Is anybody here descended from Scottish families who left Scotland because of

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52. I don't know about 1790 per se or scots but savannah boomed shortly thereafter.

"In the closing years of the 18th century, Georgia was a magnet for New Englanders seeking their fortunes (its Revolutionary-era governor had been Lyman Hall, a migrant from Connecticut)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Whitney


Eli whitney and some of the bush ancestors went to georgia from new england circa 1790s. the bush ancestors were in savannah.

the 'joseph fay' mentioned here is a bush uncle (with some greats)

http://books.google.com/books?id=Pl1aavDFhPUC&pg=PA255&lpg=PA255&dq=padelford+%26+fay&source=bl&ots=cnQqPcdWBH&sig=Wt4v7Tg0_u7yP8-HQm97cfvL9Xw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FVzNUanWDaryiQLolYGQCg&ved=0CGUQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=padelford%20%26%20fay&f=false


there was an established scottish merchant/trading/finance network in georgia though, e.g.

Lachlan McGillivray (Dunmaglass, Inverness, Scotland, c. 1718 –1799) was a prosperous fur trader and planter in colonial Georgia with interests that extended from Savannah to what is now central Alabama. He was the father of Alexander McGillivray and the great-uncle of William McIntosh and William Weatherford, three of the most powerful and historically important Native American chiefs among the Creek of the Southeast.

Lachlan McGillivray was one of several Scottish Highlanders recruited by James Oglethorpe to act as settler-soldiers protecting the frontiers of Georgia from the Spanish in Florida, the French in the Alabama basin, and their Indian allies. On January 10, 1736, Lachlan and 176 emigrants, including women and children, arrived on board the Prince of Wales to establish the town of Darien, Georgia, originally known as New Inverness. The town was founded in January 1736 and named after the Darien Scheme, a former Scottish colony in Panama.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachlan_McGillivray


Panton, Leslie & Company was a company of Scottish merchants active in trading in the Bahamas and with the Indians of what is now the Southeastern United States during the late 18th century and early 19th century.

Panton, Leslie & Company was a partnership formed by William Panton, John Leslie, Thomas Forbes, Charles McLatchy and William Alexander in 1783 for the purpose of trading with the Indians of Florida and adjacent territory claimed by Spain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panton,_Leslie_%26_Company

forbes here = relation of john forbes kerry