[peteypupperdoo]

“Not just posh. It was the norm in early America. “

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Thank you, Mairdie! My paternal grandmother’s family are descendants of some Mayflower guy (hahaha not a Mayflower Madame). I’ll have to go back and look at names. My maternal grandmother, they came from Scotland, Britain. Some kind soul traced the lineage way way back and I always wondered how they ended up in Novia Scotia. Yeah... when the American Revolution broke out, they hightailed it out of America. Peaceniks? Traitors? Loyalists?

Petey

[Oratam]

My maternal grandmother, they came from Scotland, Britain. Some kind soul traced the lineage way way back and I always wondered how they ended up in Nova Scotia.

Following the defeat of the Jacobite cause at Culloden in 1746 and the subsequent collapse of the Gaelic order, there was a mass migration of Scots to the New World with Nova Scotia being a primary destination.

I was utterly ignorant of this history until a colleague of mine some 25 years ago told how her family found itself in America.

[ichabod1]

Not everybody was on the side of the revolutionaries. Doesn’t make’em bad people. Some of the “patriots” in the Committees of Safety were pretty rotten violent and thuggish like the leftists we’re dealing with today, unfortunately. Meaning if you didn’t denounce the Crown with sufficient vigor you were like to get your house burned down or worse.