Surviving Commonwealth of England

I honestly don't know the first thing about Welsh immigration to America, but I absolutely do know that Welsh people aren't "Scots-Irish". Of course, the Ulster "Scots" had plenty of Englishmen in their ranks, and some Germans and French, but they assimilated: someone who went from Wales to Ulster to America (don't know if that was common) would be about as "Welsh" as David Crockett was French.

I didn't mean to imply that all of the Welsh people would migrate from Ulster, even though some Welsh people did settle in Ulster to a relatively small degree (when compared to people from the Border regions and Lowland Scotland). Crockett was still part French BTW. His Scots-Irish blood did not overwhelm his Huguenot roots, but I think that I understand your point.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that, like you said, it would be less common for Welsh people to migrate from Ulster than it would be for them to migrate from Wales (via the appropriate ports). Many of them came to Pennsylvania, and they played a role in the American Revolution. Morgan was instrumental in winning battles in both the northern and southern campaigns, for instance.
 
A dissenting Scot could be of the church or religion of your choice, since I used "dissenting" as an adjective, not as the name of a religious group, and I meant that they were Royalists.

The Mosstrooper insurrection had simmered down by the end of the Commonwealth, and the movement of Mosstroopers to America was mostly less than voluntary (that the Commonwealth sent white people in chains to the West Indies, it seems to me, has some interesting intellectual ramifications down the line). I don't particularly see why Scottish royalists in the Commonwealth constitute a more severely persecuted constituency than the southwestern Presbyters did under the Restoration settlement.

I was not referring to Dissenters, but I can see how you might think that I was. Some Scots in my group could be Anglicans, but I doubt that they would be called Episcopalians (same church, different name) where they lived.

As I say, at that time "Episcopalian" was just a statement of doctrinal belief. There wasn't any "Episcopalian Church" in Scotland, and the differant doctrinal factions had control of the CoS at differant times. It took a while after the triumph of the Presbyterians for the Episcopalians to finally consign themselves to seperation.
 
I didn't mean to imply that all of the Welsh people would migrate from Ulster, even though some Welsh people did settle in Ulster to a relatively small degree (when compared to people from the Border regions and Lowland Scotland).

Well, what you said was "Scots-Irish including Welsh", which is just a very strange formulation.

Crockett was still part French BTW. His Scots-Irish blood did not overwhelm his Huguenot roots, but I think that I understand your point.

I don't believe in "blood". I'm not an expert on Mr.Crockett, but I don't understand that he ever knew French or felt himself a Frenchman or French-American.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that, like you said, it would be less common for Welsh people to migrate from Ulster than it would be for them to migrate from Wales (via the appropriate ports).

Indeed, but then they would in no conceivable way by "Scots-Irish".

Many of them came to Pennsylvania, and they played a role in the American Revolution. Morgan was instrumental in winning battles in both the northern and southern campaigns, for instance.

But why in particular are the Welsh being singled out?
 
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