the late 1700’s from what I understand. There is no record of anyone coming from Scotland-Ireland.
My maternal grandfather’s Quaker ancestors arrived in Maryland on a ship from England in 1680, actually. He was known as “the immigrant” in these texts.
The books that mention him don’t state where this “immigrant” was from, but I’ll have to presume that if he’s coming from England, he’d have to have been from Ireland or Scotland. My grandfather used to get angry during the 1940s & 1950s that he couldn’t get a job because he “looked too Irish”.
I haven’t had the chance to go digging further into it, but it’s very interesting. I’ve been more focused on my father’s family’s history.
Anyhow - looking at ancestry stuff is pretty interesting, and addictive.