Kamala Harris Egyptian Queen .... Scota "Cleopatra's needle"

 US Senator Kamala Harris, who has been picked as running mate and potential Vice President to Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden, has Ulster-Scots heritage. According to her father, one of their ancestors was Hamilton Brown. He was born in Antrim in 1776.  He went to work in Jamaica and built up significant business interests there including several plantations, one of which he named Antrim after his birthplace. He founded the town of Hamilton in Jamaica, which was later renamed Brown's Town in his honour. When slavery was abolished in the British empire in 1833, he received compensation for over 10,000 slaves. He later brought over 300 people from Ballymoney to work in Jamaica. When he died, he was buried at St Mark's Parish Church in Brown's Town, which he had also built. Kamala Harris' father, Donald, an economics professor at Stanford University, was baptised in the same church. If Biden wins in November and serves only one term as expected, there is every chance of a President with Ulster-Scots roots in the White House for the 250th anniversary of American Independence in 2026.

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The Scotti were a tribe who inhabited the North of Hibernia (Ireland), according to the Romans and later historians. The Scotti established a kingdom called Dalriada in the West of Caledonia in the 6th century by conquest. These ‘Irish’ invaders (the ‘Scots’) were amalgamated with with the resident population (the ‘Picts’), then (through Royal relationships) their land was known as ‘Scotland’. In summary, the Scots and the Ulster Scots are the same people.

https://www.amazon.com/Ancestors-Hamilton-Brown-Browns-Jamaica/dp/1678085561

Edward J. Cowan traced the first mention of Scota in literature to the 12th century.^[3] Scota appears in the Irish chronicle Book of Leinster, in a redaction of the Lebor Gabála Érenn.^[4] The 9th-century Historia Brittonum contains the earliest surviving version of the Lebor Gabala Erenn story (centred on an unnamed Goídel Glas), but this earliest version does not mention Scota even indirectly.^[5]

The Lebor Gabála Érenn states that Scota was the mother of Goidel Glas, the eponymous ancestor of the Gaels. This Scota was the daughter of an Egyptian pharaoh named Cingris, a likely reference to Pharaoh Chenchres from the kings list of Jerome (who is called Akenkheres in Egyptian records). She marries Goidel's father Niul, son of Fénius Farsaid (the inventor of letters and legendary ancestor of the Phoenicians).

Scota and the Stone of Scone

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Main article: Stone of Scone

Baldred Bisset is credited with being the first to connect the Stone of Scone with the Scota foundation legends in his 1301 work Processus, putting forward an argument that Scotland, not Ireland, was where the original Scota homeland lay.^[9]

Bisset wanted to legitimize a Scottish (as opposed to English) accession to the throne when Alexander III of Scotland died in 1286. At his coronation in 1249, Alexander himself heard his royal genealogy recited generations back to Scota. Bisset attempted to legitimize a Scottish accession by highlighting Scota's importance as the transporter of the Stone of Scone from Ancient Egypt, during the Exodus of Moses, to Scotland. In 1296, the Stone was captured by Edward I of England and taken to Westminster Abbey. In 1323, Robert the Bruce used Bisset's legend connecting Scota to the Stone in an attempt to return it to Scone Abbey in Scotland.^[10]

The 15th-century English chronicler John Hardyng later attempted to debunk Bisset's claims.^[11]

Later sources

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Andrew of Wyntoun's Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland and John of Fordun's Chronica Gentis Scotorum (1385) are sources of the Scota legends, alongside Thomas Grey's Scalacronica (1362). Hector Boece's 16th-century Historia Gentis Scotorum ("History of the Scottish People") also mentions the Scota foundation myth.

Walter Bower's 15th-century Scotichronicon included the first illustrations of the legends. The 16th-century writer Hector Boece included the story of Scota in his Historia Gentis Scotorum, and William Stewart made a verse translation in the Scots language for the Scottish royal court.^[12]

Scota's Grave

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Signpost on by-road, south of Tralee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scota

"Scota's Grave"^[13] or "Scotia's Grave" is a rock feature in Gleann Scoithín or 'Glenscoheen', south of Tralee in County Kerry, Ireland. According to the National Monuments Service, "Following a site inspection in 1999 it was concluded that the evidence was not sufficient to warrant accepting this as an archaeological monument".^[14]