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-The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Journal of the American-Irish
-Historical Society (Vol. V), by Various
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-Title: The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society (Vol. V)
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-
-[Illustration:
-
- HON. JOHN C. LINEHAN.
-
- A Founder of the Society, and the first Treasurer-General of the same.
- Born in Macroom, County Cork, Ireland, Feb. 9, 1840. Died in
- Penacook (Concord), N. H., Sept. 19, 1905.
-]
-
-
-
-
- THE JOURNAL
- OF THE
- AMERICAN-IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
-
- BY
-
- THOMAS HAMILTON MURRAY,
-
- _Secretary-General_.
-
- VOLUME V.
-
- BOSTON, MASS.,
- PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY,
- 1905.
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration: AMERICAN-IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY THAT THE WORLD MAY
-KNOW. FOUNDED, A.D. 1897]
-
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-
-
-
-
- INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
-
-
-The present is the fifth volume of the JOURNAL of the American-Irish
-Historical Society. I desire to acknowledge the many courtesies received
-during its preparation, and to express my deep appreciation of the same.
-This volume sets forth the work done by the organization during the
-year, presents several historical papers of value and contains other
-matter of interest. All the volumes of the JOURNAL thus far issued have
-received a cordial welcome and have been the recipients of the most
-gratifying praise. It is hoped that the present work will be equally
-well received. The Society continues to enjoy a prosperous existence,
-has no indebtedness, and is constantly adding new members to its roll.
-
- T. H. MURRAY.
-
- BOSTON, MASS.,
- Dec. 15, 1905.
-
-
-
-
- OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY, A. D. 1905.
-
-
- _President-General_,
- =Hon. John D. Crimmins=,
- New York City.
-
- _Vice-President-General_,
- =Hon. Joseph T. Lawless=,
- Norfolk, Va.
-
- _Secretary-General_,
- =Thomas Hamilton Murray=,
- 36 Newbury St., Boston, Mass.
-
- _Treasurer-General_,
- =Hon. John C. Linehan=,[1]
- Concord, N. H.
-
- _Librarian and Archivist_,
- =Thomas B. Lawler=,
- New York City.
-
-
- EXECUTIVE COUNCIL,
-
- The foregoing and
-
- =Hon. William McAdoo=, New York City.
- =Hon. Thomas J. Gargan=, Boston, Mass.
- =Thomas Addis Emmet, M. D.=, New York City.
- =Rev. John J. McCoy=, Chicopee, Mass.
- =Patrick F. Magrath=, Binghamton, N. Y.
- =Edward J. McGuire=, New York City.
- =Stephen Farrelly=, New York City.
- =James L. O’Neill=, Elizabeth, N. J.
- =Cyrus Townsend Brady=, New York City.
- =Major John Crane=, New York City.
- =Thomas J. Lynch=, Augusta, Me.
- =Francis C. Travers=,[2] New York City.
- =M. Joseph Harson=, New York City.
- =Col. John McManus=, Providence, R. I.
- =Hon. Patrick Garvan=, Hartford, Conn.
- =John J. Lenehan=, New York City.
- =John Jerome Rooney=, New York City.
- =Hon. William Gorman=, Philadelphia, Pa.
- =Hon. Francis Q. O’Neill=, Charleston, S. C.
- =James Connolly=, Coronado, Cal.
-
-
- STATE VICE-PRESIDENTS.
-
- Maine—=James Cunningham=, Portland.
- New Hampshire—=Hon. James F. Brennan=, Peterborough.
- Vermont—=John D. Hanrahan, M. D.=, Rutland.
- Massachusetts—=Hon. Joseph H. O’Neil=, Boston.
- Rhode Island—=Thomas A. O’Gorman=, Providence.
- Connecticut—=Dennis H. Tierney=, Waterbury.
- New York—=Joseph I. C. Clarke=, New York City.
- New Jersey—=John F. Kehoe=, Newark.
- Pennsylvania—=Hugh McCaffrey=, Philadelphia.
- Delaware—=John J. Cassidy=, Wilmington.
- Virginia—=James W. McCarrick=, Norfolk.
- West Virginia—=John F. Healy=, Thomas, Tucker County.
- South Carolina—=Henry A. Molony=, Charleston.
- Georgia—=Capt. John Flannery=, Savannah.
- Ohio—=John Lavelle=, Cleveland.
- Illinois—=Hon. P. T. Barry=, Chicago.
- Indiana—=Very Rev. Andrew Morrissey, C. S. C.=, Notre Dame.
- Iowa—=Rt. Rev. Philip J. Garrigan, D. D.=, Sioux City.
- Montana—=Rt. Rev. M. C. Lenihan, D. D.=, Great Falls.
- Minnesota—=Hon. C. D. O’Brien=, St. Paul.
- Missouri—=Julius L. Foy=, St. Louis.
- Kentucky—=John J. Slattery=, Louisville.
- Tennessee—=Michael Gavin=, Memphis.
- Kansas—=Patrick H. Coney=, Topeka.
- Utah—=Joseph Geoghegan=, Salt Lake City.
- Texas—=Gen. A. G. Malloy=, El Paso.
- California—=John Mulhern=, San Francisco.
-
-
- OTHER VICE-PRESIDENTS.
-
- District of Columbia—=Hon. Edward A. Moseley=, Washington.
- Arizona—=Col. O’Brien Moore=, Tucson.
- Indian Territory—=Joseph F. Swords=, Sulphur.
-
- Canada—=Hon. Felix Carbray=, Quebec.
- Ireland—=Dr. Michael F. Cox=, Dublin.
-
-
-
-
- PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, 1905.
-
-
- THE ANNUAL MEETING AND DINNER.
-
-The Society held its annual meeting and dinner on Tuesday evening, Jan.
-24, 1905, at the Hotel Manhattan, 42d Street and Madison Avenue, New
-York City. In the unavoidable absence of the President-General, until
-late in the evening, Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien of New York presided. Thomas
-Hamilton Murray of Boston, Mass., Secretary-General of the Society,
-attended to the duties of the latter office. The following is a copy of
-the notice for the event:
-
-
- AMERICAN-IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
- NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING AND DINNER.
-
- DEAR SIR: The annual meeting and dinner of the American-Irish
- Historical Society will take place at the Hotel Manhattan, 42d
- Street and Madison Avenue, New York City, on Tuesday evening, Jan.
- 24, 1905.
-
- A reception committee will be on duty at the Manhattan as early as 3
- p. m., to greet members of the Society and their guests, especially
- those coming from other cities and states.
-
- At 6.30 p. m. members and guests will be received by the officers of
- the Society.
-
- At 7 p. m. the annual meeting will be called to order.
-
- At 8 p. m. the line will be formed and proceed to the annual dinner.
-
- Tickets for the dinner will be $3.50 each, and are now ready for
- delivery. A dinner committee of New York members of the Society has
- been appointed and consists of Mr. John F. Doyle, 45 William Street;
- Major John Crane, 10 Bridge Street; Hon. Samuel Adams, 339–355 Sixth
- Avenue; Dr. J. Duncan Emmet, 103 Madison Avenue; Mr. James Curran,
- 512 West 36th Street; Mr. Thomas B. Lawler, 70 Fifth Avenue; Mr.
- John Goodwin, 70 West 23d Street; Mr. James O’Flaherty, 22 North
- William Street, and Mr. P. Tecumseh Sherman, 15 William Street.
-
- Checks for dinner tickets should be made payable and forwarded to
- Mr. Doyle of the committee, at his address here given.
-
- During the dinner, selections will be rendered by one of the best
- orchestras in New York City, and there will also be vocal numbers by
- eminent soloists. The after-dinner exercises will include a number
- of brief addresses along the Society’s line of work by Hon. Hugh
- Hastings, State Historian of New York; Mr. Osborne Howes, Treasurer
- of the Boston Board of Fire Underwriters, and by other gentlemen.
- Mr. Howes, here mentioned, is a descendant of an Irishman who
- settled on Cape Cod, Mass., as early as 1657—nearly 250 years ago.
-
- Kindly state, as soon as possible, whether you intend to be present
- with us on the forthcoming occasion.
-
- Members may bring personal guests.
-
- Fraternally,
- WILLIAM MCADOO,
- _President-General_.
-
- THOMAS HAMILTON MURRAY,
- _Secretary-General_,
- 36 Newbury Street, Boston, Mass.
-
-The attendance was one of the largest ever present at a like event under
-the auspices of the Society. The business session was of more than usual
-interest, the annual reports elicited the closest attention, and the
-whole affair was marked by a most commendable degree of enthusiasm.
-
-Secretary-General Murray stated in his annual report that the following
-members of the Society had died during the year:
-
- Capt. James F. Redding, Charleston, S. C.
- Mr. Bernard Foley, Boston, Mass.
- Mr. Patrick Farrelly, New York City.
- Rev. John F. Redican, Leicester, Mass.
- Mr. Patrick Brady, New York City.
- Rev. Francis D. McGuire, Albany, N. Y.
- John O’Flaherty, M. D., Hartford, Conn.
- Mr. Joseph P. Flatley, Boston, Mass.
- Mr. John H. Spellman, New York City, and
- Hon. John M. Fitzsimons, New York City.
-
-The Secretary-General paid an appropriate tribute to each of the
-foregoing, and fitting action in honor of the deceased was taken by the
-Society.
-
-It was stated by the Secretary-General that during the year the
-following-named gentlemen had become Life members of the organization,
-each paying $50:
-
- Mr. George J. Gillespie, New York City.
- Mr. Robert A. Sasseen, New York City.
- Mr. P. E. Somers, Worcester, Mass.
- Mr. Stephen Farrelly, New York City.
- Hon. Patrick Garvan, Hartford, Conn.
- Rev. Henry A. Brann, D. D., New York City.
- Hon. Jeremiah O’Rourke, Newark, N. J., and
- Mr. Patrick Gallagher, New York City.
-
-The Secretary-General stated that during the year he had opened
-temporary headquarters at 509 Fifth Avenue, New York, for the purpose of
-securing new members and inducing members in arrears to settle their
-indebtedness. Although able to devote but a few weeks to the work, the
-result was very satisfactory.
-
-During the year the Secretary-General collected and remitted to the
-Treasurer-General, $1,247. “The Society is today,” said Mr. Murray, “in
-as prosperous a condition as at any period since its formation, and we
-hopefully look forward to many years of continued prosperity and
-usefulness.”
-
-Hon. John C. Linehan of Concord, N. H., Treasurer-General of the
-Society, in his annual report stated that the total resources of the
-Society for the year were $2,341.17; and the total expenditure,
-$1,248.80, leaving a balance in the treasury, Dec. 31, 1904, of
-$1,092.37.
-
-The committee appointed to audit the Treasurer-General’s accounts,
-reported the same as correctly kept and that all expenditures were
-accompanied by proper vouchers.
-
-The annual reports were unanimously accepted and adopted.
-
-Mr. Joseph Smith of Lowell, Mass., moved as the sense of the Society,
-that the latter heartily approves the project to erect a monument in
-Washington, D. C., to Commodore John Barry. The motion was unanimously
-adopted.
-
-The annual election of officers for the Society then took place and
-resulted in the choice of the gentlemen whose names are given on pages
-5, 6 and 7 of this volume.
-
-The following were elected to membership in the Society:
-
- Hon. Hugh Hastings, State Historian of New York, Albany, N. Y.
- Rev. James J. Baxter, D. D., Boston, Mass.
- Mr. T. Vincent Butler, New York City.
- Mr. Michael J. Morkan, Hartford, Conn.
- Mr. Edward R. Carroll, New York City.
- Mr. John Jay Joyce, New York City.
- Mr. D. H. McBride, New York City.
- Mr. P. H. Garrity, Waterbury, Conn.
- Mr. G. W. Lembeck, Jersey City, N. J.
- Mr. T. F. Donnelly, New York City.
- Mr. Patrick Murray, New York City.
- Mr. Arthur McAleenan, New York City.
- Hon. Lawrence O. Murray, Washington, D. C.
- Mr. Thomas Kenney, Worcester, Mass.
- Thomas F. Kenney, M. D., Vienna, Austria.
- M. X. Sullivan, Ph. D., Providence, R. I.
-
-
- THE ANNUAL DINNER.
-
-Upon the adjournment of the business meeting, the Society and guests
-proceeded to the banquet room for the annual dinner. One hundred and
-forty-five gentlemen participated.
-
-Among those seated at the head table with Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien, the
-presiding officer, were: Rev. Henry A. Brann, D. D., New York City; Hon.
-Joseph F. Daly, New York City; Mr. Osborne Howes, Boston, Mass.; Hon.
-John C. Linehan, Concord, N. H.; Hon. Hugh Hastings, Albany, N. Y.;
-Thomas Addis Emmet, M. D., New York City; Mr. M. F. Dooley, Providence,
-R. I.; Mr. John F. Doyle, New York City; Mr. Stephen Farrelly, New York
-City, and Mr. Joseph I. C. Clarke, New York City.
-
-After grace had been said the company devoted itself to the fine menu.
-
-During the repast music was furnished by an orchestra. There was also
-singing by the entire company, in chorus, and solo singing by Mr. John
-W. Donovan of New York; Mr. Joseph M. Byrne of Newark, N. J., and Hon.
-John C. Linehan of Concord, N. H.
-
-At an interval during the dinner, Mr. Joseph Smith of Lowell, Mass.,
-alluding to the approaching departure of James Jeffrey Roche, LL. D.,
-for Genoa, Italy, as United States Consul, moved that the Society bid
-him God-speed on his journey and wish him a brilliant career in his new
-sphere of duty. The motion was adopted.
-
-While the post-prandial exercises were in progress, Hon. William McAdoo
-arrived and the chair was yielded him by Judge O’Brien.
-
-The paper of the evening was by Hon. Hugh Hastings, State Historian of
-New York, who took for his subject: “Thomas Dongan and the Earl of
-Bellomont, Governors of New York.” The paper was one of great merit and
-was frequently applauded.
-
-Several brief addresses were made during the evening, having a bearing
-on the Society’s line of work.
-
-While the dinner was under way, a toast to President Roosevelt, “one of
-our members,” was proposed by Hon. Thomas Z. Lee of Providence, R. I.,
-and drank amid great enthusiasm.
-
-The following letter written by President Roosevelt to Mr. William M.
-Sweeny of Astoria, L. I., N. Y., a member of the Society, was read to
-the company by Judge O’Brien:
-
- _My Dear Mr. Sweeny_: Replying to your letter of the 14th inst., I
- would say that my Irish ancestors came to Pennsylvania early in the
- seventeenth century. They included John Potts and his wife,
- Elizabeth McVaugh (so set down in the records; I do not know what
- the real name was); John Barnhill, whose wife was Sarah Craig, and a
- man named Lukens, who may have been a German from the Palatinate.
-
- They were all of them humble people, farmers, merchants, etc.,
- although Sarah Craig is put down as being descended on her mother’s
- side, through the Barnwalls, from various well known Irish families,
- both of the pale and outside the pale, the Butlers, the Fitzgeralds,
- O’Neills and O’Briens. But about this more illustrious descent I
- fear I cannot give you any specific particulars.
-
- Sincerely yours,
- THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
-
-The reading of the foregoing letter was received with great applause.
-
-Letters expressing regret at inability to attend the dinner were
-received from the following:
-
- Hon. John D. Crimmins, New York City.
- Gen. M. V. Sheridan, U. S. A. (retired), Washington, D. C.
- Rt. Rev. Philip J. Garrigan, D. D., Sioux City, Ia.
- Rev. Christopher Hughes, Fall River, Mass.
- James E. Sullivan, M. D., Providence, R. I.
- Mr. P. Tecumseh Sherman, New York City.
- Mr. George W. McCarthy, Portsmouth, N. H.
- Rev. James Coyle, Taunton, Mass.
- Daniel J. Phelan, M. D., New York City.
- Hon. Edward A. Moseley, Washington, D. C.
- Hon. Thomas J. Gargan, Boston, Mass.
- Col. James Moran, Providence, R. I., and
- John D. Hanrahan, M. D., Rutland, Vt.
-
-
-
-
- PATRIOTIC PILGRIMAGE TO LEXINGTON, MASS.
-
-
- INTERESTING OBSERVANCE BY THE SOCIETY OF THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE
- OF APRIL 19, 1775.
-
-The Society held an interesting observance, April 19, 1905, the date
-being the anniversary of the battle of Lexington, Concord and Cambridge,
-fought in 1775. The programme comprised a patriotic pilgrimage to
-Lexington, and other features of interest.
-
-The Boston members, and their guests, went out to Lexington in
-automobiles, leaving Boston about 10.15 a. m. Each member and guest wore
-a neat badge, specially designed for the occasion, and comprising the
-Revolutionary colors buff and blue. Each badge bore the initials of the
-Society, “A. I. H. S.,” and the inscription, “Lexington, 1775–1905.”
-
-Reaching Cambridge, the party stopped at the City Hall there and a call
-was made on Hon. Augustine J. Daly, mayor of Cambridge. All the members
-of the party were introduced to the mayor, who was assisted in receiving
-by City Clerk Edward J. Brandon, J. Edward Barry, president of the board
-of aldermen; Mr. Edward A. Counihan, mayor’s clerk, and other officials.
-
-After the introduction and greetings, lunch was served. Leaving
-Cambridge city hall, the party started for Lexington. Many historic
-points were passed, including Harvard College, the Old Elm, where
-Washington took command of the American Army, and a number of memorial
-tablets.
-
-Arriving at the Lexington town hall, the party was warmly welcomed by
-Mr. George W. Taylor, chairman of the board of selectmen, and by other
-officials of the town. All then walked to the battle monument on the
-village green, where the Society placed a laurel wreath to the memory of
-the patriotic dead. This wreath measured about three feet in diameter,
-and was tied with buff and blue ribbon.
-
-Assembled around the monument at this time, in addition to the members
-of the Society, was a large gathering of the people of Lexington, and
-visitors from out of town. After the wreath had been put in place on the
-monument, an oration was delivered by City Clerk Brandon of Cambridge,
-who dwelt upon the objects of the Society and the lessons of patriotism
-inculcated by the observance of the day. Mr. Brandon’s remarks were
-frequently applauded and at the close he was given an ovation. The
-Society was then grouped, with the monument as a background, and a large
-photograph of the whole taken.
-
-The Society and guests, escorted by Chairman Taylor of the board of
-selectmen, then proceeded to the latter’s beautiful residence,
-“Larchmont,” where they were hospitably entertained. The ladies of the
-party were specially taken charge of by Mrs. Taylor, while the gentlemen
-were waited upon by Mr. Taylor and his talented daughter, Miss Amy Ethel
-Taylor. An elaborate lunch was served, and then followed congratulatory
-and patriotic addresses by a dozen or more of the visitors.
-
-Following the lunch and the speech-making there was vocal and
-instrumental music, the whole affair being one of great enjoyment.
-
-Members of the Society were present, during the day, from Boston,
-Cambridge, Lowell, Lexington and Springfield, Mass.; Providence and
-Pawtucket, R. I.; Hartford, Conn.; and New York City.
-
-Among those participating in the exercises were: Hon. Patrick Garvan of
-Hartford, Conn., and his daughters, the Misses Agnes and Genevieve
-Garvan; Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Murphy, Springfield, Mass.; Mr. and Mrs. T.
-H. Murray, Boston, Mass.; Mr. and Mrs. Charles V. Ryan, Springfield,
-Mass.; Miss M. Olive Murphy, Boston, Mass.; Mr. T. Vincent Butler, New
-York City; Mr. Patrick Carter, Providence, R. I.; Mr. John F. Kinsela,
-Lowell, Mass.; Mr. J. J. Cassidy, Lowell, Mass.; Mr. Bernard McCaughey,
-Pawtucket, R. I.; Mr. T. P. Kelly, New York City; Mr. Bernard J. Joyce,
-Boston, Mass.; Mr. M. H. Cox, Mr. Joseph F. O’Connell and other Boston
-people; Mr. Christopher S. Ryan, Mr. Orlando Bowman and Rev. M. H.
-Owens, all of Lexington, Mass., Mr. T. F. Gorman, Boston, Mass., and a
-number of others.
-
-The following is a copy of a letter from Selectman Taylor in connection
-with the foregoing event, and received previous thereto:
-
- │ OFFICIAL │OFFICE OF SELECTMEN.
- │ SEAL. │
-
- │GEO. W. TAYLOR, │ Selectmen of
- │H. A. C. WOODWARD, │ Lexington.
- │FRANK D. PEIRCE, │
-
- LEXINGTON, MASS., Mar. 24, 1905.
-
- _Thomas Hamilton Murray, Esq.,
- Sec’y of the American-Irish Historical Society,
- 36 Newbury St., Boston, Mass._
-
- MY DEAR SIR: Your favor of the 22nd inst., relative to a patriotic
- pilgrimage of the American-Irish Historical Society on April 19th,
- is at hand.
-
- As Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, I shall be most happy to
- receive you at the Town Hall at noon, and will also be glad to
- attend your exercises on the Common, after which I should be
- pleased, if you find it convenient, to have you make an informal
- call at “Larchmont,” my home on Bedford Street, where I had the
- pleasure of meeting so many of your Society three years ago.
-
- Very truly yours,
-
-[Illustration:
-
- _Chairman, Board of Selectmen,
- Town of Lexington._
-]
-
-
-
-
- SOME INTERESTING HISTORICAL PAPERS.
-
-
- GOODY GLOVER, AN IRISH VICTIM OF THE WITCH CRAZE, BOSTON, MASS., 1688.
-
- BY HAROLD DIJON.[3]
-
-Leonard Scot, in his _Discoverie of Witchcraft_, gives this definition
-of a witch: “The sort of such as are said to be witches are women which
-be commonly old, lame, bleare-eied, pale, fowle, and full of wrinkles;
-poore, sullen, superstitious, and Papists; or such as know no religion.”
-Ralph Hoven, an Anglican divine, concedes: “All Papists be not witches,
-but commonly all witches be the spawn of the Pope.”
-
-The Rev. Josiah Templie, in a sermon preached at Rye in 1619, says:
-“Because of witchcraft we have divers mischiefs and disorders; and
-witches they be so long as there be Papists, drabs of the strumpet
-Pope,” and so on. Oates, in _The Witchcrafts of the Roman Jezebel_—a
-folio that brought him a considerable fortune,—repeats the foregoing
-statements in language not printable.
-
-John Cunliffe of Preston complained in 1596 that witchcraft was made a
-plea for “burning those of the Old Religion; in moste parte they who be
-in great povertie.” How many of those burned for witchcraft in England
-were Catholics, it is not impossible to ascertain. Much material
-appertaining to the subject waits to be investigated.
-
-The opinion fostered in England that a witch, a devil, and a Catholic
-were different terms for the same thing, was as sedulously cared for in
-New England; and we find Cotton Mather, in his _Magnalia_, and in a
-sermon preached in Old North Church, Boston, using virtually Scot’s
-definition of a witch to describe the subject of this sketch.
-
-“Glover,” he says, “was a scandalous old Irishwoman, very poor, a Roman
-Catholic and obstinate in idolatry.”
-
-A Boston merchant, one Robert Calef, who knew Mrs. Glover, writes of her
-in _More Wonders of the Invisible World_, printed in London in 1700. The
-sympathy he expresses for her was bold for the time, prevented the
-publication of the work in Boston, brought on him the vituperations of
-Cotton Mather, and caused the book to be burned in Harvard College yard,
-by order of Harvard’s president, Dr. Increase Mather.
-
-Calef says: “Goody Glover was a despised, crazy, poor old woman, an
-Irish Catholic, who was tried for afflicting the Goodwin children. Her
-behavior at her trial was like that of one distracted. They did her
-cruel. The proof against her was wholly deficient. The jury brought her
-guilty. She was hung. She died a Catholic.”
-
-Drake, in his _Annals of Witchcraft in New England_, makes the following
-comment on this passage: “Glover was not a crazy person, as we now
-understand the word; it was not meant that she was insane, but simply
-that she was weak and infirm.” We have not lost the old meaning of the
-word; and such expressions as “a crazy table,” “a crazy structure,” are
-quite common.[4]
-
-Ann Glover [commonly called Goody Glover] and her daughter had been
-living in Boston for some years prior to her execution in 1688. It is
-not known what part of Ireland she came from. She herself has stated
-that she and her husband were sold to the Barbadoes in the time of
-Cromwell. She also related that, shortly after the birth of her
-daughter, her husband was “scored to death and did not give up his
-religion, which same I will hold to.”
-
-How Mrs. Glover came to be in Boston can only be conjectured. It is
-possible she came in that train of servants and Indian slaves brought to
-the Puritan Colony from the Barbadoes, some of whom fell to the Rev. Mr.
-Parris, of Salem fame. Little is known of her life in Boston before
-1682, beyond the fact that the presence of a Catholic in a community
-that looked upon itself as “the only Christian people” gave great
-umbrage.
-
-In 1682 a woman who had labored in vain to convince Mrs. Glover of her
-“Papistical errors,” accused her of witchcraft; and, dying shortly
-after, prophesied that “Goody Glover would be hung.” The prophecy was
-not forgotten.
-
-The mother and daughter were wretchedly poor, and barely able to make a
-scant living by washing the clothes of such as could be induced to
-employ a “Papist.” Among those who employed them was the family of John
-Goodwin. John Goodwin had come to Boston from Charlestown, and was the
-father of four children—Nathaniel, Martha, John and Mercy,—all of whom
-were to be in the plot which did to death two harmless women, and which
-“sadly perplexed and befooled Cotton Mather.”
-
-Cotton Mather, who was charged in 1693 with being “the chief cause,
-promoter and agent, and favourer of the prosecutions for witchcraft”!
-Cotton Mather, who “countenanced the executioners by his presence, and
-in various ways urged the terrible work of blood in Salem”! Cotton
-Mather, who, from being extolled for sanctity and learning, has come to
-be scoffed at as an “ignoramus, vain and mendacious”! Such was the
-pastor of Old North Church, of which the Goodwins were “pillars.”
-
-In 1687 Martha Goodwin, who was then a child of twelve years, charged
-Mrs. Glover’s daughter with having purloined some clothes. The charge
-was indignantly repelled, and accusation was made that Martha wished to
-get Mrs. Glover into trouble. And then the daughter cried out: “You may
-have us whipped, but to the sermons we will not go.” Hereupon, Martha
-fell into a fit, which the “learned physicians of Boston declared to be
-diabolical.”
-
-I think you will agree with me, when Martha’s pranks are further
-displayed, that the little girl had an attack of nerves and temper. What
-between tirades against witches, Catholics, Baptists and Quakers, and
-long sermons and long faces, the whole community was in a highly nervous
-state. Cheerfulness was sinfulness. Read of that monstrous Pharisee of
-five years old lauded in the _Magnalia_. She never laughed; she prayed
-her mother might be one of the elect, even as she was.
-
-Mrs. Glover and her daughter were now in sorer straits than ever. No one
-would employ them, and had it not been for some secret aid they received
-from the Calefs, who were not bereft of reason and humanity, they must
-have starved. Even as it was, the treatment the daughter
-received—“stonings and revilings”—turned her brain, and she died a
-lunatic, frightened to death.
-
-In the meanwhile, the lost clothes were found, by a woman employed in
-the Goodwin household, “stuck under a wardrobe.” This discovery led to
-no good results for Mrs. Glover, for now Mercy and the two Goodwin boys
-had fits “like unto those of the maid Martha”; and then Martha took it
-into her head to be again “afflicted.” The children asserted that the
-spirit of Goody Glover struck them with blows, cut them with knives,
-strangled them and sat on their chests. At devotions they pretended they
-could hear nothing of what was said. “Goody Glover stopped their ears!
-Goody Glover would have them worship her idols!” was their cry.
-
-All this was so much gospel to a people saturated with prejudice; and
-the Boston and Charlestown ministers held a fast at Mr. Goodwin’s house.
-“The fast did greatly relieve the children.” Which goes to prove that if
-Mr. Goodwin had “whipped them all soundly and sent them to bed,” they
-would have been permanently cured.
-
-But now “the magistrates, long annoyed by the presence of an obstinate
-Papist in Boston, ordered Goody Glover to be taken into custody.” A
-search was made of her house, “and certain images were found in secret.”
-It is not difficult to conjecture what they were. Beads or medals,
-maybe; certainly a cross or crucifix was one of them.
-
-She was “loaded with chains” and placed in a prison. As no provision was
-made to feed prisoners in Massachusetts at that time, her condition must
-have been one of great distress. It is said that the Calefs continued to
-succor her, and there is a statement that a Dame Nourse of Salem,
-visiting Boston, gave her some aid. Can this be the explanation of
-Mather’s inexorable pursuit of Rebecca Nourse?
-
-To relieve the tedium of an existence deprived of innocent amusements,
-the Goodwin children renewed their deceptions, and Cotton Mather, “to
-relieve the distress of the afflicted John Goodwin, took Martha to his
-house to live.” Now it was that the cunning mischief-maker befooled
-Cotton Mather to the top of his bent. Page after page of the ponderous
-_Magnalia_ is occupied with a grave recital of the pranks played by this
-child in the minister’s house. “She screamed with pain, and cried that
-Glover’s chains were about her leg.... To prevent the escape of the
-prisoner’s spirit, to afflict the child, they put other chains on
-Glover.... They chained the Papist till she could not move and she did
-spew blood.”
-
-Martha would not allow the spirit to be confined. She said Goody Glover
-brought her a horse to ride, and her pastor tells us “she would make all
-the motions of a person who rides, about the room and up the stairs,
-like one astraddle of a horse.”
-
-Imagine the impish glee of the child at seeing the most important person
-in the Colony following her about in her horseplay, with looks of awe!
-Her terrible precocity taught her to play on his hatred of Mrs. Glover’s
-creed. “While possessed of the devil and Mrs. Glover,” he says, “she
-could read Popish books, but not books against Popery.” In the pastor’s
-study “she would become calm, and no longer afflicted. This was
-witnessed by divers persons, and many times.” When asked why she was not
-afflicted in the pastor’s study, the child replied, with a thorough
-reading of Mather’s greatest weakness—his vanity, “Your study is too
-holy a place for the devil or Glover to enter.”
-
-The trial of Mrs. Glover was a farce. Pounded with questions on all
-sides, the poor woman was only able to answer her tormentors in Irish.
-“This she was instigated to do by the devil,” says Cotton Mather. There
-be no doubt that, owing to her great age, her sufferings in prison, the
-confusion of the court, which was added to by the screams of pretended
-pain from the Goodwin children, Mrs. Glover was temporarily deprived of
-English, “for which she never had a great facility.” One question,
-however, she did give answer to in English. They asked her if it was
-true that she was a Papist, “and showed to her an idol which was secret
-in her house. She snatched at it with a joy that was diabolical, and
-said: ‘I die a Catholic!’” Considering the material of which it was
-composed, it is no wonder that the jury, after this declaration of
-Faith, found her guilty.
-
-The magistrates visited her in prison that night, “and they found her
-agreeable to their questions.” They asked her what would become of her
-soul after she was hanged. The simple and much-tried woman had the
-humility Cotton Mather lacked. “You ask me a very solemn question, and I
-can not tell what to say to it. I trust in God,” she replied. Cotton
-Mather also visited her in prison.... He asked her to say the Lord’s
-Prayer; for the common belief was that this could not be done by a
-Catholic or a witch. “She recited the _Pater Noster_ to me in Latin,” he
-says, “and in Irish, and in English, but she could not end it.” Of
-course she could not end it in Cotton Mather’s way.
-
-She caused Mather to wonder that she repeated in a voice “marvellous
-strong” the petition, “deliver us from evil.” He considers this to be a
-sign that she “reproached the devil for deserting her to be hung.” Poor,
-befogged man, whose conceit would not permit him to see that it was he
-himself she petitioned to be delivered from; for he argued with her to
-destroy her Faith. She refused Mather’s spiritual ministrations, and he
-feels assured that her “Catholic spirits” will not permit her to accept
-them, and he predicts to her, her speedy and eternal damnation.
-
-The proffering of these several consolations increased Mather’s habitual
-satisfaction with himself, and he says: “Comforted at having performed a
-solemn duty” [the consigning of a soul to perdition], “I returned to my
-house.” Arrived there, he found the “Maid Martha galloping about the
-room on the horse, her feet not touching the ground, which was a great
-wonder.”
-
-Mrs. Glover was hanged on the following day. “There was a great
-concourse of people to see if the Papist would relent.... Her one cat
-was there, fearsome to see. They would to destroy the cat, but Mr. Calef
-would not [permit the cat to be killed]. Before her execution she was
-bold and impudent [!] making to forgive her accusers and those who put
-her off.... She predicted that her death would not relieve the children,
-saying it was not she afflicted them.” This was construed into a threat;
-and the children continued their sport, till, “a very strict fast being
-held, they were completely restored.” After recounting the details of
-this “joyful restoration,” Cotton Mather becomes more than usually
-prolix in a relation of the _piety_ of his protegés.
-
-It is not denied that before and after the execution of Ann Glover there
-was a vast number of arrests and executions of reputed witches and
-wizards in New England, beginning in 1647, under John Winthrop, and
-culminating in the Salem massacre of 1692. It is not denied that neither
-age, sex, nor condition was spared. Some were children—one but four
-years old,—others of eighty and beyond; one was a minister; many were
-the most reputable people in the Massachusetts Colony.
-
-What is asserted is that Ann Glover was put to death not so much because
-she was reputed a witch, as for the certainty that she was a Catholic.
-All we know of her is in the words of her enemies and executioners,
-except what is found in the scant record of Robert Calef, who exposed
-himself to utter ruin by his defence of her. The little we know,
-however, confirms the truth of my assertion.
-
-It was only when all attempts to move Mrs. Glover’s “obstinate Papacy”
-had failed, that she was first accused of witchcraft in 1682. That the
-Goodwins were in the league “to bring her out of the burning”—that is,
-to induce her to forswear the Faith—may be inferred with safety from
-what took place in 1687. When her daughter was accused of theft by
-Martha Goodwin, she does not say, “You may have us whipped, but we are
-innocent of stealing”: this she had asserted before. She cries out: “You
-may have us whipped, but we won’t go to the sermons.” Does not this
-outburst unfold a tale of antecedent persecution suffered for religion’s
-sake?
-
-A fast “had greatly relieved the Goodwin children”; the tempest they had
-aroused was lulled, and what happened? “The magistrates, long annoyed by
-the presence of an obstinate Papist in Boston, ordered Goody Glover to
-be taken into custody,” says Drake. At her trial there was not even such
-evidence to prove her a witch as would satisfy the gullible magistrates.
-It was only when Goody Glover made the declaration that she would die a
-Catholic that “the jury brought her guilty.”
-
-It went hard with the magistrates and Cotton Mather that a poor old
-Catholic, a “scandalous Irishwoman,” withstood the doctrine of the
-self-reputed “saints”; and even now Goody Glover could have saved her
-life had she “relented.” The magistrates went to her on her last night
-alive, to beat down her opposition by questions of her soul. They
-failed, and Cotton Mather took their place.
-
-He was above the law in the cheerless Colony. When, in 1692, the jury
-brought in poor Rebecca Nourse innocent of witchcraft, he had them sent
-to reconsider the evidence: at his beck they found her guilty. Then the
-governor, Sir William Phipps, pardoned her. In defiance of the pardon,
-Cotton Mather had her hanged, and saw her die on Witches’ Hill at Salem;
-and, “sitting on his black horse, he rebuked those who did bewail her;
-for she was an excellent woman.”
-
-In view of this exhibition of his arbitrary power, is it too much to say
-that, had Goody Glover “relented,” in his vainglory over the conquest of
-a broken-down old woman, Cotton Mather would have had her set free? But
-the old Irishwoman conquered Cotton Mather. “She died a Catholic”; and,
-imitating her Divine Master, she died forgiving her enemies,—all those
-from whom she had suffered grievous wrong.
-
-
-
-
- CAPT. DANIEL NEILL, AN ARTILLERY OFFICER OF THE REVOLUTION.
-
- BY GEN. J. MADISON DRAKE[5].
-
-
-It has never been generally known that the first cannon shot at the
-enemy, after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by
-Congress, at Philadelphia, on the evening of July 4, 1776, was fired in
-Elizabeth, N. J., then known as Elizabethtown, and as the present time
-seems opportune for the revivication of local incidents in the war for
-independence, I will narrate an exciting episode to awaken additional
-interest.
-
-Up to February, 1776, the state of New Jersey, or province as it then
-was, had no artillery organization, and the importance of that arm of
-the service being acutely felt, the Provincial Congress, in session at
-Burlington, on the 13th of that month, adopted the following resolution:
-
- _Resolved_, That two complete artillery companies be raised in this
- colony.
-
-The ordinance provided that the term of enlistment should be for one
-year, and that one company should be stationed in the eastern part of
-the province, the other in the western. Each company was to consist of a
-captain, one captain-lieutenant, two second lieutenants, four sergeants,
-four corporals, and one hundred and fifty matrosses. (The last term was
-at that time used to denote gunners’ mates, or soldiers in a train of
-artillery, who assisted in loading, firing and sponging the guns.) The
-day following the passage of the ordinance the first or eastern company
-was organized in Newark by the election of the following officers:
-
-Captain—Frederick Frelinghuysen.
-
-Captain-Lieutenant—Daniel Neill.
-
-Second Lieutenants—Thomas Clark and James Heard.
-
-Captain Frelinghuysen served but one month and resigned—Lieutenant Neill
-succeeding him.
-
-Shepard Kollock, born in Delaware in 1750, after learning the “art
-preservative of all arts” in Philadelphia, came to Elizabethtown after
-the war had commenced, and joined Captain Neill’s battery. He was with
-it when it attacked and destroyed a British gunboat off this city, and
-by his distinguished gallantry on that occasion was promoted to the
-first lieutenancy.
-
-At the close of the campaign in 1778, General Knox, commanding the
-American artillery, advised Lieutenant Kollock to establish a newspaper
-in Elizabethtown, as he would thereby be able to render great service to
-the patriot cause. Lieutenant Kollock liked a soldier’s life, and did
-not want to leave the army, but General Knox finally prevailed upon him
-to engage in the newspaper enterprise, so he resigned, and securing a
-rude outfit located in Chatham, a much safer place than Elizabeth was at
-that period, and for some years afterwards Lieutenant Kollock continued
-the publication of the New Jersey _Journal and Political Intelligencer_
-at Chatham, until peace was declared, when he removed his plant to
-Elizabeth, where it has since remained.
-
-Captain Neill, a young man born in Ireland, by untiring energy and
-devotion to duty, quickly got his command in good trim for the active
-service it was soon to engage in. In the latter part of June Captain
-Neill, who had been stationed in Newark, N. J., being ordered to
-Elizabeth, took possession of the earthworks at what is now the foot of
-Elizabeth Avenue, where he made a comfortable camp. To relieve his men
-from ennui when not engaged in drilling, Captain Neill caused them to
-throw up more earth, thus adding to the strength of the redoubt. He
-placed his four guns so they would command the sound, narrow at that
-point, as well as the entrance to the Elizabeth River, then known as
-“Mill Creek.”
-
-William Livingston, a resident of Elizabeth, who resigned his seat in
-the Provincial Congress at Burlington, to be made commander-in-chief of
-the New Jersey militia, overjoyed at the presence of Captain Neill’s
-battery, on the morning of July 4, 1776, wrote General Washington as
-follows:
-
- ... We now have two field pieces, 18 pounders, with a part of
- Captain Neill’s company of artillery in this province.
-
-Shortly after the mounted courier had set out with the dispatch for
-Washington’s headquarters in New York, American piquets posted on the
-ground now occupied by the buildings of the Singer Company, were
-surprised to see a large British gunboat lying off the southern end of
-Shooters’ Island. They at once sent word to General Livingston, whose
-home on Morris Avenue is now occupied by the family of Senator Kean.
-
-Early in the evening General Livingston mounted his horse, ever saddled,
-and rode to the lower part of the town, where he had a conference with
-Captain Neill, who had already taken steps to repel an attack, in case
-the vessel meditated mischief.
-
-The sudden appearance of the gunboat in our waters was a great surprise
-to our soldiers, as no British vessel had been hereabouts since
-Washington occupied New York City and Long Island. The gunboat was a
-part of Admiral Lord Howe’s fleet, just arrived from England, and that
-day anchored off Cliffton, Staten Island. The British army at once
-landed on the eastern shore of the island, gladly welcomed by the
-supporters of British oppression.
-
-Along towards the middle of the night the gunboat was seen coming slowly
-through the Achter Koll, opposite the Singer factory. In the soft
-moonlit night the craft was plainly distinguishable to our argus-eyed
-soldiers keeping watch and ward along the shore. As any effort they
-could make against the ship with their smooth-bore muskets would be
-innocent, they maintained a painful silence, feeling assured that when
-it reached the battery our guns would give a good account of themselves.
-
-The commander of the vessel, in blissful ignorance of the possession of
-artillery by the Americans, sailed unconcernedly and tranquilly over the
-placid waters. Like most British officers at that period of the war, he
-had profound contempt for American militiamen, whom he did not consider
-foemen worthy of his steel.
-
-Captain Neill, who had been on the _qui vive_ for some time, on learning
-of the vessel’s approach, impatiently awaited a closer proximity in
-order that his shots might be fully effective and his welcome to the
-stranger more hearty, if less hospitable. His guns, ready shotted, were
-admirably posted close to the water, and matches already lighted by the
-fire-workers.
-
-It was only when the vessel, but slowly making its way through the
-silver-rippled water, owing to the lightness of the breeze, reached a
-point directly opposite the redoubt occupied by Captain Neill, that his
-dogs of war were loosened, and from their brazen throats belched forth
-sheets of bright red flame, preceded by iron missiles, which swept the
-deck of the craft, carrying death, destruction and dismay to the
-hitherto confident and unsuspecting crew.
-
-The salvo, like a clap of thunder from a serene sky, awoke echoes, which
-were followed by a rain of merciless iron, utterly demoralizing the
-officers and crew, and creating scenes of indescribable confusion and
-terror. A state of chaos ensued; discipline was thrown to the winds—it
-was every man for himself. The distracted sailors, finding themselves in
-a trap and seeing no way of escape save by surrender, deserted the
-vessel by jumping overboard, at least those who had not been killed or
-maimed by the well-directed fire of our artillerymen.
-
-Those who thus sought safety by springing into the water, endeavored to
-reach either shore; most of them, however, struck out for the Jersey
-side on account of its nearness. Some succeeded in gaining the Staten
-Island shore, but many failed to reach either.
-
-Meanwhile the gunboat, totally disabled, drifted with the outgoing tide,
-no attempt being made by any one on board to work any of the fourteen
-guns with which she was armed.
-
-When Captain Neill, true-hearted soldier that he was, saw the desperate
-helplessness of the British sailors, and their attempts to save
-themselves, he ceased firing and sent men to rescue them from watery
-graves. The gunboat was carried by the tide beyond the mouth of the
-Elizabeth River, and, being in flames, went down to Davy Jones’
-capacious locker just after passing the spot now occupied by the Dry
-Dock Company.
-
-Some thirty years ago, oystermen raked up a large number of British
-coins and many other articles from this spot, and many believed the
-treasure was at one time possessed by the sailors of the ill-fated
-gunboat.
-
-General Livingston, who had remained with Captain Neill and witnessed
-the attack and destruction of the vessel, at once wrote the following
-dispatch to General Washington, sending it off post-haste:
-
- ELIZABETHTOWN, July 4, 1776.
- Midnight.
-
- One of the enemy’s sloops of war, mounting fourteen guns, having
- this evening run up to this point, was attacked from the shore by
- the twelve-pounders, a great number of her men killed, she set on
- fire and entirely destroyed.
-
-As Captain Neill’s attack on the British gunboat occurred about
-midnight, July 4, 1776, there can be no shadow of doubt that his guns
-were the first ones fired after the immortal Declaration of Independence
-was adopted, the Congress in session at Philadelphia having formally
-performed this act between nine and ten o’clock that evening. It was the
-first exploit of the new-born nation, and a gallant young Irish patriot,
-a citizen of this province, carried it to success.
-
-Captain Neill and his battery was shortly after assigned to Col. Thomas
-Proctor’s[6] regiment of artillery, and subsequently to the brigade of
-artillery commanded by General Knox.[7] The battery participated in the
-battles of Trenton, Assinpink Creek, Princeton and Monmouth.
-
-But it was at Princeton that the heroic Neill sealed his devotion to the
-cause of American liberty and independence with his life’s blood. He was
-instantly killed by a British sharpshooter just after Hugh Mercer, a
-Scotsman, was mortally wounded.
-
-In view of the important services rendered by this patriotic son of the
-Emerald Isle to the cause of American freedom, it would seem especially
-fitting at this time that a proper recognition of Captain Neill’s
-devotion to the interests of this community in a dark hour of its
-history should be made by our citizens.
-
-Daniel Neill nobly gave all he possessed for the benefit and enrichment
-of posterity, and it behooves us to recognize the value of his splendid
-services in our behalf by erecting a suitable monument, marking the spot
-in our town where he struck a deadly and brilliant blow at the ruthless
-enemies of our blessed land.
-
-Shall it be done?
-
-
-
-
- RICHARD DEXTER, ONE OF BOSTON’S IRISH PIONEERS.
-
-
- BY THOMAS HAMILTON MURRAY.
-
-Richard Dexter was admitted a “townsman” of Boston, Mass., in 1641. He
-was an Irishman and came to this country with his wife Bridget. Less
-worthy people have been adequately chronicled. Of Richard Dexter,
-however, but little has been said. He may be ranked as a forgotten
-pioneer.
-
-In the New York _Genealogical and Biographical Record_, January, 1891,
-is a brief paper on “The Dexter Family.” In that it is stated that
-“Richard Dexter, the pioneer, with his wife, Bridget, came from Ireland,
-where his fathers had lived for upwards of 400 years.”
-
-The descendants of Richard and Bridget have been very numerous, many of
-them attaining prominence in civil, military and educational life. F.
-Gordon Dexter, a wealthy Boston man, is mentioned as one of these
-descendants, as is also the late George Dexter of Albany, N. Y. Mention
-of others will hereinafter be found.
-
-In Vol. III, page 181, of a work published by Munsell on _American
-Ancestry_ (Albany, N. Y., 1899), it is stated that John Dexter, the only
-son of Richard, the immigrant, was born in 1639 and probably in Ireland.
-He was doubtless brought to this country by his parents while still an
-infant.
-
-The Irish Dexters derive their descent from Anglo-Norman sources and are
-first heard of in Ireland about A. D. 1169, or more than seven centuries
-ago. The name has variously appeared in Ireland as De Exeter, D’Exeter,
-Dexeter, Dexetra, Dexter, etc.
-
-Some of the family, especially those settling in Mayo, in the kingdom of
-Connaught, assumed the surname Mac Jordan (descendant of Jordan), after
-an ancestor—Jordan Teutonicus, or Jordan De Courcy, a brother of John De
-Courcy, Earl of Ulster. These Dexters were commonly known as Dexter-Mac
-Jordans, and sometimes as Mac Jordan-Dexters. Much of the history of the
-Dexters must be sought under the names Jordan and Mac Jordan.
-
-The pioneer Dexters in Ireland soon fell in with the people and though,
-at first, conflicts ensued between them and the old native clans, their
-descendants eventually became “as Irish as the Irish themselves.” The
-fact that they were of the same religious faith greatly assisted, of
-course, in bringing this about.
-
-Richard Dexter, son of Stephen Dexter, wedded, in 1272, Lady Penelope
-O’Connor, a daughter of the ruler of the Irish kingdom of Connaught. The
-Dexter-Mac Jordans became lords of Athleathan, in Mayo, Connaught, and
-built one of their strongest castles there. Stephen Dexter, son of one
-of the lords of Athleathan, was a Dominican monk, and wrote the _Annals
-of Multifernan_.
-
-The Dexter-Mac Jordans also had possessions in the Irish principality of
-Meath, where they built Castle Jordan. About 1274 they founded an abbey
-in Mayo. In De Burgo’s time the Dexter family had reached its thirteenth
-generation in Ireland.
-
-In common with other great Irish families, the Dexters suffered much at
-the hands of the English enemy, a large part of their choicest property
-being seized and confiscated. While some of the Irish Dexters took the
-name Mac Jordan, others, it would appear, did not, for we find Dexters
-prominently mentioned in the Munster counties of Cork and Limerick.
-
-It is a well-known fact that at one time the Irish living within the
-pale were obliged by law to drop their Irish surnames and assume others.
-Possibly, some of the Dexters bearing the name Mac Jordan came under the
-operation of this enactment and went back to their original name of
-Dexter. Be that as it may, it is certain that several of the Irish
-Dexters of Munster were unscrupulously victimized during the Cromwellian
-and Williamite regimes.
-
-Thomas Dexter of Cloyne, Cork, was among the forfeiting proprietors
-under the Cromwellian settlement. He was of the Barony of Imokilly.
-Stephen Dexter of the Parish of Templemurry, County Limerick, also
-suffered at the same time and in like manner. William Dexter, likewise
-of Templemurry, was similarly treated by the rapacious foe.
-
-What part of Ireland Richard Dexter, the Boston pioneer, came from we do
-not know. It is reasonable to conclude, however, that he was from either
-Munster or Connaught—the south or the west, since it is in these two
-provinces the Irish Dexters are mainly found. Neither do we know the
-maiden name of his wife, Bridget. Richard Dexter was admitted a townsman
-of Boston on “the 28th day of the twelfth month, 1641.” At the meeting
-where this action was taken there were present: Richard Bellingham, John
-Winthrop, William Tynge, Captain Gibbones, Valentine Hill, Jacob Eliot,
-James Penn and John Oliver.
-
-According to Savage’s _Genealogical Dictionary_, Richard Dexter, the
-pioneer, was of Charlestown, Mass., in 1644. Munsell’s _American
-Ancestry_ states that he was born in 1606, which would make him about
-thirty-five years of age on his arrival in Boston from Ireland. He
-bought a large amount of land on “Mystic side,” and must, at the outset,
-have been a man of considerable means. In 1648 his name appears signed
-to a petition relative to the laying out of a highway in Charlestown,
-Mass. The petition thus quaintly concludes: “So shall wee be bound to
-pray as we desire dayly to doe for yr prsptie & peace temporall &
-Eternall.”
-
-On “the 14th of the third month, 1650,” Richard Dexter purchased of
-Robert Long of Charlestown five lots on “Mystic side.” In 1654 John
-Palmer mentions the sale to Dexter of five acres of “arable land” in
-Charlestown, which land had at one time belonged to Maj. Robert
-Sedgwick. Richard Dexter also purchased other pieces of land, chiefly
-upland, in Charlestown at various times. In 1663 he became owner of
-forty acres in Malden, Mass., buying the same of Edward Lane of Boston.
-This latter property was increased from time to time, and much of it
-remained in possession of descendants of Richard down to as late a
-period as 1854.
-
-In 1651, Richard’s wife, Bridget Dexter, signed a petition of Malden and
-Charlestown women. This was called “The petition of Many Inhabitants of
-Malden and Charlestown on Mestickside.” A record is extant showing that
-“Thomas Molton of Malden, Planter,” sold to Richard Dexter five acres of
-upland. “It is scituate on mistik syde nere the south springe.” Richard
-Dexter, the pioneer, died at Charlestown in 1680.
-
-John Dexter, the only son of Richard, was born in 1639. He is spoken of
-as “of Charlestown and Malden.” He was killed in the latter place in
-1677. His wife’s name was Sarah. They had several children, including a
-son, who was named Richard. This Richard is mentioned as “of Lynn and
-Malden.” He was born in the latter place in 1676, and died there in
-1747. John Dexter of the family was a selectman of Malden for many
-years, and in 1717 was commissioned captain of a company of Foot by
-Governor Shute. This John Dexter died in 1722. He had eight children.
-
-Another John Dexter of Malden, of the same family, was born in 1705 and
-died in 1790. He had thirteen children, was clerk of the town for
-several years, a patriot of the Revolution and delegate to the
-Provincial Congress.
-
-The Rev. Samuel Dexter was born in 1700, dying in 1755. He was a brother
-of Selectman John of Malden. This Samuel graduated at Harvard College,
-1720, and subsequently taught school at Taunton, Lynn, Malden, and
-elsewhere in Massachusetts. He eventually located in Dedham, Mass. He
-had a son, also named Samuel, who became an eminent merchant of Boston,
-and died in 1810.
-
-This second Samuel left a bequest to Harvard University, on which
-bequest was subsequently founded the Dexter lectureship. He became a
-member of the Council of Massachusetts. He was “an active and sagacious
-leader on the popular side, and a man of marked ability.”
-
-Another member of this distinguished family was Richard Dexter, a
-physician at Topsfield, Mass. He was born in 1713 and died in 1783. This
-Richard was a brother of the Rev. Samuel Dexter, and wedded Mehitable
-Putnam, a sister of Gen. Israel Putnam.
-
-Two members of the Dexter family, William and Richard, descendants of
-Richard, the Irishman, were members of a Malden company of Minutemen
-that marched to Watertown, Mass., April 19, 1775, in response to the
-Lexington alarm. John Dexter, probably the one just mentioned, was with
-Captain Blaney in the Point Shirley expedition, 1776, and later was
-lieutenant aboard the brigantine _Hawke_. William Dexter of Malden, who
-responded to the Lexington alarm was with Colonel Brooks’ regiment of
-guards at Cambridge from February to April, 1778. Thus we see these
-descendants of the immigrant Richard were as ready to oppose British
-tyranny as their Irish ancestors had been.
-
-Another member of the family, Aaron Dexter, was born in 1750 and
-graduated at Harvard in 1776. He witnessed the battle of Bunker Hill
-from the Malden side of the river; studied medicine and made several
-voyages as surgeon. He was captured by the British and taken into
-Halifax, but was subsequently exchanged. Thomas Dexter is heard from at
-Lynn, as early as 1630. He at one time owned 800 acres in that vicinity.
-Whether he was related to Thomas Dexter of Cloyne, Cork, to Stephen or
-William Dexter of Limerick, or to Richard Dexter, the Boston pioneer, is
-not known.
-
-
-
-
- THE NEW HAMPSHIRE KELLYS.
-
-
- BY HON. JOHN C. LINEHAN.
-
-Who was the first among New Hampshire’s early settlers to bear the
-ancient west-of-Ireland name Kelly, is now hard to determine. Probably
-it was either Roger Kelly, who, with his two brothers John and William,
-were on the Isles of Shoals shortly after their settlement by the
-English, or one of the descendants of John Kelly, who came to Newbury,
-Mass., in 1635.
-
-The exact year when Roger Kelly and his two brothers came to the Shoals
-is not given in Jenness’ history of the island, but it must have been
-about the date mentioned. It is written of them that “they were men of
-energy and substance.” All three lived on Smutty Nose Island. From the
-records Roger seems to have been the most prominent. A conveyance of
-land and buildings at the Shoals to him from Nathaniel Fryer is entered
-in the Province records.
-
-Therein he is styled the fisherman. For this reason it would not be
-surprising to learn that he came from Galway, Ireland’s greatest fishing
-mart from the earliest times. Elsewhere in the same work he is alluded
-to as “Roger Kelly, the ancient magistrate and _taverner_.” A queer
-combination of titles from a modern standpoint, and no doubt the
-occasion for the underscoring of the word taverner.
-
-The people on the Shoals in those early days led a free and easy life.
-Neither women nor hogs, it is said, were allowed there,—not even married
-women. The swine ate or spoiled the fish, and the presence of women for
-obvious reasons caused trouble between the men.
-
-These hardy fishermen, whose manly virtues, despite their human
-failings, find a staunch advocate in Jenness, “were not very deeply
-moved by questions of government, or statutes, or courts.” A
-considerable proportion of criminal complaints against them were for
-resisting, assaulting, and reviling the officers of the law, and
-treating with contempt the awe-inspiring badge of his office.
-
-However, this feeling of contempt for the minions of the law was not
-confined to the inhabitants of the rocky isles, for it is on record that
-Maj. William Vaughan of Portsmouth, N. H., seized the truncheon of the
-king’s officer who was on the point of serving a writ upon him, and beat
-him over the head with it. And as well, that Andrew Wiggin of Stratham,
-N. H., threw Lieut.-Gov. Walter Barefoote on the blazing coals in his
-own fireplace, and, in addition, sat on him, breaking some of his ribs,
-knocking out some of his teeth, and partially roasting his body.
-
-So, for a similar reason, on the Shoals, Abraham Kelly and others were
-arrested for reviling a constable and attempting to assault him, and
-even Roger himself, the ancient magistrate and taverner, “was presented
-in Court for selling without due license to a party of fishermen, while
-playing nine-pins on Hog Island, twelve gallons of wine which they drank
-in one day.” An appetite for liquids like this in our day, and with our
-population, would surely create a famine in that line.
-
-Still, strange as it may seem now, in those good old times, and for a
-century later, the great man of the town, as a rule, was the
-tavern-keeper, and Roger was not an exception. His name headed many
-weighty petitions in favor of, or protesting against, every measure
-respectively beneficial or injurious to his fellow-citizens of the rocky
-island. That he was an educated man is apparent from the positions he
-held, as well as the location of his name at the head of other signers
-on petitions.
-
-In 1689 he was one of many petitioners to the Massachusetts General
-Court for the appointment of a suitable person to command the militia.
-
-This fact is on record in the Provincial papers, and Jenness wrote that
-in 1690, during the King William War, the Massachusetts authorities
-appointed Roger Kelly “Captain of the Isles.” A company of militia under
-command of Captain Wiley was sent to the Shoals from Massachusetts, and
-this was the occasion of some trouble. The fishermen were opposed, it is
-said, to all manner of government rates and taxes unless the moneys
-received therefrom were expended on the Shoals. They, therefore,
-resented the billetting of the soldiers on them and even refused to pay
-for their subsistence, and Roger Kelly was the leader of the
-protestants.
-
-There is a record in the Provincial papers of payment to Roger for
-services as a soldier. The date of the death of Roger Kelly cannot be
-given here, neither can his descendants be traced without trouble; but
-undoubtedly they, as well as those of his brothers, are scattered all
-over the United States, for as Kelly, or Kelley, the name is now one of
-the most common among Americans. Clarke has immortalized the name in his
-poem, “The Fighting Race,” and it is well to remark here that “Kelly and
-Burke and Shea” were here in New Hampshire long before 1700 in the
-persons of Roger Kelly, James O’Shea and John Burke, whose names appear
-in the Provincial records.
-
-According to Coffin, the historian of Newbury, Mass., John Kelly of that
-town was of English as well as of Irish descent. His father, as
-tradition has it, was an Irishman who went from his native country to
-Newbury, England. While in the service of a gentleman there he was
-successful in defending the house from an attack by robbers. He secured
-the gentleman’s daughter for his wife. The immigrant, John Kelly, was
-the offspring of this union. He came to Newbury in 1635.
-
-In the allotment of land to settlers he was dissatisfied with his
-assignment and selected his land so far away from the rest that the
-people of the town were fearful that he would be destroyed either by the
-Indians or by wild beasts, and in consequence the town voted “that if
-the said John Kelly or any of his family are killed by the Indians or
-wild beasts their blood” should be on their own heads.
-
-However, this did not trouble John Kelly. In time, he was looked upon as
-one of the most enterprising and courageous men in the settlement, and
-fearless to an extreme degree. He had five sons and five daughters. His
-descendants are numerous in New England, and especially in New
-Hampshire. They were thrifty, prosperous and leading citizens in the
-towns in which they settled.
-
-Before the Revolution, not a few schoolmasters, natives of Ireland, were
-teaching the young ideas how to shoot in New Hampshire. They were well
-thought of in those days, and spoken of, as a rule, in the highest terms
-by the people with whom they came in contact.
-
-Such men as John Sullivan, father of the general, in Dover; Edward Evans
-of Northfield, who was General Sullivan’s secretary, and adjutant of one
-of the three Continental regiments; Henry Parkinson, whose grave is in
-Canterbury Center cemetery; Edward Donovan of Sandwich; William Donovan
-of Weare; Patrick Quinlan of Concord; Richard Dowling of Stratham; Darby
-Kelly of Exeter and Hercules Mooney of Somersworth, were some of these
-schoolmasters.
-
-Few of New Hampshire’s early settlers have left more useful descendants
-than Darby Kelly, whose name appears in the Province wills in 1728. The
-exact time of his arrival, or the section of Ireland from which he came,
-is unknown. Kelly is one of the most ancient names in Connaught, the
-western province of Ireland. It is an Anglicization of the Gaelic
-Ceallaigh. It would not, therefore, be surprising if he emigrated from
-that part of the country. In the _Reminiscences of New Hampton_, which
-were written by one of his descendants, the Hon. F. H. Kelly, ex-mayor
-of Worcester, Mass., it is stated that he settled in Exeter, N. H., in
-the early part of the 18th century, and that little is known of him
-except by tradition. He was reputed to have taught school before leaving
-home, and “is said to have been a bright, quick-witted Irishman.”
-
-Contrary to rule, this much was said of him by the writer quoted, who
-had not followed the usual course in calling his ancestor a
-“Scotch-Irishman.” However that may have been, the record shows that he
-was a useful, thrifty citizen, possessed of the traits which
-distinguished so many of his descendants. There is another tradition
-that he taught school in New Hampshire. If so, the inscription, in part,
-on the headstone of Capt. Henry Parkinson, Stark’s quartermaster, who
-died in 1829, would also apply to Darby Kelly. “Hibernia begot me.
-Columbia nurtured me, ... I have fought, I have taught, and I have
-labored with my hands,” etc. For if Darby had taught, which is likely,
-he had also labored with his hands, and fought as well.
-
-The Provincial papers show that when his services as a soldier were
-required, he shouldered his musket and fought against the common foe,
-the French and the Indians; so in this way we find his name enrolled as
-one of the company commanded by Capt. Moses Foster, on scouting duty in
-1748; again, serving in Capt. Elijah Sweet’s company, Col. Peter
-Gilman’s regiment, in New York, 1755; again, in Capt. Elisha Winslow’s
-company, Col. Nathaniel Meserve’s regiment, in the Crown Point
-expedition, 1756; and as Sergt. Darby Kelly he is found again in Capt.
-Richard Emery’s company, Col. Nathaniel Meserve’s regiment, in the
-second Crown Point expedition, 1757. One battalion of this regiment
-suffered severely in the massacre at Fort William Henry. Out of 200 men
-engaged 80 were killed or captured. His final enlistment was in Capt.
-Somerbee Gilman’s company, of Col. John Hart’s regiment, in 1758. Here
-is a military record his descendants may well point to with pride, for
-it enables them to gain admission to all the patriotic Colonial War
-societies thus far organized.
-
-That he was an active business man is clearly evident, for there are on
-the records, especially in the Province wills in the New Hampshire State
-House, entries of deeds of land to or from him from Dec. 11, 1728, to
-March 31, 1770,—one in Exeter, four in Kingston, and ten in Brentwood.
-His name appears on a petition from Exeter for parish privileges in
-1741, and on another from Brentwood in 1742, and he is recorded as a
-ratepayer in that town. His name is signed to a receipt for 100 pounds,
-old tenor, paid to him in 1769 for services as a soldier.
-
-He married Sarah, the daughter of Philip Huntoon of Kingston, N. H. The
-date and year of his marriage cannot be given here, but it was before
-1729. That he had won the good will and the esteem of his wife’s father
-is clear from the inspection of a deed of land conveyed to him and to
-his wife, dated July 25, 1729, and recorded in the Province deeds, Vol.
-19. It reads in part, stripped of the phraseology of the times, as
-follows:
-
-“To all people to whom these presents shall come, greeting: Know ye that
-I, Philip Huntoon, Sr., of the town of Kingstown, in the Province of New
-Hampshire, in New England, husbandman, Know ye that I, the aforesaid
-Philip Huntoon, for and in consideration of the natural love and
-affection which I have and do bear toward and to my beloved daughter and
-son-in-law, Sarah Kelly and Darby Kelly, of ye said town of Kingstown,
-county and province aforesaid, and for other good causes and
-considerations, have given, granted made over and confirmed,” etc.
-
-This is a loving tribute to a son-in-law. It would be of interest to
-know, were it possible, how he stood with his mother-in-law, but on this
-point the records are dumb. As a rule, the women were silent in those
-days. From the language of this deed it is to be taken for granted that
-he and his wife were residents of the town at the time the deed was
-made. In the sketch of the family printed in the _Reminiscences of New
-Hampton_, it is said that Samuel Kelly, the oldest son of Darby, was
-born in Exeter in 1733, and died in New Hampton, N. H., on June 28,
-1813, aged 80 years. We will now leave Darby to his well-merited rest,
-and look up the records of some of his descendants.
-
-Samuel Kelly mentioned, married Elizabeth Bowdoin. Here, then, we find a
-union of three nationalities thus early in the history of the province.
-Kelly, Huntoon and Bowdoin, respectively, Irish, English and French,—not
-a bad combination, for each of the three peoples represented have cut
-quite a figure in the world’s history for the past three centuries. Mrs.
-Kelly was born in 1740, and died in 1816, outliving her husband three
-years. Both were buried in the family lot on Kelly Hill, New Hampton.
-
-The family went from Brentwood, N. H., to New Hampton in 1775. Samuel
-Kelly was a carpenter by trade, and at this time was 42 years old. He is
-credited with being a man of courage, ability and energy, and at the end
-of a few years found himself in possession of a considerable part of
-what is now New Hampton, and this was entirely due to his great
-perseverance and hard work, aided largely by an iron constitution. He
-had nine children, six of whom were sons. It is said that his aim was to
-provide a farm for each. One of his daughters, Sally, died in Machias,
-Me., in 1840. Another who was married, as the first-named was, moved to
-Steubenville, O., Two of his sons, John and Dudley, removed to
-Youngstown, Pa.
-
-Samuel Kelly planned and built the first meeting-house in town. He was a
-worthy son of Darby Kelly and Sarah Huntoon. He can well be credited as
-the leading pioneer settler of New Hampton. That his venerable father
-accompanied him to New Hampton in 1775 is evident from a letter written
-by Elder Ebenezer Fisk of Jackson, Mich., printed in the _Reminiscences_
-mentioned. For, in describing the location of the several families in
-the town, he wrote, “Next was Darby Kelly whose honored wife died at the
-advanced age of 103 years.”
-
-Samuel Kelly, son of Samuel, and grandson of Darby Kelly, was born in
-Brentwood in 1759, and died in New Hampton in 1832. His widow survived
-him 14 years, dying in 1846, aged 84. He had seven children, four of
-whom were sons. Of these sons, Michael B. and Jonathan F. Kelly
-inherited the farm settled on and cleared by their grandfather, the
-first Samuel Kelly. At the present time, and for a number of years past,
-it has been owned by the Hon. Joseph H. Walker of Worcester, Mass., who
-married Hannah M. C. Kelly, youngest child of Michael B. Kelly, and the
-sister of the late Capt. Warren M. Kelly of Hooksett, and the late Frank
-H. Kelly, ex-mayor of Worcester.
-
-A Samuel Kelly of New Hampton was on the roster of Col. Hercules
-Mooney’s regiment in the battle of Rhode Island under Gen. John
-Sullivan. Later, the name of Lieut. Samuel Kelly of New Hampton is on
-the roster of the same regiment, and another Samuel Kelly of Meredith
-was enrolled in a company raised for service at Ticonderoga in 1777.
-
-These were undoubtedly descendants of Darby Kelly. Their residence in
-one instance is given as at Meredith, and in two as of New Hampton. The
-evidence for these facts will be found on the pages of the Revolutionary
-rolls. It is possible that the Lieut. Samuel Kelly may either have been
-the son or grandson of Darby.
-
-Maj. Nathaniel Kelly, the third son of Samuel, second, and grandson of
-Darby, moved to Akron, O., before 1835. His son, bearing the same name,
-with his family followed later. No doubt they are the ancestors of many
-western Kellys.
-
-Col. William B. Kelly, the fourth son of Samuel, and grandson of Darby,
-was born in Exeter in 1769. He came to New Hampshire with his father
-when he was six years old. He had 11 children, of whom six were sons. He
-was the first postmaster of New Hampton. The mails were distributed from
-his house before 1800. He was a member of the state Legislature, and one
-of the two founders of the New Hampton Academy, which was first opened
-in 1822. It is written of him that “he inherited the military spirit of
-his ancestors, and transmitted it to his posterity,” as will be seen by
-the prominent part taken by some of them in the Civil War. His children
-became widely separated, their descendants now dwelling in almost every
-state in the Union.
-
-Maj.-Gen. Benjamin F. Kelly, son of Col. William S. Kelly, and
-great-grandson of Darby Kelly, was born in New Hampton in 1807. When a
-young man he moved to West Virginia, and was residing there when the
-first gun was fired on Sumter. It is claimed for him that he raised the
-first Union regiment and won the first Union victory south of Mason and
-Dixon’s line. He was commissioned colonel of his regiment on May 25,
-1861. His first service was under General McClellan, in West Virginia,
-and under his direction Colonel Kelly assumed command of all the troops
-then in that part of the state. He won his first victory at Grafton,
-where he defeated a Confederate force under command of Colonel
-Porterfield. On this occasion, in addition to his own regiment, he had
-command of the Sixteenth Ohio and the Ninth Indiana regiments. The enemy
-was completely routed and large quantities of arms and ammunition fell
-into Colonel Kelly’s hands. Kelly was badly wounded. At first it was
-supposed mortally. For his conduct here he was congratulated by Generals
-Morris and McClellan. Both complimented him for his brilliant and
-efficient service. McClellan recommended him for promotion to the rank
-of brigadier-general. The request was complied with. He was also
-complimented for his valor and skill at Romney in October, 1861, by
-President Lincoln, General Scott, and Gen. E. D. Townsend, the assistant
-adjutant-general of the United States army. Thus were honors showered
-unlimited on the head of the grandson of the modest colonial Crown Point
-soldier, Darby Kelly, who was with Sir William Johnson at Fort William
-Henry a little more than a century before.
-
-Later, General Kelly was assigned to the command of the department at
-Harper’s Ferry and Cumberland. On the organization of the Department of
-West Virginia, in 1863, he was assigned to that command. His services
-from the beginning to the end of the war are too well known to repeat
-them here. During the invasion of Pennsylvania, in 1862, his conduct
-brought to him the thanks of General Wright, and for his successful
-defence of Cumberland, Md., in 1864, he received from the president the
-rank of major-general by brevet, and from the people of Cumberland,
-their heartfelt thanks for the skill and courage displayed by him and
-his officers, and the bravery exhibited by his soldiers in their
-successful resistance to the capture of the city. General Kelly had six
-children, four of whom were sons, all of whom served in the United
-States army.
-
-Capt. Warren Michael Kelly was the son of Michael B. Kelly, the nephew
-of Gen. B. F. Kelly, and the great-great-grandson of Darby Kelly. He was
-born in New Hampton in 1821. He was residing in Manchester when the
-Civil War broke out. In August, 1862, he raised a company which was
-attached to the Tenth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry,
-commanded by the late Gen. Michael T. Donohoe. He remained in the
-service until the close of the war. He was wounded once. His first fight
-was at Fredericksburg, one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, on
-Dec. 13, 1862. It is claimed for him that he commanded the first
-organized body of white troops that entered Richmond, after the
-surrender of Lee. Captain Kelly was as modest as he was brave. He was 41
-years old when he went to the front with his regiment in 1862, but none
-in his command rendered more efficient service during the three years
-following.
-
-There was no opportunity for promotion in his regiment, as there was no
-change in the colonel or the lieutenant-colonel from 1862 to 1865,
-neither of them being killed, neither did they resign, for both Gen. M.
-T. Donohoe and General Coughlin were among the bravest of the brave.
-Captain Kelly, as the ranking captain, had command of his regiment on
-several occasions during the first quarter of 1865, and was in command
-of the skirmish line when the Union troops entered Richmond on April 3d
-of the same year. It is quite a coincidence, and worthy of mention, that
-Captain Kelly should serve in a regiment whose field officers and a
-large proportion of the rank and file were composed of men of the same
-nationality as his great-great-grandfather, Darby Kelly.
-
-Of the sons of Gen. B. F. Kelly, John G., the eldest, was colonel of the
-Seventh Virginia Infantry. William B. was a captain on his father’s
-staff. Frank was a quartermaster in the United States army and died in
-Texas in 1870. Wright Kelly, a captain of cavalry, was wounded and died
-from the effects of his wounds in 1869.
-
-Hon. Frank H. Kelly was a brother of Capt. Warren M. Kelly. He was born
-in New Hampton, Sept. 9, 1827. He was a physician, studying and
-practising in various places until 1851, when he located in Worcester,
-Mass. He followed his profession actively 32 years. He joined the
-Massachusetts Medical Society in 1875. He was the first president of the
-board of trustees of the City Hospital in 1870, serving in that capacity
-13 years. As a member of the school board, of the common council, of the
-board of aldermen, he served his adopted city long and faithfully.
-
-He wrote the _Reminiscences of New Hampton_, from which a goodly portion
-of this paper, or rather the material for it, has been culled. Therein
-he styled his great-great-grandfather, Darby Kelly, “a bright,
-quick-witted Irishman.” Here we will leave the emigrant Darby Kelly and
-his American descendants. It is said that regardless of the number born
-in New Hampton, none of the name resides there. They are scattered all
-over the country, but wherever located, it will be found that they are
-keeping up the record made by their New Hampshire fathers. The Kelly
-blood runs in the veins of some of the best people within and without
-the state of New Hampshire, and in at least one instance it returned
-across the Atlantic by the marriage of one of Darby’s descendants to M.
-Clemenceau, the celebrated Parisian writer and statesman. But few of
-Darby’s descendants are here mentioned. They are too numerous. But
-judging from the record of those given, the emigration of Darby to New
-Hampshire was quite an accession to the people of the province and
-state.
-
-Referring again to John Kelly who came to Newbury, Mass., in 1635, many
-of his descendants must have come to New Hampshire. Among them
-undoubtedly was Abial Kelly of Methuen, Mass., originally, whose name
-occurs several times in the Provincial papers in connection with the
-settlement of the boundary line between New Hampshire and Massachusetts,
-in 1745. It also occurs in the Province wills, 1728, 1740, and 1743.
-
-Capt. Richard Kelly, another descendant of the Newbury immigrant, was an
-officer in the Sixth Regiment of militia, in 1744. The same name appears
-on a petition from Londonderry, N. H., for the release of Stephen
-Holland, the Tory, in 1777. The names of Hugh Kelly and Peter Kelly are
-on the same petition. Richard Kelly, Jr., evidently the son of Captain
-Kelly, served in the company commanded by Captain Nesmith in Canada in
-1776.
-
-A Richard Kelly was a grantee and one of the first settlers of
-Contoocook, now Boscawen, in 1748. As Boscawen’s first settlers were
-from Newbury, Mass., it is reasonable to think he was also a descendant
-of John Kelly. A Richard Kelly was at Winter Hill, near Boston, Mass.,
-in 1775, in the company of Capt. Jacob Webster, which was one of the
-companies raised at the request of General Sullivan to take the place of
-Connecticut troops, during the siege of Boston, who had refused to serve
-after their term had expired.
-
-This interesting episode of New Hampshire history cannot be repeated too
-often. On Dec. 1, 1775, Sullivan sent up word by express of the
-defection of the Connecticut men, and made an urgent request for
-volunteers to take their places. In response to this, 31 companies,
-numbering 2,058 men, were enlisted for six weeks, and marched to Winter
-Hill. New Hampshire had at this time, in addition, three full regiments
-in the field, thus making the total number of New Hampshire men at the
-siege of Boston in 1775 over five thousand. This is evidence of the
-character of the men of the old Granite State in those stirring times.
-
-Capt. Richard Kelly was authorized by Gov. Benning Wentworth to call the
-first town meeting in Salem, N. H., in May, 1750.
-
-William Kelly was a taxpayer in Newcastle, N. H., in 1727. Doubtless he
-was a descendant of Roger or John Kelly mentioned.
-
-A William Kelly appears on a petition in 1737. Another was one of the
-company commanded by Captain Eastman on scouting duty in Penacook, now
-Concord, N. H., in 1747.
-
-Still another William Kelly served at Crown Point, in 1755, in Captain
-Goff’s company, and another was one of the grantees in the town of
-Salem, N. H., in 1750; a William Kelly was also on the alarm list of the
-town of Warner, N. H., in 1741. William P. Kelly was in Northwood, and
-another William Kelly in Salisbury, respectively, in 1735 and 1813.
-
-A William Kelly was enrolled in Captain Page’s company, Senter’s
-regiment, in 1777. Sergt. William Kelly was in Captain Libby’s company,
-Col. Stephen Evans’ regiment, at Saratoga in 1777. Corp. William Kelly
-served in the battle of Rhode Island in the regiment of Colonel Hercules
-Mooney in 1779. He was from Epping, N. H.
-
-Rev. William Kelly was the first settled minister in Warner, Feb. 6,
-1772. He was born in Newbury, Mass., 1744, and was undoubtedly a
-descendant of John Kelly who landed there a little over a century
-before. His pastorate closed in 1801. He made the opening prayer at the
-first town meeting held in Warner.
-
-Hon. John Kelly was his son. He was born in Warner. He was an attorney,
-editor and author. He was the first Warner man to take a degree from
-Dartmouth. His permanent home was in Exeter, N. H. He was register of
-probate for Rockingham County.
-
-Abner B. Kelly was his brother. He was Warner’s town clerk in 1820. He
-was representative to the state Legislature, postmaster of Warner for
-six years, state treasurer of New Hampshire for six years, a clerk in
-one of the departments at Washington, D. C., a director of the Concord
-Mechanics Bank of Concord, and of the company incorporated for the
-manufacture of silk. He is credited as being a fine penman. “His
-handwriting was faultless.”
-
-William Kelly, “an Irish tailor,” was in Barnstead, N. H., in 1814. The
-historian of that town wrote that he was the first Irishman in
-Barnstead. Regardless of that statement, however, Thomas, John and
-Stephen Pendergast were among its first settlers. This name is not quite
-as Irish as Murphy, but comes very near it. It came from France to
-Ireland in 1170.
-
-George W. Kelly, a brother of Rev. William Kelly, was deputy sheriff in
-Warner in 1808. Caleb Kelly came to Warner from Newbury, the nursery of
-the Kellys. Kelly Hill takes its name from him. His family removed to
-Wisconsin. J. R. B. Kelly is recorded as a graduate of Francestown
-Academy, and Frank H. Kelly was one of the directors of the Francestown
-Soapstone Company.
-
-Dudley Kelly was serving at West Point in 1789. He was from Brentwood.
-
-Zachariah Kelly was also at West Point in 1781, and an entry in the
-records reads, that he had received a ration of half a pint of rum and a
-pound of sugar with the other members of his company.
-
-Israel W. Kelly of Boscawen was a lieutenant in Captain Green’s company
-in 1797, when there seemed to be a prospect of a war with France.
-
-In December, 1776, James Kelly was paid for services in apprehending
-Daniel Meserve and others for counterfeiting Provincial bills.
-
-Another James Kelly appeared on a petition in 1732 for the laying out of
-a new town along Lake Winnepesaukee. The names of John and James Kelly
-appear on the roll of ratepayers in the parish of Cocheco in 1753.
-Another James Kelly appears on a petition from Northwood in connection
-with some town dispute. James Kelly served in Captain Drew’s company in
-the expedition to Canada in 1776 and 1777, and a man of the same name
-from Exeter enlisted for three years in the Fourth regiment of militia.
-
-A James Kelly was one of the proprietors of Wakefield in 1749, and
-another James Kelly was one of the grantees of Peterborough in 1750.
-Still another of the same name was engaged in the defence of Piscataqua
-Harbor in 1791. James Kelly was a British prisoner of war in 1781, who,
-with others, was consigned for safe keeping to New Hampshire.
-
-James Kelly was one of the soldiers who were indebted to the sutler for
-supplies in 1761. This kind of a creditor was not infrequent in 1861, a
-hundred years later. He served in Captain Gerrish’s company.
-
-James Kelly was one of the grantees of Holderness, N. H., in 1751. Among
-those who were with him were John Cavanaugh, John McElroy, William
-Curry, Hercules Mooney, Bryan McSweeney and Michael Dwyer.
-
-John Kelly was one of the selectmen of Dover, N. H., who aided in taking
-the census in October, 1775. He served in the state Legislature four
-years, and from the records seemed to have been an active,
-public-spirited citizen. John Kelly was a ratepayer in Plaistow and
-Atkinson in 1786.
-
-A John Kelly in Salem appears on a petition for the formation of one or
-more counties in 1769. Samuel Kelly was one of his associates. John
-Kelly renders an account of individual losses which he met at
-Ticonderoga. John Kelly of Dover, in 1782, furnished an affidavit in
-relation to the identity of a soldier. John Kelly of Deerfield was a
-recruit for the Continental army in 1780. John Kelly was one of the
-selectmen of Salem in 1775.
-
-John E. Kelly was one of Warner’s selectmen in 1801. John Kelly of North
-Hampton was one of Captain Parsons’ company, Colonel Runnells’ regiment,
-at Charleston, in 1781.
-
-John Kelly of New York was granted 69,100 acres of land in Lamoiville,
-Vt., in 1787. In 1791 he was given 30,000 acres more. In both cases the
-grants were made by the legislature of Vermont. This John Kelly must
-have been one of the “Royal Order of Patroons.” Kellyburg, Kellyvale,
-and Kelly Grant marked his progress in the Green Mountain state. John
-Kelly, a native of Plaistow, graduated from Amherst College in 1825. He
-lived in Chester in 1833. The history of the town speaks of him in the
-highest terms.
-
-Ezekiel Kelly, a native of Newbury, Mass., was in Chester, N. H., in
-1784. Col. Israel W. Kelly resided there in 1810, and Ephraim Kelly was
-one of the selectmen in 1825.
-
-Rev. John Kelly of Hampstead was of the sixth generation of John Kelly
-of Newbury, Mass., who came over in 1635. He had five sons and seven
-daughters. He died in Hampstead in 1848. Three of his sons were college
-graduates. He wrote a history of Hampstead. He was pastor of the church
-in that town from 1792 to his death in 1848, fifty-six years.
-
-The ways of the Kellys were not always smooth, for Brewster’s _Rambles
-Around Portsmouth_ says, that in July, 1686, John Kelly and his family
-were ordered to give security or leave town, a survival of the custom in
-vogue in Boston and probably introduced to New Hampshire when the
-Province came under the control of Massachusetts Bay.
-
-John Kelly was a Revolutionary soldier and died in Raymond. A John Kelly
-was one of Windham’s first settlers, and a type of the late historian
-Morrison’s so-called “pure-blooded Scotch Irishman.”
-
-John Kelly was a member of the governor’s council in 1846. John Kelly
-was register of probate for Hillsborough County, N. H., 1831 to 1837.
-John Kelly was register of deeds in Rockingham County from 1832 to 1837.
-
-Joseph Kelly was one of the selectmen of Sunbudy in 1757. Joseph Kelly
-was a prisoner in Amherst jail in 1774. The occasion for it was an
-assault he made on John Holman. It seems clear that the cause of the
-trouble was political, for the Provincial papers contain several
-petitions from some of the towns of Hillsborough County asking for his
-release. He was a Nottingham man, and from the records seemed to be in
-hot water a good part of the time. He raised a company in June, 1775,
-but his men refused to allow Major Hobart to muster them into the
-service. His troubles extended to 1787.
-
-Col. Moses Kelly, on the authority of Dearborn, historian of Salisbury,
-was born in Newbury, Mass. He was living in Goffstown, N. H., before the
-outbreak of the Revolution. He represented that town in the Fourth
-Provincial Congress held in May, 1775, and again in the Fifth Provincial
-Congress in December, 1775.
-
-He represented Goffstown and Derryfield in the Legislature of 1776.
-Although not serving in the Continental army, he was, from the State
-records, one of the most active men in the state. It is written of him
-that he owned mills in Goffstown at the place now known as Kelly’s Falls
-upon the Piscataquog River. He was a zealous patriot, and kept a public
-house upon the Mast road. Many of the forays against the Tories of that
-neighborhood were concocted at Colonel Kelly’s.
-
-He was appointed major of the Ninth regiment of militia on Dec. 21,
-1775, and promoted to colonel of the same regiment in 1779. New
-Hampshire possessed an efficient force of militia during the Revolution
-and from its ranks were drafted men for three Continental regiments as
-occasion required. Some of these militia regiments distinguished
-themselves at Bennington, under Stark, and at Rhode Island, under
-Sullivan.
-
-It is doubtful if any one man had more to do with affairs at home than
-Colonel Kelly, and his special forte was in furnishing recruits for the
-veteran regiments at the front. In the reorganization of the state
-militia under General Sullivan, in 1784, he was reappointed colonel of
-his old command, the Ninth New Hampshire.
-
-Like Sullivan, he was continually in the service of the state in one
-capacity or another. As late as 1807, he read the Declaration of
-Independence from the top of a large boulder in Amherst, N. H. His son,
-bearing the same name, was coroner of Hillsborough County in 1789.
-Another son, Hon. Israel Kelly, removed to Salisbury, in 1803. In 1843
-he removed to East Concord, where he made his home until his death in
-1857.
-
-He was the sheriff of Hillsborough County, a judge of the Court of
-Sessions, and United States marshal under President Taylor. His wife was
-a sister of Grace Fletcher, who was the wife of Daniel Webster. Her
-mother and grandmother, bore the time-honored name of Bridget, denoting
-an affinity of some sort with the natives of the Emerald Isle.
-
-Joshua Kelly was one of the proprietors of Conway, N. H., and on its
-list of rate payers in 1773. He was one of the active men of the town,
-and had seen military service. Samuel Kelly was one of the coroners of
-Strafford County in 1776. One of the same name was a member of the House
-of Representatives in 1776. It appears again on a petition from Madbury
-in 1786. Lieut. Samuel Kelly was one of the special force raised by
-Sullivan in December, 1775. A Samuel Kelly served in Captain Barron’s
-company from Pembroke in 1776, and a Samuel Kelly was in Captain Moore’s
-company in Stark’s regiment in the same year.
-
-Samuel Kelly of New Hampton, undoubtedly one of Darby’s descendants,
-served in Col. Hercules Mooney’s regiment in Rhode Island in 1779.
-
-Another Samuel Kelly of Meredith, saw service at Ticonderoga. Rev.
-Samuel Kelly, according to Bouton’s History of Concord, N. H., was the
-first settled pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church in Concord. He
-was chaplain of the state prison in 1730. The name of Samuel Kelly of
-Brentwood is mentioned four times in the Provincial deeds, and once
-again in Derryfield in 1768. He was undoubtedly the oldest son of Darby
-Kelly and one of the first settlers of New Hampton.
-
-Daniel Kelly was in Sanbornton, N. H., in 1748, and another Daniel Kelly
-was recorded as a deserter from a British vessel in Boston Harbor in
-1770. He probably found the change from the forecastle of a ship to the
-picturesque hills of New Hampshire desirable.
-
-Daniel Kelly was ordered to appear before the Committee of Safety at
-Exeter to account for being concerned in the destruction of powder at
-Brentwood, May 20, 1799. Daniel Kelly was one of two grantees of a
-bridge, called Bridgewater and New Hampton bridge, at New Hampton in
-1784.
