Join Maine Ulster Scots Project Director John Mann on a talk about the Scots-Irish settlement of the lower Kennebec during the 18th century. This program will use maps, source documents, and archaeological findings to describe the introduction and settlement of Scots-Irish families along the Kennebec River in the eighteenth century, “America’s Eastern Frontier.”
John T. Mann is founder and president of Mann Associates, Inc., a land surveying and consulting firm founded in 1980. John is also founder and “President Emeritus” of the Maine Ulster Scots Project (MUSP). The MUSP mission is to gather and save the stories of Maine’s Ulster-Scots (Scots-Irish) families and to share that information with Maine students and the public. John is a descendant of Scots-Irish emigrants arriving in Maine on the “Robert” in 1718. He is the author of “Ulster Scots on the Coast of Maine, Vol. 1” and other articles pertaining to the Ulster-Scots Diaspora in Maine.
