Mythology, traditions and history - The Clan Macfie Society

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Three fourths of the foreigners are Americans, and the other fourth are predomiantly
from Great Britain". 1
On this basis there would be a very small amount of Scotch-Irish in California!
Prof. H.H. Bancroft, another great history professor, points out that from 1846 to 1880
tremendous increases took place in thirty five years when the English-Scotch reached
33,000 and the Irish 60,000. 2
9. Mr. Kelley notes two names in his book, 1862.
- James McCaffrey, Carson City (6)
- D. McPhee. Amalgamator, Empire Mills, Virginia City.
10. S.A. Clarke in his Pioneers of Oregon History, records the following 1839. 19 men
who left Peoria, Ill., in the spring of 1839 were the first bona fide attempts at
emigration to Oregon. Five reached the Columbia River (pp. 442-444). Dr. Schaffer's
claims that some members of 1834 group reached Williamette Valley.
1840 - Alvin T. Smith headed the second contingent; they were engaged in fur trading.
1842 - 112 persons came from the east (120, Schaffer)
1843 - 1000 persons from Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Iowa and
Texas.
1844 - Clarke reports 3000, miners and farmers. Young reports 700 1845 - Clarke and
Young agree 3000 men came to Oregon and that some of them went to
California.
1846 - Clarke reports 2500 men, 2/3 to Oregon, 1/3 to California, Young reports 1350
men to Oregon.
1847 - Young reports 4000-5000 men
1848 - Young reports 700
1849 - Young reports 700 immigrants, tradesmen and mechanics
1850 - Young reports 2000, 1500 in 1851, 2500 in 1852.
I have pointed out in the Introduction to Volume IV that the works by Pearson and others
should be counted upon to provide the names of the Clan who settled in the west.
Many persons of our clan who now live in the west and north west of United States would
be the sons and daughters or even great grandsons and great grand daughters of those who
came to the United States in the years from A.D. 1850. These men and women, born in United
States, or Canada, or Australia or Europe hardly fit our requirements that they were "Pioneers"
in the land of their adoption. The identification of those who were pioneers is one of the
objectives of our society, and we use present personnel to reach them in the same pattern as did
our ancestors with prefixes of "Mac" in Scotland, or "ua" or 0' in Ireland.
1 Goodwin, Cardinal; New Spain and the Anglo American War. Vol. II. pp. 103-120
2 Bancroft, H.H.; History of California. Vol. VII. 1860-1890. San Francisco, 1890