The largest number of immigrants to the American colonies in the eighteenth century were

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The largest group of immigrants to the American colonies in the eighteenth century were the Scots-Irish, who arrived from Ulster in Northern Ireland. They were primarily Presbyterian and settled in the backcountry of the colonies. While there were also significant numbers of African slaves and Spanish settlers in certain regions, they did not match the overall numbers of Scots-Irish immigrants. Creole, a term usually used to describe people of mixed European and African descent in the Caribbean and Latin America, would not typically describe the largest group of immigrants to the American colonies.

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