-
-Daniel Kelly was a soldier in Captain Light’s company at Louisburg in
-1745. Daniel Kelly of Hawke and Sandown was interested in some scheme
-relating to the currency in 1786. The Province deeds contain the name of
-Daniel Kelly three times from 1720 to 1731, from Hampton; five times,
-from 1737 to 1740, from Kingston, and once each from the towns of Epping
-and Newton, and twice from the town of Nottingham, from 1752 to 1764.
-
-Edward Kelly of Sanbornton was one of the signers of the test oath in
-1775 and his name and that of his son Edward appears on a petition for a
-ferry in 1781, and Edward Kelly was one of the men who enlisted under
-Sullivan’s call in November, 1775. He served in the company of Captain
-Copp. An Edward Kelly recruited from the militia regiment of Colonel
-Webster in 1780 for the Continental army.
-
-The name Edward Kelly is written in two deeds dated 1761 and 1765, both
-at Brentwood.
-
-David and Ebenezer Kelly were two signers for the incorporation of a new
-town in Strafford County in 1788. David Kelly was a private in Captain
-Tilton’s company, Colonel Poore’s regiment, June 12, 1775. Later, he was
-promoted to sergeant-major and second lieutenant.
-
-David H. Kelly of Warner was a soldier in Capt. Jonathan Bean’s company
-in 1812. Jacob Kelly and Micajah Kelly were in Gilmanton in 1789. Jacob
-Kelly and Israel Kelly were two of the grantees of Newport, N. H., in
-1753.
-
-Nehemiah Kelly served in Captain Calfe’s company, Colonel Bartlett’s
-regiment, in 1776–1777. He was also under Sullivan in Rhode Island.
-
-Philip Kelly was a soldier in Colonel Blanchard’s regiment, at Crown
-Point, in 1755.
-
-Robert Kelly’s name was on a petition for the appointment of Captain
-Folsom to be lieutenant-colonel of the Fourth regiment in 1775.
-
-Jonathan Kelly of Epping was a soldier in Captain Moore’s company,
-Poore’s regiment, in 1775, and served in an expedition to Canada in
-1776. He re-enlisted in 1777 in the First New Hampshire of the
-Continental line for three years, or during the war. This man had a
-splendid record, serving from Bunker Hill to Yorktown. He is recorded as
-re-enlisting in 1781 for three more years. His grave, wherever it may
-be, should be decorated Memorial Day.
-
-A Jonathan Kelly appears in the list of soldiers living in Northfield,
-N. H., in 1785.
-
-Abial Kelly, by the establishment of the boundary line, in 1745, was
-transferred to Methuen, Mass. His name often appears in the Province
-deeds. Josiah Kelly served in Colonel Gilman’s regiment in 1776. Dr.
-Benjamin Kelly, a veteran of the Revolutionary War, was a resident of
-Gilmanton in 1801. Stephen Kelly was a ratepayer in Cocheco parish in
-1741. Ebenezer Kelly was a petitioner for a classification of towns for
-representatives in 1798. He lived in Bridgewater.
-
-Ephraim Kelly was a soldier in Stark’s regiment at Bunker Hill, where he
-was wounded.
-
-Holbridge Kelly was on the roll of Colonel Walton’s men for scouting
-duty, in 1710. This name occurs eight times in the Province deeds, as of
-Stratham, Nottingham and Bow.
-
-Timothy Kelly was one of Captain McConnell’s company, Colonel Hazen’s
-regiment, in 1778. As the most of the soldiers in this regiment were of
-Irish or French-Canadian parentage, and recruited in Canada, this
-Timothy Kelly may have been of Irish birth. Another Timothy Kelly was in
-Candia in 1770, and still another was in Boscawen in 1812. His daughter,
-who was the wife of Nicholas M. Noyes of the same town, is the authority
-for stating that her father was a native of the County Waterford,
-Ireland. His parents were well-to-do. He was involved in the movement
-for Irish independence in 1798, which resulted in the murder by the
-British of Lord Edward Fitzgerald and the execution of Robert Emmet.
-
-For his safety, his parents sent him to this country. He landed in
-Newbury, Mass., and from thence he moved to Boscawen, marrying his wife
-as stated, and he remained there until the time of his death. Through
-him his daughter, Mrs. Noyes, was well acquainted with the history of
-Ireland, as well as with the events that resulted in the sad tragedy of
-the execution of young Emmet.
-
-He had three sons, John M., Roland B., and Andrew J. Kelly. The latter
-was a soldier with an exceptionally fine record. He enlisted for three
-years in the New Hampshire battalion of Berdan’s sharpshooters on Aug.
-8, 1861. He re-enlisted for three years more on Jan. 2, 1864, remaining
-until he was mustered out at the close of the war, June 28, 1865. At
-this date, June, 1905, he resides in Hopkinton, N. H., a living type of
-one of the trio of “Kelly and Burke and Shea.”
-
-Hon. Timothy Kaley was born in Dunmanway, County Cork, Ireland, in 1817.
-He came to this country when quite young. He arrived in New England by
-way of Canada, a frequent route taken in these early days by Irish
-emigrants, and a sad way it proved to be for thousands whose remains lie
-along the banks of the St. Lawrence, from its mouth to Kingston, who
-died from ship fever. Mr. Kaley was in business for a time in Canton,
-Mass. In 1860 he came to Milford, N. H., where he remained until the
-time of his death. In this town he established himself as of the firm
-Morse, Kaley & Co., for the manufacture of knitting cotton. The product
-of his mill became known all over the country. It is written of him that
-“from the time he became a citizen of Milford until the day of his
-decease, he ranked among the most enterprising and progressive citizens
-of the town.” He was a public-spirited man, taking an active part in the
-affairs of the community as well as in those connected with his adopted
-state and nation. He was elected to the state senate in 1881 and 1882,
-but died before his term of office expired. He was a good speaker, a
-ready debater, and was gifted with a very retentive memory.
-
-In 1879 or thereabouts, while in Richmond, Va., on an excursion with the
-New Hampshire Club, he declaimed the celebrated speech of Patrick Henry
-from the same pew in the historic St. John’s Church in which it was
-given originally by the fiery Virginian whose inspiring words “Give me
-liberty or give me death” have been repeated in every schoolhouse in New
-England.
-
-His son, the Hon. Frank E. Kaley, is the worthy heir of an honored sire.
-He is the treasurer of the firm established by his father, director of
-Souhegan National Bank, president of the Milford Building and Loan
-Association, a trustee of the Milford Savings Bank, vice-president of
-the Milford Tanning Co., and a member of the Board of Water
-Commissioners. He was elected a member of the Executive Council of
-Governor Bachelder for the years 1903 and 1904, but what is better than
-all these positions of honor, is that few men in New Hampshire are
-esteemed more highly at home or abroad, and what is still better, it is
-all deserved.
-
-The name Kaley is without question derived from the same Gaelic root,
-Ceallaigh, more commonly known as Kelly, but occasionally written Kaley
-and Kiley. The experience of the father and son is a remarkable
-illustration of the vigor of the old Gaelic blood, for with equal
-opportunities the men in whose veins it runs, let them be Irish or
-Highland Scotch, take no second place in the varied walks of life. The
-birthplace of Timothy Kaley was not a great distance from that of the
-ancestors of the Sullivans of New Hampshire, who also came from the
-south of Ireland.
-
-Dr. Nathaniel Kelly was an eminent physician in the town of Plaistow, N.
-H., where he was born in 1800. He represented his town in the state
-Legislature. Dr. Langley Kelly was another distinguished physician
-residing in Weare, N. H., in 1878.
-
-In placing the foregoing names before the reader, one cannot help being
-surprised at the number of men bearing a distinctive Irish name
-appearing in either the Town, Provincial or State records of New
-Hampshire. Even in our day but comparatively few men have their names
-printed in the public records. It is safe, therefore, to say that the
-greater part of these men had done something to specially merit them a
-place in the records.
-
-Again, a good idea can be formed of the number of men bearing
-distinctively Irish names, as the number of persons bearing this one
-name figured in New Hampshire affairs, or a greater part of them, before
-1800, an unusually large proportion of them having seen service in the
-Provincial wars or in the war for independence. Assuredly, a most
-fitting conclusion to this article will be Mr. Joseph I. C. Clarke’s
-poem:
-
-
- THE FIGHTING RACE.
-
- “Read out the names!” and Burke sat back,
- And Kelly dropped his head,
- While Shea—they called him Scholar Jack—
- Went down the list of the dead:
- Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
- The crews of the gig and the yawl,
- The bearded man and the lad in his ’teens,
- Carpenters, coal passers—all.
- Then, knocking the ashes from out his pipe,
- Said Burke, in an off-hand way:
- “We’re all in that dead-man’s list, by cripe!—
- Kelly and Burke and Shea.”
- “Well, here’s to the Maine, and I’m sorry for Spain,”
- Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.
-
- “Wherever there’s Kellys there’s trouble,” said Burke,
- “Wherever fighting’s the game,
- Or a spice of danger in grown man’s work,”
- Said Kelly, “you’ll find my name.”
- “And do we fall short,” said Burke, getting mad,
- “When it’s touch and go for life?”
- Said Shea: “It’s thirty odd years, bedad,
- Since I charged, to drum and fife,
- Up Marye’s Heights, and my old canteen
- Stopped a rebel ball on its way.
- There were blossoms of blood on our sprigs of green—
- Kelly and Burke and Shea—
- And the dead didn’t brag!” “Well, here’s to the flag!”
- Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.
-
- “I wish ’twas in Ireland—for, there’s the place,”
- Said Burke, “that we’d die by right—
- In the cradle of our soldier race,
- After one good stand-up fight.
- My grandfather fell on Vinegar Hill,
- And fighting was not his trade;
- But his rusty pike’s in the cabin still,
- With Hessian blood on the blade.”
- “Aye, aye,” said Kelly, “the pikes were great
- When the word was ‘Clear the way!’
- We were thick on the roll in 98—
- Kelly and Burke and Shea.”
- “Well, here’s to the pike and the sword and the like,”
- Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.
-
- And Shea, the Scholar, with rising joy,
- Said: “We were at Ramillies;
- We left our bones at Fontenoy,
- And up in the Pyrennees;
- Before Dunkirk, on Landen’s plain,
- Cremona, Lille and Ghent:
- We’re all over Austria, France, and Spain,
- Wherever they pitched a tent.
- We’ve died for England, from Waterloo
- To Egypt and Dargai;
- And still there’s enough for a corps or a crew—
- Kelly and Burke and Shea.”
- “Well, here’s to good, honest fighting blood!”
- Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.
-
- “Oh, the fighting races don’t die out,
- If they seldom die in bed—
- For love is first in their hearts, no doubt,”
- Said Burke; then Kelly said:
- “When Michael, the high Archangel, stands,
- The Angel with the sword,
- And the battle-dead from a hundred lands
- Are ranged in one big horde—
- Our line, that for Gabriel’s trumpet waits,
- Will stretch three deep that day,
- From Jehosephat to the Golden Gates—
- Kelly and Burke and Shea.”
- “Well, here’s thank God for the race and the sod!”
- Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.
-
-
-
-
- SOME EARLY CELEBRATIONS OF ST. PATRICK’S DAY IN NEW YORK CITY,
- 1762–1788.
-
- BY HON. JOHN D. CRIMMINS.[8]
-
-
-St. Patrick’s Day was celebrated in New York City as early as 1762. Of
-this fact we have a record. But the anniversary was, doubtless, observed
-here even at a much earlier period, if not by organization, then by
-groups of congenial friends. Irish residents of Boston, Mass.,
-celebrated St. Patrick’s Day as far back as 1737, and, we have no doubt,
-the anniversary was as early recognized in New York.
-
-Thomas Dongan, an Irish Roman Catholic, became governor of the Province
-of New York in 1683 and held the office until 1688. There is little
-doubt that during this period the anniversary of St. Patrick was, in
-some manner, observed by the governor and his friends and countrymen in
-these parts. It would be strange if this were not so, and we shall not
-be surprised if, one of these days, evidence confirmatory of this comes
-to light.
-
-As a matter of established fact, however, we for the present date St.
-Patrick’s Day celebrations in New York City from 1762. In the New York
-_Mercury_, under date of March 15, 1762, we find the following notice:
-“The anniversary Feast of St. Patrick is to be celebrated on Wednesday
-the 17th instant, at the house of Mr. John Marshall, at Mount Pleasant,
-near the College; Gentlemen that please to attend will meet with the
-best Usage.” We find no further mention of the event, but the same was,
-undoubtedly, a complete success.
-
-A notable celebration took place in New York City in 1766. Some of the
-toasts offered on that occasion appear very strange in these days. It
-should be remembered, however, that British influence dominated the
-gathering and that if any of the assembled company disagreed with “The
-Glorious Memory of King William,” for instance, they very wisely kept
-their opinions to themselves. Some of the toasts, however, appear to
-have been quite commendable. The New York _Gazette_, March 20, 1766, and
-the New York _Mercury_, March 24, 1766, have the following account of
-the celebration:
-
- Monday last being the Day of St. Patrick, tutelar Saint of Ireland,
- was ushered in at the Dawn, with Fifes and Drums, which produced a
- very agreeable Harmony before the Doors of many Gentlemen of that
- Nation, and others.
-
- Many of them assembled, and spent a joyous tho’ orderly Evening, at
- the House of Mr. Bardin in this City, where the following Healths
- were drank, Viz.
-
- 1. The King and Royal House of Hanover.
-
- 2. The Governor and Council of the Province.
-
- 3. The glorious memory of King William, &c.
-
- 4. The Memory of the late Duke of Cumberland.
-
- 5. The Day; and Prosperity to Ireland.
-
- 6. Success to the Sons of Liberty in America, may they never want
- Money, Interest, nor Courage to Maintain their Just Rights.
-
- 7. Mr. Pitt.
-
- 8. General Conway.
-
- 9. May the Enemies of America be branded with Infamy and Disdain.
-
- 10. May the honest Heart never know Distress.
-
- 11. The Protestant Interest.
-
- 12. May all Acts of Parliament Contrary to the American Interest be
- laid aside.
-
- 13. Success to American Manufacturers.
-
- 14. May the true Sons of Liberty never want Roast Beef nor Claret.
-
- 15. More Friends and less need.
-
- 16. Conquest to the Lover and Honour to the Brave.
-
- 17. May we never want Courage when we come to the Trial.
-
- 18. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
-
- 19. May the Enemies of Ireland never eat the Bread nor drink the
- Whisky of it, but be tormented with Itching without the
- benefit of Scratching.
-
- 20. _Our Noble Selves._
-
-The next celebration of which we find mention took place in 1768,
-concerning which the New York _Gazette_, March 14, that year, had the
-following:
-
-
- THE GENTLEMEN OF IRELAND
-
- Who intend dining together on St. Patrick’s Day, are desired to send
- their Names to Bolton and Sigell’s that Dinner may be prepared
- accordingly.
-
-In the same issue of the _Gazette_ we also find a statement to the
-effect that “The Members of the most ancient and truly benevolent Order
-of St. Patrick intend to celebrate the anniversary of that Saint, at the
-House of John Marshall, at the ancient Mason’s Arms, near the Hon.
-William Walton’s, Esq.; on Thursday the 17th Instant, for which Purpose
-Tickets are now delivered at the said John Marshall’s.”
-
-Now comes into view an organization known as the “Friendly Brothers of
-St. Patrick.” It appears to have been divided into “knots” and to have
-been largely, or entirely, composed of men in the British service. In
-the New York _Gazette_ of March 13, 1769, a notice appears, stating
-that:
-
- The principal Knot of the Friendly Brothers of St. Patrick, in the
- XVIth Regiment of Foot, will meet at Messieurs Bolton and Sigel’s,
- on Friday the 17th Inst. being the Patron Day of the Order, at 2
- o’Clock, to dine and transact Business. Such Gentlemen in this City
- as are of the Order, are desired to attend.
-
- Signed by Order,
-
- W. F. M. P. S.
-
-In the New York _Journal_, March 30, 1769, is a notice reading as
-follows: “The Friendly Brothers of St. Patrick, and several Gentlemen of
-this City intend dining together at Bolton and Sigel’s Next Monday, and
-from thence to go to the Play in the Evening; such Gentlemen as propose
-to join them will be pleased to send in their Names to the Bar of said
-Tavern two Days before. New York, March 28, 1769.”
-
-If this latter event was intended as a celebration of St. Patrick’s Day
-it is strange that it was held at so late a date after the anniversary.
-However, there may have been a special reason for this. It is possible,
-too, that it was a union celebration by the Friendly Brothers instead of
-by a single “knot” of the organization as was that held on the 17th of
-the month.
-
-In 1770, members of “the 16th Regiment of Foot” again paid honor to the
-memory of St. Patrick as the following notice in the New York _Gazette_
-of March 12th, that year, indicated they would:
-
- The Principal Knot of the Friendly Brothers of St. Patrick, in the
- 16th Regiment of Foot, will meet at Bolton’s on Saturday the 17th
- Instant, being the Patron Day of the Order, at 9 o’Clock in the
- Forenoon to breakfast, transact Business and dine. Such Gentlemen in
- this City as are of the Order, are desired to attend. Signed by
- Order,
-
- J. F. J. P. S.
-
-We again find mention of the Friendly Brothers in the New York _Gazette_
-of March 25, 1771, it being there stated that “at the usual celebration
-of the repeal of the Stamp Act on 18 March, the assemblage on 18 March
-1771, drank the usual toast ‘Prosperity to Ireland and the worthy Sons
-and Daughters of St. Patrick.’ Messages of civil Compliments were
-exchanged by those Gentlemen and the Friendly Brothers of St. Patrick,
-who dined at the Queen’s-Head Tavern; as also with a Number of other
-Gentlemen who dined at Protestant Hall, at Mr. Samuel Waldron’s, on Long
-Island.”
-
-In Rivington’s New York _Gazette_, March 10, 1774, we find a notice to
-the effect that “The Friendly Brothers are desired to meet at Hull’s
-Tavern, on Thursday the 17th instant. Dinner to be on table precisely at
-three o’clock.—F. T. M.”
-
-The same paper under date of March 17, 1774, says “This morning the
-Gentlemen who compose the most benevolent society of the Friendly
-Brothers of St. Patrick will give a very elegant breakfast, at Hull’s to
-the principal Ladies and Gentlemen of this city, in commemoration of the
-tutelar Saint of Ireland, it being their Patron Day,” and the same issue
-of the _Gazette_ announces that “The Concert which was to have been
-performed at the Assembly Room, as usual this Evening, is deferred until
-next Monday Evening, on Account of a public Breakfast, given by the
-Gentlemen, who compose the Society of The Friendly Brothers.”
-
-On March 16, 1775, Rivington’s New York _Gazette_ announced that
-“To-morrow being the anniversary of St. Patrick, Tutelar Saint of
-Ireland, will be observed with the usual respect and attention, by his
-generous sons and their descendants.”
-
-The British evacuated New York Nov. 25, 1783. Thenceforth, the St.
-Patrick’s Day celebrations there took place under the inspiring presence
-of a different order of things.
-
-The evacuation of New York by the enemy was attended by many interesting
-features. Preceding it, a conference took place at Dobb’s Ferry between
-Washington, Governor Clinton and Sir Guy Carleton. At this conference,
-it was arranged that the British were to get out of New York on the date
-above mentioned. On the morning of Nov. 25, General Knox, who was of
-Irish parentage, marched his men in from Harlem as far as “Bowery Lane.”
-There he halted, at what is now the junction of Third Avenue and the
-Bowery. The Americans remained here until about 1 p. m., as the enemy
-had claimed the right of possession until noon. Before 3 p. m., Knox had
-taken control of the city and of Fort George, amid the acclamations of a
-great concourse. Washington located at Fraunces’ Tavern, where during
-the afternoon a public dinner to the officers of the army was given by
-Governor Clinton. In the evening the city was illuminated by rockets,
-bonfires and other evidences of rejoicing. The British flag at Fort
-George had been nailed to the staff and the latter was then made as
-slippery as possible. The emblem of tyranny was soon removed, however,
-and the American flag hoisted in its place.
-
-On St. Patrick’s Day, 1784, the year following the British evacuation of
-New York, a celebration took place in that city under the auspices of
-the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, a society organized that year and
-which is still in existence. The exercises comprised a banquet at Cape’s
-Tavern. Speaking of this event, the New York _Packet and Advertiser_, of
-the next day, says:
-
- Yesterday, being the anniversary of St. Patrick, his patriotic sons
- met at Cape’s Tavern, where they gave an elegant entertainment to
- His Excellency the Governor, Lieut.-Governor, Chancellor, and a
- number of other respectable gentlemen of this State. The day and
- evening were spent in festivity and mirth, and a number of suitable
- toasts were drank upon this joyful occasion. The greatest unanimity
- and conviviality pervaded this numerous and jovial company, and
- perhaps this great Saint was never honored with a concourse of more
- generous and truly patriotic sons than this assembly afforded.
-
-In 1785, the same organization observed St. Patrick’s Day by dining at
-“The Coffee House,” conducted by Mr. Bradford, in Water Street, near
-Wall Street. The society dined there again in 1786, the New York _Daily
-Advertiser_ stating that “Yesterday the Society of the Friendly Sons of
-St. Patrick held their anniversary meeting at the Coffee-House, where an
-elegant dinner was provided by Mr. Bradford.—The company were numerous
-and respectable; and the day spent with that decorum and hilarity, so
-truly characteristic of this friendly society.”
-
-Speaking of this observance, the _Independent Journal_, March 18, and
-the New York _Packet_, March 20, 1786, inform their readers that “The
-anniversary of St. Patrick, patron of the Irish nation, was on Friday
-celebrated with great festivity by our worthy friends of that kingdom: A
-very elegant entertainment was provided at Mr. Bradford’s Coffee-House,
-at which were present His Excellency the Governor, the Lieutenant
-Governor, the Chancellor, Chief Justice, Judge Hobart, the Mayor,
-Recorder, and many other persons of distinction.—The day and evening
-passed with that convivial spirit which ever distinguished the true
-Milesian.”
-
-In 1788, the Friendly Sons, it is stated, dined at the Merchants’ Coffee
-House, at the southeast corner of Wall and Water streets. The New York
-_Journal & Patriotic Register_, March 18, that year notes two
-celebrations, the first of which is believed to refer to the Friendly
-Sons. The _Register’s_ mention thus reads:
-
-
- ST. PATRICK.
-
- Yesterday, being the anniversary of the Tutelar Saint of Ireland, a
- number of gentlemen of that nation, assembled at the Merchants’
- Coffee House, in this city, where they partook of an elegant
- entertainment, drank a number of toasts, and “liberally good cheer
- did bestow.”
-
- A company also met at Corre’s.
-
-The New York _Packet_ speaking of the observance in 1788, states that a
-large company assembled “at the Coffee house” but does not mention
-“Merchants’.” The reference appears in the _Packet_ of March 18, that
-year, and states that “Yesterday being the anniversary of St. Patrick,
-the Tutelar Saint of Ireland, a large company of gentlemen, natives of
-that country, assembled at the Coffee-House; where a genteel
-entertainment was provided, and which was well conducted. True festive
-mirth and hilarity were displayed at this convivial board.”
-
-
-
-
- WILLIAM PRENDERGAST, A PIONEER OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY, N. Y.
-
- BY MISS HELEN PRENDERGAST.[9]
-
-
-About one mile back of the west shore of Lake Chautauqua, N. Y., and
-almost directly behind the present Chautauqua Assembly ground, lies a
-farm now occupied by Chauncey Moses. This farm was formerly the home of
-William Prendergast, one of the pioneers of Chautauqua County.
-
-To the rear of the house, and on a hill, is an old family graveyard
-where are buried the pioneer, his wife and many of their children and
-other descendants. The pioneer’s tombstone bears an inscription stating
-that he was born in Kilkenny County, Ireland, Feb. 2, 1727, that he was
-a son of Thomas and Mary Prendergast, and that he died Feb. 14, 1811.
-
-His wife, Mehitable (Wing) Prendergast, is buried beside him. The
-inscription on her tombstone states that she was the daughter of
-Jedediah and Elizabeth Wing of Beeker, Dutchess County, N. Y., that she
-was born March 20, 1737, and died Sept. 14, 1811.
-
-For some years after their marriage, Mr. Prendergast and his wife
-resided at Pawlings, Dutchess County. I have heard it said that William,
-the pioneer, came to America when he was but nineteen years of age. He
-continued to live at Pawlings until the year 1766. At that time the
-inhabitants of Rensselaer, Dutchess and Columbia counties who rented
-their lands, instead of owning them, became dissatisfied by what they
-considered the unreasonable demands of the proprietors, and broke out in
-open revolt.
-
-Prendergast, who was looked upon as a leader of the disaffected, was
-taken prisoner, tried for treason and sentenced to death. He was,
-however, pardoned by the British king, George IV, on taking an oath
-never again to bear arms against the government of England. This oath he
-kept, so that during the Revolution neither he nor his sons were
-actively engaged in the Patriot cause, although sympathizing therewith.
-
-After his pardon, he removed to Pittstown, Rensselaer County, twenty-two
-miles above Albany, N. Y., where he lived until 1805. At this time the
-family decided to remove to Tennessee, and departed for thence,
-traveling in wagons and on horseback. Not liking the place, they
-returned through Ohio and Pennsylvania to New York state. When they had
-reached a point some miles within New York, the horse ridden by Thomas
-Prendergast, one of the sons, became lame. Being near a settler’s log
-cabin, Thomas entered the latter and soon prevailed upon the settler to
-sell him his claim. Thomas, therefore, decided to go no further but to
-settle there and make the locality his home, which he accordingly did.
-
-
-William Prendergast, the pioneer, and his wife, were the parents of
-seven sons and six daughters. All but one of these children arrived at
-maturity, and all but one settled in Chautauqua County, N. Y. The
-children just mentioned were:
-
- 1. Matthew, born Aug. 5, 1756; died July 24, 1838.
-
- 2. Thomas, born Sept, 11, 1757; died June 3, 1842.
-
- 3. Mary, born 1760; died July 11, 1845.
-
- 4. Elizabeth, born Aug. 30, 1762; died Aug. 31, 1824.
-
- 5. James, born March 9, 1764; died June 18, 1846.
-
- 6. Jedediah, born May 13, 1766; died March 1, 1848.
-
- 7. Martin, born April 22, 1769; died June 21, 1835.
-
- 8. John Jeffrey, born 1771; date of death unknown.
-
- 9. Susanna, born April 22, 1773; died Aug. 8, 1847.
-
- 10. Elinor, died in infancy.
-
- 11. Martha, born March 18, 1777; died Dec. 9, 1849.
-
- 12. William, born 1779; died Nov. 11, 1857.
-
- 13. Minerva, born Aug. 26, 1782; died March 30, 1858.
-
-The foregoing data, relating to the births and deaths of the children,
-while possibly not exact in every instance, is approximately so, and is
-the best it is now possible to procure. Of the children here mentioned:
-
- 1. Matthew became associate judge of Niagara County, N. Y., from
- which Chautauqua County was taken.
-
- 2. Thomas became a successful farmer.
-
- 3. Mary married William Bemus.
-
- 4. Elizabeth died unmarried.
-
- 5. James founded Jamestown, N. Y., built and operated mills,
- conducted a store, and became judge of the Court of Common
- Pleas.
-
- 6. Jedediah became a physician. He also engaged, with his brother
- Martin, in mercantile pursuits. He was of scholarly tastes, took
- special interest in geology, and at the invitation of DeWitt
- Clinton once wrote several articles on the geology of that
- section of New York state. These articles were afterward
- published by Governor Clinton just mentioned. Jedediah has one
- grandson living in Canada. Jedediah’s only daughter, Catharine,
- wedded Hon. Hamilton Merritt.
-
- 7. Martin was associate judge of Niagara County and was supervisor
- for Chautauqua township for eighteen terms.
-
- 8. Susanna became the wife of Oliver Whiteside, but was a widow with
- two daughters when she came to Chautauqua County.
-
- 11. Martha died unmarried.
-
- 12. William was a farmer, but is best known as Colonel Prendergast. He
- enlisted in the army during the War of 1812, took part in the
- battle of Black Rock, under Col. James McMahan, and won
- promotion.
-
- 13. Minerva became the wife of Elihu Marvin, but was soon left a widow
- with a son and daughter of tender years.
-
-I can remember when I was a child of six or seven years of visiting
-Colonel Prendergast’s house on Christmas Day and seeing his wife roast
-the turkey in a tin oven before the fireplace, cooking the vegetables in
-kettles hung on a crane over the blaze and pounding coffee in a mortar.
-She also “dipped” her candles and cooked in a brick oven.
-
-She had a red broadcloth cloak, trimmed with red satin, which I was
-allowed to wear if I would sit still, and at the end of the visit my
-great-great uncle always gave me a piece of gold or silver money. One
-yet in my possession bears the date 1776.
-
-Alexander T. Prendergast was a son of James Prendergast, the founder of
-Jamestown, N. Y., and of his wife, whose maiden name was Agnes Thompson.
-This Alexander had one son, James, who was a lawyer by profession and
-served as a member of the State Assembly. His parents founded the James
-Prendergast Free Library at Jamestown, an Episcopal church there called
-the Prendergast Memorial, gave a public drinking fountain, a window in
-the Congregational church, scholarships in the Jamestown schools, and
-other benefactions. There are no living descendants of James, John,
-William, Minerva, Martha, Elizabeth, or Elinor—children of William
-Prendergast, the pioneer.
-
-Descendants of others of the children achieved a good measure of
-success. One of them, Col. Henry A. Prendergast, served as a paymaster
-during the Civil War and died of sickness contracted in the service. He
-was also a member for many terms of the New York State Assembly.
-
-My own grandfather, a son of Matthew Prendergast, participated in the
-battle of Black Rock during the War of 1812, and rendered able service
-as a surgeon. He served many terms as a supervisor and was a famous
-physician. The only members of this family, bearing the Prendergast
-name, now left in Chautauqua County are my two brothers—John H. and Dr.
-William Prendergast—and James Hunt Prendergast, son of John H. This
-James is a lawyer practising at Westfield, N. Y. To these must be added
-myself. My sister, Mrs. Whallon, has a grandchild named William
-Prendergast Whallon who is now eight years of age and is of the seventh
-generation.
-
-
-
-
- MASTER JOHN SULLIVAN OF SOMERSWORTH AND BERWICK, AND HIS FAMILY.[10]
-
- BY JOHN SCALES OF DOVER, N. H.
-
-
-Thomas Coffin Amory begins his biography of his grandfather, Gov. James
-Sullivan, as follows:
-
- James, the fourth son of Master Sullivan, was born in Berwick, Me.,
- 22d April, 1744. The cellar of the house occupied by his parents is
- easily distinguished by some portions of its walls still remaining
- in a field near Salmon Falls river, and within half a mile of Great
- Falls village. The barn which served to store away their harvests
- for the long winters of New England climate has only quite recently
- (1858) been destroyed by fire. Near by, but separated from the old
- dwelling by a public road, laid out in comparatively modern times
- across the farm, is the ancient cemetery, where Master Sullivan and
- Margery his wife, when their long protracted lives were over, were
- laid to their last repose amid the scenes of their humble labors and
- of the pleasures and various vicissitudes of more than half a
- century.
-
-The above is incorrect in one particular: Gov. James Sullivan was not
-born in Berwick, Me.; he was born in Somersworth, N. H., then a parish
-in Dover. Mr. Amory made the mis-statement because he had not all the
-facts at hand in regard to the question. That particular part of
-Somersworth in which Master Sullivan lived is now in the town of
-Rollinsford, having been set off from Somersworth in 1849, and is now
-the village at Rollinsford Junction.
-
-This village is one mile from Salmon Falls village and one mile from
-South Berwick village, at the lower fall where the fresh water meets the
-tide water; this is the ancient Quamphegan, and the point where the
-river changes its name to Newichawannick, which it holds till it gets to
-Dover Point, where it joins the Pascataqua, six miles from Quamphegan.
-The settlers on Dover Neck did not use the Indian name Newichawannick,
-but called it Fore River, and the river on the west side of the Neck
-they called Back River.
-
-The Somersworth village in the days of Master Sullivan was much larger
-than the modern village of Rollinsford Junction; this is distant about
-four miles from the depot in the city of Somersworth. For more than a
-century it was the home of several of the leading men of New Hampshire.
-It was the home of Master Sullivan from 1723 to 1754. Here his children
-were born; here he did the most important part of his teaching; here he
-educated his sons to be governors, and leaders in the Revolution, and
-leaders after the American government was formed.
-
-They were important factors in forming the state governments of New
-Hampshire and Massachusetts. At this village school of Master Sullivan
-the sons of many other men were taught in a way that fitted them to
-enter Harvard College, and fitted them to be leaders in the great
-struggle for independence. Here Master Sullivan not only kept school,
-but was also the scribe and counselor for his neighbors and
-fellow-citizens.
-
-He was a fine penman, and wrote wills, deeds, mortgages, and such other
-legal documents as the needs of the parish demanded. Here he served in
-the local military company; here he swept the parish meeting-house and
-rang the bell for services on the Lord’s day; here he sat under the
-ministrations of Rev. James Pike, who was the faithful and able pastor
-of this parish for more than sixty years.
-
-The farm which Mr. Amory speaks of in Berwick was purchased by Master
-Sullivan in August, 1753. He bought it of Mr. Samuel Lord, and there is
-no record that he bought any land anywhere before that date. It is on a
-beautiful elevation which overlooks the city of Somersworth, a mile
-away, across the Salmon Falls River. Much of the land is now cut up into
-streets and house lots in the fast-growing village of Berwick. A garden
-occupies the spot where Master Sullivan’s house stood; a street crosses
-the spot where he and his good wife were buried. Their remains were
-removed to the Sullivan cemetery in Durham, and now repose near the
-grave of their illustrious son, Gen. John Sullivan.
-
-It is not known precisely when he moved his family to Berwick, but
-probably in 1754, and there they resided more than forty years. In
-Berwick he was a farmer, as well as a schoolmaster and scrivener for his
-townsmen. Tradition says that his wife was the better farmer of the two.
-He was so fond of his books that the weeds oftentimes got the better of
-his crops. His wife Margery cared nothing for books, and delighted in
-out-door work.
-
-The town of South Berwick was set off from Berwick in 1814; the First
-parish is at South Berwick, and recently celebrated its two hundredth
-anniversary with an elaborate and interesting service. In 1754 the
-present Berwick was established as the North parish, on petition of 39
-freeholders (landowners). This petition for an enabling act to choose
-parish officers was granted by Governor Shirley and the council, April
-17, 1754, the house concurring on the next day. One of the 39 signers to
-that petition was Master John Sullivan. He helped organize the parish
-and owned a pew in the meeting-house; later two of his sons owned pews
-there.
-
-Because Master Sullivan spent the last 40 years of his life in this
-parish of Berwick, the writers of cyclopedias, biographical
-dictionaries, and biographies of his sons have taken it for granted that
-he always lived there, hence say his sons were born there. If Master
-Sullivan’s sons were like the ordinary sons of men, nobody would care or
-take the trouble to inquire whether they were born in Maine or New
-Hampshire. They are not like ordinary sons; they are extraordinary, and
-that is why New Hampshire should claim the honor which is its due, just
-as we delight to boast that Webster and Chase, and a host of
-distinguished men, are the sons of New Hampshire. The Sullivan family is
-one of the most notable families in the history of New England. There
-were five sons and one daughter. I will give a brief summary of their
-lives.
-
-I. Benjamin was born in 1736; he received a thorough education from his
-father; he enlisted in the British navy and rose to be an officer, when
-most young men would be only ordinary seamen; he was tall, handsome and
-brilliant, and walked the decks as one who was born to command.
-Unfortunately, he and his ship, with all on board, were lost at sea just
-previous to the Revolution.
-
-II. Daniel, the second son, was born in 1738; after being carefully
-educated by his father he engaged in mercantile business in Berwick and
-was very successful; about 1770 he was leader of a company of gentlemen
-who founded a town at the head of Frenchman’s Bay in eastern Maine; this
-town is called Sullivan in his honor. When the Revolutionary War
-commenced he organized and commanded a company which did valiant service
-for the Patriot cause; he was leader in the defense of Castine against
-the attacks of the British navy. Captain Sullivan was so conspicuous and
-efficient in the defense that the officers of the fleet marked him for
-special revenge; one ship went up from Mt. Desert to the head of
-Frenchman’s Bay specially to capture the captain; a sortie of marines at
-midnight went to his house, when all the family were asleep, caught the
-captain, drove his family out of doors and burned the house and
-contents; the British officer offered to release him if he would swear
-allegiance to the king; the captain positively refused to accept freedom
-on such condition; he was then carried to New York city and confined in
-a prison ship several months; he was then exchanged but died on his way
-home, from disease contracted while in prison. He has the reputation of
-being a man of extraordinary ability, both as a military leader and a
-business man. Before the war he had acquired large possessions in land,
-lumber, and sawmills.
-
-III. John, the third son, was born in 1740; after thorough training by
-his father, he studied law with Judge Livermore in Portsmouth; he
-commenced practice of the law in Berwick in 1761, and was married about
-that time. He removed to Durham in 1763, much against the wishes of some
-of the good people in that town, who feared a lawyer would make trouble.
-General Sullivan was the first lawyer the town ever had; but the people
-soon learned to love and respect him; although his office was in Durham,
-his practice soon extended throughout Rockingham and Strafford counties
-in New Hampshire and York County in Maine; his success was remarkable.
-
-Before 1775 he was acknowledged as leader at the bar in all of those
-counties, where John Adams, the second president of the United States,
-was for several years one of his competitors; not only was he a great
-lawyer but he also engaged extensively in business, owning several mills
-and much real estate; at the opening of the war it was estimated he was
-worth £40,000; most men with such holdings would have hesitated much
-before rebelling against the king of England; John Sullivan did not
-hesitate; he took the lead and was commander of the expedition which
-committed the first overt act of war in the Revolution, by capturing and
-removing the gunpowder from Fort William and Mary at Newcastle, Dec. 14,
-1774; of course you all know the story; the hundred barrels of powder
-were taken up the river to Durham and hid in various places; a larger
-part was placed in the cellar of the old church near General Sullivan’s
-residence; the monument to his memory now stands on the spot.
-
-Some of that powder was used at the battle of Bunker Hill; all of it was
-used in the Revolutionary War, except a small bottleful which Maj. John
-Demeritt of Madbury now has, being handed down to him as an inheritance
-from his ancestors; this capture of the powder was four months before
-the Lexington and Concord affair.
-
-While attending to his law business and his sawmills and lumbering, he
-had taken a hand in the local military affairs, and in 1774 was major of
-the regiment of militia in his section of the province; Governor
-Wentworth could not persuade him to hold it after the little affair at
-Fort William and Mary; he was delegate to the first Continental Congress
-in 1775; he was appointed brigadier-general in the Continental army in
-1775; a major-general in 1776; commanded the New Hampshire troops at
-Germantown and Brandywine; commander-in-chief in the Rhode Island
-campaign in 1778; commander-in-chief in the great and hazardous
-expedition against the Six Nations in 1779, which resulted in the
-overthrow of the most complete organization of the Indians ever effected
-on this continent. To commemorate this great service of General Sullivan
-the state of New York has erected costly tablets on the spots where the
-most important encounters took place.
-
-This was General Sullivan’s closing service in the military operations
-of the war. I think he should be ranked second only to Greene and
-Washington as a military leader. His services in civil affairs which
-immediately followed were quite as valuable and important as his
-military service. In 1780 he drafted the bill, which the Legislature
-adopted, to regulate the militia; in 1781 he was delegate in the
-National Congress; in 1782, ’83 and ’84 he was attorney-general of New
-Hampshire; he was president of the state in 1786, ’87 and 89; he was the
-Federal candidate in 1788 but was defeated by John Langdon, the
-Republican candidate. Sullivan had defeated Langdon in the two years
-previous, and in the year following; Sullivan was a Washington
-federalist; he was a presidential elector when Washington was elected
-the first time; he was president of the convention that adopted the
-Federal constitution, June 21, 1788, which was the act that established
-the Federal union; the vote stood 57 in favor to 42 against adoption; it
-was largely through the influence of General Sullivan that the 57 votes
-were secured and the Federal union was formed.
-
-September 26, 1789, President Washington appointed him United States
-district judge for New Hampshire, and he entered upon the duties of that
-office Dec. 15 of that year; he remained in that office until his death,
-Jan. 23, 1795, being nearly fifty-five years old, having been born on
-the 17th of February, 1740. A better American, a more capable, a more
-useful, or more fearless citizen than John Sullivan, New Hampshire never
-had.
-
-In this connection it may be well to say a few words about his
-descendants, to show how strong was the hereditary force that came down
-from Master Sullivan. General Sullivan’s son John was a prominent and
-able lawyer in one of the Southern states, but died young. His son
-George was attorney-general of New Hampshire twenty years. His grandson,
-John, son of George, was attorney-general ten years or more, and his
-grand nephew, John S. Wells, held the same office several years. They
-were all able attorneys, and no family in the state has the equal of
-this illustrious record.
-
-IV. James, the fourth son of Master Sullivan, was born in Somersworth in
-May, 1744, and died in Boston, Dec. 10, 1808. He was thoroughly educated
-by his father, quite the equal of a Harvard graduate of that period; he
-studied law with his brother John; opened an office at Saco about 1767
-and practised his profession there until about 1780; he was very
-successful, and with his brother John did the larger part of the law
-business in York County. When he was twenty-six years old he was
-appointed attorney-general for the district of Maine and held the office
-until the Revolution began; he was delegate in the first Continental
-Congress, when he was thirty years old; when he was thirty-one he was
-appointed judge of admiralty; the next year he was promoted to a seat on
-the bench of the Supreme Court, which office he held several years; he
-removed to Boston in 1782. While he was in Maine, John Adams, who used
-to go down there once or twice a year to attend court at Saco and
-Portland, said that he always found the Sullivans in possession of all
-the best and most important cases.
-
-In 1783, ’84 and ’85 he was delegate in the Continental Congress, and
-also was representative from Boston in the Massachusetts General Court;
-he was member of the Executive Council in 1787; judge of probate from
-1788 to 1790; attorney-general from 1790 to 1807; in 1804 he was
-presidential elector, casting his vote for Thomas Jefferson, of whom he
-was a great admirer. The _Federalist_ abused him fearfully for so
-voting. He was governor of Massachusetts in 1807 and 1808, dying a short
-time before his term expired. Notwithstanding he gave so much time to
-official business, he was one of the founders of the Massachusetts
-Historical Society and its president many years; he wrote and published
-a history of Maine; he published numerous pamphlets on various questions
-that concerned current business affairs; he was a clear and forcible
-writer and an eloquent advocate; he delivered innumerable addresses on
-public occasions and stood in the front rank of literary men and the
-legal fraternity of Boston.
-
-V. Mary Sullivan was the fifth child of this remarkable family; she was
-born in 1752; her father as carefully educated her as he did his sons;
-she was tall and handsome, like her father, and inherited his fondness
-for books; she was brilliant and attractive, mentally and socially; like
-her father she was a successful teacher several years, at a time when
-most women thought they were highly accomplished if they could write
-their own names. She married Mr. Theophilus Hardy and resided in Durham
-near her brother John. To them were born several daughters; one of
-these, a very gifted woman, married Edward Wells, Esq., and they also
-resided in Durham, which was then one of the liveliest business centers
-of the state. They had a large family of children, and several of the
-sons manifested those strong traits of intellectual power of their
-Sullivan ancestors; one son, Samuel Wells, was governor of Maine two
-years, 1858 and 1859; another son, John Sullivan Wells, whom many of you
-may remember, lacked only fifty votes of being elected governor of New
-Hampshire in 1856, the Know-Nothing tidal wave being a little too much
-for him to overcome; he was attorney-general several years; United
-States senator; speaker of the House in the New Hampshire Legislature,
-and also president of the Senate. He was an able lawyer, a brilliant and
-fascinating public speaker, and one of the most popular men in his party
-and he was generally popular with all parties. Another brother, Joseph
-Bartlett Wells, was a distinguished lawyer in Illinois, where he was
-attorney-general several years, and was lieutenant-governor at the time
-of his death; had he lived he would undoubtedly have been governor of
-the state. A fourth brother was consul at Bermuda several years and died
-there. These were great-grandsons of Master John Sullivan.
-
-VI. Ebenezer was the sixth child and youngest son of Master Sullivan and
-his wife Margery; he was born in 1753, and died in 1797. He was educated
-by his father and studied law with his brother John. Before he could get
-established in his profession the Revolution commenced, and he engaged
-earnestly in the cause of the colonies; starting as a private, he rose
-to be captain of a company and did valiant service.
-
-He was taken prisoner and narrowly escaped being burned at the stake by
-the Indians. After the war he married and resided at South Berwick, and
-engaged in the practice of his profession. He was the leader at the bar
-in York County, a thorough lawyer and a powerful advocate. He was a
-tall, handsome, powerfully-built man, whose presence was commanding
-wherever he stood.
-
-Such were the children of Master Sullivan. What say you, Mr. President,
-are these boys worthy for the New Hampshire Historical Society to claim
-them as sons of New Hampshire?
-
-Seven cities claimed the honor of being the birthplace of Homer. Other
-great men in later times have honored the cities where they were born by
-their great deeds; should not New Hampshire feel everlastingly honored
-by having such a family born within its borders? I will take it for
-granted that you will answer all my questions in the affirmative. Then
-what proof have I that they _were_ born in New Hampshire and not in
-Maine? I will tell you shortly.
-
-On page 356 of McClintock’s _History of New Hampshire_ Fred Myron Colby
-has the following concerning Master John Sullivan:
-
- The grandfather of the New Hampshire Sullivans was Major Philip
- O’Sullivan of Ardea, an officer of the Irish army during the siege
- of Limerick. His son John, born at Limerick in 1692, was one of the
- company that in 1723 emigrated from Ireland and settled the town of
- Belfast in Maine. At this place he hired a sawmill and went to work.
- Two or three years afterward another vessel of Irish emigrants
- landed at Belfast. On board was a blooming young damsel, who, after
- the custom of those days, had agreed with the shipmaster to be bound
- out at service in the colonies in payment of her passage across the
- Atlantic. She was bright and witty, with a mind of a rough but noble
- cast. During the passage over a fellow-passenger jocosely asked her
- what she expected to do when she arrived in the colonies. “Do?”
- answered she with true Celtic wit, “why raise governors for thim.”
- Sullivan saw the girl as she landed, and struck with her beauty,
- made a bargain with the captain, paying her passage in shingles. He
- wooed and won her, and the Irish girl entered upon her initiatory
- steps to make good her declaration. Immediately after his marriage
- (1735) Mr. Sullivan settled on a farm in Berwick and began clearing
- it for the plow.
-
-Following this is a statement that John was the oldest son of this
-couple, and a lot more of fictitiously interesting biography of the
-general. Now what are the facts?
-
-Master Sullivan landed in York, Me., from Limerick, Ireland, in the
-winter of 1723; he hadn’t a cent to pay the captain for his passage
-across the Atlantic. After working at farming a week or so he got weary
-of it, and applied to Rev. Dr. Moody, pastor of Scotland parish, to help
-him. He made his application in a letter written in seven languages, so
-the doctor might know he was an educated man. The worthy doctor was
-favorably impressed, and loaned him the money to pay his fare and then
-helped him to a school in Dover. May 20, 1723,[11] Master “Sullefund”
-was chosen one of the two teachers of the town of Dover, at £30 salary
-per year. Just where he kept that school is not stated in the record,
-but it undoubtedly was in that part of Dover then called the “Summer
-parish,” from the fact that meetings were held in a barn there during
-the summer and fall by Parson Cushing, then pastor of the First parish.
-
-These summer meetings were held to accommodate the people who objected
-to walking or riding five or six miles to attend meetings at Cochecho,
-where now is the center of the city of Dover. As this is the place where
-Master Sullivan spent thirty years of his life, I may as well explain
-further in regard to this name, Somersworth, which is unique in the
-history of towns and cities in the United States, no other place in the
-country having that name.
-
-The people had become familiar to having the village called the “Summer
-parish,” so in 1730, when this district was separated from the First
-parish as a distinct parish, it was the most natural thing for the
-leaders, who were educated men, to retain the familiar name, and they
-did it by changing “parish” to “worth,” and they had “Summersworth.” The
-word “worth” is the old English termination for names of places, so
-Summer parish and Summersworth mean precisely the same thing. You will
-notice that the present spelling is Somersworth.
-
-The ancient spelling of the parish was Summersworth, and when the
-citizens petitioned for an act of incorporation as a town they asked to
-have it spelled that way, but when they got their charter they found
-that the clerk of the General Court, or somebody else, had changed “Sum”
-to “Som,” so they let it go that way. This change in orthography made no
-change in the meaning of the name. According to Dr. Samuel Johnson,
-whose large dictionary was published in 1755, the year after this town
-was chartered, “Sumer” is Saxon and “Somer” is Dutch for the English
-word “Summer.”
-
-Before Summersworth was made a separate parish the town of Dover looked
-after the schools; but after it became a parish the people managed their
-own schools by votes in parish meetings. July 2, 1734, the parish “Voted
-that Hercules Mooney be the schoolmaster here for one month (viz) from
-July 4^{th} to Aug^t 4^{th}, 1734 next ensuing at three pounds fifteen
-shillings per month.”
-
-“Voted that Capt. Thomas Wallingford and Mr. Philip Stackpole be the men
-that Joyn with the Selectmen at the months end above to agree with Mr.
-Mooney or any other suitable person to keep school in this Parish for
-the Residue of this Sumer and autum.”
-
-In 1735 it was “Voted that Mr. Jon^o Scrugham be school master for one
-month in this Parish at the Descression of the Selectmen.” Also, “Voted
-that there be thirty pounds raised to Defray the Charge of a school this
-sumer and autum.”
-
-In 1737 the parish “Voted sixty pounds for a school master.”
-
-“Voted that Mr. John Sullivan be the schoolmaster for the ensuing year.”
-
-“Voted that John Sullivan to sweep and take care of ye meeting house &
-to have thirty shillings.”
-
-From that date to 1752 no schoolmaster is named, but from year to year
-the parish would vote to have a school and leave the matter with the
-selectmen to hire a teacher. As they had voted Master Sullivan in once,
-it was taken for granted that he would be the teacher. April 6, 1752,
-“Voted Mr. Joseph Tate twenty three pounds old tenor to keep ye Parish
-School one month.” The record does not show that Master Sullivan kept
-the parish school after Mr. Tate began work there.
-
-Master Sullivan was married to Margery Browne in 1735. Soon after that
-he commenced to sign his name as witness to documents as “John Sullivan
-of Summersworth.” Their third child, John, was born in 1740. In 1787,
-when he was the Federalist candidate for governor, then called
-president, his opponents charged him as guilty of being born in Berwick,
-Me., hence was not eligible for the office.
-
-The _New Hampshire Gazette_, March 10, 1787, replied to this as follows:
-
- Surely the collector of intelligence has not consulted all the
- people in this state, or he would have found out that President
- Sullivan was born in Somersworth, in the county of Strafford.
-
-In the summer of 1743 Master Sullivan and his wife had a falling out,
-and he went off to Boston to remain till her temper cooled. She repented
-of her cruel treatment, and published the following advertisement in the
-Boston _Evening Post_, July 25, 1743, from which I copied it in the
-Boston Public Library. It shows conclusively that Summersworth was
-Master Sullivan’s home in 1743:
-
-
- ADVERTISEMENT.
-
- MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND:
-
- Your abrupt departure from me, and forsaking of me your wife and
- tender babes, which I now humbly acknowledge and confess, I was
- greatly if not wholly the cause by my too rash and unadvised speech
- and behaviour towards you; for which I now in this public manner
- humbly ask your forgiveness, and hereby promise upon your return to
- amend and reform and by my future loving and obedient carriage
- toward you, endeavor to make an atonement for my past evil deeds,
- and manifest to you and to the whole world, that I can become a new
- woman, and will prove to you a loving, dutiful and tender wife.
-
- If you do not regard what I have above written, I pray you harken to
- what your pupil, Joshua Gilpatrick, hath below sent you, as also the
- lamentations and cries of your poor children, especially the eldest
- (Benjamin) who though but seven years old, all rational people
- really conclude that unless you speedily return will end in his
- death; and the moans of your other children (Daniel and John) are
- enough to affect any human heart.
-
- And why, my dear husband, should a few angry and unkind words from
- an angry and foolish wife [for which I am now paying full dear,
- having neither eat, drank nor slept in quiet, and am already reduced
- almost to a skeleton, that unless you favor me with your company
- will bereave me of my life] make you thus forsake me and your
- children? How can you thus, for so slender a cause as a few rash
- words from a simple and weak woman, cause you to part from your
- tender babes, who are your own flesh and blood? Pray meditate on
- what I now send and reprieve your poor wife and eldest son, who take
- your departure so heavily, from a lingering though certain death, by
- your coming home to them again, as speedily as you can, where you
- shall be kindly received, and in a most submissive manner by your
- wife who is ready at your desire to lay herself at your feet for her
- past miscarriage, and am with my and your children’s kind love to
- you, your loving wife.
-
- MARGERY SULLIVAN.
-
- SUMMERSWORTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE, July 11, 1743.
-
-The Hon. Thomas Wallingford, who resided in Summersworth and lived near
-Master Sullivan, was captain of the company of militia in that parish in
-1746, and probably several years before. The late Rev. Dr. A. H. Quint
-had the muster roll of this company, and I presume his widow now has it.
-Dr. Quint published it in his _Historical Memoranda_, and it can be
-found on page 377 of the book of this memoranda that I recently
-published. In this list of soldiers appears Master Sullivan’s name,
-although the clerk of the company spells it “John Sullevant.” Of course
-he was an old resident there, or he would not have been enrolled as a
-soldier.
-
-Another witness, and I leave this part of my subject. Mr. Michael Reade
-of Dover was born in the same year as General Sullivan and lived to be
-more than eighty years old. He went to school to Master Sullivan and
-knew him and the boys well, hence, of course, knew where they lived.
-This Michael Reade’s son Michael was born in 1773, and lived to be more
-than eighty years old. He knew Master Sullivan, saw him many times, and
-his father told him much about the old master; among other things, that
-he lived in Summersworth many years before he removed to Berwick and
-united farming with school teaching. The younger Michael Reade was
-living when Dr. Quint wrote much of his _Historical Memoranda_, and
-furnished the doctor many facts about many topics, and one was that his
-father always said General Sullivan and his brothers were born in
-Summersworth.
-
-I will give a brief summary of the points: May 20, 1723, the town of
-Dover voted to hire him to teach school one year and give him £30. Jan.
-10, 1737, he wrote and witnessed a deed, Tebbets to Tebbets, and signed
-as of Summersworth. Dec. 13, 1737, the parish of Summersworth voted to
-hire him to keep school one year, and also sweep the meeting-house. The
-_New Hampshire Gazette_ says he lived in Summersworth when his son John
-was born in 1740. His wife Margery says their home was in Summersworth
-when she advertised for him to come home in 1743. Capt. Thomas
-Wallingford says he was a citizen of Summersworth in 1746. And last, but
-not least, Michael Reade told Dr. Quint the boys were all born in
-Summersworth.
-
-On the other hand, there is nothing in the Berwick records, parish or
-town, which even mentions Master Sullivan before 1753. Aug. 12 of that
-year he bought his farm in Berwick of Samuel Lord; and after that his
-name frequently appears.
-
-Master Sullivan and his wife Margery were a remarkable couple. They are
-two of the interesting characters in Sarah Orne Jewett’s story, _The
-Tory Lover_, recently published, which, of course, you have all read, or
-will read.
-
-Master Sullivan was born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1691, during the siege
-of the city by King William’s forces. His wife, Margery Browne, was born
-in Cork, Ireland, in 1714. In 1723 they both set sail from Limerick in
-the same ship for New England. The captain intended to land at
-Newburyport, but owing to stress of weather he was compelled to land at
-York Harbor, Me. In his old age, when he and his wife were calling at a
-neighbor’s, they got to talking about his younger days, and he told the
-following story, which was recorded by the person who heard it. Master
-Sullivan said, in the presence of his wife:
-
- I sailed from Limerick, Ireland, for New England in 1723; owing to
- stress of weather the vessel was obliged to land at York, Maine. On
- the voyage my attention was called to a pretty girl of nine or ten
- years, Margery Browne, who afterwards became my wife. As my mother
- had absolutely refused to furnish me the means for paying
- transportation, and I had not means otherwise, I was obliged to
- enter into an agreement with the captain to earn the money for my
- passage.
-
- After I landed at York, for a while I lived on the McIntire farm in
- Scotland parish. Unaccustomed to farm labor, and growing weary of
- manual occupation, I applied to Rev. Dr. Moody, pastor of the
- parish, for assistance. I made my application in a letter written in
- seven languages, so that he might see I was a scholar. He became
- interested in my behalf, and being conversant with my ability to
- teach he loaned me the money with which to pay the captain the
- amount I owed for my passage. Thus set free from the McIntires, I
- was assisted to open a school and earn money to repay Dr. Moody.
-
-Later in life, when he was past fourscore years old, he made another
-statement in regard to himself, at the request of his daughter-in-law,
-wife of General Sullivan. He wrote it with his own hand and gave it to
-the general’s wife. She gave it to her daughter, wife of Judge Steele;
-from Mrs. Steele it passed to her son and grandson; by the latter it was
-given to Thomas Coffin Amory, who published it in his biography of Gov.
-James Sullivan. It is as follows:
-
- I am the son of Major Philip O’Sullivan of Ardea, in county of
- Kerry, Ireland. His father was Owen O’Sullivan, original descendant
- from the second son of Daniel O’Sullivan, called lord of Bearehaven.
- His father married Mary, daughter of Col. Owen McSweeney of Musgrey,
- and sister of Capt. Edmund McSweeney, a man noted for his anecdotes
- and witty sayings.
-
- I have heard that my grandfather had four countesses for his mother
- and grandmothers. How true this is, or who they were, I know not. My
- father died of an ulcer raised in his breast, occasioned by a wound
- he received in France in a duel with a French officer. My ancestors
- were short lived; they either died in their bloom or went out of the
- country. I never heard that any of the mankind arrived at sixty, and
- I do not remember but one alive when I left home.
-
- My mother’s name was Joan McCarthy, daughter of Dermod McCarthy of
- Killoween. She had three brothers and one sister. Her mother’s name
- I forget, but she was daughter of McCarthy Reagh of Carbery. Her
- oldest brother, Col. Florence, alias McFinnen, and his two brothers,
- Capt. Charles and Capt. Owen, went in defense of the nation against
- Orange. Owen was killed in a battle at Aughrim. Florence had a son,
- who retains the title of McFinnen. I can just remember Charles. He
- had a charge in his face at the siege of Cork. He left two sons,
- Derby[12] and Owen. Derby married with Ellena O’Sullivan of the
- Sullivans of Banane. His brother married Honora Mahoney of Dromore.
- My mother’s sister was married to Dermod, eldest son of Daniel
- O’Sullivan, lord of Dunkerron. Her son Cornelius, as I understand,
- was with the Pretender (Charles Edward) in Scotland in 1745.
-
- This is all that I can say about my origin, but shall conclude with
- a Latin sentence:
-
- Si Adam sit pater cunctorum, mater et Eva;
- Cur non sunt homines nobilitate pares?
- Non pater aut mater dant nobis nobilitatem,
- Sed moribus et vita nobilitatur homo.
-
- J. S.
-
-All this condensed into a paragraph is that in Master Sullivan’s veins
-flowed the blood of the Norman Butlers and Fitzgeralds who went over
-from England to Ireland, when the Irish were first conquered by the
-English, and in time they became more Irish than the original race; that
-is, they fought the English government more fiercely than the Irish
-themselves did. Master Sullivan’s sons won in America what many
-generations of their brave ancestors had failed to win in Ireland.
-
-As has already been stated, Master Sullivan was born in Limerick during
-the siege in 1691. Limerick, however, was not captured; a truce took
-place, and a treaty was formed. This treaty did not last long, and a
-large number of Irish were compelled to take refuge in France. Among
-these were Maj. Philip O’Sullivan and his family.
-
-This family remained in France several years. Major Sullivan died there,
-as has been stated; his wife and children remained till peace reigned in
-Ireland to the extent that she was allowed to return and take possession
-of her large estates. While in France she carefully educated her son
-John, and, unwittingly, prepared him to be the future schoolmaster of
-New Hampshire. It was there that Master Sullivan learned his French so
-thoroughly that when he was past ninety years of age he wrote a letter
-in excellent French to his son, the general.
-
-When his mother returned to Ireland her son was a young man, and I
-suppose passed his time as other young Irishmen did who were in the
-front rank of society in the city of Limerick. At length a difference of
-opinion arose between Madam O’Sullivan and her son; he fell in love with
-a young woman, who probably could not tell who her grandmother was. This
-displeased his mother very much. Madam was very haughty and
-aristocratic; she was proud of her ancestry and of her son’s ancestry.
-She could not endure the thought of his marrying a girl of low ancestry;
-she opposed the match.
-
-I suppose that made Master Sullivan’s love burn more fiercely. After the
-affair had drifted along quite a while Madam forbid her son,
-peremptorily, to have anything more to do with the girl, and gave him
-two weeks in which to break the engagement; if he did not do it inside
-of that time, she would disinherit him. Per contra, Master Sullivan told
-his mother he would give _her_ two weeks in which to consent to the
-marriage; if she did not consent inside of that time, he would leave
-Ireland forever, and neither she or the girl should ever hear more of
-him. They were both of the same grit; neither would yield, and the
-result was he sailed for America and in due time landed in York, Me. But
-the thought of that girl he had left behind him in Ireland haunted him
-for many years, and it was not till he was forty-four years old that he
-again entertained the thought of marriage. His mother afterwards
-repented of her stern act and made search for years for her runaway son,
-but she never found any trace of him.
-
-Hamlet says in the great drama that bears his name:
-
- “Rashly,
- And praised be rashness for it, let us know
- Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well,
- When our deep plots do pall; and that should teach us
- There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,
- Rough hew them how we will.”
-
-Suppose Master Sullivan had obeyed his mother’s wishes and remained in
-Ireland, or suppose Providence had not concealed him from his mother’s
-search after she repented of her rash act, and he had been found and
-induced to return to Ireland, what a difference there would have been in
-the management of affairs and the history of New Hampshire.
-
-Margery Browne was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1714; she died in Berwick,
-Me., in 1801. Nothing is known of her ancestry, but the name is
-essentially English, hence we may conclude that her parents, or their
-ancestors, crossed over from England and settled in Ireland. She came to
-this country in the same ship with Master Sullivan; she was nine years
-old and he was thirty-two; they never had met before boarding the ship.
-Why a girl of nine years should start on such a voyage alone is a
-mystery that will never be solved.
-
-Her parents may have started with her and died on the way, or she may
-have taken a freak and stowed herself away among the freight and kept
-concealed till the ship was well at sea. Whatever may have been the
-cause of departure, she had no money to pay her passage, so the captain
-had to sell her service at auction in Portsmouth to get his pay. The
-tradition is that she was so young and so small that nobody would bid
-for her services. At last Master Sullivan consented to raise the sum the
-captain wanted for her passage. It is said that he finally paid it in
-shingles, which he cut himself in the forest and carried to Portsmouth
-in a boat.
-
-It is not known where she spent the twelve years from 1723 to 1735, but
-probably in York, as a house girl on some farm. Master Sullivan does not
-appear to have taken any interest in her till a short time previous to
-their marriage, when he heard that the young men of York were falling in
-love with her and one had gone so far as to propose. He went over from
-Somersworth to York to see about it. He found a keen-witted, handsome
-and attractive young woman; the thought of the girl he had left in
-Ireland twelve years ago began to fade from his mind. She was equally
-impressed with his fine appearance; the result was she told the other
-young men they need not call any more. Master Sullivan and Margery
-Browne were married soon after.
-
-She is described by those who saw her in the prime of womanhood as short
-of stature, beautiful in form, face and manners. She was a great worker,
-quick tempered, and quick to repent of what she did wrong in her
-madness. Her tongue was equal to her temper. If tradition can be relied
-on, she could have given Xantippe several points to start with and then
-have won easily in a scolding match, although Socrates’ wife has the
-standard reputation of being the greatest scold the human race has yet
-produced. Margery Sullivan did not scold all the time; it happened
-occasionally, like volcanic eruption, when she could not hold in any
-longer.
-
-Governor Samuel Wells of Maine wrote to a friend as follows about his
-great-grandmother:
-
- Master Sullivan’s wife was as well known as he was, and when
- reference was made to her distinguished sons _she_ was more
- frequently alluded to. She has been uniformly represented as a woman
- of considerable native strength of mind, yet entirely uncultivated,
- having the strong passions common to her country women, of which
- some are good and some are bad, wholly unsubdued by habit. These
- marked traits of character show a wider contrast between her and her
- two distinguished sons than between them and their father, and
- furnish a theme for remark, with anecdotes not a few, brought up
- whenever allusion was made to the family. That she was a masculine,
- energetic woman, with the resolution of a man, there is no doubt.
- That she performed out-door labor in the field, suitable only to
- men, in order that her husband might not be diverted from his
- occupation of teaching, was recently told me as coming from herself,
- in the presence of my informant, one of the few who now (1855)
- survive to remember her.
-
-Attorney-General John Sullivan of Exeter gave the following description
-of his great-grandfather, Master Sullivan. He says:
-
- I have been told he was a tall, spare man, very mild and gentle,
- thoughtful and studious, an excellent scholar, but averse to bodily
- exercise. He was exclusively a teacher.
-
- An aged lady, who remembered seeing him when he was more than a
- century old, told me her recollection of him, as she saw him at his
- house one day, was that of a tall, venerable old man in a dressing
- gown, seated at a table reading a Bible; he wore his hair long on
- his shoulders.
-
-From what his great-grandson says, and from what I gather from other
-sources, I draw the conclusion that Master Sullivan was a tall,
-fine-looking man, who had a lofty and fine spirit. He had an excellent
-education in his youth, which he enlarged and improved in his later
-years, making him one of the best scholars in New England in the
-eighteenth century. He evidently was not satisfied with his lot in life,
-but never complained. The magnificent success of his sons was the source
-of great pleasure to him in his old age. He probably was the teacher of
-more men who took a distinguished part in the Revolution than any other
-one teacher in New England, and in that way he exercised a powerful
-influence in shaping the turn of events in that great contest.
-
-Master Sullivan died the first of June, 1796, aged 105 years; his
-remains were interred in a field on the hillside, about 50 rods from
-where his house stood in Berwick. His wife died in 1801, and was
-interred at the same spot. Soon after his death, Gov. James Sullivan had
-a stone, with suitable inscription, erected there; some years later
-their great-grandson, Governor Wells of Maine, had the spot enclosed
-with a substantial iron fence. Thus it remained till October, 1877, when
-Mr. Ricker, the present owner of the land, got permission to remove the
-remains to the Sullivan cemetery in Durham, as he wanted to run a new
-street through his land directly over the grave.
-
-The head of the old grave is now marked by a cherry tree, which stands
-by the sidewalk. When Mr. Ricker and Mr. Stillings, who lives near
-there, opened the grave, they found the skull perfect, also the hair and
-some of the large bones of Master Sullivan; over the forehead a root of
-the cherry tree had grown so that it half encircled the skull, and had
-to be cut before the bones could be removed. The skull was very large,
-with a high forehead, and the hair was long and perfect, being a dark
-brown mixed with slight sprinkle of gray. The remains had been interred
-there 81 years.
-
-When Master Sullivan died, some one, presumably his pastor, Rev. Matthew
-Merriam, wrote an obituary of him, which was published in a Portsmouth
-paper, _The Oracle of the Day_. His death occurred on Saturday, June 3,
-1796, and the article is in the publication of the week following.
-
-The article is quite long, hence I will give only the substance of it
-here. The writer says he was extraordinary in his acquirements as a
-student, his brilliancy of mind, his power as a teacher, and in his
-influence over the community in which he lived. He taught school till he
-was 90 years old and then retired, lamenting he could no longer be
-useful to his fellow-men. He still continued his studies, reading his
-Bible, his Homer, and his Horace with as keen a relish as he did a half
-century before. He wrote a good hand till he was 102 years old; he
-continued his reading till he was 104, when his eyesight failed, but his
-mental powers remained perfect till seven days before his death, when
-his speech failed, but he seemed to understand what was said to him till
-the last hour; when he closed his eyes as in sleep, and his noble soul
-took its flight.
-
-His health had been remarkably good throughout his long life of more
-than a century; he was a stranger to pain till a few months before
-death, when he became subject to cramps and nervous troubles which
-caused him great distress.
-
-He was active in out-of-door exercise after he had passed the century
-mark; he would yoke and unyoke his oxen, drive them to the blacksmith
-shop and get them shod, and work them about the farm; he was able to cut
-wood for his household fires, and do _chores_ of various sort.
-
-Thus Master Sullivan appeared to his pastor, who had known him for forty
-years and more. Thus I deposit in the archives of the New Hampshire
-Historical Society my pen picture of New Hampshire’s grandest old
-schoolmaster.
-
-
-
-
- MARTIN MURPHY, SR., AN IRISH PIONEER OF CALIFORNIA.[13]
-
- BY MISS MARCELLA A. FITZGERALD.
-
- Pioneer! name that like a Conjurer summons
- All the past before our eyes,
- Toils, struggles, want and hardships,
- Perils, dangers, sacrifice.
-
- —_Annie Fitzgerald._
-
-
-Martin Murphy, Sr., is held in loving reverence as an early pioneer of
-California. A native of Ireland, nurtured on Wexford’s historic soil, he
-imbibed a love for his native land which was as the breath of his life.
-Her joys, her sorrows, her glories, were his.
-
-In his boyhood he witnessed the gallant struggle of “’98,” when kindred
-and friends perished in the vain effort to cast off the English yoke,
-and beheld the cruel persecution and bloodshed that followed the
-suppression of the Rebellion, scenes which left their impression
-indelibly impressed upon his heart. No distance could alienate him from,
-no pleasure cause him to forget, the “Niobe of Nations.”
-
-Years afterwards, when a dweller on the Pacific Coast, at a time when
-intercourse with the outer world was difficult, and mails scarce more
-than semi-annual, a tourist who shared the hospitality of his home wrote
-thus:
-
-Eager to hear news of Ireland, he listened as I told him the sad story
-of famine and death which had desolated his native land; tear-dimmed
-eyes and quivering lips told his deep emotion. When I ceased, the
-venerable patriarch bowed his head, murmuring, “O my unhappy Country!
-will your suffering and sorrow never end.”
-
-But if he loved Ireland much, he loved freedom with the devotion of his
-race, and longed for a clime where right, not might, held sway. The
-Canadian colonies offered an opportunity to settlers of obtaining homes
-by purchase, homes free from the tyranny of a landlord’s whim, and
-thither Mr. Murphy resolved to emigrate. Disposing of his leasehold,
-whose tenure extended for the term of his life, he embarked for the New
-World, reaching Quebec in 1820.
-
-He purchased land in the township of Frampton, 30 miles from the quaint
-old city which has since given its name to the province. “It was the
-forest primeval,” but he bravely set to work at the labor incidental to
-the building up of a home in the northern wilderness, the clearing of
-the land of its dense growth of timber before the plow could penetrate
-its rich virgin soil.
-
-The long, cold winters with their mountainous snowdrifts and cutting
-blasts, and the countless inconveniences of frontier life to which he
-and his gentle wife were so unaccustomed, were borne with cheerful
-Christian patience. Soon many of his old friends and neighbors joined
-him, and a thriving Irish settlement grew up around him. His home was
-the center to which all new comers self-exiled from Erin turned while
-seeking a haven for themselves. There they found the whole-souled
-welcome of truly hospitable hearts, and kindly care when overtaken by
-sickness.
-
-Prior to the erection of a church and the formation of a parish, zealous
-priests at his request visited the settlement to celebrate Mass,
-administer the sacraments and instruct the children, thus keeping aglow
-the light of Faith in the hearts of the exiles.
-
-But the desire for more perfect freedom remained in Mr. Murphy’s heart,
-and although past the golden milestone of life he prepared to seek a new
-country. In 1840 he bade farewell to his friends, and taking with him
-his wife and his unmarried children, set out upon his westward journey
-to Missouri. He made his home in Holt County, then known as the Platte
-Purchase, since divided into Holt and Atchison counties.
-
-There he was joined later by his sons Martin and James with their
-families, and his daughter Mary, Mrs. James Miller, with her husband and
-babes. His eldest daughter, Margaret, Mrs. Thomas Kell, with her husband
-and family, came subsequently from Upper Canada, whither they had
-emigrated in 1838.
-
-Many of those who had cast their lot with him in Canada followed him to
-Missouri, and formed the prosperous settlement known as Irish Grove.
-Among these were the Sullivans, Enrights, Corcorans, Jordans, Walshes
-and Whites, names since familiar as pioneers of California.
-
-The soil was fertile, the climate mild and pleasant, but unfortunately
-the malarial fevers common to the Mississippi and its tributaries
-prevailed, and the colonists suffered much from sickness. Mrs. Murphy
-succumbed to the dread disease, and on June 9, 1841, yielded her pure
-soul to the hands of her Creator. A model wife, a loving mother, a
-devoted friend, an ideal Christian woman, pious and charitable in word
-and deed, of her it may be truly said:
-
- None knew her but to love her,
- None named her but to praise.
-
-A Catholic missionary who visited the colony told Mr. Murphy of
-California, a land of health, where almost endless summer reigned, under
-whose cloudless skies fertile valleys smiled unfurrowed by the plow, and
-thither he resolved to direct his course.
-
-Disposing of his lands, he procured the outfit required for such a long
-and dangerous journey, and bearing with him a passport from Governor
-Reynolds of Missouri, assuring him and his the protection due American
-citizens, he once more turned his face toward the setting sun.
-
-The party of devoted pilgrims started on their westward course May 6,
-1844, reaching California in November of the same year. The names of the
-members of the company are given as follows:
-
- Martin Murphy, Sr.
- Miss Helen Murphy.
- Bernard Murphy.
- John Marion Murphy.
- Daniel Murphy.
- Martin Murphy, Jr., wife and four children.
- James Murphy, wife and one child.
- James Miller, wife and four children.
- John Sullivan.
- Miss Mary Sullivan.
- Michael Sullivan.
- Robert Sullivan.
- Dr. Townsend and wife.
- Moses Shallenberger.
- Allen N. Montgomery and wife.
- Joseph Batton.
- John Luffumbo.
- Vincent Calvin.
- John R. Jackson.
- J. E. Foster.
- Edward Bray.
- David Strickien.
- William Bragg.
- Vincent Snelling.
- Daniel Snelling.
- John Thorp.
- Fielden M. Thorp.
- Elvan A. Thorp.
- David Johnson.
- William Case.
- Daniel R. Kinsey.
- Joshua Shaw.
- A. C. R. Shaw.
- Thomas M. Vance.
- Jacob Hammer.
- William Clemmons.
- John Eldridge.
- Ben. Q. Tucker.
- John Owen.
- Harmon Higgins.
- William Higgins.
- William Prattier.
- Theodore Prattier.
- Britain Greenwood.
- Caleb Greenwood.
- John Greenwood.
- William Martin.
- Patrick Martin.
- Dennis Martin.
- Matthias Harbin.
- Daniel Durbin.
- Mr. Hitchcock and family.
- Mrs. Patterson and family.
- Oliver Magnent.
- Francis Magnent, and
- Captain Stephens, who had command of the expedition.
-
-“Captain Stephens was a native of North Carolina, reared in Georgia, a
-trapper for 28 years, and was accustomed to frontier life. He had no
-trail to guide him across the plains and started without even a pocket
-compass, but no train that traversed the continent to the Pacific was
-more blessed, freer from disaster, or so safe from savage attacks.”
-
-The toils and dangers of the way have been told so often that it is
-needless to repeat them here. That they were many we know; deep rivers
-had to be forded, roads made through almost impassable mountain
-fastnesses, vigilant watch kept to protect the train and its belongings
-from prowling savages and predatory animals.
-
-At Fort Hall, the train separated, those whose destination was the
-Northwest taking the Oregon trail; Mr. Murphy, his family and friends
-continuing to California. The difficulties of the route were augmented
-by the lateness of the season. Snow had fallen when they reached the
-Yuba, and further progress with wagons was impossible. Cabins for the
-accommodation of the families were erected, and there a number of the
-emigrants remained until March, 1845. Among those who wintered there
-were James Miller and family and Martin Murphy, Jr., and family.
-
-Mr. Murphy, his daughter Helen, his sons Daniel, John M., Bernard D.,
-James, the latter’s wife and child, Dr. Townsend and wife, with others
-of the party, proceeded on horseback to Sutter’s Fort, where they were
-hospitably received by that grand old pioneer, J. A. Sutter.
-
-When Mr. Murphy reached California he found the country in a state of
-rebellion. “The native Californians had revolted against Mexican rule,
-seized the government arms and ammunition stored at the Mission of San
-Juan Bautista and marched upon the capital. The Mexican military force
-in the country was small and Governor Micheltorena, fearing defeat,
-called for aid upon John A. Sutter, who had been a foreign resident in
-the country since 1839. Sutter responded, and with one hundred mounted
-men, mostly foreigners, hastened to the rescue.”
-
-Mr. Murphy and his sons were of the number who journeyed southward,
-“making haste slowly” ’neath winter’s sun and showers through the
-fairest land on which the light of Heaven shone. They reached Los
-Angeles late in January or early in February, 1845. After the battle of
-Chauvenga and the overthrow of the Mexican administration, Mr. Murphy
-and his sons returned to Santa Clara valley. Here he found the glorious
-realization of his hopes in a soil of rare fertility and a climate
-equable and healthy, and here he made his home.
-
-He purchased the Rancho Ojo de Agua de la Coche, Rancho San Francisco de
-las Llagas, Rancho de las Uvas, that portion of the San Ysidro ranch now
-known as Ba Polka, and one-sixteenth of the Rancho de Las Animas, a
-stretch of country extending from mountain top to mountain top east and
-west, and from the vicinity of Madrone station in the North to the
-present town of Gilroy in the South.
-
-His home at the Ojo de Agua de la Coche was well known by all who
-traveled the Camina Real from Monterey to San Francisco, and its
-generous hospitality was shared by the distinguished men of all nations
-which held the balance of power during the formative period of our
-state’s existence, and who with decisive energy moulded its chaotic
-elements into the perfect whole which has made California the wonder of
-an admiring world.
-
-Clergymen, distinguished soldiers, grave statesmen, and authors whose
-names are honored, loved to linger there. Bayard Taylor describing a
-ride made in company with Mr. Murphy to the summit of El Toro, the lofty
-peak near his home, draws a vivid picture of the wondrous beauty of hill
-and valley in his exquisite word painting.
-
-In 1850, Helen Murphy became the wife of Capt. Charles W. Weber of
-Stockton, John M. Murphy married Virginia E. Backenstoe Reed, and in
-1851 Daniel wedded Mary C. Fisher. In this year also Bernard, having
-revisited Canada, there married Catherine O’Toole. On his return to
-California he was accompanied by his sister, Mrs. Johanna Fitzgerald,
-who with her children came at her father’s request to share his loving
-care, she being recently widowed. Mrs. Kell had reached the Pacific in
-1846, and the family were again citizens of one land.
-
-April 11, 1853, Bernard, while en route to San Francisco, was killed by
-the explosion of the boiler of the steamer _Jenny Lind_, plying between
-Alviso and the city. With him was his nephew, Thomas Kell, who shared
-his sad fate.
-
-In 1854, Mr. Murphy erected a commodious chapel on the San Martin ranch,
-that the Catholic families settled in the neighborhood might enjoy the
-consolation of religious instruction. It was visited monthly by the
-pastor of St. Joseph’s Church, San José, until 1856, when it was placed
-in charge of the pastor of San Juan Bautista, the Rev. Francis Mora, who
-later became bishop of Monterey and Los Angeles. In 1864, a resident
-pastor, Rev. Thomas Hudson, was appointed and a church erected in the
-town of Gilroy. St. Martin’s chapel was destroyed by an incendiary fire
-April 2, 1879.
-
-To the last, Mr. Murphy never faltered in the performance of life’s
-daily duties. He personally attended to business, and his real estate in
-city and country benefitted by his immediate supervision. He saw to the
-details of the wearying lawsuits entailed in the quieting of land
-titles, making long journeys to distant parts of the state, paying with
-scrupulous exactness every claim, lest the shadow of wrong might rest
-upon him.
-
-Notwithstanding his advanced age he never failed to keep the fast of
-Lent, and his charity to the poor was bounded only by his ability to
-help them. Food and shelter were never refused an applicant. He was his
-own almoner and broke his bread with the needy and the orphan. He shrank
-from public applause and press notoriety, and loved the quiet of
-peaceful country surroundings. His life in word and deed inculcated
-strict obedience to the commands of God, and a faithful compliance with
-the laws of the land.
-
-On March 16, 1865, Mr. Murphy laid down the burden of life. He went
-peacefully to rest, “like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about
-him and lies down to pleasant dreams.” Supported by the consolations of
-religion, surrounded by his children, the venerable pioneer passed away,
-sincerely mourned by all. I quote here a few lines taken from the
-tribute to his memory offered by F. B. Murdock, a pioneer editor of
-California:
-
- We have known Mr. Murphy personally and well for the last twelve
- years. He seemed to enjoy as good health, and look as young a few
- weeks before his death as when we first saw him twelve years ago. He
- was in many respects a remarkable man. He was always gentlemanly,
- always kind and considerate, with a countenance singularly mixed
- with an expression of gravity, gentleness and cheerfulness. We don’t
- think he had an enemy, we never heard of one; we never heard any one
- speak of him except in terms of high respect. Truthfulness,
- conscientiousness and natural goodness, in its broad sense charity,
- were prominent marks in his character. We never heard Martin Murphy,
- Sr., say an unkind word of a single being, living or dead—we have
- often heard him utter a word of excuse or apology, something to
- extenuate when others were condemning. Certainly that was a most
- beautiful Christian trait in his character, and it is not to be
- wondered at that such a man should live beloved and respected and
- die regretted.
-
-These sentiments voiced the feelings of the immense concourse that
-attended the solemn funeral rites at St. Joseph’s church, San José,
-heard the eloquent eulogy of the deceased pronounced by Rev. Father
-Kenny, S. J., and followed Mr. Murphy’s remains to their last resting
-place in the Catholic graveyard in Santa Clara.
-
-As a token of respect for Mr. Murphy, and that all who desired might
-attend the funeral, the County Court adjourned immediately upon opening
-on the 18th.
-
-Realizing the wide influence of Mr. Murphy’s long years of gentle
-unostentatious virtue, it is not too much to say in closing this brief
-notice of his life, that “the world is better because he lived.”
-
-Mr. Murphy married early in life. His wife was Mary Foley, daughter of
-Daniel Foley of Enniscorthy, Ireland. Of Mr. and Mrs. Murphy’s children,
-Martin, James, Margaret, Johanna, Mary and Bernard were born in Ireland,
-Helen, John M. and Daniel in Canada.
-
-Martin married Mary Bulger; died Oct. 20, 1884.
-
-James married Anne Martin; died Jan. 14, 1888.
-
-Margaret married Thomas Kell; died Dec. 30, 1881.
-
-Johanna married Patrick Fitzgerald; died Dec. 28, 1899.
-
-Mary married James Miller; died Dec. 26, 1883.
-
-Bernard married Catherine O’Toole; died April 11, 1853.
-
-Helen married C. M. Weber; died April 11, 1895.
-
-John M. married V. E. B. Reed; died Feb. 17, 1892.
-
-Daniel married Mary C. Fisher; died Oct. 22, 1882.
-
-
-
-
- HISTORICAL NOTES OF INTEREST.
-
- BY THOMAS HAMILTON MURRAY.
-
-
-James Bourk, “captain of the brig _Neptune_,” is mentioned at Newport,
-R. I., 1773.
-
-William Welch, “from Ireland,” settled in Charlestown, R. I. He was born
-in 1700 and died in 1786.
-
-Richard Field, “a native of Dublin, Ireland,” was long a resident of
-Newport, R. I., and died in 1769.
-
-Thomas McCartee of Hartford, Conn., is mentioned in the “Lexington
-Alarm” list of that place, 1775.
-
-An Irishman, John Fitton, settled in Providence, R. I., about 1750. He
-was a merchant. He died in 1810.
-
-Daniel Byrn was lieutenant in a regiment (1759) raised by act of the
-General Assembly of Rhode Island.
-
-The records of Nantucket, Mass., contain the following entry: “Betty y^e
-dau. of Denis Manning was born July y^e 10, 1679.”
-
-James Dailey is mentioned in the Revolutionary records as of the corps
-of Sappers and Miners; was at the siege of Yorktown.
-
-The Chevalier Theobald Dillon was “colonel en second” of the
-Irish-French regiment of Dillon during the American Revolution.
-
-Stephen Brady was of Col. Obadiah Johnson’s Connecticut regiment, 1778.
-The regiment participated in the battle of Rhode Island.
-
-Constant Maguire “of County Fermanagh,” Ireland, settled in Rhode Island
-prior to 1750, and became prominent in Warwick and East Greenwich.
-
-In 1751–’52, Terence Donnelly was engaged by the town of Newport, R. I.,
-as a schoolmaster. He later conducted a school of his own in that place.
-
-The ship _Sally_ arrived at Boston, Mass., in 1763, having been
-fifty-nine days on the voyage from Ireland. She was quarantined at
-Boston for smallpox.
-
-A privateer captain in the Revolution was William Malone. He is believed
-to have been of Newport, R. I. He commanded at one period _The
-Harbinger_.
-
-John Conley of Stratford, Conn., served in the second troop of Sheldon’s
-Continental Light Dragoons during the Revolution and is mentioned as a
-trumpeter.
-
-John Flynn of Woodstock, Conn., is mentioned in the Woodstock “Alarm
-List,” 1775. He is also mentioned as a trumpeter in Major Backus’ Light
-Horse, 1776.
-
-Owen Neill of New London, Conn., sustained losses aggregating £91, 14s
-6d by the ravages of the British at the time of the latter’s attack on
-New London, 1781.
-
-Bridget Clifford came from Ireland, 1635, in the _Primrose_ bound for
-Virginia. She was accompanied by two of her brothers. She died at
-Suffield, Conn., in 1695.
-
-Peter Welsh was adjutant during the Revolution of Col. Frederick
-Weissenfels’ New York regiment of levies. He is also mentioned as
-quartermaster of the regiment.
-
-Thomas Fitzgerald was a midshipman during the Revolution on the
-Continental frigate _Trumbull_. The latter was built in Connecticut
-under the authority of Congress.
-
-Patrick Canny, a soldier of the Revolution, was serving at Horseneck,
-Conn., in 1782–’83. He is mentioned in Stiles’ _History and Genealogies
-of Ancient Windsor, Conn._
-
-Philip Mullen was fire master of Albany, N. Y., in 1755, and Philip
-Ryley was in charge of the town clock. (Hon. Franklin M. Danaher in
-_Early Irish in Old Albany, N. Y._)
-
-John McGinnis was a New York soldier of the Revolution. He served at one
-period in Bradt’s Rangers. Also in this corps were Edward Early, Richard
-Kain and Barney Kelley.
