Yorkville military biography

York’s history spans a period from its first settlement of the area by the Catawba Nation, through its charter in 1785, to today’s Metrolina boom.

The first English contact with the Catawba was in 1673 when a delegation from Charles Town sought help from them in subduing a hostile tribe.

The Catawba, always friendly to the Europeans, played a great part in South Carolina’s, as well as York’s, history.

The first white settlers came here in the early 1750s, having migrated south from Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Of the major groups settling Pennsylvania, the English came first; the Scots came later.

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The first Scots in Pennsylvania appear to have come directly from Scotland. Later it was those from Ulster, Ireland, who made up the larger portion of the Scots. In the early 1700s the Scotch Irish, who were Calvinist Presbyterians, became dissatisfied with the Irish Catholic persecutions and royal legislation that restricted their religious and personal freedom.

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