Scotland moved to Appalachia via Ulster. Or at least the independent, hard fighting, untamed people of Scotland. http://www.ulsterancestry.com/ulster-scots.html. Hard to beleive my people descended from those people left over there.
“...British Army, Captain Johann Henricks, one of the much despised ‘Hessians’, wrote in frustration ‘Call it not an American rebellion, it is nothing more than an Irish-Scotch Presbyterian Rebellion.’ It was their toughness, virility and sense of divine mission that was to help give shape to a new nation, supplying it with such diverse heroes as Davy Crocket and Andrew Jackson. They were indeed God’s frontiersmen, the real historical embodiment of the lost tribe of Isreal.”