From David Dobson, Directory of Scots in the Carolinas 1680-1830 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1986).
‘S ged rachadh iad Charolina
No do thir tha fo’n ghrein
Cha b’urrainn iadsan tachairt
Ach ann nan talamh fein
and though they would go to Carolina
or to any other land under the sun, they
would not be able to meet except in their
own land
From Baird na Gaidhealtachd mu Thuath,
by Donald Matheson (1851)
Alexander Sinclair
A Scottish indentured servant who absconded in SC during March 1735
(South Carolina Gazette 4.1735)
Alexander Sinclair
Age 36, farmer, from Dollochlogy, Reay, Caithness. Emigrated
from Scotland with his wife and three children aged 18 to 2 years, to Wilmington,
North Carolina on the Bachelor of Leith, April 1774. (PRO/T47.12)
Alexander Sinclair
Born in Perthshire. Naturalized 10 January 1804 in South Carolina.
(Common Plea Ctu3.232)
Ann Sinclair
Age 65, a spinner, from Glenorchy, Argyllshire. Emigrated from
Scotland with her daughter Margaret, age 25, also a spinner, to Wilmington,
North Carolina on the Jupiter of Larne, master Samuel Brown, in September
1775. (PRO/T47.12)
Daniel Sinclair
Age 57, farmer, born in Scotland; Flora 53 Scotland; John 30 b. Marion
Co., SC; Alexander 21 b. Marion Co., SC; Archibald 18 b. Marion Co., SC;
Duncan 16 b. Marion Co., SC; Sarah 14 b. Marion Co., SC; Daniel 12 b. Marion
Co., SC; Margaret 10 b. Marion Co., SC; Joseph 7 b. Marion Co., SC.
(1850 Marion Co., South Carolina census)
Duncan Sinclair
Age 24, farmer, from Glenorchy, Argyllshire. Emigrated from Greenock,
Renfrewshire, with his wife Isobel McIntyre [maiden name], age 24, to Wilmington,
North Carolina on the Ulysses, master J Chalmers, in August 1774. (PRO/T47.12)
Hugh Sinclair
Age 60, farmer, born in Scotland; Margaret 62 Scotland; John 23 farmer
b. Scotland; Isabella 19 b. Scotland; Effie 25 b. Scotland. (1850
Cumberland Co., North Carolina census)
James Sinclair
Age 21, farmer, from Forsenan, Reay, Caithness. Emigrated from
Scotland with his wife to Wilmington, North Carolina on the Bachelor of
Leith, April 1774. (PRO/T47.12)
John Sinclair
Age 32, farmer, from Glenorchy, Argyllshire. Emigrated from Greenock,
Renfrewshire, with his wife Mary Sinclair [maiden name], age 33, to Wilmington,
North Carolina on the Ulysses, master J Chalmers, in August 1774. (PRO/T47.12)
John Sinclair
Age 71, born in Scotland. (1850 Robeson Co., NC census)
Mary Sinclair
Age 70, born in Scotland; Nancy 62, born in Scotland; Christian 25
b. Robeson Co., NC; Peter 22 b. Robeson Co., NC; Duncan 21 b. Robeson Co.,
NC. (1850 Robeson Co., North Carolina census)
Neil Sinclair
Born during 1794 in Tarbert, Kintyre, Argyllshire. Emgirated
from Glasgow to Wilmington, North Carolina in August 1804. Married
Catherine McMillan. Settled in Robeson County, North Carolina.
Father of Duncan and Mary. Died 18 August 1880.
1850 Robeson County census – Neil Sinclair 56 b. Argyllshire; Catherine
50 b. Cumberland Co., NC; Duncan 27; John C. 26; Isabella 24; Mary 22;
Thomas 20; Elizabeth 15; Flora A. 10; Catherine 12; Margaret G. 7.
All children born in Robeson County, North Carolina. (St. Paul’s OPR and
PC Mordecai Papers in Raleigh, NC).
Patrick Sinclair
Jacobite soldier captured after the Seige of Preston, Lancashire.
Transported from Liverpool to South Carolina on the Wakefield, master Thomas
Beck, 21 April 1716. (SPC: State Papers: Colonial) and (CTB: Calendar
of Treasury Books, London)
Peggy Sinclair
Emigrated from Jura, Argyllshire (probably) on the General Wolfe, master
J MacLean, to America. Landed at Brunswick, North Carolina on 4 November
1767. Allocated a 100 acre land grant in Cumberland or Mecklenburg
counties. (South Carolina Gazaette.1671) and (Scotch Highlanders
in America: Cleveland, 1900).
Richard Sinclair
Born in Scotland. Merchant in Charleston, South Carolina.
(South Carolina Probate Record dated 18 July 1733)