The Scotch-Irish, as they were called for several hundred years began migrating to America during the early 1700s. It is estimated that 3,000 to 4,000 Irish arrived at the port of Philadelphia before the American Revolution.
Genealogy Hint: Because of language and dialects, settlers made their homes among their kind in Bucks, Berks, and Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania. Also, the genealogist should examine Quaker records in Hinshaw’s Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy. (Philadelphia.
