This is both a chilling, yet gripping, saga of a noble people;
warriors in the fight for Scottish Freedom; and leaders and
followers of the Religious Reformation in Scotland. They were the
Calvinists, followers of John Knox, determined to institute the
reforms flowing from the Reformation in the 1500's. They fought
valiantly despite persecution and massacre. They bravely signed the
National Covenant of Scotland, and many became known as
Covenanters. Hunted down like wild animals, many decided to make
the short sea journey of 20 miles across the channel from
southwestern Scotland to the Province of Ulster, Northern Ireland,
which had been opened up to English and Scottish settlers in the
early 1600's. While the Scottish, English, and some Huguenot
settlers flourished in the Province of Ulster, Northern Ireland,
the 'grin of the wolf' was not long in planning a tortuous massacre
in order to exterminate all Protestants in the Province of Ulster,
Northern Ireland. What followed was so horrific as to be scarcely
fit for the printed page. Yet the Massacres of 1641 and 1688-91 are
described in detail. Finally, with discrimination in their midst,
unjust laws legislated against them, treated as second class
citizens, many Scottish, English, and Huguenot settlers decided a
greater destiny lay across the Atlantic where others seeking
religious and civil liberties had preceded them. Their sojourn in
Ulster, Northern Ireland had been a bitter disappointment. This
bitterness against their British landlords carried over to America.
The Scots from Ulster became the backbone of the American
Revolutionary War. When Washington was in his deepest despair at
Valley Forge, The Ulster Scots were with him. The story of the Boyd
Family begins in Scotland, carries over to Northern Ireland, and
follows them to the frontier of all the colonies in America. It
could be the story of thousands of Scots who all experienced the
same pilgrimage and endured the same hardships and sufferings.
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