land      6. Settling the New Land      7. Life on the Frontier      8. The Scotch-Irish and the Making of America      Appendix: Scotch-Irish Sites of Historical Interest in the North of Ireland      Notes      Bibliography      Index

“highly readable”—Choice; “covers a subject of interest to many genealogists...comprehensive”—Today’s Librarian; “very interesting and readable history...recommended”—Rambles; “well-written...well-indexed and has a comprehensive bibliography”—Ulster Nation.

Ron Chepesiuk is a professor and head of special collections at Winthrop University. He is also the author of Sixties Radicals, Then and Now (1995), Raising Hell (1997) and Hard Target (1999). He lives in Rock Hill, South Carolina.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Introduction      Prologue: Going to America: The Thomas Mellon Experience      1. Ireland and Scotland Before the Plantation      2. The Ulster Plantation      3. Scotch-Irish Presbyterianism Takes Root in the Seventeenth Century      4. The Siege of Derry and the Protestant Triumph      5. Sailing West for the Promised Land      6. Settling the New Land      7. Life on the Frontier      8. The Scotch-Irish and the Making of America      Appendix: Scotch-Irish Sites of Historical Interest in the North of Ireland      Notes      Bibliography      Index

“highly readable”—Choice; “covers a subject of interest to many genealogists...comprehensive”—Today’s Librarian; “very interesting and readable history...recommended”—Rambles; “well-written...well-indexed and has a comprehensive bibliography”—Ulster Nation.

Ron Chepesiuk is a professor and head of special collections at Winthrop University. He is also the author of Sixties Radicals, Then and Now (1995), Raising Hell (1997) and Hard Target (1999). He lives in Rock Hill, South Carolina.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Introduction      Prologue: Going to America: The Thomas Mellon Experience      1. Ireland and Scotland Before the Plantation      2. The Ulster Plantation      3. Scotch-Irish Presbyterianism Takes Root in the Seventeenth Century      4. The Siege of Derry and the Protestant Triumph      5. Sailing West for the Promised Land      6. Settling the New Land      7. Life on the Frontier      8. The Scotch-Irish and the Making of America      Appendix: Scotch-Irish Sites of Historical Interest in the North of Ireland      Notes      Bibliography      Index

“highly readable”—Choice; “covers a subject of interest to many genealogists...comprehensive”—Today’s Librarian; “very interesting and readable history...recommended”—Rambles; “well-written...well-indexed and has a comprehensive bibliography”—Ulster Nation.