A Tapestry of Colonists

To the memory of the Scots – Irish: “… for pilgrim feet, Whose stern impassion'd stress, A thoroughfare for freedom beat, Across the wilderness...” The following extract is from Logan's letter to John Penn, of November 25, 1727: "… We have from the north of Ireland great numbers yearly. Eight or nine ships this last fall discharged at New Castle… The Irish settle generally towards the Maryland line, where no lands can honestly be sold till the dispute with Lord Baltimore is decided... The Scotch-Irish, as they were called, were emigrants from the northern part of the sister kingdom, descendants of the Scotch colonies planted there by Cromwell… ... They felled the forests, cleared the lands, and filled them with broad farms, large towns, great factories and many railroads...” This book was written as a memorial to those who came before and broke the path for all of us: Hunter, Martin, Scott and Ware, Jordan, Cabell and Rose, Walker, Tate and May, and all those “... beautiful … heroes … Who more than self their country lov'd, And mercy more than life...” A companion to A Tapestry of Heroes, this book covers the three decades between John Hunter coming to America and the birth of John Ware Hunter, his grandson.