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The Strong Family Association is large, and I am a member...because Elder John Strong had so many children, there are literally thousands of descendants, including the late Princess Diana, and the late John Wayne....
Most of the Scots-Irish settlements in Pennsylvania were
initially in the Philadelphia, Chester, Berks and Lancaster
areas. By 1730 they included York County, and by 1740 they
were into Adams county. There were settlements in Dauphin,
Lebanon, Franklin, Fulton, Cumberland, and Perry Counties,
with Bedford County being settled by 1750. They generally
avoided the disputed borderland between protestant Pennsylva-
nia and Catholic Maryland. After 1730, they spilled south-
ward, across Maryland into the Virginia Valley, where they
settled into what has been claimed to be one of the most
Scots-Irish counties in the United States-- Rockbridge and
Augusta Counties. 38
At the time of the Revolutionary War, the Scots-Irish
tended to be ardent patriots. By contrast, those immigrants
who came directly from Scotland were generally Loyalists,
faithful to the Crown. 39 The difference was likely in the
experiences they had had in the preceding 100 years. Those
who had been in Ulster had suffered from the persecution of
the English Crown under the Irish Test Act, etc., while those
who had been in Scotland had experienced the economic ben-
efits of the 1707 Act of Union, and freedom of religion.
This broad generalization might further be disected into the
Catholic Highland Scots, who were largely Jacobite Rebels un-
til about 1760, and the Episcopalian High- and Lowlanders who
were somewhere in the middle but tending toward Tory.
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