You raise an interesting point---one that my friend Dave Dougherty has been making to me for a few weeks---that in many ways the American Revolution was a Scots-Irish revolution against the Brits. Almost 1/3 of the generals and top officers were Scots Irish, and New England was actually disproportionately NOT as well represented as a % of population.
I knew some incidents of burning churches happened, but I hadn't put two and two together.