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localities which received the majority of the Scotch-Irish Presby- 

 terian emigrants from Ulster. Of course there were Ulstermen 

 among the settlers of all the 13 colonies, but the great movement 

 was to these four localities. 



The most northern of these ports of arrival was Boston. But 

 the Scotch-Irish who arrived there either found the prevailing 

 Puritanism uncongenial, or their racial instinct to be mountain- 

 dwellers was overpowering. Or both may have been factors. At 

 any rate the larger portion of them sought homes among the 

 granite ridges of the hills — a region much resembling the Mourne 

 mountain district in County Down. Here they founded the towns 

 of Londonderry, in New Hampshire, and South Londonderry and 

 Antrim in Vermont. Here their descendants dwell to-day — pious, 

 God-fearing, and hard-working farmers, by hard labour wresting 

 a scanty living from the rocky soil. 



A smaller number landed at New York, but they found the 

 Dutch atmosphere uncongenial, and settled in the hill country, 

 giving the name of Ulster County to the area. Like the Irish 

 province of the same name, Ulster County, New York, is famed 

 for its butter, and furnishes to the metropolitan city a large share 

 of its daily milk supply. 



The largest migrations to both these localities were caused by 

 the persecution of Protestants who would not conform to the 

 Established Church. Many of these emigrants were of the men 

 who defended the walls of Derry, and thus aided materially in 

 establishing William and Mary on the British throne. Hated by 

 the Roman Catholic Irish because they were Protestants, perse- 

 cuted by the English because they were Presbyterians, they went 

 to America to obtain the liberty denied them here. Their 

 migration was Ireland's loss and America's gain. 



The third centre of Scotch-Irish immigration in the Colonies 

 was Philadelphia. The gentle Quakeis interposed no objection 

 to freedom of religious belief. So many Ulstermen arrived in 

 the city of brotherly love that it became more of a Scotch- 

 Presbyterian city than an English-Quaker one. And one of them 

 was James Logan, of Lurgan, who accompanied William Penn in 