-
-Luke Burns, a cordwainer, resided in Providence, R. I., and died in
-1788. Jonathan Green, “living near the Mill-Bridge in Providence,” was
-appointed administrator of the estate.
-
-Bryant O’Dougherty was in Salem, Mass., in 1683. At that period there
-were many Irish in Salem. (Eben Putnam in “Historical and Genealogical
-Notes and Queries,” _Salem Observer_.)
-
-James Kasson, with his father and six brothers, came from Ireland in
-1722 and landed at Boston, Mass. He later settled in Voluntown, Conn.,
-removing to Woodbury, Conn., in 1742.
-
-Armand O’Connor was one of the “capitaines en second” of the
-Irish-French regiment of Walsh during the American Revolution. He is
-referred to as the Chevalier Armand O’Connor.
-
-Henry Paget, “an Irish gentleman much respected,” was admitted a freeman
-of Rhode Island, 1742. He wedded a daughter of Rev. John Checkley,
-rector of a church in Providence, R. I.
-
-Thomas Ryan is mentioned in the Connecticut Revolutionary records as a
-drummer in Captain Brewster’s company, Colonel Huntington’s regiment
-(Seventeenth Continental), 1776.
-
-A Rhode Island merchantman, the _Abby_, Capt. John Donovan, was attacked
-in August, 1752, by a French warship. Captain Donovan met the attack in
-a spirited manner but was killed.
-
-Maj. Matthew Donovan of the Ninth Virginia regiment during the
-Revolution died in the service, 1777. The state of Virginia allowed his
-heirs 6,893 acres. (See mention in Saffell.)
-
-Abbe Dowd, “Irlandais,” was a chaplain of the French warship _Le Jason_
-in the American Revolution. _Le Jason_ was of the fleet of Count De
-Ternay, which was assisting the American cause.
-
-In the Massachusetts force that rendezvoused on “Dedham Plain,” for the
-Narragansett campaign, 1675, was a soldier named Jeremiah Neal. He is
-mentioned as a sergeant of the sixth company.
-
-Lieut. Hugh McManus and Lieut. John Riley served in the Sixth Regiment,
-Albany County, N. Y., Militia, during the Revolution. The regiment was
-commanded by Col. Stephen John Schuyler.
-
-The Connecticut Revolutionary records mention Michael McGee, a soldier
-who served in Colonel Burrall’s regiment of that state. McGee was taken
-prisoner in “the affair at the Cedars,” 1776.
-
-Over fifteen members of Capt. John Giles’ company, 1723–’24, were
-natives of Ireland. The company was engaged operating against the
-Indians in Maine, and is mentioned in the Massachusetts records.
-
-Tench Francis, son of an Irishman, was born in Maryland, 1732; became
-attorney-general of the province of Pennsylvania; was captain of the
-Quaker Blues; subscribed £5,500 in aid of the Patriot army.
-
-David Dowd, soldier of the Revolution, served in a Connecticut light
-infantry company, under Lafayette, February-November, 1781. The company
-was commanded by Capt. Samuel Barker of Branford, Conn.
-
-A settler at Sudbury, Mass., Richard Burke, came from Ireland prior to
-1650. He married in 1670 and left many descendants. He was one of the
-earliest Burkes to settle in America of whom we have record.
-
-An early resident of Newport, R. I., was Owen Higgins. His wife was born
-in 1640. In 1701, his son Richard is recorded as a freeman of Newport.
-(See Austin’s _Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island_.)
-
-Five ships arrived in Boston Harbor, Aug. 4, 1718, with Irish immigrants
-aboard. Many of these subsequently settled in New Hampshire. These facts
-are referred to in Cullen’s _Story of the Irish in Boston_.
-
-Daniel Sullivan, born in Ireland, 1717, died in Providence, R. I., 1814.
-In an obituary notice it is stated that “He had long resided in this
-town where his integrity and piety secured him confidence and esteem.”
-
-Charles McAfferty, “an Irishman,” was a soldier of the Revolution and
-served in Col. Jeremiah Olney’s Rhode Island Continentals. He was one of
-the first to enter the enemy’s redoubts at the capture of Yorktown.
-
-Patrick McSherry was an officer in the Irish-French regiment of Dillon
-during the American Revolution. He is mentioned in that recent work,
-_Les Combattants Francais De La Guerre Americaine_ (Paris, 1903).
-
-James Buchanan, a native of County Donegal, Ireland, came to this
-country in the brig _Providence_, 1783. He was then in his twenty-second
-year. His son, James, became president of the United States.
-
-Two members of the Commander-in-Chief’s Guard (Washington’s), in the
-Revolution, were James and Robert Blair, both natives of Ireland.
-Godfrey’s history of the guard furnishes a biographical sketch of each.
-
-“In the discharge of his duty he has at all times proved himself an
-alert, brave and intelligent officer.” The foregoing tribute was paid by
-Gen. Henry Knox to Lieut. Florence Crowley, a soldier of the Revolution.
-
-Jacques O’Driscoll was one of the “capitaines en second” in the
-Irish-French regiment of Walsh during the American Revolution. Others of
-the same rank in the command were Edouard Stack and Charles O’Croly.
-
-Hon. James Sullivan was governor of Massachusetts in 1807 and 1808. He
-succeeded Hon. Caleb Strong and preceded Hon. Christopher Gore. Governor
-Sullivan was a brother of Gen. John Sullivan of the Revolution.
-
-Ten ships, bringing nearly one thousand passengers, arrived at Boston,
-Mass., from Ireland, during the two years, 1736 and 1738. It was at this
-period, 1737, that the Charitable Irish Society of Boston was organized.
-
-Thomas Quirk, “a brave and fine-looking Irishman,” served under Gen.
-George Rogers Clark in the latter’s western campaign. He had been a
-sergeant and is later mentioned as a major. He was alloted 4,312 acres.
-
-Robert Beers, an Irishman, was slain “y^e 28 March 1676,” by the
-Indians. The tragedy occurred at “the ring of the town,” within the
-limits of what is now East Providence, R. I. Beers was a brickmaker by
-occupation.
-
-A distinguished officer of the Revolution, Edward Hand, was born in
-Kings County, Ireland. He came to America in 1767; espoused the Patriot
-cause, and was successively lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and
-brigadier-general.
-
-The first funds of Rhode Island College, now Brown University, were
-obtained in Ireland. The original subscription book is still carefully
-preserved. (Guild’s work on _The First Commencement of Rhode Island
-College_.)
-
-In 1774 the Second Company, Governor’s Foot Guard, of New Haven, Conn.,
-engaged Edward Burke as instructor “in the military exercise.” The
-company is one of the oldest existing military organizations in America.
-
-Gov. Thomas Dongan of New York, an Irish Catholic, visited Milford,
-Conn., in 1685, to confer with Governor Treat regarding the boundary
-between the two colonies. Governor Treat terms Dongan “A noble
-gentleman.”
-
-Stephen Decatur, a Genoese Catholic, arrived in Newport, R. I., about
-1740–’46; married a woman of Irish lineage; became captain of a
-privateer. His son, also named Stephen, attained high rank in the United
-States navy.
-
-Thomas Casey was born in Ireland about 1636. He became a resident of
-Newport, R. I. In 1692 he and his son Thomas witnessed a deed given by
-James Sweet of East Greenwich, R. I., to Thomas Weaver of Newport.
-
-Jean Baptiste O’Meara was one of the “lieutenants en second” of the
-Irish-French regiment of Walsh in the American Revolution. Holding like
-rank in the regiment were Jacques O’Sheil, George Meighan and Eugene
-MacCarthy.
-
-On the roster of the British garrison at Albany, N. Y., when the place
-was reconquered from the Dutch and held for a short time in 1673, appear
-the names Capt. John Manning, Patrick Dowdell, John Fitzgerald and
-Thomas Quinn.
-
-Matthew O’Bryan was a Massachusetts soldier of the Revolution. He served
-in Col. John Crane’s regiment of artillery. In one return he is credited
-with service for 21 months and 25 days as bombardier and 12 months as
-matross.
-
-Jane Brown was born in Providence, R. I., 1734. Her father, Rev. Arthur
-Brown, was a native of Drogheda, Ireland. She married Samuel Livermore,
-who became attorney-general of New Hampshire and United States senator.
-
-Thomas Amory emigrated from Limerick, Ireland, to South Carolina. He
-removed from the latter place to Boston, Mass., in 1721. The late Thomas
-C. Amory of Boston, author of the _Transfer of Erin_, was one of his
-descendants.
-
-Mrs. Grant in her _Memoirs of an American Lady_ mentions “A handsome,
-good-natured looking Irishman in a ragged provincial uniform,” named
-Patrick Coonie, with his wife and children, who settled near Albany, N.
-Y., in 1768.
-
-Matthew Mease, who was born in Strabane, Ireland, became purser of the
-_Bonhomme Richard_ and served under John Paul Jones in the engagement
-with the British 44–gun ship _Serapis_. Mease was wounded in that
-engagement.
-
-In 1768, Patrick Mackey, mentioned as from Philadelphia, Pa., opened in
-Providence, R. I., “a skinner’s shop near the Hay-ward, on the east side
-of the great bridge.” He dealt in deer leather, in wool, and in goat and
-sheep skins.
-
-The New York Revolutionary records mention Thomas Quigley, first
-lieutenant of the privateer _General Putnam_, “formerly the _Betsey_.”
-She was commanded, successively, by Capt. Thomas Cregier and Capt.
-William Mercier.
-
-A roll of Capt. John Givens’ company of militia, Augusta County, Va.,
-1777–’82, includes the names James Donohoe, Peter Carrol, John Morrison,
-Neil Hughes, John Craig, Andrew Mitchell and others indicative of Irish
-extraction.
-
-Alexander Johnston came from near Londonderry, Ireland, about 1721, and
-settled in Pennsylvania. He was a magistrate, and at one time owned a
-farm in Pennsylvania of 900 acres. Col. Francis Johnston of the
-Revolution was his son.
-
-Michael Wright, a native of Mountmellick, Queens County, Ireland, served
-during the Revolution in a Rhode Island regiment of the Line. He is
-mentioned in a return as 42 years of age and as having his residence in
-Seaconnet, R. I.
-
-Gen. Stephen Moylan, of the Revolution, was a brother of the Roman
-Catholic bishop of Cork, Ireland. Two of his sisters became nuns. One of
-them was abbess of the Ursuline convent in Cork, and the other was a nun
-in the same convent.
-
-Macarty de Marteigue was the commander, in 1782, of the French warship
-_Le Magnifique_, which formed part of the naval force sent over by
-France to aid the American Revolution. Du Fay de Carty is mentioned as
-an ensign on the same ship.
-
-The Massachusetts Revolutionary records mention Patrick Burke, a soldier
-of Col. John Crane’s regiment of artillery. Burke enlisted for the town
-of Wrentham, Mass., was a sergeant, and is at one period referred to as
-“Orderly to the General.”
-
-Hugh McLean, a native of Ireland, was born in 1724. He settled in
-Milton, Mass., and died in 1799. His son, John McLean, was a benefactor
-of Harvard College and of the Massachusetts General Hospital, the latter
-institution in Boston, Mass.
-
-Among those serving during the Revolution, in the First Regiment,
-Virginia Light Dragoons, were James Casey, Thomas Hogan, John Carroll,
-William Hicks, John Powers and Niel McCaffry. They are mentioned in the
-Virginia records of that period.
-
-Some years after the close of the Revolution, Christopher Fitzsimons, a
-wealthy Irishman of Charleston, S. C., passed away, leaving an estate
-worth $700,000. His daughter, Anne, married one of the Hamptons,
-receiving $100,000 as her dower.
-
-Mention is made in the Massachusetts Revolutionary records of John
-McLaughlin, a marine who served aboard the _Alfred_, commanded by John
-Paul Jones. McLaughlin is referred to as entitled to prize shares in the
-ship _Mellish_ and the brig _Active_.
-
-Before 1800, Masters Knox and Crocker, natives of Ireland, taught school
-at Bowen’s Hill (Coventry, R. I.), and the neighborhood. (Cole’s
-_History of Washington and Kent Counties, R. I._) The name Knox is found
-in the Coventry records as early as 1766.
-
-David O’Killia, a son of David, “the Irishman” of old Yarmouth, Mass.,
-married Anna Bills in 1662. He had a brother named John who wedded in
-1690. Another brother, Jeremiah, died in 1728. A sister, Elizabeth,
-became the wife of Silas Sears in 1707.
-
-Timothy McKlewain’s name appears in a list of subscribers at a meeting
-in East Windsor, Conn., April 21, 1777. The meeting was “For ye Great &
-important Purpose of furnishing our Proportion of men for the
-Continental Army.” He subscribed £1 10s.
-
-Alexander Bryan, from Armagh in Ireland, was a settler at Milford,
-Conn., as far back as 1639. In 1661 he bought of the Indians the last
-twenty acres they owned on Milford Neck. He paid them therefor six
-coats, three blankets and three pairs of breeches.
-
-Among the ancient inscriptions in the old Granary Burial Ground, Boston,
-Mass., is the following: “Here Lyeth Interred y^e body of Charles
-Maccarty, son to Thadeus and Elizabeth Maccarty, aged 18 years, wanting
-7 days. Deceased y^e 25 of October, 1683.”
-
-Patrick Cavenaugh, a soldier of the Revolution, served in the Eighth
-Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line. On one occasion he saved General
-Lincoln from being captured by the British, in New Jersey. He was
-afterwards an express rider for General Greene.
-
-A Massachusetts soldier of the Revolution was Daniel McCarty. He was
-born in Ireland, came to this country and enlisted in the Patriot ranks.
-He served in Greaton’s regiment and is credited in the records to
-Roxbury, Mass. He is reported as killed in 1777.
-
-Charles O’Gorman was one of the “lieutenants en second” of the
-Irish-French regiment of Walsh during the American Revolution. His name
-is preserved in the French military archives and is mentioned in _Les
-Combattants De La Guerre Americaine_ (Paris, 1903).
-
-About 1735, Richard Copley with his wife, Mary (Singleton) Copley, came
-to America from County Clare, Ireland. His health being poor, he went to
-the West Indies to recuperate. John Singleton Copley, the eminent
-artist, a native of Boston, Mass., was their son.
-
-Matthew Hurley was one of the soldiers serving in the war against
-Philip, the Indian king, 1675–’76. He was at one period of the company
-of Captain Wadsworth, who was killed in the battle at Sudbury, Mass.,
-and is mentioned in Bodge’s work on _King Philip’s War_.
-
-Patrick McLaughlin, a soldier of the Revolution, served in the First
-Pennsylvania regiment, commanded by Col. John Philip De Haas; was taken
-prisoner by the British at Three Rivers, June 9, 1776. He is mentioned
-in the Revolutionary records of Pennsylvania.
-
-Abbe Bartholomew O’Mahony was chaplain of the French warship _L’Ivelly_
-during the American Revolution. _L’Ivelly_ was commanded by M. le
-Chevalier Durumain, and formed part of the fleet of Count De Grasse.
-(See _Les Combattants Francais De La Guerre Americaine_.)
-
-In an old cemetery at Rutland, Mass., is a gravestone to the memory of
-Patrick Gregory, who was born in County Donegal, Ireland, about 1690.
-When he came to this country is unknown. He died July 5, 1756. On the
-gravestone just mentioned shamrocks are carved.
-
-A native of County Armagh, Ireland, Thomas Robinson, was born in 1745
-and died in Providence, R. I., 1809. He had been a resident of
-Providence for seventeen years; was described as “an ingenious and
-useful citizen” and “possessed the most enduring philanthropy.”
-
-An influential man in Maryland, in 1647 and later, was Philip Conner. In
-the year named he was appointed a commissioner for Kent County. He is
-referred to as “The last commander of old Kent.” A descendant, James
-Conner, in 1705 wedded Elinor Flannagan.
-
-Born at sea, of Irish parents, 1745, William Patterson died in 1806. He
-was a member of the first Constitutional Convention of New Jersey;
-attorney-general of the state; United States senator; governor of New
-Jersey; and judge of the Supreme Court of the United States.
-
-At a military review near Trenton, N. J., in 1776, George Fullerton, a
-native of Ireland, was killed by the accidental discharge of a pistol.
-He was a merchant in Philadelphia, Pa., and a member of the First City
-Troop. In his will is mentioned John Fullerton, an uncle in Ireland.
-
-Three Irish Rhode Islanders in the Revolution were James Bishop, William
-Parker and John Wilson. Bishop was born in Dublin; Parker in County
-Waterford, and Wilson in County Kilkenny. They served in Captain
-Topham’s company of Col. Thomas Church’s regiment.
-
-Ensign Patrick Cronin was of Colonel Malcom’s New York regiment of
-levies in the Revolution. Also on the regimental rolls appear the names
-Cleary, Conner, Crane, Daley, Griffin, Jackson, McCarty, McCoy, McGee,
-McWilliams, Mead, Moore, Morrison, Murphy and the like.
-
-Hon. Thomas McKean, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and
-president of Congress, was a founder, an incorporator, and the first
-president of the Hibernian Society of Philadelphia, Pa. His parents were
-both natives of Ireland. (Campbell’s _History of the Hibernian
-Society_.)
-
-Michael Connolly was captain and paymaster, during the Revolution, in
-the Second New York Regiment of the Line. Philip Van Cortland was
-colonel of the regiment. There were many Irish in the command, as
-reference to _New York in the Revolution_, by James A. Roberts, will
-show.
-
-An Irish trader at Fort Pitt (Pittsburg) before the Revolution was John
-Ormsby. He suffered depredations during Pontiac’s war, and was later
-granted a large tract of land at Fort Pitt. He was an active patriot
-during the Revolution and took a prominent part in the struggle for
-liberty.
-
-Capt. Daniel Malcom, an Irishman, died in Boston, Mass., 1769. He “was a
-true son of Liberty, a friend to the Publick, an enemy to oppression and
-one of the foremost in opposing the Revenue Acts on America.” His
-remains rest in a brick tomb in the old Copp’s Hill graveyard, Boston.
-
-Capt. Edward Connor was of Col. Marinus Willett’s New York regiment in
-the Revolution. Also in the regiment appear such names as Burk, Crowley,
-Downing, Garvey, Hicks, Kelly, Kenny, Lane, Lyons, McCoy, McGee, McGill,
-McVey, Molloy, Moore, Quin, Ryan and Welsh.
-
-A Connecticut soldier of the Revolution, George McCarty, served in
-Bigelow’s artillery company, the first company of artillery raised in
-Connecticut during the war. It marched to the northern department and
-was stationed during the summer and fall of 1776 at Ticonderoga and
-vicinity.
-
-Born in Tipperary, Ireland, Edward Fitzgerald came to this country and
-became a soldier of the Revolution. He was a resident of Newport, R. I.
-He is mentioned as of the Rhode Island Continental Line when he was but
-19 years of age. He saw much service at Ticonderoga and elsewhere.
-
-A native of Dublin, Ireland, John Read was born in 1688. He came to this
-country, purchased an estate in Maryland, and was one of the founders of
-Charlestown on the headwaters of Chesapeake Bay. He was appointed by the
-Colonial Legislature a commissioner to lay out and govern the town.
-
-Paul Cox, an Irishman, was of Philadelphia, Pa., as early as 1773. He
-became a member of the Pennsylvania State Navy Board, 1777, and was
-otherwise prominent. The inscription on his tombstone in Philadelphia
-states that he was “Thrice an elector of the president of the United
-States.”
-
-Christopher Marshall, a native of Dublin, Ireland, was born in 1709. He
-settled in Philadelphia, Pa., and was a druggist. During the Revolution
-his firm furnished drugs and medicines to the Continental army. He was a
-member of the Committee of Safety throughout the whole period of the
-war.
-
-Maj. John Gillespy is mentioned as serving during the Revolution in the
-Fourth Regiment, Ulster County (N. Y.) Militia, commanded by Colonel
-Hardenburgh. Also of the same regiment was Lieut. Samuel Gillespy. (Vide
-_New York in the Revolution_, by Comptroller James A. Roberts, Albany,
-1898.)
-
-In the old graveyard attached to the stone church built on the site of
-Fort Herkimer in the Mohawk valley, N. Y., is buried John Ring “of the
-Kingdom of Ireland, captain of one of His Majesty’s companies of this
-Province, who departed this life 20th day of Sept., 1755, in the 30th
-year of his age.”
-
-Thomas McCarthy, a soldier of the Revolution, enlisted from Newtown,
-Pa., Jan. 14, 1776, for three years, in Capt. George Lewis’ troop, Third
-Regiment, Continental Dragoons, commanded by Col. George Baylor. On May
-1, 1777, he was assigned to the cavalry of the Commander-in-Chief’s
-Guard.
-
-John M. O’Brien is mentioned in the Rhode Island records as a soldier of
-the Revolution. He served in Captain Dexter’s company, of the “Late Col.
-Greene’s regiment,” and died in 1781. He is believed to have been the
-soldier elsewhere mentioned in the Rhode Island records as John Morris
-O’Brien.
-
-Andrew Caldwell, born in Ireland, became a prominent merchant in
-Philadelphia, Pa. He was a patriot of the Revolution; member of the
-Council of Safety; member of the First City Troop, Philadelphia; member
-of the Navy Board; port warden of Philadelphia; a director of the Bank
-of North America.
-
-George Bryan, an Irishman, became a resident of Philadelphia, Pa.; was a
-member of the Assembly; a delegate, in 1765, to the Stamp Act Congress;
-a patriot of the Revolution; vice-president of the Supreme Executive
-Council of Pennsylvania: president of the same; a judge of the Supreme
-Court of the state.
-
-In Mason’s _Reminiscences of Newport_ (R. I.) is an interesting
-reference to Henry Goldsmith, a native of Westmeath, Ireland. He settled
-in Newport when he was 24 years of age, married there in 1779, and had
-14 children. At the close of the Revolution, Mr. and Mrs. Goldsmith
-removed from Newport.
-
-James Calhoun, grandfather of John C. Calhoun, came from Donegal,
-Ireland, in 1733, with his family, and settled in Pennsylvania, later
-removing to western Virginia, and at a later period, further south. In
-1765 they established the “Calhoun settlement” in South Carolina, near
-the Cherokee Indian frontier.
-
-James Blaine came from Ireland with his family prior to 1745. He settled
-in Toboyne township, Cumberland County, Pa., where he died in 1792. He
-left a widow and nine children. Col. Ephraim Blaine of the Revolution
-was one of these children. The late Hon. James G. Blaine of Maine was a
-descendant.
-
-One of the officers in the Irish-French regiment of Dillon, during the
-American Revolution, was Patrick Murphy. His name is preserved in the
-military archives of France, and by its publication in _Les Combattants
-Francais De La Guerre Americaine_, is recalled and forever made known to
-the American people.
-
-Mary Peisley was a native of Kildare, Ireland, and was born in 1717. She
-entered the Quaker ministry about 1744, came to America with Ann Payton,
-and perhaps other Quakers, about 1753, labored in New York, the
-Carolinas, Maryland and Rhode Island; returned to Ireland and married
-Samuel Neale of Dublin.
-
-James Moore, who was chosen governor of South Carolina, was born in
-Ireland about 1640. He came to this country in 1655, settled in
-Charleston, S. C., wedded a daughter of Sir John Yeamans and had 10
-children. One of his sons, also named James Moore, was likewise chosen
-governor of South Carolina.
-
-Born in Ireland in 1705, Jeremiah Smith came to Boston, Mass., with his
-wife, in 1726, and finally settled in Milton, Mass., 1737. He was an
-intimate friend of Governor Hutchinson, Governor Hancock and other
-leading men. He engaged in the manufacture of paper, and carried on the
-business until 1775 when he retired.
-
-The Virginia records show that Symon Tuchin was in that colony in 1625.
-He was master of the _Due Return_, and “having been banished out of
-Ireland was reported as strongly affected to popery.” Accordingly, “The
-Governor and Council of Virginia sent him as a prisoner, in January,
-1625, to the Company in England.”
-
-Mary Mallins, “from Bandon in Ireland,” was among those arrested in
-Boston, Mass., at the time of the prosecution of the Quakers, she being
-one of the latter. She and twenty-seven other Quakers were finally
-liberated by Endicott and were ordered to leave the jurisdiction at
-once, nor to return at their peril.
-
-Morison’s _Life of Judge Jeremiah Smith_, who was a native of
-Peterborough, N. H., states that “He began to study Latin when about
-twelve years old, with Rudolphus Greene, an Irishman employed by the
-town to keep school a quarter of the year in each of the four quarters
-of the town.” Judge Smith was born about 1771.
-
-John Mitchell, a native of Ireland, was muster-master-general of the
-Pennsylvania State navy, 1775–’76; acting commissary, 1776–’77;
-lieutenant on the _Chatham_, 1775; captain of the _Ranger_, 1776; a
-merchant in France after the Revolution; United States consul at
-Santiago de Cuba; admiralty surveyor of Philadelphia, Pa.
-
-A Rhode Island soldier, 1756–’59, was named William Sheehan. He is
-mentioned in the former year as a lieutenant and quartermaster for the
-expedition against Crown Point. In 1758, he appears as first lieutenant
-in the major’s company of his regiment, and is also referred to the same
-year as captain and quartermaster.
-
-A Virginia trooper who rendered service against the French and Indians
-was Thomas Doyle. The Assembly of Virginia passed an act in 1756 for the
-payment of men engaged in said service. Doyle was voted 1,860 pounds of
-tobacco, and other troopers were to be paid like amounts. (Boogher’s
-_Gleanings of Virginia History_.)
-
-Daniel Magennis is a name frequently met in King Philip’s War, 1675–’76.
-Daniel became a corporal and was at one time company clerk. He served at
-various times under Captain Henchman, Captain Wheeler and other
-commanders. His name also appears in the records as Maginnis. (See
-Bodge’s _History of King Philip’s War_.)
-
-Col. Charles Stewart was born in County Donegal, Ireland, 1729. He came
-to America, 1750; was deputy surveyor-general of Pennsylvania; patriot
-of the Revolution; colonel of a New Jersey regiment of Minute Men;
-colonel of a New Jersey regiment of the Line; served on Washington’s
-staff; member of the Continental Congress.
-
-“In the _Mayflower_ ... were one hundred and one men, women, boys and
-girls as passengers, besides captain and crew. These were of English,
-Dutch, French and Irish ancestry, and thus typical of our national
-stock.” (Rev. William Elliot Griffis in _Brave Little Holland and What
-She Taught Us_. New York, 1894. Page 208.)
-
-Bernard O’Neill was a captain in the Irish-French regiment of Dillon in
-the American Revolution. He was probably the “Captain Commandant
-O’Neill” who participated in the expedition against Savannah, where he
-was wounded in the breast, and may have been identical with “Le Baron
-Bernard O’Neill,” who became a Chevalier of St. Louis.
-
-Thomas DeCourcy was a native of Newport, R. I. His father came from
-Ireland and settled in Newport about 1720. The father’s brother, also
-named Thomas, was Baron Kinsale. Upon the latter’s death, Thomas, the
-native of Newport, succeeded to the title and estates. Mention of these
-facts may be found in Peterson’s _History of Rhode Island_.
-
-Eleanor Ledlie was of Irish parentage. She became the wife of Capt.
-Samuel Bowman, an officer of the Revolution, who as commander of the
-guard walked arm in arm with Major Andre, the British spy, to the place
-of the latter’s execution. (Hon. Edward A. Moseley of Washington, D. C.,
-in an address to the American-Irish Historical Society.)
-
-Matthias Alexis de Roche Fermoy, of Irish extraction, was an officer in
-the French forces that came to America during our Revolution and
-assisted in establishing the independence of the United States. He
-became a brigadier and is mentioned in the work entitled _Generals of
-the Continental Line in the Revolutionary War_ (Philadelphia, 1903).
-
-Brian Murphy was a soldier in King Philip’s War, 1675–’76. He is
-mentioned in Bodge’s history of that war and is credited with garrison
-duty at Mendon, Mass. Thomas Tally, Patrick Morren, Timothy Larkin,
-Joseph Griffin, Jeremiah Toy, Philip Butler, John Hand and Thomas Welch
-are also mentioned by Bodge as participating in that struggle.
-
-During the Revolution, Capt. William Burke of the armed schooner
-_Warren_ was captured by the British frigate _Liverpool_ and carried
-into Halifax, from whence he was sent to New York and confined on board
-a prison ship. He was later exchanged for Capt. Richard Jones, “a
-British officer of equal rank.” Captain Burke is mentioned as of
-Marblehead, Mass.
-
-Susannah Lightfoot, a native of Ireland, was born in 1720. She was a
-Quaker, and with Ruth Courtney came from Ireland to America on a visit
-to Friends here. On her return to the Old Land, she landed at Cork. In
-1760, she paid a second visit to these shores, and four years later
-removed with her husband from Ireland and permanently settled here.
-
-Among those serving under Esek Hopkins, during the Revolution, was
-Patrick Kaine. He is mentioned as a marine and served aboard the
-_Cabot_. In an engagement with the British ship _Glasgow_, April 6,
-1776, he was killed. Anthony Dwyer, Richard Sweeney, John Connor, Thomas
-Dowd and Andrew Magee also served aboard the _Cabot_ under Hopkins.
-
-Jeremiah Driskel, William Henussey and John Leary all served in the
-Commander-in-Chief’s Guard (Washington’s) during the Revolution. Driskel
-had previously served in a Maryland regiment; Henussey, in a
-Pennsylvania command, and Leary, in a regiment commanded by John Stark.
-(See Godfrey’s work on _The Commander-in-Chief’s Guard_.)
-
-In 1776, John O’Kelley was a member of a military company in the town of
-Warren, R. I. The company was commanded by Capt. Ezra Ormsbee. Also in
-the company were Daniel Kelley and Joseph Kelley. The General Assembly
-of Rhode Island, in 1782, gave “Mrs. Elizabeth O’Kelley, widow of John
-O’Kelley,” of Warren, permission to sell certain real estate.
-
-Thomas Jones, “from Strabane, Ireland,” came to Rhode Island prior to
-1699; later he removed to Long Island, N. Y. He married Freelove
-Townsend, whose father gave them land at Massapequa, where they settled.
-They are mentioned in Bunker’s _Long Island Genealogies_. Mr. and Mrs.
-Jones had a son David, born in 1699. Thomas, the immigrant, died in
-1713.
-
-Andrew Meade, a Kerry Irishman, and a Catholic, emigrated to New York,
-married Mary Latham, a Quakeress of Flushing, went to Nansemond County,
-Va., and died there in 1745. His son was Col. Richard Kidder Meade, an
-aide-de-camp of General Washington. (Quoted by Martin I. J. Griffin of
-Philadelphia, Pa., in _American Catholic Historical Researches_.)
-
-Thomas, John and Walter Dongan, kinsmen of Governor Dongan of New York,
-are believed to have been residing in New York in 1715. In 1723 a
-private act was passed by the Assembly of the province “to enable Thomas
-Dongan and Walter Dongan, two surviving kinsmen of Thomas, late Earl of
-Limerick,” to sell part of their estate. A similar act was passed in
-1726.
-
-Hotten’s _Original Lists_ (London, 1874) contain the names of many Irish
-who were conveyed to Virginia, Barbadoes and other parts. The work
-comprises the period from 1600 to 1700 and mentions “Persons of quality,
-emigrants, religious exiles, political rebels, serving men sold for a
-term of years, apprentices, children stolen, maidens pressed” and other
-wayfarers of the time.
-
-Charles Carroll, grandfather of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, came to
-this country about 1689 and settled in Maryland. In 1691 he was made
-judge and register of the land office, and agent and receiver for Lord
-Baltimore’s rents. His son, also named Charles Carroll, was born in 1702
-and died in 1782. Charles Carroll of Carrollton was a son of this second
-Charles Carroll.
-
-Michael Ryan, a soldier of the Revolution, was acting-adjutant of the
-Fourth Pennsylvania regiment, commanded by Col. Anthony Wayne, from Feb.
-17, 1776; was appointed adjutant March 15 that year; became a captain in
-the Fifth Pennsylvania, and was inspector of General Wayne’s division;
-was promoted brigade-major, Nov. 18, 1777; also served as major of the
-Tenth Pennsylvania.
-
-The Massachusetts records mention Patrick McMullen as serving during the
-Revolution aboard the _Providence_, under John Paul Jones. He is
-referred to as entitled to a prize share in the ship _Alexander_,
-captured in 1777, and is also mentioned as a marine aboard the _Alfred_,
-commanded by Jones. In this latter capacity he was entitled to prize
-shares in the ship _Mellish_ and the brig _Active_,
-
-Andrew Brown, born in Ireland, was educated at Trinity College, Dublin,
-came to this country and eventually settled in Massachusetts. He was a
-patriot of the Revolution, fought at Lexington and Bunker Hill; served
-as major under Gates and Greene. After the war, he established the
-_Federal Gazette_ at Philadelphia, Pa., the publication being later
-known as the _Philadelphia Gazette_.
-
-An Irish schoolmaster in Brunswick, Me., was Thomas Crowell. He settled
-there shortly after the close of the Revolution, and taught school there
-for over twenty years. Many of his pupils became leading business men,
-and some of them famous shipmasters. Sumner L. Holbrook read a paper, a
-few years ago, before the Pejepscot Historical Society, of Brunswick,
-devoted to Master Crowell.
-
-John Donnaldson, “son of Hugh Donnaldson of Dungannon, Ireland,” was a
-shipping merchant in Philadelphia, Pa.; a patriot of the Revolution;
-member of the First City Troop; took part in the battles of Trenton,
-Princeton, Brandywine, and Germantown; subscribed £2,000, in 1780, in
-aid of the army; became register-general of Pennsylvania; and
-comptroller-general of the state.
-
-David McCarty, Albany, N. Y., was a member of the Committee of Safety
-there during the Revolution. He was a valiant soldier and at the time of
-his death was a general of state troops. In May, 1771, he married
-Charlotta, granddaughter of Pieter Coeymans, the founder of a wealthy
-Dutch family. By this marriage McCarty came into the possession of much
-land in the Coeymans Patent.
-
-Well-nigh forgotten now is Christopher Stuart, an Irishman and soldier
-of the Revolution. He was born in the Old Land, 1748, and settled in
-Montgomery County, Pa. He served successively as captain, major and
-lieutenant-colonel of Pennsylvania troops, including the Line; took part
-in the battle of Long Island, the storming of Stony Point, and in other
-actions of the war; died, 1799.
-
-Patrick Googins, “a young Irish weaver,” came to this country about 1722
-and settled at Old Orchard, Me. He married Hester Rogers. Her father
-gave Patrick as her marriage portion 200 acres there. In years long
-after, the place became known as “the old Googins farm.” The farm
-remained in the Googins family for four generations. (See an article in
-the _Old Orchard Mirror_, 1902.)
-
-One of the founders of the Charitable Irish Society of Boston, Mass.,
-1737, was Joseph St. Lawrence. In the records of the Boston selectmen,
-that year, appears the following: “Mr. Joseph St. Lawrence from Ireland,
-Merchant, having imported upwards of Fifty Pounds Sterling, Prays he may
-be Allow’d to Carry on his Business in this Town.” It is presumed the
-desired permission was granted.
-
-Charles Thomson, who for nearly fifteen years was secretary of the
-Continental Congress, being sometimes referred to as its “Perpetual
-secretary,” was born in Ireland, 1729. He participated in various treaty
-proceedings with the Indians, and was styled by the latter “The man of
-truth.” He married Hannah Harrison whose nephew, William Henry Harrison,
-became president of the United States.
-
-Robert Temple arrived at Boston, Mass., from Ireland, in 1717, with a
-party of Irish Protestants. He settled on Noddle’s Island, now East
-Boston, and had a house there that “contained elegant rooms suitable for
-the reception of persons of the first condition.” He commanded a company
-in operations against the Indians. He became a member of the Boston
-Charitable Irish Society in 1740.
-
-George Taylor, a native of Ireland, died in Providence, R. I., in 1778.
-He taught school there for over 40 years, was for a number of years
-president of the Town Council and held other positions of trust and
-honor. He was a man of public spirit and witnessed events of the earlier
-part of the Revolution. The Providence _Gazette_ states that “He was an
-honor to the country that gave him birth.”
-
-Col. Israel Angell of the Second Rhode Island regiment in the
-Continental Line, has this entry in his diary under date of March 17,
-1781: “Good weather. A great parade this day with the Irish, it being
-St. Patrick’s. I spent the day on the Point [West Point], and tarried
-with the officers.” This diary has been reproduced in printed form by
-Edward Field, secretary of the Providence, R. I., Record Commission.
-
-Alexander Black, an Irishman, was a resident of Providence, R. I., as
-early as 1762. He was a merchant and was associated in business with
-James Black, and later with Alexander Stewart. Alexander Black died in
-Providence, 1767. In a notice of his death, which appears in the
-Providence _Gazette_, he is declared to have been “A fast friend to the
-liberties of America, and studied to promote the public weal.”
-
-James Kavanagh, a native of County Wexford, Ireland, came to Boston,
-Mass., in 1780, during the Revolution, but settled at Damariscotta
-Mills, Me., and engaged in the lumber business. His son, Edward, became
-president of the State Senate of Maine, a member of Congress, United
-States charge d’affaires in Portugal, a commissioner to settle the
-northeastern boundary of Maine, and acting governor of Maine.
-
-Edmund Fanning, an Irishman, was a victim of the Cromwellian
-confiscation, and fled at the time of the surrender of Limerick, 1651,
-and settled in Groton, Conn. His uncle, Dominick Fanning of Limerick,
-was one of the 21 persons exempted from pardon by Ireton and was
-beheaded at that time. D. H. Fanning and Walter F. Brooks, Worcester,
-Mass., are descendants of Edmund Fanning, the Groton settler.
-
-Morgan Connor, a Pennsylvania soldier of the Revolution, was
-successively lieutenant, captain, major, and lieutenant-colonel
-commandant. He served in Col. Samuel Miles’ Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment;
-was wounded in the right wrist at Princeton; was called from camp by
-Congress in March, 1776, and sent South as brigade major for General
-Armstrong; was afterwards lieutenant-colonel of Hartley’s regiment.
-
-John Brown, a native of Ireland, came to this country about 1760. He
-settled in Virginia, in the Warm Spring Valley, and had a tract of 400
-acres. About 1778 he married Mary Donnelly. He commanded a company in
-the Revolution, and after the war was a justice for Bath County, Va.,
-sheriff and treasurer of the county, major of the Second Battalion of
-militia, and a member of the General Assembly of Virginia.
-
-Daniel Dulany, a native of Queens County, Ireland, was born in 1686. He
-was a cousin of Rev. Patrick Dulany, dean of Down. Daniel came to this
-country when quite young and settled in Maryland. He was admitted to the
-bar in 1710, became attorney-general of the province, judge of
-admiralty, commissary-general, agent and receiver-general, and
-councillor. He was in the public service of Maryland for nearly 40
-years.
-
-Edward Fox was born in Dublin, Ireland, 1752; came to this country,
-studied law and eventually settled in Philadelphia, Pa. He held various
-positions of prominence there; became secretary of the Bank of the
-United States, secretary of the American Fire Insurance Co., recorder of
-deeds for the county of Philadelphia, and treasurer of the University of
-Pennsylvania. One of his sons married a daughter of Gen. Stephen Moylan.
-
-Cortlandt Schuyler of Albany, N. Y., was captain in “a marching
-regiment” of the British Army. He married a handsome Irishwoman in
-Ireland, while stationed there, and brought her to Albany about 1763.
-Upon his death, she returned to Ireland with her children, “where it is
-said their desendants bearing the name Schuyler still live.” (Mrs.
-Grant’s _Memoirs of an American Lady_, quoted by Hon. Franklin M.
-Danaher of Albany.)
-
-In 1769–’70, Rev. Hezekiah Smith made a tour of South Carolina and
-Georgia in aid of Rhode Island College, now Brown University. He says in
-his diary of the tour: “Thursday, March 1, 1770, went to Malachi
-Murfee’s.” The list of those who subscribed in aid of the college, on
-this Southern trip, includes Edward Dempsey, Charles Reilly, Patrick
-Hinds, James Welsh, Hugh Dillon, John Boyd, Matthew Roach and Capt. John
-Canty.
-
-An officer who came with our French allies during the Revolution was
-Isidore de Lynch. He was at one period an aide-de-camp to the Chevalier
-de Chastellux. Referring to the return of the French to Boston after the
-surrender of the British at Yorktown, Count Segur speaks of “Isidore de
-Lynch, an intrepid Irishman, afterwards a General.” Lynch became
-commander of the Irish-French regiment of Walsh, and was decorated with
-the Cross of St. Louis.
-
-The Dutch records of Albany, N. Y., mention Jan Fyne, “van Waterfort in
-Irlandt.” His name likewise appears as Johannes Fine, which in English
-would probably be John Finn. He is believed to have been a soldier who
-was sent to Albany in 1690. He settled there and is later mentioned as a
-cooper. In 1696 he wedded Jopje Classe Van Slyck. His second wife, whom
-he married in 1699, was Alida, daughter of Jacob Janse Gardiner of
-Kinderhook.
-
-Watson H. Harwood, M. D., of Chasm Falls, N. Y., in a paper contributed
-to the _Register_ of the New England Historic, Genealogical Society,
-January, 1898, treats of the Clogstons of New Hampshire. He states that
-“The Clogston family is of Irish origin,” and that it came to New
-Hampshire sometime after 1718. Paul Clogston, a descendant of the
-immigrants, died of wounds received at Bunker Hill, 1775. The name is
-sometimes written Clogstone.
-
-Blair McClenachan, an Irishman by birth, settled in Philadelphia, Pa.,
-at an early age, and became the “largest importer in the city except
-Robert Morris”; was a patriot of the Revolution; subscribed, in 1780,
-£10,000 in aid of the army; was one of the original members of the First
-City Troop; a member of Congress, 1797–’99; was made commissioner of
-loans by President Jefferson. One of McClenachan’s daughters married
-Gen. Walter Stewart.
-
-One of the early settlers of Peterborough, N. H., was William McNee. He
-was born in Ireland, 1711, and before coming to this country married
-Mary E. Brownley. In an address delivered at Peterborough, some years
-ago, Hon. James F. Brennan of that town said that McNee’s “descendants
-have now reached the eighth generation, but unfortunately the name is
-entirely lost. The first and second generations retained the name, but
-the third changed it to Nay.”
-
-Michael Morgan O’Brien, a native of Ireland, became a West India
-merchant in Philadelphia, Pa., and was located there as early as 1780.
-He was a member of the First City Troop of Philadelphia, of the Friendly
-Sons of St. Patrick, the Hibernia Fire Company, and the Hibernian
-Society. He died in France, 1804. He bequeathed his books to the “Rt.
-Reverend Father in God, John Carroll, R. C., Bishop of Baltimore, as a
-testimony of the great respect and esteem I bear him.”
-
-A prominent man in his day was John Patton. He was born in Sligo,
-Ireland, 1745, settled in Philadelphia, Pa., and became a merchant
-there. A patriot of the Revolution, he was successively major and
-colonel of the Sixteenth Pennsylvania regiment, and rendered gallant
-service during the war. In 1780 he subscribed £1,000 in aid of the army.
-After the war he was an iron manufacturer, and at the time of his death,
-1804, was major-general of Pennsylvania state troops.
-
-Christopher Colles, a native of Ireland, was born in 1737. He came to
-this country and lectured on pneumatics, inland navigation, water supply
-for cities and similar topics. In 1775, he became an instructor in
-gunnery and was so employed in the American Continental Army until 1777.
-He memorialized the New York Legislature, in 1784, in favor of a canal
-from the Hudson River to Lake Ontario. He constructed and operated a
-telegraph, in 1812, at Fort Clinton.
-
-One of the victims of the Boston massacre, March 5, 1770, was Patrick
-Carr. On that date, British soldiers in Boston, Mass., fired on a
-gathering of the people, three of the latter being instantly killed and
-five dangerously wounded. Crispus Attucks, the leader of the gathering,
-was among the killed and Carr was mortally wounded. A granite monument
-stands on Boston Common to commemorate the victims of the British. High
-up on the shaft, among the others, appears the name of Patrick Carr.
-
-The _Mercury_ (Philadelphia) of Aug. 28, 1735, reported: “On Monday
-last, Capt. Blair arrived from Carick Fargus in Ireland with 168 Irish
-passengers and servants and on Monday evening before any of them landed
-one of them fell into the river and was drowned.” The next paper
-announced: “the body was found, the next tide carried up seven miles
-from the mouth of the Schuylkill.” (_American Catholic Historical
-Researches_, Philadelphia, Pa., Martin I. J. Griffin, editor.)
-
-From the records of the selectmen, Boston, Mass., Aug. 4, 1736: “Dennis
-Sullivant being present Informs, That he with his Wife are lately come
-into this Town from South Carolina by land; That he has been in Town
-about Five Weeks; That he first Lodg’d at the White Horse Two nights,
-and a Fortnight at Mrs. Snowdens and now lodges in Long lane, That he
-designs to return to England or Ireland, as soon as he can Conveniently
-Obtain a Passage for himself and his said Wife.”
-
-Gen. William Thompson of the Revolution was an Irishman by birth. He
-came to this country prior to the War for Independence; served during
-the French and Indian War; became captain of a troop of Light Horse; led
-a regiment, in 1775, to the American camp at Cambridge, Mass., and
-participated in the siege of Boston; had many sharpshooters in his
-command; was made brigadier-general in 1776; relieved General Lee in
-command of the American forces at New York; died in 1791.
-
-A veteran soldier of the Revolution was Patrick Leonard, who was born in
-Ireland, 1740. He came to this country and enlisted in the Patriot
-ranks; served in Proctor’s artillery and in the First Regiment,
-Pennsylvania Line. He saw much service and took part in the battles of
-Bunker Hill, Long Island, White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine,
-Germantown and Stony Point; also served, in 1791–’96, under Harmar, St.
-Clair and Wayne. He was residing, in 1817, at Cincinnati, Ohio.
-
-A native of County Westmeath, Ireland, John Shee, came to America
-between 1742 and 1745; became prominent in Philadelphia, Pa.; a patriot
-of the Revolution; commanded the Third Pennsylvania regiment; member of
-the Pennsylvania State Board of War; subscribed £1,000 in aid of the
-army; is referred to as “a man of excellent manners and good
-acquirements”; after the war, became a general of Pennsylvania state
-troops; collector of the port of Philadelphia; city treasurer of
-Philadelphia.
-
-A native of Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland, John Dunlap, was born in
-1747. He settled in Philadelphia, Pa.; became printer to Congress, and
-to the state of Pennsylvania; published the Philadelphia _Packet_; was
-cornet, lieutenant, and commander of the First City Troop; commanded the
-cavalry in the Whiskey Insurrection campaign. During the Revolution he
-subscribed £4,000 in aid of the Patriot army. He was at one time the
-owner of 98,000 acres in the South, in addition to real estate
-elsewhere.
-
-One of the earliest Irishmen in this country of whom we have record was
-Francis Maguire. Hon. Hugh Hastings, state historian of New York, writes
-that Maguire arrived at Jamestown, Va., with Capt. Christopher Newport,
-about 1607, remained in the country nearly a year, and returned to
-England with Newport. Maguire “wrote an account of his voyage to
-Virginia and submitted it to the Privy Council of Spain.” In one account
-he is described as an Irishman and a Roman Catholic.
-
-Teague Crehore was a resident of Milton or Dorchester, Mass., as early
-as 1640–’50. He is stated to have been stolen from his parents in
-Ireland when a child. He died in 1695, aged 55 years. This would show
-that he was born about 1640. He had a son Timothy, born in 1660, who
-died in 1739 and is buried in Milton, Mass. This Timothy had a son
-Timothy, grandson of Teague, who was born in 1689 and wedded Mary
-Driscoll of Dorchester, Mass., in 1712. He died in 1755 and is buried in
-Milton.
-
-Rev. Samuel Dorrance, an Irish Presbyterian clergyman, arrived in
-Voluntown, Conn., 1722, and was installed as pastor of the church there.
-His nationality caused some dissatisfaction, and the disgruntled members
-of the church drew up a petition for his removal. They were informed,
-they said, that “He came out of Ireland” and that since his coming “The
-Irish do flock into town.” (Larned’s _History of Windham County, Conn._,
-quoted by Rev. James H. O’Donnell in his _History of the Diocese of
-Hartford_.)
-
-The “poll list for the election of burgesses for the County of Prince
-William,” Virginia, 1731, contains many Irish names, including Darby
-Callahan, Edward Barry, John Mead, Thomas Conway, Samuel Conner, Michael
-Regan, James Curry, Owen Gilmore, John Murphey, William Hogan, Thomas
-Hicks, Michael Scanlon, John Madden, Dennis McCarty, Thomas Jordan,
-Richard Higgins, Thomas Welsh, etc. These and other names, constituting
-the entire list, are set forth in Boogher’s _Gleanings of Virginia
-History_.
-
-A gallant soldier of the Revolution, who has almost been forgotten, was
-John Haslett. He was born in Ireland, came to this country and located
-in Delaware; was for several terms a member of the State Assembly;
-participated in the battles of Long Island and White Plains. On one
-occasion, he surprised a British picket, took 36 prisoners, 60 muskets,
-and two pairs of colors; became colonel of a Delaware regiment and was
-killed at the battle of Princeton, 1777. His son, Joseph, became
-governor of Delaware.
-
-Among the many Irish names on the roster of the Commander-in-Chief’s
-Guard, during the Revolution, is that of Hugh Hagerty. He served in a
-Pennsylvania regiment of the Line, and was transferred at Valley
-Forge, March 19, 1778, to the Guard just mentioned. This organization
-is sometimes referred to as Washington’s “Life Guard,” and was
-composed of picked men. Hagerty participated in the battle of Monmouth
-and other engagements of the war. (Godfrey’s recent work on _The
-Commander-in-Chief’s Guard_.)
-
-The Dutch records of New York mention Jan Andriessen, “the Irishman.”
-Jan was at Beverwyck, now Albany, N. Y., as early as 1645. He is also
-referred to as “De Iersman van Dublingh.” His name in English was
-probably John Anderson. In 1649 he leased a “bouwerie” or farm. It is
-also known that he bought a farm and homestead of Peter Bronck at
-Coxsackie, N. Y. In one document his signature is thus attested: “This
-is the mark of Jan Andriessen, the Irishman, with his own hand set.” He
-died in 1664.
-
-William Hogen, also written Hogan, is heard from in Albany, N. Y., as
-early as 1692. The Dutch records state that he was from “Yrland in de
-Kings county.” At a mayor’s court held in Albany, May 14, 1700, he was
-deemed “convenient and fitt to be one of the fyre masters for ye Citty.”
-June 25, 1700, he was on a petit jury to try an action between two
-Dutchmen. He also served on a jury in 1703. In 1700 and 1704 he was
-elected an assessor. (Hon. Franklin M. Danaher in _Early Irish in Old
-Albany, N. Y._)
-
-James Butler came from Ireland, and is heard from at Lancaster, Mass.,
-1653. He became the largest landowner in what is now Worcester County,
-Mass. He also owned land in Dunstable, Woburn and Billerica, Mass. He
-died in 1681. His son, Deacon John Butler, was the first child of Irish
-parentage born in Woburn, and settled in Pelham, N. H., and lies buried
-there. (From a letter written to the American-Irish Historical Society
-by Henry A. May of Roslindale, Mass., a descendant of James Butler the
-immigrant.)
-
-A resident of Yarmouth, Mass., as early as 1645, was Teague Jones, who
-is stated to have been an Irishman. He was one of the men sent from the
-town, in the year just mentioned, against the Narragansett Indians. His
-period of service at the time was thirteen or fourteen days. In 1667,
-the selectmen of “the towne of Yarmouth returne the name of Teague Jones
-for not coming to meeting.” In a “rate” made in 1676 to defray the
-expenses of King Philip’s War, Teague was assessed £2 4s, as his share.
-He had a son, Jeremiah.
-
-A prominent resident of Albany, N. Y., during the Revolution, was Hugh
-Denniston, “a true Irishman.” For many years he conducted the only
-first-class hotel and tavern there. It was the first stone house erected
-in the place. Denniston was a sturdy patriot and his hotel was a meeting
-place for the liberty-loving citizens of Albany. Washington was a guest
-at the hotel on his visits to Albany in 1782 and 1783, and was there
-presented the freedom of the city.
-
-Charles MacCarthy was a founder of the town of East Greenwich, R. I.,
-1677. Like many surnames at that period, his is variously spelled in the
-records. Thus, it appears as Macarta, Macarte, Macarty, Mecarty,
-Mackarte, etc. In the year mentioned, he was one of a party of
-forty-eight settlers to whom a grant of 5,000 acres, to be called East
-Greenwich, was made by the General Assembly of Rhode Island. Later, the
-area of the town was enlarged by the addition of 35,000 acres on the
-western border. Charles’ will is dated Feb. 18, 1682.
-
-The twenty-six original members of the Charitable Irish Society, Boston,
-Mass., which organization was founded in 1737, were: Robert Duncan,
-Andrew Knox, Nathaniel Walsh, Joseph St. Lawrence, Daniel McFall, Edward
-Allen, William Drummond, William Freeland, Daniel Gibbs, John Noble,
-Adam Boyd, William Stewart, Daniel Neal, James Mayes, Samuel Moor,
-Philip Mortimer, James Egart, George Glen, Peter Pelham, John Little,
-Archibald Thomas, Edward Alderchurch, James Clark, John Clark, Thomas
-Bennett and Patrick Walker.
-
-Jasper Moylan was a native of the city of Cork, Ireland, and half
-brother of Gen. Stephen Moylan. He was educated in France, studied law,
-came to this country and attained eminence in his profession in
-Philadelphia, Pa. In addition to English, he had a splendid knowledge of
-the French and Spanish languages. He was a member of the First City
-Troop of Philadelphia. He and his brother John, and their half brother
-Stephen, were known in that city as “the three polite Irishmen,” owing
-to their elegant manners. Jasper died in 1812.
-
-Among Virginia officers in the Revolution were Maj. William Croghan,
-Capt. Ferdinand O’Neal, Capt. Patrick Carnes, Capt. John Fitzgerald,
-Capt. Andrew Nixon, Capt. William Barrett, Capt. John Jordan, Capt.
-Lawrence Butler, Capt. James Curry, Lieut. Joseph Conway, Lieut. Luke
-Cannon, Lieut. Peter Higgins, Lieut. William McGuire, Lieut. Lawrence
-Manning, Lieut. John Rooney, Lieut. Matthew Rhea, Ensign William Connor
-and others bearing Irish names. Some of these subsequently attained
-higher rank than that here given.
-
-Sharp Delany, born in County Monaghan, Ireland, established himself as a
-druggist in Philadelphia, Pa., about 1764. He was a patriot of the
-Revolution. In 1777, he was a commissioner “to seize the personal
-effects of traitors,” and in 1778, was an agent to look after “forfeited
-estates.” In 1779, he was colonel of the Second Pennsylvania regiment.
-He subscribed £1,000 in aid of the army in 1780; was collector of the
-port of Philadelphia; a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and
-occupied other honorable positions in life.
-
-John Hamilton, “an Irish servant-man,” was a Redemptioner or indentured
-servant who, in 1752, was held by Henry Caldwell of Chester County, Pa.
-Hamilton ran away that year and Caldwell advertised to recover him.
-Hamilton was then about twenty-two years of age. Caldwell offered a
-reward to “whoever takes up said servant, so that his master may have
-him again.” Mention of the incident is found in Karl Frederick Geiser’s
-recent work on _Redemptioners and Indentured Servants in the Colony and
-Commonwealth of Pennsylvania_.
-
-George Taylor, one of the Irish signers of the Declaration of
-Independence, was born in the Old Land, in 1716. He came to this country
-when twenty years of age. Having a good education, he advanced from the
-occupation of laborer in an iron foundry to the position of clerk;
-married his employer’s widow, and accumulated a generous fortune. He was
-a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly for five consecutive years. In
-1770, he was made a judge of the Northumberland County Court, Pa., and
-was elected to Congress in 1776.
-
-One of the first settlers of Waterford, Conn., was Thomas Butler. He and
-John Butler were there about 1681. Rev. James H. O’Donnell, now of
-Norwalk, Conn., says that the “name of Waterford was, no doubt, given to
-their new home in honor of the old, the beautiful city on the banks of
-the Suir,” in Ireland. He thinks it not unreasonable to infer that the
-founders of the Connecticut Waterford were Irish Catholics. Thomas
-Butler died in 1701, aged 59 years. John Butler died in 1733, aged 80
-years. Thomas was, therefore, born about 1642, and John about 1653.
-
-William Hibbins came from Ireland to Boston, Mass., on the _Mary and
-John_, about 1634. He married Mrs. Anne Moore, a widow, whose brother,
-Richard Bellingham, was governor of Massachusetts. Mr. Hibbins died in
-1654. His wife fell a victim to the witch-hunting fanatics of the period
-and was hanged by order of the Massachusetts authorities, in 1656. No
-jury could be found to convict her and she suffered death at the hands
-of the General Court. She bequeathed her property to her two sons, in
-County Cork, Ireland, John and Joseph Moore. (See Cullen’s _Story of the
-Irish in Boston_.)
-
-Molly Pitcher, “a young Irishwoman” having “a handsome, piercing eye,”
-was the wife of a cannoneer in the Patriot army during the Revolution.
-At the battle of Monmouth her husband was killed at his post, whereupon
-Molly, who was engaged bringing water from a spring, dropped her bucket,
-seized the rammer of the cannon and taking her husband’s place continued
-to serve the piece of artillery. The next morning she was presented by
-General Greene to Washington, who praised her heroism and made her a
-sergeant. She was placed upon the list of half-pay officers for life.
-
-Anthony Gulliver, a native of Ireland, was born in 1619. He died at
-Milton, Mass., 1706. His children were: Lydia, born 1651; Samuel, born
-1653; Jonathan, born 1659; Stephen, born 1663; John, born 1669;
-Elizabeth, born 1671; Nathaniel, born 1675. There were also two other
-children, Hannah and Mary. The children were all born in this country,
-Cullen’s _Story of the Irish in Boston_ states that “Anthony Gulliver
-was the ancestor of a large number of able and influential men and
-women, who have been prominent in the history of church and town affairs
-of Milton for nearly two hundred years.”
-
-From the _Calendar of Colonial State Papers_: “April 1st, 1653. Order of
-the Council of State. For a license to Sir John Clotworthy to transport
-to America 500 natural Irishmen.” On Oct. 3, 1655, it was ordered that
-“1000 Irish girls and the like number of boys of 14 years or under,” be
-sent to Jamaica, “the allowance to each one not to exceed 20 shillings.”
-May 22, 1656, an order was adopted “for the transportation of 1200 men
-from Knockfergus in Ireland and Port Patrick in Scotland to Jamaica.”
-(Quoted by Rev. James H. O’Donnell in his _History of the Diocese of
-Hartford_, Conn.)
-
-A Rhode Island soldier, Patrick Tracy, participated with Montgomery in
-the assault on Quebec. He was of the company of Capt. Simeon Thayer of
-Providence, R. I., and was killed in the assault just mentioned.
-Cornelius Hagerty and Corporal James Hayden of the company were wounded.
-In a work on this invasion of Canada, reference is made to John M.
-Taylor, “keen as an Irish greyhound,” who was Arnold’s purveyor and
-commissary in the wilderness. Mention is also made of Lieut. William
-Cross, “a handsome little Irishman, always neatly dressed,” who
-commanded, on the Isle of Orleans, a detachment of some twenty men.
-
-Among the land patents granted in New York under the English colonial
-government, was one to David Mooney, 1765. The tract was located in
-Washington County and comprised 2,000 acres. It was known as the Mooney
-patent. The Otsego patent, 100,000 acres, was granted to George Croghan
-and ninety-nine others, in 1769. Croghan is also mentioned in connection
-with other patents. Michael Byrne and others were granted the Stony Hill
-Tract, 18,000 acres, in 1768. It was located in Schoharie County. The
-Adaquataugie patent, 26,000 acres, in Otsego County, was granted in 1770
-to Sir William Johnson, an Irishman, and others.
-
-The rolls of the Third New York Regiment of the Line, during the
-Revolution, contain a large number of Irish names. They include Brady,
-Brannon, Burke, Burns, Butler, Condon, Connolly, Dempsey, Doherty, Dunn,
-Flynn, Garvey, Geraghty, Gillaspy, Hickey, Hogan, Kelly, Lyon, McCarty,
-McConnelly, McCord, McCormick, McCoy, McDermot, McGinnis, McGown,
-McGuire, Mackey, McLaughlin, McNeal, McQuin, Madden, Mahan, Moloy,
-Moore, Morris, Morrison, Mulholand, Murray, O’Connoley, Quigley, Riley,
-Ryan, Sullivan, Sweeny, Tobin, Wall, Welch and others. (Vide _New York
-in the Revolution_, by Comptroller James A. Roberts, Albany, 1898.)
-
-Among Irish names found in Connecticut at early periods may be mentioned
-Brian Rosseter, Windsor, 1639; Thomas Dunn, New Haven, 1647; Lawrence
-Ward, Branford, 1654; Thomas Welch, Milford, 1654; John Mead, Stamford,
-1656; Richard Hughes, New Haven, 1659; Edward Fanning, Mystic, 1662;
-Thomas Ford, Windsor, 1669; Richard Butler, Stratford, 1669; Hugh
-Griffin, Stratford, 1669; William Meade, New London, 1669; Thomas Sha
-(Shea), Sr., Stonington, 1669; Thomas Tracy, Norwich, 1669; Timothy
-Ford, New Haven, 1669; Jeremiah Blake, New London, 1681; James Kelly,
-New London, 1682; Owen McCarty, New London, 1693.
-
-Gen. Walter Stewart, a Pennsylvania officer of the Revolution, was born
-in Ireland, about 1756. He settled in Philadelphia, Pa., espoused the
-cause of the Patriots, and in 1776 was commissioned captain. He was made
-an aide-de-camp to General Gates the same year. In 1777, Stewart was
-commissioned colonel of the Pennsylvania State Regiment of Foot, took
-part in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown, and retired in 1786
-with the rank of brevet brigadier-general. In 1794, he was major-general
-of Pennsylvania state troops. General Washington was godfather to his
-eldest son. (Campbell’s _History of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick_,
-Philadelphia.)
-
-The Marquis de Chastellux in a tour through Connecticut, 1780, stopped
-at Litchfield. His host there was a Mr. Philips. The latter was, the
-Marquis tells us, “an Irishman transplanted to America, where he has
-already made a fortune; he appears to be a man skillful and adroit; he
-speaks with caution to strangers, and fears to compromise himself; for
-the rest he is of a gayer mood than the Americans, even a little of a
-joker, a kind but little known in America.” (From _Voyages de M. Le
-Marquis de Chastellux dans L’Amerique, Septentrionale les annees 1780,
-1781 and 1782_; quoted by Rev. James H. O’Donnell in his _History of the
-Diocese of Hartford_.)
-
-A prominent merchant in Philadelphia, Pa., at one period, was James
-Caldwell. He was a native of Ireland. He was a patriot of the
-Revolution, a member of the First City Troop, Philadelphia, and took
-part with it in the campaign of 1776–’77. Campbell’s _History of the
-Friendly Sons of St. Patrick_, Philadelphia, says that he was “one of
-the six volunteers of the Troop who accompanied Colonel Reed on December
-30, 1776, from Trenton to reconnoitre the advanced posts of the enemy,
-and who captured twelve British soldiers during that expedition.” In
-1780, Caldwell subscribed £2,000 to the bank that was organized to
-supply the Continental army with provisions.
-
-Rev. Mr. Lyons, an Irish clergyman of the Church of England, who was
-located in Derby, Conn., was subjected to great abuse there because of
-his nationality. Writing to London, May 8, 1744, he says: “As soon as
-they had advice of my appointment, and from what country I came, and,
-indeed, before I arrived among them, they abused me, calling me ‘an
-Irish Teague and Foreigner,’ with many other reflections of an
-uncivilized and unchristian kind. It would be too tedious to record all
-the abuse and insults I have received in Derby.” (_Church Documents of
-the Protestant Episcopal Church_, quoted by Rev. James H. O’Donnell in
-his _History of the Diocese of Hartford_.)
-
-Patrick Ward, a lieutenant, was one of the defenders of Fort Griswold,
-Conn., during the Revolution. The fort was attacked by the British
-during the raid conducted by Arnold, the traitor, and after a gallant
-resistance was captured by the enemy. The atrocities committed upon the
-surrendered and helpless garrison, by the British, constitutes one of
-the blackest chapters in the history of warfare. The event has ever
-since been known as the “Massacre of Fort Griswold.” Ward was one of the
-victims. On a stone over his grave was placed this inscription: “In
-memory of Mr. Patrick Ward who fell a victim to British cruelty in Fort
-Griswold, Sept. 6th, 1781, in the 25th year of his age.”
-
-Felt’s _Ecclesiastical History of New England_ mentions William Collins
-who, about 1640, accompanied a party of refugees from the West Indies to
-what is now New Haven, Conn. After a time these wayfarers dispersed “and
-some returned to Ireland.” Collins afterwards taught school at Hartford,
-Conn., and subsequently wedded a daughter of Anne Hutchinson who with
-her family had been banished from Boston, Mass., by the intolerant
-Boston church, because of her religious views. She took up her residence
-on the island of Rhode Island. Later, the family removed to territory
-under Dutch jurisdiction, where Mrs. Hutchinson, her son and her
-son-in-law (Collins) were killed by the Indians.
-
-An interesting tradition is told concerning George Berkeley, “the
-Kilkenny scholar,” Anglican dean of Derry, and later bishop of Cloyne.
-The tradition relates to his arrival at Newport, R. I., in 1729, and is
-thus narrated: “The captain of the ship in which he and his party sailed
-could not find the island of Bermuda, and having given up the search for
-it, steered northward until they discovered land unknown to them and
-supposed to be inhabited by savages. On making a signal, however, two
-men came on board from Block Island, in the character of pilots, who on
-inquiry informed them that the harbor of Newport was near.” The
-tradition may be founded on fact, but opinions vary concerning it.
-
-John Mease, born in County Tyrone, Ireland, became a shipping merchant
-in Philadelphia, Pa., and was a patriot of the Revolution. He was with
-the force that crossed the Delaware with Washington on the night of Dec.
-25, 1776, and surprised the Hessians at Trenton. On another occasion he
-was of a detail told-off to keep the fires along the American front
-burning while the patriots secretly moved in another direction to fall
-upon the British at Princeton. On one occasion during the war Mease
-subscribed £4,000 in aid of the Patriot cause. He was affectionately
-spoken of in his old age as “The last of the cocked hats,” on account of
-his continuing to wear the three-cornered hat of the Revolution.
-
-Count Arthur Dillon, commander of the Irish-French regiment of Dillon
-during the American Revolution, perished by the guillotine in Paris, a
-victim to the Terror. The regiment of Dillon formed part of the Irish
-brigade in the service of France, and was a most historic corps. It
-dated its organization back to the previous century. Count Dillon, above
-mentioned, came with his regiment to America with our French allies and
-rendered valiant service. He took part in the capture from the British
-of St. Eustache, Tobago and St. Christopher, participated in the attack
-on Savannah and in the siege and capture of Yorktown. He became a
-brigadier and marechal-de-camp, and, in 1792, was in command of a
-division in the French army.
-
-In 1743 there was born in Dublin, Ireland, a boy who was destined to
-take a prominent part in the American Revolution. He was Richard Butler.
-He came to this country, espoused the Patriot cause, and attained
-distinction as a soldier. His ability was early recognized by Congress
-and, 1776, he was appointed major. In 1777 he was commissioned colonel
-of the Fifth Pennsylvania; was an officer of Morgan’s Rifle Corps, and
-took part in the battles of Bemis’ Heights and Stillwater; was made
-colonel of the Ninth Pennsylvania; commanded the Americans at the
-storming of Stony Point; participated in the siege and capture of
-Yorktown. He attained the rank of major-general and was second in
-command of St. Clair’s army for operations against the Indians. He was
-killed in battle by an Indian, 1791.
-
-“Thomas the Irishman” is mentioned in the Dutch records of New York.
-Thus, Hon. Peter Stuyvesant, Director-General of New Netherland, writing
-to Capt. Martin Cregier, 1663, says: “Your letter by Thomas the Irishman
-has just been received.” ... On Aug. 5, 1663, Captain Cregier writes in
-his journal: “Thomas the Irishman arrived here at the Redoubt from the
-Manhatans.” On Sept. 1, 1663, Captain Cregier writes: “Thomas the
-Irishman and Claesje Hoorn arrived with their yachts at the Kill from
-the Manhatans,” and on the 17th of the same month the captain writes:
-“Thomas the Irishman arrived today.” The foregoing references may be
-found in _Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New
-York_, edited by Fernow, Vol. XIII, Albany, 1881.
-
-The first president of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, New York City,
-1784, was Daniel McCormick, a native of Ireland. He came to this country
-prior to the Revolution, and amassed a large fortune, was one of the
-first directors of the Bank of New York, and was associated with William
-Constable and Alexander Macomb, two Irishmen, in extensive land
-enterprises. Barrett’s _Old Merchants of New York_ states that “Mr.
-McCormick was a glorious example of the old New Yorker,” and “stuck to
-short breeches and white stockings and buckles to the last.” He was a
-great entertainer, “gave good dinner parties, and had choice old wines
-upon the table.” He is also mentioned “as one of the most polished
-gentlemen of the city.” He “was the last occupant of a first-class
-dwelling on Wall Street, since devoted wholly to business.”
-
-From the records of the selectmen, Boston, Mass., May 4, 1723: “Whereas
-great numbers of Persons haue [have] very lately bin Transported from
-Ireland into this Province, many of which by Reason of the Present
-Indian war and the Accedents befalling them, Are now Resident in this
-Town whose Circomstances and Condition are not known, Some of which if
-due care be not taken may become a Town Charge or be otherwise
-prejuditial to the wellfair & Prosperity of the Place, for Remady
-whereof Ordered That Every Person now Resident here, that hath within
-the Space of three years last past bin brought from Ireland, or for the
-future Shal come from thence hither, Shal come and enter his name and
-Occupation with the Town Clerk, and if marryed the number and Age of his
-Children and Servants, within the Space of fiue [five] dayes, on pain of
-forfeiting and paying the Sum of twenty Shillings for Each offence***.”
-
-Matthew Lyon, “the Hampden of Congress,” was born in County Wicklow,
-Ireland, 1750. He came to this country in 1765; located in Connecticut,
-and later in Vermont; participated with Ethan Allen in the capture of
-Ticonderoga from the British; became adjutant of Col. Seth Warner’s
-regiment; served under General Montgomery in the campaign against
-Canada, 1775; became paymaster, with the rank of captain, in Warner’s
-regiment; took part in the battles of Bennington and Saratoga; became
-commissary-general of militia, with the rank of colonel; was a member of
-the State Legislature and judge of Rutland County, Vt.; member of
-Congress from Vermont from 1797 to 1801; cast the vote that made Thomas
-Jefferson president of the United States; removed to Kentucky and
-represented that state in Congress from 1803 to 1811.
-
-Sarah W. Alexander, who wedded Christopher R. Perry of Rhode Island,
-became the mother of Oliver H. Perry—best known as Commodore Perry—who
-defeated the British in the naval battle on Lake Erie. She was a native
-of Newry, Ireland, and was born in 1768. Mackenzie, in his _Life of
-Commodore Perry_, just mentioned, says that her friends in Ireland “Had
-been involved in the Irish rebellion. She herself, had felt a lively
-interest in the cause of liberty, and had listened with deep interest to
-every account she had heard of battles and skirmishes in the
-neighborhood. She took a pleasure in recounting ... the achievements of
-her countrymen and always insisted that they were the bravest people in
-the world. These narratives fired the mind of Oliver and created a
-desire in him to pursue the profession of arms.” Oliver received much of
-his early education from “Old Master” Kelly, an Irish school teacher at
-Tower Hill, R. I.
-
-From the records of the selectmen, Boston, Mass., Aug. 16, 1736: “mr.
-James Wimble Informs That Capt. Benedict Arnold who just arrived from
-Cork with Passengers, came to his House yesterday, being Lord’s day in
-the afternoon, bringing with him the following Persons, Viz^t. Mr.
-Benj^a. Ellard, Gent, and his Wife and Three Children, and a Maid
-Servant, Joseph Atkins, John Clark, John Seley, Thomas Morgan, James
-Ellard, John Ellard, Benjamin Gillam, Elizabeth Ellard and William Neal.
-Accordingly the Master Capt. Arnold was sent for Who appear’d and gave
-Information, That he came from Ireland about Twelve Weeks ago, and that
-he is Bound to Philadelphia with his Passengers, Who in all, are one
-Hundred and Twenty, Hopes to Sail in a few days, as soon as he can
-Recruit with Water and Provisions, and Promises That the Passengers
-which came ashore Yesterdy shall repair aboard again to day, The Ships
-name is the Prudent Hannah.”
-
-Gen. William Irvine of the Revolution was born near Enniskellen, County
-Fermanagh, Ireland, 1741. He came to America in 1764, and settled at
-Carlisle, Pa. He espoused the patriot cause, raised and commanded the
-Sixth Pennsylvania regiment; commanded a brigade at the battle of
-Monmouth, and when Lee’s troops were retreating, they so impeded the
-advance of this gallant Irishman’s brigade that he threatened to charge
-through them before he could make his way to take an advanced position.
-Irvine was made a brigadier-general in May, 1779, and was assigned to
-the command of the Second brigade of the Pennsylvania Line; later he
-became a member of the State Council of Censors; member of the
-Continental Congress; senior major-general of Pennsylvania State troops;
-a presidential elector; in charge of United States military stores at
-Philadelphia. He was a member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick,
-Philadelphia. (_Vide_ Campbell’s _History of the Friendly Sons of St.
-Patrick_.)
-
-William Constable was born in Dublin, Ireland, 1752; a patriot of the
-Revolution; joined the Continental army as an aide to Lafayette;
-prominent as a merchant in Philadelphia, Pa.; married Ann White, a
-schoolmate of the wife of General Washington; removed to New York City
-in 1784; also very prominent there; associated in business with Robert
-Morris and Governeur Morris, the firm being known as Constable & Co.;
-engaged in huge land speculations, purchasing large tracts in New York,
-Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, and Georgia; bought in 1787, with Alexander
-Macomb, a tract of 640,000 acres in New York, Constable’s share being
-192,000 acres; in 1791, he and Alexander Macomb and Daniel McCormick
-purchased a tract, in New York, of some 4,000,000 acres, or about a
-tenth part of the whole state. This purchase comprised the “whole of the
-present counties of Lewis, Jefferson, St. Lawrence and Franklin, with
-parts of Oswego and Herkimer.” On one occasion, about 1797, Constable
-lent $1,000 to the fugitive Duke of Orleans in this country, which loan
-was afterwards repaid by Louis Philippe. Constable was a member of the
-Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, Philadelphia, and of the Hibernian Society
-of that city. He was president of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, New
-York City, in 1789–’90 and in 1795.
-
-
-
-
- MEMOIR OF MATHEW CAREY.
-
- BY HENRY CAREY BAIRD.[14]
-
-
-Mathew Carey, the Philadelphia publisher, was born in the city of
-Dublin, Ireland, on the 28th of January, 1760. His father, Christopher
-Carey, at one time in the British navy, was subsequently an extensive
-contractor for the army, through which means he achieved an
-independence.
-
-The son early evinced a passion for the acquisition of knowledge, and in
-addition to some familiarity with Latin, soon became proficient in
-French, without the assistance of a master. To do this, however, he
-studied as much as fifteen or sixteen hours a day, hardly allowing
-himself time for his meals. The peculiar orthography of his Christian
-name as rendered by himself, “Mathew,” and not “Matthew,” was the result
-of a philological discussion with one of his brothers, when quite a
-young man, and his then arriving at a belief that from its derivation
-this was the correct mode of spelling it.
-
-When about fifteen years of age it became necessary for Mathew to choose
-a trade. He was decidedly in favor of that of printer and bookseller,
-which were then generally united. His father had a strong aversion to
-the trade, and refused to look out a master for him, which he did for
-himself, and he was accordingly apprenticed to a printer and bookseller
-of the name of McDonnel. A lameness which took place owing to the
-carelessness of his nurse when he was about a year old, and which
-continued throughout life, was a constant drawback to him, and
-interfered greatly with him in his career.
-
-His first essay as a writer was when he was about seventeen years old,
-and was on the subject of dueling, which he condemned with great
-severity—the occasion being the attempt of a bookseller in Dublin to
-bring about a duel between an apprentice of his own and one of
-McDonnel’s. As will be seen, however, after he came to the United
-States, Mr. Carey was himself a principal, and was wounded in a duel.
-
-His next attempt at authorship was one which involved most serious
-consequences to himself, and drove him into exile. Having directed his
-attention to the oppressions under which the Irish Catholics stood, and
-having read every book and pamphlet on the subject which he could
-procure, and with his mind filled with their sufferings, and his
-indignation aroused, he, in 1779, wrote a pamphlet entitled _The Urgent
-Necessity of an Immediate Repeal of the whole Penal Code against the
-Roman Catholics, Candidly Considered; to which is added an inquiry into
-the prejudices against them; being an appeal to the Roman Catholics of
-Ireland, exciting them to a just sense of their civil and religious
-rights as citizens of a free nation_.
-
-When nearly ready it was advertised for publication in a few days, with
-the title page and its mottoes, and the attention of the public was
-called to it by an address, couched in very strong language, and wherein
-reference was made to the fact that “America by a desperate effort has
-nearly emancipated herself from slavery.” It excited considerable alarm.
-Parliament was then in session, and the advertisement was brought before
-both houses. The publication was denounced by an association of Roman
-Catholics, which, as Mr. Carey has asserted, “partook of the general
-depression and servile spirit, which a long course of oppression
-uniformly produces.”
-
-This association offered a reward for the apprehension of the author,
-and engaged lawyers to carry on the prosecution in case of discovery.
-The authorship having become known to Mr. Carey’s father, was to him a
-cause of great alarm, and efforts were made to appease the wrath of the
-committee, and induce them to abandon the prosecution by an offer to
-destroy the entire edition. This was of no avail, and after being
-concealed for some days, Mr. Carey got on board of a Holyhead packet and
-proceeded to Paris.
-
-He carried with him a letter of introduction to a Catholic priest, by
-whom he was introduced to Dr. Franklin, then the American Minister to
-the French Court, and who had a small printing office at Passy for the
-purpose of printing his dispatches from America. In this office Mr.
-Carey was employed while this work lasted. Afterwards he found a
-position with the celebrated publisher, Didot, who was then printing
-some English books. While at Passy he made the acquaintance of the
-Marquis de Lafayette—whose friendship at a subsequent period became one
-of the most controlling influences of his future career.
-
-In about twelve months he returned to Dublin, and the remainder of his
-apprenticeship having been purchased from McDonnel, he engaged for a
-time as the conductor of a paper called the _Freeman’s Journal_.
-Finally, on the 13th of October, 1783, his father furnished him with the
-means to establish a new paper called the _Volunteers’ Journal_. For
-this work, he says, he was “miserably qualified,” although he had “a
-superabundance of zeal and ardor, and a tolerable knack and facility of
-scribbling.” He adds: “The paper, as might have been expected, partook
-largely of the character of its proprietor and editor. Its career was
-enthusiastic and violent. It suited the temper of the times, exercised a
-decided influence on public opinion; and, in very short time, had a
-greater circulation than any other paper in Dublin, except the _Evening
-Post_, which had the great merit of calling into existence that glorious
-band of brothers, the Volunteers of Ireland, whose zeal and determined
-resolution to assert and defend the rights of country, struck terror
-into the British cabinet, and forced the ministry to knock off chains
-that had bound down the nation for centuries.”
-
-“_The Volunteers’ Journal_, fanning the flame of patriotism which
-pervaded the land,” says Mr. Carey, “excited the indignation of the
-government, which formed a determination to put it down, if possible. A
-prosecution had for a considerable time been contemplated—and, at
-length, the storm which had so long threatened, burst, in consequence of
-a publication which appeared on the 5th of April, 1784, in which the
-Parliament in general, and more particularly the Premier, were severely
-attacked.”
-
-Accordingly, on the 7th of the same month, a motion was made in the
-Irish House of Commons, for an address to the Lord Lieutenant,
-requesting the apprehension of Mathew Carey. He was arrested on the
-11th, and on the 19th was taken before the House of Commons, when
-certain interrogatories were put to him, which he positively refused to
-answer, on the ground that he was arrested by the civil power, and being
-under prosecution for the supposed libel of the Premier, he was not
-amenable to another tribunal. He preferred charges against the
-Sergeant-at-Arms in whose custody he was. An exciting debate arose; the
-Sergeant-at-Arms was justified by a large majority, and Mr. Carey was
-committed to Newgate jail, Dublin, where he remained until the 14th of
-May, when Parliament having adjourned, he was liberated by the Lord
-Mayor. “During my stay there,” says Mr. Carey, “I had lived
-joyously—companies of gentlemen occasionally dining with me on the
-choicest luxuries the markets afforded.”
-
-Although thus freed from the clutches of Parliament, the criminal
-prosecution for libel of the Premier still stood suspended over his
-head. In the then inflamed state of the public mind it would have been
-impossible to procure a grand jury to find a true bill against him; but
-the attorney-general filed a bill _ex-officio_ which dispensed with the
-interposition of the grand jury. Mr. Carey’s means were, in a great
-measure, exhausted; and, dreading the consequences of the prosecution
-and a heavy fine and imprisonment, his friends thought it best for him
-to leave his native country; and, “accordingly, on the 7th of September,
-1784,” he says, “when I had not reached my 25th year, my pen drove me a
-second time into exile.” He embarked on board the _America_, Captain
-Keiler, and landed in Philadelphia on the 1st of November. He was
-induced to select Philadelphia as his new home for the reason that he
-had seen notices of his examination before the Irish House of Commons in
-two Philadelphia papers. There his case was therefore known, and would
-probably make him friends.
-
-He had sold out his paper to his brother for £500, to be remitted as
-soon as practicable, and he landed in Philadelphia with about a dozen
-guineas in his pocket, without a relation or a friend, or even an
-acquaintance, except those of the _America_. A most unlooked for
-circumstance soon occurred which gave a new direction to his views and
-changed the course of his future life. A fellow passenger of his had
-brought letters of recommendation to General Washington, and having gone
-to Mount Vernon to deliver them, he there met the Marquis de Lafayette.
-
-The conversation turning upon the affairs of Ireland, the Marquis said
-he had seen in the Philadelphia papers an account of Mr. Carey’s
-troubles with the Parliament, and inquired what had become of the poor
-persecuted Dublin printer, when he was informed that he was then in
-Philadelphia. On the arrival of the Marquis in that city, he wrote to
-Mr. Carey requesting him to call upon him. Mr. Carey then told him that
-upon receipt of funds from home he proposed to establish a newspaper in
-Philadelphia. Of this the Marquis approved, and promised to recommend
-him to his friend, Robert Morris, and others. The next morning Mr. Carey
-was greatly surprised at receiving a letter from the Marquis containing
-$400. “This was the more extraordinary and liberal,” says Mr. Carey, “as
-not a word had passed between us on the subject of giving or receiving,
-borrowing or lending money.”
-
-Nor was there a word in the letter about the inclosure. Mr. Carey went
-to the lodgings of the Marquis, but found that he had left the city. He
-wrote to him at New York expressing his gratitude in the strongest of
-terms, and received a kind and friendly answer. “I have more than once
-assumed, and I now repeat,” says Mr. Carey, “that I doubt whether in the
-whole life of this (I had almost said) unparalleled man, there is to be
-found anything which, all the circumstances of the case considered, more
-highly elevates his character.”
-
-Although this sum was in every sense of the word a gift, Mr. Carey
-always considered it as a loan, payable to the Marquis’ countrymen,
-according to the exalted sentiment of Dr. Franklin, who, when he gave a
-bill for ten pounds to an Irish clergymen in distress in Paris, told him
-to “pay the sum to any Americans he might find in distress, and thus
-_let good offices go round_.” Mr. Carey paid the debt in full to
-Frenchmen in want, and subsequently in addition discharged it to the
-Marquis; the latter only accepting it upon the urgent solicitation of
-the former.
-
-On receiving this money, Mr. Carey at once issued proposals for the
-publication of the _Pennsylvania Evening Herald_, and the first number
-was accordingly published January 25, 1785. He received but £50 from the
-sale of the _Volunteers’ Journal_, in Dublin, his brother having been
-ruined partly by the persecutions of the government, and partly by the
-establishment of an opposition paper of the same name under government
-patronage. The success of the _Evening Herald_ was not very great, and
-the means of the publisher being small, on the 25th of March he took two
-partners, and enlarged the paper. It, however, made but poor progress
-until Mr. Carey, in August following, commenced the publication of the
-Debates in the House of Assembly, a great novelty and innovation which
-gave the _Herald_ an advantage over all its contemporaries.
-
-Party feeling in Pennsylvania ran very high at the time, and in the
-course of a political controversy, he became involved in a quarrel with
-Col. Eleazer Oswald, who had been an officer of artillery during the
-Revolutionary War; and this difficulty resulted in a duel which took
-place in January, 1786, in New Jersey, opposite to Philadelphia, in
-which Mr. Carey was wounded in the thigh, from the effects of which he
-did not entirely recover for many months. He, subsequently to the duel,
-greatly disgusted his second and others, by performing, as he says, “a
-gratuitous act of justice, which was probably one of the best acts of my
-life”—that of publishing a card retracting the charges he had made
-against Colonel Oswald.
-
-In October, 1786, in partnership with five others, he commenced the
-publication of the _Columbian Magazine_, to the first number of which he
-contributed four pieces, one of which, “A Philosophical Dream,” was an
-anticipation of the state of the country in 1850, in which, strange as
-these predictions must have seemed at the time, are now quite remarkable
-in their realization. In December, 1786, owing to the difficulty of
-realizing profits from so many partners and other causes, he withdrew.
-In January, 1787, he issued the first number of the _American Museum_, a
-magazine intended to preserve the fugitive essays that appeared in the
-newspapers. This publication, sets of which, in 12 volumes, 8vo, now
-exist in a number of public and private libraries, is one of great
-value, and presents a graphic and truthful record of the times. It was
-issued for six years, and brought to a close in December, 1792, after a
-hard struggle for life.
-
-About this time he married Miss Bridget Flahavan, the daughter of a
-highly respectable citizen of Philadelphia who had been ruined by the
-Revolution. Mr. Carey’s wife was an industrious, prudent, economical
-woman, with, as he says, a large fund of good sense, but, equally with
-himself, without means. The match was, as he acknowledges, imprudent;
-but he and his wife determined to indulge in no unnecessary expense, and
-they carried out this resolution faithfully, even when he was doing a
-business of $40,000 to $50,000 per annum, and with the happiest results.
-
-When he relinquished the _American Museum_, he commenced bookselling and
-printing on a small scale. His store, or rather shop, was of very
-moderate dimensions; but, small as it was, he had not full-bound books
-enough to fill the shelves—a considerable portion of them being filled
-with spelling books. He procured a credit at bank, which enabled him to
-extend his business; and by care, indefatigable industry, the most rigid
-punctuality and frugality, he gradually advanced in the world. For
-twenty-five years, winter and summer, he was always present at the
-opening of his store.
