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| Tango01 | 11 Jul 2020 10:17 p.m. PST |
"In 1758, a party of six Shawnee Indians and four Frenchmen attacked the homestead of the Jemison family on Marsh Creek, near modern-day Chambersburg. The Jemisons had emigrated from Ireland sixteen years earlier and settled on the Pennsylvania frontier. Like many of their Scots-Irish countrymen, they were drawn to Pennsylvania by its reputation as "the best poor man's country:" the land was cheap and plentiful, taxes were low, and no state church hounded religious dissenters. Approximately 100,000 Scots-Irish emigrants came to North America from Northern Ireland between 1718 and 1775, the vast majority of them stepping ashore in the Delaware River ports of Philadelphia or New Castle. They did not stay there for long. The quickest way to acquire the property and independent livelihood these newcomers craved was to move west, into the frontier region of the lower Susquehanna Valley…"
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