The Maine Ulster-Scots Project (MUSP), chaired by John T. Mann, is sponsored by the St. Andrews Society of Maine. It explores the struggle of the Ulster-Scots against religious and governmental persecution, their strong reliance on self and family, and the founding of a radically new independent country.
Ulster-Scots (also called Scots-Irish) have been coming to Maine since before the American Revolution. The hardships of the paths forced upon them have been under-reported; being made essentially invisible by a lack of acknowledgement by the English, they were used as a human buffer against the Indians and the French in their new country of America.
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Slainte,
Dianne
Friday, May 2, 2008
Maine Ulster Scots Project
Thursday, April 3, 2008
At the time of the American Revolution there were 31 communities of Scots and Scots-Irish in the area that is now the State of Maine.
Brunswick 1719
Purpooduc (Falmouth township) 1719
Cork Settlement 1720
Scarborough 1720
Topsham 1720
Falmouth 1727
Boothbay 1729
Bristol 1729
Nobleboro 1729
Pemaquid 1729
Pownalboro 1730
Scotland (York County) 1730
Townsend Settlement 1730
Cape Elizabeth 1734
Georgetown before 1734
Sheepscot 1734
Wiscasset 1734
Warren 1735
New Gloucester 1736
Damariscotta 1740
Stirling (Warren township) 1753
Newcastle 1754
Machias 1763
Winthrop before 1770
Gray 1774
St. George 1775
Sylvester 1775
Turner 1775
Belfast (Bagaduce) before 1776
Canaan (Somerset County) before 1780
Deer Island 1784
Ellsworth (Union River) 1785
Source: The Scotch-Irish: The Scot in North Britain, North Ireland, and North America by Charles A. Hannah. Two Volumes. Originally published in New York in 1902. Republished in Baltimore by the Genealogical Publishing Company in 1968.
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