-
-In 1793 he was a member of the Committee of Health, appointed for the
-relief of the sick by yellow fever, and of the orphans made such by it.
-The duties of this position were faithfully and calmly fulfilled, “and
-his whole life,” says Prof. R. E. Thompson, “corresponded to the promise
-of that year.” He subsequently wrote a full account of this epidemic, of
-which four editions were published. Stephen Girard, who was one of the
-members of this committee, as Mr. Carey says, “to the inexpressible
-delight” of the members, volunteered his services, and became
-superintendent of the yellow fever hospital on Bush Hill.
-
-In 1792, or ’93, feeling for the sufferings and wretchedness of the
-numerous Irish immigrants who arrived in Philadelphia, he called a
-meeting, at the Coffee House, of a number of the most influential and
-prominent Irishmen, and submitted to the meeting a constitution, which
-he had prepared, and which was adopted, and thus was formed “The
-Hibernian Society for the Relief of Emigrants from Ireland.” This
-society exists at the present day in a highly flourishing condition. In
-1796 he zealously engaged with a few other citizens in the formation of
-a Sunday-school Society, of which Bishop White became president.
-
-Between 1796 and ’98 he became involved in a very acrimonious
-controversy with William Cobbett, which was not of his seeking, but
-which he conducted with unflinching courage and ability. In addition to
-a considerable correspondence between them, the war became one of
-pamphlets and newspapers—Cobbett using his _Porcupine Gazette_. Mr.
-Carey issued a pamphlet entitled _A Plum Pudding for Peter Porcupine_,
-in which he says he “handled him with great severity.” He next published
-_The Porcupiniad, a Hudibrastic Poem_, in which he turned some of
-Cobbett’s own paragraphs into Hudibrastic verse, and “it is wonderful,”
-he says, “how smoothly they ran, in many instances, with the alteration
-of a single word or two.” Cobbett made no reply, and never after had Mr.
-Carey’s name in his paper but once or twice incidentally. This ended the
-controversy, and subsequently they became very good friends.
-
-His publishing business was pushed with wonderful energy, and for those
-days on a grand scale. He has stated that for many years he was involved
-in such financial difficulties and embarrassments that he was “oppressed
-and brought to the verge of bankruptcy,” which “nothing but the most
-untiring efforts and indefatigable industry and energy could have
-enabled me to wade through.” These difficulties were brought about, he
-says, by his own folly in over-trading. A few figures in regard to his
-publications will give an idea how these difficulties arose. For
-instance, he printed 2,500 copies of _Guthrie’s Geography_, 4to, with a
-folio atlas of 40 or 50 maps, price, $12; 3,000 _Goldsmith’s Animated
-Nature_, 4 volumes, 8vo, illustrated with a large number of plates,
-price $10. In 1801 he published 3,000 copies of a 4to edition of the
-Bible, with additional references, for which he paid an editor $1,000.
-This book was prepared by the collation of eighteen different editions
-of the Bible, in which the most extraordinary number of discrepancies
-were detected. Soon after the publication of this edition, the success
-of which was very great, he embarked in the preparation of a standing
-edition of the 4to Bible. Stereotyping had not been invented, and for
-this volume he purchased the entire type which was kept permanently
-standing. About this time he purchased, for $7,000, a school Bible, and
-also a large house in Market Street, in which he lived for many years.
-In 1802 he was elected by the Senate of Pennsylvania a director in the
-Bank of Pennsylvania, which added greatly to his financial resources.
-
-In 1801, induced by the advantages to literature which had resulted from
-the fairs of Frankfort and Leipsic, he formed the project of
-establishing a literary fair in this country, to meet alternately at New
-York and Philadelphia. He accordingly issued a circular dated December,
-1801, inviting all publishers and booksellers to meet in New York on the
-1st of June, 1802, for the purpose of buying, selling and exchanging
-their publications. He wrote out a constitution, which was adopted, and
-a society formed with Hugh Gaine, the oldest bookseller in the United
-States, as president. The plan worked well for a year or two, but it was
-found that country booksellers published inferior editions of popular
-works, with which, by means of exchanges, they flooded the country. It
-was therefore abandoned.
-
-In 1806, being then a member of the Select Council of the City of
-Philadelphia, he united with Stephen Girard and others to relieve real
-estate of a portion of its taxes, by transferring it to personal
-property, when he published a pamphlet on examination of the existing
-system of taxation in that city, but with no results. In 1810, when the
-question of the renewal of the charter of the Bank of the United States,
-which was to expire on the following March, came up, he took an active
-and earnest part in its favor, neglecting his business for three months,
-and publishing a series of essays on the subject. Nearly all the
-Democrats of the city were opposed to this, and he made himself hosts of
-enemies by his course.
-
-The publication of _The Olive Branch_, which was made at a critical
-period in the history of the country, proved to be one of the most
-successful books up to that time ever issued from the American press,
-and he regarded its preparation as one of the most important events in
-his life. The War of 1812–’15, between the United States and Great
-Britain, had developed such an acrimonious state of feeling between
-parties in the country, as to appear to forebode civil war. In
-September, 1814, Mr. Carey, in a “moment of ardent zeal and enthusiasm,
-was seized with a desire to make an effort by a candid publication of
-the numerous errors and follies on both sides to allay the public
-effervescence, and calm the embittered feelings of the parties.”
-
-Hence, he began the preparation of _The Olive Branch_, September 18, and
-the book was through the press November 6th, and was published on the
-8th. It was a volume of 252 pages, 12mo. The edition of 500 copies was
-sold within a few weeks, and it was revised and enlarged from time to
-time, and in three and a half years ten editions were sold, amounting to
-10,000 copies. “A greater sale probably,” as he has said, “than any book
-ever had in this country, except some religious ones,” up to that time.
-He gave permission to several parties to print the book, without payment
-of copyright, and editions were printed at Boston, Mass., Middlebury,
-Vt., and Winchester, Va.
-
-In 1818 he set laboriously and seriously to work to prepare a
-vindication of Ireland. Accordingly, in the following year, he published
-_Vindiciæ Hibernicæ; or, Ireland Vindicated_, of which a second edition
-was published in 1823. This is a large 8vo volume involving great
-research.
-
-Early in 1819, struck with the prevailing condition of the United
-States, he commenced writing on political economy, investigating the
-causes, and pointing out the necessity for protecting our industries
-against foreign competition. Few men ever enlisted in any public cause
-with more enthusiasm, few ever worked with more energy and industry in
-such a cause. He was one of the founders of the Philadelphia Society for
-the Promotion of National Industry; he attended conventions in various
-parts of the country, and he made more extensive contributions to the
-literature of the subject than any other man had then done on this
-continent.
-
-Some idea may be formed of the extent of this work when it is stated
-that between 1819 and 1833 his books and pamphlets on this question
-reached an aggregate of 2,322 pages. To no other man, not in public
-life, was the first protective tariff of 1824, as well as that more
-protective one of 1828, due. These were results which would have exerted
-a permanent influence on the country but for the nullification movement
-of South Carolina and Georgia.
-
-This latter movement produced Clay’s Compromise Tariff Act of 1833,
-which was only abandoned in 1842 in the midst of a bankruptcy so
-widespread and universal that it involved not merely individuals and
-banks and other corporations, but state governments, and even the
-government of the United States itself. Mr. Carey was much discouraged
-by the illiberal conduct of manufacturers and others who had much at
-stake in the cause, and he ever after believed that to this illiberality
-and supineness was due the triumph of nullification, for it did triumph
-in the enactment of the Compromise Tariff, Act of 1833.
-
-However, amid these discouragements, he derived some consolation from a
-recognition of his services by a portion of his fellow countrymen. In
-1821 he was presented by citizens of Wilmington, Del., with a handsome
-piece of silver plate bearing the following inscription: “A tribute of
-gratitude to Mathew Carey, Esq., in approbation of his writings on
-political economy; presented by some friends of National Industry, in
-Wilmington, Del., and its vicinity, April, 1821.” In 1834 he was
-presented with a service of plate by citizens of Philadelphia and
-others, “as a testimonial of their respect for his public conduct and
-their esteem for his private virtues”; who deemed his “whole career in
-life an encouraging example, by the imitation of which, without the aid
-of official station or political power, every private citizen may become
-a public benefactor.” Sometime previously he received two silver
-pitchers from other citizens of Philadelphia.
-
-In 1824 he was instrumental in reviving and carrying through the project
-for the construction of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, which had
-lain dormant from 1805. This undertaking involved weeks of labor, and of
-personal solicitations for subscriptions.
-
-In 1825 he retired permanently from business on a well-earned
-competency, and the remaining years of his life were devoted to public
-and philanthropic work, with an energy that never tired. Among his
-correspondents were Washington, Franklin, Lafayette, Hamilton, John
-Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Henry Clay, and hosts of others in public and
-private life, during a period covering more than half a century. His
-writings, a tolerably complete set of which is in possession of The
-Library Company of Philadelphia, make nine large 8vo volumes.
-
-He died in the city of Philadelphia on the 16th of September, 1839, in
-the eightieth year of his age, universally respected, and his death was
-mourned as a public loss. His remains were followed to the grave by
-thousands of his fellow citizens. A venerable and distinguished
-journalist, who had known him long and well, announced his death in the
-following terms: “The friend of mankind is no more. Long and sincerely
-will he be lamented, not in high places only, amid the pomp and
-circumstance of grief, but in the solitary corner of the poor and the
-friendless. Upon his grave honest tears will be shed. The orphan and the
-widow will wander there, and, in the heart’s deepest accents, implore
-the blessings of Heaven upon his departed soul.”
-
-He was buried in St. Mary’s churchyard, Fourth Street, above Spruce,
-Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Carey had nine children, three of whom died
-young. The remaining six were:
-
-Maria, who died unmarried.
-
-Henry Charles, who married, but died without issue.
-
-Eliza Catharine, who married Thomas James Baird, a graduate of West
-Point, who was lieutenant of artillery in the War of 1812.
-
-Susan M., who died unmarried.
-
-Frances A., who married Isaac Lea.
-
-Edward L., who died unmarried.
-
-Mathew Carey’s will mentions his sister, Margaret Burke, and his
-deceased brother, John Carey. In Father Finotti’s work on Catholic
-American Bibliography is given a list, somewhat incomplete, of Mathew
-Carey’s works.
-
-
-
-
- REVIEW OF THE YEAR.
- LEADING EVENTS IN THE CAREER OF THE SOCIETY, FOR 1905, OR OF SPECIAL
- INTEREST TO THE MEMBERS.
-
-
- Jan. 2. Among the mayors inaugurated in Massachusetts cities today
- were the following: Hon. Augustine J. Daly, Cambridge;
- Hon. James B. Casey, Lowell; Hon. Cornelius B. Lynch,
- Lawrence; Hon. John T. Coughlin, Fall River; Hon. M. F.
- Dwyer, Medford; Hon. Lawrence P. Reade, Woburn; and Hon.
- T. M. Connor, Northampton.
-
- Jan. 2. The following mayors, among others, were inaugurated in
- Rhode Island cities today: Hon. Patrick J. Boyle, Newport;
- Hon. James H. Higgins, Pawtucket; and Hon. Thomas H.
- McNally, Central Falls.
-
- Jan. 12. A meeting of the Council of the Society is held at the Hotel
- Manhattan, 42d Street and Madison Avenue, New York City.
-
- Jan. 12. Thomas D. O’Brien, St. Paul, Minn., is today appointed
- insurance commissioner of Minnesota by Governor Johnson.
-
- Jan. 16. Hon. Thomas H. Carter, a member of the Society, is today
- again elected United States senator from Montana.
-
- Jan. 24. The annual meeting and dinner of the Society takes place at
- the Hotel Manhattan, New York City.
-
- Jan. 24. Died today in Dorchester (Boston), Mass., Mary, the widow
- of Thomas O’Neil, a veteran of the Mexican and Civil
- wars. In view of the death of his widow, a few words
- regarding O’Neil will be of interest. He served bravely
- in the Mexican War, during which he distinguished
- himself by saving Franklin Pierce, afterwards president
- of the United States. Pierce was badly wounded, when
- O’Neil rescued him and taking him on his own horse,
- dashed away with him to a place of safety. In the home
- of Mrs. McFarlane, her daughter, where Mrs. O’Neil spent
- the latter part of her life, are two interesting
- testimonials of the bravery of O’Neil during the war.
- One is a Bible, the gift of President Pierce, with this
- inscription: “For the children of Sergeant Thomas
- O’Neil, who was in my military family during the war
- with Mexico, and by his courage and fidelity earning my
- confidence and affectionate regard. Franklin Pierce.
- Washington, D. C., May 22, 1853.” The other is a
- beautiful silk Mexican flag, finely worked and colored,
- which O’Neil captured. It was made in a convent. It now
- hangs over his portrait in the parlor. O’Neil promptly
- responded to Lincoln’s call for volunteers when the
- Civil War broke out. He received the distinction of
- being offered in one day two commissions, one from
- Governor Andrew of Massachusetts, as captain, and one
- from New York. He accepted the latter and as captain
- recruited and went to the front with a regiment which
- afterwards became part of Meagher’s Irish brigade. For
- his distinguished services on the field of battle he was
- promoted to the rank of major. He resigned in 1862, with
- the intention of returning to Boston to raise another
- company for the war, but a few days afterwards fell from
- his horse and died of his injuries.
-
- Jan. 28. Dr. Patrick J. McGrath, a member of a prominent family
- in Dublin, Ireland, died today at Bellevue Hospital,
- New York. He sailed on one of the Peary expeditions to
- the Polar regions, as medical adviser; enlisted in a
- volunteer regiment during the war with Spain, and also
- served throughout the Philippine campaign. Shortly
- before his death he had received from Washington, D.
- C., an appointment as surgeon in the canal zone in
- Panama.
-
- Jan. 28. The _Irish-American_, New York City, of this date, has the
- following: “President Roosevelt in sending some details of
- his Irish pedigree to the American-Irish Historical
- Society ... has made known some information not generally
- current, though often desired. To his credit be it said,
- that he always was proud of his Irish blood, and from the
- very outset of his public career, years ago, vaunted it as
- one of his most cherished possessions. He has been
- following this up by the nomination to public office of
- candidates with decidedly Hibernian patronymics. W. D.
- Murphy of this city, it is said, is to be the new
- Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and a diplomat named
- O’Brien, from the Northwest, is to be sent as Minister to
- Denmark. ‘Think of old Brian, war’s mighty lion,’ who
- smote the Danes at Clontarf and drove them into the sea,
- looking down from his celestial mansion above and seeing
- one of his descendants made ambassador to his old enemies
- from the greatest nation of the world, a nation to the
- prosperity and prestige of which his countrymen have
- contributed so much! Mr. Roosevelt in his genealogical
- list included the O’Briens. He must have had some idea of
- the poetical and historical retributions of the case when
- he thought of one of the great Munster families for the
- Republic’s representative to Denmark.”
-
- Jan. 30. Hon. Anthony M. Keiley, formerly chief justice of the
- International Court of Appeals at Cairo, Egypt, died on
- or about this date in France. He was a native of New
- Jersey and was about 69 years old. He was educated at
- the Randolph-Macon College in Virginia. After graduation
- he founded the _Norfolk Virginian_ and was also editor
- of the Petersburg _Index and News_. He first became
- prominent in the politics of Virginia in the campaign
- of 1881, when he was chairman of the Democratic state
- committee. He was also mayor of Richmond for one term
- and then became city attorney. It was while holding this
- office, in 1885, that he attracted the attention of
- President Cleveland, who appointed him minister to Italy
- to succeed William Waldorf Astor. The Italian government
- objected, however, to the appointment and it was
- cancelled. The president then appointed Mr. Keiley
- minister to Austria, but the government of that country
- also declared him _persona non grata_ on the ground that
- he held ultramontane views, which were offensive to a
- friendly government. This objection was not well received
- either in official circles here or among a large and
- influential class in Austria. The Austrian government
- then raised other objections. Secretary of State Bayard
- addressed a note to the Austrian government in which he
- spoke plainly on the unreasonableness of race and
- religious distinctions. He said that the appointment would
- be allowed to stand even though it resulted in a rupture
- of diplomatic relations between Austria and the United
- States. Mr. Keiley, however, saved the administration from
- further embarrassment by resigning. Afterward, President
- Cleveland appointed him to the International Court at
- Cairo, of which he became chief justice. His wife died in
- 1902, and he was so greatly distressed over her loss that
- he resigned from the court and sought relief in travel.
- Mr. Keiley served twelve years as president of the Irish
- Catholic Benevolent Union.
-
- Feb. 3. John C. Foley, a veteran of the Civil War, died today in
- Charleston, S. C., while on a business tour. His residence
- for some years past had been in New Orleans, La. He
- belonged to an old and widely respected Irish family
- favorably known in Kilkenny and Tipperary, members of
- which emigrated to this country in the early fifties and
- settled in South Brooklyn, N. Y., where some of them still
- reside. On the breaking out of the Civil War the deceased
- joined the Eighty-eighth Regiment, New York Volunteers, of
- Meagher’s Brigade, in which he was commissioned as first
- lieutenant in the company of which the late Maj. P. K.
- Horgan was then captain. He served with his command
- through all the engagements in which it participated, down
- to Burnside’s disastrous assault on the fortified lines of
- the Confederates at Fredericksburg, in which the Irish
- brigade, in the assault on Marye’s Heights, was so cut up
- that after the fight the New York regiments originally
- comprised in it could only muster, all told, between two
- and three hundred unwounded men. General Meagher applied
- to the war department to have the brigade temporarily
- relieved in order that its decimated ranks might be again
- recruited; but the reply of the secretary of that
- time,—who had never regarded the Irish organizations with
- favor,—was an order relieving Meagher of his command,
- consolidating the regiments into four companies, under a
- lieutenant-colonel, and mustering out the other surviving
- officers as supernumeraries.
-
- Feb. 6. Michael Hicks, a member of the Society, died today at his
- residence in New York City.
-
- Feb. 7. James A. Walsh died today in Lewiston, Me. He was a member
- of the Society.
-
- Feb. 9. Hon. Carlton McCarthy, mayor of Richmond, Va., writes today,
- expressing his appreciation of “The great value and
- importance of the work” in which the Society is engaged.
-
- Feb. 11. Rear Admiral John McGowan, U.S.N. (retired), is today
- admitted as a Life member of the Society. His father was
- born in Philadelphia, Pa., but his grandfather was born in
- Ireland.
-
- Feb. 11. Brig.-Gen. Michael Cooney, U.S.A. (retired), is admitted to
- membership in the Society.
-
- Feb. 11. Brig.-Gen. Peter Leary, Jr., U.S.A. (retired), writes
- expressing his appreciation of the work in which the
- Society is engaged.
-
- Feb. 16. It is announced from Dublin, Ireland, that President
- Roosevelt has sent to Lady Gregory a contribution
- toward the purchase of Irish pictures for the Gallery
- of Modern Art which it is proposed to establish in
- Dublin. Lady Gregory has been appealing to Americans
- to assist in buying pictures lately exhibited at the
- Royal Hibernian Academy, and President Roosevelt, who
- sent the contribution “with great pleasure,” has
- written to her as follows: “I cordially sympathize
- with you in your efforts to keep such a collection of
- pictures in Dublin. It would be an important step
- toward giving Dublin the position it by right should
- have.”
-
- Feb. 19. Gen. John M. Brennan, a well-known lawyer of Providence, R.
- I., died. He served on the staff of Governor Davis of
- Rhode Island as judge advocate general.
-
- Feb. 21. Eugene M. O’Neill of Pittsburg, Pa., is admitted to the
- Society as a Life member.
-
- Feb. 22. John T. Gibbons of New Orleans, La., is admitted to the
- Society as a Life member.
-
- Feb. 27. William O’Herin of Parsons, Kansas, was today admitted to
- Life membership in the Society. He is superintendent of
- machinery and equipment of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
- Railway.
-
- Feb. 27. Gen. Richard A. Donnelly, quartermaster-general of the New
- Jersey National Guard, died today at Trenton. He was born
- at Richmond, Staten Island. He served two terms as mayor
- of Trenton.
-
- March. John Hayes, of Manchester, N. H., a member of the Society,
- died this month.
-
- March 3. Hon. W. Bourke Cockran, New York City, is admitted a Life
- member of the Society.
-
- March 6. Among the nominations sent by President Roosevelt to the
- Senate today were the following: envoys extraordinary
- and ministers plenipotentiary, Thomas J. O’Brien of
- Michigan, to Denmark; Edward C. O’Brien of New York, to
- Paraguay and Uruguay. For consuls general: Robert J.
- Wynne of Pennsylvania, at London, Eng.; T. St. John
- Gaffney of New York, at Dresden.
-
- March 6. Hon. John H. Reagan, postmaster general of the Confederacy,
- died today at Palestine, Texas. He was the last surviving
- member of the Confederate cabinet.
-
- March 9. A meeting of the Council of the Society is held today at the
- office of the City Trust Co., 36 Wall Street, New York
- City.
-
- March 10. Most Rev. John J. Keane, D. D., of Dubuque, Ia., becomes a
- member of the Society.
-
- March 17. Gen. Nelson A. Miles reviews the First Regiment, Irish
- Volunteers, at the Grand Central Palace, New York City,
- tonight.
-
- March 17. Hon. Franklin M. Danaher of Albany, N. Y., a member of the
- Society, read an historical paper before the Friendly Sons
- of St. Patrick, in that city, tonight. His topic was: “An
- Historical Sketch of some Celebrations of St. Patrick’s
- Day in Albany, N. Y., in the Early Part of the Nineteenth
- Century.”
-
- March 17. A monument was dedicated at Houston, Texas, today to the
- memory of Dick Dowling, the Confederate hero of Sabine
- Pass, who with a small company of men of Irish blood
- defeated, during the Civil War, a large Federal military
- and naval force.
-
- March 17. President Roosevelt attends the dinner of the New York
- Friendly Sons of St. Patrick tonight.
-
- March 17. The Charitable Irish Society, Boston, Mass., observes its
- 168th anniversary.
-
- March 18. Francis C. Travers of New York City, a member of the
- Society, died today.
-
- April 4. Hon. E. F. Dunne is elected mayor of Chicago, Ill.
-
- April 9. Michael Murphy, a pioneer oil man of central Wyoming, died
- at Casper, Wyo. He was one of the best known men in
- Wyoming. For twenty-five years he represented the oil
- interest in Fremont County, and recently sold the famous
- spouting oil wells at Dallas to a syndicate for $400,000.
- Frank Murphy, who recently died, leaving more than
- $2,000,000, was a brother of Michael Murphy, and left to
- him a large portion of his estate, making the latter a
- very wealthy man.
-
- April 9. Daniel O’C. O’Donoghue of Portland, Me., was found dead in
- bed this morning, having passed away during the night, of
- paralysis of the heart. He was a native of County Kerry,
- Ireland; was commissioned civil assistant on the ordinance
- survey of Ireland at an early age. He arrived in New York
- before the Civil War; volunteered for that conflict and
- served two years with the Army of the Potomac on engineer
- duty. In 1865 he was appointed chief clerk in the United
- States engineer’s office at Portland, Me., charged with
- the construction of sea coast defenses and harbor and
- river improvements, holding that responsible position
- for twenty-seven years. Colonel O’Donoghue was division
- adjutant-general on the staff of Governor Chamberlain of
- Maine, and later inspector of the division. He was captain
- of the famous Montgomery Guards of Portland, Me., bringing
- the company up to a high standard of efficiency.
-
- April 13. Thomas S. Lonergan of New York City, a member of the
- Society, lectures in Newark, N. J., on “Irishmen in the
- American Revolution.”
-
- April 19. A patriotic pilgrimage, under the auspices of the Society,
- took place today to Lexington, Mass., the occasion being
- the anniversary of the battle of Lexington, 1775.
-
- May 18. Secretary T. H. Murray of the Society, received a letter
- today from the New York State Library, saying that “We are
- making as complete a collection as possible of books and
- pamphlets on the Irish in America,” and asking for copies
- of works issued by the Society.
-
- May 27. The remains of Capt. John Drum, Tenth United States
- Infantry, who was killed in action before Santiago de
- Cuba, July 1, 1898, were reinterred today in the National
- Cemetery at Arlington, Va. Interment had previously taken
- place at Brookline, Mass. Services were conducted at
- Arlington by his son, Rev. Walter M. Drum, S. J. Captain
- Drum was a member of our Society. He was a native of
- Ireland, a veteran of the Civil War, and saw much service
- in campaigns against the Indians; was at one period
- military instructor at St. Francis Xavier’s College, New
- York City.
-
- May 28. A memorial to Molly Pitcher, the heroine of the battle
- of Monmouth in the Revolution, was dedicated today at
- Carlisle, Pa. The memorial consists of a cannon placed
- over her grave. The cannon weighs 1,400 pounds, and
- resembles in design the field piece which Molly helped
- to fire after her husband had fallen in battle. Molly
- Pitcher was “a young Irishwoman.”
-
- May 29. A dinner was given at Delmonico’s, New York City, tonight,
- to Thomas Addis Emmet, M. D., LL. D., by his medical
- friends, in honor of his seventy-seventh birthday. Over
- one hundred physicians attended. Dr. E. C. Dudley,
- Chicago, Ill., presided. Dr. Emmet is a Life member of our
- Society.
-
- May 30. Michael Brennan, a member of the Society, died today at his
- home, 2 West 75th Street, New York City.
-
- June 2. Rev. John Harty, Pawtucket, R. I., a member of the Society,
- died today.
-
- June 8. Hon. Henry F. Naphen, Boston, Mass., a member of the
- Society, was found dead in bed today. He had been in poor
- health for some time.
-
- July 4. A bronze equestrian statue in honor of Gen. Thomas Francis
- Meagher was unveiled today in Helena, Mont.
-
- July 10. A paragraph in the New York _Irish American_ of this date,
- states that Lieut. Martin L. Crimmins, U. S. A., has just
- been graduated from the Infantry and Cavalry School at
- Fort Leavenworth, successfully passing his examination
- for a captaincy. Captain Crimmins is a son of Hon. John
- D. Crimmins, president-general of the Society, and is
- himself a member of the organization. He was a member
- of the “Rough Riders” in the Spanish-American War, and
- later was commissioned a second lieutenant in the
- Sixty-ninth New York Volunteers, and still later a second
- lieutenant in the regular service. He served four years in
- the Philippines, and a year at Fort Lawton, Seattle, where
- he was selected from his regiment as a student officer to
- attend the school at Fort Leavenworth.
-
- July 31. A letter is today received from James Connolly of Coronado,
- Cal., in which he presents nineteen candidates for
- membership in the Society.
-
- August. Hon. John C. Linehan, Concord, N. H.,
- treasurer-general of the Society, resigns his position as
- such owing to ill health. He was one of the founders of
- the Society, and has been treasurer-general of the latter
- ever since its organization. His resignation is received
- with much regret.
-
- Aug. 14. Hon. James C. Monaghan of the Department of Commerce and
- Labor, Washington, D. C., a member of the Society,
- lectured at the Catholic Summer School, Cliff Haven, N.
- Y., today, on “The Game of Empire.”
-
- Aug. 28. William G. Stanard, corresponding secretary and librarian
- of the Virginia Historical Society, writes concerning
- Colonel Fitzgerald, a friend and staff officer of General
- Washington.
-
- Sept. 2. Michael P. O’Connor, Binghamton, N. Y., qualifies as a Life
- Member of the Society.
-
- Sept. 7. The Elizabeth (N. J.) _Times_, of this date, has an
- editorial headed, “Cox again President.” It refers to
- Capt. William T. Cox, a member of our Society, who has
- again been reëlected chairman of the Fire Commissioners of
- that city. The editorial mentioned pays a high tribute to
- Captain Cox.
-
- Sept. 8. Hon. C. B. Tillinghast, state librarian of Massachusetts,
- writes requesting a copy of _Early Irish in Old Albany, N.
- Y., With Special Mention of Jan Andriessen “De Iersman
- Van Dublingh.”_ The foregoing pamphlet was issued by the
- Society, 1903, and comprises a paper by Hon. Franklin M.
- Danaher of Albany. Mr. Tillinghast desires the pamphlet
- for the Massachusetts State Library.
-
- Sept. 10. In the New York _Herald_ today, Mrs. Clara H. Manning has
- a contribution setting forth many interesting facts
- concerning the family and ancestry of Gen. Richard
- Montgomery. Mrs. Manning credits the information to “L.
- W., London, England.”
-
- Sept. 12. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States,
- writes as follows to the management of the Irish
- Industrial Exhibition in New York City: “Gentlemen: I
- greatly regret that it is not in my power to be present at
- the Irish Industrial Exposition, to be held at Madison
- Square Garden. Not only should I be much interested in the
- display of industries of Ireland in the matter of
- textiles, laces and other branches of industrial art, but
- I should be particularly pleased with the educational
- feature, which I understand is to symbolize and interpret
- the ‘Irish revival.’ Unfortunately, it is simply out of my
- power to make another engagement of any kind whatsoever
- now, and all I can do is to send you my hearty good wishes
- for the success of so worthy a movement. It is peculiarly
- appropriate that in our country, where so large a portion
- of the blood of our mixed people is drawn from Irish
- stock, there should be this movement on broad lines, and
- carried out in such a wholesome and comprehensive manner,
- for the purpose of illustrating the industrial talents and
- artistic and literary genius of the Irish race. With all
- good wishes for the success of the exposition, believe me,
- sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt.”
-
- Sept. 14. Hon. Patrick A. Collins, mayor of Boston, Mass., died today
- at Hot Springs, Va. He was a member of the Society.
-
- Sept. 19. Death this evening of Hon. John C. Linehan, state insurance
- commissioner of New Hampshire, a founder of the Society.
- He passed away at his home in Penacook (Concord), N. H.
-
- Sept. 22. Hon. Charles T. O’Ferrall, ex-governor of Virginia, died at
- Richmond, Va., today. He served in the Confederate army
- during the Civil War, attained the rank of colonel, and
- was wounded three times while in the service. He was a
- member of the 49th, 50th, 51st and 52d Congresses.
-
- Sept. 22. Funeral at Penacook, N. H., today, of Hon. John C. Linehan.
- A requiem high Mass was celebrated at the Church of the
- Immaculate Conception. The eulogy was delivered by Bishop
- Delany of Manchester.
-
- Sept. 26. Death today of Edward F. Galligan, M. D., Taunton, Mass., a
- member of the Society.
-
- Sept. 27. In accordance with an army order issued at Washington, D.
- C., about this date, Capt. Michael M. McNamee, Fifteenth
- Cavalry, is detailed as a member of the examining board at
- Fort Ethan Allen, Vt.
-
- Sept. 27. Mrs. Aaron Morley Wilcox writes from Washington, D. C., for
- information regarding the Society.
-
- Sept. 29. Col. James Moran, Providence, R. I., writes making practical
- suggestions for a celebration next year of the anniversary
- of the battle of Rhode Island.
-
- Oct. 1. A monument is dedicated today, in Holy Cross Cemetery,
- Malden, Mass., to the late Rev. Thomas H. Shahan of that
- city, who was a member of the Society. The monument was
- erected by the parishioners of the deceased clergyman.
-
- Oct. 7. Among the nominations made today at the Massachusetts
- Democratic State Convention in Boston were the following:
- For state treasurer, Daniel J. Doherty, Westfield; for
- state auditor, Patrick J. Ashe, North Adams; for
- attorney-general, John P. Leahy, Boston.
-
- Oct. 7. Notices were issued today for a meeting of the executive
- council of the Society to be held on the 19th inst.,
- at the Hotel Manhattan, New York City. The latter date
- is the anniversary of the surrender of Cornwallis at
- Yorktown. The council is to be entertained at dinner
- by Mr. Crimmins, president-general of the Society.
-
- Nov. 3. Anniversary of the birth of Gen. William Irvine, a soldier
- of the Revolution. He was a native of Fermanagh, Ireland.
-
- Nov. 23. Anniversary of the birth of Edward Rutledge, a signer of the
- Declaration of Independence. He was of Irish parentage.
-
- Nov. 29. Anniversary of the birth of Charles Thomson, the “perpetual
- secretary” of Congress; a native of Ireland.
-
- Dec. 2. Died on this date, in 1783, Thomas Burke. He was a native of
- Ireland, and was chosen governor of North Carolina in
- 1781.
-
-
-
-
- NECROLOGY.
-
-
-The following members of the Society died during the year 1905, much and
-deservedly regretted:
-
- BRENNAN, MICHAEL, New York City; owner of the Hotel San Remo, Central
- Park West, New York, and other property. He was born in Sligo,
- Ireland, 1832; died at his home, 2 West 75th Street, New York, May
- 30. He was a member of the New York Friendly Sons of St. Patrick and
- of the Catholic Club. He became a member of the American-Irish
- Historical Society soon after the organization of the latter, and
- the first meeting and dinner held by the Society in New York took
- place at his hotel, the San Remo, just mentioned.
-
- COLLINS, HON. PATRICK A., mayor of Boston, Mass. He was born in
- Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland, March 12, 1844, died at Hot Springs,
- Va., Sept. 14, 1905. His mother brought him to this country when he
- was but four years of age. They settled in Chelsea, Mass. In the
- course of time, Patrick entered the law school of Harvard University
- and was graduated therefrom in 1871. He had gone into political
- affairs while he was a student and had been elected a member of the
- Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1868. He served two terms
- there and one in the State Senate. When he was admitted to the bar,
- in 1871, Mr. Collins made public announcement of his determination
- not to hold public office again in ten years. He kept to the
- resolution, but he stayed in politics. He became chairman of the
- Boston Democratic Committee in 1873 and held the responsibilities of
- the place for two years. He served as judge advocate-general on the
- staff of Governor Gaston of Massachusetts. While in the Legislature,
- Collins was identified with the passage of such liberal and
- reformatory legislation as freedom of worship for Catholics in
- penal, correctional and charitable institutions, the abolition of a
- distinct oath for Catholics, the ten-hour law, and legislation
- looking towards equal rights for foreign-born citizens. He was
- married in 1873 to Mary E. Cary. They had three children, Paul,
- Agnes and Marie. After serving two terms as congressman from the
- fourth Massachusetts district, he declined a third term, but was
- forced in his party’s interest to reconsider his decision. During
- his three terms in Congress he served on the Committee on the
- Judiciary, and sometimes in addition on the Committees on Pacific
- Railroads, French Spoliation Claims and other important bodies. He
- was delegateat-large to the National Democratic Conventions of 1876,
- 1880, 1884 and 1892. He was permanent chairman of the 1888
- convention and made an address which attracted admiring attention
- from the whole country, as did his speech seconding the nomination
- of Grover Cleveland four years later. It was generally understood
- that Mr. Cleveland offered Mr. Collins a cabinet office, but Mr.
- Collins declined to take such office. Mr. Cleveland gave him instead
- one of the highest-paid government posts, that of consul-general at
- London, where the salary is $5,000 a year, and the fees in Mr.
- Collins’ time amounted to about $25,000 a year or more. Mr. Collins
- resigned from the chairmanship of the Democratic State Committee and
- went to London. When he was consul-general Mr. Cleveland again asked
- him to come into the cabinet as secretary of war. Mr. Collins
- refused. He was quoted as saying that he refused because he “didn’t
- care for second-hand clothes.” He never denied the remark. At the
- opening ceremonies of the Hotel Cecil, Mr. Collins’ remarks
- regarding the good will of Mr. Cleveland toward the British people
- were jeered by some of his hearers. He turned on them and said:
- “There is no antagonism between the United States and any
- well-meaning state on earth. If the rest of the world understood the
- United States as well as the United States understands the rest of
- the world there would never be any danger to peace between my
- country and other nations.” There were no more jeers. In 1897 Mr.
- Collins returned to the practice of law in Boston. He was nominated
- for mayor in 1899, but was beaten by differences in his own party.
- He was elected the next term, was re-elected, and held the office at
- the time of his death.
-
- GALLIGAN, EDWARD F. (M. D.), Taunton, Mass. He was a native of that
- city and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Galligan. He studied
- medicine and was graduated from the medical department of Harvard
- University. In 1884, he was appointed city physician of Taunton and
- filled the position for several years. He was a trustee of the
- Morton Hospital, a member of the Taunton Physicians’ Club, of the
- North Bristol Medical Society and of the American Medical
- Association. He died Sept. 26, 1905.
-
- HARTY, REV. JOHN, a Roman Catholic clergyman; rector of the Church of
- the Sacred Heart, Pawtucket, R. I. He was a native of Ireland, and
- was ordained to the priesthood in Dublin, 1874. He died, June 2. He
- was at one period connected with St. Patrick’s Church, Providence,
- R. I., and was later rector of the church in East Providence.
-
- HAYES, JOHN, Manchester, N. H. He was a native of Ireland, and was of
- a splendid type as a man and a citizen. He died at Manchester in
- March. One of his sons, the late Hon. John J. Hayes, of Boston,
- Mass., was also a member of the Society.
-
- HICKS, MICHAEL, New York City; inventor of the “Hurricane lamp,” which
- was used on railway trains, and especially in the Pullman palace
- cars, until it was supplanted by the Pintsch light. He was born in
- County Meath, Ireland, 1832; died at his residence, 147 West 121st
- Street, New York, March 6.
-
- LINEHAN, HON. JOHN C., Penacook (Concord), N. H. He was state
- insurance commissioner of New Hampshire; a founder of the
- American-Irish Historical Society and treasurer-general of the same
- from its organization in January, 1897, to August, 1905, when he
- resigned owing to ill health. Commissioner Linehan was born in
- Macroom, County Cork, Ireland, Feb. 9, 1840, and came to this
- country in 1849. He was a son of John and Margaret (Foley) Linehan.
- He enlisted in August, 1861, in the band of the Third New Hampshire
- Volunteers and in after years was prominently identified with the
- Grand Army of the Republic, holding various offices therein. He
- served as a councilman and alderman of Concord, was chosen a member
- of the executive council of the state of New Hampshire to serve
- during the term of Gov. Charles H. Sawyer in 1887 and 1888. He was
- appointed trustee for the state industrial school by Gov. Samuel W.
- Hale in 1884, and except for a brief interval of a few months served
- continually since. He was secretary of the board for several years,
- and since 1897 was its president. He was also one of the committee
- to select the location for the Concord soldiers’ monument, as well
- as to select its design and inscription. He was appointed insurance
- commissioner of New Hampshire for three years by Gov. David H.
- Goodell, on Sept. 28, 1890. He was reappointed in 1893 by Gov. John
- B. Smith, in 1896 by Gov. Charles A. Busiel, and in 1899 by Gov.
- Frank W. Rollins. His record as insurance commissioner is well
- known. He was fearless and conscientious in the performance of his
- duties and received the commendations of his superiors, the
- governors and councils, as well as of the people of the state. His
- management of the insurance department was highly commended, and
- throughout the country he bore the reputation of being an honest,
- fearless, conscientious and capable public servant. A pamphlet
- published by the United States government in 1894, in which was
- printed the argument of Hon. John L. Thomas, assistant
- attorney-general, for the post office department, in the case of the
- United States v. the National Investment Company, contained 19 pages
- of extracts from Commissioner Linehan’s reports for the years
- 1891–’92–’93. He was one of the charter members of William I. Brown
- Post, G. A. R., and its first commander, filling the position over
- two years. He was chosen to represent the Department of New
- Hampshire, G. A. R., at the National Encampment in Albany in 1878,
- and a member of the national Council of Administration in 1880–81.
- He was elected department commander of New Hampshire in 1883 and
- 1884, and was appointed a member of the National Pension Committee,
- serving until 1887, when he was unanimously chosen junior
- vice-commander-in-chief, G. A. R. He was president of the New
- Hampshire Veteran Association in 1885 and 1886, and from its
- institution, with the exception of several years, its musical
- director. When his candidacy for the office of commander-in-chief at
- the annual G. A. R. encampment in Cincinnati in 1898 was before his
- comrades throughout the country, it received the heartiest
- indorsement, and when he withdrew there was much regret. He was
- elected one of the board of directors of the Gettysburg Battlefield
- Monument Association, and placed on the Executive Committee in 1884.
- He was a trustee of the Loan & Trust Savings Bank of Concord, a
- member of the New Hampshire Historical Society, Knights of Columbus,
- and of the Charitable Irish Society of Boston. He was a steady
- contributor to weeklies and periodicals. He contributed a chapter,
- _The Irish in New Hampshire_, to McClintock’s History of New
- Hampshire, also a chapter to the History of the First New Hampshire
- Regiment, on _The Irish of New Hampshire in the Civil War_, and a
- chapter to the History of the Seventeenth New Hampshire Regiment, on
- _Music and Songs of the War_. He has written many sketches on the
- early Irish settlers in the thirteen colonies, which have been
- published in papers and magazines. Several papers from his pen have
- appeared in the publications of the American-Irish Historical
- Society. He received a degree from Dartmouth College in 1887. He was
- also in demand as a speaker and lecturer, and had spoken more or
- less during every political campaign since 1884. He was married to
- Mary E. Pendergast by the Rev. John O’Donnell, in Nashua, N. H.,
- Jan. 2, 1864. Of the children born to them, four survive—Margaret,
- now Sister Mary Joseph, of the Order of Mercy; John Joseph, Timothy
- Patrick and Henry Francis. Commissioner Linehan died Sept. 19, 1905.
-
- NAPHEN, HON. HENRY F., Boston, Mass. He was a native of Ireland, and
- was born in 1852. He came to this country and was educated in Boston
- and Lowell, Mass. He graduated from Harvard University with the
- degree of LL. B., and also took a special course at that institution
- as resident LL. B., later continuing law studies at Boston
- University. He was elected a member of the Boston School Committee
- for three years, and at the end of that period declined a
- renomination. In 1885 and 1886 he represented the Fifth Suffolk
- District in the State Senate. In 1898 he was elected to Congress in
- the Tenth Massachusetts District. Throughout his first term he made
- memorable speeches on the Porto Rican question, the trusts, the
- Philippine question, improvement of Boston harbor, and many other
- important measures. Renominated by his party in 1900, Congressman
- Naphen was reëlected by a majority of more than 7,200 votes, a
- remarkable victory. He was a member of the Ancient and Honorable
- Artillery Company, Boston Athletic Association, City Point Catholic
- Association, Charitable Irish Society, Catholic Union, Knights of
- St. Rose, Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters, the Knights of
- Columbus, and other societies; was a director and clerk of the board
- of directors of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, and a vice-president of
- the Working Boys’ Home. He was a bail commissioner for the County of
- Suffolk, and was also an honorary member of Dahlgren Post 2, G. A.
- R., and Benj. Stone Post 68, G. A. R. He died in Boston in June.
-
- TRAVERS, FRANCIS C., New York City. He was born in that city, and was
- the founder of the house of Travers Brothers Company, manufacturers
- of, and dealers in, twine and cordage; was president of the company;
- was also a director of the Columbia National Life Insurance Co., a
- trustee of the Franklin Savings Bank, vice-president of the
- Merchants’ Trust Co., and was a member of the New York Friendly Sons
- of St. Patrick, the Catholic Club, and other prominent
- organizations. He was an intimate personal friend of President
- Theodore Roosevelt, and was very highly esteemed by the latter. Mr.
- Travers died at his home in New York, March 18.
-
- WALSH, JAMES A., Lewiston, Me. He was resident agent for the Lewiston
- Bleachery and Dye Works, where he had been located for some twelve
- years. He died in Lewiston Feb. 7. aged 53 years.
-
-
-
-
- MEMBERSHIP ROLL
- OF THE
- AMERICAN-IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
-
- [For officers of the Society see pages 5, 6 and 7.]
-
-
- =Adams, Hon. Samuel=, president and treasurer of the Adams Dry Goods
- Co., 339–355 Sixth Avenue, New York City; director, Garfield
- National Bank, New York; member of the New York Chamber of Commerce;
- an ex-senator of Colorado.
-
- =Adams, T. Albeus=, president of the Gansevoort Bank, Fourteenth
- Street and Ninth Avenue, New York City; also president of Adams &
- Co.; president of the Adams Bros. Co.; president of the Manhattan
- Refrigerating Co.; director, Mercantile National Bank.
-
- =Ahern, John=, 5 Highland Street, Concord, N. H.
-
- =Allen, Rt. Rev. Edward P.= (D. D.), Mobile, Ala., bishop of the Roman
- Catholic diocese of Mobile.
-
- =Aspell, John= (M. D.), 139 West 77th Street, New York City; member of
- the Academy of Medicine; of the County Medical Association, and of
- the Celtic Medical Society; recently president of the latter;
- visiting surgeon to St. Vincent’s Hospital.
-
- =Bannin, Michael E.=, of Converse, Stanton & Co., drygoods commission
- merchants, 83 and 85 Worth Street, New York City; member of the
- Merchants Association, New York; director, the Emigrant Industrial
- Savings Bank; director, the Catholic Summer School (Cliff Haven);
- member of the Merchants and Catholic clubs, New York, of the Montauk
- Club, Brooklyn, and of the Brooklyn Arts and Science Institute;
- director, the Columbian National Life Insurance Co.; director,
- American Investment Securities Co.
-
- =Bannon, Henry G.=, 107 East 55th Street, New York City; president of
- the Irish National Club; secretary, Celtic-American Publishing Co.
-
- =Barrett, Michael F.=, of Barrett Bros., wholesale and retail dealers
- in teas, coffees, etc., 308 Spring Street and 574 Hudson Street, New
- York City.
-
- =Barry, Hon. Patrick T.=, 87–97 South Jefferson Street, Chicago, Ill.
- (Life member of the Society); advertising manager, Chicago Newspaper
- Union; director, First National Bank of Englewood, Ill.; director,
- The _Chicago Citizen_ Company; has been a member of the State
- Legislature of Illinois; prominently identified with educational
- interests.
-
- =Barry, Rev. Michael=, Oswego, N. Y.
-
- =Baxter, Rev. James J.= (D. D.), 9 Whitmore Street, Boston, Mass.
-
- =Bodfish, Rev. Joshua P. L.=, Canton, Mass.; formerly chancellor of
- the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Boston; a director of the Bunker
- Hill Monument Association.
-
- =Bourlet, John W.=, of the Rumford Printing Co., Concord, N. H.
-
- =Boyle, Hon. Patrick J.=, now serving his eleventh term as mayor of
- Newport, R. I.
-
- =Brady, Rev. Cyrus Townsend= (LL. D.), 455 East 17th Street, Flatbush,
- Brooklyn, N. Y.; member of the Society of Colonial Wars, of the Sons
- of the Revolution, of the Military Order of Foreign Wars, and of
- other patriotic organizations; chaplain of the First Pennsylvania
- Volunteer Infantry, war with Spain; formerly Protestant Episcopal
- archdeacon of Pennsylvania; author of _For Love of Country_, _For
- the Freedom of the Sea_, _Stephen Decatur_, _Commodore Paul Jones_,
- _Border Fights and Fighters_, and other works.
-
- =Brady, Owen J.=, with The H. B. Claflin Co., 224 Church Street, New
- York City.
-
- =Brandon, Edward J.=, city clerk, Cambridge, Mass.
-
- =Brann, Rev. Henry A.= (D. D.), 141 East 43d Street, New York City
- (Life member of the Society).
-
- =Bree, Hon. James P.=, lawyer, 902 Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn.;
- state auditor of Connecticut; recently a senator.
-
- =Brennan, Hon. James F.=, lawyer, Peterborough, N. H.; a trustee of
- the New Hampshire State Library.
-
- =Brennan, James F.=, contractor, 2 Garden Street, New Haven, Conn.
-
- =Brennan, P. J.=, 788 West End Avenue, New York City.
-
- =Brierly, Frank=, 268 West 131st Street, New York City.
-
- =Broderick, William J.=, 52 Morton Street, New York City.
-
- =Brosnahan, Rev. Timothy=, rector of St. Mary’s Church, Waltham, Mass.
-
- =Buckley, Andrew=, Parsons, Labette County, Kansas.
-
- =Burke, Robert E.=, recently city solicitor, Newburyport. Mass.
-
- =Burr, William P.=, lawyer, 35 Nassau Street, New York City.
-
- =Butler, T. Vincent=, with R. G. Dun & Co., New York City.
-
- =Buttimer, Thomas H.=, lawyer, Hingham and Boston, Mass.
-
- =Byrne, C. E.=, of the C. E. Byrne Piano Co., East 41st Street, New
- York City.
-
- =Byrne, Maj. John=, 45 Wall Street, New York City; director, Detroit
- City Gas Co.; president, Shawmut Coal and Coke Co.; chairman Board
- of Directors, Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern R. R. Co.; president,
- Kersey Mining Co.; president, Kersey R. R. Co.; chairman Board of
- Directors, Shawmut Mining Co.; trustee, Emigrant Industrial Savings
- Bank of New York City.
-
- =Byrne, Joseph M.=, insurance, 800 Broad Street, Newark, N. J.
-
- =Byrne, Rt. Rev. William= (D. D., V. G.), rector of St. Cecilia’s
- Church, St. Cecilia Street, Boston, Mass.
-
- =Cahill, John H.=, 15 Dey Street, New York City.
-
- =Cahill, M. J.=, dry goods merchant, Essex Street, Lawrence, Mass.
-
- =Cahill, Thomas M.= (M. D.), 40 Pearl Street, New Haven, Conn.; son of
- the late Col. Thomas W. Cahill who commanded the Ninth Connecticut
- Volunteer Infantry (an Irish regiment), in the Civil War.
-
- =Calnin, James=, 101–107 Lakeview Avenue, Lowell, Mass.
-
- =Cannon, Thomas H.=, of the law firm Cannon & Poage, Stock Exchange
- Building, Chicago, Ill.
-
- =Carbray, Hon. Felix=, Benburb Place, Quebec, Canada; member of the
- Royal Irish Academy; Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries,
- Ireland; member of the Quebec Harbor Commission and of the Quebec
- Board of Trade; consul for Portugal at Quebec, and dean of the
- Consular Corps; trustee of St. Patrick’s Church, and of St.
- Bridget’s Asylum; has represented his district in the parliament of
- the Province of Quebec. He was one of the pioneers in the lumber
- trade between the St. Lawrence and South America; has engaged in the
- general commission and shipping business, and has been a member of
- the successive firms: Carbray & Routh; Carbray, Routh & Co.; and
- Carbray, Son & Co.
-
- =Carmody, T. F.=, lawyer, Waterbury, Conn.
-
- =Carney, Michael=, of M. Carney & Co., Lawrence, Mass.
-
- =Carroll, Edward=, Leavenworth National Bank, Leavenworth, Kansas.
-
- =Carroll, Edward R.=, 333 East 51st Street, New York City; clerk’s
- office, Court of General Sessions of the Peace, City and County of
- New York.
-
- =Carroll, John L.=, 18 State Street, Newark, N. J.
-
- =Carter, Patrick=, real estate, mortgages and insurance, 32
- Westminster Street, Providence, R. I.
-
- =Carter, Hon. Thomas H.=, Helena, Mont.; a United States senator.
-
- =Casey, Michael=, of Casey & Bacon, wholesale grocers, Pittsfield,
- Mass.
-
- =Cassidy, John J.=, 907 Adams Street, Wilmington, Del.
-
- =Cassidy, Patrick= (M. D.), Norwich, Conn.; was surgeon-general on the
- staff of Gov. Luzon B. Morris of Connecticut, ranking as
- brigadier-general.
-
- =Chittick, Rev. J. J.=, Hyde Park, Mass.
-
- =Clancy, Laurence=, dry goods merchant, West Bridge Street, Oswego, N.
- Y.; trustee, Oswego County Savings Bank; director, electric street
- railway; member, Normal school board; has repeatedly declined a
- nomination for mayor of Oswego.
-
- =Clare, William F.=, lawyer, 149 Broadway, New York City.
-
- =Clark, Rev. James F.=, New Bedford, Mass.
-
- =Clarke, James=, of James Clarke & Co., booksellers and publishers, 3,
- 5 and 7 West 22d Street, New York City.
-
- =Clarke, Joseph I. C.=, Sunday editor, New York _Herald_, Herald
- Square, New York City.
-
- =Clary, Charles H.=, Hallowell, Me.; a descendant of John Clary, “of
- Newcastle, province of New Hampshire,” who married Jane Mahoney, of
- Georgetown, Me., 1750. Four children were born to them before 1760.
- Mr. Clary of Hallowell, Me., here mentioned, was one of the founders
- of the Clary Reunion Family which meets annually.
-
- =Cockran, Hon. W. Bourke=, 31 Nassau Street, New York City; a member
- of Congress. (Life member of the Society.)
-
- =Coffey, John J.=, Neponset (Boston), Mass.; served during the Civil
- War in the Twenty-eighth Massachusetts Infantry (the Faugh-a-Ballagh
- regiment), which formed part of Meagher’s Irish Brigade, First
- Division, Second Corps; participated in the valorous charges of the
- brigade against the Confederates at Marye’s Heights; was wounded at
- Gettysburg and still carries the bullet in his body. His brother
- Michael J., was color sergeant of the Irish flag of the regiment and
- carried it until he fell mortally wounded at the second battle of
- Bull Run.
-
- =Coffey, Rev. Michael J.=, East Cambridge, Mass.
-
- =Coghlan, Rev. Gerald P.=, 2141 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
-
- =Cohalan, Daniel F.=, lawyer, 271 Broadway, New York City.
-
- =Coleman, James S.=, 38 East 69th Street, New York City; of Coleman,
- Breuchaud & Coleman.
-
- =Coleman, John=, capitalist, Louisville, Ky.
-
- =Collins, James M.=, 6 Sexton Avenue, Concord, N. H.
-
- =Collins, Hon. John S.=, Gilsum, N. H.; manufacturer of woolens; an
- ex-state senator of New Hampshire.
-
- =Collins, William D.= (M. D.), Haverhill, Mass.
-
- =Conaty, Bernard=, 30 Cypress Street, Providence, R. I.
-
- =Conaty, Rev. B. S.=, 340 Cambridge Street, Worcester, Mass.
-
- =Conaty, Rt. Rev. Thomas J.= (D. D.), Los Angeles, Cal., bishop of the
- Roman Catholic diocese of Monterey and Los Angeles.
-
- =Condon, Edward O’Meagher=, U. S. Court House and Postoffice,
- Nashville, Tenn.; connected with the office of the U. S. Supervising
- Architect, Washington, D. C., as an inspector of public buildings;
- served in the Union army during the Civil War.
-
- =Coney, Patrick H.=, lawyer, 316 Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kan. He
- entered the Union army in 1863, at the age of 15 years, enlisting in
- the One Hundred and Eleventh New York Infantry. He was detailed as
- dispatch bearer on General McDougall’s staff, promoted as an orderly
- dispatch bearer on Gen. Nelson A. Miles’ staff, served in this
- capacity on to Appomattox and Lee’s surrender, and was transferred
- June 5, 1865, to Company H, Fourth New York Heavy Artillery. He
- served until October 5, 1865, when he was honorably discharged at
- Hart’s Island, N. Y. He was wounded at the battle of Peach Orchard
- in front of Petersburg, Va., on June 16, 1864, and rejoined his
- command from the hospital after sixty days’ convalescence. In
- addition to his law practice, he is general manager of the American
- Investment and Development Co., which is engaged in the promotion
- and development of 11,000 acres of mineral, gas and oil lands in
- Benton County, Mo. Gen. Nelson A. Miles is president of the company.
-
- =Conlon, William L.=, Portsmouth, N. H.
-
- =Connery, William P.=, Wheeler and Pleasant Streets, Lynn, Mass.;
- recently candidate for mayor of Lynn.
-
- =Connolly, Capt. James=, Coronado, Cal. He was born in County Cavan,
- Ireland, 1842; came to this country when he was but ten years of
- age, and spent much of his youth at East Dennis, Cape Cod, Mass. His
- early love for the sea was gratified later in life when he became
- captain of some of the finest deep-water ships sailing from
- Baltimore, Boston and elsewhere. His first command was the bark _May
- Queen_, a regular Baltimore and Rio packet, 1872. He then had
- command of the ship _Pilgrim_ of Boston, and made several voyages to
- the East Indies. In 1884 he was given command of the _Charger_, a
- larger and finer ship than the _Pilgrim_, and sailed to ports in
- Japan. He next had command of the _South American_, “the Commodore’s
- ship,” of the Hastings fleet (Boston), and took her to Australia and
- other parts. He made several record voyages during his career, and
- some of these records still stand, having never been equalled. On
- one occasion he was wrecked off the coast of Africa; he and his wife
- upon being rescued were hospitably entertained by the Boers of the
- adjacent country. Returning to East Dennis, Mass., his wife’s health
- became poor and so he removed with her to Coronado, Cal., hoping
- that the change of climate would benefit her, but she died in 1901.
- She had accompanied her husband on several of his voyages, and had
- with him visited many parts of the world. Captain Connolly has
- written much and entertainingly. He has at present in manuscript
- form a novel of ocean life entitled _The Magic of the Sea_.
-
- =Connolly, Rev. Arthur T.=, Center and Creighton Streets, Roxbury
- (Boston), Mass.
-
- =Connor, Michael=, 509 Beech Street, Manchester, N. H.
-
- =Conway, James L.=, 113 Worth Street, New York City.
-
- =Conway, Matt=, of Conway & Kessler, real estate, loans, exchange and
- insurance, 405 Laughlin Building, Los Angeles, Cal.
-
- =Cooke, Rev. Michael J.=, Fall River, Mass (Life member of the
- Society.)
-
- =Cooney, Brig.-Gen. Michael=, U. S. A. (retired), 500 T Street, N. W.,
- Washington, D. C.
-
- =Corcoran, John H.=, dry goods merchant, 587 Massachusetts Avenue,
- Cambridge, Mass.
-
- =Coughlin, John=, 177 Water Street, Augusta, Me.
-
- =Cox, Michael F.= (M. D., M. R. I. A.), 26 Merrion Square, Dublin,
- Ireland.
-
- =Cox, Michael H.=, 54 Commerce Street, Boston, Mass.
-
- =Cox, William T.=, 12 South Second Street, Elizabeth, N. J., owner of
- Cox’s Towing Line; for some years chairman of the fire commissioners
- of Elizabeth; ex-chief of the Elizabeth Volunteer Fire Department.
-
- =Coyle, Rev. James=, Taunton, Mass.
-
- =Coyle, Rev. John D.=, 79 Davenport Avenue, New Haven, Conn.
-
- =Crane, John=, 8 & 10 Bridge Street, New York City; of the firm Crane
- & MacMahon, manufacturers of wheels, carriage woodstock, and
- hardwood lumber. Among offices held by him may be mentioned:
- director of the Ganesvoort Bank, New York; trustee of Emigrant
- Industrial Savings Bank; president of the Irish Emigrant Society;
- president of Ascension Conference, Society of St. Vincent de Paul;
- member of the Superior Council, Society of St. Vincent de Paul;
- chairman of the Finance Committee for Special Work, of the same
- society; vice-president of the Virginia and North Carolina Wheel
- Co., Richmond, Va.; vice-president of the St. Marys Spoke and Wheel
- Co., of St. Marys, Ohio; trustee of the Soldiers and Sailors Home,
- Bath, N. Y.; president of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee.
- He is also a member of the New York Commandery, Military Order of
- the Loyal Legion, of the New York Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, and
- of other organizations. He was a commissioned officer during the
- Civil War in the Sixth and Seventeenth Wisconsin Regiments of
- Infantry, saw four years of very active service, and was regimental
- and brigade adjutant for a considerable period.
-
- =Creagh, Rev. John T.= (J. U. L., S. T. L., J. C D.), Catholic
- University, Washington, D. C.; associate professor of canon law.
-
- =Creamer, Walter H.=, 4 Prescott Place, Lynn, Mass. His
- great-grandfather, Edward Creamer, was born in Kinsale, Ireland,
- 1756, was graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, and in 1784
- settled in Salem, Mass. He was a physician there. This Edward had a
- son George who married Hannah Gardner whose mother was Mary
- Sullivan, a sister of Gen. John Sullivan of the Revolution and of
- Gov. James Sullivan of Massachusetts. Walter H. Creamer, here
- mentioned, is a grandson of the said George and Hannah (Gardner)
- Creamer.
-
- =Crimmins, Hon. John D.=, 40 East 68th Street, New York City; a Life
- member of the Society; president-general of the organization in
- 1901, 1902 and 1905; a member of the New York Municipal Art
- Commission. Mr. Crimmins served as a park commissioner of New York
- City from 1883 to 1888, during which time he was treasurer and
- president of the board. He was a member of the Board of Visitors to
- West Point in 1894, and presidential elector (Democratic), in 1892
- and 1904. He was appointed by Governor Roosevelt and served as a
- member of the Greater New York Charter Revision Commission. In 1894,
- he was a member of the New York State Constitutional Convention. Mr.
- Crimmins is a member of the New York Chamber of Commerce, and is
- officially connected with many railway, realty and banking
- corporations. He is president of the Essex and Hudson Land
- Improvement Co.; president of the Port Richmond and Bergen Point
- Ferry Co.; president of the Bergen Point and Staten Island Ferry
- Co.; honorary vice-president of the Trust Company of America, New
- York; vice-president of the Title Insurance Co. of New York;
- vice-president of the New York Mortgage and Security Co.; director
- of the Fifth Avenue Bank of New York, and also a director in the
- following companies: New York City Railway Co., Metropolitan
- Securities Co., the Century Realty Co., and the Chelsea Realty Co.
- He is prominently identified with the charities of the Roman
- Catholic Church as well as with non-sectarian charities. He is
- chairman of the executive committee of the trustees of St. Patrick’s
- Cathedral; member of the board of managers of the Roman Catholic
- Orphan Asylum; member of the board of managers of St. Vincent’s
- Hospital; member of the board of trustees of St. John’s Guild, and
- also of the Provident Loan Society of New York. Mr. Crimmins is also
- a director of the City and Suburban Homes Co. of New York, which has
- for its object to provide model homes at reasonable cost for working
- people. He is a member of the following clubs: Catholic,
- Metropolitan, Lawyers, Democratic, Manhattan, and of the Wee Burn
- Golf Club, of which he was formerly president. He is likewise a
- member of the board of managers of the Sevilla Home for Children, a
- non-sectarian charity, and is also one of the managers of the
- Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents.
-
- =Crimmins, Capt. Martin L.=, U. S. A.; care of War Department,
- Washington, D. C.; a son of Hon. John D. Crimmins of New York City.
-
- =Cronin, Capt. William=, Rutland, Vt.
-
- =Croston, J. F.= (M. D.), Emerson Street, Haverhill, Mass.
-
- =Cummings, Matthew J.=, Overseer of the poor, 616 Eddy Street,
- Providence, R. I.
-
- =Cummins, Rev. John F.=, Roslindale (Boston), Mass.
-
- =Cunningham, James=, 277 Congress Street, Portland, Me.
-
- =Curran, James=, of the James Curran Manufacturing Co., 512–514 West
- 36th Street, New York City; a veteran of the Civil War.
-
- =Curry, Capt. P. S.=, contractor and builder, Lynn, Mass.; a veteran
- of the Civil War.
-
- =Curry, Edmond J.=, 69–71 East 89th Street, New York City.
-
- =Curtin, Jeremiah=, Bristol, Vt.; author of _Hero Tales of Ireland_,
- _Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland_, _Myths and Folk-Tales of the
- Russians_, _Western Slavs and Magyars_; translator of works of
- Henryk Sienkiewicz; Mr. Curtin was acting U. S. Consul-General in
- Russia, 1865–’66; actively connected with the Bureau of Ethnology,
- Smithsonian Institution, 1883–’91. He is one of the greatest of
- living philologists and linguists.
-
- =Daly, Hon. Joseph F.= (LL. D.), Wall Street, New York City; Chief
- Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, New York, 1890–’96; Justice of
- the New York Supreme Court, 1896–’98; member of the Board of
- Managers, Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum; member of the Advisory
- Board, St. Vincent’s Hospital; served in 1900 on the commission to
- revise the laws of Porto Rico.
-
- =Danaher, Hon. Franklin M.=, Albany, N. Y.; member of the State Board
- of Law Examiners; many years Judge of the City Court of Albany.
-
- =Danvers, Robert E.=, 349–351 West 58th Street (the St. Albans), New
- York City; dealer in iron and steel.
-
- =Dasey, Charles V.=, Board of Trade Building, Broad Street, Boston,
- Mass.; steamship and insurance agent; general Eastern agent, Anchor
- Line S. S. Co., and of the Italian Royal Mail S. S. Co.; general
- agent, Insular Navigation Co.; general agency for ocean travel.
-
- =Davis, Dr. F. L.=, Biddeford, Me.
-
- =Davis, Hon. Robert T.= (M. D.), Fall River, Mass. He was born in
- County Down, Ireland. 1823; was a member of the Massachusetts State
- Constitutional Convention, 1853; a state senator, 1858–’61, and
- member of the National Republican Convention that nominated Abraham
- Lincoln for president in 1860. In 1873, Dr. Davis was elected mayor
- of Fall River. In 1882, he was elected to Congress, and was
- reëlected in 1884 and 1886. He has been prominently identified with
- the manufacturing interests of Fall River, has been president of the
- Wampanoag and Stafford mills, and has also been officially connected
- with the Merchants’, Robeson and other mills.
-
- =Day, Joseph P.=, real estate, 932 Eighth Avenue, New York City.
-
- =Deeves, Richard=, of Richard Deeves & Son, builders, 305–309
- Broadway, New York City.
-
- =Delahanty, Dr. W. J.=, Trumbull Square, Worcester, Mass.
-
- =Delehanty, Hon. F. B.=, Judges’ Chambers, Court House, City Hall
- Park, New York; a Judge of the City Court.
-
- =Dempsey, George C.=, Lowell, Mass.
-
- =Dempsey, William P.=, treasurer and manager, the Dempsey Bleachery
- and Dye Works, Pawtucket, R. I.
-
- =Devlin, James H.=, 35 Parsons Street, Brighton (Boston), Mass.
-
- =Devlin, James H., Jr.=, lawyer, Barristers Hall, Pemberton Square,
- Boston, Mass.
-
- =Dewire, Thomas A.=, 405 Washington Street, Somerville, Mass.
-
- =Dixon, Richard=, insurance, 52–54 William Street, New York City.
-
- =Donahue, Dan A.=, 178 Essex Street, Salem, Mass.
-
- =Donahue, R. J.=, cashier of the National Bank of Ogdensburg, N. Y.
-
- =Donoghue, D. F.= (M. D.), 240 Maple Street, Holyoke, Mass.
-
- =Donovan, Daniel=, 21 High Rock Street, Lynn, Mass.; an authority on
- heraldry, armorial bearings, etc., particularly as the same relate
- to Ireland.
-
- =Donovan, Henry F.=, editor and proprietor _The Chicago
- Eagle_, Teutonic Building, Chicago, Ill.; late colonel and
- inspector-general, Illinois National Guard.
-
- =Donovan, John W.=, of Larkin, Donovan & Co., real estate, mortgages,
- and insurance, 1228 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City.
-
- =Donovan, Col. William H.=, Lawrence, Mass.; commander of the Ninth
- Regiment M. V. M.; served with the regiment in Cuba during the
- recent war with Spain.
-
- =Donnelly, Thomas F.=, lawyer, 257 Broadway, New York City.
-
- =Doogue, William=, superintendent of Public Grounds, Boston, Mass.
-
- =Dooley, Michael F.=, treasurer of the Union Trust Co., Providence, R.
- I.
-
- =Doran, Patrick L.=, Salt Lake City, Utah.
-
- =Dowd, James J.=, insurance. High Street, Holyoke, Mass.
-
- =Dowling, Hon. M. J.=, Olivia, Minn.
-
- =Dowling, Rev. Austin=, rector of the Cathedral, Providence, R. I.
-
- =Downing, Bernard=, secretary to the president of the Borough of
- Manhattan, New York City.
-
- =Downing, D. P.=, with National Biscuit Company, Cambridge, Mass.
-
- =Doyle, Alfred L.=, of John F. Doyle & Sons, real estate agents,
- brokers and appraisers, 45 William Street, New York City.
-
- =Doyle, James=, 50 Front Street, New York City; present oldest member
- of the flour trade in New York; member of the New York Produce
- Exchange from the beginning; member of the board of managers of the
- Exchange, 1897–1901. He and his son, Nathaniel, are associated in
- trade as James Doyle & Company.
-
- =Doyle, John F.=, of John F. Doyle & Sons, 45 William Street, New York
- City. (Life member of the Society.)
-
- =Doyle, John F., Jr.=, of John F. Doyle & Sons, 45 William Street, New
- York City.
-
- =Doyle, Nathaniel=, of James Doyle & Co., flour, etc., 50 Front
- Street, New York City; member of the board of managers, New York
- Produce Exchange; secretary of the exchange; member of the New York
- Club, 5th Avenue and 35th Street.
-
- =Drummond, M. J.=, of M. J. Drummond & Co., 182 Broadway, New York
- City.
-
- =Duffy, P. P.=, Parsons, Labette County, Kansas.
-
- =Duggan, John T.= (M. D.), Worcester, Mass.
-
- =Dunn, Hon. Robert C.=, publisher of _The Union_, Princeton, Minn.;
- candidate in 1904 for governor of Minnesota.
-
- =Dunne, F. L.=, 328 Washington Street, Boston, Mass.
-
- =Dwyer, J. R.=, 732 Alpine St., Los Angeles, Cal.
-
- =Dyer, Dr. William H.=, Dover, N. H.
-
- =Editor of “The Rosary Magazine,”= Somerset, O. (Life member of the
- Society.)
-
- =Egan, James T.=, of the law firm, Gorman, Egan & Gorman, Banigan
- Building, Providence, R. I.
-
- =Egan, Maurice Francis= (LL. D., J. U. D.), Professor of English
- Language and Literature, Catholic University of America, Washington,
- D. C.
-
- =Egan, Rev. M. H.=, rector, Church of the Sacred Heart, Lebanon, N. H.
-
- =Egan, Hon. Patrick=, 271 Broadway, New York City; recently United
- States Minister to Chili.
-
- =Ellard, George W.=, 180 Lisbon Street, Lewiston, Me.
-
- =Emmet, Dr. J. Duncan=, 103 Madison Avenue, New York City.
-
- =Emmet, Robert=, The Priory, Warwick, England.
-
- =Emmet, Thomas Addis= (M. D., LL. D.), 89 Madison Avenue, New York
- City (Life member of the Society); grand nephew of the Irish
- patriot, Robert Emmet.
-
- =Eustace, Hon. Alexander C.=, of the law firm A. C. & J. P. Eustace,
- 334 East Water Street, Elmira, N. Y.; during the past sixteen years
- identified, as attorney or counsel, with many of the most important
- litigations before the courts in southern and western New York; was
- for three years, prior to 1893, president of the New York State
- Civil Service Commission.
-
- =Fallon, Hon. Joseph D.= (LL. D.), 789 Broadway, South Boston, Mass.;
- justice of the South Boston Municipal Court; vice-president, Union
- Institution for Savings.
-
- =Fallon, Hon. Joseph P.=, 1900 Lexington Avenue, New York City;
- justice of the Ninth District Municipal Court.
-
- =Farley, Charles J.=, Department of Docks, New York City.
-
- =Farley, Most Rev. John M.=, (D. D.), 452 Madison Ave., New York City.
-
- =Farrell, James P.=, superintendent of the Brooklyn Disciplinary
- Training School, 18th Avenue, between 56th and 58th Streets,
- Brooklyn, N. Y.
-
- =Farrell, John F.=, Brander-Walsh Co., 89 Worth Street, New York City.
-
- =Farrell, John T.= (M. D.), 16 Messer Street, Providence, R. I.
-
- =Farrelly, Stephen=, American News Co., New York City. (Life member of
- the Society.)
-
- =Fay, Martin=, 55 Bainbridge Street, Roxbury (Boston), Mass.
-
- =Feeley, William J.=, treasurer of the W. J. Feeley Co., silversmiths
- and manufacturing jewelers, 185 Eddy Street, Providence, R. I.
-
- =Ferguson, Hugh=, of Hugh Ferguson & Co., George Street, Charleston,
- S. C.
-
- =Finen, Rev. J. E.=, Tilton, N. H.
-
- =Finerty, Hon. John F.=, 69 Dearborn Street, Chicago, Ill.; editor of
- the _Chicago Citizen_; ex-member of Congress.
-
- =Finn, Rev. Thomas J.=, Box 242, Port Chester, N. Y.
-
- =Fitzgerald, Rev. D. W.=, 9 Pleasant Street, Penacook, N. H.
-
- =Fitzgerald, Hon. James=, New York City; a justice of the New York
- Supreme Court.
-
- =Fitzpatrick, Edward=, on the staff of the Louisville (Ky.) _Times_; a
- resident of New Albany, Ind.; member of the committee to select
- books for the New Albany Public Library; was, from 1878 to 1885,
- Indiana correspondent of the Louisville _Courier-Journal_, reporting
- the Legislature two terms, 1883–’85, for that paper, and at the same
- time was assistant to the chief clerk in the House of
- Representatives; was appointed a clerk in the U. S. Q. M. Depot at
- Jeffersonville, Ind., in 1885, but resigned to re-enter the employ
- of the _Courier-Journal_, as political reporter in Louisville; was
- four years on the Louisville _Post_; returned to the
- _Courier-Journal_; was transferred to the _Times_ (the afternoon
- edition of the _Courier-Journal_), and has been on that paper for
- many years past. He is a keen and forceful writer, and is one of the
- ablest men in American journalism.
-
- =Fitzpatrick, John B.=, real estate, etc., 23 Court Street, Boston,
- Mass.; has been deputy sheriff of Suffolk County, Mass.
-
- =Fitzpatrick, Thomas B.=, senior member of the firm Brown, Durrell &
- Co., importers and manufacturers, 104 Kingston Street, Boston,
- Mass.; Rand McNally Building, Chicago, Ill., and 11–19 West 19th
- Street, New York City; president of the Union Institution for
- Savings, Boston, and a director in the United States Trust Co. of
- that city.
-
- =Fitzpatrick, Rev. William H.=, 2221 Dorchester Avenue, Boston, Mass.
-
- =Flannagan, Andrew J.= (D. D. S ), Main Street, Springfield, Mass.
-
- =Flannery, Capt. John=, Savannah. Ga.; of John Flannery & Co., cotton
- factors and commission merchants; was a non-commissioned officer of
- the Irish Jasper Greens in garrison at Fort Pulaski, 1861; was later
- lieutenant and captain, C. S. A., serving under Gen. Joe Johnston
- and General Hood; became a partner, in 1865, in the cotton firm, L.
- J. Guilmartin & Co., having a line of steamers from Charleston, S.
- C., to Palatka, Fla.; bought out the business in 1877; founded the
- house of John Flannery & Co.; became director and president of the
- Southern Bank of the State of Georgia; is ex-president of the
- Southern Cotton Exchange; captain, 1872–’98, of the Jasper Greens.
-
- =Fogarty, James A.=, 264 Blatchley Avenue, New Haven, Conn., recently
- a police commissioner of New Haven.
-
- =Fogarty, Jeremiah W.=, Registry of Deeds, Boston, Mass.
-
- =Ford, Hon. Peter J.=, Ford Building, Wilmington, Del.
-
- =Fox, John J.=, 1908–1910 Bathgate Avenue, New York City.
-
- =Foy, Julius L.=, lawyer, Rialto Building, St. Louis, Mo.
-
- =Franklin, A. H.=, 56 West 33d Street, New York City.
-
- =Gaffney, Hon. T. St. John=, lawyer; member of the French Legion of
- Honor; 41 Riverside Drive, New York City; U. S. Consul General,
- Dresden.
-
- =Gallagher, Patrick=, contractor and builder, 11 East 59th Street, New
- York City. (Life member of the Society.)
-
- =Gargan, Hon. Thomas J.=, of the law firm, Gargan, Keating & Brackett,
- Pemberton Building, Boston, Mass.; Life member of the Society, and
- president-general of the same in 1899 and 1900; member of the Boston
- Transit Commission; director of the United States Trust Co.;
- director, the Columbian National Life Insurance Co.
-
- =Garrigan, Rt. Rev. Philip J.= (D. D.), bishop of the Roman Catholic
- diocese of Sioux City, Iowa.
-
- =Garrity, P. H.=, 221 Bank Street, Waterbury, Conn.
-
- =Garvan, Francis P.=, assistant district attorney, 23 Fifth Avenue,
- New York City.
-
- =Garvan, Hon. Patrick=, 236 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, Conn.; paper
- and paper stock. (Life member of the Society.)
-
- =Garvey, Patrick J.=, lawyer, Holyoke, Mass.
-
- =Gavin, Michael=, of M. Gavin & Co., wholesale grocers and cotton
- factors, 232–234 Front Street, Memphis, Tenn.
-
- =Gavin, Dr. P. F.=, 331 Broadway, South Boston, Mass.
-
- =Geary, William M.=, headquarters, Knights of Columbus, New Haven,
- Conn.
-
- =Geoghegan, Charles A.=, 537–539, West Broadway, New York City.
-
- =Geoghegan, Joseph=, Salt Lake City, Utah (Life member of the
- Society); vice-president of the board of education, Salt Lake City;
- director of the Utah National Bank; director of the Utah Loan and
- Building Association; director of the Butler Liberal Manufacturing
- Co., all three concerns of Salt Lake City; also, director in many
- other corporations. He is general agent in Utah for Swift & Co. of
- Chicago; Borden’s Condensed Milk Co. of New York; the American Can
- Co. of New York, and the Pennsylvania Salt Mfg. Co. of Philadelphia.
- He is broker for the following: the Western Sugar Refining Co. of
- San Francisco, Cal.; the Utah Sugar Co. of Lehi, Utah; the
- Amalgamated Sugar Co. of Ogden, Utah; the Idaho Sugar Co. of Idaho
- Falls, Idaho, and the Fremont County Sugar Co. of Sugar City, Idaho.
-
- =Geoghegan, Joseph G.=, 20 East 73d Street, New York City. (Life
- member of the Society.)
-
- =Geoghegan, Walter F.=, 537–539 West Broadway, New York City.
-
- =Gibbons, John T.=, merchant, corner of Poydras and South Peters
- Streets, New Orleans, La.; brother of Cardinal Gibbons.
-
- =Gillespie, George J.=, of the law firm Gillespie & O’Connor, 56 Pine
- Street, New York City; trustee, Catholic Summer School (Cliff
- Haven); president of Champlain Club there; member of the board of
- managers of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum; vice-president of the
- Particular Council, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, New York City;
- recently tax commissioner of the city of New York. (Life member of
- the Society.)
-
- =Gilman, John E.=, 43 Hawkins Street, Boston, Mass.; has been
- adjutant-general on the staff of the national commander-in-chief,
- Grand Army of the Republic. In August, 1862, Mr. Gilman enlisted in
- Co. E, Twelfth Massachusetts Infantry (Webster Regiment), and
- participated in the campaigns under Generals Pope, McClellan,
- Burnside, Hooker and Meade up to the battle of Gettysburg, Pa.,
- where, on July 2, 1863, his right arm was shot off near the
- shoulder. Securing his discharge from the army on Sept. 28, 1863, he
- returned to Boston. In 1864, he entered the service of the state and
- served in various departments until 1883, when he was made
- settlement clerk of the directors of Public Institutions of Boston.
- He was appointed soldiers’ relief commissioner, April 2, 1901. He
- has been a comrade of Posts 14, 7 and 26, G. A. R., since 1868,
- being commander of the latter post in 1888. He was department
- inspector of the Massachusetts G. A. R. in 1895; junior
- vice-commander in 1896; senior vice-commander in 1897; delegate at
- large in 1898; and department commander in 1899.
-
- =Goff, Hon. John W.=, recorder, New York City.
-
- =Goodwin, John=, of the John Goodwin Co., dressmakers’ supplies, 70–72
- West 23d Street, New York City. (Life member of the Society.)
-
- =Gorman, Dennis J.=, assessors’ office, City Hall, Boston, Mass.
-
- =Gorman, John F.=, lawyer, Stephen Girard Building, Philadelphia, Pa.
-
- =Gorman, William=, lawyer, Stephen Girard Building, Philadelphia, Pa.;
- member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Academy
- of Fine Arts, the American Academy of Social and Political Science,
- the Alumni Association of the University of Pennsylvania, and other
- organizations. He is officially connected with the Commonwealth
- Title Insurance and Trust Co. of Philadelphia. (Life member of the
- Society.)
-
- =Gray, Dr. Joseph F.=, 10 North Hammels Avenue, Rockaway Beach, L. I.,
- N. Y.
-
- =Griffin, John F.=, insurance, Skowhegan, Me.
-
- =Griffin, Martin I. J.=, 2009 North 12th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.;
- editor and publisher _American Catholic Historical Researches_.
-
- =Griffin, Rev. P. J.=, Holyoke, Mass.
-
- =Griffin, Rt. Rev. Mgr. Thomas= (D. D.), St. John’s presbytery, 44
- Temple Street, Worcester, Mass.
-
- =Guiney, John=, Biddeford, Me.
-
- =Hagan, James H.=, treasurer of the Park Brewing Co., 1100 Elmwood
- Avenue, Providence, R. I.
-
- =Haggerty, J. Henry=, of the Haggerty Refining Co., oils, 50 South
- Street, New York City.
-
- =Haigney, John=, 439 58th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
-
- =Halley, Charles V.=, 1014 East 175th Street, New York City.
-
- =Hannan, Hon. John=, mayor of Ogdensburg, N. Y.; president of the
- Ogdensburg Coal and Towing Co.
-
- =Hanrahan, John D.= (M. D.), Rutland, Vt., a native of County
- Limerick, Ireland; was graduated in medicine from the University of
- the City of New York, 1867; in June, 1861, he was, on examination
- (not having graduated), appointed surgeon in the United States Navy,
- and served through the entire Civil War. The vessels on which he
- served did duty mostly on the rivers of Virginia and North Carolina,
- where he served with the army as well as the navy, thereby having
- the benefit and experience of both branches of the service,
- especially in the surgical line. In August, 1863, the vessel on
- which he was serving was captured at the mouth of the Rappahannock
- River and all on board made prisoners. They were taken overland to
- Richmond where they were confined in Libby Prison. At that time the
- Confederates were very short of surgeons and medical supplies, and
- be was asked if he would go over to Belle Island and attend the
- Union prisoners. After consulting his fellow-prisoners he consented,
- and for six weeks he attended the sick and wounded Union prisoners
- faithfully, under very great disadvantages, as the appliances were
- very limited. After that he was paroled. While a prisoner of war he
- was treated with the greatest courtesy and consideration by the
- medical staff and officers of the Confederacy. After the close of
- the war he was settled in New York city, but for nearly 40 years has
- been a resident of Rutland, Vt. He was town and city physician of
- Rutland for many years. He was appointed surgeon of the Third
- Vermont Regiment, 1871, by Governor Stewart; was the first president
- of the Rutland County Medical and Surgical Society; has been a
- director and consulting surgeon of the Rutland, Vt., Hospital;
- consulting surgeon to the Fanny Allen Hospital, Winooski, Vt.; a
- member of the Vermont Sanitary Association, and a member of the
- Vermont Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis; president of
- Rutland Village two years and trustee eight years; county
- commissioner one year; president, United States pension examining
- board four years under President Cleveland, and president of same
- board four years under President Harrison. He was postmaster of
- Rutland during the second term of President Cleveland. He has since
- its organization been an active member of the G. A. R.; surgeon of
- Roberts Post, the largest in Vermont; has served three terms as
- medical director of the Department; served on the staffs of three
- commanders-in-chief—Veasy, Palmer and Weissert; a member of
- Commander-in-Chief Stewart’s staff. Dr. Hanrahan is the author of
- several medical papers, has performed many surgical operations, and
- has served through several epidemics of smallpox and diphtheria. He
- was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1884, 1888,
- and chairman of the Vermont delegation to the National Convention of
- 1892. Also a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in St.
- Louis, 1904, and to the Ancient Order of Hibernians Convention in
- St. Louis, July 19, 1904.
-
- =Hanlon, Marcus=, P. O. Box 1920, New York City.
-
- =Harbison, Hon. Alexander=, Hartford, Conn, recently mayor of
- Hartford.
-
- =Harrington, Rev. J. C.=, rector of St. Joseph’s Church, Lynn, Mass.
-
- =Harrington, Rev. John M.=, Orono, Me.
-
- =Harrington, William F.=, Manchester, N. H.
-
- =Harris, Charles N.=, Tryon Row, New York City.
-
- =Harrison, A. J.=, 514 East 23d Street, New York City.
-
- =Harson, M. Joseph=, Catholic Club, 120 Central Park South, New York
- City.
-
- =Hart, Frank M.=, 335 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
-
- =Hayes, John F.= (M. D.), 15 South Elm Street, Waterbury, Conn.
-
- =Hayes, Nicholas J.=, fire commissioner, 157–159 East 67th Street, New
- York City.
-
- =Hayes, Col. Patrick E.=, Pawtucket, R. I.
-
- =Hayes, Timothy J.=, 688 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.
-
- =Healy, John F.=, general superintendent of the Davis Coal and Coke
- Co., Thomas, Tucker County, W. Va.
-
- =Healy, Col. John G.=, insurance, 117 Sherman Avenue, New Haven,
- Conn.; a captain in the Ninth Connecticut Infantry, April, 1862, to
- October, 1864. Upon the consolidation of the regiment, in the latter
- year, into the Ninth Battalion he, being the senior captain, was
- given command of the latter. On December 1, 1864, he was promoted
- lieutenant-colonel and as such commanded the battalion until the
- same was mustered out. Since the war he has been vice-president of
- the Nineteenth Army Corps Association. When Luzon B. Morris was
- governor of Connecticut, Colonel Healy served on his staff as
- assistant adjutant-general. Colonel Healy is a member of the
- Military Order of the Loyal Legion, of the Army and Navy Club of
- Connecticut, and of the Second Company of the Governor’s Foot Guard,
- New Haven.
-
- =Healy, Richard=, Main Street, Worcester, Mass.
-
- =Hennessy, Dr. Daniel=, Bangor, Me.
-
- =Hennessy, Michael E.=, on the staff of the _Boston Daily Globe_; a
- newspaper man of wide experience and exceptional ability. One of the
- most highly-valued men on the _Globe_, he is regularly assigned to
- “cover” events of national importance and annually travels thousands
- of miles in the service of his paper.
-
- =Henry, Charles T.=, 120 Liberty Street, New York City.
-
- =Hickey, James G.=, manager of the United States Hotel, Boston, Mass.
- (Life member of the Society.)
-
- =Hickey, Michael J.=, manufacturer, Haverhill, Mass.
-
- =Hickey, Rev. William A.=, Clinton, Mass.
-
- =Higgins, James J.=, 85 Court Street, Elizabeth, N. J.
-
- =Hoban, Rt. Rev. M. J.= (D. D.), Scranton, Pa., bishop of the Roman
- Catholic diocese of Scranton.
-
- =Hogan, Charles M.=, with Siegel Cooper Co., Sixth Avenue, 18th and
- 19th Streets, New York City.
-
- =Hogan, John W.=, lawyer, 4 Weybosset Street, Providence, R. I.;
- recently a candidate for Congress.
-
- =Holland, John P.=, 95 Nelson Place, Newark, N. J.; inventor of the
- submarine torpedo boat.
-
- =Horigan, Cornelius=, 229 and 231 Main Street, Biddeford, Me.; is
- treasurer of the Andrews & Horigan Co.; has been a member of the
- state Legislature of Maine.
