[PotatoHeadMick]

If you want to know about the sort of people your ancestor was I cannot recommend highly enough Jim Webb’s “Born Fighting”.

Now a lot of people here hate Webb with a passion because of his politics but if you want to know how the Ulster Protestants/Scots Irish were the keystone in creating the modern United States and how their battles against liberal elites have never ceased then it’s a book you will enjoy and find fascinating.

The original “Irish” in America like your ancestor have largely been written out of the story of the United States in favour of the more recent “victimised” Catholic Irish of the 19th Century but Webb’s book goes a long way to redressing that imbalance and you might find a great deal to interest you in the story of that wild Irishman fighting the Indians in Ohio and how the Liberal Establishment treated him even way back then.

[DJ MacWoW]

He was a Hutchinson and I often wonder if he had Scots roots.

Thanks for the tip on the book. I'll get it.

[jla]

.. in favour of the more recent "victimised" Catholic Irish of the 19th Century...

What do you mean by this?

[AuntB]

“The original “Irish” in America like your ancestor have largely been written out of the story of the United States in favour of the more recent “victimised” Catholic Irish of the 19th Century”

Indeed. My Irish ancestors were here in the early 1700’s. I may get Webb’s book, sounds interesting.