A BOOK REVIEW
	In December I came across a book review in a national magazine that caught my eye.  After reading the review, I visited Barnes & Noble and bought a copy of Born Fighting by James Webb.   This book is a history of the people generally referred to Scot-Irish.   These were people who moved from the flatlands of Scotland and resettled in  North Ireland at the urging of the British government in an attempt to tame the Celtic Irish.   This settlement of Scots in Ireland turned out to be a huge mistake.
	Due worsening conditions there, the Scot-Irish families began a mass movement to leave Ireland and resettle in America beginning in the early 1720's and continuing to the beginning of the Revolutionary War.  This migration was important because of the sheer numbers of people who made the move.  Not only did the population of America take a big leap but it cause a severe decrease in the population of England, Scotland and especially Ireland.   But not only the Scot-Irish came, but many English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, German, Swiss, and French Huguenot people joined them and came to America through Chesapeake Bay ports during that period, settling in Lancaster and York County, Pennsylvania, then moving on south and west to occupy the frontier.  These people brought with them a strong desire for freedom, particularly religious freedom, a wish to left alone and not be dominated by the elite class, goverment officials or church leaders and were quite willing to fight those who disagreed with them
	These people came with their families in groups with friends and neighbors who they had known in Europe.  These families intermarried with each other, for example, the Wolfersbergers, Freys, Brunners and Heffelfingers.   In other parts of my family, the Evans and Shanklin (Welsh), Cravens and Harrison (English)families, Patton, Kelsey, and McCracken families and the Woods, Wallace, and MacDowell (Scot-Irish) families settled in York County and Lancaster County respectively and intermarried as they began  moving on as the frontier opened for settlement.
	The narrative in Born Fighting describes the contribution these people made to the religious, political and social culture in the US.   The first chapters cover the period of English, Irish, and Scottish history up to the beginning of the great migration beginning in the early 18th century.  It then moves to America and describes their involvement in the settlement of this new world and the formation of our government.   Those who, like me, have an interest in the history our ancestor experienced from the landing of the Thistle of Glasgow in Philadelphia, the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, theCivil War, World War I & II to the present day will enjoy this book.