-
- =Howes, Osborne=, secretary and treasurer of the Board of Fire
- Underwriters, 45 Kilby Street, Boston, Mass. He is a descendant of
- David O’Killa (O’Kelly), who settled on Cape Cod as early as 1657,
- and who is mentioned in the old Yarmouth, Mass., records as “the
- Irishman.” The records show that at the close of King Philip’s War,
- O’Killa was assessed his proportionate part toward defraying the
- expenses of that struggle.
-
- =Hughes, Rev. Christopher=, Fall River, Mass.
-
- =Hurley, John E.=, 63 Washington Street, Providence, R. I.;
- vice-president and superintendent of the Remington Printing Co.;
- president, in 1904, of the Rhode Island Master Printers’
- Association.
-
- =Jameson, W. R.=, 1786 Bathgate Avenue, borough of the Bronx, New York
- City.
-
- =Jenkinson, Richard C.=, 678 High Street, Newark, N. J.; of R. C.
- Jenkinson & Co., manufacturers of metal goods; candidate for mayor
- of Newark in 1901; was president of the Newark Board of Trade in
- 1898–’99 and 1900; has been a director in the Newark Gas Co.; was
- president of the New Jersey Commission to the Pan-American
- Exposition, and one of the vice-presidents of the Exposition,
- representing the state of New Jersey by appointment of Governor
- Voorhees.
-
- =Jennings, Michael J.=, 753 Third Avenue, New York City.
-
- =Johnson, James G.=, of James G. Johnson & Co., 649, 651, 653 and 655
- Broadway. New York City.
-
- =Jordan, Michael J.=, lawyer, 42 Court Street, Boston, Mass.
-
- =Joyce, Bernard J.=, salesman, 7 Water Street, Boston, Mass.
-
- =Joyce, John Jay=, 47 Macdougal Street, New York City.
-
- =Kane, Dr. John H.=, Lexington, Mass.
-
- =Keane, Most Rev. John J.= (D. D.), Dubuque, Ia.; archbishop of the
- Roman Catholic archdiocese of Dubuque.
-
- =Kearney, James=, lawyer, 220 Broadway, New York City.
-
- =Keating, Patrick M.=, of the law firm Gargan, Keating & Brackett,
- Pemberton Building, Boston, Mass.
-
- =Keenan, John J.=, Public Library, Copley Square, Boston, Mass.
-
- =Kehoe, John F.=, 26 Broadway, New York City; officially connected
- with many corporations. (Life member of the Society.)
-
- =Kelly, Eugene=, Temple Court Building, New York City.
-
- =Kelly, John Forrest= (Ph. D.), Pittsfield, Mass.; born near
- Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland. He was educated in Stevens Institute of
- Technology, Hoboken, N. J., received the degree of B. L. in 1878,
- and that of Ph. D. in 1881. His first occupation was as assistant to
- Thomas A. Edison, in Menlo Park laboratory, his work then
- principally relating to the chemistry of rare earths. Late in 1879
- Mr. Kelly became electrical engineer of the New York branch of the
- Western Electric Company. This was the time when the telephone was
- being generally introduced, and when dynamos were being first
- applied to telegraphic purposes. In the construction and installment
- of instruments for telegraphy and telephones and of such measuring
- instruments as were then known, Mr. Kelly received a thorough
- training. In 1882 he became laboratory assistant to Edward Weston,
- then chief electrician of the United States Electric Lighting
- Company, and, with the exception of a year which he spent in
- connection with the Remingtons, Mr. Kelly continued his association
- with Mr. Weston until July, 1886. Some of the most important work,
- such as the research which ended in the discovery of high resistance
- alloys of very low or even negative temperature co-efficients, were
- substantially carried out by Mr. Kelly under general directions from
- Mr. Weston, whom Mr. Kelly succeeded as chief electrician of the
- United States Electric Lighting Company, which, in 1889, passed to
- the Westinghouse interests; but Mr. Kelly retained his position as
- chief electrician until January, 1892, when he resigned to join
- William Stanley in experimental work. The work done by Mr. Kelly, in
- this connection, gave a great impetus to the alternating current
- business. Mr. Kelly’s inventive work is partially represented by
- eighty patents. The art of building transformers and generators of
- alternating currents was revolutionized, and Mr. Kelly and his
- colleagues were the first to put polyphase motors into actual
- commercial service. That success naturally led to long-distance
- transmission work, and the first long-distance transmission plants
- in California (indeed the first in the world) were undertaken on Mr.
- Kelly’s recommendation and advice. He was the first to make an
- hysteretically stable steel, a matter of vastly more importance than
- the comparatively spectacular transmission work. Mr. Kelly at
- present occupies the position of president of the John F. Kelly
- Engineering Company, president of the Cokel Company and president of
- the Telelectric Company, as well as president of the Conchas River
- Power Company and director of the Southwestern Exploration Company.
- The Cokel Company is organized to exploit the invention of Mr. E. W.
- Cooke, by means of which foodstuffs may be perfectly dehydrated,
- losing on the average ninety per cent. in weight. Foods dehydrated
- by this process, although free from all chemical preservatives, are
- entirely stable, and yet preserve their pristine freshness through
- extremes of temperature, and when served are indistinguishable from
- fresh foods of the ordinary type. The Telelectric Company is
- organized for the manufacture of electric piano players, which are
- either entirely automatic or entirely controllable at will. Mr.
- Kelly was married to Miss Helen Fischer, in New York City, in 1892,
- and they have two children—Eoghan and Domnall. Mr. Kelly is a
- thorough and unswerving Irish Nationalist, and his splendid
- generosity to the cause is well known.
-
- =Kelly, Michael F.= (M. D.), Fall River, Mass.
-
- =Kelly, T. P.=, 544 West 22d Street, New York City; of T. P. Kelly &
- Co., manufacturers of black leads, foundry facings, supplies, etc.
-
- =Kelly, William J.=, 9 Dove Street, Newburyport, Mass.
-
- =Kelly, William J.=, insurance, Kittery, Me., and Portsmouth, N. H.
-
- =Kenedy, P. J.=, 3 and 5 Barclay Street, New York City.
-
- =Kennedy, Charles F.=, Brewer, Me.
-
- =Kennedy, Daniel=, 197 Berkeley Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.; of the Kennedy
- Valve Manufacturing Co., Coxsackie, N. Y.
-
- =Kennedy, Roderick J.=, 924 Sixth Avenue, New York City.
-
- =Kenney, James W.=, Park Brewery, Terrace Street, Roxbury (Boston),
- Mass.; vice-president and director, Federal Trust Co., Boston.
-
- =Kenney, Thomas=, 143 Summer Street, Worcester, Mass.
-
- =Kenney, Thomas F.= (M. D.), Vienna, Austria.
-
- =Kent, Daniel V.=, Kansas City, Mo.
-
- =Kerby, John E.=, architect, 452 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
-
- =Kiernan, Patrick=, 265 West 43d Street, New York City.
-
- =Killoren, Hon. Andrew=, Dover, N. H.; recently a senator of New
- Hampshire.
-
- =Kilmartin, Thomas J.=, (M. D.), Waterbury, Conn.
-
- =Kilroy, Patrick=, lawyer, Main Street, Springfield, Mass.
-
- =Kilroy, Philip= (M. D.), Springfield, Mass.
-
- =Kinney, Thomas I.=, Whitney Avenue, New Haven, Conn.; recently
- candidate for mayor of New Haven.
-
- =Kinsela, John F.=, 509 Gorham Street, Lowell, Mass.
-
- =Kivel, Hon. John=, Dover, N. H.
-
- =Knights of St. Patrick=, San Francisco, Cal. (Life membership.) Care
- of John Mulhern, 124 Market Street, San Francisco.
-
- =Lally, Frank=, 161 Saratoga Street, East Boston, Mass.
-
- =Lamb, Matthew B.=, 516 Main Street, Worcester, Mass.
-
- =Lamson, Col. Daniel S.=, Weston, Mass.; Lieutenant-Colonel commanding
- Sixteenth Regiment (Mass.), 1861; A. A. G., Norfolk, 1862; served on
- staff of General Hooker; is a member of the Society of Colonial
- Wars, Sons of the American Revolution, and Military Order of the
- Loyal Legion; one of his ancestors landed at Ipswich, Mass., in
- 1632, and received a grant of 350 acres; another ancestor, Samuel,
- of Reading, Mass., participated in King Philip’s War and had a son
- in the expedition of 1711. Another member of the family, Samuel of
- Weston, commanded a company at Concord, Mass., April 19, 1775, and
- was major and colonel of the Third Middlesex Regiment for many
- years, dying in 1795.
-
- =Lappin, J. J.=, 7 Grant Street, Portland, Me.
-
- =Lavelle, John=, Inquiry Division, Post Office, Cleveland, O.
-
- =Lawler, Thomas B.=, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York City; with Ginn &
- Company, publishers; member of the American Oriental Society and of
- the Archæological Society of America.
-
- =Lawless, Hon. Joseph T.=, lawyer, Norfolk, Va.; recently secretary of
- state, Virginia.
-
- =Leahy, Matthew W.=, 257 Franklin Street, New Haven, Conn.
-
- =Lee, Hon. Thomas Z.=, of the law firm Barney & Lee, Industrial Trust
- Building, Providence, R. I.
-
- =Lembeck, Gustav W.=, of Lembeck & Betz, Eagle Brewing Co., 173 Ninth
- Street, Jersey City, N. J.
-
- =Lenehan, John J.=, of the law firm Lenehan & Dowley, 165 Broadway,
- New York City. (Life member of the Society.)
-
- =Lenihan, Rev. B. C.=, Fort Dodge, Iowa.
-
- =Lenihan, Rt. Rev. M. C.=, bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of
- Great Falls, Mont.
-
- =Lennox, George W.=, manufacturer, Haverhill, Mass.
-
- =Leonard, Peter F.=, 343 Harvard Street, Cambridge, Mass.
-
- =Linehan, John J.=, Linehan Corset Co., Worcester, Mass.
-
- =Linehan, Rev. T. P.=, Biddeford, Me.
-
- =Lonergan, Thomas S.=, journalist, 665 Broadway, New York City.
-
- =Loughlin, Peter J.=, Court House, Chambers Street, New York City.
-
- =Lovell, David B.= (M. D.), 32 Pearl Street, Worcester, Mass.
-
- =Luddy, Timothy F.=, Waterbury, Conn.
-
- =Lyman, William=, 51 East 122d Street, New York City.
-
- =Lynch, Bernard E.=, lawyer, 42 Church Street, New Haven, Conn.
-
- =Lynch, Eugene=, 24 India Street, Boston, Mass.
-
- =Lynch, J. H.=, Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, N. Y.
-
- =Lynch, John E.=, school principal, Worcester, Mass.
-
- =Lynch, Thomas J.=, lawyer, Augusta, Me.; was city clerk of Augusta,
- 1884 and 1885; postmaster of Augusta from 1894 to 1898; and trustee
- of the Public Library; is now one of the water commissioners; a
- director of the Granite National Bank; trustee of the Kennebec
- Savings Bank; trustee of the Augusta Trust Company; president of the
- Augusta Loan & Building Association; director of the Augusta,
- Winthrop & Gardiner Railway; director of the Augusta Real Estate
- Association; and trustee of many estates.
-
- =Lynn, John=, 48 Bond Street, New York City.
-
- =Lynn, Hon. Wauhope=, 257 Broadway, New York City; recently a judge of
- one of the New York courts.
-
- =MacDonnell, John T. F.=, paper manufacturer, Holyoke, Mass.
-
- =Magenis, James P.=, of the law firm McConnell, Magenis & McConnell,
- Tremont Building, Tremont Street, Boston, Mass.
-
- =Magrane, P. B.=, dry goods merchant, Lynn, Mass.
-
- =Magrath, Patrick F.=, 244 Front Street, Binghamton, N. Y.; with the
- George A. Kent Company, Binghamton, wholesale cigar manufacturers.
- He has been connected with this house for the past twenty-seven
- years, for twenty of which he has been its Eastern representative.
- (Life member of the Society.)
-
- =Maguire, P. J.=, 204 Madison Street, New York City.
-
- =Maher, Stephen J.= (M. D.), 212 Orange Street, New Haven, Conn.
-
- =Mahony, William H.=, dry goods, 844 Eighth Avenue, New York City.
- (Life member of the Society.)
-
- =Malloy, Gen. A. G.=, El Paso, Texas; a veteran of the Mexican and
- Civil wars; during the latter conflict he was successively major,
- colonel and brigadier-general; has been collector of the port of
- Galveston.
-
- =Maloney, Cornelius=, publisher of the _Daily Democrat_, Waterbury,
- Conn.
-
- =Maloney, Dr. Thomas E.=, North Main Street, Fall River, Mass.
-
- =Marshall, Rev. George F.=, rector of St. Paul’s Church, Milford, N.
- H.
-
- =Martin, James=, managing editor, _New York Tribune_, New York City.
-
- =Martin, Hon. John B.=, penal institutions commissioner, 762 Fourth
- Street, South Boston, Mass.
-
- =McAdoo, Hon. William=, police commissioner of the city of New York;
- ex-member of Congress; ex-assistant secretary of the navy; member of
- the law firm McAdoo & Crosby, 25 Broad Street, New York City.
-
- =McAleenan, Arthur=, 131 West 69th Street, New York City.
-
- =McAleer, Dr. George=, Worcester, Mass.
-
- =McAlevy, John F.=, salesman, 26–50 North Main Street, Pawtucket, R.
- I.
-
- =McAuliffe, John F.=, engraver, with the Livermore & Knight Co.,
- Westminster Street, Providence, R. I.; born in New York City, Nov.
- 4, 1856; educated in that city; learned the art of bank note
- engraving. His father’s father was a parishioner and intimate
- friend, in Ireland, of Rev. Theobald Mathew.
-
- =McBride, D. H.=, to Barclay Street, New York City. Dealer in
- ecclesiastical works in Italian marble, stained glass windows,
- church furnishings, etc.
-
- =McCaffrey, Hugh=, manufacturer, Fifth and Berks Streets,
- Philadelphia, Pa. (Life member of the Society.)
-
- =McCall, John A.=, president of the New York Life Insurance Co., New
- York City. (Life member of the Society.)
-
- =McCanna, Francis I.=, lawyer, Industrial Trust Building, Providence,
- R. I.
-
- =McCarrick, James W.=, general southern agent, Clyde Steamship Co.,
- Norfolk, Va. Mr. McCarrick is a veteran of the Civil War. He was
- transferred, 1861, from Twelfth Virginia regiment to North Carolina
- gunboat _Winslow_, and appointed master’s mate. Transferred to
- Confederate navy with that steamer, and ordered to Confederate
- steamer _Seabird_, at Norfolk navy yard. Attached to _Seabird_ until
- latter was sunk. Taken prisoner, Elizabeth City, N. C. Paroled
- February, 1862. Exchanged for officer of similar rank captured from
- United States ship _Congress_. Promoted to master and ordered to
- navy yard, Selma, Ala. Served later on Confederate steamships
- _Tuscaloosa_, _Baltic_ and _Tennessee_ at Mobile, and in Mobile Bay,
- and on steamer _Macon_, at Savannah, and on Savannah River. Detailed
- to command water battery at Shell Bluff, below Augusta, after
- surrender of Savannah. Paroled from steamship _Macon_ at Augusta,
- Ga., after Johnson’s surrender.
-
- =McCarthy, Charles, Jr.=, Portland, Me.
-
- =McCarthy, George W.=, of Dennett & McCarthy, dry goods, Portsmouth,
- N. H.
-
- =McCarthy, M. R. F.=, 82 Court Street, Binghamton, N. Y.; a
- commissioner of the department of Public Instruction.
-
- =McCarthy, Patrick J.=, lawyer, Industrial Trust Building, Providence,
- R. I.; has been a member of the General Assembly of Rhode Island.
-
- =McCaughan, Rev. John P.=, Holyoke, Mass.
-
- =McCaughey, Bernard=, of Bernard McCaughey & Co., house furnishers,
- Pawtucket, R. I.
-
- =McClean, Rev. Peter H.=, Milford, Conn.
-
- =McConway, William=, of the McConway & Torley Co., Pittsburg, Pa.
- (Life member of the Society.)
-
- =McCormick, Edward R.=, 15 West 38th Street, New York City.
-
- =McCoy, Rev. John J.=, rector of the Church of the Holy Name,
- Chicopee, Mass.
-
- =McCready, Rt. Rev. Mgr. Charles=, 329 West 42d Street, New York City.
-
- =McCreery, Robert=, room 427, Produce Exchange, New York City.
-
- =McCullough, John=, 55 Maxfield Street, New Bedford, Mass.
-
- =McDonald, Mitchell C.=, care Navy Department, Washington, D. C.;
- paymaster, U. S. N.
-
- =McDonnell, Peter=, 2 Battery Place, New York City; general railroad,
- steamship and banking business; agent, New York, Ontario & Western
- Railway.
-
- =McDonnell, Robert E.=, lawyer, 206 Broadway, New York City.
-
- =McDonough, Hon. John J.=, Fall River, Mass.; justice of the second
- district court of Bristol County, Mass.
-
- =McEldowney, W. A.=, 225 Sixth Street, Ashland, N. J.
-
- =McElroy, Rev. Charles J.=, rector of St. Mary’s church, Derby, Conn.
-
- =McEvoy, John W.=, 137 Central Street, Lowell, Mass.
-
- =McGann, James E.=, real estate, 902 Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn.
-
- =McGauran, Michael S.= (M. D.), Lawrence, Mass.
-
- =McGillicuddy, Hon. D. J.=, of the law firm McGillicuddy & Morey,
- Lewiston, Me.; ex-mayor of Lewiston.
-
- =McGolrick, Rev. E. J.=, 84 Herbert Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
-
- =McGolrick, Rt. Rev. James= (D. D.), bishop of the Roman Catholic
- diocese of Duluth, Minn. (Life member of the Society.)
-
- =McGovern, James=, 6 Wall Street, New York City. (Life member of the
- Society.)
-
- =McGovern, Joseph P.=, of J. P. McGovern & Bro., fur brokers, 193
- Greene Street, New York City.
-
- =McGowan, Rear Admiral John=, U. S. N. (retired), 1739 N Street, N.
- W., Washington, D. C. (Life member of the Society.)
-
- =McGowan, P. F.=, manufacturer, 224 East 12th Street, New York City;
- member of the board of education. (Life member of the Society.)
-
- =McGuire, Edward J.=, lawyer, 52 Wall Street, New York City.
-
- =McGurrin, F. E.=, of F. E. McGurrin & Co., investment bankers,
- Security Trust Building, Salt Lake City, Utah; president of the Salt
- Lake Security & Trust Co.
-
- =McIntyre, John F.=, of the law firm Cantor, Adams & McIntyre, 25
- Broad Street, New York City.
-
- =McKelleget, George F.=, of the law firm R. J. & G. F. McKelleget,
- Pemberton Building, Boston, Mass.
-
- =McKelleget, Richard J.=, of the law firm R. J. & G. F. McKelleget,
- Pemberton Building, Boston, Mass.
-
- =McLaughlin, Henry V.= (M. D.), 40 Kent Street, Brookline, Mass.
-
- =McLaughlin, John=, builder, 348 East 81st Street, New York City.
-
- =McLaughlin, Marcus J.=, 250 West 25th Street, New York City.
-
- =McLaughlin, Thomas=, Hallowell, Me.
-
- =McLaughlin, Thomas F.=, 19 East 87th Street, New York City.
-
- =McMahon, James=, 51 Chambers Street, New York City.
-
- =McMahon, Rev. John W.= (D. D.), rector of St. Mary’s church,
- Charlestown (Boston), Mass.
-
- =McManus, Col. John=, 87 Dorrance Street, Providence, R. I.; was
- appointed colonel of the Rhode Island Guards regiment by Governor
- Van Zandt, in 1887; was one of the commissioners to revise the
- militia laws of the state; aide-de-camp, with the rank of colonel,
- on the staff of Governor Davis of Rhode Island; has been prominently
- identified with all movements for the betterment of Ireland—his
- native land; is of the firm John McManus & Co., prominent clothing
- merchants of Providence.
-
- =McManus, Michael=, of McManus & Co., Fall River, Mass.
-
- =McManus, Rev. Michael T.=, rector of St. Mary’s Church of the
- Assumption, Brookline, Mass.
-
- =McNamee, Hon. John H. H.=, 51 Frost Street, Cambridge, Mass.;
- recently mayor of Cambridge.
-
- =McOwen, Anthony=, 515 Wales Avenue, Borough of the Bronx, New York
- City.
-
- =McPartland, John E.=, Park Street, New Haven, Conn.
-
- =McQuade, E. A.=, 75–77 Market Street, Lowell, Mass.
-
- =McQuaid, Rev. William P.=, rector of St. James Church, Harrison
- Avenue, Boston, Mass.
-
- =McSweeney, Edward F.=, _Evening Traveler_, Summer Street, Boston,
- Mass.
-
- =McWalters, John P.=, 141 Broadway, New York City.
-
- =Meade, Richard W.=, 817 Eighth Avenue, New York City; son of the
- first president-general of the society.
-
- =Mellen, Hon. W. M. E.= (M. D.), Chicopee, Mass.; ex-mayor of
- Chicopee.
-
- =Milholland, John E.=, Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia, Pa.;
- president of the Batcheller Pneumatic Tube Co., of Philadelphia;
- president of the Pneumatic Dispatch Manufacturing Co., of
- Pennsylvania; director in the Pearsall Pneumatic Tube and Power Co.,
- of New York, and a director in the Pneumatic Transit Co., of New
- Jersey. Under him the successful pneumatic tube of the large
- diameter have been constructed, and it is largely due to his energy
- and effort that the U. S. post-office department now considers a
- part of its general delivery system the pneumatic tube service. He
- is a member of the Transportation Club of New York, the New York
- Press Club, the Republican Club, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the
- American Museum of Natural History, and a number of other
- organizations.
-
- =Molony, Henry A.=, of Molony & Carter, 16 New Street, Charleston, S.
- C.
-
- =Monaghan, Hon. James Charles=, chief of the Bureau of Statistics of
- the U. S. Department of Commerce and Labor, Washington, D. C.;
- formerly U. S. consul at Mannheim and at Chemnitz; recently
- professor of Commerce, University of Wisconsin.
-
- =Monaghan, Rt. Rev. John J.= (D. D.), bishop of the Roman Catholic
- diocese of Wilmington, Del.
-
- =Montfort, Richard=, Louisville, Ky.; chief engineer of the Louisville
- & Nashville R. R.
-
- =Montgomery, Gen. Phelps=, 39 Church Street, New Haven, Conn.
-
- =Moore, O’Brien=, president and general manager of The Citizen
- Printing and Publishing Co., Tucson, Ariz. On the breaking out of
- the war with Spain, he entered the service as lieutenant-colonel of
- the Second West Virginia Infantry. After a year’s service, and peace
- being declared with Spain, he became lieutenant-colonel of U. S.
- Volunteers for the operations in the Philippines, where he served
- for eighteen months, until his regiment was mustered out. He then
- settled in Tucson, and is now head of a valuable newspaper plant,
- which issues a daily and a weekly. (Life member of the Society.)
-
- =Moran, Col. James=, Providence, R. I.; a veteran of the Civil War. He
- was appointed second lieutenant in the Third Regiment, Rhode Island
- Volunteers, by Special Orders 53, A. G. O., R. I., Aug. 27, 1861;
- was commissioned second lieutenant, Fifth Rhode Island Heavy
- Artillery, Nov. 5, 1861; mustered in, Dec. 16, 1861; in command of
- Company A, from Aug. 8, 1862, until Sept. 20, 1862; assumed command
- of Company D, Sept. 26, 1862; was commissioned captain and mustered
- in as such Feb. 14, 1863; on General Court Martial, July, 1863; in
- command of Fort Amory, at Newberne, N. C., from Sept. 1, 1863, until
- Oct. 15, 1863; assumed command of Post, at Hatteras Inlet, N. C.,
- April 21, 1864; in command of Forts Foster and Parke, at Roanoke
- Island, from May 2, 1864, until January, 1865; mustered out Jan. 17,
- 1865. In May, 1873, he was commissioned colonel of the Rhode Island
- Guards Regiment, and in June, 1887, became colonel of the Second
- Regiment, Brigade of Rhode Island Militia.
-
- =Moran, Dr. James=, 345 West 58th Street, New York City.
-
- =Morgan, John=, 44 West 46th Street, New York City.
-
- =Morkan, Michael J.=, P. O. Box 543, Hartford, Conn.
-
- =Moriarty, John=, 135 Broadway, Waterbury, Conn.
-
- =Morrissy, Thomas=, 48–50 West 14th Street, New York City.
-
- =Moseley, Edward A.=, Washington, D. C., president-general of the
- Society in 1897 and 1898. He succeeded to the position, in the
- former year, on the death of Admiral Meade, who was the first
- president-general of the organization. Mr. Moseley is secretary of
- the U. S. Interstate Commerce Commission. He is ninth in descent
- from Lieut. Thaddeus Clark, who came from Ireland, and died in
- Portland, Me., May 16, 1690. Clark was lieutenant of a company of
- men engaged in the defence of Falmouth, now Portland, during the
- Indian War. He fell into ambuscade with his company while making a
- reconnoitre, and was killed with twelve of his men. Mr. Moseley is
- also a descendant of Deputy-Governor Cleeves (or Cleaves), a founder
- of Portland, formerly Falmouth, and is sixth in descent from Lieut.
- John Brown of Belfast, Me., who came with his father from
- Londonderry, Ire., and was one of the settlers of Londonderry, N.
- H.; Brown was chairman of the First Board of Selectmen of Belfast,
- Me., chosen Nov. 11, 1773, ’74 and ’75; he removed from Londonderry,
- N. H. While residing there he had been a commissioned officer in the
- Provincial Army, and had served in the French War. Mr. Moseley is
- also of patriotic Revolutionary stock, and is a member of the
- Society of Cincinnati.
-
- =Moynahan, Bartholomew=, lawyer, 120 Broadway, New York City; official
- stenographer to the New York Supreme Court.
-
- =Mullen, John F.=, 26 Trask Street, Providence, R. I.; foreman,
- Wildprett & Saacke, gold ring manufacturers; musical director, St.
- Joseph’s Church, Providence, 1886–1888; solo baritone, St. Michael’s
- Church, since 1893; musical director, Rhode Island Irish Language
- Society, 1896–1897; assistant director, Gesang Verein Einklang,
- since 1897.
-
- =Murphy, D. P., Jr.=, 31 Barclay Street, New York City.
-
- =Murphy, Edward J.=, of the Edward J. Murphy Co., real estate brokers,
- Springfield, Mass.
-
- =Murphy, Frank J.=, 109 Mason Street, Salem, Mass.
-
- =Murphy, Fred C.=, of the Edward J. Murphy Co., Springfield, Mass.
-
- =Murphy, James=, 42 Westminster Street, Providence, R. I.
-
- =Murphy, James R.=, lawyer, 27 School Street, Boston, Mass.
-
- =Murphy, Hon. John R.=, lawyer, Boston, Mass.
-
- =Murray, John F.=, captain of police, Cambridge, Mass.; residence, 9
- Avon Street.
-
- =Murray, Hon. Lawrence O.=, assistant secretary, U. S. Department of
- Commerce and Labor, Washington, D. C. He is a lawyer by profession.
- He first went to Washington as secretary to William Edmund Curtis,
- assistant secretary of the treasury. Subsequently, he held other
- positions in the treasury, including that of chief of division, and,
- from Sept. 1, 1898, to June 27, 1899, that of deputy comptroller of
- the currency. He left the government employment to become the trust
- officer of the American Trust Company, continuing in that place for
- three years. He then went to Chicago as secretary of the Central
- Trust Company of Illinois and served there for two years before
- becoming assistant secretary of commerce and labor.
-
- =Murray, Michael J.=, lawyer, 27 School Street, Boston, Mass.
-
- =Murray, Patrick=, insurance, 318 West 52d Street, New York City.
-
- =Murray, Thomas Hamilton=, 36 Newbury Street, Boston, Mass.;
- secretary-general of the Society; a newspaper man of twenty years’
- experience, during which he has been editorially connected with
- journals in Boston and Lawrence, Mass., Providence, R. I., and
- Bridgeport and Meriden, Conn.; has devoted much attention to
- historical research, particularly in relation to the Irish element
- in American history, and has delivered addresses on the subject
- before the New England Historic, Genealogical Society; the Rhode
- Island Historical Society; the Phi Kappa Sigma of Brown University;
- the Boston Charitable Irish Society (founded 1737), and other
- organizations; is the author of a number of papers, pamphlets and
- books.
-
- =Neagle, Rev. Richard=, Malden, Mass.
-
- =O’Beirne, Gen. James R.=, 290 Broadway, New York City. In military
- life he has held every commissioned rank up to brevet
- brigadier-general of volunteers; has also been provost marshal,
- District of Columbia; deputy U. S. marshal, District of Columbia;
- register of wills, District of Columbia; editor _Sunday Gazette_,
- Washington, D. C.; special agent U. S. Indian affairs; special agent
- U. S. treasury department; assistant U. S. commissioner of
- immigration at New York City; commissioner of charities, New York
- City; commander U. S. Medal of Honor Legion. In business life has
- been president of Yonkers Electric Light Co.; secretary of
- Flemington Coal and Coke Co. of West Virginia, and treasurer of
- Manhattan Distilling Co. In social life, president of the United
- Irish societies of New York City and vicinity, and member of various
- clubs and other organizations.
-
- =O’Brien, Hon. C. D.=, lawyer, Globe Building, St. Paul, Minn.;
- prosecuting attorney of Ramsey County, Minn., from 1874 to 1878;
- assistant U. S. district attorney from 1870 to 1873; mayor of St.
- Paul from 1883 to 1885.
-
- =O’Brien, Dennis F.=, of the law firm Sheahan & O’Brien, Banigan
- Building, Providence, R. I.
-
- =O’Brien, Rev. James J.=, 185 Summer Street, Somerville, Mass.; a son
- of the late Mayor Hugh O’Brien of Boston, Mass.
-
- =O’Brien, John D.=, Bank of Minnesota Building, St. Paul, Minn.; of
- the law firm Stevens, O’Brien, Cole & Albrecht.
-
- =O’Brien, Hon. Morgan J.= (LL. D.), 729 Park Avenue, New York City; a
- justice of the New York Supreme Court; trustee of the New York
- Public Library.
-
- =O’Brien, Patrick=, of Driscoll & O’Brien, contractors, 399 South
- Broadway, Lawrence, Mass.
-
- =O’Byrne, M. A.=, 370 West 118th Street, New York City.
-
- =O’Callaghan, Rev. Denis= (D. D.), rector of St. Augustine’s Church,
- South Boston, Mass.
-
- =O’Connell, Rt. Rev. Mgr. Denis Joseph= (S. T. D.), rector of the
- Catholic University, Washington, D. C.
-
- =O’Connell, John=, 302 West End Avenue, New York City.
-
- =O’Connell, John F.=, 306 Broadway, Providence, R. I.
-
- =O’Connell, Joseph F.=, lawyer, 53 State Street, Boston, Mass.
-
- =O’Connell, P. A.=, vice-president of the Wm. Filene’s Sons Co., dry
- goods, 453–463 Washington Street, Boston, Mass.
-
- =O’Connor, Edward=, 302 Broadway, New York City.
-
- =O’Connor, Hon. J. J.=, 414–416 Carroll Street. Elmira, N. Y. (Life
- member of the Society.)
-
- =O’Connor, J. L.=, Ogdensburg, N. Y.
-
- =O’Connor, M. P.=, Binghamton, N. Y. (Life member of the Society.)
-
- =O’Doherty, Rev. James=, Haverhill, Mass. (Life member of the
- Society.)
-
- =O’Doherty, Hon. Matt.=, Louisville, Ky.; a judge of the
- Circuit-Court.
-
- =O’Donovan, Jeremiah (Rossa)=, Cork County Council, Cork, Ireland;
- late of New York City.
-
- =O’Donnell, Rev. James H.=, Norwalk, Conn.
-
- =O’Donnell, Hon. John B.=, lawyer, Northampton, Mass.; ex-mayor of
- Northampton.
-
- =O’Dwyer, Hon. E. F.=, 37 West 76th Street, New York City; chief
- justice of the City Court of New York.
-
- =O’Farrell, P. A.=, Waldorf-Astoria, New York City. (Life member of
- the Society.)
-
- =O’Flaherty, James=, advertising, 22 North William Street, New York
- City.
-
- =O’Flynn, Rev. D. P.=, 138 Waverly Place, New York City.
-
- =O’Gorman, Hon. J. A.=, 318 West 108th Street, New York City; a
- justice of the New York Supreme Court.
-
- =O’Gorman, Thomas A.=, the O’Gorman Co., dry goods, Providence, R. I.
-
- =O’Hagan, Thomas= (Ph. D.), 151 Mutual Street, Toronto, Canada.
-
- =O’Herin, William=, Parsons, Labette County, Kan.; superintendent of
- machinery and equipment, Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway. (Life
- member of the Society.)
-
- =O’Keefe, Edmund=, superintendent of buildings, New Bedford, Mass.
-
- =O’Keefe, John A.=, 25 Exchange Street, Lynn, Mass.; a native of
- Rockport, Mass.; was graduated from Harvard College, class of 1880;
- member of the Phi Beta Kappa; taught school in Housatonic, Mass.;
- was elected submaster of the Lynn, Mass., High School in 1881 and
- headmaster of the same in 1885; became a member of the teaching
- staff of the English High School, Boston, Mass.; studied law; was
- admitted to the bar of Essex County, Mass., and has since practiced
- law in Lynn. In 1897 he was the Democratic candidate for
- attorney-general of Massachusetts. Member of the Lynn Board of
- Associated Charities; member of the New England Association of
- Colleges and Preparatory Schools; of the Essex Institute, and of the
- Executive Board of the Civic League of Lynn. Among Mr. O’Keefe’s
- classmates at Harvard were: Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, president of
- the United States; Hon. William S. Andrews, justice of the New York
- Supreme Court; Robert Bacon, partner of J. P. Morgan; Harold N.
- Fowler, professor of Latin; Hon. Josiah Quincy, mayor of Boston,
- Mass.; Albert Bushnell Hart, historian and professor, and many other
- people of note.
-
- =O’Leary, Jeremiah=, 275 Fifty-eighth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
-
- =O’Leary, P. J.=, 161 West 13th Street, New York City.
-
- =O’Loughlin, Patrick=, lawyer, 23 Court Street, Boston, Mass.
-
- =O’Malley, Thomas F.=, lawyer, 21 Dane Street, Somerville, Mass.
-
- =O’Meara, Maurice=, of the Maurice O’Meara Co., paper manufacturers,
- 448 Pearl Street, New York City.
-
- =O’Neil, Frank S.=, lawyer, O’Neil Building, Binghamton, N. Y.
-
- =O’Neil, Hon. Joseph H.=, president of the Federal Trust Co., Boston,
- Mass.; formerly a member of Congress; was later U. S. Treasurer at
- Boston.
-
- =O’Neil, Rev. John P.=, Peterborough, N. H.
-
- =O’Neill, Rev. Daniel H.=, 935 Main Street, Worcester, Mass.
-
- =O’Neill, Rev. D. P.=, Westchester, N. Y.
-
- =O’Neill, Eugene M.=, Pittsburg, Pa. (Life member of the Society.)
-
- =O’Neill, Francis Q.=, Charleston, S. C., of the firm Bernard O’Neill
- & Sons (house founded in 1845); president of the Hibernia Trust and
- Savings Bank, Charleston; president of the Standard Truck Package
- Co.; president of the Riverside Paper Box Factory; director, First
- National Bank; director, Equitable Fire Insurance Co.; an alderman
- of Charleston, and mayor _pro tem._ of the city; president of the
- Charleston Country Club; member of the Board of Trustees of the
- College of Charleston.
-
- =O’Neill, James L.=, 220 Franklin Street, Elizabeth, N. J.; connected
- with the Elizabeth post office for the past sixteen years; has been
- president of the Young Men’s Father Mathew T. A. Society, and
- treasurer of St. Patrick’s Alliance, Elizabeth. He was one of the
- prime movers in the projection and completion of a monument to the
- late Mayor Mack of Elizabeth.
-
- =O’Rourke, Hon. Jeremiah=, of J. O’Rourke & Sons, architects, 756
- Broad Street, Newark, N. J.; U. S. Supervising Architect under
- President Cleveland. (Life member of the Society.)
-
- =O’Rourke, John F.=, consulting and contracting engineer, 26 Nassau
- Street, New York City.
-
- =O’Sullivan, Humphrey=, treasurer of the O’Sullivan Rubber Co.,
- Lowell, Mass.
-
- =O’Sullivan, James=, president of the O’Sullivan Rubber Co., Lowell,
- Mass.
-
- =O’Sullivan, John=, with the H. B. Claflin Co., Church Street, New
- York City.
-
- =O’Sullivan, Sylvester J.=, 66 Liberty Street, New York City, manager
- of the New York office of the United States Fidelity and Guaranty
- Co., of Baltimore. Md.
-
- =Owens, Joseph E.=, of the law firm Ketcham & Owens, 189 Montague
- Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
-
- =Patterson, Rev. George J.=, rector of St. Vincent’s Church, South
- Boston, Mass.
-
- =Phelan, Hon. James D.=, Phelan Building, San Francisco, Cal.;
- recently mayor of San Francisco.
-
- =Phelan, James J.=, 16 Exchange Place, New York City; president of the
- Traders’ and Travelers’ Accident Co.; treasurer of the King’s County
- Refrigerating Co., Astoria Cordage Co., and the Pontiac Building
- Co.; director in the Stuyvesant Insurance Co. When Ferdinand de
- Lesseps contracted to build the Panama Canal, Mr. Phelan became
- treasurer and manager of the American Contracting and Dredging Co.,
- in which he was associated with the late Eugene Kelly, H. B. Slaven
- and others. This company contracted for and built fifteen miles of
- the canal. In 1891 Mr. Phelan was appointed treasurer of the
- Department of Docks of the city of New York, which office he held
- for five years.
-
- =Phelan, John J.=, lawyer, 7 Wall Street, New York City; graduate of
- Manhattan College and of the Columbia Law School; member of the
- Xavier Alumni Sodality, the N. Y. Catholic Club, and the Manhattan
- Alumni Society.
-
- =Phelan, Rev. J.=, Marcus, Ia.
-
- =Philbin, Eugene A.=, of the law firm Philbin, Beekman & Menken, 111
- Broadway, New York City.
-
- =Piggott, Michael=, 1634 Vermont Street, Quincy, Ill.; a veteran of
- the Civil War. He was made second lieutenant of Company F, Western
- Sharpshooters, in 1861, while at Camp Benton, St. Louis, Mo.; was
- promoted first lieutenant, and while at Fort Donaldson, in the
- spring of 1862, was made captain; lost a leg at Resaca, Ga. in May,
- 1864; was subsequently connected with the U. S. Revenue Service;
- messenger in the National House of Representatives, Washington, D.
- C.; was made postmaster of Quincy, Ill., during President Grant’s
- first term, and held the position for over sixteen years; was
- appointed Special Indian Agent by President Harrison, and in that,
- as in every position held, displayed eminent ability.
-
- =Plunkett, Thomas=, 257 Sixth Street, East Liverpool, O.
-
- =Power, Rev. James W.=, 47 East 129th Street, New York City.
-
- =Powers, Patrick H.=, president of the Emerson Piano Co., 120 Boylston
- Street, Boston, Mass.
-
- =Prendergast, W. A.=, 20 Nassau Street, New York City.
-
- =Quinlan, Francis J.= (M. D.), 33 West 38th Street, New York City; was
- for a number of years surgeon in the U. S. Indian Service; recently
- president of the New York Celtic Medical Society.
-
- =Quinlan, Col. James=, 120 Liberty Street, New York City; a veteran of
- the Civil War; served in the Eighty-eighth New York Regiment (of
- Meagher’s Irish Brigade); member of the U. S. Medal of Honor Legion.
-
- =Quinn, John=, lawyer, 120 Broadway, New York City.
-
- =Quinn, W. Johnson=, manager of the Hotel Empire, New York City.
-
- =Regan, John H.=, lawyer, 422 35th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
-
- =Regan, W. P.=, architect, Lawrence, Mass.
-
- =Reilly, Robert J.=, Cedar Street. Bangor, Me.
-
- =Richardson, Stephen J.=, 1785 Madison Avenue, New York City;
- circulation manager New York _World_.
-
- =Rooney, John Jerome=, of Rooney & Spence, customs and insurance
- brokers, forwarding agents, 66, 68 and 70 Beaver Street, New York
- City.
-
- =Roosevelt, Hon. Theodore=, president of the United States, White
- House Washington, D. C.
-
- =Rorke, James=, 40 Barclay Street, New York City.
-
- =Ryan, Charles V.=, Springfield, Mass.
-
- =Ryan, Christopher S.=, Lexington, Mass.
-
- =Ryan, James T.=, 68 William Street, New York City.
-
- =Ryan, John J.=, 171 East 94th Street, New York City.
-
- =Ryan, Michael=, 377 Broadway. New York City.
-
- =Ryan, Michael J.=, Waterbury, Conn.
-
- =Ryan, Nicholas W.=, 1444 Boston Road, Borough of the Bronx, New York
- City.
-
- =Ryan, Most Rev. Patrick J.= (D. D.), Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pa.;
- the Cathedral, Philadelphia.
-
- =Ryan, Richard=, Rutland, Vt.
-
- =Ryan, Timothy M.= (M. D.), Torrington, Conn.
-
- =Ryan, Hon. William=, of Wm. Ryan & Co., grocers, Port Chester, N. Y.
-
- =Sanders, Col. C. C.=, Gainesville, Ga.; president of the State
- Banking Co. of Gainesville; alternate commissioner to World’s Fair,
- Chicago, Ill., 1893; vice-president for Georgia, American Bankers’
- Association. Colonel Sanders is of Irish and English ancestry. On
- the maternal side he is descended from Thomas and Theodosia M.
- Smyth, who emigrated from Ireland in 1793, landing in Charleston, S.
- C. They settled in Jones County, Ga. Thomas died Nov. 28, 1799. On
- the paternal side Colonel Sanders is a descendant of Rev. Moses
- Sanders, who emigrated from England, with two brothers, John and
- David, and arrived in Petersburg, Va., 1765. They embraced the
- Patriotic cause in the Revolution and were active in operations
- against the British. Colonel Sanders, the subject of this sketch,
- graduated from the Georgia Military Institute, in June, 1861;
- entered the Confederate service; was made lieutenant-colonel of the
- Twenty-fourth Regiment of Infantry, Georgia Volunteers, August,
- 1861; served under General Lee in the Peninsular campaign, in the
- seven days’ battles around Richmond, Va., and was among the bravest
- of the brave; commanded his regiment at Malvern Hill and at Marye’s
- Heights, Fredericksburg, where the Twenty-fourth was a part of the
- Confederate forces that received the valorous charges of Meagher’s
- Irish Brigade. He also commanded the regiment at the battles of
- Chancellorsville and Antietam, at which latter conflict he was
- placed in command of Wofford’s Brigade. While in this position he
- met a bayonet charge from the Federals by a counter bayonet charge,
- and in the desperate fighting that ensued, fifty-eight per cent. of
- Sanders’ heroic force was swept away. Colonel Sanders also led the
- Twenty-fourth at Cedar Creek, Chickamauga, Knoxville, the
- Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, and Sailor’s Creek. On April
- 6, 1865, Ewell’s Corps, to which Colonel Sanders’ regiment was then
- attached, was captured, and Colonel Sanders was sent as a prisoner
- of war to Washington, D. C. Writing of Meagher’s Irish Brigade,
- Colonel Sanders says: “I was in command of the Twenty-fourth Georgia
- Regiment, with other troops, at the foot of Marye’s Heights,
- receiving the five heroic and gallant charges of the Irish Brigade,
- whose prodigies of valor have filled the country with admiration. I
- saw the devoted Irish charge up to our breastworks, to be mowed down
- by a line of Confederate fire that no soldiers could withstand. I
- saw the Irish battalions cut down like grain before the reaper, yet
- the survivors would magnificently close up their ranks only to have
- huge gaps again cut through them. When forced back they rallied and
- came bravely on again, only to be riddled with bullets and torn by
- artillery. Their fifth charge was made with greatly decimated ranks
- that slowly recoiled like the waves of a tempestuous sea. When
- twilight descended upon the scene, a spectacle was presented
- unequaled in warfare. At least three fourths of my command was
- composed of men of Irish descent and knew that the gallant dead in
- our front were our kindred of the land beyond the sea. When, one by
- one, the stars came out that night, many tears were shed by Southern
- Confederate eyes for the heroic Federal Irish dead.” During the war
- Colonel Sanders was offered the rank of brigadier-general but
- declined the same.
-
- =Sasseen, Robert A.=, 50 Pine Street, New York City; insurance
- investments. (Life member of the Society.)
-
- =Scott, Joseph=, lawyer, Bradbury Building, Los Angeles, Cal.
-
- =Shahan, Very Rev. Thomas J.= (S. T. D., J. U. L.), professor of
- church history, Catholic University, Washington, D. C.; S. T. D.,
- Propaganda, Rome, 1882; J. U. L., Roman Seminary, 1889.
-
- =Shanahan, Very Rev. Edmund T.= (Ph. D., S. T. D., J. C. L.),
- professor of dogmatic theology, Catholic University, Washington, D.
- C.; A. B., Boston College, 1888; S. T. D., Propaganda, Rome, 1893;
- J. C. L., Roman Seminary, Rome, 1895; Ph. D., Roman Academy, 1895.
- Instructor in philosophy and dogmatic theology, American College,
- Rome, 1894–’95; lecturer in philosophy, University of Pennsylvania,
- 1898–’99; associate professor of philosophy, The Catholic University
- of America, 1895–1901.
-
- =Shanley, John F.=, 17 Washington Street, Newark, N. J.
-
- =Shanley, Thomas J.=, 344 West 87th Street, New York City.
-
- =Shea, Daniel W.= (Ph. D.), professor of physics, Catholic University,
- Washington, D. C.; A. B., Harvard University, 1886; A. M., Harvard
- University, 1888; Ph. D., Berlin, 1892. Assistant in Physics,
- Harvard University, 1889 and 1892; assistant professor of physics in
- the University of Illinois, 1892–’93; professor of physics in the
- University of Illinois, 1893–’95.
-
- =Shea, John B.=, 19 Maiden Lane, New York City.
-
- =Sheedy, Bryan DeF.= (M. D.), 10 West 46th Street, New York City.
-
- =Sheran, Hugh F.=, 46 Woodbine Street, Roxbury (Boston), Mass.
-
- =Sheridan, Rev. John A.=, 97 South Street, Jamaica Plain (Boston),
- Mass.
-
- =Sherman, P. Tecumseh=, of the law firm Taft & Sherman, 15 William
- Street, New York City; member of the Union League Club and of the
- Military Order of the Loyal Legion; son of the late Gen. William T.
- Sherman.
-
- =Shuman, A.=, merchant clothier, 440 Washington Street, Boston, Mass.
-
- =Slattery, John J.=, president Todd-Donigan Iron Co., Louisville, Ky.
-
- =Sligo Social Club=, Roxbury (Boston), Mass. (M. J. Mulroy, secretary,
- 24 Faxon Street, Roxbury.)
-
- =Sloane, Charles W.=, lawyer, 54 William Street, New York City.
-
- =Smith, Hon. Andrew C.= (M. D.), Dekum Building, Portland, Oregon;
- president of the State Board of Health; president of the Hibernia
- Savings Bank; member of the state senate from 1900 to 1904; has
- served on the staff of St. Vincent’s Hospital for fourteen years;
- has been president of the State and City Medical societies;
- represented Oregon for two years in the House of Delegates of the
- American Medical Association.
-
- =Smith, James=, 26 Broadway, New York City.
-
- =Smith, Rev. James J.=, 88 Central Street, Norwich, Conn.
-
- =Smith, Joseph=, secretary of the Police Commission, Lowell, Mass.
-
- =Smith, Dr. Thomas B.=, Wyman’s Exchange, Lowell, Mass.
-
- =Smith, Thomas F.=, clerk of the city court, 32 Chambers Street, New
- York City.
-
- =Smyth, Rev. Hugh P.=, rector of St. Joseph’s Church, Roxbury
- (Boston), Mass.
-
- =Smyth, Philip A.=, 11 Pine Street, New York City.
-
- =Smyth, Rev. Thomas=, Springfield, Mass.
-
- =Smyth, Rev. Thomas M.=, East Liverpool, O.
-
- =Somers, P. E.=, manufacturer, 17 Hermon Street, Worcester, Mass.
- (Life member of the Society.)
-
- =Spillane, J. B.=, managing editor _Music Trade Review_, Metropolitan
- Life Building, 1 Madison Avenue, New York City.
-
- =Stang, Rt. Rev. William= (D. D.), Fall River, Mass., bishop of the
- Roman Catholic diocese of Fall River.
-
- =Steele, Hon. John H.=, Phenix Building, Minneapolis, Minn.
-
- =Storen, William J.=, 232 Calhoun Street, Charleston, S. C.
-
- =Sullivan, James E.= (M. D.), Providence, R. I.; was graduated from
- Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, 1879; also studied
- medicine in Dublin, London and Paris; was city physician of Fall
- River, Mass., for seven years; married, in 1885, Alice, daughter of
- the late Joseph Banigan of Providence; retired from practice in
- 1891; is a member of the Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Providence
- Medical societies; vice-president of the University Club,
- Providence; a director of the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co.;
- president and treasurer of the Sullivan Investment Co., Providence.
-
- =Sullivan, James Mark=, lawyer, Exchange Building, New Haven, Conn.
-
- =Sullivan, John B.=, contractor, New Bedford, Mass.
-
- =Sullivan, John J.=, 61–63 Quincy Market, Boston, Mass.; of Doe,
- Sullivan & Co.
-
- =Sullivan, John J.=, lawyer, 203 Broadway, New York City.
-
- =Sullivan, Dr. M. B.=, Dover, N. H.; formerly a state senator.
-
- =Sullivan, M. F.= (M. D.), Oak Street, Lawrence, Mass.
-
- =Sullivan, Michael X.= (Ph. D.), instructor, Brown University,
- Providence, R. I.
-
- =Sullivan, Patrick F.=, of Sullivan Bros., 68 Pemberton Square,
- Boston, Mass.
-
- =Sullivan, Hon. Richard=, lawyer, Tremont Street, Boston, Mass.; an
- ex-senator of Massachusetts.
-
- =Sullivan, Roger G.=, cigar manufacturer, 803 Elm Street, Manchester,
- N. H.
-
- =Sullivan, Dr. T. P.=, 318 South Main Street, Fall River, Mass.
-
- =Sullivan, Timothy P.=, Concord, N. H.; furnished granite from his New
- Hampshire quarries for the new National Library Building,
- Washington, D. C.
-
- =Sullivan, William B.=, lawyer, Tremont Building, Boston, Mass.
-
- =Supple, Rev. James N.=, rector of St. Francis de Sales Church,
- Charlestown (Boston), Mass.
-
- =Sweeney, Rev. Timothy P.=, St. Patrick’s Church, Fall River, Mass.
-
- =Sweeny, William Montgomery=, 120 Franklin Street, Astoria, L. I., N.
- Y.
-
- =Swords, Joseph F.=, superintendent U. S. Reservation, Sulphur, Indian
- Territory. He is a descendant of Cornet George Swords, one of the A.
- D. 1649 officers in the service of Kings Charles I and Charles II in
- Ireland. Joseph F. Swords is a member of the Sons of the American
- Revolution. He is of the fourth American generation from Francis
- Dawson Swords, graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, 1750, who was
- exiled from Ireland, 1760, and who served in the Patriot Army
- throughout the War of the Revolution.
-
- =Tack, Theodore E.=, 52 Broadway, New York City.
-
- =Taggart, Hon. Thomas=, Grand Hotel, Indianapolis, Ind.
-
- =Teeling, Rt. Rev. Arthur J.=, rector of St. Mary’s Church, Lynn,
- Mass.
-
- =Thompson, Frank=, 1867 Seventh Avenue, New York City.
-
- =Thompson, Frank V.=, 116 Princeton Street, East Boston, Mass.
-
- =Thompson, James=, of James Thompson & Bro., Louisville, Ky.
-
- =Thompson, Robert Ellis= (Ph. D.), president, Central High School,
- Philadelphia, Pa.; recently a professor in the University of
- Pennsylvania.
-
- =Tierney, Dennis H.=, real estate and insurance, 167 Bank Street,
- Waterbury, Conn.
-
- =Tierney, Edward M.=, Hotel Marlborough, Broadway, New York City.
-
- =Tierney, Myles=, 317 Riverside Drive, New York City. (Life member of
- the Society.)
-
- =Toale, Patrick P.=, Toale P. O., Aiken County, S. C.
-
- =Toomey, A. J.=, F11 Produce Exchange, New York City.
-
- =Travers, Ambrose F.=, vice-president of the Travers Brothers Co.,
- cordage, etc., 41 Worth Street, New York City.
-
- =Travers, Vincent P.=, treasurer of the Travers Brothers Co., 41 Worth
- Street, New York City.
-
- =Vincent, John=, lawyer, 45 Cedar Street, New York City; was first
- assistant district attorney under the late Hon. John McKeon for two
- years, and on his death was appointed by the court as his successor
- _ad interim_.
-
- =Vredenburg, Watson, Jr.=, civil engineer, 32 Broadway, New York City.
-
- =Waldron, E. M.=, of E. M. Waldron & Co., building contractors, 84
- South Sixth Street, Newark, N. J.
-
- =Walker, William O’Brien=, 90 Wall Street, New York City, a descendant
- of the Revolutionary O’Briens of Machias, Me.
-
- =Wallace, Rev. T. H.=, Lewiston, Me.
-
- =Waller, Hon. Thomas M.=, ex-governor of Connecticut, New London,
- Conn.
-
- =Walsh, Frank=, secretary and credit manager, Wilkinson, Gaddis & Co.,
- wholesale grocers, 866–868 Broad Street, Newark, N. J.
-
- =Walsh, P. J.=, 503 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
-
- =Walsh, Philip C.=, 260 Washington Street, Newark, N. J.; of Walsh’s
- Sons & Co., dealers in irons and metals.
-
- =Walsh, Philip C., Jr.=, 260 Washington Street, Newark, N. J.
-
- =Walsh, Wm. P.=, 247 Water Street, Augusta, Me.
-
- =Ward, Edward=, of Ward Bros., contractors, Kennebunk, Me.
-
- =Ward, John T.=, Kennebunk, Me.
-
- =Ward, Michael J.=, Brookline, Mass.
-
- =Wilhere, Hon. M. F.=, 31st and Master Streets, Philadelphia, Pa.
-
- =Wilson, Hon. Thomas= (LL. D.), general counsel for the Chicago, St.
- Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co., St. Paul, Minn.; was chief
- justice of the Supreme Court of Minnesota, 1864–’69; member of the
- Minnesota House of Representatives, 1880; member of the Minnesota
- Senate, 1883; member of Congress, 1887–’89.
-
- =Woods, John J.=, 54 Federal Street, Newburyport, Mass.
-
- =Wright, Henry=, 584 East 148th Street, New York City; secretary,
- Building Trades Employers’ Association of the Bronx.
-
- =Zabriskie, George A.=, 123 Produce Exchange, New York City.
-
-
-
-
- NECROLOGY.
-
- (Continued from page 151).
-
-
- BYRNE, MAJ. JOHN, New York City. He was a native of Maryland and was
- born in 1845. Died in Mamaroneck, N. Y., Oct. 31, 1905. He was
- living in West Virginia with his father, a railroad contractor, when
- the war broke out. Although too young to enlist, he joined the Union
- army as a scout and served all through the contest. He settled in
- Cincinnati at the close of hostilities, and became a civil engineer.
- For over twenty years Major Byrne was identical with the railroad
- operations of the late C. P. Huntington. He was president of the
- Pittsburg, Shawmut and Northern Railroad Company, and of the Shawmut
- Mining Company. He was also a director of the Detroit City Gas
- Company and a trustee of the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank of New
- York and was also connected with other corporations (see page 142).
- An ardent lover of the land of his fathers, Major Byrne took a very
- active part in the Land League movement. He was elected
- vice-president of the League at the great National Convention held
- at Philadelphia, and served out his term. With the late Eugene
- Kelly, he was one of the organizers of the Irish Parliamentary Fund
- in this city, and made a personal contribution to it of $15,000. He
- also paid the salary of an Irish member of parliament for several
- years himself.
-
- CURRAN, JAMES, president of the James Curran Manufacturing Company of
- New York City; a veteran of the Civil War. He died at his residence,
- 230 West 99th Street, New York City, Oct. 27, 1905, aged 64 years.
-
-
-
-
- PRESIDENTS-GENERAL OF THE SOCIETY.
-
-
- 1897. Rear-Admiral George W. Meade, U. S. N. (retired), Philadelphia,
- Pa. Died May 4, 1897.
-
- 1897. Hon. Edward A. Moseley, secretary of the Interstate Commerce
- Commission, Washington, D. C.; was elected president-general
- on death of Admiral Meade.
-
- 1898. Hon. Edward A. Moseley, Washington, D. C.
-
- 1899. Hon. Thomas J. Gargan, Boston, Mass.; a prominent lawyer of
- that city; ex-member of the Police Commission; member of the
- Boston Transit Commission.
-
- 1900. Hon. Thomas J. Gargan, Boston, Mass.
-
- 1901. Hon. John D. Crimmins, New York City; prominent capitalist;
- official in banks, trust companies and other corporations.
-
- 1902. Hon. John D. Crimmins, New York City.
-
- 1903. Hon. William McAdoo, New York City; assistant secretary of the
- U. S. Navy under President Cleveland; prominent lawyer;
- ex-member of Congress; police commissioner of the city of New
- York.
-
- 1904. Hon. William McAdoo, New York City.
-
- 1905. Hon. John D. Crimmins, New York City.
-
-
-
-
- GENERAL INFORMATION REGARDING THE AMERICAN-IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
-
-
-The Society was organized on January 20, 1897, in Boston, Mass., and now
-has members in twenty-seven states, the District of Columbia, two
-territories and five foreign countries.
-
-The first president-general was the late Rear-Admiral R. W. Meade, U. S.
-N. (retired).
-
-Briefly stated, the object of the organization is to make better known
-the Irish chapter in American history.
-
-There are two classes of members in the organization,—Life and Annual.
-The life membership fee is $50, (paid once). The fee for annual members
-is $5, paid yearly. In the case of new annual members, the initiation
-fee, $5, also pays the membership dues for the first year.
-
-The board of government comprises a president-general, a
-vice-president-general, a secretary-general, a treasurer-general, a
-librarian and archivist, and an executive council. There are also state
-vice-presidents.
-
-The Society has already issued several bound volumes and a number of
-other publications. These have been distributed to the members and to
-public libraries; also to historical organizations and to universities.
-Each member of the Society is entitled, free of charge, to a copy of
-every publication issued from the time of his admittance. These
-publications are of great interest and value, and are more than an
-equivalent for the membership fee.
-
-The Society draws no lines of creed or politics. Being an American
-organization in spirit and principle, it welcomes to its ranks Americans
-of whatever race descent, and of whatever creed, who take an interest in
-the objects for which the Society is organized. Membership application
-blanks will be furnished on request.
-
-The membership includes many people of prominence, and has been
-addressed by many distinguished men. It occupies a position in the front
-rank of American historical organizations.
-
-
-
-
- GOOD WORDS FOR VOL. IV OF THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY.
-
-
-Volume IV of the Society’s Journal, covering the year 1904, was greeted
-with sentiments of high commendation as the preceding volumes had been.
-The following extracts are reproduced from a mass of acknowledgments,
-received by Secretary T. H. Murray, relative to the fourth volume:
-
- From the Town Library, Peterborough, N. H.: “We have received the
- Journal of the American-Irish Society, for which please accept our
- thanks.”
-
- From Mr. James Connolly, Coronado, Cal.: “I am in receipt of Vol. IV
- of the Journal of our Society. Please accept my congratulations on
- its excellence.”
-
- From the Boston Athenæum: “The library committee gratefully
- acknowledge the gift of Journal of the American-Irish Historical
- Society, Volume IV. Chas. K. Bolton, Librarian.”
-
- From Thomas Addis Emmet, M. D., LL. D., New York City: “I have
- received the fourth volume of the Journal of the American-Irish
- Historical Society, and am well pleased with it.”
-
- From the Library of the University of Colorado: “I beg to
- acknowledge with thanks the receipt of your Journal, Volume IV,
- 1904. Gift to this library. Alfred E. Whitaker Librarian.”
-
- From the Carnegie Library, Pittsburg, Pa.: “On behalf of the board
- of trustees I take pleasure in acknowledging your gift to the
- Carnegie Library of Pittsburg. Anderson H. Hopkins, Librarian.”
-
- From the Public Library, Haverhill, Mass.: “The trustees acknowledge
- with thanks the gift of the Journal of the American-Irish Historical
- Society, Volume IV, 1904. John G. Moulton, Librarian.”
-
- From Mr. Hugh McCaffrey, Philadelphia, Pa.: “I appreciate the fourth
- volume of the Journal of the Society, received lately, and which
- reflects great credit on you and the good work you have at heart.”
-
- From Mr. John Lavelle, Cleveland, O.: “The fourth volume of the
- Journal of our Society has just come to hand. It is an extremely
- creditable work, and is of permanent value. Congratulations!”
-
- From the Public Library, San Francisco, Cal.: “The trustees
- acknowledge with thanks the receipt of one copy of the ‘Journal of
- the American-Irish Historical Society,’ by Thomas Hamilton Murray.”
-
- From Mr. Edward J. Brandon, City Clerk, Cambridge, Mass.: “Permit me
- to tender my congratulations on Volume IV of the Journal. It seems
- to me that this is the best volume yet issued by the Society.”
-
- From the Library of the University of Oregon: “Please receive hearty
- thanks for Volume IV of the Journal of the American-Irish Historical
- Society. Yours very respectfully, Camilla Leach, Librarian.”
-
- From the University of Nebraska Library, Lincoln, Neb.: “The library
- board acknowledges with thanks the gift of the Journal of the
- American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV. J. I. Wyer,
- Librarian.”
-
- From Capt. Edward O’Meagher Condon, Nashville, Tenn.: “Many thanks
- for Volume IV of the Journal of the Society. It is splendidly gotten
- up and is creditable to you and the organization in every way.”
-
- From the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Public Library: “We beg to acknowledge the
- receipt of the Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society,
- Volume IV. With thanks for your courtesy, Frank P. Hill, Librarian.”
-
- From the New York State Library, Accession Department: “The library
- has received your Journal, Volume IV, 1904. The gift is gratefully
- acknowledged and will be duly credited. Melvil Dewey, Director.”
-
- From the Nashua (N. H.) Public Library: “The library has received
- the Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV, for
- which the trustees return a grateful acknowledgment. Harriet
- Crombie, Librarian.”
-
- From the Troy (N. Y.) Public Library: “Gentlemen: The Troy Public
- Library takes pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of Volume IV of
- the Journal of the Society. Yours very gratefully, Margaret Deming,
- Librarian.”
-
- From the Otis Library, Norwich, Conn.: “The Otis Library
- acknowledges with thanks the receipt of Journal, Volume IV, a gift
- to the library from the American-Irish Historical Society. Jonathan
- Trumbull, Librarian.”
-
- From Tufts College, Mass.: “The trustees of Tufts College have
- received from the American-Irish Historical Society the following
- gift to the library: The Journal, Volume IV, for which they return
- thanks. H. S. Mellen, Librarian.”
-
- From the Public Library, Portland, Me.: “The library has received
- your gift, Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Volume
- IV, which is hereby gratefully acknowledged for the trustees. Alice
- C. Furbish, Librarian.”
-
- From the Holyoke (Mass.) Public Library: “Dear Sir, Please accept
- the thanks of this Library for one copy of the ‘Journal of the
- American-Irish Historical Society,’ received today. Very truly
- yours, F. G. Willcox, Librarian.”
-
- From the Public Library, Denver, Col.: “The Public Library of the
- City of Denver acknowledges with thanks the receipt of Volume IV,
- Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society. Respectfully, C.
- R. Dudley, Librarian.”
-
- From the University of Pennsylvania: “The library committee of the
- University of Pennsylvania gratefully acknowledges the receipt of
- the gift noted on the margin: (Journal of the American-Irish
- Historical Society, Volume, IV, 1904.)”
-
- From the Library of Leland Stanford Junior University, California:
- “The library acknowledges with thanks the receipt of your gift of
- the Journal of American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV.
- Respectfully Yours, Melvin G. Dodge, Librarian.”
-
- From the University of Texas: “In behalf of the board of regents I
- hereby acknowledge with thanks the receipt of the following gift
- from you to the library: Journal, Volume IV. P. L. Windsor,
- Librarian. Austin, Texas, April 4, 1905.”
-
- From the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Md.: “The trustees
- acknowledge with thanks the gift of Journal of the American-Irish
- Historical Society, Volume IV, from the American-Irish Historical
- Society. Bernard C. Steiner, Librarian.”
-
- From the Library of the University of Chicago: “On behalf of the
- trustees I hereby acknowledge with thanks the receipt of Journal of
- the American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV, as a gift to the
- library. Zella Allen Dixson, Librarian.”
-
- From the Library of the University of Cincinnati: “This library begs
- to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of your gift of Volume IV
- of the Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society.
- Respectfully, Harriet Evans Hodge, Librarian.”
-
- From the Public Library, Hartford, Conn.: “The officers of the
- Hartford Public Library acknowledge with thanks the receipt of the
- Journal of American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV, a gift from
- the Society. C. M. Hewins, Librarian.”
-
- From the Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, Vt.: “The trustees
- gratefully acknowledge the receipt of the American-Irish Historical
- Society Journal, with an analytical index, a gift from Thomas
- Hamilton Murray. Sarah C. Hagar, Librarian.”
-
- From Clark University Library, Worcester, Mass.: “Please accept the
- thanks of the University for your gift of Journal of the
- American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV, the receipt of which
- is hereby acknowledged. Louis N. Wilson. Librarian.”
-
- From the U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.: “I have the pleasure
- of acknowledging the receipt of the following gift to this library:
- The Journal of the American-Irish Society, Volume IV. Very
- respectfully, A. N. Brown, Professor, Librarian.”
-
- From the Public Library of Providence, R. I.: “The trustees of the
- Providence Public Library have received from the American-Irish
- Historical Society, the Journal, Volume IV, for which they return
- their thanks. William E. Foster, Librarian.”
-
- From the Public Library, Brookline, Mass.: “The trustees
- acknowledge, with thanks, the gift of Journal of the American-Irish
- Historical Society, Volume IV, from the Society. Leonard K. Storrs,
- Chairman of the Board. Louisa M. Hooper, Librarian.”
-
- From the Library Association of Portland, Oregon: “The directors
- acknowledge the receipt of Volume IV of the Journal of the
- American-Irish Historical Society, by T. H. Murray, for which they
- return sincere thanks. Mary Frances Isom, Librarian.”
-
- From the Cornell University Library, Ithaca, N. Y.: “Dear Sir: I beg
- to acknowledge with best thanks the receipt of your gift to the
- library. Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Volume
- IV. Yours very truly, T. W. Harris, Librarian.”
-
- From Mr. Joseph Geoghegan, Salt Lake City, Utah: “I beg to
- acknowledge receipt of the fourth volume of the Journal of the
- American-Irish Historical Society, and congratulate you on having
- maintained the high standard of the former volumes.”
-
- From the Public Library, Peoria, Ill.: “The directors of the Peoria
- Public Library acknowledge with thanks the receipt of your gift to
- the Library, Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society,
- Volume IV. Respectfully, E. S. Willcox, Librarian.”
-
- From Mr. William Giblin, New York City: “I beg to acknowledge
- receipt of the fourth volume of the Journal of the American-Irish
- Historical Society. Pray accept my congratulations on the success of
- the work and my hearty thanks to you for sending it.”
-
- From the Library of Princeton University: “I am directed to convey
- to you the thanks of the trustees of Princeton University for your
- gift, which has been received and placed in the library. I have the
- honor to be yours very truly, E. C. Richardson, Librarian.”
-
- From Mr. James L. O’Neill, Elizabeth, N. J.: “Volume IV of the
- Journal of our Society has just come to hand. It is a splendid book
- and every member of the organization will undoubtedly be proud of
- it. The historical papers are of especial interest and value.”
-
- From the University of Minnesota: “The University of Minnesota has
- received the Journal, Volume IV, a gift to the library from the
- American-Irish Historical Society, for which a grateful
- acknowledgment is hereby returned. William W. Folwell, Librarian.”
-
- From the People’s Library, Newport, R. I.: “The People’s Library of
- Newport, Rhode Island, has received a copy of the Journal of the
- American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV, for which is returned
- a grateful acknowledgment. Jane E. Gardner, Librarian.”
-
- From Mr. Patrick F. Magrath, Binghamton, N. Y.: “I congratulate you
- on the excellence of the fourth volume of the Journal, just
- received. The book is fully equal in point of merit and workmanship
- to Vols. I, II and III. The entire series is a credit to our
- Society.”
-
- From the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.: “The Essex Institute has the
- honor to acknowledge, with cordial thanks, the receipt of Journal of
- the American-Irish Historical Society, by Thomas H. Murray, Volume
- IV, as a gift to the library. Alice G. Waters, Librarian.”
-
- From the Columbia University Library in the City of New York: “The
- trustees acknowledge with thanks the receipt of Journal, Volume IV,
- from the American-Irish Historical Society, which has been placed to
- the credit of that institution. James H. Canfield. [Librarian.]”
-
- From the Elizabeth (N. J.) Public Library and Reading Room: “The
- board of trustees acknowledge with thanks your recent contribution
- of one copy of the Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society,
- Volume IV, to the library. Respectfully, M. L. Prevost, Librarian.”
-
- From the Free Public Library of Newark, N. J.: “The trustees have
- received from you as a gift to the library Volume IV of the Journal
- of the American-Irish Historical Society, for which they return a
- grateful acknowledgment. Placed in the library. J. C. Dana,
- Librarian.”
-
- From the University of Vermont: “The faculty of the university
- acknowledge with thanks the gift of the Journal of the
- American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV, 1904, from the
- American-Irish Historical Society. M. H. Buckham, President. Edith
- E. Clarke, Librarian.”
-
- From the Public Library, Fitchburg, Mass.: “The trustees take
- pleasure in thanking you for your valued gift noted below, which
- will be carefully preserved and made useful to the public. G. E.
- Nutting, Librarian. (The Journal of the American-Irish Historical
- Society, Volume IV.)”
-
- From the Library of the University of Georgia: “I beg to
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- Librarian.”
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- congratulate you in the production of Volume IV, Journal of the
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- the Society, feel prompted to commend, and on the part of the
- members of the state of Connecticut, I thank you for your very
- efficient work which I regard as a milestone, as it were, to guide
- the present and future historian.”
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- pleasure to thank you for the copy of The Journal of the
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- GENERAL INDEX.
-
-
- Annual Meeting and Dinner, 8.
-
-
- Executive Council of the Society, 5, 6.
-
-
- General Information Regarding the Society, 188.
-
-
- Historical Papers, 16.
-
-
- Introductory Note, 3.
-
-
- Letters from Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, 12, 128, 133.
-
- Lexington, Mass., Patriotic Pilgrimage to, 13.
-
- List of Presidents-General of the Society, 187.
-
-
- Membership Roll, 152.
-
-
- Necrology, 147, 186.
-
-
- Officers of the Society, 5, 6, 7.
-
-
- Patriotic Pilgrimage to Lexington, Mass., 13.
-
- Proceedings of the Society, 8.
-
-
- Review of the Year, 135.
-
- Roosevelt, Hon. Theodore, Letters from, 12, 128, 133.
-
-
- State Vice-Presidents of the Society, 6, 7.
-
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- ANALYTICAL INDEX.
-
-
- “A better American, a more capable, a more useful, or more fearless
- citizen than John Sullivan, New Hampshire never had,” 68.
-
- “About a tenth part of the whole state,” 123.
-
- “A brave and fine-looking Irishman,” 93.
-
- “A bright, quick-witted Irishman,” 35, 40.
-
- A British gunboat is destroyed at Elizabeth, N. J., 25, 26.
-
- “A British officer of equal rank,” 103.
-
- Accident at a military review near Trenton, N. J., 98.
-
- Acting Governor of Maine, Edward Kavanagh, 107.
-
- Adams, John, the second president of the United States, 66, 68.
-
- “A descendant of James Butler, the immigrant,” 113.
-
- A detail told off to keep the fires along the American front burning,
- 120.
-
- “A fast friend to the liberties of America, and studied to promote the
- public weal,” 107.
-
- “A Forgotten Heroine,” 16.
-
- “A friend and staff officer of General Washington,” 143.
-
- “A gallant young Irish patriot” killed at Princeton, 27.
-
- “A granite monument stands on Boston Common,” 110.
-
- “A great parade this day with the Irish, it being St. Patrick’s,” 107.
-
- “A handsome, good-natured looking Irishman,” 94.
-
- “A handsome little Irishman, always neatly dressed,” 117.
-
- “A Kerry Irishman,” 104.
-
- Albany, N. Y., British garrison at, 94.
-
- Alexander, Sarah W., a native of Newry, Ireland, 122.
-
- Allen, Ethan, 122.
-
- “A man of excellent manners and good acquirements,” 111.
-
- “America by a desperate effort has nearly emancipated herself from
- slavery,” 125.
-
- _American Catholic Historical Researches_, Griffin’s, 104, 110.
-
- American camp at Cambridge, Mass., 111.
-
- American forces at New York, The, 56, 111.
-
- American minister to the French Court, 125.
-
- _American Museum, The_, published by Mathew Carey, 129.
-
- Amherst College, 44.
-
- Amory, Thomas, emigrates from Limerick, Ireland, 94.
-
- Amory, Thomas Coffin, 63, 76, 94.
-
- A most historic corps, 120.
-
- A native of Newry, Ireland, Commodore O. H. Perry’s mother, 122.
-
- Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company (Boston), 151.
-
- Andrew, Governor, of Massachusetts, 136.
-
- Andriessen, Jan, “the Irishman,” 113.
-
- “And some returned to Ireland,” 119.
-
- Angell, Col. Israel, of the Second Rhode Island regiment in the
- Continental Line, 107.
-
- Anglican dean of Derry, George Berkeley, 119.
-
- “An ingenious and useful citizen,” 97.
-
- An Irish clergyman locates at Derby, Conn., 119.
-
- “An Irish gentleman much respected,” Henry Paget, 91.
-
- An Irishman, Robert Beers, slain by the Indians, 93.
-
- “An Irishman transplanted to America, where he has already made a
- fortune,” Marquis de Chastellux mentions, 118.
-
- An Irish pioneer of Boston, Mass., 28.
-
- “An Irish servant-man,” John Hamilton, 115.
-
- “An Irish Teague and foreigner,” 119.
-
- An Irish trader at Fort Pitt, 98.
-
- _Annals of Multifernan_, 29.
-
- _Annals of Witchcraft in New England_, 17.
-
- “A noble gentleman,” 94,
-
- “An officer of the Irish army,” 70.
-
- Annual Meeting and Dinner of the Society, 8.
-
- Antietam, Battle of, 181.
-
- A party of refugees from the West Indies, 119.
-
- Apprehension of Mathew Carey requested, 126.
-
- “A Quakeress of Flushing,” 104.
-
- A Rhode Islander becomes an Irish baron, 103.
-
- Armagh, Ireland, 96, 97.
-
- Artillery companies organized in New Jersey, 23.
-
- “A schoolmate of the wife of General Washington,” 123.
-
- A sortie of marines at midnight, 66.
-
- Assault on Quebec, 117.
-
- Assembly of Virginia, 102.
-
- “A thriving Irish settlement,” 83.
-
- A tract of 2,000 acres granted to David Mooney, 117.
-
- A tract of 18,000 acres is granted Michael Byrne and others, 117.
-
- A tract in New York of some 4,000,000 acres, 123.
-
- A tradition concerning George Berkeley, 119, 120.
-
- Attack on Savannah, 120.
-
- “At that period there were many Irish in Salem,” Mass., 91.
-
- At “the ring of the town,” 93.
-
- Attucks, Crispus, 110.
-
- Austin’s _Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island_, 92.
-
- _Ave Maria_, The, 16.
-
- “A victim to British cruelty,” 119.
-
- “A victim to the Terror,” 120.
-
- “A wealthy Irishman of Charleston, S. C.,” 96.
-
- “A young Irish weaver,” 106.
-
-
- Baird, Henry Carey, Paper by, 124.
-
- Baltimore, Lord, 105.
-
- Bandon, Ireland, 101.
-
- Bank of Pennsylvania, 131.
-
- Bank of the United States, 108, 131.
-
- Baron Bernard O’Neill, 103.
-
- Baron Kinsale, 103.
-
- Barrett’s _Old Merchants of New York_, 121.
-
- Battle at Sudbury, Mass., 97.
-
- Battle of Antietam, 181.
-
- Battle of Bemis’ Heights, 120.
-
- Battle of Bennington, 122.
-
- Battle of Black Rock, 61, 62.
-
- Battle of Brandywine, 67, 105, 111, 118.
-
- Battle of Bull Run, Second, 144.
-
- Battle of Bunker Hill, 31, 48, 66, 109, 111.
-
- Battle of Cedar Creek, 181.
-
- Battle of Chancellorsville, 181.
-
- Battle of Chickamauga, 181.
-
- Battle of Clontarf, 137.
-
- Battle of Fredericksburg, 39, 138, 181, 182.
-
- Battle of Germantown, 67, 105, 111, 118.
-
- Battle of Gettysburg, 144, 155, 164.
-
- Battle of Lexington, Concord and Cambridge, 13.
-
- Battle of Long Island, 106, 111, 112.
-
- Battle of Malvern Hill, 181.
-
- Battle of Monmouth, 27, 113, 116, 123, 142.
-
- Battle of Peach Orchard, 155.
-
- Battle of Princeton, 27, 105, 111, 113.
-
- Battle of Rhode Island, 42, 89.
-
- Battle of Saratoga, 122.
-
- Battle of Spottsylvania Court House, 181.
-
- Battle of Stillwater, 120.
-
- Battle of Trenton, 27, 105, 111, 120.
-
- Battle of White Plains, 111, 112.
-
- Battle on Lake Erie, 122.
-
- “Became captain of a troop of Light Horse,” 111.
-
- Beers, Robert, an Irishman slain by the Indians, 93.
-
- Bellingham, Richard, governor of Massachusetts, 116.
-
- Bemis’ Heights, Battle of, 120.
-
- Bennington, Battle of, 122.
-
- Berkeley, George, “the Kilkenny scholar,” 119, 120.
-
- Birthplace of the children of Master John Sullivan, 63, 64, 65, 74, 75.
-
- Black, Alexander, an early Irish resident of Providence, R. I., 107.
-
- Black, James, of Providence, R. I., 107.
-
- Black Rock, Battle of, 61, 62.
-
- Blaine, Col. Ephraim, 101.
-
- Blaine, James, “came from Ireland with his family prior to 1745,” 101.
-
- Blaine, James G., of Maine, 101.
-
- Blair, James and Robert, natives of Ireland, members of the
- Commander-in-Chief’s Guard in the Revolution, 92, 93.
-
- _Bonhomme Richard_, The, 94.
-
- “Born at sea of Irish parents,” 98.
-
- Boston Common, A granite monument on, 110.
-
- Boston Massacre, The, 110.
-
- Boston, Mass., An Irish pioneer of, 28.
-
- Boston, Mass., Charitable Irish Society of, 93, 106, 114, 141, 150.
-
- Boston, Mass., Goody Glover executed in, 21.
-
- Boston records, Extracts from the, 110, 111, 121, 122.
-
- Boston, Siege of, 41, 111.
-
- Boston University, 150.
-
- Bourk, James, “captain of the brig _Neptune_,” 89.
-
- Bradford’s Coffee House, New York, 57.
-
- Bradt’s Rangers in the Revolution, 90.
-
- Brandywine, Battle of, 67, 105, 111, 118.
-
- _Brave Little Holland and What She Taught Us_, Griffis’, 102.
-
- Bridget Dexter signs a petition of Charlestown and Malden women, 30.
-
- British are defeated in battle on Lake Erie, 122.
-
- British attack on New London, Conn., 90.
-
- British at Yorktown, Surrender of the, 109.
-
- British evacuate New York, 56.
-
- British garrison at Albany, N. Y., 94.
-
- British ship _Glasgow_, Engagement with the, 105.
-
- Browne, Margery, 69, 72, 75, 78, 79.
-
- Brown University, 93, 108.
-
- Brunswick, Me., Thomas Crowell an Irish schoolmaster in, 105.
-
- Bryan, Alexander, “from Armagh in Ireland,” 96.
-
- Buchanan, James, father of President Buchanan, 92.
-
- Buchanan, President, 92.
-
- Bull Run, Second battle of, 144.
-
- Bunker Hill, Battle of, 31, 48, 66, 109, 111.
-
- Bunker Hill Monument Association, 153.
-
- Bunker Hill to Yorktown, 47.
-
- Bunker’s _Long Island Genealogies_, 104.
-
- Burke, Patrick, “Orderly to the General,” 95.
-
- Burke, Richard, an early settler of Sudbury, Mass., 92.
-
- Burke, Capt. William, of the armed schooner _Warren_, 103.
-
- Butler, Deacon John, 113.
-
- Butler, James, came from Ireland, and is heard from in Lancaster,
- Mass., 1635, 113.
-
- Butler, John and Thomas, early settlers of Waterford, Conn., 115, 116.
-
- Butler, Richard, a patriot of the Revolution, 120.
-
- Byrn, Daniel, lieutenant in a Rhode Island regiment, 89.
-
- Byrne, Michael, and others are granted a tract of 18,000 acres, 117.
-
- “By whom he was introduced to Dr. Franklin,” 125.
-
-
- Caldwell, Andrew, a patriot of the Revolution, 100.
-
- Caldwell, James, a patriot of the Revolution, 118.
-
- Calef, Robert, expresses Sympathy for Goody Glover, 17.
-
- _Calendar of Colonial State Papers_, 116.
-
- Calhoun, James, grandfather of John C. Calhoun, 100.
-
- Calhoun, John C., 100.
-
- “Calhoun settlement,” The, 100.
-
- “California, a land of health where almost endless summer reigned,” 84.
-
- California, An Irish pioneer of, 82.
-
- Cambridge, Mass., Hon. Augustine J. Daly, mayor of, 13.
-
- Cambridge, Mass., The American camp at, 111.
-
- Campaign against Canada, 122.
-
- Captain Commandant O’Neill, 102.
-
- “Captain of the Isles,” Roger Kelly, 33.
-
- “Captain of the Quaker Blues,” 92.
-
- Capture of Ticonderoga, 122.
-
- Capture of Yorktown, 92, 120.
-
- Cape’s Tavern, New York, 57.
-
- “Captured twelve British soldiers,” 118.
-
- Carey, Henry Charles, 134.
-
- Carey, Mathew, Memoir of, 124.
-
- Carleton, Sir Guy, 56.
-
- Carroll, Bishop John, 110.
-
- Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland, 168.
-
- Carroll, Charles, of Carrollton, 105.
-
- Carrolls, The, of Maryland, 105.
-
- Casey, Thomas, an early settler at Newport, R. I., 94.
-
- Castle Jordan, in Meath, 29.
-
- “Catholics, Baptists and Quakers,” 18.
-
- “Caused the book to be burned in Harvard College yard,” 17.
-
- Cavan, Ireland, 156.
-
- Cavenaugh, Patrick, saves General Lincoln from being captured by the
- British, 96.
-
- Cedar Creek, Battle of, 181.
-
- Cedars, The affair at the, 91.
-
- Celtic Medical Society (New York City), 152.
-
- Chancellorsville, Battle of, 181.
-
- Charitable Irish Society, Boston, Mass., 93, 106, 114, 141, 150.
-
- Chastellux, Marquis de, 118.
-
- Chautauqua County, N. Y., 59, 60, 61, 62.
-
- Cherokee Indian frontier, 100.
-
- Chesapeake and Delaware canal, 133.
-
- Chevalier Armand O’Connor, 91.
-
- Chevalier de Chastellux, 109.
-
- Cincinnati, Society of the, 115.
-
- Clare, Ireland, 97.
-
- Clark, Gen. George Rogers, 93.
-
- Clary Reunion Family, 155.
-
- Clay, Henry, 133.
-
- Clay’s Compromise Tariff Act, 133.
-
- Cleveland, President, 137, 138, 148.
-
- Clogston family of New Hampshire, 109.
-
- Clontarf, Battle of, 137.
-
- Clotworthy, Sir John, License issued to, 116.
-
- Cloyne, Ireland, 29, 31, 119.
-
- Coeymans patent, The, 106.
-
- “Col. Hercules Mooney’s regiment,” 38, 42, 46.
-
- Colles, Christopher, 110.
-
- Collins, Hon. Patrick A., 147, 148.
-
- Collins, William, arrives at New Haven with a party of refugees from
- the West Indies, 119.
-
- Colonial Wars, Society of, 153.
-
- “Color sergeant of the Irish flag of the regiment,” 155.
-
- Commander-in-Chief’s Guard, The, 92, 100, 104, 113.
-
- Commodore Perry’s mother a native of Newry, Ireland, 122.
-
- Conference at Dobb’s Ferry, 56.
-
- Confined on board a British prison ship, 103.
-
- Conley, John, a Connecticut soldier of the Revolution, 90.
-
- Connaught, Ireland, 28, 29, 35.
-
- Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, Ninth, 154.
-
- Conner, Philip, of Maryland, 97, 98.
-
- Connolly, Michael, captain and paymaster, during the Revolution, of a
- New York regiment, 98.
-
- Constable & Co., 123.
-
- Constable, William, 121, 123.
-
- Constitutional Convention of New Jersey, First, 98.
-
- “Contained elegant rooms suitable for the reception of persons of the
- first condition,” 106.
-
- Continental Army, The American, 44, 45, 47, 67, 110, 118, 123.
-
- Continental Congress, 67, 68, 102, 106, 123.
-
- Continental Dragoons, Col. George Baylor’s, 100.
-
- “Convenient and Fitt to be one of the fyre masters for ye Citty,” 113.
-
- Copley, John Singleton, the eminent artist, 97.
-
- Copley, Mary (Singleton), 97.
-
- Copley, Richard, 97.
-
- Cork, Ireland, 29, 31, 49, 75, 76, 78, 95, 103, 114, 122, 138, 149.
-
- Cornwallis, Surrender of, 145.
-
- Corps of Sappers and Miners, 89.
-
- Cotton Mather, who “countenanced the executioners by his presence, and
- in various ways urged the terrible work of blood in Salem,” 18.
-
- “Could not find the island of Bermuda,” 119.
-
- Council of the Society, 5, 6.
-
- Count Arthur Dillon, 120.
-
- Courtney, Ruth, 103.
-
- Craig, Sarah (mentioned in President Roosevelt’s letter), 12.
-
- Crane’s regiment of artillery in the Revolution, 94, 95.
-
- Crehore, Teague, stated to have been stolen from his parents in Ireland
- when a child, 112.
