Ken,
Stone crucks? I assume you mean straight stone walls, with cruck timber roofs then on top of these. The first image that came to my mind was that of long, curved monolithic stones!
In your observation, Ken, what vernacular building style would this seem to resemble? I find this all very interesting, and it has got me curious.
I do not know about the very earliest settler in New Holland, but I believe most of the early Scots in this country were lowlanders, and a group that we call 'Scots-Irish' which are themselves descended from lowland Scots ad people from the northermost section of England who settled first in Ulster, then in America (they are not at all Irish. Though this may have some bearing on building methods.
