Scotch-Irish Americans

===Pennsylvania and Virginia===
Most Scotch-Irish landed in Philadelphia. Without much cash, they moved to free lands on the frontier, becoming the typical western "squatters", the frontier guard of the colony, and what the historian [[Frederick Jackson Turner]] described as "the cutting-edge of the frontier".<ref>quoted in Carl Wittke, ''We Who Built America: The Saga of the Immigrant'' (1939) p. 51.</ref>

The Scotch-Irish moved up the [[Delaware River]] to [[Bucks County]], and then up the [[Susquehanna Valley|Susquehanna]] and [[Cumberland Valley|Cumberland]] valleys, finding flat lands along the rivers and creeks to set up their [[log cabin]]s, their [[grist mill]]s, and their Presbyterian churches.{{citation needed|date=December 2010}} Chester, Lancaster, and Dauphin counties became their strongholds, and they built towns such as Chambersburg, Gettysburg, Carlisle, and York; the next generation moved into western Pennsylvania.<ref>Dunaway, ''The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania'' (1944)</ref>

With large numbers of children who needed their own inexpensive farms, the Scotch-Irish avoided areas already settled by Germans and Quakers and moved south, through the [[Shenandoah Valley]], and through the Blue Ridge Mountains into Virginia.{{citation needed|date=December 2010}}  These migrants followed the [[Great Wagon Road]] from Lancaster, through Gettysburg, and down through Staunton, Virginia, to Big Lick (now Roanoke), Virginia. Here the pathway split, with the [[Wilderness Road]] taking settlers west into Tennessee and Kentucky, while the main road continued south into the Carolinas.<ref name=LeyburnNoPage/><ref>Rouse, Parke Jr., ''The Great Wagon Road'', Dietz Press, 2004</ref>
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