-
- Crimmins, Hon. John D., Paper by, 53.
-
- Crispus Attucks, 110.
-
- Croghan, George, 117.
-
- Cromwellian and Williamite regimes, 29.
-
- Cronin, Ensign Patrick, 98.
-
- “Crossed the Delaware with Washington,” 120.
-
- Cross of St. Louis, The, 109.
-
- Cross, Lieut. William, 117.
-
- Crowell, Thomas, an Irish schoolmaster in Brunswick, Me., 105.
-
- Crowley, Lieut. Florence, Tribute to by Gen. Henry Knox, 93.
-
- Crown Point, 35, 47, 102.
-
- Cullen’s _Story of the Irish in Boston_, 92, 116.
-
-
- Daly, Hon. Augustine J., mayor of Cambridge, Mass., 13.
-
- Dame Nourse of Salem, 19.
-
- Danaher’s _Early Irish in Old Albany, N. Y._, 90, 113, 143.
-
- Danes at Clontarf, The, 137.
-
- Dartmouth College, 42, 139.
-
- Decatur, Stephen, marries a woman of Irish lineage, 94.
-
- Declaration of Independence, 23, 27, 45, 98, 115, 146.
-
- DeCourcy, Jordan, 28.
-
- DeCourcy, Thomas, a native of Newport, R. I., 103.
-
- “Dedham Plain,” Rendezvoused on, 91.
-
- Definition of Witches, Leonard Scot’s, 16.
-
- “De Iersman van Dublingh,” 113.
-
- Delany, Sharp, a patriot of the Revolution, 115.
-
- Delaware, John Haslett locates in, 112.
-
- Denniston, Hugh, “a true Irishman,” of Albany, N. Y., 114.
-
- Destruction of a British gunboat by the patriots, 25, 26.
-
- Dexter, Bridget, 28.
-
- Dexter Family in Ireland, The, 28, 29.
-
- Dexter, George, 28.
-
- Dexter, John, “born in 1639 and probably in Ireland,” 28.
-
- Dexter-Mac Jordans, The, 28, 29.
-
- Dexter, Richard, one of Boston’s Irish pioneers, 28.
-
- Dexter, Stephen, “of the Parish of Templemurry, County Limerick,” 29.
-
- Dexter, Thomas, “of Cloyne, Cork,” 29, 31.
-
- Dexter, William, “likewise of Templemurry,” 29.
-
- “Died of wounds received at Bunker Hill,” 109.
-
- Dijon, Harold, Paper by, 16.
-
- Dillon, Count Arthur, 120.
-
- Dillon, Regiment of, 89, 101, 102, 120.
-
- _Discoverie of Witchcraft_, 16.
-
- Dobb’s Ferry, Conference at, 56.
-
- _Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New York_,
- 121.
-
- Donegal, Ireland, 92, 97, 100, 102.
-
- Dongan, Gov. Thomas, of New York, 53, 94, 104.
-
- Dongan, Thomas, John and Walter, 104.
-
- Donnaldson, John, “son of Hugh Donnaldson of Dungannon, Ireland,” 105.
-
- Donnelly, Terence, town schoolmaster of Newport, R. I., 89.
-
- Donovan, Capt. John, of the Rhode Island merchantman _Abby_, 91.
-
- Donovan, Maj. Matthew, of the Ninth Virginia regiment in the
- Revolution, 91.
-
- Dorrance, Rev. Samuel, an Irish clergyman, pastor of a church in
- Voluntown, Conn., 112.
-
- Dover, N. H., Extracts from the records of, 71.
-
- Dowling, Dick, the Confederate hero of Sabine Pass, 140.
-
- Down, Ireland, 159.
-
- “Doyle was voted 1,860 pounds of tobacco,” 102.
-
- Doyle, Thomas, a Virginia trooper, 102.
-
- Drake, Gen. Madison, Paper by, 23.
-
- Drogheda, Ireland, 94.
-
- Dromore, Ireland, 76.
-
- Dublin, Ireland, 89, 98, 99, 105, 108, 120, 123, 124, 126, 127, 136,
- 139, 148.
-
- Duke of Orleans, 123.
-
- Dungannon, Ireland, 105.
-
- Dunkerron, Ireland, 76.
-
- Dunlap, John, a patriot of the Revolution, 111.
-
- Dunmanway, Ireland, 49.
-
- Dutchess County, N. Y., 59.
-
-
- Earl of Limerick, 104.
-
- Earl of Ulster, John De Courcy, 28.
-
- Early Irish schoolmasters in New Hampshire, 34, 35.
-
- East Greenwich, R. I., Charles McCarthy, a founder of, 114.
-
- _Ecclesiastical History of New England_, Felt’s, 119.
-
- Elizabeth, N. J., _Evening Times_, 23.
-
- Engagement with the British ship _Glasgow_, 104.
-
- “Enlisted under Sullivan’s call,” 47.
-
- Enniscorthy, Ireland, 88.
-
- Enniskellen, Ireland, 123.
-
- Execution of Robert Emmet, 48.
-
- Executions of reputed witches and wizards in New England, 21.
-
- Expedition against Savannah, 102.
-
- Expedition against the Six Nations, 67.
-
-
- Fanning, Dominick, of Limerick, exempted from pardon by Ireton, is
- beheaded, 107.
-
- Fanning, Edmund, a victim of the Cromwellian confiscation, settles in
- Groton, Conn., 107.
-
- Felt’s _Ecclesiastical History of New England_, 119.
-
- Fermanagh, Ireland, 89, 123.
-
- First child of Irish parentage born in Woburn, Mass., 113.
-
- First City Troop, of Philadelphia, 98, 100, 105, 109, 111, 114, 118.
-
- Fitzgerald, Lord Edward, 48.
-
- Fitzgerald, Miss Marcella A., 82.
-
- “Fitzgeralds, O’Neills and O’Briens,” The, 12.
-
- Fitzgerald, Thomas, a midshipman during the Revolution, 90.
-
- Fitzsimons, Christopher, of Charleston, S. C., 96.
-
- Flynn, John, a Connecticut soldier of the Revolution, 90.
-
- Fort Griswold, The massacre of, 119.
-
- “Fort Herkimer in the Mohawk valley, N. Y.,” 100.
-
- Fort William and Mary, Seizure of the powder at, 66, 67.
-
- France, The Irish brigade in the service of, 120.
-
- Franklin, Dr., 125, 128.
-
- Fredericksburg, Battle of, 39, 138, 181, 182.
-
- French and Indian War, 111.
-
- Friendly Brothers of St. Patrick, 55, 56.
-
- Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, New York, 57, 58, 121, 147, 151, 157.
-
- Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, of Philadelphia, 110, 123.
-
- “From Bandon in Ireland,” 101.
-
- “From Strabane, Ireland,” 104.
-
- From “Yrland in de Kings county,” 113.
-
- Fullerton, George, “a native of Ireland,” 98.
-
- Fyne, Jan, “van Waterfort in Irlandt,” 109.
-
-
- Gaine, Hugh, 131.
-
- Galway, Ireland, 32.
-
- Gates, General, 118.
-
- “Gave good dinner parties, and had choice old wines upon the table,”
- 121.
-
- _Genealogical Dictionary_, Savage’s, 30.
-
- General Assembly of Rhode Island, 89, 104, 114.
-
- “General Knox, commanding the American artillery,” 24.
-
- _Generals of the Continental Line in the Revolutionary War_, 103.
-
- Germantown, Battle of, 67, 105, 111, 118.
-
- Gettysburg, Battle of, 144, 155, 164.
-
- Girard, Stephen, 130, 131.
-
- Glover, Goody, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22.
-
- Goodwin Children, Goody Glover is charged with afflicting the, 17, 18,
- 19, 20, 21, 22.
-
- _Goody Glover, an Irish Victim of the Witch Craze, Boston, Mass.,
- 1688_, 16.
-
- Greaton’s regiment, 97.
-
- Greene, General, 67, 96, 116.
-
- Greene, Rudolphus, an Irish school teacher in New Hampshire, 101.
-
-
- Haggerty, Hugh, of the Commander-in-Chief’s Guard, 113.
-
- Hamilton, John, “an Irish servant-man,” 115.
-
- Hand, Gen. Edward, 93.
-
- Harrison, Hannah, 106.
-
- Harrison, President William Henry, 106.
-
- Hartford, Conn., William Collins teaches school at, 119.
-
- Haslett, John, a soldier of the Revolution, 112.
-
- “Having been banished out of Ireland was reported as strongly affected
- to popery,” 101.
-
- Henry, Patrick, 49.
-
- “Her one cat was there, fearsome to see,” 21.
-
- Hessians are surprised at Trenton, 120.
-
- “He was an honor to the country that gave him birth,” 107.
-
- “He was in the public service of Maryland for nearly 40 years,” 108.
-
- Hibernia Fire Company of Philadelphia, 110.
-
- Hibernian Society of Philadelphia, The, 98, 110, 123, 130.
-
- “His daughter, Anne, married one of the Hamptons,” 96.
-
- _History of King Philip’s War_, Bodge’s, 102, 103.
-
- Hogan, William, an early settler of Albany, N. Y., 113.
-
- Hotten’s _Original Lists_, 104, 105.
-
- House of Commons, Irish, 126, 127.
-
- Hutchinson, Anne, banished from Boston, 119.
-
-
- “I made application in a letter written in seven languages,” 75.
-
- “In De Burgo’s time,” 29.
-
- Indians, Treaty proceedings with the, 106.
-
- “Inherited the military spirit of his ancestors and transmitted it to
- his posterity,” 38.
-
- “In 1661 he bought of the Indians the last twenty acres they owned on
- Milford Neck,” 96.
-
- Ireland, “And some returned to,” 119.
-
- Ireland, Commodore Perry’s mother a native of, 122.
-
- Ireland, First funds for Rhode Island College were obtained in, 93.
-
- Ireland, John Ring of the kingdom of, 100.
-
- Ireland, Ten ships from, arrive at Boston in 1736 and 1738, bringing
- nearly 1,000 passengers, 93.
-
- Ireland, The ship _Sally_ arrives at Boston from, 90.
-
- Irish Academy, Royal, 154.
-
- Irish ancestors of President Roosevelt, 12.
-
- Irish ancestry, People of, 102.
-
- Irish brigade in the service of France, 120.
-
- Irish brigade, Meagher’s, 136, 138, 139, 144, 181, 182.
-
- Irish Catholic Benevolent Union, 138.
-
- Irish Catholics stood, Oppressions under which the, 125.
-
- Irish Dexters, The, 28, 29.
-
- Irish “do flock into town,” 112.
-
- Irish-French regiment of Dillon, 89, 101, 102, 120.
-
- Irish-French regiment of Walsh, 91, 109.
-
- Irish Grove. Settlement known as, 83.
-
- Irish House of Commons, 126, 127.
-
- Irish immigrants, Five ships arrive in Boston harbor, 1718, with, 92.
-
- Irish in Boston, Cullen’s work on the, 92, 116.
-
- Irish Independence, Movement for, 48.
-
- Irish in Salem, Mass., Early, 91.
-
- Irish in the Third New York regiment of the Line, 117.
-
- Irish kingdom of Connaught, 29.
-
- Irishmen in this country, One of the earliest, 112.
-
- Irish names found in Connecticut at early periods, 117, 118.
-
- Irish nation, St. Patrick patron of the, 57.
-
- Irish Pioneer of California, An, 82.
-
- Irish pioneers, Richard Dexter, one of Boston’s, 28.
-
- Irish principality of Meath, 29.
-
- Irish Roman Catholic, Gov. Thomas Dongan, an, 53.
-
- Irish schoolmasters in New Hampshire, 34, 35.
-
- Irish sent to Jamaica, 116, 117.
-
- Irish settlement, A thriving, 83.
-
- Irish soldiers in King Philip’s War, 97, 102, 103.
-
- Irish trader at Fort Pitt, An, 98.
-
- Irish transported to America, 116, 117.
-
- “Irish who were conveyed to Virginia, Barbadoes and other parts,” 104.
-
- Irish victim of the witch craze, An, 16.
-
- Irvine, Gen. William, of the Revolution, 123, 145.
-
- Isidore de Lynch, “an intrepid Irishman,” 109.
-
- “It is scituate on mistik syde nere the south springe,” 30.
-
-
- Jamestown, N. Y., James Prendergast founder of, 61.
-
- Jamestown, N. Y., The James Prendergast Free Library at, 61.
-
- Jamestown, Va., Francis Maguire arrives at, 112.
-
- Jan Andriessen, “the Irishman,” 113.
-
- Jefferson, Thomas, 68, 109, 122.
-
- Johnson, Sir William, 39, 117.
-
- Jones, John Paul, 94, 95, 96, 105.
-
- Jones, Teague, a resident of Yarmouth, Mass., as early as 1645, 113,
- 114.
-
- Jones, Thomas, “from Strabane, Ireland,” 104.
-
- Jordan Teutonicus, 28.
-
-
- Kaine, Patrick, an American marine who served under Esek Hopkins, 104.
-
- Kaley, Hon. Timothy, 49, 50.
-
- Kavanagh, Edward, acting governor of Maine, 107.
-
- Kavanagh, James, came to Boston during the Revolution, 107.
-
- “Keen as an Irish greyhound,” 117.
-
- Keiley, Hon. Anthony M., 137, 138.
-
- “Kelly and Burke and Shea,” 34, 50, 51, 52.
-
- Kellyburg, Kellyvale, and Kelly Grant, 44.
-
- Kelly, Capt. Warren Michael, “great-great-grandson of Darby Kelly,” 39.
-
- Kelly, Col. Moses, 45
-
- Kelly, Darby, an early New Hampshire settler, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40.
-
- Kelly Hill, New Hampton, N. H., 37.
-
- “Kelly, Huntoon and Bowdoin,” 37.
-
- Kelly, James, one of the grantees of Holderness, N. H., 43.
-
- Kelly, John, of New York, is granted nearly 100,000 acres in Vermont,
- 44.
-
- Kelly, John, “one of the selectmen of Salem,” N. H., in 1775, 44.
-
- Kelly, John, “who came to Newbury, Mass., in 1635,” 32, 41, 42.
-
- Kelly, Joshua, one of the proprietors of Conway, N. H., 46.
-
- Kelly, Maj.-Gen. Benjamin F., “great-grandson of Darby Kelly,” 38.
-
- Kelly, Maj. Nathaniel, “grandson of Darby Kelly,” 38.
-
- Kelly, “Old Master,” 122.
-
- Kelly, Richard, “a grantee and one of the first settlers of Contoocook,
- now Boscawen,” N. H., 41.
-
- Kelly, Roger, of the Isles of Shoals, 32, 33, 34, 42.
-
- Kelly, Samuel, “planned and built the first meeting-house in town,” 37.
-
- Kelly’s Falls, 45.
-
- Kelly, William, of “the alarm list of the town of Warner,” N. H., in
- 1777, 42.
-
- Kerry, Ireland, 76, 104, 141.
-
- Kildare, Ireland, 101.
-
- Kilkenny, Ireland, 59, 98, 119, 120, 136.
-
- “Kilkenny scholar,” The, 119, 120.
-
- Killoween, Ireland, 76.
-
- King Philip’s War, 97, 102, 103, 114.
-
- Kinsale, Ireland, 157.
-
- Kinsmen of Governor Dongan, 104.
-
- Knox marches his men in from Harlem as far as “Bowery Lane,” 56.
-
-
- Lady Penelope O’Connor, 29.
-
- Lafayette, Marquis de, 123, 125, 127, 128, 133.
-
- Lake Chautauqua, N. Y., 59.
-
- Lake Erie, British are defeated on, 122.
-
- “Larchmont,” Reception to the Society by George W. Taylor at, 14.
-
- _Le Jason_ of the fleet of Count De Ternay, 91.
-
- Leonard, Patrick, a soldier of the Revolution, 111.
-
- _Les Combattants Francais De La Guerre Americaine_, 92, 97, 101.
-
- Lexington, Concord and Cambridge, Battle of, 13.
-
- Lexington, Mass., Official letter from Chairman George W. Taylor of the
- Selectmen of, 15.
-
- Limerick, Ireland, 29, 31, 70, 75, 77, 107.
-
- _Life of Commodore Perry_, Mackenzie’s, 122.
-
- Lightfoot, Susannah, a native of Ireland, 103.
-
- Long Island, Battle of, 106, 111, 112.
-
- _Long Island Genealogies_, Bunker’s, 104.
-
- Lord Edward Fitzgerald, 48.
-
- Lords of Athleathan, 29.
-
- Lyon, Matthew, “the Hampden of Congress,” 122.
-
- Lyons, Rev. Mr., an Irish clergyman, locates at Derby, Conn., 119.
-
-
- McCartee, Thomas, of Hartford, Conn., 89.
-
- McCarthy, Charles, a founder of East Greenwich, R. I., 114.
-
- McCarthy, Capt. Charles, 76.
-
- McCarthy, Capt. Owen, 76.
-
- McCarthy, Col. Florence, 76.
-
- McCarthy, Dermod, of Killoween, 76.
-
- McCarthy, Joan, 76.
-
- McCarthy, Reagh, 76.
-
- McCarthy, Thomas, of the Commander-in-Chief’s Guard, 100.
-
- McCarty, David, a member of the Committee of Safety, Albany, N. Y.,
- 106.
-
- Macarty de Marteigue, 95.
-
- McCormick, Daniel, of New York city, 121, 123.
-
- McFinnen, The title of, 76.
-
- McGinnis, John, a New York soldier of the Revolution, 90.
-
- Mac Jordan-Dexters, The, 28.
-
- McKean, Hon. Thomas, 98.
-
- McLaughlin, Patrick, a soldier of the Revolution, taken prisoner by the
- British, 97.
-
- McMullen, Patrick, a marine during the Revolution, serving under John
- Paul Jones, 105.
-
- McNee, William, an early settler of Peterborough, N. H., 109.
-
- McSweeney, Capt. Edmund, 76.
-
- McSweeney, Col. Owen, 76.
-
- Macomb, Alexander, 121, 123.
-
- Maguire, Constant, “of County Fermanagh,” Ireland, 89.
-
- Maguire, Francis, arrives at Jamestown, Va., with Capt. Christopher
- Newport, 112.
-
- Mahoney, Honora, of Dromore, 76.
-
- Maine, Edward Kavanagh, acting governor of, 107.
-
- Mallins, Mary, “from Bandon in Ireland,” 101.
-
- Malvern Hill, Battle of, 181.
-
- Marquis de Chastellux, 118.
-
- Marquis de Lafayette, 125, 127, 128.
-
- Marye’s Heights, 144, 155, 181, 182.
-
- Maryland, The Carrolls of, 105.
-
- Mason and Dixon’s line, 38.
-
- Massachusetts cities, Mayors inaugurated in 1905 in, 135.
-
- Massachusetts General Court, 33, 68.
-
- Massachusetts Historical Society, 17, 68.
-
- Massacre at Fort William Henry, 36.
-
- Massacre of Fort Griswold, The, 119.
-
- _Master John Sullivan of Somersworth and Berwick, And His Family_, 63.
-
- “Masters Knox and Crocker, natives of Ireland,” 96.
-
- Mather, Cotton, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22.
-
- Mather, Increase, 17.
-
- Matthias Alexis de Roche Fermoy, 103.
-
- _Mayflower_, The, 102.
-
- Mayo, Ireland, 28, 29.
-
- Mayor Daly of Cambridge, Mass., 13.
-
- Meade, Andrew, “a Kerry Irishman,” 104.
-
- Meade, Col. Richard Kidder, 104.
-
- Meagher’s Irish brigade, 136, 138, 139, 144, 181, 182.
-
- Mease, John, a patriot of the Revolution, 120.
-
- Mease, Matthew, a patriot of the Revolution, 94.
-
- Meath, Ireland, 29.
-
- Membership roll of the Society, 152.
-
- _Memoirs of an American Lady_, 94, 108.
-
- Mexican War, 135, 136.
-
- Merchants’ Coffee House, New York, 58.
-
- Mohawk valley, N. Y., 100.
-
- Molly Pitcher, “a young Irishwoman,” at the Battle of Monmouth, 116.
-
- Monmouth, Battle of, 27, 113, 116, 123, 142.
-
- Mooney, David, Land patent granted to, 117.
-
- Mooney, Hercules, 35, 38, 42, 46, 72.
-
- Morgan’s Rifle Corps, 120.
-
- _More Wonders of the Invisible World_, Calef’s, 17.
-
- Morris, Robert, 127.
-
- Montgomery, General, 117, 144.
-
- Mount Vernon, 127.
-
- Moylan, Jasper, 114.
-
- Moylan, John, 114.
-
- Moylan, Stephen, 108, 114.
-
- Munster, Ireland, 29.
-
- Murphy, Brian, a soldier in King Philip’s War, 103.
-
- Murphy, Martin, Sr., an Irish pioneer of California, 82.
-
-
- Nantucket, Mass., Extract from the records of, 89.
-
- Narragansett campaign (1675), 91.
-
- Narragansett Indians, 113.
-
- Necrology, 147, 186.
-
- Neal, Jeremiah, a soldier in the Narragansett campaign, 91.
-
- Neale, Samuel, of Dublin, 101.
-
- Neill, Capt. Daniel, an artillery officer of the Revolution, 23.
-
- Neill, Owen, sustains losses by the British attack on New London,
- Conn., 90.
-
- New Hampshire, Darby Kelly, an early settler in, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39,
- 40.
-
- New Hampshire, Early Irish schoolmasters in, 34, 35.
-
- New Hampshire Historical Society, 70, 81, 150.
-
- New Hampshire, Patriotism of, in the Revolution, 41.
-
- New Hampshire, Tenth regiment of, in the Civil War, 38.
-
- New Hampshire, The Clogston family of, 109.
-
- New Hampshire Veteran Association, 150.
-
- New London, Conn., British attack on, 90.
-
- New Jersey, First Constitutional Convention of, 98.
-
- New Jersey _Journal and Political Intelligencer_, 24.
-
- New Jersey, Provincial Congress of, 23, 24.
-
- Newport, Captain Christopher, 112.
-
- Newport, R. I., George Berkeley’s arrival at, 119, 120.
-
- Newport, R. I., Mason’s _Reminiscences of_, 100.
-
- Newport, R. I., Terence Donnelly, a schoolmaster of, 89.
-
- New York _Gazette_, 54, 55, 56.
-
- New York _Genealogical and Biographical Record_, 28.
-
- _New York in the Revolution_, 98, 99, 100, 117.
-
- New York regiment of levies, Colonel Malcom’s, 98.
-
- New York State Assembly, 61, 62.
-
- New York State Library, 142.
-
- New York, The British evacuate, 56.
-
- Ninth Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, 154.
-
- “No family in the state has the equal of this illustrious record,” 68.
-
- Nourse, Rebecca, 19, 22.
-
-
- O’Brien, John M., a Rhode Island soldier of the Revolution, 100.
-
- O’Brien, Michael Morgan, 109.
-
- O’Connor, Armand, of the Irish-French regiment of Walsh, 91.
-
- O’Connor, Lady Penelope, 29.
-
- O’Donnell, Rev. James H., 112, 115, 117, 118.
-
- O’Dougherty, Bryant, in Salem, Mass., in 1683, 91.
-
- O’Driscoll, Jacques, an officer in the Irish-French regiment of Walsh,
- 93.
-
- Officers of the Society, 5, 6, 7.
-
- O’Gorman, Charles, an officer of the Irish-French regiment of Walsh,
- 97.
-
- O’Killia, David, “the Irishman,” of old Yarmouth, Mass., 96.
-
- Old Elm, The (in Cambridge, Mass.), 13.
-
- “Old Master” Kelly, an Irish school teacher in Rhode Island, 122.
-
- _Old Merchants of New York_, Barrett’s, 121.
-
- Old North Church, Boston, 16, 18.
-
- _Old Orchard Mirror_, 106.
-
- Old Orchard, Me., Patrick Googins, a young Irish weaver, settles at,
- 106.
-
- Olney, Col. Jeremiah, of Rhode Island, 92.
-
- O’Mahony, Abbe Bartholomew, chaplain of the French warship _L’Ivelly_
- during the American Revolution, 97.
-
- O’Neill, Bernard, of the Irish-French regiment of Dillon, 102.
-
- O’Neil, Thomas, saves the life of Franklin Pierce, 135, 136.
-
- “One of a party of forty-eight settlers,” 114.
-
- One of the earliest Burkes to settle in America, 92.
-
- “One of the earliest Irishmen in this country of whom we have record,”
- 112.
-
- “On scouting duty in Penacook,” N. H., 42.
-
- “Orderly to the General,” Patrick Burke, 95.
-
- Oregon trail, The, 85.
-
- Original members of the Charitable Irish Society, 114.
-
- Orleans, Duke of, 123.
-
- Ormsby, John, an Irish trader at Fort Pitt, 98.
-
- O’Sullivan, Daniel, lord of Dunkerron, 76.
-
- O’Sullivan, Madam, 77.
-
- O’Sullivan, Major Philip, 70, 77.
-
- Otsego patent, 100,000 acres, is granted to George Croghan and others,
- 117.
-
-
- Paget, Henry, “an Irish gentleman much respected,” 91.
-
- Patton, John, a native of Ireland, colonel of the Sixteenth
- Pennsylvania regiment in the Revolution, 110.
-
- Peisley, Mary, a native of Kildare, 101.
-
- Pennsylvania, Bank of, 131.
-
- Pennsylvania Line, Eighth regiment of the, 96.
-
- Pennsylvania Line, Second brigade of the, 123.
-
- Pennsylvania, Senate of, 131.
-
- Pennsylvania, University of, 108.
-
- Perry, Christopher R., of Rhode Island, 122.
-
- Philip, the Indian king, 97, 102, 103.
-
- Pierce, Franklin, is saved by Thomas O’Neil, 135, 136.
-
- Pitcher, Molly, at the battle of Monmouth, 116, 142.
-
- Platte Purchase, The, 83.
-
- Prendergast, Col. Henry A., 62.
-
- Prendergast, Col. William, 61.
-
- Prendergast, James, founder of Jamestown, N. Y., 61.
-
- Prendergast, Martin, associate judge of Niagara County, N. Y., 61.
-
- Prendergast, Matthew, participated in the battle of Black Rock, 62.
-
- Prendergast, Miss Helen, Paper by, 59.
-
- Prendergast, Thomas and Mary, 59.
-
- Prendergast, Thomas, John and Stephen, early settlers of Barnstead, N.
- H., 42.
-
- President Buchanan, 92.
-
- President Cleveland, 137, 138, 148.
-
- President Jefferson, 109, 122.
-
- President Roosevelt, 136, 137, 139, 140, 141, 144.
-
- President William Henry Harrison, 106.
-
- Princeton, Battle of, 27, 105, 111, 113.
-
- Proctor’s regiment of artillery, 27, 111.
-
- Prophesied that “Goody Glover would be hung,” 18.
-
- Providence, R. I., George Taylor prominent in, 107.
-
- Provincial Congress of New Jersey, 23, 24.
-
- Provincial Congress of Massachusetts, 31.
-
- Putnam, Gen. Israel, 31.
-
-
- Quaker Blues, The, 92.
-
- Quakers come from Ireland, 101.
-
- Quakers persecuted in Boston, 101.
-
- Quirk, Thomas, “a brave and fine looking Irishman,” 93.
-
-
- _Rambles Around Portsmouth_, Brewster’s, 44.
-
- Rancho de Las Animas, 86.
-
- Rancho San Francisco de las Llagas, 86.
-
- Reade, Michael, of Dover, N. H., 74, 75.
-
- Reception to the Society at Cambridge city hall, 13.
-
- Reception to the Society at the Lexington town hall, 13.
-
- _Redemptioners and Indentured Servants in the Colony and Commonwealth
- of Pennsylvania_, 115.
-
- Regiment of Dillon, 89, 101, 102, 120.
-
- Regiment of Walsh, 91, 93, 94, 97.
-
- _Reminiscences of New Hampton_, N. H., 35, 36, 37, 40.
-
- _Reminiscences of Newport, R. I._, Mason’s, 100.
-
- Review of the Year, 135.
-
- Rhode Island, Battle of, 42, 89.
-
- Rhode Island campaign, The, 67.
-
- Rhode Island College, 93, 108.
-
- Rhode Island Continental Line, Edward Fitzgerald, a soldier of the, 99.
-
- Rhode Island, General Assembly of, 89, 104, 114.
-
- Rhode Island, George Berkeley’s arrival in, 119, 120.
-
- Rhode Island, “Old Master” Kelly, an Irish school teacher in, 122.
-
- _Richard Dexter, One of Boston’s Irish Pioneers_, 28.
-
- Ring, John, “of the Kingdom of Ireland,” 100.
-
- “Roger Kelly, the ancient magistrate and taverner,” 32.
-
- Rogers, Hester, Patrick Googins marries, 106.
-
- Roosevelt, President, 136, 137, 139, 140, 141, 144.
-
- “Rough Riders,” The, 143.
-
- Rutledge, Edward, 146.
-
-
- “Sadly perplexed and befooled Cotton Mather,” 18.
-
- Salem, “The terrible work of blood in,” 18.
-
- San Juan Bautista, Mission of, 86, 87.
-
- San Ysidro ranch, 86.
-
- Sappers and Miners, Corps of, 89.
-
- Saratoga, Battle of, 122.
-
- Savage’s _Genealogical Dictionary_, 30.
-
- Savannah, Attack on, 120.
-
- Scales, John, of Dover, N. H., Paper by, 63.
-
- Schuyler, Cortlandt, marries a handsome Irish woman, 108.
-
- “Scored to death and did not give up his religion, which same I will
- hold to,” 17.
-
- “Seized the truncheon of the king’s officer,” 33.
-
- Selectmen of “the towne of Yarmouth returne the name of Teague Jones
- for not coming to meeting,” 114.
-
- “She and her husband were sold to the Barbadoes in the time of
- Cromwell,” 17.
-
- “She died a lunatic, frightened to death,” 18.
-
- Sheldon’s Continental Light Dragoons, 90.
-
- “She took up her residence on the island of Rhode Island,” 119.
-
- Shute, Governor, 30.
-
- Siege of Boston, 41, 111.
-
- Siege of Limerick, The, 70.
-
- Siege of Yorktown, 89, 120.
-
- Six Nations, Expedition against the, 67.
-
- Sligo, Ireland, 147.
-
- “So shall wee be bound to pray as we desire dayly to doe for yr prsptie
- & peace temporall & Eternall,” 30.
-
- Spain, War with, 136, 143, 160.
-
- Stamp Act Congress, 100.
-
- Stark, General, 45, 46.
-
- State Council of Censors, 123.
-
- State Vice-Presidents of the Society, 6, 7.
-
- St. Clair, General, 111, 120.
-
- St. Mary’s churchyard, Philadelphia, 134.
-
- St. Patrick’s Day, Some Early Celebrations of, 53.
-
- Stiles’ _History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Conn._, 90.
-
- Stillwater, Battle of, 120.
-
- Storming of Stony Point, 106, 120.
-
- Stony Hill tract, 18,000 acres, is granted to Michael Byrne and others,
- 117.
-
- Strabane, Ireland, 104.
-
- Stuart, Christopher, “an Irishman and soldier of the Revolution,” 106.
-
- Stuyvesant, Peter, 121, 123.
-
- Sullivan, Benjamin, a son of Master John Sullivan, 65.
-
- Sullivan, Capt. Ebenezer, a soldier of the Revolution, 69.
-
- Sullivan, Daniel, a patriot of the Revolution, 65, 66.
-
- Sullivan, Hon. George, attorney-general of New Hampshire, 68.
-
- Sullivan, Gov. James, of Massachusetts, 63, 68, 69, 93, 157.
-
- Sullivan, Gen. John, 34, 41, 45, 46, 47, 49, 66, 67, 68, 75, 93, 157.
-
- Sullivan, Master John, Statement concerning himself, 75, 76.
-
- Sullivan, Mary, fifth child of Master John and Margery (Browne)
- Sullivan, 69.
-
- “Subscribed, in 1780, £10,000 in aid of the Patriot army,” 109.
-
- “Surprised a British picket, took 36 prisoners, 60 muskets, and two
- pairs of colors,” 112.
-
- Surrender of Yorktown, 109.
-
- Sutter, J. A., “that grand old pioneer,” 85.
-
-
- “Taught school there for over twenty years,” 105.
-
- Taylor, George, an Irish signer of the Declaration of Independence,
- 115.
-
- Taylor, George W., chairman of the Lexington board of Selectmen, 13,
- 14, 15.
-
- Taylor, John M., “keen as an Irish greyhound,” 117.
-
- Templemurry, Ireland, 29.
-
- Temple, Robert, arrives at Boston in 1717 with a party of Irish
- Protestants, 106.
-
- Tenth New Hampshire regiment in the Civil War, 39.
-
- “That glorious band of brothers,” 126.
-
- Thayer, Capt. Simeon, of Providence, R. I., 117.
-
- “The affair at the Cedars,” 91.
-
- _The First Commencement of Rhode Island College_, 93.
-
- “The gentlemen of Ireland,” 54.
-
- “The Irish do flock into town,” 112.
-
- “The golden milestone of life,” 83.
-
- “The last Commander of old Kent,” 98.
-
- “The last of the cocked hats,” 120.
-
- “The magistrates, long annoyed by the presence of an obstinate Papist
- in Boston, ordered Goody Glover to be taken into custody,” 19.
-
- The magistrates visit Goody Glover in prison, 20.
-
- “The man of truth,” 106.
-
- “The patriots secretly moved in another direction to fall upon the
- British at Princeton,” 120.
-
- “The petition of Many Inhabitants of Malden and Charlestown on
- Mestickside,” 30.
-
- “The Proof Against Her Was Wholly Deficient,” 17.
-
- “The Sullivan family is one of the most notable families in the history
- of New England,” 65.
-
- “The western province of Ireland,” 35.
-
- “There was a great concourse of people to see if the Papist would
- relent,” 20, 21.
-
- “There were many Irish in the command,” 98.
-
- “They chained the Papist till she could not move,” 19.
-
- “They put other chains on Glover,” 19.
-
- “The three polite Irishmen,” 114.
-
- “They were men of energy and substance,” 32.
-
- “They were thrifty, prosperous and leading citizens in the towns in
- which they settled,” 34.
-
- “Thomas the Irishman,” 121.
-
- “Thursday, March 1, 1770, went to Malachi Murfee’s,” 108.
-
- Ticonderoga, 44, 46, 99, 122.
-
- Tipperary, Ireland, 138.
-
- “To seize the personal effects of traitors,” 115.
-
- “To transport to America 500 natural Irishmen,” 116.
-
- Tracy, Patrick, a Rhode Island soldier who was killed in the assault on
- Quebec, 117.
-
- “Traveling in wagons and on horseback,” 60.
-
- Trenton, Battle of, 27, 105, 111, 120.
-
- Trinity College, Dublin, 105.
-
- Tuchin, Symon, master of the _Due Return_, 101.
-
-
- Ulster, Ireland, 28.
-
- United States, Supreme Court of the, 98.
-
- University of Pennsylvania, 108.
-
-
- Valley Forge, 113.
-
- Virginia, Francis Maguire arrives in, 112.
-
- Virginia, General Assembly of, 108.
-
- Virginia Historical Society, 143.
-
- Virginia Light Dragoons, First regiment of, 96.
-
- Virginia officers in the Revolution, 115.
-
- Virginia, “Poll list for the election of burgesses for the County of
- Prince William,” 112.
-
- Virginia records, Symon Tuchin mentioned in the, 101.
-
-
- Walsh, Regiment of, 91, 93, 94, 97.
-
- Washington, General, 13, 56, 67, 102, 104, 113, 116, 118, 120, 123,
- 127, 133, 143.
-
- Waterford, Ireland, 48.
-
- “Went in defense of the nation against Orange,” 76.
-
- Wreath placed on the monument in Lexington by the Society, 13, 14, 15.
-
- “Wrote an account of his voyage to Virginia and submitted it to the
- Privy Council of Spain,” 112.
-
-
- Yorktown, Surrender of, 109.
-
- “Your letter by Thomas the Irishman has just been received,” 121.
-
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-
-Footnote 1:
-
- Died Sept. 19, 1905.
-
-Footnote 2:
-
- Died March 18, 1905.
-
-Footnote 3:
-
- Of Baltimore, Md. This paper is reproduced, by permission, from the
- _Ave Maria_, of Notre Dame, Ind., in which publication it recently
- appeared under the title “A Forgotten Heroine.”
-
-Footnote 4:
-
- That there be no interruption to this narrative, let it be said that
- the facts relating to Mrs. Glover have been gleaned from Cotton
- Mather, Upham, Drake, Moore, Owens, Calef, Cartrie, and papers of the
- Massachusetts Historical Society.
-
-Footnote 5:
-
- Of Elizabeth, N. J. This paper was originally contributed to the
- Elizabeth _Evening Times_, Jan. 27, 1905.
-
-Footnote 6:
-
- Colonel Proctor was a native of Ireland.
-
-Footnote 7:
-
- General Knox was born in Boston of Irish parentage.
-
-Footnote 8:
-
- Of New York. President-General of the Society. This paper is from Mr.
- Crimmins’ recent work, _Early Celebrations of St. Patrick’s Day_.
-
-Footnote 9:
-
- Of Mayville, Chautauqua County, N. Y. A descendant of William
- Prendergast, the pioneer.
-
-Footnote 10:
-
- This paper was prepared by Mr. Scales for the New Hampshire Historical
- Society, and was read by him before that body. It is here republished
- by permission.
-
-Footnote 11:
-
- At A meeting of the Select men in Dover the 20^{th} of May 1723
- ordered that 2 Schoolmasters be Procured for the Towne of Dover for
- the year Ensuing, and that ther Sallery Exceed not £30 Payment a Peece
- and to attend the Directtions of the Select men for the Servis of the
- Towne in Equi’ll Proportion.
-
- Test
-
- Thomas Tebets, Towne Clark
-
- At the Same time Mr. Sullefund Exseps to Sarve the Towne above^{sd} as
- Scoole master three months Sertin and begins his Servis y^e 21^{th}
- Day of May 1723, and also y^e S^d Sullefund Promised the Selectmen if
- he left them Soonner he would give them a month notis to Provide
- themselves with a nother, and the Select men was also to give him a
- month notis if they Disliked him.
-
- Test.
-
- Thomas Tebbets, Towne Clark.
-
- Dover Town Records, A. D. 1723.
-
-Footnote 12:
-
- This name has also been rendered Darby.—EDITOR.
-
- NOTE. As Master John Sullivan here states that he was the son of Major
- Philip O’Sullivan, his own name was, therefore, originally O’Sullivan.
- At what period, and under what circumstances he dropped the “O,” is
- not now known.—ED.
-
-Footnote 13:
-
- This sketch was written by Miss Fitzgerald, for the American-Irish
- Historical Society, at the request of the Knights of St. Patrick of
- San Francisco. The latter organization is, collectively, a life member
- of the Society. Miss Fitzgerald is a granddaughter of Mr. Murphy, the
- pioneer here mentioned, and resides in Gilroy, California, in the
- beautiful Santa Clara valley.
-
-Footnote 14:
-
- Grandson of Mathew Carey. This memoir is mainly compiled from a paper
- contributed by Mr. Baird to _The American Bookseller_, New York City.
-
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-The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Journal of the American-Irish
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-Title: The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society (Vol. V)
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-<p><span class='center'>HON. JOHN C. LINEHAN.</span><br /><br />A Founder of the Society, and the first Treasurer-General of the same. Born in Macroom, County Cork, Ireland, Feb. 9, 1840. Died in Penacook (Concord), N. H., Sept. 19, 1905.</p>
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- <h1 class='c001' title='AMERICAN-IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY. VOLUME V.'><span class='xlarge'>THE JOURNAL</span><br /> <span class='small'>OF THE</span><br /> AMERICAN-IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY.</h1>
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-<div class='nf-center c002'>
- <div>BY</div>
- <div class='c002'><span class='large'>THOMAS HAMILTON MURRAY,</span></div>
- <div class='c002'><em>Secretary-General</em>.</div>
- <div class='c002'><span class='xlarge'>VOLUME V.</span></div>
- <div class='c002'><span class='large'>BOSTON, MASS.,</span></div>
- <div>PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY,</div>
- <div>1905.</div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-</div>
-<div class='figcenter id002'>
-<img src='images/i_seal.jpg' alt='AMERICAN-IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY THAT THE WORLD MAY KNOW. FOUNDED, A.D. 1897' class='ig001' />
-</div>
-<div class='pbb'>
- <hr class='pb c003' />
-</div>
-<div class='chapter'>
- <span class='pageno' id='Page_3'>3</span>
- <h2 class='c004'>INTRODUCTORY NOTE.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c005'>The present is the fifth volume of the <span class='sc'>Journal</span> of the American-Irish
-Historical Society. I desire to acknowledge the many courtesies
-received during its preparation, and to express my deep appreciation
-of the same. This volume sets forth the work done by the
-organization during the year, presents several historical papers of
-value and contains other matter of interest. All the volumes of the
-<span class='sc'>Journal</span> thus far issued have received a cordial welcome and have
-been the recipients of the most gratifying praise. It is hoped that
-the present work will be equally well received. The Society continues
-to enjoy a prosperous existence, has no indebtedness, and is
-constantly adding new members to its roll.</p>
-
-<div class='lg-container-r'>
- <div class='linegroup'>
- <div class='group'>
- <div class='line'><span class='sc'>T. H. Murray.</span></div>
- </div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<div class='lg-container-l'>
- <div class='linegroup'>
- <div class='group'>
- <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Boston, Mass.</span>,</div>
- <div class='line in4'>Dec. 15, 1905.</div>
- </div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<div class='chapter'>
- <span class='pageno' id='Page_5'>5</span>
- <h2 class='c004'>OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY, A. D. 1905.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c006'>
- <div><em>President-General</em>,</div>
- <div><b>Hon. John D. Crimmins</b>,</div>
- <div>New York City.</div>
- <div class='c002'><em>Vice-President-General</em>,</div>
- <div><b>Hon. Joseph T. Lawless</b>,</div>
- <div>Norfolk, Va.</div>
- <div class='c002'><em>Secretary-General</em>,</div>
- <div><b>Thomas Hamilton Murray</b>,</div>
- <div>36 Newbury St., Boston, Mass.</div>
- <div class='c002'><em>Treasurer-General</em>,</div>
- <div><b>Hon. John C. Linehan</b>,<a id='r1' /><a href='#f1' class='c007'><sup>[1]</sup></a></div>
- <div>Concord, N. H.</div>
- <div class='c002'><em>Librarian and Archivist</em>,</div>
- <div><b>Thomas B. Lawler</b>,</div>
- <div>New York City.</div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<h3 class='c008'>EXECUTIVE COUNCIL,</h3>
-
-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c002'>
- <div>The foregoing and</div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<ul class='index'>
- <li class='c009'><b>Hon. William McAdoo</b>, New York City.</li>
- <li class='c009'><b>Hon. Thomas J. Gargan</b>, Boston, Mass.</li>
- <li class='c009'><b>Thomas Addis Emmet, M. D.</b>, New York City.</li>
- <li class='c009'><b>Rev. John J. McCoy</b>, Chicopee, Mass.</li>
- <li class='c009'><b>Patrick F. Magrath</b>, Binghamton, N. Y.</li>
- <li class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_6'>6</span><b>Edward J. McGuire</b>, New York City.</li>
- <li class='c009'><b>Stephen Farrelly</b>, New York City.</li>
- <li class='c009'><b>James L. O’Neill</b>, Elizabeth, N. J.</li>
- <li class='c009'><b>Cyrus Townsend Brady</b>, New York City.</li>
- <li class='c009'><b>Major John Crane</b>, New York City.</li>
- <li class='c009'><b>Thomas J. Lynch</b>, Augusta, Me.</li>
- <li class='c009'><b>Francis C. Travers</b>,<a id='r2' /><a href='#f2' class='c007'><sup>[2]</sup></a> New York City.</li>
- <li class='c009'><b>M. Joseph Harson</b>, New York City.</li>
- <li class='c009'><b>Col. John McManus</b>, Providence, R. I.</li>
- <li class='c009'><b>Hon. Patrick Garvan</b>, Hartford, Conn.</li>
- <li class='c009'><b>John J. Lenehan</b>, New York City.</li>
- <li class='c009'><b>John Jerome Rooney</b>, New York City.</li>
- <li class='c009'><b>Hon. William Gorman</b>, Philadelphia, Pa.</li>
- <li class='c009'><b>Hon. Francis Q. O’Neill</b>, Charleston, S. C.</li>
- <li class='c009'><b>James Connolly</b>, Coronado, Cal.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h3 class='c008'>STATE VICE-PRESIDENTS.</h3>
-
-<ul class='index c002'>
- <li class='c009'>Maine—<b>James Cunningham</b>, Portland.</li>
- <li class='c009'>New Hampshire—<b>Hon. James F. Brennan</b>, Peterborough.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Vermont—<b>John D. Hanrahan, M. D.</b>, Rutland.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Massachusetts—<b>Hon. Joseph H. O’Neil</b>, Boston.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Rhode Island—<b>Thomas A. O’Gorman</b>, Providence.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Connecticut—<b>Dennis H. Tierney</b>, Waterbury.</li>
- <li class='c009'>New York—<b>Joseph I. C. Clarke</b>, New York City.</li>
- <li class='c009'>New Jersey—<b>John F. Kehoe</b>, Newark.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Pennsylvania—<b>Hugh McCaffrey</b>, Philadelphia.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Delaware—<b>John J. Cassidy</b>, Wilmington.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Virginia—<b>James W. McCarrick</b>, Norfolk.</li>
- <li class='c009'>West Virginia—<b>John F. Healy</b>, Thomas, Tucker County.</li>
- <li class='c009'>South Carolina—<b>Henry A. Molony</b>, Charleston.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Georgia—<b>Capt. John Flannery</b>, Savannah.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Ohio—<b>John Lavelle</b>, Cleveland.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Illinois—<b>Hon. P. T. Barry</b>, Chicago.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Indiana—<b>Very Rev. Andrew Morrissey, C. S. C.</b>, Notre Dame.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Iowa—<b>Rt. Rev. Philip J. Garrigan, D. D.</b>, Sioux City.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Montana—<b>Rt. Rev. M. C. Lenihan, D. D.</b>, Great Falls.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Minnesota—<b>Hon. C. D. O’Brien</b>, St. Paul.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Missouri—<b>Julius L. Foy</b>, St. Louis.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Kentucky—<b>John J. Slattery</b>, Louisville.</li>
- <li class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_7'>7</span>Tennessee—<b>Michael Gavin</b>, Memphis.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Kansas—<b>Patrick H. Coney</b>, Topeka.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Utah—<b>Joseph Geoghegan</b>, Salt Lake City.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Texas—<b>Gen. A. G. Malloy</b>, El Paso.</li>
- <li class='c009'>California—<b>John Mulhern</b>, San Francisco.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h3 class='c008'>OTHER VICE-PRESIDENTS.</h3>
-
-<ul class='index c002'>
- <li class='c009'>District of Columbia—<b>Hon. Edward A. Moseley</b>, Washington.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Arizona—<b>Col. O’Brien Moore</b>, Tucson.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Indian Territory—<b>Joseph F. Swords</b>, Sulphur.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Canada—<b>Hon. Felix Carbray</b>, Quebec.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Ireland—<b>Dr. Michael F. Cox</b>, Dublin.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<div class='chapter'>
- <span class='pageno' id='Page_8'>8</span>
- <h2 class='c004'>PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, 1905.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<h3 class='c008'>THE ANNUAL MEETING AND DINNER.</h3>
-
-<p class='c010'>The Society held its annual meeting and dinner on Tuesday evening,
-Jan. 24, 1905, at the Hotel Manhattan, 42d Street and Madison
-Avenue, New York City. In the unavoidable absence of the President-General,
-until late in the evening, Hon. Morgan J. O’Brien of
-New York presided. Thomas Hamilton Murray of Boston, Mass.,
-Secretary-General of the Society, attended to the duties of the latter
-office. The following is a copy of the notice for the event:</p>
-
-<h3 class='c008'>AMERICAN-IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY.<br /> <span class='small'>NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING AND DINNER.</span></h3>
-
-<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>Dear Sir</span>: The annual meeting and dinner of the American-Irish Historical
-Society will take place at the Hotel Manhattan, 42d Street and Madison
-Avenue, New York City, on Tuesday evening, Jan. 24, 1905.</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>A reception committee will be on duty at the Manhattan as early as 3
-p. m., to greet members of the Society and their guests, especially those
-coming from other cities and states.</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>At 6.30 p. m. members and guests will be received by the officers of the
-Society.</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>At 7 p. m. the annual meeting will be called to order.</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>At 8 p. m. the line will be formed and proceed to the annual dinner.</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>Tickets for the dinner will be $3.50 each, and are now ready for delivery.
-A dinner committee of New York members of the Society has been appointed
-and consists of Mr. John F. Doyle, 45 William Street; Major John
-Crane, 10 Bridge Street; Hon. Samuel Adams, 339–355 Sixth Avenue;
-Dr. J. Duncan Emmet, 103 Madison Avenue; Mr. James Curran, 512 West
-36th Street; Mr. Thomas B. Lawler, 70 Fifth Avenue; Mr. John Goodwin,
-70 West 23d Street; Mr. James O’Flaherty, 22 North William Street, and
-Mr. P. Tecumseh Sherman, 15 William Street.</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>Checks for dinner tickets should be made payable and forwarded to Mr.
-Doyle of the committee, at his address here given.</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>During the dinner, selections will be rendered by one of the best orchestras
-in New York City, and there will also be vocal numbers by eminent
-soloists. The after-dinner exercises will include a number of brief addresses
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_9'>9</span>along the Society’s line of work by Hon. Hugh Hastings, State
-Historian of New York; Mr. Osborne Howes, Treasurer of the Boston
-Board of Fire Underwriters, and by other gentlemen. Mr. Howes, here
-mentioned, is a descendant of an Irishman who settled on Cape Cod, Mass.,
-as early as 1657—nearly 250 years ago.</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>Kindly state, as soon as possible, whether you intend to be present with
-us on the forthcoming occasion.</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>Members may bring personal guests.</p>
-
-<div class='lg-container-r c013'>
- <div class='linegroup'>
- <div class='group'>
- <div class='line'>Fraternally,</div>
- <div class='line in8'><span class='sc'>William McAdoo</span>,</div>
- <div class='line in16'><em>President-General</em>.</div>
- </div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
- <div class='linegroup'>
- <div class='group'>
- <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Thomas Hamilton Murray</span>,</div>
- <div class='line in16'><em>Secretary-General</em>,</div>
- <div class='line in20'>36 Newbury Street, Boston, Mass.</div>
- </div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c014'>The attendance was one of the largest ever present at a like event
-under the auspices of the Society. The business session was of
-more than usual interest, the annual reports elicited the closest
-attention, and the whole affair was marked by a most commendable
-degree of enthusiasm.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Secretary-General Murray stated in his annual report that the following
-members of the Society had died during the year:</p>
-
-<ul class='index'>
- <li class='c009'>Capt. James F. Redding, Charleston, S. C.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mr. Bernard Foley, Boston, Mass.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mr. Patrick Farrelly, New York City.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Rev. John F. Redican, Leicester, Mass.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mr. Patrick Brady, New York City.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Rev. Francis D. McGuire, Albany, N. Y.</li>
- <li class='c009'>John O’Flaherty, M. D., Hartford, Conn.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mr. Joseph P. Flatley, Boston, Mass.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mr. John H. Spellman, New York City, and</li>
- <li class='c009'>Hon. John M. Fitzsimons, New York City.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p class='c014'>The Secretary-General paid an appropriate tribute to each of the
-foregoing, and fitting action in honor of the deceased was taken by
-the Society.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>It was stated by the Secretary-General that during the year the
-following-named gentlemen had become Life members of the organization,
-each paying $50:</p>
-
-<ul class='index'>
- <li class='c009'>Mr. George J. Gillespie, New York City.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mr. Robert A. Sasseen, New York City.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mr. P. E. Somers, Worcester, Mass.</li>
- <li class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_10'>10</span>Mr. Stephen Farrelly, New York City.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Hon. Patrick Garvan, Hartford, Conn.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Rev. Henry A. Brann, D. D., New York City.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Hon. Jeremiah O’Rourke, Newark, N. J., and</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mr. Patrick Gallagher, New York City.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p class='c014'>The Secretary-General stated that during the year he had opened
-temporary headquarters at 509 Fifth Avenue, New York, for the
-purpose of securing new members and inducing members in arrears
-to settle their indebtedness. Although able to devote but a few
-weeks to the work, the result was very satisfactory.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>During the year the Secretary-General collected and remitted to
-the Treasurer-General, $1,247. “The Society is today,” said Mr.
-Murray, “in as prosperous a condition as at any period since its
-formation, and we hopefully look forward to many years of continued
-prosperity and usefulness.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Hon. John C. Linehan of Concord, N. H., Treasurer-General of
-the Society, in his annual report stated that the total resources of the
-Society for the year were $2,341.17; and the total expenditure,
-$1,248.80, leaving a balance in the treasury, Dec. 31, 1904, of
-$1,092.37.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The committee appointed to audit the Treasurer-General’s accounts,
-reported the same as correctly kept and that all expenditures
-were accompanied by proper vouchers.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The annual reports were unanimously accepted and adopted.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Mr. Joseph Smith of Lowell, Mass., moved as the sense of the
-Society, that the latter heartily approves the project to erect a monument
-in Washington, D. C., to Commodore John Barry. The motion
-was unanimously adopted.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The annual election of officers for the Society then took place
-and resulted in the choice of the gentlemen whose names are given
-on pages <a href='#Page_5'>5</a>, <a href='#Page_6'>6</a> and <a href='#Page_7'>7</a> of this volume.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The following were elected to membership in the Society:</p>
-
-<ul class='index'>
- <li class='c009'>Hon. Hugh Hastings, State Historian of New York, Albany, N. Y.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Rev. James J. Baxter, D. D., Boston, Mass.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mr. T. Vincent Butler, New York City.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mr. Michael J. Morkan, Hartford, Conn.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mr. Edward R. Carroll, New York City.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mr. John Jay Joyce, New York City.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mr. D. H. McBride, New York City.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mr. P. H. Garrity, Waterbury, Conn.</li>
- <li class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_11'>11</span>Mr. G. W. Lembeck, Jersey City, N. J.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mr. T. F. Donnelly, New York City.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mr. Patrick Murray, New York City.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mr. Arthur McAleenan, New York City.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Hon. Lawrence O. Murray, Washington, D. C.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mr. Thomas Kenney, Worcester, Mass.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Thomas F. Kenney, M. D., Vienna, Austria.</li>
- <li class='c009'>M. X. Sullivan, Ph. D., Providence, R. I.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h3 class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Annual Dinner.</span></h3>
-
-<p class='c010'>Upon the adjournment of the business meeting, the Society and
-guests proceeded to the banquet room for the annual dinner. One
-hundred and forty-five gentlemen participated.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Among those seated at the head table with Hon. Morgan J.
-O’Brien, the presiding officer, were: Rev. Henry A. Brann, D. D.,
-New York City; Hon. Joseph F. Daly, New York City; Mr. Osborne
-Howes, Boston, Mass.; Hon. John C. Linehan, Concord,
-N. H.; Hon. Hugh Hastings, Albany, N. Y.; Thomas Addis
-Emmet, M. D., New York City; Mr. M. F. Dooley, Providence,
-R. I.; Mr. John F. Doyle, New York City; Mr. Stephen Farrelly,
-New York City, and Mr. Joseph I. C. Clarke, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>After grace had been said the company devoted itself to the fine
-menu.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>During the repast music was furnished by an orchestra. There
-was also singing by the entire company, in chorus, and solo singing
-by Mr. John W. Donovan of New York; Mr. Joseph M. Byrne of
-Newark, N. J., and Hon. John C. Linehan of Concord, N. H.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>At an interval during the dinner, Mr. Joseph Smith of Lowell,
-Mass., alluding to the approaching departure of James Jeffrey Roche,
-LL. D., for Genoa, Italy, as United States Consul, moved that the
-Society bid him God-speed on his journey and wish him a brilliant
-career in his new sphere of duty. The motion was adopted.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>While the post-prandial exercises were in progress, Hon. William
-McAdoo arrived and the chair was yielded him by Judge O’Brien.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The paper of the evening was by Hon. Hugh Hastings, State Historian
-of New York, who took for his subject: “Thomas Dongan
-and the Earl of Bellomont, Governors of New York.” The paper
-was one of great merit and was frequently applauded.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Several brief addresses were made during the evening, having a
-bearing on the Society’s line of work.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_12'>12</span>While the dinner was under way, a toast to President Roosevelt,
-“one of our members,” was proposed by Hon. Thomas Z. Lee of
-Providence, R. I., and drank amid great enthusiasm.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The following letter written by President Roosevelt to Mr. William
-M. Sweeny of Astoria, L. I., N. Y., a member of the Society, was
-read to the company by Judge O’Brien:</p>
-
-<p class='c012'><em>My Dear Mr. Sweeny</em>: Replying to your letter of the 14th inst., I would
-say that my Irish ancestors came to Pennsylvania early in the seventeenth
-century. They included John Potts and his wife, Elizabeth McVaugh (so
-set down in the records; I do not know what the real name was); John
-Barnhill, whose wife was Sarah Craig, and a man named Lukens, who may
-have been a German from the Palatinate.</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>They were all of them humble people, farmers, merchants, etc., although
-Sarah Craig is put down as being descended on her mother’s side, through
-the Barnwalls, from various well known Irish families, both of the pale and
-outside the pale, the Butlers, the Fitzgeralds, O’Neills and O’Briens. But
-about this more illustrious descent I fear I cannot give you any specific particulars.</p>
-
-<div class='lg-container-r c013'>
- <div class='linegroup'>
- <div class='group'>
- <div class='line'>Sincerely yours,</div>
- <div class='line in12'><span class='sc'>Theodore Roosevelt</span>.</div>
- </div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c014'>The reading of the foregoing letter was received with great applause.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Letters expressing regret at inability to attend the dinner were received
-from the following:</p>
-
-<ul class='index'>
- <li class='c009'>Hon. John D. Crimmins, New York City.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Gen. M. V. Sheridan, U. S. A. (retired), Washington, D. C.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Rt. Rev. Philip J. Garrigan, D. D., Sioux City, Ia.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Rev. Christopher Hughes, Fall River, Mass.</li>
- <li class='c009'>James E. Sullivan, M. D., Providence, R. I.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mr. P. Tecumseh Sherman, New York City.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mr. George W. McCarthy, Portsmouth, N. H.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Rev. James Coyle, Taunton, Mass.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Daniel J. Phelan, M. D., New York City.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Hon. Edward A. Moseley, Washington, D. C.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Hon. Thomas J. Gargan, Boston, Mass.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Col. James Moran, Providence, R. I., and</li>
- <li class='c009'>John D. Hanrahan, M. D., Rutland, Vt.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<div class='chapter'>
- <span class='pageno' id='Page_13'>13</span>
- <h2 class='c004'>PATRIOTIC PILGRIMAGE TO LEXINGTON, MASS.</h2>
-</div>
-<h3 class='c008'><span class='sc'>Interesting Observance by the Society of the Anniversary of the Battle of April 19, 1775.</span></h3>
-
-<p class='c010'>The Society held an interesting observance, April 19, 1905, the
-date being the anniversary of the battle of Lexington, Concord and
-Cambridge, fought in 1775. The programme comprised a patriotic
-pilgrimage to Lexington, and other features of interest.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The Boston members, and their guests, went out to Lexington in
-automobiles, leaving Boston about 10.15 a. m. Each member and
-guest wore a neat badge, specially designed for the occasion, and
-comprising the Revolutionary colors buff and blue. Each badge
-bore the initials of the Society, “A. I. H. S.,” and the inscription,
-“Lexington, 1775–1905.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Reaching Cambridge, the party stopped at the City Hall there
-and a call was made on Hon. Augustine J. Daly, mayor of Cambridge.
-All the members of the party were introduced to the
-mayor, who was assisted in receiving by City Clerk Edward J.
-Brandon, J. Edward Barry, president of the board of aldermen; Mr.
-Edward A. Counihan, mayor’s clerk, and other officials.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>After the introduction and greetings, lunch was served. Leaving
-Cambridge city hall, the party started for Lexington. Many historic
-points were passed, including Harvard College, the Old Elm, where
-Washington took command of the American Army, and a number of
-memorial tablets.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Arriving at the Lexington town hall, the party was warmly welcomed
-by Mr. George W. Taylor, chairman of the board of selectmen,
-and by other officials of the town. All then walked to the
-battle monument on the village green, where the Society placed a
-laurel wreath to the memory of the patriotic dead. This wreath
-measured about three feet in diameter, and was tied with buff and
-blue ribbon.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_14'>14</span>Assembled around the monument at this time, in addition to the
-members of the Society, was a large gathering of the people of Lexington,
-and visitors from out of town. After the wreath had been
-put in place on the monument, an oration was delivered by City
-Clerk Brandon of Cambridge, who dwelt upon the objects of the
-Society and the lessons of patriotism inculcated by the observance
-of the day. Mr. Brandon’s remarks were frequently applauded and
-at the close he was given an ovation. The Society was then grouped,
-with the monument as a background, and a large photograph of the
-whole taken.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The Society and guests, escorted by Chairman Taylor of the
-board of selectmen, then proceeded to the latter’s beautiful residence,
-“Larchmont,” where they were hospitably entertained. The
-ladies of the party were specially taken charge of by Mrs. Taylor,
-while the gentlemen were waited upon by Mr. Taylor and his talented
-daughter, Miss Amy Ethel Taylor. An elaborate lunch was
-served, and then followed congratulatory and patriotic addresses
-by a dozen or more of the visitors.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Following the lunch and the speech-making there was vocal and
-instrumental music, the whole affair being one of great enjoyment.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Members of the Society were present, during the day, from Boston,
-Cambridge, Lowell, Lexington and Springfield, Mass.; Providence
-and Pawtucket, R. I.; Hartford, Conn.; and New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Among those participating in the exercises were: Hon. Patrick
-Garvan of Hartford, Conn., and his daughters, the Misses Agnes
-and Genevieve Garvan; Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Murphy, Springfield,
-Mass.; Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Murray, Boston, Mass.; Mr. and
-Mrs. Charles V. Ryan, Springfield, Mass.; Miss M. Olive Murphy,
-Boston, Mass.; Mr. T. Vincent Butler, New York City; Mr.
-Patrick Carter, Providence, R. I.; Mr. John F. Kinsela, Lowell,
-Mass.; Mr. J. J. Cassidy, Lowell, Mass.; Mr. Bernard McCaughey,
-Pawtucket, R. I.; Mr. T. P. Kelly, New York City; Mr. Bernard J.
-Joyce, Boston, Mass.; Mr. M. H. Cox, Mr. Joseph F. O’Connell
-and other Boston people; Mr. Christopher S. Ryan, Mr. Orlando
-Bowman and Rev. M. H. Owens, all of Lexington, Mass., Mr. T. F.
-Gorman, Boston, Mass., and a number of others.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The following is a copy of a letter from Selectman Taylor in connection
-with the foregoing event, and received previous thereto:</p>
-
-<table class='table0' summary=''>
- <tr><td class='c015' colspan='2'><span class='pageno' id='Page_15'>15</span></td></tr>
- <tr>
- <td class='blt c016'><span class='fss'>OFFICIAL</span><br /><span class='fss'>SEAL.</span></td>
- <td class='blt c016'>OFFICE OF SELECTMEN.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
- <tr>
- <td class='blt c017'><span class='sc'>Geo. W. Taylor</span>,<br /><span class='sc'>H. A. C. Woodward</span>,<br /><span class='sc'>Frank D. Peirce</span>,</td>
- <td class='blt c016'>Selectmen of Lexington.</td>
- </tr>
-</table>
-<div class='c018'><span class='sc'>Lexington, Mass.</span>, Mar. 24, 1905.</div>
-
-<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
- <div class='linegroup'>
- <div class='group'>
- <div class='line'><em>Thomas Hamilton Murray, Esq.,</em></div>
- <div class='line in6'><em>Sec’y of the American-Irish Historical Society,</em></div>
- <div class='line in14'><em>36 Newbury St., Boston, Mass.</em></div>
- </div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c012'><span class='sc'>My dear Sir</span>: Your favor of the 22nd inst., relative to a patriotic pilgrimage
-of the American-Irish Historical Society on April 19th, is at hand.</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>As Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, I shall be most happy to receive
-you at the Town Hall at noon, and will also be glad to attend your exercises
-on the Common, after which I should be pleased, if you find it convenient,
-to have you make an informal call at “Larchmont,” my home on Bedford
-Street, where I had the pleasure of meeting so many of your Society three
-years ago.</p>
-
-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c013'>
- <div>Very truly yours,</div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<div class='figright id003'>
-<img src='images/i_020.jpg' alt='Geo. W. Taylor.' class='ig001' />
-<div class='ic003'>
-<p><em>Chairman, Board of Selectmen,<br />Town of Lexington.</em></p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<div class='chapter'>
- <span class='pageno' id='Page_16'>16</span>
- <h2 class='c004'>SOME INTERESTING HISTORICAL PAPERS.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<h3 class='c008'>GOODY GLOVER, AN IRISH VICTIM OF THE WITCH CRAZE, BOSTON, MASS., 1688.</h3>
-
-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c002'>
- <div><span class='small'>BY HAROLD DIJON.<a id='r3' /><a href='#f3' class='c007'><sup>[3]</sup></a></span></div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c014'>Leonard Scot, in his <cite>Discoverie of Witchcraft</cite>, gives this definition
-of a witch: “The sort of such as are said to be witches are women
-which be commonly old, lame, bleare-eied, pale, fowle, and full of
-wrinkles; poore, sullen, superstitious, and Papists; or such as know
-no religion.” Ralph Hoven, an Anglican divine, concedes: “All
-Papists be not witches, but commonly all witches be the spawn of
-the Pope.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The Rev. Josiah Templie, in a sermon preached at Rye in 1619,
-says: “Because of witchcraft we have divers mischiefs and disorders;
-and witches they be so long as there be Papists, drabs of
-the strumpet Pope,” and so on. Oates, in <cite>The Witchcrafts of the
-Roman Jezebel</cite>—a folio that brought him a considerable fortune,—repeats
-the foregoing statements in language not printable.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>John Cunliffe of Preston complained in 1596 that witchcraft was
-made a plea for “burning those of the Old Religion; in moste parte
-they who be in great povertie.” How many of those burned for
-witchcraft in England were Catholics, it is not impossible to ascertain.
-Much material appertaining to the subject waits to be
-investigated.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The opinion fostered in England that a witch, a devil, and a
-Catholic were different terms for the same thing, was as sedulously
-cared for in New England; and we find Cotton Mather, in his
-<cite>Magnalia</cite>, and in a sermon preached in Old North Church, Boston,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_17'>17</span>using virtually Scot’s definition of a witch to describe the subject of
-this sketch.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>“Glover,” he says, “was a scandalous old Irishwoman, very poor,
-a Roman Catholic and obstinate in idolatry.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>A Boston merchant, one Robert Calef, who knew Mrs. Glover,
-writes of her in <cite>More Wonders of the Invisible World</cite>, printed in
-London in 1700. The sympathy he expresses for her was bold for
-the time, prevented the publication of the work in Boston, brought
-on him the vituperations of Cotton Mather, and caused the book to
-be burned in Harvard College yard, by order of Harvard’s president,
-Dr. Increase Mather.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Calef says: “Goody Glover was a despised, crazy, poor old
-woman, an Irish Catholic, who was tried for afflicting the Goodwin
-children. Her behavior at her trial was like that of one distracted.
-They did her cruel. The proof against her was wholly deficient.
-The jury brought her guilty. She was hung. She died a Catholic.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Drake, in his <cite>Annals of Witchcraft in New England</cite>, makes the
-following comment on this passage: “Glover was not a crazy person,
-as we now understand the word; it was not meant that she was
-insane, but simply that she was weak and infirm.” We have not
-lost the old meaning of the word; and such expressions as “a crazy
-table,” “a crazy structure,” are quite common.<a id='r4' /><a href='#f4' class='c007'><sup>[4]</sup></a></p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Ann Glover [commonly called Goody Glover] and her daughter
-had been living in Boston for some years prior to her execution in
-1688. It is not known what part of Ireland she came from. She
-herself has stated that she and her husband were sold to the Barbadoes
-in the time of Cromwell. She also related that, shortly after
-the birth of her daughter, her husband was “scored to death and
-did not give up his religion, which same I will hold to.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>How Mrs. Glover came to be in Boston can only be conjectured.
-It is possible she came in that train of servants and Indian slaves
-brought to the Puritan Colony from the Barbadoes, some of whom
-fell to the Rev. Mr. Parris, of Salem fame. Little is known of her
-life in Boston before 1682, beyond the fact that the presence of a
-Catholic in a community that looked upon itself as “the only Christian
-people” gave great umbrage.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In 1682 a woman who had labored in vain to convince Mrs.
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_18'>18</span>Glover of her “Papistical errors,” accused her of witchcraft; and,
-dying shortly after, prophesied that “Goody Glover would be hung.”
-The prophecy was not forgotten.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The mother and daughter were wretchedly poor, and barely able
-to make a scant living by washing the clothes of such as could be
-induced to employ a “Papist.” Among those who employed them
-was the family of John Goodwin. John Goodwin had come to
-Boston from Charlestown, and was the father of four children—Nathaniel,
-Martha, John and Mercy,—all of whom were to be in the
-plot which did to death two harmless women, and which “sadly
-perplexed and befooled Cotton Mather.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Cotton Mather, who was charged in 1693 with being “the chief
-cause, promoter and agent, and favourer of the prosecutions for
-witchcraft”! Cotton Mather, who “countenanced the executioners
-by his presence, and in various ways urged the terrible work of
-blood in Salem”! Cotton Mather, who, from being extolled for
-sanctity and learning, has come to be scoffed at as an “ignoramus,
-vain and mendacious”! Such was the pastor of Old North Church,
-of which the Goodwins were “pillars.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In 1687 Martha Goodwin, who was then a child of twelve years,
-charged Mrs. Glover’s daughter with having purloined some clothes.
-The charge was indignantly repelled, and accusation was made that
-Martha wished to get Mrs. Glover into trouble. And then the
-daughter cried out: “You may have us whipped, but to the sermons
-we will not go.” Hereupon, Martha fell into a fit, which the
-“learned physicians of Boston declared to be diabolical.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>I think you will agree with me, when Martha’s pranks are further
-displayed, that the little girl had an attack of nerves and temper.
-What between tirades against witches, Catholics, Baptists and
-Quakers, and long sermons and long faces, the whole community
-was in a highly nervous state. Cheerfulness was sinfulness. Read
-of that monstrous Pharisee of five years old lauded in the <cite>Magnalia</cite>.
-She never laughed; she prayed her mother might be one of the
-elect, even as she was.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Mrs. Glover and her daughter were now in sorer straits than ever.
-No one would employ them, and had it not been for some secret aid
-they received from the Calefs, who were not bereft of reason and
-humanity, they must have starved. Even as it was, the treatment
-the daughter received—“stonings and revilings”—turned her brain,
-and she died a lunatic, frightened to death.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_19'>19</span>In the meanwhile, the lost clothes were found, by a woman
-employed in the Goodwin household, “stuck under a wardrobe.”
-This discovery led to no good results for Mrs. Glover, for now
-Mercy and the two Goodwin boys had fits “like unto those of the
-maid Martha”; and then Martha took it into her head to be again
-“afflicted.” The children asserted that the spirit of Goody Glover
-struck them with blows, cut them with knives, strangled them and
-sat on their chests. At devotions they pretended they could hear
-nothing of what was said. “Goody Glover stopped their ears!
-Goody Glover would have them worship her idols!” was their cry.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>All this was so much gospel to a people saturated with prejudice;
-and the Boston and Charlestown ministers held a fast at Mr. Goodwin’s
-house. “The fast did greatly relieve the children.” Which
-goes to prove that if Mr. Goodwin had “whipped them all soundly
-and sent them to bed,” they would have been permanently cured.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>But now “the magistrates, long annoyed by the presence of an
-obstinate Papist in Boston, ordered Goody Glover to be taken into
-custody.” A search was made of her house, “and certain images
-were found in secret.” It is not difficult to conjecture what they
-were. Beads or medals, maybe; certainly a cross or crucifix was
-one of them.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>She was “loaded with chains” and placed in a prison. As no
-provision was made to feed prisoners in Massachusetts at that time,
-her condition must have been one of great distress. It is said that
-the Calefs continued to succor her, and there is a statement that a
-Dame Nourse of Salem, visiting Boston, gave her some aid. Can
-this be the explanation of Mather’s inexorable pursuit of Rebecca
-Nourse?</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>To relieve the tedium of an existence deprived of innocent amusements,
-the Goodwin children renewed their deceptions, and Cotton
-Mather, “to relieve the distress of the afflicted John Goodwin, took
-Martha to his house to live.” Now it was that the cunning mischief-maker
-befooled Cotton Mather to the top of his bent. Page after
-page of the ponderous <cite>Magnalia</cite> is occupied with a grave recital of
-the pranks played by this child in the minister’s house. “She
-screamed with pain, and cried that Glover’s chains were about her
-leg.... To prevent the escape of the prisoner’s spirit, to afflict
-the child, they put other chains on Glover.... They chained
-the Papist till she could not move and she did spew blood.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Martha would not allow the spirit to be confined. She said Goody
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_20'>20</span>Glover brought her a horse to ride, and her pastor tells us “she
-would make all the motions of a person who rides, about the room
-and up the stairs, like one astraddle of a horse.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Imagine the impish glee of the child at seeing the most important
-person in the Colony following her about in her horseplay, with looks
-of awe! Her terrible precocity taught her to play on his hatred
-of Mrs. Glover’s creed. “While possessed of the devil and Mrs.
-Glover,” he says, “she could read Popish books, but not books
-against Popery.” In the pastor’s study “she would become calm,
-and no longer afflicted. This was witnessed by divers persons, and
-many times.” When asked why she was not afflicted in the pastor’s
-study, the child replied, with a thorough reading of Mather’s greatest
-weakness—his vanity, “Your study is too holy a place for the
-devil or Glover to enter.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The trial of Mrs. Glover was a farce. Pounded with questions
-on all sides, the poor woman was only able to answer her tormentors
-in Irish. “This she was instigated to do by the devil,” says Cotton
-Mather. There be no doubt that, owing to her great age, her sufferings
-in prison, the confusion of the court, which was added to by
-the screams of pretended pain from the Goodwin children, Mrs.
-Glover was temporarily deprived of English, “for which she never
-had a great facility.” One question, however, she did give answer
-to in English. They asked her if it was true that she was a Papist,
-“and showed to her an idol which was secret in her house. She
-snatched at it with a joy that was diabolical, and said: ‘I die a
-Catholic!’” Considering the material of which it was composed, it
-is no wonder that the jury, after this declaration of Faith, found her
-guilty.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The magistrates visited her in prison that night, “and they found
-her agreeable to their questions.” They asked her what would
-become of her soul after she was hanged. The simple and much-tried
-woman had the humility Cotton Mather lacked. “You ask
-me a very solemn question, and I can not tell what to say to it. I
-trust in God,” she replied. Cotton Mather also visited her in prison....
-He asked her to say the Lord’s Prayer; for the common
-belief was that this could not be done by a Catholic or a witch.
-“She recited the <cite><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Pater Noster</span></cite> to me in Latin,” he says, “and in
-Irish, and in English, but she could not end it.” Of course she
-could not end it in Cotton Mather’s way.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>She caused Mather to wonder that she repeated in a voice “marvellous
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_21'>21</span>strong” the petition, “deliver us from evil.” He considers
-this to be a sign that she “reproached the devil for deserting her to
-be hung.” Poor, befogged man, whose conceit would not permit
-him to see that it was he himself she petitioned to be delivered
-from; for he argued with her to destroy her Faith. She refused
-Mather’s spiritual ministrations, and he feels assured that her
-“Catholic spirits” will not permit her to accept them, and he predicts
-to her, her speedy and eternal damnation.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The proffering of these several consolations increased Mather’s
-habitual satisfaction with himself, and he says: “Comforted at having
-performed a solemn duty” [the consigning of a soul to perdition],
-“I returned to my house.” Arrived there, he found the “Maid
-Martha galloping about the room on the horse, her feet not touching
-the ground, which was a great wonder.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Mrs. Glover was hanged on the following day. “There was a
-great concourse of people to see if the Papist would relent....
-Her one cat was there, fearsome to see. They would to destroy the
-cat, but Mr. Calef would not [permit the cat to be killed]. Before
-her execution she was bold and impudent [!] making to forgive her
-accusers and those who put her off.... She predicted that her
-death would not relieve the children, saying it was not she afflicted
-them.” This was construed into a threat; and the children continued
-their sport, till, “a very strict fast being held, they were completely
-restored.” After recounting the details of this “joyful restoration,”
-Cotton Mather becomes more than usually prolix in a relation
-of the <em>piety</em> of his protegés.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>It is not denied that before and after the execution of Ann Glover
-there was a vast number of arrests and executions of reputed witches
-and wizards in New England, beginning in 1647, under John Winthrop,
-and culminating in the Salem massacre of 1692. It is not
-denied that neither age, sex, nor condition was spared. Some were
-children—one but four years old,—others of eighty and beyond;
-one was a minister; many were the most reputable people in the
-Massachusetts Colony.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>What is asserted is that Ann Glover was put to death not so much
-because she was reputed a witch, as for the certainty that she was a
-Catholic. All we know of her is in the words of her enemies and
-executioners, except what is found in the scant record of Robert
-Calef, who exposed himself to utter ruin by his defence of her. The
-little we know, however, confirms the truth of my assertion.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_22'>22</span>It was only when all attempts to move Mrs. Glover’s “obstinate
-Papacy” had failed, that she was first accused of witchcraft in 1682.
-That the Goodwins were in the league “to bring her out of the
-burning”—that is, to induce her to forswear the Faith—may be
-inferred with safety from what took place in 1687. When her daughter
-was accused of theft by Martha Goodwin, she does not say, “You
-may have us whipped, but we are innocent of stealing”: this she
-had asserted before. She cries out: “You may have us whipped,
-but we won’t go to the sermons.” Does not this outburst unfold a
-tale of antecedent persecution suffered for religion’s sake?</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>A fast “had greatly relieved the Goodwin children”; the tempest
-they had aroused was lulled, and what happened? “The magistrates,
-long annoyed by the presence of an obstinate Papist in Boston,
-ordered Goody Glover to be taken into custody,” says Drake.
-At her trial there was not even such evidence to prove her a witch
-as would satisfy the gullible magistrates. It was only when Goody
-Glover made the declaration that she would die a Catholic that “the
-jury brought her guilty.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>It went hard with the magistrates and Cotton Mather that a poor
-old Catholic, a “scandalous Irishwoman,” withstood the doctrine of
-the self-reputed “saints”; and even now Goody Glover could have
-saved her life had she “relented.” The magistrates went to her on
-her last night alive, to beat down her opposition by questions of her
-soul. They failed, and Cotton Mather took their place.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>He was above the law in the cheerless Colony. When, in 1692,
-the jury brought in poor Rebecca Nourse innocent of witchcraft, he
-had them sent to reconsider the evidence: at his beck they found
-her guilty. Then the governor, Sir William Phipps, pardoned her.
-In defiance of the pardon, Cotton Mather had her hanged, and saw
-her die on Witches’ Hill at Salem; and, “sitting on his black horse,
-he rebuked those who did bewail her; for she was an excellent
-woman.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In view of this exhibition of his arbitrary power, is it too much to
-say that, had Goody Glover “relented,” in his vainglory over the
-conquest of a broken-down old woman, Cotton Mather would have
-had her set free? But the old Irishwoman conquered Cotton
-Mather. “She died a Catholic”; and, imitating her Divine Master,
-she died forgiving her enemies,—all those from whom she had suffered
-grievous wrong.</p>
-
-<div class='chapter'>
- <span class='pageno' id='Page_23'>23</span>
- <h2 class='c004'>CAPT. DANIEL NEILL, AN ARTILLERY OFFICER OF THE REVOLUTION.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c006'>
- <div><span class='small'>BY GEN. J. MADISON DRAKE<a id='r5' /><a href='#f5' class='c007'><sup>[5]</sup></a>.</span></div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c005'>It has never been generally known that the first cannon shot at the
-enemy, after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by
-Congress, at Philadelphia, on the evening of July 4, 1776, was fired in
-Elizabeth, N. J., then known as Elizabethtown, and as the present
-time seems opportune for the revivication of local incidents in
-the war for independence, I will narrate an exciting episode to
-awaken additional interest.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Up to February, 1776, the state of New Jersey, or province as it
-then was, had no artillery organization, and the importance of that
-arm of the service being acutely felt, the Provincial Congress, in session
-at Burlington, on the 13th of that month, adopted the following
-resolution:</p>
-
-<p class='c012'><em>Resolved</em>, That two complete artillery companies be raised in this colony.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The ordinance provided that the term of enlistment should be for
-one year, and that one company should be stationed in the eastern
-part of the province, the other in the western. Each company was
-to consist of a captain, one captain-lieutenant, two second lieutenants,
-four sergeants, four corporals, and one hundred and fifty
-matrosses. (The last term was at that time used to denote gunners’
-mates, or soldiers in a train of artillery, who assisted in loading, firing
-and sponging the guns.) The day following the passage of the ordinance
-the first or eastern company was organized in Newark by the
-election of the following officers:</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Captain—Frederick Frelinghuysen.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Captain-Lieutenant—Daniel Neill.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Second Lieutenants—Thomas Clark and James Heard.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_24'>24</span>Captain Frelinghuysen served but one month and resigned—Lieutenant
-Neill succeeding him.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Shepard Kollock, born in Delaware in 1750, after learning the
-“art preservative of all arts” in Philadelphia, came to Elizabethtown
-after the war had commenced, and joined Captain Neill’s battery.
-He was with it when it attacked and destroyed a British gunboat off
-this city, and by his distinguished gallantry on that occasion was promoted
-to the first lieutenancy.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>At the close of the campaign in 1778, General Knox, commanding
-the American artillery, advised Lieutenant Kollock to establish a
-newspaper in Elizabethtown, as he would thereby be able to render
-great service to the patriot cause. Lieutenant Kollock liked a
-soldier’s life, and did not want to leave the army, but General Knox
-finally prevailed upon him to engage in the newspaper enterprise, so
-he resigned, and securing a rude outfit located in Chatham, a much
-safer place than Elizabeth was at that period, and for some years
-afterwards Lieutenant Kollock continued the publication of the New
-Jersey <cite>Journal and Political Intelligencer</cite> at Chatham, until peace was
-declared, when he removed his plant to Elizabeth, where it has since
-remained.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Captain Neill, a young man born in Ireland, by untiring energy
-and devotion to duty, quickly got his command in good trim for the
-active service it was soon to engage in. In the latter part of June
-Captain Neill, who had been stationed in Newark, N. J., being ordered
-to Elizabeth, took possession of the earthworks at what is now
-the foot of Elizabeth Avenue, where he made a comfortable camp.
-To relieve his men from ennui when not engaged in drilling, Captain
-Neill caused them to throw up more earth, thus adding to the strength
-of the redoubt. He placed his four guns so they would command
-the sound, narrow at that point, as well as the entrance to the Elizabeth
-River, then known as “Mill Creek.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>William Livingston, a resident of Elizabeth, who resigned his seat
-in the Provincial Congress at Burlington, to be made commander-in-chief
-of the New Jersey militia, overjoyed at the presence of Captain
-Neill’s battery, on the morning of July 4, 1776, wrote General Washington
-as follows:</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>... We now have two field pieces, 18 pounders, with a part of Captain
-Neill’s company of artillery in this province.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Shortly after the mounted courier had set out with the dispatch for
-Washington’s headquarters in New York, American piquets posted
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_25'>25</span>on the ground now occupied by the buildings of the Singer Company,
-were surprised to see a large British gunboat lying off the southern
-end of Shooters’ Island. They at once sent word to General Livingston,
-whose home on Morris Avenue is now occupied by the family of
-Senator Kean.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Early in the evening General Livingston mounted his horse, ever
-saddled, and rode to the lower part of the town, where he had a conference
-with Captain Neill, who had already taken steps to repel an
-attack, in case the vessel meditated mischief.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The sudden appearance of the gunboat in our waters was a great
-surprise to our soldiers, as no British vessel had been hereabouts
-since Washington occupied New York City and Long Island. The
-gunboat was a part of Admiral Lord Howe’s fleet, just arrived from
-England, and that day anchored off Cliffton, Staten Island. The
-British army at once landed on the eastern shore of the island,
-gladly welcomed by the supporters of British oppression.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Along towards the middle of the night the gunboat was seen coming
-slowly through the Achter Koll, opposite the Singer factory. In
-the soft moonlit night the craft was plainly distinguishable to our
-argus-eyed soldiers keeping watch and ward along the shore. As
-any effort they could make against the ship with their smooth-bore
-muskets would be innocent, they maintained a painful silence, feeling
-assured that when it reached the battery our guns would give a good
-account of themselves.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The commander of the vessel, in blissful ignorance of the possession
-of artillery by the Americans, sailed unconcernedly and tranquilly
-over the placid waters. Like most British officers at that period
-of the war, he had profound contempt for American militiamen,
-whom he did not consider foemen worthy of his steel.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Captain Neill, who had been on the <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">qui vive</span></i> for some time, on
-learning of the vessel’s approach, impatiently awaited a closer proximity
-in order that his shots might be fully effective and his welcome
-to the stranger more hearty, if less hospitable. His guns, ready
-shotted, were admirably posted close to the water, and matches
-already lighted by the fire-workers.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>It was only when the vessel, but slowly making its way through
-the silver-rippled water, owing to the lightness of the breeze, reached
-a point directly opposite the redoubt occupied by Captain Neill, that
-his dogs of war were loosened, and from their brazen throats belched
-forth sheets of bright red flame, preceded by iron missiles, which
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_26'>26</span>swept the deck of the craft, carrying death, destruction and dismay
-to the hitherto confident and unsuspecting crew.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The salvo, like a clap of thunder from a serene sky, awoke echoes,
-which were followed by a rain of merciless iron, utterly demoralizing
-the officers and crew, and creating scenes of indescribable confusion
-and terror. A state of chaos ensued; discipline was thrown to the
-winds—it was every man for himself. The distracted sailors, finding
-themselves in a trap and seeing no way of escape save by surrender,
-deserted the vessel by jumping overboard, at least those who had
-not been killed or maimed by the well-directed fire of our artillerymen.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Those who thus sought safety by springing into the water, endeavored
-to reach either shore; most of them, however, struck out for the
-Jersey side on account of its nearness. Some succeeded in gaining
-the Staten Island shore, but many failed to reach either.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Meanwhile the gunboat, totally disabled, drifted with the outgoing
-tide, no attempt being made by any one on board to work any of the
-fourteen guns with which she was armed.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>When Captain Neill, true-hearted soldier that he was, saw the desperate
-helplessness of the British sailors, and their attempts to save
-themselves, he ceased firing and sent men to rescue them from watery
-graves. The gunboat was carried by the tide beyond the mouth of
-the Elizabeth River, and, being in flames, went down to Davy Jones’
-capacious locker just after passing the spot now occupied by the
-Dry Dock Company.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Some thirty years ago, oystermen raked up a large number of
-British coins and many other articles from this spot, and many
-believed the treasure was at one time possessed by the sailors of the
-ill-fated gunboat.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>General Livingston, who had remained with Captain Neill and witnessed
-the attack and destruction of the vessel, at once wrote the
-following dispatch to General Washington, sending it off post-haste:</p>
-
-<div class='lg-container-r c013'>
- <div class='linegroup'>
- <div class='group'>
- <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Elizabethtown</span>, July 4, 1776.</div>
- <div class='line in20'>Midnight.</div>
- </div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c012'>One of the enemy’s sloops of war, mounting fourteen guns, having this
-evening run up to this point, was attacked from the shore by the twelve-pounders,
-a great number of her men killed, she set on fire and entirely
-destroyed.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>As Captain Neill’s attack on the British gunboat occurred about
-midnight, July 4, 1776, there can be no shadow of doubt that his guns
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_27'>27</span>were the first ones fired after the immortal Declaration of Independence
-was adopted, the Congress in session at Philadelphia
-having formally performed this act between nine and ten o’clock that
-evening. It was the first exploit of the new-born nation, and a gallant
-young Irish patriot, a citizen of this province, carried it to
-success.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Captain Neill and his battery was shortly after assigned to Col.
