This page under development. John Mitchell was our earliest
Mitchell relative in America. He migrated along with sixteen
other families from Ulster Ireland to Londonderry, NH under the
leadership of Rev. James MacGregor. The Ulster-Scots were
Scottish Covenenters who were deposed to Ulster in the Northern
region of Ireland to escape persecution under the church of
England at the hands of Oliver Cromwell. Reasons for
Immigration: In Rev. Edward L. Parker’s “History of Londonderry”
he reports that Rev. James McGregor, one of the Londonderry
emigrants and their pastor gives the following reasons for their
removal to America: “1st. To avoid oppressive and cruel bondage.
2d. To shun persecution and designed ruin. 3d. To withdraw from
the communion of idolaters. 4th. To have an opportunity of
worshiping God according to the dictates of conscience and the
rules of his inspired Word.”