The Plantation Movement in 1745 Timeline

I had a few minutes today to ask a Family History Library Consultant a question on trying to locate our grandfather Caleb Cragun. He only had a few minutes but was able to provide some info and  will give me more later. He coincidentally has been searching for 20 years on a similar family story: From England to Ireland and Originally from Scotland. I think there is a high probability our Family follows this heritage back to Scotland.

There were companies of guilds that were sent from London called the London Company. There were more than one. The second apparently were those of Scottish heritage.

He told me that there were patterns of movement for these families. Ours likely ended up in Ulster. From Wiki:

The Plantation of Ulster (Irish: Plandáil Uladh) was the organised colonisation (plantation) of Ulster – a province of Ireland – by people from Scotland and England. Private plantation by wealthy landowners began in 1606,^[1] while official plantation controlled by King James I of England and VI of Scotland began in 1609. All land owned by Irish chieftains of the Uí Néill and Uí Domhnaill (along with those of their supporters) was confiscated and used to settle the colonists. This land comprised an estimated half a million acres (2,000 km²) in the counties Tyrconnell, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Cavan, Coleraine and Armagh.^[2] Most of the counties Antrim and Down were privately colonised.^[1]
The "British tenants",^[3] a term applied to the colonists,^[4] were mostly from Scotland and England. They were required to be English-speaking and Protestant.^[5] The Scottish colonists were mostly Presbyterian^[3] and the English mostly members of the Church of England. The Plantation of Ulster was the biggest of the Plantations of Ireland. Ulster was colonised to prevent further rebellion, as it had been the region most resistant to English control during the preceding century.

That movement of people, when in America, tended to move South into Virginia. This again gives a  hope we have corroboration coming on Patrick as he did go South.


He is beginning to upload his 20 years of research into the Family Search Wiki.

I next am trying to locate the names if published of people in this company.