-Thomas Proctor’s<a id='r6' /><a href='#f6' class='c007'><sup>[6]</sup></a> regiment of artillery, and subsequently to the
-brigade of artillery commanded by General Knox.<a id='r7' /><a href='#f7' class='c007'><sup>[7]</sup></a> The battery participated
-in the battles of Trenton, Assinpink Creek, Princeton and
-Monmouth.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>But it was at Princeton that the heroic Neill sealed his devotion to
-the cause of American liberty and independence with his life’s blood.
-He was instantly killed by a British sharpshooter just after Hugh
-Mercer, a Scotsman, was mortally wounded.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In view of the important services rendered by this patriotic son of
-the Emerald Isle to the cause of American freedom, it would seem
-especially fitting at this time that a proper recognition of Captain
-Neill’s devotion to the interests of this community in a dark hour of
-its history should be made by our citizens.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Daniel Neill nobly gave all he possessed for the benefit and enrichment
-of posterity, and it behooves us to recognize the value of his
-splendid services in our behalf by erecting a suitable monument,
-marking the spot in our town where he struck a deadly and brilliant
-blow at the ruthless enemies of our blessed land.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Shall it be done?</p>
-
-<div class='chapter'>
- <span class='pageno' id='Page_28'>28</span>
- <h2 class='c004'>RICHARD DEXTER, ONE OF BOSTON’S IRISH PIONEERS.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c006'>
- <div><span class='small'>BY THOMAS HAMILTON MURRAY.</span></div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c014'>Richard Dexter was admitted a “townsman” of Boston, Mass., in
-1641. He was an Irishman and came to this country with his wife
-Bridget. Less worthy people have been adequately chronicled. Of
-Richard Dexter, however, but little has been said. He may be
-ranked as a forgotten pioneer.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In the New York <cite>Genealogical and Biographical Record</cite>, January,
-1891, is a brief paper on “The Dexter Family.” In that it is stated
-that “Richard Dexter, the pioneer, with his wife, Bridget, came from
-Ireland, where his fathers had lived for upwards of 400 years.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The descendants of Richard and Bridget have been very numerous,
-many of them attaining prominence in civil, military and educational
-life. F. Gordon Dexter, a wealthy Boston man, is mentioned
-as one of these descendants, as is also the late George Dexter of
-Albany, N. Y. Mention of others will hereinafter be found.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In Vol. III, page 181, of a work published by Munsell on <cite>American
-Ancestry</cite> (Albany, N. Y., 1899), it is stated that John Dexter, the
-only son of Richard, the immigrant, was born in 1639 and probably
-in Ireland. He was doubtless brought to this country by his parents
-while still an infant.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The Irish Dexters derive their descent from Anglo-Norman
-sources and are first heard of in Ireland about A. D. 1169, or more
-than seven centuries ago. The name has variously appeared in Ireland
-as De Exeter, D’Exeter, Dexeter, Dexetra, Dexter, etc.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Some of the family, especially those settling in Mayo, in the kingdom
-of Connaught, assumed the surname Mac Jordan (descendant of
-Jordan), after an ancestor—Jordan Teutonicus, or Jordan De Courcy,
-a brother of John De Courcy, Earl of Ulster. These Dexters were
-commonly known as Dexter-Mac Jordans, and sometimes as Mac
-Jordan-Dexters. Much of the history of the Dexters must be sought
-under the names Jordan and Mac Jordan.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_29'>29</span>The pioneer Dexters in Ireland soon fell in with the people and
-though, at first, conflicts ensued between them and the old native
-clans, their descendants eventually became “as Irish as the Irish
-themselves.” The fact that they were of the same religious faith
-greatly assisted, of course, in bringing this about.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Richard Dexter, son of Stephen Dexter, wedded, in 1272, Lady
-Penelope O’Connor, a daughter of the ruler of the Irish kingdom of
-Connaught. The Dexter-Mac Jordans became lords of Athleathan,
-in Mayo, Connaught, and built one of their strongest castles there.
-Stephen Dexter, son of one of the lords of Athleathan, was a Dominican
-monk, and wrote the <cite>Annals of Multifernan</cite>.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The Dexter-Mac Jordans also had possessions in the Irish principality
-of Meath, where they built Castle Jordan. About 1274 they
-founded an abbey in Mayo. In De Burgo’s time the Dexter family
-had reached its thirteenth generation in Ireland.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In common with other great Irish families, the Dexters suffered
-much at the hands of the English enemy, a large part of their
-choicest property being seized and confiscated. While some of the
-Irish Dexters took the name Mac Jordan, others, it would appear,
-did not, for we find Dexters prominently mentioned in the Munster
-counties of Cork and Limerick.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>It is a well-known fact that at one time the Irish living within the
-pale were obliged by law to drop their Irish surnames and assume
-others. Possibly, some of the Dexters bearing the name Mac Jordan
-came under the operation of this enactment and went back to their
-original name of Dexter. Be that as it may, it is certain that several
-of the Irish Dexters of Munster were unscrupulously victimized during
-the Cromwellian and Williamite regimes.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Thomas Dexter of Cloyne, Cork, was among the forfeiting proprietors
-under the Cromwellian settlement. He was of the Barony of
-Imokilly. Stephen Dexter of the Parish of Templemurry, County
-Limerick, also suffered at the same time and in like manner. William
-Dexter, likewise of Templemurry, was similarly treated by the
-rapacious foe.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>What part of Ireland Richard Dexter, the Boston pioneer, came
-from we do not know. It is reasonable to conclude, however, that
-he was from either Munster or Connaught—the south or the west,
-since it is in these two provinces the Irish Dexters are mainly found.
-Neither do we know the maiden name of his wife, Bridget. Richard
-Dexter was admitted a townsman of Boston on “the 28th day of the
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_30'>30</span>twelfth month, 1641.” At the meeting where this action was taken
-there were present: Richard Bellingham, John Winthrop, William
-Tynge, Captain Gibbones, Valentine Hill, Jacob Eliot, James Penn
-and John Oliver.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>According to Savage’s <cite>Genealogical Dictionary</cite>, Richard Dexter, the
-pioneer, was of Charlestown, Mass., in 1644. Munsell’s <cite>American
-Ancestry</cite> states that he was born in 1606, which would make him
-about thirty-five years of age on his arrival in Boston from Ireland.
-He bought a large amount of land on “Mystic side,” and must, at the
-outset, have been a man of considerable means. In 1648 his name
-appears signed to a petition relative to the laying out of a highway
-in Charlestown, Mass. The petition thus quaintly concludes: “So
-shall wee be bound to pray as we desire dayly to doe for yr prsptie &amp;
-peace temporall &amp; Eternall.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>On “the 14th of the third month, 1650,” Richard Dexter purchased
-of Robert Long of Charlestown five lots on “Mystic side.”
-In 1654 John Palmer mentions the sale to Dexter of five acres of
-“arable land” in Charlestown, which land had at one time belonged
-to Maj. Robert Sedgwick. Richard Dexter also purchased other
-pieces of land, chiefly upland, in Charlestown at various times. In
-1663 he became owner of forty acres in Malden, Mass., buying the
-same of Edward Lane of Boston. This latter property was increased
-from time to time, and much of it remained in possession of descendants
-of Richard down to as late a period as 1854.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In 1651, Richard’s wife, Bridget Dexter, signed a petition of Malden
-and Charlestown women. This was called “The petition of
-Many Inhabitants of Malden and Charlestown on Mestickside.” A
-record is extant showing that “Thomas Molton of Malden, Planter,”
-sold to Richard Dexter five acres of upland. “It is scituate on mistik
-syde nere the south springe.” Richard Dexter, the pioneer, died
-at Charlestown in 1680.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>John Dexter, the only son of Richard, was born in 1639. He is
-spoken of as “of Charlestown and Malden.” He was killed in the
-latter place in 1677. His wife’s name was Sarah. They had several
-children, including a son, who was named Richard. This Richard
-is mentioned as “of Lynn and Malden.” He was born in the
-latter place in 1676, and died there in 1747. John Dexter of the
-family was a selectman of Malden for many years, and in 1717 was
-commissioned captain of a company of Foot by Governor Shute.
-This John Dexter died in 1722. He had eight children.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_31'>31</span>Another John Dexter of Malden, of the same family, was born in
-1705 and died in 1790. He had thirteen children, was clerk of the
-town for several years, a patriot of the Revolution and delegate to
-the Provincial Congress.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The Rev. Samuel Dexter was born in 1700, dying in 1755. He
-was a brother of Selectman John of Malden. This Samuel graduated
-at Harvard College, 1720, and subsequently taught school at
-Taunton, Lynn, Malden, and elsewhere in Massachusetts. He
-eventually located in Dedham, Mass. He had a son, also named
-Samuel, who became an eminent merchant of Boston, and died in
-1810.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>This second Samuel left a bequest to Harvard University, on
-which bequest was subsequently founded the Dexter lectureship.
-He became a member of the Council of Massachusetts. He was
-“an active and sagacious leader on the popular side, and a man of
-marked ability.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Another member of this distinguished family was Richard Dexter,
-a physician at Topsfield, Mass. He was born in 1713 and died in
-1783. This Richard was a brother of the Rev. Samuel Dexter, and
-wedded Mehitable Putnam, a sister of Gen. Israel Putnam.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Two members of the Dexter family, William and Richard, descendants
-of Richard, the Irishman, were members of a Malden
-company of Minutemen that marched to Watertown, Mass., April 19,
-1775, in response to the Lexington alarm. John Dexter, probably
-the one just mentioned, was with Captain Blaney in the Point Shirley
-expedition, 1776, and later was lieutenant aboard the brigantine
-<em>Hawke</em>. William Dexter of Malden, who responded to the Lexington
-alarm was with Colonel Brooks’ regiment of guards at Cambridge
-from February to April, 1778. Thus we see these descendants of
-the immigrant Richard were as ready to oppose British tyranny as
-their Irish ancestors had been.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Another member of the family, Aaron Dexter, was born in 1750
-and graduated at Harvard in 1776. He witnessed the battle of
-Bunker Hill from the Malden side of the river; studied medicine and
-made several voyages as surgeon. He was captured by the British
-and taken into Halifax, but was subsequently exchanged. Thomas
-Dexter is heard from at Lynn, as early as 1630. He at one time
-owned 800 acres in that vicinity. Whether he was related to Thomas
-Dexter of Cloyne, Cork, to Stephen or William Dexter of Limerick,
-or to Richard Dexter, the Boston pioneer, is not known.</p>
-
-<div class='chapter'>
- <span class='pageno' id='Page_32'>32</span>
- <h2 class='c004'>THE NEW HAMPSHIRE KELLYS.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c006'>
- <div><span class='small'>BY HON. JOHN C. LINEHAN.</span></div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c014'>Who was the first among New Hampshire’s early settlers to bear
-the ancient west-of-Ireland name Kelly, is now hard to determine.
-Probably it was either Roger Kelly, who, with his two brothers
-John and William, were on the Isles of Shoals shortly after their
-settlement by the English, or one of the descendants of John Kelly,
-who came to Newbury, Mass., in 1635.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The exact year when Roger Kelly and his two brothers came to
-the Shoals is not given in Jenness’ history of the island, but it
-must have been about the date mentioned. It is written of them
-that “they were men of energy and substance.” All three lived on
-Smutty Nose Island. From the records Roger seems to have been
-the most prominent. A conveyance of land and buildings at the
-Shoals to him from Nathaniel Fryer is entered in the Province
-records.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Therein he is styled the fisherman. For this reason it would not
-be surprising to learn that he came from Galway, Ireland’s greatest
-fishing mart from the earliest times. Elsewhere in the same work
-he is alluded to as “Roger Kelly, the ancient magistrate and <em>taverner</em>.”
-A queer combination of titles from a modern standpoint,
-and no doubt the occasion for the underscoring of the word
-taverner.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The people on the Shoals in those early days led a free and easy
-life. Neither women nor hogs, it is said, were allowed there,—not
-even married women. The swine ate or spoiled the fish, and the
-presence of women for obvious reasons caused trouble between
-the men.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>These hardy fishermen, whose manly virtues, despite their human
-failings, find a staunch advocate in Jenness, “were not very deeply
-moved by questions of government, or statutes, or courts.” A considerable
-proportion of criminal complaints against them were for
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_33'>33</span>resisting, assaulting, and reviling the officers of the law, and treating
-with contempt the awe-inspiring badge of his office.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>However, this feeling of contempt for the minions of the law was
-not confined to the inhabitants of the rocky isles, for it is on
-record that Maj. William Vaughan of Portsmouth, N. H., seized the
-truncheon of the king’s officer who was on the point of serving a
-writ upon him, and beat him over the head with it. And as well,
-that Andrew Wiggin of Stratham, N. H., threw Lieut.-Gov. Walter
-Barefoote on the blazing coals in his own fireplace, and, in addition,
-sat on him, breaking some of his ribs, knocking out some of his
-teeth, and partially roasting his body.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>So, for a similar reason, on the Shoals, Abraham Kelly and others
-were arrested for reviling a constable and attempting to assault him,
-and even Roger himself, the ancient magistrate and taverner, “was
-presented in Court for selling without due license to a party of fishermen,
-while playing nine-pins on Hog Island, twelve gallons of wine
-which they drank in one day.” An appetite for liquids like this in
-our day, and with our population, would surely create a famine in
-that line.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Still, strange as it may seem now, in those good old times, and for
-a century later, the great man of the town, as a rule, was the tavern-keeper,
-and Roger was not an exception. His name headed many
-weighty petitions in favor of, or protesting against, every measure
-respectively beneficial or injurious to his fellow-citizens of the rocky
-island. That he was an educated man is apparent from the positions
-he held, as well as the location of his name at the head of
-other signers on petitions.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In 1689 he was one of many petitioners to the Massachusetts
-General Court for the appointment of a suitable person to command
-the militia.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>This fact is on record in the Provincial papers, and Jenness wrote
-that in 1690, during the King William War, the Massachusetts authorities
-appointed Roger Kelly “Captain of the Isles.” A company
-of militia under command of Captain Wiley was sent to the Shoals
-from Massachusetts, and this was the occasion of some trouble.
-The fishermen were opposed, it is said, to all manner of government
-rates and taxes unless the moneys received therefrom were expended
-on the Shoals. They, therefore, resented the billetting of the soldiers
-on them and even refused to pay for their subsistence, and
-Roger Kelly was the leader of the protestants.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_34'>34</span>There is a record in the Provincial papers of payment to Roger
-for services as a soldier. The date of the death of Roger Kelly
-cannot be given here, neither can his descendants be traced without
-trouble; but undoubtedly they, as well as those of his brothers, are
-scattered all over the United States, for as Kelly, or Kelley, the
-name is now one of the most common among Americans. Clarke
-has immortalized the name in his poem, “The Fighting Race,” and
-it is well to remark here that “Kelly and Burke and Shea” were
-here in New Hampshire long before 1700 in the persons of Roger
-Kelly, James O’Shea and John Burke, whose names appear in the
-Provincial records.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>According to Coffin, the historian of Newbury, Mass., John Kelly
-of that town was of English as well as of Irish descent. His father,
-as tradition has it, was an Irishman who went from his native country
-to Newbury, England. While in the service of a gentleman
-there he was successful in defending the house from an attack by
-robbers. He secured the gentleman’s daughter for his wife. The
-immigrant, John Kelly, was the offspring of this union. He came
-to Newbury in 1635.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In the allotment of land to settlers he was dissatisfied with his
-assignment and selected his land so far away from the rest that the
-people of the town were fearful that he would be destroyed either
-by the Indians or by wild beasts, and in consequence the town
-voted “that if the said John Kelly or any of his family are killed by
-the Indians or wild beasts their blood” should be on their own
-heads.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>However, this did not trouble John Kelly. In time, he was looked
-upon as one of the most enterprising and courageous men in the
-settlement, and fearless to an extreme degree. He had five sons
-and five daughters. His descendants are numerous in New England,
-and especially in New Hampshire. They were thrifty, prosperous
-and leading citizens in the towns in which they settled.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Before the Revolution, not a few schoolmasters, natives of Ireland,
-were teaching the young ideas how to shoot in New Hampshire.
-They were well thought of in those days, and spoken of, as a rule, in
-the highest terms by the people with whom they came in contact.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Such men as John Sullivan, father of the general, in Dover;
-Edward Evans of Northfield, who was General Sullivan’s secretary,
-and adjutant of one of the three Continental regiments; Henry
-Parkinson, whose grave is in Canterbury Center cemetery; Edward
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_35'>35</span>Donovan of Sandwich; William Donovan of Weare; Patrick Quinlan
-of Concord; Richard Dowling of Stratham; Darby Kelly of
-Exeter and Hercules Mooney of Somersworth, were some of these
-schoolmasters.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Few of New Hampshire’s early settlers have left more useful
-descendants than Darby Kelly, whose name appears in the Province
-wills in 1728. The exact time of his arrival, or the section
-of Ireland from which he came, is unknown. Kelly is one of the
-most ancient names in Connaught, the western province of Ireland.
-It is an Anglicization of the Gaelic Ceallaigh. It would not, therefore,
-be surprising if he emigrated from that part of the country.
-In the <cite>Reminiscences of New Hampton</cite>, which were written by one of
-his descendants, the Hon. F. H. Kelly, ex-mayor of Worcester, Mass.,
-it is stated that he settled in Exeter, N. H., in the early part of the
-18th century, and that little is known of him except by tradition.
-He was reputed to have taught school before leaving home, and “is
-said to have been a bright, quick-witted Irishman.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Contrary to rule, this much was said of him by the writer quoted,
-who had not followed the usual course in calling his ancestor a
-“Scotch-Irishman.” However that may have been, the record
-shows that he was a useful, thrifty citizen, possessed of the traits
-which distinguished so many of his descendants. There is another
-tradition that he taught school in New Hampshire. If so, the inscription,
-in part, on the headstone of Capt. Henry Parkinson, Stark’s
-quartermaster, who died in 1829, would also apply to Darby Kelly.
-“Hibernia begot me. Columbia nurtured me,&nbsp;... I have
-fought, I have taught, and I have labored with my hands,” etc. For
-if Darby had taught, which is likely, he had also labored with his
-hands, and fought as well.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The Provincial papers show that when his services as a soldier
-were required, he shouldered his musket and fought against the
-common foe, the French and the Indians; so in this way we find
-his name enrolled as one of the company commanded by Capt.
-Moses Foster, on scouting duty in 1748; again, serving in Capt.
-Elijah Sweet’s company, Col. Peter Gilman’s regiment, in New York,
-1755; again, in Capt. Elisha Winslow’s company, Col. Nathaniel
-Meserve’s regiment, in the Crown Point expedition, 1756; and as
-Sergt. Darby Kelly he is found again in Capt. Richard Emery’s
-company, Col. Nathaniel Meserve’s regiment, in the second Crown
-Point expedition, 1757. One battalion of this regiment suffered
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_36'>36</span>severely in the massacre at Fort William Henry. Out of 200 men
-engaged 80 were killed or captured. His final enlistment was in
-Capt. Somerbee Gilman’s company, of Col. John Hart’s regiment,
-in 1758. Here is a military record his descendants may well point
-to with pride, for it enables them to gain admission to all the patriotic
-Colonial War societies thus far organized.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>That he was an active business man is clearly evident, for there
-are on the records, especially in the Province wills in the New Hampshire
-State House, entries of deeds of land to or from him from Dec.
-11, 1728, to March 31, 1770,—one in Exeter, four in Kingston, and
-ten in Brentwood. His name appears on a petition from Exeter for
-parish privileges in 1741, and on another from Brentwood in 1742,
-and he is recorded as a ratepayer in that town. His name is signed
-to a receipt for 100 pounds, old tenor, paid to him in 1769 for services
-as a soldier.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>He married Sarah, the daughter of Philip Huntoon of Kingston,
-N. H. The date and year of his marriage cannot be given here, but
-it was before 1729. That he had won the good will and the esteem
-of his wife’s father is clear from the inspection of a deed of land
-conveyed to him and to his wife, dated July 25, 1729, and recorded
-in the Province deeds, Vol. 19. It reads in part, stripped of the
-phraseology of the times, as follows:</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>“To all people to whom these presents shall come, greeting:
-Know ye that I, Philip Huntoon, Sr., of the town of Kingstown, in
-the Province of New Hampshire, in New England, husbandman,
-Know ye that I, the aforesaid Philip Huntoon, for and in consideration
-of the natural love and affection which I have and do bear
-toward and to my beloved daughter and son-in-law, Sarah Kelly and
-Darby Kelly, of ye said town of Kingstown, county and province
-aforesaid, and for other good causes and considerations, have given,
-granted made over and confirmed,” etc.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>This is a loving tribute to a son-in-law. It would be of interest to
-know, were it possible, how he stood with his mother-in-law, but on
-this point the records are dumb. As a rule, the women were silent
-in those days. From the language of this deed it is to be taken for
-granted that he and his wife were residents of the town at the
-time the deed was made. In the sketch of the family printed in the
-<cite>Reminiscences of New Hampton</cite>, it is said that Samuel Kelly, the oldest
-son of Darby, was born in Exeter in 1733, and died in New
-Hampton, N. H., on June 28, 1813, aged 80 years. We will now
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_37'>37</span>leave Darby to his well-merited rest, and look up the records of
-some of his descendants.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Samuel Kelly mentioned, married Elizabeth Bowdoin. Here, then,
-we find a union of three nationalities thus early in the history of the
-province. Kelly, Huntoon and Bowdoin, respectively, Irish, English
-and French,—not a bad combination, for each of the three peoples
-represented have cut quite a figure in the world’s history for the
-past three centuries. Mrs. Kelly was born in 1740, and died in
-1816, outliving her husband three years. Both were buried in the
-family lot on Kelly Hill, New Hampton.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The family went from Brentwood, N. H., to New Hampton in
-1775. Samuel Kelly was a carpenter by trade, and at this time was
-42 years old. He is credited with being a man of courage, ability
-and energy, and at the end of a few years found himself in possession
-of a considerable part of what is now New Hampton, and this
-was entirely due to his great perseverance and hard work, aided
-largely by an iron constitution. He had nine children, six of whom
-were sons. It is said that his aim was to provide a farm for each.
-One of his daughters, Sally, died in Machias, Me., in 1840. Another
-who was married, as the first-named was, moved to Steubenville, O.,
-Two of his sons, John and Dudley, removed to Youngstown, Pa.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Samuel Kelly planned and built the first meeting-house in town.
-He was a worthy son of Darby Kelly and Sarah Huntoon. He can
-well be credited as the leading pioneer settler of New Hampton.
-That his venerable father accompanied him to New Hampton in
-1775 is evident from a letter written by Elder Ebenezer Fisk of
-Jackson, Mich., printed in the <cite>Reminiscences</cite> mentioned. For, in
-describing the location of the several families in the town, he wrote,
-“Next was Darby Kelly whose honored wife died at the advanced
-age of 103 years.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Samuel Kelly, son of Samuel, and grandson of Darby Kelly, was
-born in Brentwood in 1759, and died in New Hampton in 1832.
-His widow survived him 14 years, dying in 1846, aged 84. He had
-seven children, four of whom were sons. Of these sons, Michael B.
-and Jonathan F. Kelly inherited the farm settled on and cleared by
-their grandfather, the first Samuel Kelly. At the present time, and
-for a number of years past, it has been owned by the Hon. Joseph
-H. Walker of Worcester, Mass., who married Hannah M. C. Kelly,
-youngest child of Michael B. Kelly, and the sister of the late Capt.
-Warren M. Kelly of Hooksett, and the late Frank H. Kelly, ex-mayor
-of Worcester.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_38'>38</span>A Samuel Kelly of New Hampton was on the roster of Col. Hercules
-Mooney’s regiment in the battle of Rhode Island under Gen.
-John Sullivan. Later, the name of Lieut. Samuel Kelly of New
-Hampton is on the roster of the same regiment, and another Samuel
-Kelly of Meredith was enrolled in a company raised for service at
-Ticonderoga in 1777.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>These were undoubtedly descendants of Darby Kelly. Their
-residence in one instance is given as at Meredith, and in two as of
-New Hampton. The evidence for these facts will be found on the
-pages of the Revolutionary rolls. It is possible that the Lieut.
-Samuel Kelly may either have been the son or grandson of Darby.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Maj. Nathaniel Kelly, the third son of Samuel, second, and grandson
-of Darby, moved to Akron, O., before 1835. His son, bearing
-the same name, with his family followed later. No doubt they are
-the ancestors of many western Kellys.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Col. William B. Kelly, the fourth son of Samuel, and grandson of
-Darby, was born in Exeter in 1769. He came to New Hampshire
-with his father when he was six years old. He had 11 children, of
-whom six were sons. He was the first postmaster of New Hampton.
-The mails were distributed from his house before 1800. He was a
-member of the state Legislature, and one of the two founders of the
-New Hampton Academy, which was first opened in 1822. It is
-written of him that “he inherited the military spirit of his ancestors,
-and transmitted it to his posterity,” as will be seen by the prominent
-part taken by some of them in the Civil War. His children became
-widely separated, their descendants now dwelling in almost every
-state in the Union.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Maj.-Gen. Benjamin F. Kelly, son of Col. William S. Kelly, and
-great-grandson of Darby Kelly, was born in New Hampton in 1807.
-When a young man he moved to West Virginia, and was residing
-there when the first gun was fired on Sumter. It is claimed for him
-that he raised the first Union regiment and won the first Union victory
-south of Mason and Dixon’s line. He was commissioned
-colonel of his regiment on May 25, 1861. His first service was
-under General McClellan, in West Virginia, and under his direction
-Colonel Kelly assumed command of all the troops then in that part
-of the state. He won his first victory at Grafton, where he defeated
-a Confederate force under command of Colonel Porterfield. On this
-occasion, in addition to his own regiment, he had command of the
-Sixteenth Ohio and the Ninth Indiana regiments. The enemy was
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_39'>39</span>completely routed and large quantities of arms and ammunition fell
-into Colonel Kelly’s hands. Kelly was badly wounded. At first it
-was supposed mortally. For his conduct here he was congratulated
-by Generals Morris and McClellan. Both complimented him for
-his brilliant and efficient service. McClellan recommended him for
-promotion to the rank of brigadier-general. The request was complied
-with. He was also complimented for his valor and skill at
-Romney in October, 1861, by President Lincoln, General Scott, and
-Gen. E. D. Townsend, the assistant adjutant-general of the United
-States army. Thus were honors showered unlimited on the head of
-the grandson of the modest colonial Crown Point soldier, Darby
-Kelly, who was with Sir William Johnson at Fort William Henry a
-little more than a century before.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Later, General Kelly was assigned to the command of the department
-at Harper’s Ferry and Cumberland. On the organization of
-the Department of West Virginia, in 1863, he was assigned to that
-command. His services from the beginning to the end of the war
-are too well known to repeat them here. During the invasion of
-Pennsylvania, in 1862, his conduct brought to him the thanks of
-General Wright, and for his successful defence of Cumberland, Md.,
-in 1864, he received from the president the rank of major-general
-by brevet, and from the people of Cumberland, their heartfelt
-thanks for the skill and courage displayed by him and his officers,
-and the bravery exhibited by his soldiers in their successful resistance
-to the capture of the city. General Kelly had six children,
-four of whom were sons, all of whom served in the United States
-army.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Capt. Warren Michael Kelly was the son of Michael B. Kelly, the
-nephew of Gen. B. F. Kelly, and the great-great-grandson of Darby
-Kelly. He was born in New Hampton in 1821. He was residing
-in Manchester when the Civil War broke out. In August, 1862, he
-raised a company which was attached to the Tenth Regiment New
-Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, commanded by the late Gen. Michael
-T. Donohoe. He remained in the service until the close of the war.
-He was wounded once. His first fight was at Fredericksburg, one
-of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, on Dec. 13, 1862. It is
-claimed for him that he commanded the first organized body of
-white troops that entered Richmond, after the surrender of Lee.
-Captain Kelly was as modest as he was brave. He was 41 years
-old when he went to the front with his regiment in 1862, but none
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_40'>40</span>in his command rendered more efficient service during the three
-years following.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>There was no opportunity for promotion in his regiment, as there
-was no change in the colonel or the lieutenant-colonel from 1862 to
-1865, neither of them being killed, neither did they resign, for both
-Gen. M. T. Donohoe and General Coughlin were among the bravest
-of the brave. Captain Kelly, as the ranking captain, had command
-of his regiment on several occasions during the first quarter of 1865,
-and was in command of the skirmish line when the Union troops
-entered Richmond on April 3d of the same year. It is quite a coincidence,
-and worthy of mention, that Captain Kelly should serve in
-a regiment whose field officers and a large proportion of the rank
-and file were composed of men of the same nationality as his great-great-grandfather,
-Darby Kelly.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Of the sons of Gen. B. F. Kelly, John G., the eldest, was colonel
-of the Seventh Virginia Infantry. William B. was a captain on his
-father’s staff. Frank was a quartermaster in the United States
-army and died in Texas in 1870. Wright Kelly, a captain of cavalry,
-was wounded and died from the effects of his wounds in 1869.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Hon. Frank H. Kelly was a brother of Capt. Warren M. Kelly.
-He was born in New Hampton, Sept. 9, 1827. He was a physician,
-studying and practising in various places until 1851, when he located
-in Worcester, Mass. He followed his profession actively 32 years.
-He joined the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1875. He was the
-first president of the board of trustees of the City Hospital in 1870,
-serving in that capacity 13 years. As a member of the school
-board, of the common council, of the board of aldermen, he served
-his adopted city long and faithfully.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>He wrote the <cite>Reminiscences of New Hampton</cite>, from which a goodly
-portion of this paper, or rather the material for it, has been culled.
-Therein he styled his great-great-grandfather, Darby Kelly, “a
-bright, quick-witted Irishman.” Here we will leave the emigrant
-Darby Kelly and his American descendants. It is said that regardless
-of the number born in New Hampton, none of the name
-resides there. They are scattered all over the country, but wherever
-located, it will be found that they are keeping up the record made
-by their New Hampshire fathers. The Kelly blood runs in the
-veins of some of the best people within and without the state of
-New Hampshire, and in at least one instance it returned across the
-Atlantic by the marriage of one of Darby’s descendants to M. Clemenceau,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_41'>41</span>the celebrated Parisian writer and statesman. But few of
-Darby’s descendants are here mentioned. They are too numerous.
-But judging from the record of those given, the emigration of Darby
-to New Hampshire was quite an accession to the people of the province
-and state.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Referring again to John Kelly who came to Newbury, Mass., in
-1635, many of his descendants must have come to New Hampshire.
-Among them undoubtedly was Abial Kelly of Methuen, Mass.,
-originally, whose name occurs several times in the Provincial papers
-in connection with the settlement of the boundary line between New
-Hampshire and Massachusetts, in 1745. It also occurs in the Province
-wills, 1728, 1740, and 1743.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Capt. Richard Kelly, another descendant of the Newbury immigrant,
-was an officer in the Sixth Regiment of militia, in 1744. The
-same name appears on a petition from Londonderry, N. H., for the
-release of Stephen Holland, the Tory, in 1777. The names of
-Hugh Kelly and Peter Kelly are on the same petition. Richard
-Kelly, Jr., evidently the son of Captain Kelly, served in the company
-commanded by Captain Nesmith in Canada in 1776.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>A Richard Kelly was a grantee and one of the first settlers of
-Contoocook, now Boscawen, in 1748. As Boscawen’s first settlers
-were from Newbury, Mass., it is reasonable to think he was also a
-descendant of John Kelly. A Richard Kelly was at Winter Hill,
-near Boston, Mass., in 1775, in the company of Capt. Jacob Webster,
-which was one of the companies raised at the request of General
-Sullivan to take the place of Connecticut troops, during the
-siege of Boston, who had refused to serve after their term had
-expired.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>This interesting episode of New Hampshire history cannot be
-repeated too often. On Dec. 1, 1775, Sullivan sent up word by
-express of the defection of the Connecticut men, and made an
-urgent request for volunteers to take their places. In response to
-this, 31 companies, numbering 2,058 men, were enlisted for six
-weeks, and marched to Winter Hill. New Hampshire had at this
-time, in addition, three full regiments in the field, thus making the
-total number of New Hampshire men at the siege of Boston in 1775
-over five thousand. This is evidence of the character of the men of
-the old Granite State in those stirring times.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Capt. Richard Kelly was authorized by Gov. Benning Wentworth
-to call the first town meeting in Salem, N. H., in May, 1750.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_42'>42</span>William Kelly was a taxpayer in Newcastle, N. H., in 1727.
-Doubtless he was a descendant of Roger or John Kelly mentioned.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>A William Kelly appears on a petition in 1737. Another was one
-of the company commanded by Captain Eastman on scouting duty
-in Penacook, now Concord, N. H., in 1747.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Still another William Kelly served at Crown Point, in 1755, in
-Captain Goff’s company, and another was one of the grantees in
-the town of Salem, N. H., in 1750; a William Kelly was also on
-the alarm list of the town of Warner, N. H., in 1741. William P.
-Kelly was in Northwood, and another William Kelly in Salisbury,
-respectively, in 1735 and 1813.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>A William Kelly was enrolled in Captain Page’s company, Senter’s
-regiment, in 1777. Sergt. William Kelly was in Captain Libby’s
-company, Col. Stephen Evans’ regiment, at Saratoga in 1777. Corp.
-William Kelly served in the battle of Rhode Island in the regiment
-of Colonel Hercules Mooney in 1779. He was from Epping, N. H.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Rev. William Kelly was the first settled minister in Warner, Feb.
-6, 1772. He was born in Newbury, Mass., 1744, and was undoubtedly
-a descendant of John Kelly who landed there a little over
-a century before. His pastorate closed in 1801. He made the
-opening prayer at the first town meeting held in Warner.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Hon. John Kelly was his son. He was born in Warner. He was
-an attorney, editor and author. He was the first Warner man to take
-a degree from Dartmouth. His permanent home was in Exeter,
-N. H. He was register of probate for Rockingham County.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Abner B. Kelly was his brother. He was Warner’s town clerk in
-1820. He was representative to the state Legislature, postmaster of
-Warner for six years, state treasurer of New Hampshire for six years,
-a clerk in one of the departments at Washington, D. C., a director of
-the Concord Mechanics Bank of Concord, and of the company incorporated
-for the manufacture of silk. He is credited as being a fine
-penman. “His handwriting was faultless.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>William Kelly, “an Irish tailor,” was in Barnstead, N. H., in 1814.
-The historian of that town wrote that he was the first Irishman in
-Barnstead. Regardless of that statement, however, Thomas, John
-and Stephen Pendergast were among its first settlers. This name is
-not quite as Irish as Murphy, but comes very near it. It came from
-France to Ireland in 1170.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>George W. Kelly, a brother of Rev. William Kelly, was deputy
-sheriff in Warner in 1808. Caleb Kelly came to Warner from Newbury,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_43'>43</span>the nursery of the Kellys. Kelly Hill takes its name from him.
-His family removed to Wisconsin. J. R. B. Kelly is recorded as a
-graduate of Francestown Academy, and Frank H. Kelly was one of
-the directors of the Francestown Soapstone Company.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Dudley Kelly was serving at West Point in 1789. He was from
-Brentwood.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Zachariah Kelly was also at West Point in 1781, and an entry in
-the records reads, that he had received a ration of half a pint of rum
-and a pound of sugar with the other members of his company.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Israel W. Kelly of Boscawen was a lieutenant in Captain Green’s
-company in 1797, when there seemed to be a prospect of a war with
-France.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In December, 1776, James Kelly was paid for services in apprehending
-Daniel Meserve and others for counterfeiting Provincial
-bills.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Another James Kelly appeared on a petition in 1732 for the laying
-out of a new town along Lake Winnepesaukee. The names of John
-and James Kelly appear on the roll of ratepayers in the parish of
-Cocheco in 1753. Another James Kelly appears on a petition from
-Northwood in connection with some town dispute. James Kelly
-served in Captain Drew’s company in the expedition to Canada
-in 1776 and 1777, and a man of the same name from Exeter enlisted
-for three years in the Fourth regiment of militia.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>A James Kelly was one of the proprietors of Wakefield in 1749,
-and another James Kelly was one of the grantees of Peterborough in
-1750. Still another of the same name was engaged in the defence
-of Piscataqua Harbor in 1791. James Kelly was a British prisoner
-of war in 1781, who, with others, was consigned for safe keeping to
-New Hampshire.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>James Kelly was one of the soldiers who were indebted to the
-sutler for supplies in 1761. This kind of a creditor was not infrequent
-in 1861, a hundred years later. He served in Captain Gerrish’s
-company.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>James Kelly was one of the grantees of Holderness, N. H., in
-1751. Among those who were with him were John Cavanaugh,
-John McElroy, William Curry, Hercules Mooney, Bryan McSweeney
-and Michael Dwyer.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>John Kelly was one of the selectmen of Dover, N. H., who aided
-in taking the census in October, 1775. He served in the state Legislature
-four years, and from the records seemed to have been an
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_44'>44</span>active, public-spirited citizen. John Kelly was a ratepayer in Plaistow
-and Atkinson in 1786.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>A John Kelly in Salem appears on a petition for the formation of
-one or more counties in 1769. Samuel Kelly was one of his associates.
-John Kelly renders an account of individual losses which he
-met at Ticonderoga. John Kelly of Dover, in 1782, furnished an
-affidavit in relation to the identity of a soldier. John Kelly of Deerfield
-was a recruit for the Continental army in 1780. John Kelly
-was one of the selectmen of Salem in 1775.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>John E. Kelly was one of Warner’s selectmen in 1801. John
-Kelly of North Hampton was one of Captain Parsons’ company, Colonel
-Runnells’ regiment, at Charleston, in 1781.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>John Kelly of New York was granted 69,100 acres of land in
-Lamoiville, Vt., in 1787. In 1791 he was given 30,000 acres more.
-In both cases the grants were made by the legislature of Vermont.
-This John Kelly must have been one of the “Royal Order of Patroons.”
-Kellyburg, Kellyvale, and Kelly Grant marked his progress
-in the Green Mountain state. John Kelly, a native of Plaistow,
-graduated from Amherst College in 1825. He lived in Chester in
-1833. The history of the town speaks of him in the highest terms.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Ezekiel Kelly, a native of Newbury, Mass., was in Chester, N. H.,
-in 1784. Col. Israel W. Kelly resided there in 1810, and Ephraim
-Kelly was one of the selectmen in 1825.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Rev. John Kelly of Hampstead was of the sixth generation of John
-Kelly of Newbury, Mass., who came over in 1635. He had five sons
-and seven daughters. He died in Hampstead in 1848. Three of his
-sons were college graduates. He wrote a history of Hampstead.
-He was pastor of the church in that town from 1792 to his death in
-1848, fifty-six years.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The ways of the Kellys were not always smooth, for Brewster’s
-<cite>Rambles Around Portsmouth</cite> says, that in July, 1686, John Kelly and
-his family were ordered to give security or leave town, a survival of
-the custom in vogue in Boston and probably introduced to New
-Hampshire when the Province came under the control of Massachusetts
-Bay.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>John Kelly was a Revolutionary soldier and died in Raymond.
-A John Kelly was one of Windham’s first settlers, and a type of the
-late historian Morrison’s so-called “pure-blooded Scotch Irishman.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>John Kelly was a member of the governor’s council in 1846.
-John Kelly was register of probate for Hillsborough County, N. H.,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_45'>45</span>1831 to 1837. John Kelly was register of deeds in Rockingham
-County from 1832 to 1837.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Joseph Kelly was one of the selectmen of Sunbudy in 1757.
-Joseph Kelly was a prisoner in Amherst jail in 1774. The occasion
-for it was an assault he made on John Holman. It seems clear that
-the cause of the trouble was political, for the Provincial papers contain
-several petitions from some of the towns of Hillsborough County
-asking for his release. He was a Nottingham man, and from the
-records seemed to be in hot water a good part of the time. He
-raised a company in June, 1775, but his men refused to allow Major
-Hobart to muster them into the service. His troubles extended to
-1787.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Col. Moses Kelly, on the authority of Dearborn, historian of Salisbury,
-was born in Newbury, Mass. He was living in Goffstown,
-N. H., before the outbreak of the Revolution. He represented that
-town in the Fourth Provincial Congress held in May, 1775, and again
-in the Fifth Provincial Congress in December, 1775.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>He represented Goffstown and Derryfield in the Legislature of
-1776. Although not serving in the Continental army, he was, from
-the State records, one of the most active men in the state. It is
-written of him that he owned mills in Goffstown at the place now
-known as Kelly’s Falls upon the Piscataquog River. He was a zealous
-patriot, and kept a public house upon the Mast road. Many of
-the forays against the Tories of that neighborhood were concocted at
-Colonel Kelly’s.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>He was appointed major of the Ninth regiment of militia on Dec.
-21, 1775, and promoted to colonel of the same regiment in 1779.
-New Hampshire possessed an efficient force of militia during the
-Revolution and from its ranks were drafted men for three Continental
-regiments as occasion required. Some of these militia regiments distinguished
-themselves at Bennington, under Stark, and at Rhode
-Island, under Sullivan.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>It is doubtful if any one man had more to do with affairs at home
-than Colonel Kelly, and his special forte was in furnishing recruits
-for the veteran regiments at the front. In the reorganization of the
-state militia under General Sullivan, in 1784, he was reappointed
-colonel of his old command, the Ninth New Hampshire.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Like Sullivan, he was continually in the service of the state in one
-capacity or another. As late as 1807, he read the Declaration of
-Independence from the top of a large boulder in Amherst, N. H.
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_46'>46</span>His son, bearing the same name, was coroner of Hillsborough County
-in 1789. Another son, Hon. Israel Kelly, removed to Salisbury, in
-1803. In 1843 he removed to East Concord, where he made his
-home until his death in 1857.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>He was the sheriff of Hillsborough County, a judge of the Court of
-Sessions, and United States marshal under President Taylor. His
-wife was a sister of Grace Fletcher, who was the wife of Daniel Webster.
-Her mother and grandmother, bore the time-honored name of
-Bridget, denoting an affinity of some sort with the natives of the
-Emerald Isle.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Joshua Kelly was one of the proprietors of Conway, N. H., and on
-its list of rate payers in 1773. He was one of the active men of the
-town, and had seen military service. Samuel Kelly was one of the
-coroners of Strafford County in 1776. One of the same name was a
-member of the House of Representatives in 1776. It appears again
-on a petition from Madbury in 1786. Lieut. Samuel Kelly was one
-of the special force raised by Sullivan in December, 1775. A Samuel
-Kelly served in Captain Barron’s company from Pembroke in 1776,
-and a Samuel Kelly was in Captain Moore’s company in Stark’s regiment
-in the same year.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Samuel Kelly of New Hampton, undoubtedly one of Darby’s descendants,
-served in Col. Hercules Mooney’s regiment in Rhode
-Island in 1779.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Another Samuel Kelly of Meredith, saw service at Ticonderoga.
-Rev. Samuel Kelly, according to Bouton’s History of Concord, N. H.,
-was the first settled pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church in
-Concord. He was chaplain of the state prison in 1730. The name
-of Samuel Kelly of Brentwood is mentioned four times in the Provincial
-deeds, and once again in Derryfield in 1768. He was undoubtedly
-the oldest son of Darby Kelly and one of the first settlers of
-New Hampton.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Daniel Kelly was in Sanbornton, N. H., in 1748, and another
-Daniel Kelly was recorded as a deserter from a British vessel in Boston
-Harbor in 1770. He probably found the change from the forecastle
-of a ship to the picturesque hills of New Hampshire desirable.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Daniel Kelly was ordered to appear before the Committee of
-Safety at Exeter to account for being concerned in the destruction of
-powder at Brentwood, May 20, 1799. Daniel Kelly was one of two
-grantees of a bridge, called Bridgewater and New Hampton bridge,
-at New Hampton in 1784.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_47'>47</span>Daniel Kelly was a soldier in Captain Light’s company at Louisburg
-in 1745. Daniel Kelly of Hawke and Sandown was interested in
-some scheme relating to the currency in 1786. The Province deeds
-contain the name of Daniel Kelly three times from 1720 to 1731,
-from Hampton; five times, from 1737 to 1740, from Kingston, and
-once each from the towns of Epping and Newton, and twice from the
-town of Nottingham, from 1752 to 1764.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Edward Kelly of Sanbornton was one of the signers of the test oath
-in 1775 and his name and that of his son Edward appears on a petition
-for a ferry in 1781, and Edward Kelly was one of the men who
-enlisted under Sullivan’s call in November, 1775. He served in the
-company of Captain Copp. An Edward Kelly recruited from the
-militia regiment of Colonel Webster in 1780 for the Continental
-army.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The name Edward Kelly is written in two deeds dated 1761 and
-1765, both at Brentwood.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>David and Ebenezer Kelly were two signers for the incorporation
-of a new town in Strafford County in 1788. David Kelly was a private
-in Captain Tilton’s company, Colonel Poore’s regiment, June
-12, 1775. Later, he was promoted to sergeant-major and second
-lieutenant.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>David H. Kelly of Warner was a soldier in Capt. Jonathan Bean’s
-company in 1812. Jacob Kelly and Micajah Kelly were in Gilmanton
-in 1789. Jacob Kelly and Israel Kelly were two of the grantees
-of Newport, N. H., in 1753.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Nehemiah Kelly served in Captain Calfe’s company, Colonel
-Bartlett’s regiment, in 1776–1777. He was also under Sullivan in
-Rhode Island.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Philip Kelly was a soldier in Colonel Blanchard’s regiment, at
-Crown Point, in 1755.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Robert Kelly’s name was on a petition for the appointment of
-Captain Folsom to be lieutenant-colonel of the Fourth regiment in
-1775.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Jonathan Kelly of Epping was a soldier in Captain Moore’s company,
-Poore’s regiment, in 1775, and served in an expedition to Canada
-in 1776. He re-enlisted in 1777 in the First New Hampshire
-of the Continental line for three years, or during the war. This man
-had a splendid record, serving from Bunker Hill to Yorktown. He
-is recorded as re-enlisting in 1781 for three more years. His grave,
-wherever it may be, should be decorated Memorial Day.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_48'>48</span>A Jonathan Kelly appears in the list of soldiers living in Northfield,
-N. H., in 1785.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Abial Kelly, by the establishment of the boundary line, in 1745,
-was transferred to Methuen, Mass. His name often appears in the
-Province deeds. Josiah Kelly served in Colonel Gilman’s regiment
-in 1776. Dr. Benjamin Kelly, a veteran of the Revolutionary War,
-was a resident of Gilmanton in 1801. Stephen Kelly was a ratepayer
-in Cocheco parish in 1741. Ebenezer Kelly was a petitioner
-for a classification of towns for representatives in 1798. He lived
-in Bridgewater.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Ephraim Kelly was a soldier in Stark’s regiment at Bunker Hill,
-where he was wounded.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Holbridge Kelly was on the roll of Colonel Walton’s men for
-scouting duty, in 1710. This name occurs eight times in the Province
-deeds, as of Stratham, Nottingham and Bow.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Timothy Kelly was one of Captain McConnell’s company, Colonel
-Hazen’s regiment, in 1778. As the most of the soldiers in this regiment
-were of Irish or French-Canadian parentage, and recruited in
-Canada, this Timothy Kelly may have been of Irish birth. Another
-Timothy Kelly was in Candia in 1770, and still another was in Boscawen
-in 1812. His daughter, who was the wife of Nicholas M.
-Noyes of the same town, is the authority for stating that her father
-was a native of the County Waterford, Ireland. His parents were
-well-to-do. He was involved in the movement for Irish independence
-in 1798, which resulted in the murder by the British of Lord
-Edward Fitzgerald and the execution of Robert Emmet.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>For his safety, his parents sent him to this country. He landed
-in Newbury, Mass., and from thence he moved to Boscawen, marrying
-his wife as stated, and he remained there until the time of his
-death. Through him his daughter, Mrs. Noyes, was well acquainted
-with the history of Ireland, as well as with the events that resulted
-in the sad tragedy of the execution of young Emmet.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>He had three sons, John M., Roland B., and Andrew J. Kelly.
-The latter was a soldier with an exceptionally fine record. He enlisted
-for three years in the New Hampshire battalion of Berdan’s
-sharpshooters on Aug. 8, 1861. He re-enlisted for three years more
-on Jan. 2, 1864, remaining until he was mustered out at the close of
-the war, June 28, 1865. At this date, June, 1905, he resides in
-Hopkinton, N. H., a living type of one of the trio of “Kelly and
-Burke and Shea.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_49'>49</span>Hon. Timothy Kaley was born in Dunmanway, County Cork, Ireland,
-in 1817. He came to this country when quite young. He
-arrived in New England by way of Canada, a frequent route taken in
-these early days by Irish emigrants, and a sad way it proved to be
-for thousands whose remains lie along the banks of the St. Lawrence,
-from its mouth to Kingston, who died from ship fever. Mr.
-Kaley was in business for a time in Canton, Mass. In 1860 he
-came to Milford, N. H., where he remained until the time of his
-death. In this town he established himself as of the firm Morse,
-Kaley &amp; Co., for the manufacture of knitting cotton. The product
-of his mill became known all over the country. It is written of him
-that “from the time he became a citizen of Milford until the day of
-his decease, he ranked among the most enterprising and progressive
-citizens of the town.” He was a public-spirited man, taking an active
-part in the affairs of the community as well as in those connected
-with his adopted state and nation. He was elected to the state
-senate in 1881 and 1882, but died before his term of office expired.
-He was a good speaker, a ready debater, and was gifted with a very
-retentive memory.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In 1879 or thereabouts, while in Richmond, Va., on an excursion
-with the New Hampshire Club, he declaimed the celebrated speech
-of Patrick Henry from the same pew in the historic St. John’s Church
-in which it was given originally by the fiery Virginian whose inspiring
-words “Give me liberty or give me death” have been repeated
-in every schoolhouse in New England.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>His son, the Hon. Frank E. Kaley, is the worthy heir of an honored
-sire. He is the treasurer of the firm established by his father,
-director of Souhegan National Bank, president of the Milford Building
-and Loan Association, a trustee of the Milford Savings Bank,
-vice-president of the Milford Tanning Co., and a member of the
-Board of Water Commissioners. He was elected a member of the
-Executive Council of Governor Bachelder for the years 1903 and
-1904, but what is better than all these positions of honor, is that
-few men in New Hampshire are esteemed more highly at home or
-abroad, and what is still better, it is all deserved.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The name Kaley is without question derived from the same Gaelic
-root, Ceallaigh, more commonly known as Kelly, but occasionally
-written Kaley and Kiley. The experience of the father and son is a
-remarkable illustration of the vigor of the old Gaelic blood, for with
-equal opportunities the men in whose veins it runs, let them be Irish
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_50'>50</span>or Highland Scotch, take no second place in the varied walks of
-life. The birthplace of Timothy Kaley was not a great distance
-from that of the ancestors of the Sullivans of New Hampshire, who
-also came from the south of Ireland.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Dr. Nathaniel Kelly was an eminent physician in the town of
-Plaistow, N. H., where he was born in 1800. He represented his
-town in the state Legislature. Dr. Langley Kelly was another distinguished
-physician residing in Weare, N. H., in 1878.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In placing the foregoing names before the reader, one cannot help
-being surprised at the number of men bearing a distinctive Irish
-name appearing in either the Town, Provincial or State records of
-New Hampshire. Even in our day but comparatively few men have
-their names printed in the public records. It is safe, therefore, to
-say that the greater part of these men had done something to specially
-merit them a place in the records.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Again, a good idea can be formed of the number of men bearing
-distinctively Irish names, as the number of persons bearing this one
-name figured in New Hampshire affairs, or a greater part of them,
-before 1800, an unusually large proportion of them having seen service
-in the Provincial wars or in the war for independence. Assuredly,
-a most fitting conclusion to this article will be Mr. Joseph I. C.
-Clarke’s poem:</p>
-
-<h3 class='c008'>THE FIGHTING RACE.</h3>
-
-<div class='lg-container-b c019'>
- <div class='linegroup'>
- <div class='group'>
- <div class='line'>“Read out the names!” and Burke sat back,</div>
- <div class='line in2'>And Kelly dropped his head,</div>
- <div class='line'>While Shea—they called him Scholar Jack—</div>
- <div class='line in2'>Went down the list of the dead:</div>
- <div class='line'>Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,</div>
- <div class='line in2'>The crews of the gig and the yawl,</div>
- <div class='line'>The bearded man and the lad in his ’teens,</div>
- <div class='line in2'>Carpenters, coal passers—all.</div>
- <div class='line'>Then, knocking the ashes from out his pipe,</div>
- <div class='line in2'>Said Burke, in an off-hand way:</div>
- <div class='line'>“We’re all in that dead-man’s list, by cripe!—</div>
- <div class='line in2'>Kelly and Burke and Shea.”</div>
- <div class='line'>“Well, here’s to the Maine, and I’m sorry for Spain,”</div>
- <div class='line in2'>Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.</div>
- </div>
- <div class='group'>
- <div class='line'>“Wherever there’s Kellys there’s trouble,” said Burke,</div>
- <div class='line in2'>“Wherever fighting’s the game,</div>
- <div class='line'>Or a spice of danger in grown man’s work,”</div>
- <div class='line in2'>Said Kelly, “you’ll find my name.”</div>
- <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_51'>51</span>“And do we fall short,” said Burke, getting mad,</div>
- <div class='line in2'>“When it’s touch and go for life?”</div>
- <div class='line'>Said Shea: “It’s thirty odd years, bedad,</div>
- <div class='line in2'>Since I charged, to drum and fife,</div>
- <div class='line'>Up Marye’s Heights, and my old canteen</div>
- <div class='line in2'>Stopped a rebel ball on its way.</div>
- <div class='line'>There were blossoms of blood on our sprigs of green—</div>
- <div class='line in2'>Kelly and Burke and Shea—</div>
- <div class='line'>And the dead didn’t brag!” “Well, here’s to the flag!”</div>
- <div class='line in2'>Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.</div>
- </div>
- <div class='group'>
- <div class='line'>“I wish ’twas in Ireland—for, there’s the place,”</div>
- <div class='line in2'>Said Burke, “that we’d die by right—</div>
- <div class='line'>In the cradle of our soldier race,</div>
- <div class='line in2'>After one good stand-up fight.</div>
- <div class='line'>My grandfather fell on Vinegar Hill,</div>
- <div class='line in2'>And fighting was not his trade;</div>
- <div class='line'>But his rusty pike’s in the cabin still,</div>
- <div class='line in2'>With Hessian blood on the blade.”</div>
- <div class='line'>“Aye, aye,” said Kelly, “the pikes were great</div>
- <div class='line in2'>When the word was ‘Clear the way!’</div>
- <div class='line'>We were thick on the roll in 98—</div>
- <div class='line in2'>Kelly and Burke and Shea.”</div>
- <div class='line'>“Well, here’s to the pike and the sword and the like,”</div>
- <div class='line in2'>Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.</div>
- </div>
- <div class='group'>
- <div class='line'>And Shea, the Scholar, with rising joy,</div>
- <div class='line in2'>Said: “We were at Ramillies;</div>
- <div class='line'>We left our bones at Fontenoy,</div>
- <div class='line in2'>And up in the Pyrennees;</div>
- <div class='line'>Before Dunkirk, on Landen’s plain,</div>
- <div class='line in2'>Cremona, Lille and Ghent:</div>
- <div class='line'>We’re all over Austria, France, and Spain,</div>
- <div class='line in2'>Wherever they pitched a tent.</div>
- <div class='line'>We’ve died for England, from Waterloo</div>
- <div class='line in2'>To Egypt and Dargai;</div>
- <div class='line'>And still there’s enough for a corps or a crew—</div>
- <div class='line in2'>Kelly and Burke and Shea.”</div>
- <div class='line'>“Well, here’s to good, honest fighting blood!”</div>
- <div class='line in2'>Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.</div>
- </div>
- <div class='group'>
- <div class='line'>“Oh, the fighting races don’t die out,</div>
- <div class='line in2'>If they seldom die in bed—</div>
- <div class='line'>For love is first in their hearts, no doubt,”</div>
- <div class='line in2'>Said Burke; then Kelly said:</div>
- <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_52'>52</span>“When Michael, the high Archangel, stands,</div>
- <div class='line in2'>The Angel with the sword,</div>
- <div class='line'>And the battle-dead from a hundred lands</div>
- <div class='line in2'>Are ranged in one big horde—</div>
- <div class='line'>Our line, that for Gabriel’s trumpet waits,</div>
- <div class='line in2'>Will stretch three deep that day,</div>
- <div class='line'>From Jehosephat to the Golden Gates—</div>
- <div class='line in2'>Kelly and Burke and Shea.”</div>
- <div class='line'>“Well, here’s thank God for the race and the sod!”</div>
- <div class='line in2'>Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.</div>
- </div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<div class='chapter'>
- <span class='pageno' id='Page_53'>53</span>
- <h2 class='c004'>SOME EARLY CELEBRATIONS OF ST. PATRICK’S DAY IN NEW YORK CITY, 1762–1788.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c006'>
- <div><span class='small'>BY HON. JOHN D. CRIMMINS.<a id='r8' /><a href='#f8' class='c007'><sup>[8]</sup></a></span></div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c005'>St. Patrick’s Day was celebrated in New York City as early as
-1762. Of this fact we have a record. But the anniversary was, doubtless,
-observed here even at a much earlier period, if not by organization,
-then by groups of congenial friends. Irish residents of Boston,
-Mass., celebrated St. Patrick’s Day as far back as 1737, and,
-we have no doubt, the anniversary was as early recognized in New
-York.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Thomas Dongan, an Irish Roman Catholic, became governor of
-the Province of New York in 1683 and held the office until 1688.
-There is little doubt that during this period the anniversary of St.
-Patrick was, in some manner, observed by the governor and his
-friends and countrymen in these parts. It would be strange if this
-were not so, and we shall not be surprised if, one of these days, evidence
-confirmatory of this comes to light.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>As a matter of established fact, however, we for the present date
-St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in New York City from 1762. In
-the New York <cite>Mercury</cite>, under date of March 15, 1762, we find the
-following notice: “The anniversary Feast of St. Patrick is to be
-celebrated on Wednesday the 17th instant, at the house of Mr. John
-Marshall, at Mount Pleasant, near the College; Gentlemen that
-please to attend will meet with the best Usage.” We find no further
-mention of the event, but the same was, undoubtedly, a complete
-success.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>A notable celebration took place in New York City in 1766. Some
-of the toasts offered on that occasion appear very strange in these
-days. It should be remembered, however, that British influence
-dominated the gathering and that if any of the assembled company
-disagreed with “The Glorious Memory of King William,” for instance,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_54'>54</span>they very wisely kept their opinions to themselves. Some of
-the toasts, however, appear to have been quite commendable. The
-New York <cite>Gazette</cite>, March 20, 1766, and the New York <cite>Mercury</cite>,
-March 24, 1766, have the following account of the celebration:</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>Monday last being the Day of St. Patrick, tutelar Saint of Ireland, was
-ushered in at the Dawn, with Fifes and Drums, which produced a very
-agreeable Harmony before the Doors of many Gentlemen of that Nation,
-and others.</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>Many of them assembled, and spent a joyous tho’ orderly Evening, at the
-House of Mr. Bardin in this City, where the following Healths were drank,
-Viz.</p>
- <dl class='dl_1'>
- <dt>1.</dt>
- <dd>The King and Royal House of Hanover.
- </dd>
- <dt>2.</dt>
- <dd>The Governor and Council of the Province.
- </dd>
- <dt>3.</dt>
- <dd>The glorious memory of King William, &amp;c.
- </dd>
- <dt>4.</dt>
- <dd>The Memory of the late Duke of Cumberland.
- </dd>
- <dt>5.</dt>
- <dd>The Day; and Prosperity to Ireland.
- </dd>
- <dt>6.</dt>
- <dd>Success to the Sons of Liberty in America, may they never want Money, Interest, nor
- Courage to Maintain their Just Rights.
- </dd>
- <dt>7.</dt>
- <dd>Mr. Pitt.
- </dd>
- <dt>8.</dt>
- <dd>General Conway.
- </dd>
- <dt>9.</dt>
- <dd>May the Enemies of America be branded with Infamy and Disdain.
- </dd>
- <dt>10.</dt>
- <dd>May the honest Heart never know Distress.
- </dd>
- <dt>11.</dt>
- <dd>The Protestant Interest.
- </dd>
- <dt>12.</dt>
- <dd>May all Acts of Parliament Contrary to the American Interest be laid aside.
- </dd>
- <dt>13.</dt>
- <dd>Success to American Manufacturers.
- </dd>
- <dt>14.</dt>
- <dd>May the true Sons of Liberty never want Roast Beef nor Claret.
- </dd>
- <dt>15.</dt>
- <dd>More Friends and less need.
- </dd>
- <dt>16.</dt>
- <dd>Conquest to the Lover and Honour to the Brave.
- </dd>
- <dt>17.</dt>
- <dd>May we never want Courage when we come to the Trial.
- </dd>
- <dt>18.</dt>
- <dd>The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
- </dd>
- <dt>19.</dt>
- <dd>May the Enemies of Ireland never eat the Bread nor drink the Whisky of it, but be
- tormented with Itching without the benefit of Scratching.
- </dd>
- <dt>20.</dt>
- <dd><em>Our Noble Selves.</em>
- </dd>
- </dl>
-
-<p class='c014'>The next celebration of which we find mention took place in 1768,
-concerning which the New York <cite>Gazette</cite>, March 14, that year, had
-the following:</p>
-
-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c020'>
- <div><span class='sc'>The Gentlemen of Ireland</span></div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c012'>Who intend dining together on St. Patrick’s Day, are desired to send
-their Names to Bolton and Sigell’s that Dinner may be prepared accordingly.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_55'>55</span>In the same issue of the <cite>Gazette</cite> we also find a statement to the
-effect that “The Members of the most ancient and truly benevolent
-Order of St. Patrick intend to celebrate the anniversary of that
-Saint, at the House of John Marshall, at the ancient Mason’s Arms,
-near the Hon. William Walton’s, Esq.; on Thursday the 17th Instant,
-for which Purpose Tickets are now delivered at the said John
-Marshall’s.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Now comes into view an organization known as the “Friendly
-Brothers of St. Patrick.” It appears to have been divided into
-“knots” and to have been largely, or entirely, composed of men in
-the British service. In the New York <cite>Gazette</cite> of March 13, 1769, a
-notice appears, stating that:</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>The principal Knot of the Friendly Brothers of St. Patrick, in the XVIth
-Regiment of Foot, will meet at Messieurs Bolton and Sigel’s, on Friday the
-17th Inst. being the Patron Day of the Order, at 2 o’Clock, to dine and
-transact Business. Such Gentlemen in this City as are of the Order, are
-desired to attend.</p>
-
-<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
- <div class='linegroup'>
- <div class='group'>
- <div class='line'>Signed by Order,</div>
- </div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<div class='c018'>W. F. M. P. S.</div>
-
-<p class='c014'>In the New York <cite>Journal</cite>, March 30, 1769, is a notice reading as
-follows: “The Friendly Brothers of St. Patrick, and several Gentlemen
-of this City intend dining together at Bolton and Sigel’s Next
-Monday, and from thence to go to the Play in the Evening; such
-Gentlemen as propose to join them will be pleased to send in their
-Names to the Bar of said Tavern two Days before. New York,
-March 28, 1769.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>If this latter event was intended as a celebration of St. Patrick’s
-Day it is strange that it was held at so late a date after the anniversary.
-However, there may have been a special reason for this. It
-is possible, too, that it was a union celebration by the Friendly
-Brothers instead of by a single “knot” of the organization as was
-that held on the 17th of the month.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In 1770, members of “the 16th Regiment of Foot” again paid
-honor to the memory of St. Patrick as the following notice in the
-New York <cite>Gazette</cite> of March 12th, that year, indicated they would:</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>The Principal Knot of the Friendly Brothers of St. Patrick, in the 16th
-Regiment of Foot, will meet at Bolton’s on Saturday the 17th Instant,
-being the Patron Day of the Order, at 9 o’Clock in the Forenoon to breakfast,
-transact Business and dine. Such Gentlemen in this City as are of
-the Order, are desired to attend. Signed by Order,</p>
-
-<div class='lg-container-r c013'>
- <div class='linegroup'>
- <div class='group'>
- <div class='line'>J. F. J. P. S.</div>
- </div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_56'>56</span>We again find mention of the Friendly Brothers in the New York
-<cite>Gazette</cite> of March 25, 1771, it being there stated that “at the usual
-celebration of the repeal of the Stamp Act on 18 March, the assemblage
-on 18 March 1771, drank the usual toast ‘Prosperity to Ireland
-and the worthy Sons and Daughters of St. Patrick.’ Messages
-of civil Compliments were exchanged by those Gentlemen and the
-Friendly Brothers of St. Patrick, who dined at the Queen’s-Head
-Tavern; as also with a Number of other Gentlemen who dined at
-Protestant Hall, at Mr. Samuel Waldron’s, on Long Island.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In Rivington’s New York <cite>Gazette</cite>, March 10, 1774, we find a notice
-to the effect that “The Friendly Brothers are desired to meet at Hull’s
-Tavern, on Thursday the 17th instant. Dinner to be on table precisely
-at three o’clock.—F. T. M.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The same paper under date of March 17, 1774, says “This
-morning the Gentlemen who compose the most benevolent society of
-the Friendly Brothers of St. Patrick will give a very elegant breakfast,
-at Hull’s to the principal Ladies and Gentlemen of this city, in
-commemoration of the tutelar Saint of Ireland, it being their Patron
-Day,” and the same issue of the <cite>Gazette</cite> announces that “The Concert
-which was to have been performed at the Assembly Room, as
-usual this Evening, is deferred until next Monday Evening, on Account
-of a public Breakfast, given by the Gentlemen, who compose
-the Society of The Friendly Brothers.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>On March 16, 1775, Rivington’s New York <cite>Gazette</cite> announced that
-“To-morrow being the anniversary of St. Patrick, Tutelar Saint of
-Ireland, will be observed with the usual respect and attention, by his
-generous sons and their descendants.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The British evacuated New York Nov. 25, 1783. Thenceforth, the
-St. Patrick’s Day celebrations there took place under the inspiring
-presence of a different order of things.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The evacuation of New York by the enemy was attended by
-many interesting features. Preceding it, a conference took place at
-Dobb’s Ferry between Washington, Governor Clinton and Sir Guy
-Carleton. At this conference, it was arranged that the British were
-to get out of New York on the date above mentioned. On the morning
-of Nov. 25, General Knox, who was of Irish parentage, marched
-his men in from Harlem as far as “Bowery Lane.” There he halted,
-at what is now the junction of Third Avenue and the Bowery. The
-Americans remained here until about 1 p. m., as the enemy had
-claimed the right of possession until noon. Before 3 p. m., Knox
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_57'>57</span>had taken control of the city and of Fort George, amid the acclamations
-of a great concourse. Washington located at Fraunces’ Tavern,
-where during the afternoon a public dinner to the officers of the
-army was given by Governor Clinton. In the evening the city was
-illuminated by rockets, bonfires and other evidences of rejoicing.
-The British flag at Fort George had been nailed to the staff and
-the latter was then made as slippery as possible. The emblem of
-tyranny was soon removed, however, and the American flag hoisted
-in its place.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>On St. Patrick’s Day, 1784, the year following the British evacuation
-of New York, a celebration took place in that city under the
-auspices of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, a society organized that
-year and which is still in existence. The exercises comprised a banquet
-at Cape’s Tavern. Speaking of this event, the New York <cite>Packet
-and Advertiser</cite>, of the next day, says:</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>Yesterday, being the anniversary of St. Patrick, his patriotic sons met
-at Cape’s Tavern, where they gave an elegant entertainment to His Excellency
-the Governor, Lieut.-Governor, Chancellor, and a number of other respectable
-gentlemen of this State. The day and evening were spent in festivity
-and mirth, and a number of suitable toasts were drank upon this joyful
-occasion. The greatest unanimity and conviviality pervaded this numerous
-and jovial company, and perhaps this great Saint was never honored with a
-concourse of more generous and truly patriotic sons than this assembly
-afforded.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In 1785, the same organization observed St. Patrick’s Day by
-dining at “The Coffee House,” conducted by Mr. Bradford, in Water
-Street, near Wall Street. The society dined there again in 1786, the
-New York <cite>Daily Advertiser</cite> stating that “Yesterday the Society of
-the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick held their anniversary meeting at the
-Coffee-House, where an elegant dinner was provided by Mr. Bradford.—The
-company were numerous and respectable; and the day
-spent with that decorum and hilarity, so truly characteristic of this
-friendly society.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Speaking of this observance, the <cite>Independent Journal</cite>, March 18,
-and the New York <cite>Packet</cite>, March 20, 1786, inform their readers that
-“The anniversary of St. Patrick, patron of the Irish nation, was on
-Friday celebrated with great festivity by our worthy friends of that
-kingdom: A very elegant entertainment was provided at Mr. Bradford’s
-Coffee-House, at which were present His Excellency the Governor,
-the Lieutenant Governor, the Chancellor, Chief Justice, Judge
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_58'>58</span>Hobart, the Mayor, Recorder, and many other persons of distinction.—The
-day and evening passed with that convivial spirit which ever
-distinguished the true Milesian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In 1788, the Friendly Sons, it is stated, dined at the Merchants’
-Coffee House, at the southeast corner of Wall and Water streets.
-The New York <cite>Journal &amp; Patriotic Register</cite>, March 18, that year notes
-two celebrations, the first of which is believed to refer to the Friendly
-Sons. The <cite>Register’s</cite> mention thus reads:</p>
-
-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c020'>
- <div><span class='sc'>St. Patrick.</span></div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c012'>Yesterday, being the anniversary of the Tutelar Saint of Ireland, a number
-of gentlemen of that nation, assembled at the Merchants’ Coffee House,
-in this city, where they partook of an elegant entertainment, drank a number
-of toasts, and “liberally good cheer did bestow.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>A company also met at Corre’s.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The New York <cite>Packet</cite> speaking of the observance in 1788, states
-that a large company assembled “at the Coffee house” but does not
-mention “Merchants’.” The reference appears in the <cite>Packet</cite> of March
-18, that year, and states that “Yesterday being the anniversary of
-St. Patrick, the Tutelar Saint of Ireland, a large company of gentlemen,
-natives of that country, assembled at the Coffee-House; where
-a genteel entertainment was provided, and which was well conducted.
-True festive mirth and hilarity were displayed at this convivial
-board.”</p>
-
-<div class='chapter'>
- <span class='pageno' id='Page_59'>59</span>
- <h2 class='c004'>WILLIAM PRENDERGAST, A PIONEER OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY, N. Y.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c006'>
- <div><span class='small'>BY MISS HELEN PRENDERGAST.<a id='r9' /><a href='#f9' class='c007'><sup>[9]</sup></a></span></div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c005'>About one mile back of the west shore of Lake Chautauqua, N. Y.,
-and almost directly behind the present Chautauqua Assembly ground,
-lies a farm now occupied by Chauncey Moses. This farm was formerly
-the home of William Prendergast, one of the pioneers of Chautauqua
-County.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>To the rear of the house, and on a hill, is an old family graveyard
-where are buried the pioneer, his wife and many of their children
-and other descendants. The pioneer’s tombstone bears an inscription
-stating that he was born in Kilkenny County, Ireland, Feb. 2,
-1727, that he was a son of Thomas and Mary Prendergast, and that
-he died Feb. 14, 1811.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>His wife, Mehitable (Wing) Prendergast, is buried beside him.
-The inscription on her tombstone states that she was the daughter of
-Jedediah and Elizabeth Wing of Beeker, Dutchess County, N. Y.,
-that she was born March 20, 1737, and died Sept. 14, 1811.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>For some years after their marriage, Mr. Prendergast and his wife
-resided at Pawlings, Dutchess County. I have heard it said that
-William, the pioneer, came to America when he was but nineteen
-years of age. He continued to live at Pawlings until the year 1766.
-At that time the inhabitants of Rensselaer, Dutchess and Columbia
-counties who rented their lands, instead of owning them, became dissatisfied
-by what they considered the unreasonable demands of the
-proprietors, and broke out in open revolt.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Prendergast, who was looked upon as a leader of the disaffected,
-was taken prisoner, tried for treason and sentenced to death. He
-was, however, pardoned by the British king, George IV, on taking an
-oath never again to bear arms against the government of England.
-This oath he kept, so that during the Revolution neither he nor his
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_60'>60</span>sons were actively engaged in the Patriot cause, although sympathizing
-therewith.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>After his pardon, he removed to Pittstown, Rensselaer County,
-twenty-two miles above Albany, N. Y., where he lived until 1805. At
-this time the family decided to remove to Tennessee, and departed
-for thence, traveling in wagons and on horseback. Not liking the
-place, they returned through Ohio and Pennsylvania to New York
-state. When they had reached a point some miles within New York,
-the horse ridden by Thomas Prendergast, one of the sons, became
-lame. Being near a settler’s log cabin, Thomas entered the latter
-and soon prevailed upon the settler to sell him his claim. Thomas,
-therefore, decided to go no further but to settle there and make the
-locality his home, which he accordingly did.</p>
-
-<p class='c005'>William Prendergast, the pioneer, and his wife, were the parents
-of seven sons and six daughters. All but one of these children
-arrived at maturity, and all but one settled in Chautauqua County,
-N. Y. The children just mentioned were:</p>
-
- <dl class='dl_2'>
- <dt>1.</dt>
- <dd>Matthew, born Aug. 5, 1756; died July 24, 1838.
- </dd>
- <dt>2.</dt>
- <dd>Thomas, born Sept, 11, 1757; died June 3, 1842.
- </dd>
- <dt>3.</dt>
- <dd>Mary, born 1760; died July 11, 1845.
- </dd>
- <dt>4.</dt>
- <dd>Elizabeth, born Aug. 30, 1762; died Aug. 31, 1824.
- </dd>
- <dt>5.</dt>
- <dd>James, born March 9, 1764; died June 18, 1846.
- </dd>
- <dt>6.</dt>
- <dd>Jedediah, born May 13, 1766; died March 1, 1848.
- </dd>
- <dt>7.</dt>
- <dd>Martin, born April 22, 1769; died June 21, 1835.
- </dd>
- <dt>8.</dt>
- <dd>John Jeffrey, born 1771; date of death unknown.
- </dd>
- <dt>9.</dt>
- <dd>Susanna, born April 22, 1773; died Aug. 8, 1847.
- </dd>
- <dt>10.</dt>
- <dd>Elinor, died in infancy.
- </dd>
- <dt>11.</dt>
- <dd>Martha, born March 18, 1777; died Dec. 9, 1849.
- </dd>
- <dt>12.</dt>
- <dd>William, born 1779; died Nov. 11, 1857.
- </dd>
- <dt>13.</dt>
- <dd>Minerva, born Aug. 26, 1782; died March 30, 1858.
- </dd>
- </dl>
-
-<p class='c014'>The foregoing data, relating to the births and deaths of the children,
-while possibly not exact in every instance, is approximately so,
-and is the best it is now possible to procure. Of the children here
-mentioned:</p>
-
- <dl class='dl_2'>
- <dt>1.</dt>
- <dd>Matthew became associate judge of Niagara County, N. Y., from which Chautauqua County was
- taken.
- </dd>
- <dt>2.</dt>
- <dd>Thomas became a successful farmer.
- </dd>
- <dt>3.</dt>
- <dd>Mary married William Bemus.
- </dd>
- <dt>4.</dt>
- <dd>Elizabeth died unmarried.
-<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_61'>61</span></div>
- </dd>
- <dt>5.</dt>
- <dd>James founded Jamestown, N. Y., built and operated mills, conducted a store, and became
- judge of the Court of Common Pleas.
- </dd>
- <dt>6.</dt>
- <dd>Jedediah became a physician. He also engaged, with his brother Martin, in mercantile
- pursuits. He was of scholarly tastes, took special interest in geology, and at the
- invitation of DeWitt Clinton once wrote several articles on the geology of that section
- of New York state. These articles were afterward published by Governor Clinton just
- mentioned. Jedediah has one grandson living in Canada. Jedediah’s only daughter,
- Catharine, wedded Hon. Hamilton Merritt.
- </dd>
- <dt>7.</dt>
- <dd>Martin was associate judge of Niagara County and was supervisor for Chautauqua township
- for eighteen terms.
- </dd>
- <dt>8.</dt>
- <dd>Susanna became the wife of Oliver Whiteside, but was a widow with two daughters when she
- came to Chautauqua County.
- </dd>
- <dt>11.</dt>
- <dd>Martha died unmarried.
- </dd>
- <dt>12.</dt>
- <dd>William was a farmer, but is best known as Colonel Prendergast. He enlisted in the army
- during the War of 1812, took part in the battle of Black Rock, under Col. James McMahan,
- and won promotion.
- </dd>
- <dt>13.</dt>
- <dd>Minerva became the wife of Elihu Marvin, but was soon left a widow with a son and
- daughter of tender years.
- </dd>
- </dl>
-
-<p class='c014'>I can remember when I was a child of six or seven years of visiting
-Colonel Prendergast’s house on Christmas Day and seeing his
-wife roast the turkey in a tin oven before the fireplace, cooking the
-vegetables in kettles hung on a crane over the blaze and pounding
-coffee in a mortar. She also “dipped” her candles and cooked in a
-brick oven.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>She had a red broadcloth cloak, trimmed with red satin, which I
-was allowed to wear if I would sit still, and at the end of the visit
-my great-great uncle always gave me a piece of gold or silver money.
-One yet in my possession bears the date 1776.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Alexander T. Prendergast was a son of James Prendergast, the
-founder of Jamestown, N. Y., and of his wife, whose maiden name
-was Agnes Thompson. This Alexander had one son, James, who
-was a lawyer by profession and served as a member of the State
-Assembly. His parents founded the James Prendergast Free
-Library at Jamestown, an Episcopal church there called the Prendergast
-Memorial, gave a public drinking fountain, a window in the
-Congregational church, scholarships in the Jamestown schools, and
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_62'>62</span>other benefactions. There are no living descendants of James,
-John, William, Minerva, Martha, Elizabeth, or Elinor—children of
-William Prendergast, the pioneer.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Descendants of others of the children achieved a good measure of
-success. One of them, Col. Henry A. Prendergast, served as a paymaster
-during the Civil War and died of sickness contracted in the
-service. He was also a member for many terms of the New York
-State Assembly.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>My own grandfather, a son of Matthew Prendergast, participated
-in the battle of Black Rock during the War of 1812, and rendered
-able service as a surgeon. He served many terms as a supervisor
-and was a famous physician. The only members of this family,
-bearing the Prendergast name, now left in Chautauqua County are
-my two brothers—John H. and Dr. William Prendergast—and James
-Hunt Prendergast, son of John H. This James is a lawyer practising
-at Westfield, N. Y. To these must be added myself. My sister,
-Mrs. Whallon, has a grandchild named William Prendergast
-Whallon who is now eight years of age and is of the seventh generation.</p>
-
-<div class='chapter'>
- <span class='pageno' id='Page_63'>63</span>
- <h2 class='c004'>MASTER JOHN SULLIVAN OF SOMERSWORTH AND BERWICK, AND HIS FAMILY.<a id='r10' /><a href='#f10' class='c007'><sup>[10]</sup></a></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c006'>
- <div><span class='small'>BY JOHN SCALES OF DOVER, N. H.</span></div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c005'>Thomas Coffin Amory begins his biography of his grandfather,
-Gov. James Sullivan, as follows:</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>James, the fourth son of Master Sullivan, was born in Berwick, Me., 22d
-April, 1744. The cellar of the house occupied by his parents is easily distinguished
-by some portions of its walls still remaining in a field near
-Salmon Falls river, and within half a mile of Great Falls village. The barn
-which served to store away their harvests for the long winters of New England
-climate has only quite recently (1858) been destroyed by fire. Near
-by, but separated from the old dwelling by a public road, laid out in comparatively
-modern times across the farm, is the ancient cemetery, where
-Master Sullivan and Margery his wife, when their long protracted lives were
-over, were laid to their last repose amid the scenes of their humble labors
-and of the pleasures and various vicissitudes of more than half a century.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The above is incorrect in one particular: Gov. James Sullivan
-was not born in Berwick, Me.; he was born in Somersworth, N. H.,
-then a parish in Dover. Mr. Amory made the mis-statement because
-he had not all the facts at hand in regard to the question. That
-particular part of Somersworth in which Master Sullivan lived is
-now in the town of Rollinsford, having been set off from Somersworth
-in 1849, and is now the village at Rollinsford Junction.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>This village is one mile from Salmon Falls village and one mile
-from South Berwick village, at the lower fall where the fresh water
-meets the tide water; this is the ancient Quamphegan, and the point
-where the river changes its name to Newichawannick, which it holds
-till it gets to Dover Point, where it joins the Pascataqua, six miles
-from Quamphegan. The settlers on Dover Neck did not use the
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_64'>64</span>Indian name Newichawannick, but called it Fore River, and the river
-on the west side of the Neck they called Back River.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The Somersworth village in the days of Master Sullivan was
-much larger than the modern village of Rollinsford Junction; this is
-distant about four miles from the depot in the city of Somersworth.
-For more than a century it was the home of several of the leading
-men of New Hampshire. It was the home of Master Sullivan from
-1723 to 1754. Here his children were born; here he did the most
-important part of his teaching; here he educated his sons to be
-governors, and leaders in the Revolution, and leaders after the
-American government was formed.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>They were important factors in forming the state governments
-of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. At this village school of
-Master Sullivan the sons of many other men were taught in a way
-that fitted them to enter Harvard College, and fitted them to be
-leaders in the great struggle for independence. Here Master Sullivan
-not only kept school, but was also the scribe and counselor for
-his neighbors and fellow-citizens.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>He was a fine penman, and wrote wills, deeds, mortgages, and
-such other legal documents as the needs of the parish demanded.
-Here he served in the local military company; here he swept the
-parish meeting-house and rang the bell for services on the Lord’s day;
-here he sat under the ministrations of Rev. James Pike, who was the
-faithful and able pastor of this parish for more than sixty years.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The farm which Mr. Amory speaks of in Berwick was purchased
-by Master Sullivan in August, 1753. He bought it of Mr. Samuel
-Lord, and there is no record that he bought any land anywhere
-before that date. It is on a beautiful elevation which overlooks the
-city of Somersworth, a mile away, across the Salmon Falls River.
-Much of the land is now cut up into streets and house lots in the
-fast-growing village of Berwick. A garden occupies the spot where
-Master Sullivan’s house stood; a street crosses the spot where he
-and his good wife were buried. Their remains were removed to
-the Sullivan cemetery in Durham, and now repose near the grave of
-their illustrious son, Gen. John Sullivan.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>It is not known precisely when he moved his family to Berwick,
-but probably in 1754, and there they resided more than forty years.
-In Berwick he was a farmer, as well as a schoolmaster and scrivener
-for his townsmen. Tradition says that his wife was the better
-farmer of the two. He was so fond of his books that the weeds
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_65'>65</span>oftentimes got the better of his crops. His wife Margery cared
-nothing for books, and delighted in out-door work.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The town of South Berwick was set off from Berwick in 1814;
-the First parish is at South Berwick, and recently celebrated its two
-hundredth anniversary with an elaborate and interesting service. In
-1754 the present Berwick was established as the North parish, on
-petition of 39 freeholders (landowners). This petition for an enabling
-act to choose parish officers was granted by Governor Shirley
-and the council, April 17, 1754, the house concurring on the next
-day. One of the 39 signers to that petition was Master John Sullivan.
-He helped organize the parish and owned a pew in the
-meeting-house; later two of his sons owned pews there.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Because Master Sullivan spent the last 40 years of his life in
-this parish of Berwick, the writers of cyclopedias, biographical dictionaries,
-and biographies of his sons have taken it for granted that
-he always lived there, hence say his sons were born there. If
-Master Sullivan’s sons were like the ordinary sons of men, nobody
-would care or take the trouble to inquire whether they were born in
-Maine or New Hampshire. They are not like ordinary sons; they
-are extraordinary, and that is why New Hampshire should claim
-the honor which is its due, just as we delight to boast that Webster
-and Chase, and a host of distinguished men, are the sons of New
-Hampshire. The Sullivan family is one of the most notable families
-in the history of New England. There were five sons and one
-daughter. I will give a brief summary of their lives.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>I. Benjamin was born in 1736; he received a thorough education
-from his father; he enlisted in the British navy and rose to be an
-officer, when most young men would be only ordinary seamen; he
-was tall, handsome and brilliant, and walked the decks as one who
-was born to command. Unfortunately, he and his ship, with all on
-board, were lost at sea just previous to the Revolution.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>II. Daniel, the second son, was born in 1738; after being carefully
-educated by his father he engaged in mercantile business in
-Berwick and was very successful; about 1770 he was leader of a
-company of gentlemen who founded a town at the head of Frenchman’s
-Bay in eastern Maine; this town is called Sullivan in his honor.
