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- In 1770, the U.S. government took its first census and the results showed that of the 3 million people in America, 44,000 were Irish immigrants and another 150,000 were of Irish ancestry.
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Between 1717 and the American Revolution, approximately a quarter of a million Scotch-Irish will leave Ireland for America. Approximately 100 years after the original Ulster plantations have been planted they have succeeded… and they have also failed.
From 1770 to 1774 the human traffic peaked with the arrival of some 30,000 mostly Scots-Irish immigrants in America. By 1790, America had a white population of 3,100,000. Nearly half a million (447,000) are estimated to have been either Irish-born or of Irish ancestry.
Irish element in the colonial ports, except possibly those of New England. The outbreak of the American Revolution in 1776 closed the first period of Irish emigration and was followed by a transitional period from 1783 to 1847, during which the volume steadily increased, and the typical emigrant
In 1770, the U.S. government took its first census and the results showed that of the 3 million people in America, 44,000 were Irish immigrants and another 150,000 were of Irish ancestry.
- The Passage
- Ocean-Born Mary
- The Story of The Seaflower
By any standard, the passage to America was daunting. First of all, emigrants had to travel, mostly by foot, to an emigration port. Depending on the weather conditions, the voyage itself lasted typically 6–10 weeks. The cost of a passage could be £3 – £9. However, many emigrants went out as indentured servants and paid their passage through working...
'Ocean-born Mary' was born in 1720 aboard the ship on which her parents, James and Elizabeth Wilson, were sailing to America. The story goes that a pirate attacked their vessel, and threatened all on board with death, but the newborn baby's cries excited his pity; he said if they named the child Mary, after his mother, he would spare the whole ship...
Of the countless thousands of migrants from Ulster who crossed the Atlantic in the eighteenth century, few had as horrendous an experience as the passengers on the Seaflower that sailed from Belfast in 1741. By the time the ship arrived in Boston after 18 weeks at sea, over 40 passengers had died and the remainder had been reduced to cannibalism in...
According to the Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups (Thernstrom, S 1980, "Irish," p. 528), there were 400,000 Americans of Irish birth or ancestry in 1790; half of these were descended from Ulster, and half were descended from other provinces in Ireland.
Mar 18, 2023 · Between 1710 and 1775, around 200,000 of these Scots-Irish emigrated to what was to become the United States for many of the same reasons that they left Scotland. The majority of these new immigrants ended up first in Pennsylvania.
