Bolton's definitive work examines conditions in Ulster, Northern Ireland that prompted the immigration of Scotch Irish to the New World about 1718. It studies their settlements throughout Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. Genealogists will find important information in the lists of petitioners for transport from Northern Ireland, hometowns of Ulster families, Scotch Irish names from church records, and names of ships carrying passengers from Ireland to New England. This volume is attractively illustrated with maps of Ulster and the American colonies, and pen and ink sketches of many scenes in Ulster. Sources are cited in footnotes, and the book contains a comprehensive index. Charles Knowles Bolton (1910), 2007, 5½x8½, paper, index, 412 pp. ISBN: 9781556132353 101-B0235