1.  Georgia was then too weak and small to contribute much to the backwoods stock; her frontier was still in the low country.

2.  Among the dozen or so most prominent backwoods pioneers of the west and southwest, the men who were the leaders in exploring and settling the lands, and in fighting the Indians, British, and Mexicans, the Presbyterian Irish stock furnished Andrew Jackson, Samuel Houston, David Crockett, James Robertson; Lewis, the leader of the backwoods hosts in their first great victory over the northwestern Indians; and Campbell, their commander in their first great victory over the British.  The other pioneers who stand beside the above were such men as Sevier, a Shenandoah Huguenot; Shelby, of Welsh blood; and Boon and Clark, both of English stock, the former from Pennsylvania, the latter from Virginia.

3.  Of course, generations before they ever came to America, the McAfees, McClungs, Campbells, McCoshes, etc., had become indistinguishable from the Todds, Armstrongs, Elliotts, and the like.

4.  A notable instance being that of the Lewis family, of Great Kanawha fame.

5.  The Blount MSS. contain many muster-rolls and pay-rolls of the frontier forces of North Carolina during the year 1788.  In these, and in the lists of names of settlers preserved in the Am.  State Papers, Public Lands, II., etc., we find numerous names such as Shea, Drennan, O’Neil, O’Brien, Mahoney, Sullivan, O’Connell, Maguire, O’Donohue,—­in fact hardly a single Irish name is unrepresented.  Of course, many of these were the descendants of imported Irish bondservants; but many also were free immigrants, belonging to the Presbyterian congregations, and sometimes appearing as pastors thereof.  For the numerous Irish names of prominent pioneers (such as Donelly, Hogan, etc.) see McClung’s “Western Adventures” (Louisville, 1879), 52, 167, 207, 308, etc.; also DeHaas, 236, 289, etc.; Doddridge, 16, 288, 301, etc., etc.

6.  “Sketches of North Carolina,” William Henry Foote, New York, 1846.  An excellent book, written after much research.

7.  For a few among many instances:  Houston (see Lane’s “Life of Houston”) had ancestors at Derry and Aughrim; the McAfees (see McAfee MSS.) and Irvine, one of the commanders on Crawford’s expedition, were descendants of men who fought at the Boyne ("Crawford’s Campaign,” G. W. Butterfield, Cincinnati, 1873, p. 26); so with Lewis, Campbell, etc.

8.  Foote, 78.

9.  Witness the Mecklenburg Declaration.

10.  McAfee MSS.  “Trans-Alleghany Pioneers” (John P. Hale), 17.  Foote, 188.  See also Columbian Magazine, I., 122, and Schopf, 406.  Boon, Crockett, Houston, Campbell, Lewis, were among the southwestern pioneers whose families originally came from Pennsylvania.  See “Annals of Augusta County, Va.,” by Joseph A. Waddell, Richmond, 1888 (an excellent book), pp. 4, 276, 279, for a clear showing of the Presbyterian Irish origin of the West Virginians, and of the large German admixture.