These would be the Scots that fought at the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, styled as the Royal Highland Emigrants (Not yet the 84th Regiment).

See a map illustrating The “Scottish Grant” in New York’s Mohawk Valley was awarded to discharged veterans of Highland regiments that participated in the French and Indian War.

When the Jacobite army invaded England during the 1745-46 Jacobite Rebellion (known as "The '45") many English believed the Highlanders ate children.The first Highlanders in North America were involuntarily transported; i.e. Green Cards and Permanent Residence in the U.S. In 1773 John and many of his extended family, the “Corriebuigh McMillans” emigrated to the Mohawk Valley of New York. Fifty Highlanders died and 880 were captured. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 helped tremendously with former veterans, including Highlanders, to obtain land grants in America. The MacMillans were, like many clans, divided during "The '45".

My main focus has been Highlanders in North Carolina for the past year, but I've got some knowledge of those in New York and Georgia, and some in Virginia. 2. Those among the clergy unwilling to swear allegiance to the Crown were forbidden to preach or hold meetings.

Click on menu DATABASE item to view lists of Jacobites partaking in the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion. Rents rose dramatically, clan chiefs being more concerned with their bottom line than the welfare of their clanspeople. In the 18th century Highlands, improved agricultural methods produced a surplus, reducing the mortality rate due to famine and disease (one source stated a 65% infant mortality rate in prior centuries). 4. The defeat of these poorly armed Cape Fear Highlanders at the battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge in 1776 dampened the Cape Fear colonists’ enthusiasm for war.

They were courted and coerced by both the Patriots' and the Crown’s representatives. Remaining loyal to the Crown during the American Revolution they were driven from their land by the Patriot Corps of Sequestration and were interned for the duration of the war. In 1775 the Crown's representative, Governor Martin, offered incoming Highlanders free land grants in exchange for signing a loyalty oath. A large proportion of the Cape Fear immigrants had been recent arrivals, as noted above. As a gross generality, the less time an immigrant had lived in the colonies the less likely they were to sympathize with the rebellion. Neither came to pass.Following a decade after "The '45" was the Seven Years War, known in North America as the French and Indian War. Unique to the Highlanders, the clan system under which they had lived for centuries (already distressed by the 18th century), quickly disintegrated after the last Jacobite Rebellion in 1746 under economic and political pressure. By this time, Highlanders were becoming more and more integrated into the British army and arguably British society. In both upstate New York and North Carolina they were surrounded and outnumbered by dominant Patriot populations, often Scots-Irish. Both Crown representatives and those of the Patriots demanded oaths of loyalty.

Immigration and Citizenship. Initially sympathetic to the tenets of the Patriot cause, even sending representatives to Patriots' state congresses, the Highland immigrants’ sympathies eventually swung toward neutrality or loyalism. Former Jacobites moved to the New World shortly after the 45 Rising's failure and the Seven Years War with many of the regiments disbanding in North America. Nearby Johnstown also had a settlement of Highlanders sponsored by Sir William Johnson. Arthur Young, an English agricultural expert, wrote: "It has been observed, that the (Seven Years) War carried off between 50,000 and 60,000 of the ablest men of the north and west of Scotland, which, for a time, distressed every branch of demand, yet, in a very few years the numbers were greater than ever, and hands for every demand so plentiful, that many wanted work..." Enlistment in Highland regiments provided incentive for Highland men to escape poverty and unemployment. More exiled rebels were banished after the abortive Argyll rising (which involved Alexander Macmillan of Dunmore in 1685); and yet more after the 1715 Jacobite Rising.

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