William White

I just could not help myself but to write about the term 'Scots/Irish.'

Many folks think that it refers to folks of mixed Scot and Irish blood. This

is not true. It was a term coined to describe those folks who fled or

migrated from Scotland for one reason or another, mostly economic or that

staying in Scotland became hazardous to their health, and landed in Ireland

for a time before migrating on to America. The Scots were Presbyterian and

almost never married the Catholic Irish and so there was little mixing of

the Scot and Irish blood. My Young ancestors fled Scotland in 1646 for

Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland and stayed nearly 96 years, running

a linen mill whose ruins you can still visit, before migrating to Virginia.

I have some copies of old letters written by Irish genealogist Mary Semple,

where, in one, she describes old Ephraim McDowell as living two miles from

where my Youngs lived there in Ireland. Knowing the historical account of

Benjamin Borden meeting old Ephraim and his family in the wilderness of VA

about 1737, and engaging their help in recruiting folks to settle Borden's

Grant, I suspect that my McDowells recruited my Youngs in Ireland and that

is why they came to America and settled in Augusta Co., VA.

Another interesting side to my history is that Dad told us that our name had

not always been Young but had been changed eons back in time. I learned in

research that in 1646, Clan Campbell massacred Clan Lamont (pronouned

Lamb-it). My ancestor, John Lamont, was hanged in a tree with 35 other clan

leaders. His wife, Mary Young Lamont, fled with her four young sons to Larne

in County Antrim. There in Ireland, all four of the boys took new surnames

to conceal themselves from the Campbells. John, the oldest son, took the

name Sitlington for a stream on their Scottish estates. The two middle sons

took the names White and Green and the youngest son, Andrew, took his

mother's maiden name of Young.

I strongly suspect that the Rev. White mentioned in the earlier email was

directly descended from William White who was one of the middle sons of John

and Mary Young Lamont.

Sorry for the rambling.

Sharon Young Jebavy

ShaLamont@wideopemwest.com

References

“From Jamestown to Texas: A History of Some Early Pioneers of Austin County” By Betty Smith Meischen. Page 55. GoogleBooks
"Mary Young Lamont's four sons changed their names. John, the oldest, took the name Sitlington He with his Youngest brother Andrew farmed and was in manufacturing of linen on the Larne river Antrim County, Ireland. They had moved to Ireland in year 1646. He took the surname of SITLINGTON after a river or a " Burn " on the Lamont Estates in Argyle, Scotland. Andrew took the name of YOUNG whicch was his mother's clan"

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