THE SCOT IN ULSTER

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the authorities have not yet, as far as has been reported, attempted to discover by competitive examination. Each of the two "adventurers," as soon as his patent was passed by the Irish Council, crossed into Scotland to call upon his whole kith and kin to aid him in his great scheme. Both were Ayrshire men, and both from the northern division of the county. Hamilton was a "son of the manse" of Dunlop; and still the curious may see the quaint monument which he raised to the memory of his father and mother in the kirkyard of Dunlop, within a stonethrow of the railway between Kilmarnock and Glasgow. Montgomery was one of the great Ayrshire family of that name, and sixth laird of Braidstane, near Beith. It is well to note that matters were differently managed in the beginning of the seventeenth century from what they are in the end of the nineteenth. Nowadays, Hamilton and Montgomery would have an interview with some enterprising firm of accountants in Glasgow, who would thereafter issue a circular citing the Limited Liability Acts of Victoria, and calling on all sensible people to take advantage of the enormous power of developing wealth possessed by the lands of Con O'Neill, Esq., by taking shares in an Upper Clannaboye Land Colonisation Company, Limited. In those old days the two "undertakers" had to rely on their own resources, and on the assistance which their Ayrshire friends were able and willing to give them. ...continue reading »

It must be kept in remembrance that Hamilton

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The Scot in Ulster:
Sketch of the History of the Scottish Population of Ulster

by John Harrison

1888