The rest were Scots Irish along with a few real harps, 1730’s Alabama and Mississippi via the Carolina's and Penn after the Revolution. Some ended up in VA, no has a clue why.
My 3rd great grandma Holden was born in Vermont in 1815
shes my last holdout who may have had a rebel/patriot father or grandfather..
but I have not been able to find her parents..
for the 1820, 1830 census in Vermont the familes are listed as John Holden one wife 6 children etc...
Her 1888 Gowanda, New York death certificate identiries the Vermont birth...
and Ive seen the original death ledger...
and the 1861, 1871, 1891 Grantham, Ontario, Canadia census lists her as born in the US..
There are more than 20 Holdens from Vermont listed in the DAR directory..
also there were several Holdens from New Hampshire and MASS
“Scots Irish”
Kinda don’t like that term.
I guess it covers all the “Mc’s” and “Mac’s” who left Scotland for Ireland, discovered all the famine, and were too poor to get back to Scotland. Ended up taking the first boat-full-of-debtors they could find to the Colonies/States.
Let’s face it, they were Scots....