There they met others of their own race--bold men like themselves, hungry after land--who were coming in through Charleston and pushing their way up the rivers from the seacoast to the "Back Country," in search of homes.
These Ulstermen did not come to the New World as novices in the shaping of society; they had already made history.

Their ostensible object in America was to obtain land, but, like most external aims, it was secondary to a deeper purpose.

What had sent the Ulstermen to America was a passion for a whole freedom.

They were lusty men, shrewd and courageous, zealous to the death for an ideal and withal so practical to the moment in business that it soon came to be commonly reported of them that "they kept the Sabbath and everything else they could lay their hands on," though it is but fair to them to add that this phrase is current wherever Scots dwell.

They had contested in Parliament and with arms for their own form of worship and for their civil rights.