[blam]

" There may be some connection as it was about early Scotland/Ireland."

The majority of the Scots arrived in and around North Carolina in the mid-1700's after a battle supported by 'Bonnie-Prince-Charles' which they lost. Many fled to America where they made their living by boiling down pine-rosin for pitch used on the ships of the king of England. The term 'tar-heels' comes directly from these people who were always mucking around with pitch, tar and etc.

[Recall]

My anscestors were Scotch Irish and settled in South Carolina. I found some of them there on the First US Federal census. I thnk they farmed or worked in turpentine.

Thanks for the lesson, I didn't know where the term "tar-heels" came from.