--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > Americans with Scottish blood include Thomas Edison, Samuel Morse, > President Jefferson, Edgar Allan Poe, Allan Pinkerton (who founded > the Pinkerton Detective Agency), Washington Irving, Whistler and John > Paul Jones, just to name a few. A Scotsman, John Witherspoon, signed > the American Declaration of Independence, and was also one of the > founders of Princeton. Robert E. Lee, the famous Civil War general > was of Scottish descent and so was Ulysses Grant. President Monroe's > (Munro's) ancestors came from Sutherland. > > It goes on ad infinitum. > America is nothing without the Scots.
On the other hand, my ancestry is one-quarter Scots-Irish, so it can't be all good. ;-)