-When the Revolutionary War commenced he organized and commanded
-a company which did valiant service for the Patriot cause; he was
-leader in the defense of Castine against the attacks of the British
-navy. Captain Sullivan was so conspicuous and efficient in the defense
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_66'>66</span>that the officers of the fleet marked him for special revenge; one ship
-went up from Mt. Desert to the head of Frenchman’s Bay specially
-to capture the captain; a sortie of marines at midnight went to his
-house, when all the family were asleep, caught the captain, drove his
-family out of doors and burned the house and contents; the British
-officer offered to release him if he would swear allegiance to the king;
-the captain positively refused to accept freedom on such condition;
-he was then carried to New York city and confined in a prison ship
-several months; he was then exchanged but died on his way home,
-from disease contracted while in prison. He has the reputation of
-being a man of extraordinary ability, both as a military leader and
-a business man. Before the war he had acquired large possessions
-in land, lumber, and sawmills.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>III. John, the third son, was born in 1740; after thorough training
-by his father, he studied law with Judge Livermore in Portsmouth;
-he commenced practice of the law in Berwick in 1761, and was married
-about that time. He removed to Durham in 1763, much against
-the wishes of some of the good people in that town, who feared a
-lawyer would make trouble. General Sullivan was the first lawyer
-the town ever had; but the people soon learned to love and respect
-him; although his office was in Durham, his practice soon extended
-throughout Rockingham and Strafford counties in New Hampshire
-and York County in Maine; his success was remarkable.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Before 1775 he was acknowledged as leader at the bar in all of
-those counties, where John Adams, the second president of the
-United States, was for several years one of his competitors; not only
-was he a great lawyer but he also engaged extensively in business,
-owning several mills and much real estate; at the opening of the war
-it was estimated he was worth £40,000; most men with such holdings
-would have hesitated much before rebelling against the king of England;
-John Sullivan did not hesitate; he took the lead and was
-commander of the expedition which committed the first overt act of
-war in the Revolution, by capturing and removing the gunpowder
-from Fort William and Mary at Newcastle, Dec. 14, 1774; of course
-you all know the story; the hundred barrels of powder were taken
-up the river to Durham and hid in various places; a larger part was
-placed in the cellar of the old church near General Sullivan’s residence;
-the monument to his memory now stands on the spot.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Some of that powder was used at the battle of Bunker Hill; all of
-it was used in the Revolutionary War, except a small bottleful which
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_67'>67</span>Maj. John Demeritt of Madbury now has, being handed down to him
-as an inheritance from his ancestors; this capture of the powder was
-four months before the Lexington and Concord affair.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>While attending to his law business and his sawmills and lumbering,
-he had taken a hand in the local military affairs, and in 1774 was
-major of the regiment of militia in his section of the province; Governor
-Wentworth could not persuade him to hold it after the little
-affair at Fort William and Mary; he was delegate to the first Continental
-Congress in 1775; he was appointed brigadier-general in the
-Continental army in 1775; a major-general in 1776; commanded the
-New Hampshire troops at Germantown and Brandywine; commander-in-chief
-in the Rhode Island campaign in 1778; commander-in-chief
-in the great and hazardous expedition against the Six Nations in
-1779, which resulted in the overthrow of the most complete organization
-of the Indians ever effected on this continent. To commemorate
-this great service of General Sullivan the state of New York
-has erected costly tablets on the spots where the most important
-encounters took place.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>This was General Sullivan’s closing service in the military operations
-of the war. I think he should be ranked second only to Greene
-and Washington as a military leader. His services in civil affairs
-which immediately followed were quite as valuable and important as
-his military service. In 1780 he drafted the bill, which the Legislature
-adopted, to regulate the militia; in 1781 he was delegate in the
-National Congress; in 1782, ’83 and ’84 he was attorney-general of
-New Hampshire; he was president of the state in 1786, ’87 and 89;
-he was the Federal candidate in 1788 but was defeated by John
-Langdon, the Republican candidate. Sullivan had defeated Langdon
-in the two years previous, and in the year following; Sullivan was a
-Washington federalist; he was a presidential elector when Washington
-was elected the first time; he was president of the convention
-that adopted the Federal constitution, June 21, 1788, which was the
-act that established the Federal union; the vote stood 57 in favor to
-42 against adoption; it was largely through the influence of General
-Sullivan that the 57 votes were secured and the Federal union was
-formed.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>September 26, 1789, President Washington appointed him United
-States district judge for New Hampshire, and he entered upon the
-duties of that office Dec. 15 of that year; he remained in that office
-until his death, Jan. 23, 1795, being nearly fifty-five years old, having
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_68'>68</span>been born on the 17th of February, 1740. A better American, a
-more capable, a more useful, or more fearless citizen than John Sullivan,
-New Hampshire never had.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In this connection it may be well to say a few words about his
-descendants, to show how strong was the hereditary force that came
-down from Master Sullivan. General Sullivan’s son John was a
-prominent and able lawyer in one of the Southern states, but died
-young. His son George was attorney-general of New Hampshire
-twenty years. His grandson, John, son of George, was attorney-general
-ten years or more, and his grand nephew, John S. Wells, held
-the same office several years. They were all able attorneys, and no
-family in the state has the equal of this illustrious record.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>IV. James, the fourth son of Master Sullivan, was born in Somersworth
-in May, 1744, and died in Boston, Dec. 10, 1808. He was
-thoroughly educated by his father, quite the equal of a Harvard
-graduate of that period; he studied law with his brother John;
-opened an office at Saco about 1767 and practised his profession
-there until about 1780; he was very successful, and with his brother
-John did the larger part of the law business in York County. When he
-was twenty-six years old he was appointed attorney-general for the
-district of Maine and held the office until the Revolution began; he
-was delegate in the first Continental Congress, when he was thirty
-years old; when he was thirty-one he was appointed judge of admiralty;
-the next year he was promoted to a seat on the bench of the
-Supreme Court, which office he held several years; he removed to
-Boston in 1782. While he was in Maine, John Adams, who used to
-go down there once or twice a year to attend court at Saco and Portland,
-said that he always found the Sullivans in possession of all the
-best and most important cases.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In 1783, ’84 and ’85 he was delegate in the Continental Congress,
-and also was representative from Boston in the Massachusetts General
-Court; he was member of the Executive Council in 1787; judge
-of probate from 1788 to 1790; attorney-general from 1790 to 1807;
-in 1804 he was presidential elector, casting his vote for Thomas Jefferson,
-of whom he was a great admirer. The <cite>Federalist</cite> abused him
-fearfully for so voting. He was governor of Massachusetts in 1807
-and 1808, dying a short time before his term expired. Notwithstanding
-he gave so much time to official business, he was one of the founders
-of the Massachusetts Historical Society and its president many
-years; he wrote and published a history of Maine; he published
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_69'>69</span>numerous pamphlets on various questions that concerned current
-business affairs; he was a clear and forcible writer and an eloquent
-advocate; he delivered innumerable addresses on public occasions
-and stood in the front rank of literary men and the legal fraternity
-of Boston.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>V. Mary Sullivan was the fifth child of this remarkable family;
-she was born in 1752; her father as carefully educated her as he did
-his sons; she was tall and handsome, like her father, and inherited
-his fondness for books; she was brilliant and attractive, mentally
-and socially; like her father she was a successful teacher several
-years, at a time when most women thought they were highly accomplished
-if they could write their own names. She married Mr. Theophilus
-Hardy and resided in Durham near her brother John. To
-them were born several daughters; one of these, a very gifted woman,
-married Edward Wells, Esq., and they also resided in Durham,
-which was then one of the liveliest business centers of the state.
-They had a large family of children, and several of the sons manifested
-those strong traits of intellectual power of their Sullivan ancestors;
-one son, Samuel Wells, was governor of Maine two years,
-1858 and 1859; another son, John Sullivan Wells, whom many of
-you may remember, lacked only fifty votes of being elected governor
-of New Hampshire in 1856, the Know-Nothing tidal wave being a
-little too much for him to overcome; he was attorney-general several
-years; United States senator; speaker of the House in the New
-Hampshire Legislature, and also president of the Senate. He was
-an able lawyer, a brilliant and fascinating public speaker, and one of
-the most popular men in his party and he was generally popular with
-all parties. Another brother, Joseph Bartlett Wells, was a distinguished
-lawyer in Illinois, where he was attorney-general several
-years, and was lieutenant-governor at the time of his death; had he
-lived he would undoubtedly have been governor of the state. A
-fourth brother was consul at Bermuda several years and died there.
-These were great-grandsons of Master John Sullivan.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>VI. Ebenezer was the sixth child and youngest son of Master Sullivan
-and his wife Margery; he was born in 1753, and died in 1797.
-He was educated by his father and studied law with his brother
-John. Before he could get established in his profession the Revolution
-commenced, and he engaged earnestly in the cause of the colonies;
-starting as a private, he rose to be captain of a company and
-did valiant service.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_70'>70</span>He was taken prisoner and narrowly escaped being burned at the
-stake by the Indians. After the war he married and resided at
-South Berwick, and engaged in the practice of his profession. He
-was the leader at the bar in York County, a thorough lawyer and a
-powerful advocate. He was a tall, handsome, powerfully-built man,
-whose presence was commanding wherever he stood.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Such were the children of Master Sullivan. What say you, Mr.
-President, are these boys worthy for the New Hampshire Historical
-Society to claim them as sons of New Hampshire?</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Seven cities claimed the honor of being the birthplace of Homer.
-Other great men in later times have honored the cities where they
-were born by their great deeds; should not New Hampshire feel
-everlastingly honored by having such a family born within its borders?
-I will take it for granted that you will answer all my questions
-in the affirmative. Then what proof have I that they <em>were</em>
-born in New Hampshire and not in Maine? I will tell you shortly.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>On page 356 of McClintock’s <cite>History of New Hampshire</cite> Fred
-Myron Colby has the following concerning Master John Sullivan:</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>The grandfather of the New Hampshire Sullivans was Major Philip
-O’Sullivan of Ardea, an officer of the Irish army during the siege of Limerick.
-His son John, born at Limerick in 1692, was one of the company
-that in 1723 emigrated from Ireland and settled the town of Belfast in
-Maine. At this place he hired a sawmill and went to work. Two or three
-years afterward another vessel of Irish emigrants landed at Belfast. On
-board was a blooming young damsel, who, after the custom of those days,
-had agreed with the shipmaster to be bound out at service in the colonies
-in payment of her passage across the Atlantic. She was bright and witty,
-with a mind of a rough but noble cast. During the passage over a fellow-passenger
-jocosely asked her what she expected to do when she arrived in
-the colonies. “Do?” answered she with true Celtic wit, “why raise governors
-for thim.” Sullivan saw the girl as she landed, and struck with her
-beauty, made a bargain with the captain, paying her passage in shingles.
-He wooed and won her, and the Irish girl entered upon her initiatory steps
-to make good her declaration. Immediately after his marriage (1735) Mr.
-Sullivan settled on a farm in Berwick and began clearing it for the plow.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Following this is a statement that John was the oldest son of this
-couple, and a lot more of fictitiously interesting biography of the
-general. Now what are the facts?</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Master Sullivan landed in York, Me., from Limerick, Ireland, in
-the winter of 1723; he hadn’t a cent to pay the captain for his passage
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_71'>71</span>across the Atlantic. After working at farming a week or so he
-got weary of it, and applied to Rev. Dr. Moody, pastor of Scotland
-parish, to help him. He made his application in a letter written in
-seven languages, so the doctor might know he was an educated
-man. The worthy doctor was favorably impressed, and loaned him
-the money to pay his fare and then helped him to a school in Dover.
-May 20, 1723,<a id='r11' /><a href='#f11' class='c007'><sup>[11]</sup></a> Master “Sullefund” was chosen one of the two
-teachers of the town of Dover, at £30 salary per year. Just where
-he kept that school is not stated in the record, but it undoubtedly
-was in that part of Dover then called the “Summer parish,” from
-the fact that meetings were held in a barn there during the summer
-and fall by Parson Cushing, then pastor of the First parish.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>These summer meetings were held to accommodate the people
-who objected to walking or riding five or six miles to attend meetings
-at Cochecho, where now is the center of the city of Dover. As
-this is the place where Master Sullivan spent thirty years of his life,
-I may as well explain further in regard to this name, Somersworth,
-which is unique in the history of towns and cities in the United
-States, no other place in the country having that name.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The people had become familiar to having the village called the
-“Summer parish,” so in 1730, when this district was separated from
-the First parish as a distinct parish, it was the most natural thing
-for the leaders, who were educated men, to retain the familiar name,
-and they did it by changing “parish” to “worth,” and they had
-“Summersworth.” The word “worth” is the old English termination
-for names of places, so Summer parish and Summersworth
-mean precisely the same thing. You will notice that the present
-spelling is Somersworth.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The ancient spelling of the parish was Summersworth, and when
-the citizens petitioned for an act of incorporation as a town they
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_72'>72</span>asked to have it spelled that way, but when they got their charter
-they found that the clerk of the General Court, or somebody else,
-had changed “Sum” to “Som,” so they let it go that way. This
-change in orthography made no change in the meaning of the name.
-According to Dr. Samuel Johnson, whose large dictionary was published
-in 1755, the year after this town was chartered, “Sumer” is
-Saxon and “Somer” is Dutch for the English word “Summer.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Before Summersworth was made a separate parish the town of
-Dover looked after the schools; but after it became a parish the
-people managed their own schools by votes in parish meetings.
-July 2, 1734, the parish “Voted that Hercules Mooney be the schoolmaster
-here for one month (viz) from July 4<sup>th</sup> to Aug<sup>t</sup> 4<sup>th</sup>, 1734 next
-ensuing at three pounds fifteen shillings per month.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>“Voted that Capt. Thomas Wallingford and Mr. Philip Stackpole
-be the men that Joyn with the Selectmen at the months end above to
-agree with Mr. Mooney or any other suitable person to keep school
-in this Parish for the Residue of this Sumer and autum.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In 1735 it was “Voted that Mr. Jon<sup>o</sup> Scrugham be school master
-for one month in this Parish at the Descression of the Selectmen.”
-Also, “Voted that there be thirty pounds raised to Defray the
-Charge of a school this sumer and autum.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In 1737 the parish “Voted sixty pounds for a school master.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>“Voted that Mr. John Sullivan be the schoolmaster for the ensuing
-year.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>“Voted that John Sullivan to sweep and take care of ye meeting
-house &amp; to have thirty shillings.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>From that date to 1752 no schoolmaster is named, but from year
-to year the parish would vote to have a school and leave the matter
-with the selectmen to hire a teacher. As they had voted Master
-Sullivan in once, it was taken for granted that he would be the
-teacher. April 6, 1752, “Voted Mr. Joseph Tate twenty three
-pounds old tenor to keep ye Parish School one month.” The
-record does not show that Master Sullivan kept the parish school
-after Mr. Tate began work there.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Master Sullivan was married to Margery Browne in 1735. Soon
-after that he commenced to sign his name as witness to documents
-as “John Sullivan of Summersworth.” Their third child, John, was
-born in 1740. In 1787, when he was the Federalist candidate for
-governor, then called president, his opponents charged him as guilty
-of being born in Berwick, Me., hence was not eligible for the office.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_73'>73</span>The <cite>New Hampshire Gazette</cite>, March 10, 1787, replied to this as
-follows:</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>Surely the collector of intelligence has not consulted all the people in this
-state, or he would have found out that President Sullivan was born in Somersworth,
-in the county of Strafford.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In the summer of 1743 Master Sullivan and his wife had a falling
-out, and he went off to Boston to remain till her temper cooled.
-She repented of her cruel treatment, and published the following
-advertisement in the Boston <cite>Evening Post</cite>, July 25, 1743, from which
-I copied it in the Boston Public Library. It shows conclusively that
-Summersworth was Master Sullivan’s home in 1743:</p>
-
-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c020'>
- <div><span class='sc'>Advertisement.</span></div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
- <div class='linegroup'>
- <div class='group'>
- <div class='line'><span class='sc'>My Dear and Loving Husband</span>:</div>
- </div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c012'>Your abrupt departure from me, and forsaking of me your wife and tender
-babes, which I now humbly acknowledge and confess, I was greatly if not
-wholly the cause by my too rash and unadvised speech and behaviour
-towards you; for which I now in this public manner humbly ask your forgiveness,
-and hereby promise upon your return to amend and reform and by
-my future loving and obedient carriage toward you, endeavor to make an
-atonement for my past evil deeds, and manifest to you and to the whole
-world, that I can become a new woman, and will prove to you a loving,
-dutiful and tender wife.</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>If you do not regard what I have above written, I pray you harken to
-what your pupil, Joshua Gilpatrick, hath below sent you, as also the
-lamentations and cries of your poor children, especially the eldest (Benjamin)
-who though but seven years old, all rational people really conclude
-that unless you speedily return will end in his death; and the moans of
-your other children (Daniel and John) are enough to affect any human
-heart.</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>And why, my dear husband, should a few angry and unkind words from
-an angry and foolish wife [for which I am now paying full dear, having
-neither eat, drank nor slept in quiet, and am already reduced almost to a
-skeleton, that unless you favor me with your company will bereave me of
-my life] make you thus forsake me and your children? How can you thus,
-for so slender a cause as a few rash words from a simple and weak woman,
-cause you to part from your tender babes, who are your own flesh and
-blood? Pray meditate on what I now send and reprieve your poor wife
-and eldest son, who take your departure so heavily, from a lingering though
-certain death, by your coming home to them again, as speedily as you can,
-where you shall be kindly received, and in a most submissive manner by
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_74'>74</span>your wife who is ready at your desire to lay herself at your feet for her past
-miscarriage, and am with my and your children’s kind love to you, your
-loving wife.</p>
-
-<div class='lg-container-r c013'>
- <div class='linegroup'>
- <div class='group'>
- <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Margery Sullivan.</span></div>
- </div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<div class='lg-container-l c013'>
- <div class='linegroup'>
- <div class='group'>
- <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Summersworth, New Hampshire</span>, July 11, 1743.</div>
- </div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c014'>The Hon. Thomas Wallingford, who resided in Summersworth
-and lived near Master Sullivan, was captain of the company of
-militia in that parish in 1746, and probably several years before.
-The late Rev. Dr. A. H. Quint had the muster roll of this company,
-and I presume his widow now has it. Dr. Quint published it in his
-<cite>Historical Memoranda</cite>, and it can be found on page 377 of the book
-of this memoranda that I recently published. In this list of soldiers
-appears Master Sullivan’s name, although the clerk of the company
-spells it “John Sullevant.” Of course he was an old resident there,
-or he would not have been enrolled as a soldier.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Another witness, and I leave this part of my subject. Mr.
-Michael Reade of Dover was born in the same year as General
-Sullivan and lived to be more than eighty years old. He went to
-school to Master Sullivan and knew him and the boys well, hence,
-of course, knew where they lived. This Michael Reade’s son
-Michael was born in 1773, and lived to be more than eighty years
-old. He knew Master Sullivan, saw him many times, and his father
-told him much about the old master; among other things, that he
-lived in Summersworth many years before he removed to Berwick
-and united farming with school teaching. The younger Michael
-Reade was living when Dr. Quint wrote much of his <cite>Historical
-Memoranda</cite>, and furnished the doctor many facts about many topics,
-and one was that his father always said General Sullivan and his
-brothers were born in Summersworth.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>I will give a brief summary of the points: May 20, 1723, the town
-of Dover voted to hire him to teach school one year and give him
-£30. Jan. 10, 1737, he wrote and witnessed a deed, Tebbets to
-Tebbets, and signed as of Summersworth. Dec. 13, 1737, the parish
-of Summersworth voted to hire him to keep school one year, and
-also sweep the meeting-house. The <cite>New Hampshire Gazette</cite> says
-he lived in Summersworth when his son John was born in 1740.
-His wife Margery says their home was in Summersworth when she
-advertised for him to come home in 1743. Capt. Thomas Wallingford
-says he was a citizen of Summersworth in 1746. And last, but
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_75'>75</span>not least, Michael Reade told Dr. Quint the boys were all born in
-Summersworth.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>On the other hand, there is nothing in the Berwick records, parish
-or town, which even mentions Master Sullivan before 1753. Aug. 12
-of that year he bought his farm in Berwick of Samuel Lord; and
-after that his name frequently appears.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Master Sullivan and his wife Margery were a remarkable couple.
-They are two of the interesting characters in Sarah Orne Jewett’s
-story, <cite>The Tory Lover</cite>, recently published, which, of course, you have
-all read, or will read.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Master Sullivan was born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1691, during
-the siege of the city by King William’s forces. His wife, Margery
-Browne, was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1714. In 1723 they both set
-sail from Limerick in the same ship for New England. The captain
-intended to land at Newburyport, but owing to stress of weather he
-was compelled to land at York Harbor, Me. In his old age, when
-he and his wife were calling at a neighbor’s, they got to talking
-about his younger days, and he told the following story, which was
-recorded by the person who heard it. Master Sullivan said, in the
-presence of his wife:</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>I sailed from Limerick, Ireland, for New England in 1723; owing to
-stress of weather the vessel was obliged to land at York, Maine. On the
-voyage my attention was called to a pretty girl of nine or ten years, Margery
-Browne, who afterwards became my wife. As my mother had absolutely
-refused to furnish me the means for paying transportation, and I had
-not means otherwise, I was obliged to enter into an agreement with the
-captain to earn the money for my passage.</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>After I landed at York, for a while I lived on the McIntire farm in Scotland
-parish. Unaccustomed to farm labor, and growing weary of manual
-occupation, I applied to Rev. Dr. Moody, pastor of the parish, for assistance.
-I made my application in a letter written in seven languages, so that
-he might see I was a scholar. He became interested in my behalf, and
-being conversant with my ability to teach he loaned me the money with
-which to pay the captain the amount I owed for my passage. Thus set free
-from the McIntires, I was assisted to open a school and earn money to
-repay Dr. Moody.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Later in life, when he was past fourscore years old, he made
-another statement in regard to himself, at the request of his daughter-in-law,
-wife of General Sullivan. He wrote it with his own hand
-and gave it to the general’s wife. She gave it to her daughter, wife
-of Judge Steele; from Mrs. Steele it passed to her son and grandson;
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_76'>76</span>by the latter it was given to Thomas Coffin Amory, who published
-it in his biography of Gov. James Sullivan. It is as follows:</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>I am the son of Major Philip O’Sullivan of Ardea, in county of Kerry, Ireland.
-His father was Owen O’Sullivan, original descendant from the second
-son of Daniel O’Sullivan, called lord of Bearehaven. His father married
-Mary, daughter of Col. Owen McSweeney of Musgrey, and sister of Capt.
-Edmund McSweeney, a man noted for his anecdotes and witty sayings.</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>I have heard that my grandfather had four countesses for his mother and
-grandmothers. How true this is, or who they were, I know not. My father
-died of an ulcer raised in his breast, occasioned by a wound he received in
-France in a duel with a French officer. My ancestors were short lived; they
-either died in their bloom or went out of the country. I never heard that
-any of the mankind arrived at sixty, and I do not remember but one alive
-when I left home.</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>My mother’s name was Joan McCarthy, daughter of Dermod McCarthy of
-Killoween. She had three brothers and one sister. Her mother’s name I
-forget, but she was daughter of McCarthy Reagh of Carbery. Her oldest
-brother, Col. Florence, alias McFinnen, and his two brothers, Capt. Charles
-and Capt. Owen, went in defense of the nation against Orange. Owen was
-killed in a battle at Aughrim. Florence had a son, who retains the title of
-McFinnen. I can just remember Charles. He had a charge in his face at
-the siege of Cork. He left two sons, Derby<a id='r12' /><a href='#f12' class='c007'><sup>[12]</sup></a> and Owen. Derby married
-with Ellena O’Sullivan of the Sullivans of Banane. His brother married
-Honora Mahoney of Dromore. My mother’s sister was married to Dermod,
-eldest son of Daniel O’Sullivan, lord of Dunkerron. Her son Cornelius,
-as I understand, was with the Pretender (Charles Edward) in Scotland
-in 1745.</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>This is all that I can say about my origin, but shall conclude with a Latin
-sentence:</p>
-
-<div class='lg-container-b c019'>
- <div class='linegroup'>
- <div class='group'>
- <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Si Adam sit pater cunctorum, mater et Eva;</span></div>
- <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Cur non sunt homines nobilitate pares?</span></div>
- <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Non pater aut mater dant nobis nobilitatem,</span></div>
- <div class='line'><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Sed moribus et vita nobilitatur homo.</span></div>
- </div>
- <div class='group'>
- <div class='line in48'>J. S.</div>
- </div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c014'>All this condensed into a paragraph is that in Master Sullivan’s
-veins flowed the blood of the Norman Butlers and Fitzgeralds who
-went over from England to Ireland, when the Irish were first conquered
-by the English, and in time they became more Irish than the
-original race; that is, they fought the English government more
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_77'>77</span>fiercely than the Irish themselves did. Master Sullivan’s sons won
-in America what many generations of their brave ancestors had
-failed to win in Ireland.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>As has already been stated, Master Sullivan was born in Limerick
-during the siege in 1691. Limerick, however, was not captured; a
-truce took place, and a treaty was formed. This treaty did not last
-long, and a large number of Irish were compelled to take refuge in
-France. Among these were Maj. Philip O’Sullivan and his family.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>This family remained in France several years. Major Sullivan
-died there, as has been stated; his wife and children remained till
-peace reigned in Ireland to the extent that she was allowed to return
-and take possession of her large estates. While in France she carefully
-educated her son John, and, unwittingly, prepared him to be the
-future schoolmaster of New Hampshire. It was there that Master
-Sullivan learned his French so thoroughly that when he was past
-ninety years of age he wrote a letter in excellent French to his son,
-the general.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>When his mother returned to Ireland her son was a young man,
-and I suppose passed his time as other young Irishmen did who were
-in the front rank of society in the city of Limerick. At length a difference
-of opinion arose between Madam O’Sullivan and her son; he
-fell in love with a young woman, who probably could not tell who her
-grandmother was. This displeased his mother very much. Madam
-was very haughty and aristocratic; she was proud of her ancestry and
-of her son’s ancestry. She could not endure the thought of his marrying
-a girl of low ancestry; she opposed the match.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>I suppose that made Master Sullivan’s love burn more fiercely.
-After the affair had drifted along quite a while Madam forbid her
-son, peremptorily, to have anything more to do with the girl, and
-gave him two weeks in which to break the engagement; if he did not
-do it inside of that time, she would disinherit him. Per contra, Master
-Sullivan told his mother he would give <em>her</em> two weeks in which to
-consent to the marriage; if she did not consent inside of that time,
-he would leave Ireland forever, and neither she or the girl should
-ever hear more of him. They were both of the same grit; neither
-would yield, and the result was he sailed for America and in due
-time landed in York, Me. But the thought of that girl he had left
-behind him in Ireland haunted him for many years, and it was not till
-he was forty-four years old that he again entertained the thought of
-marriage. His mother afterwards repented of her stern act and
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_78'>78</span>made search for years for her runaway son, but she never found any
-trace of him.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Hamlet says in the great drama that bears his name:</p>
-
-<div class='lg-container-b c019'>
- <div class='linegroup'>
- <div class='group'>
- <div class='line in26'>“Rashly,</div>
- <div class='line'>And praised be rashness for it, let us know</div>
- <div class='line'>Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well,</div>
- <div class='line'>When our deep plots do pall; and that should teach us</div>
- <div class='line'>There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,</div>
- <div class='line'>Rough hew them how we will.”</div>
- </div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c014'>Suppose Master Sullivan had obeyed his mother’s wishes and
-remained in Ireland, or suppose Providence had not concealed him
-from his mother’s search after she repented of her rash act, and he
-had been found and induced to return to Ireland, what a difference
-there would have been in the management of affairs and the history
-of New Hampshire.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Margery Browne was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1714; she died in
-Berwick, Me., in 1801. Nothing is known of her ancestry, but the
-name is essentially English, hence we may conclude that her parents,
-or their ancestors, crossed over from England and settled in Ireland.
-She came to this country in the same ship with Master Sullivan; she
-was nine years old and he was thirty-two; they never had met before
-boarding the ship. Why a girl of nine years should start on such a
-voyage alone is a mystery that will never be solved.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Her parents may have started with her and died on the way, or she
-may have taken a freak and stowed herself away among the freight
-and kept concealed till the ship was well at sea. Whatever may
-have been the cause of departure, she had no money to pay her passage,
-so the captain had to sell her service at auction in Portsmouth
-to get his pay. The tradition is that she was so young and so small
-that nobody would bid for her services. At last Master Sullivan
-consented to raise the sum the captain wanted for her passage. It
-is said that he finally paid it in shingles, which he cut himself in the
-forest and carried to Portsmouth in a boat.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>It is not known where she spent the twelve years from 1723 to
-1735, but probably in York, as a house girl on some farm. Master
-Sullivan does not appear to have taken any interest in her till a short
-time previous to their marriage, when he heard that the young men
-of York were falling in love with her and one had gone so far as to
-propose. He went over from Somersworth to York to see about it.
-He found a keen-witted, handsome and attractive young woman; the
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_79'>79</span>thought of the girl he had left in Ireland twelve years ago began to
-fade from his mind. She was equally impressed with his fine appearance;
-the result was she told the other young men they need not call
-any more. Master Sullivan and Margery Browne were married soon
-after.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>She is described by those who saw her in the prime of womanhood
-as short of stature, beautiful in form, face and manners. She was a
-great worker, quick tempered, and quick to repent of what she did
-wrong in her madness. Her tongue was equal to her temper. If
-tradition can be relied on, she could have given Xantippe several
-points to start with and then have won easily in a scolding match,
-although Socrates’ wife has the standard reputation of being the
-greatest scold the human race has yet produced. Margery Sullivan
-did not scold all the time; it happened occasionally, like volcanic
-eruption, when she could not hold in any longer.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Governor Samuel Wells of Maine wrote to a friend as follows about
-his great-grandmother:</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>Master Sullivan’s wife was as well known as he was, and when reference
-was made to her distinguished sons <em>she</em> was more frequently alluded to. She
-has been uniformly represented as a woman of considerable native strength
-of mind, yet entirely uncultivated, having the strong passions common to
-her country women, of which some are good and some are bad, wholly unsubdued
-by habit. These marked traits of character show a wider contrast
-between her and her two distinguished sons than between them and their
-father, and furnish a theme for remark, with anecdotes not a few, brought up
-whenever allusion was made to the family. That she was a masculine, energetic
-woman, with the resolution of a man, there is no doubt. That she
-performed out-door labor in the field, suitable only to men, in order that her
-husband might not be diverted from his occupation of teaching, was recently
-told me as coming from herself, in the presence of my informant, one of the
-few who now (1855) survive to remember her.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Attorney-General John Sullivan of Exeter gave the following
-description of his great-grandfather, Master Sullivan. He says:</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>I have been told he was a tall, spare man, very mild and gentle, thoughtful
-and studious, an excellent scholar, but averse to bodily exercise. He
-was exclusively a teacher.</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>An aged lady, who remembered seeing him when he was more than a
-century old, told me her recollection of him, as she saw him at his house
-one day, was that of a tall, venerable old man in a dressing gown, seated at
-a table reading a Bible; he wore his hair long on his shoulders.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_80'>80</span>From what his great-grandson says, and from what I gather from
-other sources, I draw the conclusion that Master Sullivan was a tall,
-fine-looking man, who had a lofty and fine spirit. He had an excellent
-education in his youth, which he enlarged and improved in his
-later years, making him one of the best scholars in New England in
-the eighteenth century. He evidently was not satisfied with his lot
-in life, but never complained. The magnificent success of his sons
-was the source of great pleasure to him in his old age. He probably
-was the teacher of more men who took a distinguished part in the
-Revolution than any other one teacher in New England, and in that
-way he exercised a powerful influence in shaping the turn of events
-in that great contest.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Master Sullivan died the first of June, 1796, aged 105 years; his
-remains were interred in a field on the hillside, about 50 rods from
-where his house stood in Berwick. His wife died in 1801, and was
-interred at the same spot. Soon after his death, Gov. James Sullivan
-had a stone, with suitable inscription, erected there; some years
-later their great-grandson, Governor Wells of Maine, had the spot
-enclosed with a substantial iron fence. Thus it remained till October,
-1877, when Mr. Ricker, the present owner of the land, got permission
-to remove the remains to the Sullivan cemetery in Durham,
-as he wanted to run a new street through his land directly over the
-grave.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The head of the old grave is now marked by a cherry tree, which
-stands by the sidewalk. When Mr. Ricker and Mr. Stillings, who
-lives near there, opened the grave, they found the skull perfect, also
-the hair and some of the large bones of Master Sullivan; over the
-forehead a root of the cherry tree had grown so that it half encircled
-the skull, and had to be cut before the bones could be removed.
-The skull was very large, with a high forehead, and the hair was
-long and perfect, being a dark brown mixed with slight sprinkle of
-gray. The remains had been interred there 81 years.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>When Master Sullivan died, some one, presumably his pastor,
-Rev. Matthew Merriam, wrote an obituary of him, which was published
-in a Portsmouth paper, <cite>The Oracle of the Day</cite>. His death
-occurred on Saturday, June 3, 1796, and the article is in the publication
-of the week following.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The article is quite long, hence I will give only the substance of
-it here. The writer says he was extraordinary in his acquirements
-as a student, his brilliancy of mind, his power as a teacher, and in
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_81'>81</span>his influence over the community in which he lived. He taught
-school till he was 90 years old and then retired, lamenting he could
-no longer be useful to his fellow-men. He still continued his studies,
-reading his Bible, his Homer, and his Horace with as keen a
-relish as he did a half century before. He wrote a good hand till
-he was 102 years old; he continued his reading till he was 104,
-when his eyesight failed, but his mental powers remained perfect till
-seven days before his death, when his speech failed, but he seemed
-to understand what was said to him till the last hour; when he closed
-his eyes as in sleep, and his noble soul took its flight.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>His health had been remarkably good throughout his long life of
-more than a century; he was a stranger to pain till a few months
-before death, when he became subject to cramps and nervous troubles
-which caused him great distress.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>He was active in out-of-door exercise after he had passed the century
-mark; he would yoke and unyoke his oxen, drive them to the
-blacksmith shop and get them shod, and work them about the farm;
-he was able to cut wood for his household fires, and do <em>chores</em> of
-various sort.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Thus Master Sullivan appeared to his pastor, who had known
-him for forty years and more. Thus I deposit in the archives of the
-New Hampshire Historical Society my pen picture of New Hampshire’s
-grandest old schoolmaster.</p>
-
-<div class='chapter'>
- <span class='pageno' id='Page_82'>82</span>
- <h2 class='c004'>MARTIN MURPHY, SR., AN IRISH PIONEER OF CALIFORNIA.<a id='r13' /><a href='#f13' class='c007'><sup>[13]</sup></a></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c006'>
- <div><span class='small'>BY MISS MARCELLA A. FITZGERALD.</span></div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<div class='lg-container-b c019'>
- <div class='linegroup'>
- <div class='group'>
- <div class='line'>Pioneer! name that like a Conjurer summons</div>
- <div class='line'>All the past before our eyes,</div>
- <div class='line'>Toils, struggles, want and hardships,</div>
- <div class='line'>Perils, dangers, sacrifice.</div>
- </div>
- <div class='group'>
- <div class='line in28'>—<em>Annie Fitzgerald.</em></div>
- </div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c005'>Martin Murphy, Sr., is held in loving reverence as an early pioneer
-of California. A native of Ireland, nurtured on Wexford’s historic
-soil, he imbibed a love for his native land which was as the breath
-of his life. Her joys, her sorrows, her glories, were his.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In his boyhood he witnessed the gallant struggle of “’98,” when
-kindred and friends perished in the vain effort to cast off the English
-yoke, and beheld the cruel persecution and bloodshed that followed
-the suppression of the Rebellion, scenes which left their impression
-indelibly impressed upon his heart. No distance could alienate him
-from, no pleasure cause him to forget, the “Niobe of Nations.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Years afterwards, when a dweller on the Pacific Coast, at a time
-when intercourse with the outer world was difficult, and mails scarce
-more than semi-annual, a tourist who shared the hospitality of his
-home wrote thus:</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Eager to hear news of Ireland, he listened as I told him the sad story of
-famine and death which had desolated his native land; tear-dimmed eyes
-and quivering lips told his deep emotion. When I ceased, the venerable
-patriarch bowed his head, murmuring, “O my unhappy Country! will your
-suffering and sorrow never end.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>But if he loved Ireland much, he loved freedom with the devotion
-of his race, and longed for a clime where right, not might, held sway.
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_83'>83</span>The Canadian colonies offered an opportunity to settlers of obtaining
-homes by purchase, homes free from the tyranny of a landlord’s
-whim, and thither Mr. Murphy resolved to emigrate. Disposing of
-his leasehold, whose tenure extended for the term of his life, he
-embarked for the New World, reaching Quebec in 1820.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>He purchased land in the township of Frampton, 30 miles from
-the quaint old city which has since given its name to the province.
-“It was the forest primeval,” but he bravely set to work at the labor
-incidental to the building up of a home in the northern wilderness,
-the clearing of the land of its dense growth of timber before the
-plow could penetrate its rich virgin soil.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The long, cold winters with their mountainous snowdrifts and cutting
-blasts, and the countless inconveniences of frontier life to which
-he and his gentle wife were so unaccustomed, were borne with cheerful
-Christian patience. Soon many of his old friends and neighbors
-joined him, and a thriving Irish settlement grew up around him.
-His home was the center to which all new comers self-exiled from
-Erin turned while seeking a haven for themselves. There they found
-the whole-souled welcome of truly hospitable hearts, and kindly care
-when overtaken by sickness.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Prior to the erection of a church and the formation of a parish,
-zealous priests at his request visited the settlement to celebrate
-Mass, administer the sacraments and instruct the children, thus
-keeping aglow the light of Faith in the hearts of the exiles.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>But the desire for more perfect freedom remained in Mr. Murphy’s
-heart, and although past the golden milestone of life he prepared to
-seek a new country. In 1840 he bade farewell to his friends, and
-taking with him his wife and his unmarried children, set out upon
-his westward journey to Missouri. He made his home in Holt
-County, then known as the Platte Purchase, since divided into Holt
-and Atchison counties.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>There he was joined later by his sons Martin and James with
-their families, and his daughter Mary, Mrs. James Miller, with her
-husband and babes. His eldest daughter, Margaret, Mrs. Thomas
-Kell, with her husband and family, came subsequently from Upper
-Canada, whither they had emigrated in 1838.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Many of those who had cast their lot with him in Canada followed
-him to Missouri, and formed the prosperous settlement known as
-Irish Grove. Among these were the Sullivans, Enrights, Corcorans,
-Jordans, Walshes and Whites, names since familiar as pioneers of
-California.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_84'>84</span>The soil was fertile, the climate mild and pleasant, but unfortunately
-the malarial fevers common to the Mississippi and its tributaries
-prevailed, and the colonists suffered much from sickness. Mrs.
-Murphy succumbed to the dread disease, and on June 9, 1841,
-yielded her pure soul to the hands of her Creator. A model wife, a
-loving mother, a devoted friend, an ideal Christian woman, pious
-and charitable in word and deed, of her it may be truly said:</p>
-
-<div class='lg-container-b c019'>
- <div class='linegroup'>
- <div class='group'>
- <div class='line'>None knew her but to love her,</div>
- <div class='line'>None named her but to praise.</div>
- </div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c014'>A Catholic missionary who visited the colony told Mr. Murphy of
-California, a land of health, where almost endless summer reigned,
-under whose cloudless skies fertile valleys smiled unfurrowed by the
-plow, and thither he resolved to direct his course.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Disposing of his lands, he procured the outfit required for such a
-long and dangerous journey, and bearing with him a passport from
-Governor Reynolds of Missouri, assuring him and his the protection
-due American citizens, he once more turned his face toward the
-setting sun.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The party of devoted pilgrims started on their westward course
-May 6, 1844, reaching California in November of the same year.
-The names of the members of the company are given as follows:</p>
-
-<ul class='index'>
- <li class='c009'>Martin Murphy, Sr.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Miss Helen Murphy.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Bernard Murphy.</li>
- <li class='c009'>John Marion Murphy.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Daniel Murphy.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Martin Murphy, Jr., wife and four children.</li>
- <li class='c009'>James Murphy, wife and one child.</li>
- <li class='c009'>James Miller, wife and four children.</li>
- <li class='c009'>John Sullivan.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Miss Mary Sullivan.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Michael Sullivan.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Robert Sullivan.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dr. Townsend and wife.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Moses Shallenberger.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Allen N. Montgomery and wife.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Joseph Batton.</li>
- <li class='c009'>John Luffumbo.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Vincent Calvin.</li>
- <li class='c009'>John R. Jackson.</li>
- <li class='c009'>J. E. Foster.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Edward Bray.</li>
- <li class='c009'>David Strickien.</li>
- <li class='c009'>William Bragg.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Vincent Snelling.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Daniel Snelling.</li>
- <li class='c009'>John Thorp.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Fielden M. Thorp.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Elvan A. Thorp.</li>
- <li class='c009'>David Johnson.</li>
- <li class='c009'>William Case.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Daniel R. Kinsey.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Joshua Shaw.</li>
- <li class='c009'>A. C. R. Shaw.</li>
- <li class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_85'>85</span>Thomas M. Vance.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Jacob Hammer.</li>
- <li class='c009'>William Clemmons.</li>
- <li class='c009'>John Eldridge.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Ben. Q. Tucker.</li>
- <li class='c009'>John Owen.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Harmon Higgins.</li>
- <li class='c009'>William Higgins.</li>
- <li class='c009'>William Prattier.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Theodore Prattier.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Britain Greenwood.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Caleb Greenwood.</li>
- <li class='c009'>John Greenwood.</li>
- <li class='c009'>William Martin.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Patrick Martin.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dennis Martin.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Matthias Harbin.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Daniel Durbin.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mr. Hitchcock and family.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mrs. Patterson and family.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Oliver Magnent.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Francis Magnent, and</li>
- <li class='c009'>Captain Stephens, who had command of the expedition.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p class='c014'>“Captain Stephens was a native of North Carolina, reared in
-Georgia, a trapper for 28 years, and was accustomed to frontier
-life. He had no trail to guide him across the plains and started
-without even a pocket compass, but no train that traversed the continent
-to the Pacific was more blessed, freer from disaster, or so safe
-from savage attacks.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The toils and dangers of the way have been told so often that it
-is needless to repeat them here. That they were many we know;
-deep rivers had to be forded, roads made through almost impassable
-mountain fastnesses, vigilant watch kept to protect the train and
-its belongings from prowling savages and predatory animals.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>At Fort Hall, the train separated, those whose destination was the
-Northwest taking the Oregon trail; Mr. Murphy, his family and
-friends continuing to California. The difficulties of the route were
-augmented by the lateness of the season. Snow had fallen when
-they reached the Yuba, and further progress with wagons was impossible.
-Cabins for the accommodation of the families were erected,
-and there a number of the emigrants remained until March, 1845.
-Among those who wintered there were James Miller and family and
-Martin Murphy, Jr., and family.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Mr. Murphy, his daughter Helen, his sons Daniel, John M., Bernard
-D., James, the latter’s wife and child, Dr. Townsend and wife,
-with others of the party, proceeded on horseback to Sutter’s Fort,
-where they were hospitably received by that grand old pioneer,
-J. A. Sutter.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>When Mr. Murphy reached California he found the country in a
-state of rebellion. “The native Californians had revolted against
-Mexican rule, seized the government arms and ammunition stored
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_86'>86</span>at the Mission of San Juan Bautista and marched upon the capital.
-The Mexican military force in the country was small and Governor
-Micheltorena, fearing defeat, called for aid upon John A. Sutter,
-who had been a foreign resident in the country since 1839. Sutter
-responded, and with one hundred mounted men, mostly foreigners,
-hastened to the rescue.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Mr. Murphy and his sons were of the number who journeyed
-southward, “making haste slowly” ’neath winter’s sun and showers
-through the fairest land on which the light of Heaven shone. They
-reached Los Angeles late in January or early in February, 1845.
-After the battle of Chauvenga and the overthrow of the Mexican
-administration, Mr. Murphy and his sons returned to Santa Clara
-valley. Here he found the glorious realization of his hopes in a soil
-of rare fertility and a climate equable and healthy, and here he made
-his home.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>He purchased the Rancho Ojo de Agua de la Coche, Rancho San
-Francisco de las Llagas, Rancho de las Uvas, that portion of the
-San Ysidro ranch now known as Ba Polka, and one-sixteenth of the
-Rancho de Las Animas, a stretch of country extending from mountain
-top to mountain top east and west, and from the vicinity of Madrone
-station in the North to the present town of Gilroy in the South.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>His home at the Ojo de Agua de la Coche was well known by all
-who traveled the Camina Real from Monterey to San Francisco,
-and its generous hospitality was shared by the distinguished men of
-all nations which held the balance of power during the formative
-period of our state’s existence, and who with decisive energy moulded
-its chaotic elements into the perfect whole which has made California
-the wonder of an admiring world.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Clergymen, distinguished soldiers, grave statesmen, and authors
-whose names are honored, loved to linger there. Bayard Taylor
-describing a ride made in company with Mr. Murphy to the summit
-of El Toro, the lofty peak near his home, draws a vivid picture of
-the wondrous beauty of hill and valley in his exquisite word painting.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In 1850, Helen Murphy became the wife of Capt. Charles W.
-Weber of Stockton, John M. Murphy married Virginia E. Backenstoe
-Reed, and in 1851 Daniel wedded Mary C. Fisher. In this year
-also Bernard, having revisited Canada, there married Catherine
-O’Toole. On his return to California he was accompanied by his
-sister, Mrs. Johanna Fitzgerald, who with her children came at her
-father’s request to share his loving care, she being recently widowed.
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_87'>87</span>Mrs. Kell had reached the Pacific in 1846, and the family were
-again citizens of one land.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>April 11, 1853, Bernard, while en route to San Francisco, was
-killed by the explosion of the boiler of the steamer <em>Jenny Lind</em>, plying
-between Alviso and the city. With him was his nephew,
-Thomas Kell, who shared his sad fate.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In 1854, Mr. Murphy erected a commodious chapel on the San
-Martin ranch, that the Catholic families settled in the neighborhood
-might enjoy the consolation of religious instruction. It was visited
-monthly by the pastor of St. Joseph’s Church, San José, until 1856,
-when it was placed in charge of the pastor of San Juan Bautista, the
-Rev. Francis Mora, who later became bishop of Monterey and Los
-Angeles. In 1864, a resident pastor, Rev. Thomas Hudson, was
-appointed and a church erected in the town of Gilroy. St. Martin’s
-chapel was destroyed by an incendiary fire April 2, 1879.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>To the last, Mr. Murphy never faltered in the performance of
-life’s daily duties. He personally attended to business, and his real
-estate in city and country benefitted by his immediate supervision.
-He saw to the details of the wearying lawsuits entailed in the quieting
-of land titles, making long journeys to distant parts of the state,
-paying with scrupulous exactness every claim, lest the shadow of
-wrong might rest upon him.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Notwithstanding his advanced age he never failed to keep the fast
-of Lent, and his charity to the poor was bounded only by his ability
-to help them. Food and shelter were never refused an applicant.
-He was his own almoner and broke his bread with the needy and
-the orphan. He shrank from public applause and press notoriety,
-and loved the quiet of peaceful country surroundings. His life in
-word and deed inculcated strict obedience to the commands of God,
-and a faithful compliance with the laws of the land.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>On March 16, 1865, Mr. Murphy laid down the burden of life.
-He went peacefully to rest, “like one who wraps the drapery of his
-couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams.” Supported by
-the consolations of religion, surrounded by his children, the venerable
-pioneer passed away, sincerely mourned by all. I quote here a
-few lines taken from the tribute to his memory offered by F. B. Murdock,
-a pioneer editor of California:</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>We have known Mr. Murphy personally and well for the last twelve
-years. He seemed to enjoy as good health, and look as young a few weeks
-before his death as when we first saw him twelve years ago. He was in
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_88'>88</span>many respects a remarkable man. He was always gentlemanly, always
-kind and considerate, with a countenance singularly mixed with an expression
-of gravity, gentleness and cheerfulness. We don’t think he had an
-enemy, we never heard of one; we never heard any one speak of him except
-in terms of high respect. Truthfulness, conscientiousness and natural
-goodness, in its broad sense charity, were prominent marks in his character.
-We never heard Martin Murphy, Sr., say an unkind word of a single being,
-living or dead—we have often heard him utter a word of excuse or apology,
-something to extenuate when others were condemning. Certainly that was
-a most beautiful Christian trait in his character, and it is not to be wondered
-at that such a man should live beloved and respected and die regretted.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>These sentiments voiced the feelings of the immense concourse
-that attended the solemn funeral rites at St. Joseph’s church, San
-José, heard the eloquent eulogy of the deceased pronounced by Rev.
-Father Kenny, S. J., and followed Mr. Murphy’s remains to their
-last resting place in the Catholic graveyard in Santa Clara.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>As a token of respect for Mr. Murphy, and that all who desired
-might attend the funeral, the County Court adjourned immediately
-upon opening on the 18th.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Realizing the wide influence of Mr. Murphy’s long years of gentle
-unostentatious virtue, it is not too much to say in closing this brief
-notice of his life, that “the world is better because he lived.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Mr. Murphy married early in life. His wife was Mary Foley,
-daughter of Daniel Foley of Enniscorthy, Ireland. Of Mr. and
-Mrs. Murphy’s children, Martin, James, Margaret, Johanna, Mary
-and Bernard were born in Ireland, Helen, John M. and Daniel in
-Canada.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Martin married Mary Bulger; died Oct. 20, 1884.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>James married Anne Martin; died Jan. 14, 1888.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Margaret married Thomas Kell; died Dec. 30, 1881.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Johanna married Patrick Fitzgerald; died Dec. 28, 1899.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Mary married James Miller; died Dec. 26, 1883.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Bernard married Catherine O’Toole; died April 11, 1853.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Helen married C. M. Weber; died April 11, 1895.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>John M. married V. E. B. Reed; died Feb. 17, 1892.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Daniel married Mary C. Fisher; died Oct. 22, 1882.</p>
-
-<div class='chapter'>
- <span class='pageno' id='Page_89'>89</span>
- <h2 class='c004'>HISTORICAL NOTES OF INTEREST.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c006'>
- <div><span class='small'>BY THOMAS HAMILTON MURRAY.</span></div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c005'>James Bourk, “captain of the brig <em>Neptune</em>,” is mentioned at Newport,
-R. I., 1773.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>William Welch, “from Ireland,” settled in Charlestown, R. I. He
-was born in 1700 and died in 1786.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Richard Field, “a native of Dublin, Ireland,” was long a resident
-of Newport, R. I., and died in 1769.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Thomas McCartee of Hartford, Conn., is mentioned in the “Lexington
-Alarm” list of that place, 1775.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>An Irishman, John Fitton, settled in Providence, R. I., about 1750.
-He was a merchant. He died in 1810.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Daniel Byrn was lieutenant in a regiment (1759) raised by act of
-the General Assembly of Rhode Island.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The records of Nantucket, Mass., contain the following entry:
-“Betty y<sup>e</sup> dau. of Denis Manning was born July y<sup>e</sup> 10, 1679.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>James Dailey is mentioned in the Revolutionary records as of the
-corps of Sappers and Miners; was at the siege of Yorktown.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The Chevalier Theobald Dillon was “colonel en second” of the
-Irish-French regiment of Dillon during the American Revolution.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Stephen Brady was of Col. Obadiah Johnson’s Connecticut regiment,
-1778. The regiment participated in the battle of Rhode
-Island.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Constant Maguire “of County Fermanagh,” Ireland, settled in
-Rhode Island prior to 1750, and became prominent in Warwick and
-East Greenwich.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In 1751–’52, Terence Donnelly was engaged by the town of Newport,
-R. I., as a schoolmaster. He later conducted a school of his
-own in that place.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_90'>90</span>The ship <em>Sally</em> arrived at Boston, Mass., in 1763, having been
-fifty-nine days on the voyage from Ireland. She was quarantined at
-Boston for smallpox.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>A privateer captain in the Revolution was William Malone. He
-is believed to have been of Newport, R. I. He commanded at one
-period <em>The Harbinger</em>.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>John Conley of Stratford, Conn., served in the second troop of
-Sheldon’s Continental Light Dragoons during the Revolution and is
-mentioned as a trumpeter.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>John Flynn of Woodstock, Conn., is mentioned in the Woodstock
-“Alarm List,” 1775. He is also mentioned as a trumpeter in Major
-Backus’ Light Horse, 1776.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Owen Neill of New London, Conn., sustained losses aggregating
-£91, 14s 6d by the ravages of the British at the time of the latter’s
-attack on New London, 1781.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Bridget Clifford came from Ireland, 1635, in the <em>Primrose</em> bound
-for Virginia. She was accompanied by two of her brothers. She
-died at Suffield, Conn., in 1695.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Peter Welsh was adjutant during the Revolution of Col. Frederick
-Weissenfels’ New York regiment of levies. He is also mentioned
-as quartermaster of the regiment.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Thomas Fitzgerald was a midshipman during the Revolution on
-the Continental frigate <em>Trumbull</em>. The latter was built in Connecticut
-under the authority of Congress.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Patrick Canny, a soldier of the Revolution, was serving at Horseneck,
-Conn., in 1782–’83. He is mentioned in Stiles’ <cite>History and
-Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Conn.</cite></p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Philip Mullen was fire master of Albany, N. Y., in 1755, and
-Philip Ryley was in charge of the town clock. (Hon. Franklin M.
-Danaher in <cite>Early Irish in Old Albany, N. Y.</cite>)</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>John McGinnis was a New York soldier of the Revolution. He
-served at one period in Bradt’s Rangers. Also in this corps were
-Edward Early, Richard Kain and Barney Kelley.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Luke Burns, a cordwainer, resided in Providence, R. I., and died
-in 1788. Jonathan Green, “living near the Mill-Bridge in Providence,”
-was appointed administrator of the estate.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_91'>91</span>Bryant O’Dougherty was in Salem, Mass., in 1683. At that period
-there were many Irish in Salem. (Eben Putnam in “Historical and
-Genealogical Notes and Queries,” <cite>Salem Observer</cite>.)</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>James Kasson, with his father and six brothers, came from Ireland
-in 1722 and landed at Boston, Mass. He later settled in Voluntown,
-Conn., removing to Woodbury, Conn., in 1742.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Armand O’Connor was one of the “capitaines en second” of the
-Irish-French regiment of Walsh during the American Revolution.
-He is referred to as the Chevalier Armand O’Connor.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Henry Paget, “an Irish gentleman much respected,” was admitted
-a freeman of Rhode Island, 1742. He wedded a daughter of Rev.
-John Checkley, rector of a church in Providence, R. I.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Thomas Ryan is mentioned in the Connecticut Revolutionary
-records as a drummer in Captain Brewster’s company, Colonel
-Huntington’s regiment (Seventeenth Continental), 1776.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>A Rhode Island merchantman, the <em>Abby</em>, Capt. John Donovan,
-was attacked in August, 1752, by a French warship. Captain Donovan
-met the attack in a spirited manner but was killed.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Maj. Matthew Donovan of the Ninth Virginia regiment during
-the Revolution died in the service, 1777. The state of Virginia
-allowed his heirs 6,893 acres. (See mention in Saffell.)</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Abbe Dowd, “Irlandais,” was a chaplain of the French warship
-<em>Le Jason</em> in the American Revolution. <em>Le Jason</em> was of the fleet of
-Count De Ternay, which was assisting the American cause.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In the Massachusetts force that rendezvoused on “Dedham Plain,”
-for the Narragansett campaign, 1675, was a soldier named Jeremiah
-Neal. He is mentioned as a sergeant of the sixth company.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Lieut. Hugh McManus and Lieut. John Riley served in the Sixth
-Regiment, Albany County, N. Y., Militia, during the Revolution.
-The regiment was commanded by Col. Stephen John Schuyler.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The Connecticut Revolutionary records mention Michael McGee,
-a soldier who served in Colonel Burrall’s regiment of that state.
-McGee was taken prisoner in “the affair at the Cedars,” 1776.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Over fifteen members of Capt. John Giles’ company, 1723–’24, were
-natives of Ireland. The company was engaged operating against the
-Indians in Maine, and is mentioned in the Massachusetts records.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_92'>92</span>Tench Francis, son of an Irishman, was born in Maryland, 1732;
-became attorney-general of the province of Pennsylvania; was captain
-of the Quaker Blues; subscribed £5,500 in aid of the Patriot
-army.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>David Dowd, soldier of the Revolution, served in a Connecticut
-light infantry company, under Lafayette, February-November, 1781.
-The company was commanded by Capt. Samuel Barker of Branford,
-Conn.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>A settler at Sudbury, Mass., Richard Burke, came from Ireland
-prior to 1650. He married in 1670 and left many descendants. He
-was one of the earliest Burkes to settle in America of whom we have
-record.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>An early resident of Newport, R. I., was Owen Higgins. His wife
-was born in 1640. In 1701, his son Richard is recorded as a freeman
-of Newport. (See Austin’s <cite>Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode
-Island</cite>.)</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Five ships arrived in Boston Harbor, Aug. 4, 1718, with Irish
-immigrants aboard. Many of these subsequently settled in New
-Hampshire. These facts are referred to in Cullen’s <cite>Story of the Irish
-in Boston</cite>.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Daniel Sullivan, born in Ireland, 1717, died in Providence, R. I.,
-1814. In an obituary notice it is stated that “He had long resided
-in this town where his integrity and piety secured him confidence
-and esteem.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Charles McAfferty, “an Irishman,” was a soldier of the Revolution
-and served in Col. Jeremiah Olney’s Rhode Island Continentals.
-He was one of the first to enter the enemy’s redoubts at the capture
-of Yorktown.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Patrick McSherry was an officer in the Irish-French regiment of
-Dillon during the American Revolution. He is mentioned in that
-recent work, <cite><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Les Combattants Francais De La Guerre Americaine</span></cite>
-(Paris, 1903).</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>James Buchanan, a native of County Donegal, Ireland, came to
-this country in the brig <em>Providence</em>, 1783. He was then in his
-twenty-second year. His son, James, became president of the
-United States.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Two members of the Commander-in-Chief’s Guard (Washington’s),
-in the Revolution, were James and Robert Blair, both natives of
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_93'>93</span>Ireland. Godfrey’s history of the guard furnishes a biographical
-sketch of each.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>“In the discharge of his duty he has at all times proved himself
-an alert, brave and intelligent officer.” The foregoing tribute was
-paid by Gen. Henry Knox to Lieut. Florence Crowley, a soldier of
-the Revolution.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Jacques O’Driscoll was one of the “capitaines en second” in the
-Irish-French regiment of Walsh during the American Revolution.
-Others of the same rank in the command were Edouard Stack and
-Charles O’Croly.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Hon. James Sullivan was governor of Massachusetts in 1807 and
-1808. He succeeded Hon. Caleb Strong and preceded Hon. Christopher
-Gore. Governor Sullivan was a brother of Gen. John Sullivan
-of the Revolution.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Ten ships, bringing nearly one thousand passengers, arrived at
-Boston, Mass., from Ireland, during the two years, 1736 and 1738.
-It was at this period, 1737, that the Charitable Irish Society of Boston
-was organized.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Thomas Quirk, “a brave and fine-looking Irishman,” served under
-Gen. George Rogers Clark in the latter’s western campaign. He
-had been a sergeant and is later mentioned as a major. He was
-alloted 4,312 acres.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Robert Beers, an Irishman, was slain “y<sup>e</sup> 28 March 1676,” by the
-Indians. The tragedy occurred at “the ring of the town,” within
-the limits of what is now East Providence, R. I. Beers was a brickmaker
-by occupation.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>A distinguished officer of the Revolution, Edward Hand, was born
-in Kings County, Ireland. He came to America in 1767; espoused
-the Patriot cause, and was successively lieutenant-colonel, colonel,
-and brigadier-general.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The first funds of Rhode Island College, now Brown University,
-were obtained in Ireland. The original subscription book is still
-carefully preserved. (Guild’s work on <cite>The First Commencement of
-Rhode Island College</cite>.)</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In 1774 the Second Company, Governor’s Foot Guard, of New
-Haven, Conn., engaged Edward Burke as instructor “in the military
-exercise.” The company is one of the oldest existing military organizations
-in America.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_94'>94</span>Gov. Thomas Dongan of New York, an Irish Catholic, visited Milford,
-Conn., in 1685, to confer with Governor Treat regarding the
-boundary between the two colonies. Governor Treat terms Dongan
-“A noble gentleman.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Stephen Decatur, a Genoese Catholic, arrived in Newport, R. I.,
-about 1740–’46; married a woman of Irish lineage; became captain
-of a privateer. His son, also named Stephen, attained high rank in
-the United States navy.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Thomas Casey was born in Ireland about 1636. He became a
-resident of Newport, R. I. In 1692 he and his son Thomas witnessed
-a deed given by James Sweet of East Greenwich, R. I., to
-Thomas Weaver of Newport.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Jean Baptiste O’Meara was one of the “lieutenants en second” of
-the Irish-French regiment of Walsh in the American Revolution.
-Holding like rank in the regiment were Jacques O’Sheil, George Meighan
-and Eugene MacCarthy.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>On the roster of the British garrison at Albany, N. Y., when the
-place was reconquered from the Dutch and held for a short time in
-1673, appear the names Capt. John Manning, Patrick Dowdell, John
-Fitzgerald and Thomas Quinn.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Matthew O’Bryan was a Massachusetts soldier of the Revolution.
-He served in Col. John Crane’s regiment of artillery. In one return
-he is credited with service for 21 months and 25 days as bombardier
-and 12 months as matross.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Jane Brown was born in Providence, R. I., 1734. Her father,
-Rev. Arthur Brown, was a native of Drogheda, Ireland. She married
-Samuel Livermore, who became attorney-general of New Hampshire
-and United States senator.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Thomas Amory emigrated from Limerick, Ireland, to South Carolina.
-He removed from the latter place to Boston, Mass., in 1721.
-The late Thomas C. Amory of Boston, author of the <cite>Transfer of
-Erin</cite>, was one of his descendants.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Mrs. Grant in her <cite>Memoirs of an American Lady</cite> mentions “A
-handsome, good-natured looking Irishman in a ragged provincial
-uniform,” named Patrick Coonie, with his wife and children, who
-settled near Albany, N. Y., in 1768.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Matthew Mease, who was born in Strabane, Ireland, became
-purser of the <em>Bonhomme Richard</em> and served under John Paul Jones
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_95'>95</span>in the engagement with the British 44–gun ship <em>Serapis</em>. Mease
-was wounded in that engagement.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In 1768, Patrick Mackey, mentioned as from Philadelphia, Pa.,
-opened in Providence, R. I., “a skinner’s shop near the Hay-ward,
-on the east side of the great bridge.” He dealt in deer leather, in
-wool, and in goat and sheep skins.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The New York Revolutionary records mention Thomas Quigley,
-first lieutenant of the privateer <em>General Putnam</em>, “formerly the
-<em>Betsey</em>.” She was commanded, successively, by Capt. Thomas
-Cregier and Capt. William Mercier.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>A roll of Capt. John Givens’ company of militia, Augusta County,
-Va., 1777–’82, includes the names James Donohoe, Peter Carrol,
-John Morrison, Neil Hughes, John Craig, Andrew Mitchell and
-others indicative of Irish extraction.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Alexander Johnston came from near Londonderry, Ireland, about
-1721, and settled in Pennsylvania. He was a magistrate, and at one
-time owned a farm in Pennsylvania of 900 acres. Col. Francis
-Johnston of the Revolution was his son.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Michael Wright, a native of Mountmellick, Queens County, Ireland,
-served during the Revolution in a Rhode Island regiment of
-the Line. He is mentioned in a return as 42 years of age and as
-having his residence in Seaconnet, R. I.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Gen. Stephen Moylan, of the Revolution, was a brother of the
-Roman Catholic bishop of Cork, Ireland. Two of his sisters became
-nuns. One of them was abbess of the Ursuline convent in Cork,
-and the other was a nun in the same convent.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Macarty de Marteigue was the commander, in 1782, of the French
-warship <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Le Magnifique</span></i>, which formed part of the naval force sent
-over by France to aid the American Revolution. Du Fay de Carty
-is mentioned as an ensign on the same ship.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The Massachusetts Revolutionary records mention Patrick Burke,
-a soldier of Col. John Crane’s regiment of artillery. Burke enlisted
-for the town of Wrentham, Mass., was a sergeant, and is at one
-period referred to as “Orderly to the General.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Hugh McLean, a native of Ireland, was born in 1724. He settled
-in Milton, Mass., and died in 1799. His son, John McLean, was a
-benefactor of Harvard College and of the Massachusetts General
-Hospital, the latter institution in Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_96'>96</span>Among those serving during the Revolution, in the First Regiment,
-Virginia Light Dragoons, were James Casey, Thomas Hogan, John
-Carroll, William Hicks, John Powers and Niel McCaffry. They are
-mentioned in the Virginia records of that period.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Some years after the close of the Revolution, Christopher Fitzsimons,
-a wealthy Irishman of Charleston, S. C., passed away,
-leaving an estate worth $700,000. His daughter, Anne, married one
-of the Hamptons, receiving $100,000 as her dower.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Mention is made in the Massachusetts Revolutionary records of
-John McLaughlin, a marine who served aboard the <em>Alfred</em>, commanded
-by John Paul Jones. McLaughlin is referred to as entitled
-to prize shares in the ship <em>Mellish</em> and the brig <em>Active</em>.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Before 1800, Masters Knox and Crocker, natives of Ireland, taught
-school at Bowen’s Hill (Coventry, R. I.), and the neighborhood.
-(Cole’s <cite>History of Washington and Kent Counties, R. I.</cite>) The name
-Knox is found in the Coventry records as early as 1766.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>David O’Killia, a son of David, “the Irishman” of old Yarmouth,
-Mass., married Anna Bills in 1662. He had a brother named John
-who wedded in 1690. Another brother, Jeremiah, died in 1728. A
-sister, Elizabeth, became the wife of Silas Sears in 1707.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Timothy McKlewain’s name appears in a list of subscribers at a
-meeting in East Windsor, Conn., April 21, 1777. The meeting was
-“For ye Great &amp; important Purpose of furnishing our Proportion of
-men for the Continental Army.” He subscribed £1 10s.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Alexander Bryan, from Armagh in Ireland, was a settler at Milford,
-Conn., as far back as 1639. In 1661 he bought of the Indians
-the last twenty acres they owned on Milford Neck. He paid them
-therefor six coats, three blankets and three pairs of breeches.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Among the ancient inscriptions in the old Granary Burial Ground,
-Boston, Mass., is the following: “Here Lyeth Interred y<sup>e</sup> body of
-Charles Maccarty, son to Thadeus and Elizabeth Maccarty, aged
-18 years, wanting 7 days. Deceased y<sup>e</sup> 25 of October, 1683.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Patrick Cavenaugh, a soldier of the Revolution, served in the
-Eighth Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line. On one occasion he
-saved General Lincoln from being captured by the British, in New
-Jersey. He was afterwards an express rider for General Greene.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>A Massachusetts soldier of the Revolution was Daniel McCarty.
-He was born in Ireland, came to this country and enlisted in the
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_97'>97</span>Patriot ranks. He served in Greaton’s regiment and is credited in
-the records to Roxbury, Mass. He is reported as killed in 1777.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Charles O’Gorman was one of the “lieutenants en second” of the
-Irish-French regiment of Walsh during the American Revolution.
-His name is preserved in the French military archives and is mentioned
-in <cite><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Les Combattants De La Guerre Americaine</span></cite> (Paris, 1903).</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>About 1735, Richard Copley with his wife, Mary (Singleton) Copley,
-came to America from County Clare, Ireland. His health being
-poor, he went to the West Indies to recuperate. John Singleton
-Copley, the eminent artist, a native of Boston, Mass., was their son.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Matthew Hurley was one of the soldiers serving in the war
-against Philip, the Indian king, 1675–’76. He was at one period of
-the company of Captain Wadsworth, who was killed in the battle at
-Sudbury, Mass., and is mentioned in Bodge’s work on <cite>King Philip’s
-War</cite>.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Patrick McLaughlin, a soldier of the Revolution, served in the
-First Pennsylvania regiment, commanded by Col. John Philip De
-Haas; was taken prisoner by the British at Three Rivers, June 9,
-1776. He is mentioned in the Revolutionary records of Pennsylvania.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Abbe Bartholomew O’Mahony was chaplain of the French warship
-<em>L’Ivelly</em> during the American Revolution. <em>L’Ivelly</em> was commanded
-by M. le Chevalier Durumain, and formed part of the fleet of Count
-De Grasse. (See <cite><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Les Combattants Francais De La Guerre Americaine</span></cite>.)</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In an old cemetery at Rutland, Mass., is a gravestone to the memory
-of Patrick Gregory, who was born in County Donegal, Ireland,
-about 1690. When he came to this country is unknown. He died
-July 5, 1756. On the gravestone just mentioned shamrocks are
-carved.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>A native of County Armagh, Ireland, Thomas Robinson, was born
-in 1745 and died in Providence, R. I., 1809. He had been a resident
-of Providence for seventeen years; was described as “an ingenious
-and useful citizen” and “possessed the most enduring philanthropy.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>An influential man in Maryland, in 1647 and later, was Philip
-Conner. In the year named he was appointed a commissioner for
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_98'>98</span>Kent County. He is referred to as “The last commander of old
-Kent.” A descendant, James Conner, in 1705 wedded Elinor
-Flannagan.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Born at sea, of Irish parents, 1745, William Patterson died in
-1806. He was a member of the first Constitutional Convention of
-New Jersey; attorney-general of the state; United States senator;
-governor of New Jersey; and judge of the Supreme Court of the
-United States.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>At a military review near Trenton, N. J., in 1776, George Fullerton,
-a native of Ireland, was killed by the accidental discharge of a
-pistol. He was a merchant in Philadelphia, Pa., and a member of
-the First City Troop. In his will is mentioned John Fullerton, an
-uncle in Ireland.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Three Irish Rhode Islanders in the Revolution were James
-Bishop, William Parker and John Wilson. Bishop was born in
-Dublin; Parker in County Waterford, and Wilson in County Kilkenny.
-They served in Captain Topham’s company of Col. Thomas
-Church’s regiment.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Ensign Patrick Cronin was of Colonel Malcom’s New York regiment
-of levies in the Revolution. Also on the regimental rolls
-appear the names Cleary, Conner, Crane, Daley, Griffin, Jackson,
-McCarty, McCoy, McGee, McWilliams, Mead, Moore, Morrison,
-Murphy and the like.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Hon. Thomas McKean, a signer of the Declaration of Independence
-and president of Congress, was a founder, an incorporator,
-and the first president of the Hibernian Society of Philadelphia, Pa.
-His parents were both natives of Ireland. (Campbell’s <cite>History of
-the Hibernian Society</cite>.)</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Michael Connolly was captain and paymaster, during the Revolution,
-in the Second New York Regiment of the Line. Philip Van
-Cortland was colonel of the regiment. There were many Irish in
-the command, as reference to <cite>New York in the Revolution</cite>, by James
-A. Roberts, will show.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>An Irish trader at Fort Pitt (Pittsburg) before the Revolution was
-John Ormsby. He suffered depredations during Pontiac’s war, and
-was later granted a large tract of land at Fort Pitt. He was an
-active patriot during the Revolution and took a prominent part in
-the struggle for liberty.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_99'>99</span>Capt. Daniel Malcom, an Irishman, died in Boston, Mass., 1769.
-He “was a true son of Liberty, a friend to the Publick, an enemy to
-oppression and one of the foremost in opposing the Revenue Acts
-on America.” His remains rest in a brick tomb in the old Copp’s
-Hill graveyard, Boston.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Capt. Edward Connor was of Col. Marinus Willett’s New York
-regiment in the Revolution. Also in the regiment appear such
-names as Burk, Crowley, Downing, Garvey, Hicks, Kelly, Kenny,
-Lane, Lyons, McCoy, McGee, McGill, McVey, Molloy, Moore,
-Quin, Ryan and Welsh.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>A Connecticut soldier of the Revolution, George McCarty, served
-in Bigelow’s artillery company, the first company of artillery raised
-in Connecticut during the war. It marched to the northern department
-and was stationed during the summer and fall of 1776 at
-Ticonderoga and vicinity.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Born in Tipperary, Ireland, Edward Fitzgerald came to this country
-and became a soldier of the Revolution. He was a resident of
-Newport, R. I. He is mentioned as of the Rhode Island Continental
-Line when he was but 19 years of age. He saw much service at
-Ticonderoga and elsewhere.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>A native of Dublin, Ireland, John Read was born in 1688. He
-came to this country, purchased an estate in Maryland, and was one of
-the founders of Charlestown on the headwaters of Chesapeake Bay.
-He was appointed by the Colonial Legislature a commissioner to
-lay out and govern the town.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Paul Cox, an Irishman, was of Philadelphia, Pa., as early as
-1773. He became a member of the Pennsylvania State Navy Board,
-1777, and was otherwise prominent. The inscription on his tombstone
-in Philadelphia states that he was “Thrice an elector of the
-president of the United States.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Christopher Marshall, a native of Dublin, Ireland, was born in
-1709. He settled in Philadelphia, Pa., and was a druggist. During
-the Revolution his firm furnished drugs and medicines to the Continental
-army. He was a member of the Committee of Safety throughout
-the whole period of the war.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Maj. John Gillespy is mentioned as serving during the Revolution
-in the Fourth Regiment, Ulster County (N. Y.) Militia, commanded
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_100'>100</span>by Colonel Hardenburgh. Also of the same regiment was Lieut.
-Samuel Gillespy. (Vide <cite>New York in the Revolution</cite>, by Comptroller
-James A. Roberts, Albany, 1898.)</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In the old graveyard attached to the stone church built on the site
-of Fort Herkimer in the Mohawk valley, N. Y., is buried John Ring
-“of the Kingdom of Ireland, captain of one of His Majesty’s companies
-of this Province, who departed this life 20th day of Sept.,
-1755, in the 30th year of his age.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Thomas McCarthy, a soldier of the Revolution, enlisted from
-Newtown, Pa., Jan. 14, 1776, for three years, in Capt. George Lewis’
-troop, Third Regiment, Continental Dragoons, commanded by Col.
-George Baylor. On May 1, 1777, he was assigned to the cavalry of
-the Commander-in-Chief’s Guard.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>John M. O’Brien is mentioned in the Rhode Island records as a
-soldier of the Revolution. He served in Captain Dexter’s company,
-of the “Late Col. Greene’s regiment,” and died in 1781. He is
-believed to have been the soldier elsewhere mentioned in the Rhode
-Island records as John Morris O’Brien.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Andrew Caldwell, born in Ireland, became a prominent merchant
-in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a patriot of the Revolution; member
-of the Council of Safety; member of the First City Troop, Philadelphia;
-member of the Navy Board; port warden of Philadelphia; a
-director of the Bank of North America.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>George Bryan, an Irishman, became a resident of Philadelphia, Pa.;
-was a member of the Assembly; a delegate, in 1765, to the Stamp
-Act Congress; a patriot of the Revolution; vice-president of the
-Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania: president of the same;
-a judge of the Supreme Court of the state.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In Mason’s <cite>Reminiscences of Newport</cite> (R. I.) is an interesting reference
-to Henry Goldsmith, a native of Westmeath, Ireland. He
-settled in Newport when he was 24 years of age, married there in
-1779, and had 14 children. At the close of the Revolution, Mr.
-and Mrs. Goldsmith removed from Newport.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>James Calhoun, grandfather of John C. Calhoun, came from Donegal,
-Ireland, in 1733, with his family, and settled in Pennsylvania,
-later removing to western Virginia, and at a later period, further
-south. In 1765 they established the “Calhoun settlement” in South
-Carolina, near the Cherokee Indian frontier.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_101'>101</span>James Blaine came from Ireland with his family prior to 1745.
-He settled in Toboyne township, Cumberland County, Pa., where he
-died in 1792. He left a widow and nine children. Col. Ephraim
-Blaine of the Revolution was one of these children. The late Hon.
-James G. Blaine of Maine was a descendant.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>One of the officers in the Irish-French regiment of Dillon, during
-the American Revolution, was Patrick Murphy. His name is preserved
-in the military archives of France, and by its publication in
-<cite><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Les Combattants Francais De La Guerre Americaine</span></cite>, is recalled and
-forever made known to the American people.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Mary Peisley was a native of Kildare, Ireland, and was born in
-1717. She entered the Quaker ministry about 1744, came to America
-with Ann Payton, and perhaps other Quakers, about 1753, labored
-in New York, the Carolinas, Maryland and Rhode Island; returned
-to Ireland and married Samuel Neale of Dublin.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>James Moore, who was chosen governor of South Carolina, was
-born in Ireland about 1640. He came to this country in 1655, settled
-in Charleston, S. C., wedded a daughter of Sir John Yeamans
-and had 10 children. One of his sons, also named James Moore,
-was likewise chosen governor of South Carolina.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Born in Ireland in 1705, Jeremiah Smith came to Boston, Mass.,
-with his wife, in 1726, and finally settled in Milton, Mass., 1737. He
-was an intimate friend of Governor Hutchinson, Governor Hancock
-and other leading men. He engaged in the manufacture of paper,
-and carried on the business until 1775 when he retired.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The Virginia records show that Symon Tuchin was in that colony
-in 1625. He was master of the <em>Due Return</em>, and “having been banished
-out of Ireland was reported as strongly affected to popery.”
-Accordingly, “The Governor and Council of Virginia sent him as a
-prisoner, in January, 1625, to the Company in England.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Mary Mallins, “from Bandon in Ireland,” was among those
-arrested in Boston, Mass., at the time of the prosecution of the
-Quakers, she being one of the latter. She and twenty-seven other
-Quakers were finally liberated by Endicott and were ordered to
-leave the jurisdiction at once, nor to return at their peril.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Morison’s <cite>Life of Judge Jeremiah Smith</cite>, who was a native of Peterborough,
-N. H., states that “He began to study Latin when about
-twelve years old, with Rudolphus Greene, an Irishman employed by
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_102'>102</span>the town to keep school a quarter of the year in each of the four
-quarters of the town.” Judge Smith was born about 1771.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>John Mitchell, a native of Ireland, was muster-master-general of
-the Pennsylvania State navy, 1775–’76; acting commissary, 1776–’77;
-lieutenant on the <em>Chatham</em>, 1775; captain of the <em>Ranger</em>, 1776; a
-merchant in France after the Revolution; United States consul at
-Santiago de Cuba; admiralty surveyor of Philadelphia, Pa.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>A Rhode Island soldier, 1756–’59, was named William Sheehan.
-He is mentioned in the former year as a lieutenant and quartermaster
-for the expedition against Crown Point. In 1758, he appears
-as first lieutenant in the major’s company of his regiment, and is
-also referred to the same year as captain and quartermaster.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>A Virginia trooper who rendered service against the French and
-Indians was Thomas Doyle. The Assembly of Virginia passed an
-act in 1756 for the payment of men engaged in said service. Doyle
-was voted 1,860 pounds of tobacco, and other troopers were to be
-paid like amounts. (Boogher’s <cite>Gleanings of Virginia History</cite>.)</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Daniel Magennis is a name frequently met in King Philip’s War,
-1675–’76. Daniel became a corporal and was at one time company
-clerk. He served at various times under Captain Henchman, Captain
-Wheeler and other commanders. His name also appears in the
-records as Maginnis. (See Bodge’s <cite>History of King Philip’s War</cite>.)</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Col. Charles Stewart was born in County Donegal, Ireland, 1729.
-He came to America, 1750; was deputy surveyor-general of Pennsylvania;
-patriot of the Revolution; colonel of a New Jersey regiment
-of Minute Men; colonel of a New Jersey regiment of the Line;
-served on Washington’s staff; member of the Continental Congress.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>“In the <em>Mayflower</em>&nbsp;... were one hundred and one men,
-women, boys and girls as passengers, besides captain and crew.
-These were of English, Dutch, French and Irish ancestry, and thus
-typical of our national stock.” (Rev. William Elliot Griffis in <cite>Brave
-Little Holland and What She Taught Us</cite>. New York, 1894. Page
-208.)</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Bernard O’Neill was a captain in the Irish-French regiment of Dillon
-in the American Revolution. He was probably the “Captain
-Commandant O’Neill” who participated in the expedition against
-Savannah, where he was wounded in the breast, and may have been
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_103'>103</span>identical with “Le Baron Bernard O’Neill,” who became a Chevalier
-of St. Louis.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Thomas DeCourcy was a native of Newport, R. I. His father
-came from Ireland and settled in Newport about 1720. The father’s
-brother, also named Thomas, was Baron Kinsale. Upon the latter’s
-death, Thomas, the native of Newport, succeeded to the title and
-estates. Mention of these facts may be found in Peterson’s <cite>History
-of Rhode Island</cite>.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Eleanor Ledlie was of Irish parentage. She became the wife of
-Capt. Samuel Bowman, an officer of the Revolution, who as commander
-of the guard walked arm in arm with Major Andre, the
-British spy, to the place of the latter’s execution. (Hon. Edward A.
-Moseley of Washington, D. C., in an address to the American-Irish
-Historical Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Matthias Alexis de Roche Fermoy, of Irish extraction, was an
-officer in the French forces that came to America during our Revolution
-and assisted in establishing the independence of the United
-States. He became a brigadier and is mentioned in the work
-entitled <cite>Generals of the Continental Line in the Revolutionary War</cite>
-(Philadelphia, 1903).</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Brian Murphy was a soldier in King Philip’s War, 1675–’76. He
-is mentioned in Bodge’s history of that war and is credited with garrison
-duty at Mendon, Mass. Thomas Tally, Patrick Morren,
-Timothy Larkin, Joseph Griffin, Jeremiah Toy, Philip Butler, John
-Hand and Thomas Welch are also mentioned by Bodge as participating
-in that struggle.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>During the Revolution, Capt. William Burke of the armed schooner
-<em>Warren</em> was captured by the British frigate <em>Liverpool</em> and carried
-into Halifax, from whence he was sent to New York and confined on
-board a prison ship. He was later exchanged for Capt. Richard
-Jones, “a British officer of equal rank.” Captain Burke is mentioned
-as of Marblehead, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Susannah Lightfoot, a native of Ireland, was born in 1720. She
-was a Quaker, and with Ruth Courtney came from Ireland to America
-on a visit to Friends here. On her return to the Old Land, she
-landed at Cork. In 1760, she paid a second visit to these shores,
-and four years later removed with her husband from Ireland and
-permanently settled here.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_104'>104</span>Among those serving under Esek Hopkins, during the Revolution,
-was Patrick Kaine. He is mentioned as a marine and served
-aboard the <em>Cabot</em>. In an engagement with the British ship <em>Glasgow</em>,
-April 6, 1776, he was killed. Anthony Dwyer, Richard Sweeney,
-John Connor, Thomas Dowd and Andrew Magee also served aboard
-the <em>Cabot</em> under Hopkins.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Jeremiah Driskel, William Henussey and John Leary all served in
-the Commander-in-Chief’s Guard (Washington’s) during the Revolution.
-Driskel had previously served in a Maryland regiment;
-Henussey, in a Pennsylvania command, and Leary, in a regiment
-commanded by John Stark. (See Godfrey’s work on <cite>The Commander-in-Chief’s
-Guard</cite>.)</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In 1776, John O’Kelley was a member of a military company in
-the town of Warren, R. I. The company was commanded by Capt.
-Ezra Ormsbee. Also in the company were Daniel Kelley and
-Joseph Kelley. The General Assembly of Rhode Island, in 1782,
-gave “Mrs. Elizabeth O’Kelley, widow of John O’Kelley,” of Warren,
-permission to sell certain real estate.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Thomas Jones, “from Strabane, Ireland,” came to Rhode Island
-prior to 1699; later he removed to Long Island, N. Y. He married
-Freelove Townsend, whose father gave them land at Massapequa,
-where they settled. They are mentioned in Bunker’s <cite>Long Island
-Genealogies</cite>. Mr. and Mrs. Jones had a son David, born in 1699.
-Thomas, the immigrant, died in 1713.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Andrew Meade, a Kerry Irishman, and a Catholic, emigrated to
-New York, married Mary Latham, a Quakeress of Flushing, went
-to Nansemond County, Va., and died there in 1745. His son was
-Col. Richard Kidder Meade, an aide-de-camp of General Washington.
-(Quoted by Martin I. J. Griffin of Philadelphia, Pa., in
-<cite>American Catholic Historical Researches</cite>.)</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Thomas, John and Walter Dongan, kinsmen of Governor Dongan
-of New York, are believed to have been residing in New York in
-1715. In 1723 a private act was passed by the Assembly of the
-province “to enable Thomas Dongan and Walter Dongan, two surviving
-kinsmen of Thomas, late Earl of Limerick,” to sell part of
-their estate. A similar act was passed in 1726.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Hotten’s <cite>Original Lists</cite> (London, 1874) contain the names of
-many Irish who were conveyed to Virginia, Barbadoes and other
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_105'>105</span>parts. The work comprises the period from 1600 to 1700 and mentions
-“Persons of quality, emigrants, religious exiles, political rebels,
-serving men sold for a term of years, apprentices, children stolen,
-maidens pressed” and other wayfarers of the time.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Charles Carroll, grandfather of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, came
-to this country about 1689 and settled in Maryland. In 1691 he
-was made judge and register of the land office, and agent and receiver
-for Lord Baltimore’s rents. His son, also named Charles
-Carroll, was born in 1702 and died in 1782. Charles Carroll of
-Carrollton was a son of this second Charles Carroll.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Michael Ryan, a soldier of the Revolution, was acting-adjutant of
-the Fourth Pennsylvania regiment, commanded by Col. Anthony
-Wayne, from Feb. 17, 1776; was appointed adjutant March 15 that
-year; became a captain in the Fifth Pennsylvania, and was inspector
-of General Wayne’s division; was promoted brigade-major, Nov. 18,
-1777; also served as major of the Tenth Pennsylvania.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The Massachusetts records mention Patrick McMullen as serving
-during the Revolution aboard the <em>Providence</em>, under John Paul Jones.
-He is referred to as entitled to a prize share in the ship <em>Alexander</em>,
-captured in 1777, and is also mentioned as a marine aboard the
-<em>Alfred</em>, commanded by Jones. In this latter capacity he was entitled
-to prize shares in the ship <em>Mellish</em> and the brig <em>Active</em>,</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Andrew Brown, born in Ireland, was educated at Trinity College,
-Dublin, came to this country and eventually settled in Massachusetts.
-He was a patriot of the Revolution, fought at Lexington
-and Bunker Hill; served as major under Gates and Greene. After
-the war, he established the <cite>Federal Gazette</cite> at Philadelphia, Pa., the
-publication being later known as the <cite>Philadelphia Gazette</cite>.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>An Irish schoolmaster in Brunswick, Me., was Thomas Crowell.
-He settled there shortly after the close of the Revolution, and taught
-school there for over twenty years. Many of his pupils became leading
-business men, and some of them famous shipmasters. Sumner
-L. Holbrook read a paper, a few years ago, before the Pejepscot
-Historical Society, of Brunswick, devoted to Master Crowell.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>John Donnaldson, “son of Hugh Donnaldson of Dungannon, Ireland,”
-was a shipping merchant in Philadelphia, Pa.; a patriot of
-the Revolution; member of the First City Troop; took part in the
-battles of Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, and Germantown; subscribed
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_106'>106</span> £2,000, in 1780, in aid of the army; became register-general
-of Pennsylvania; and comptroller-general of the state.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>David McCarty, Albany, N. Y., was a member of the Committee
-of Safety there during the Revolution. He was a valiant soldier
-and at the time of his death was a general of state troops. In May,
-1771, he married Charlotta, granddaughter of Pieter Coeymans, the
-founder of a wealthy Dutch family. By this marriage McCarty
-came into the possession of much land in the Coeymans Patent.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Well-nigh forgotten now is Christopher Stuart, an Irishman and
-soldier of the Revolution. He was born in the Old Land, 1748,
-and settled in Montgomery County, Pa. He served successively as
-captain, major and lieutenant-colonel of Pennsylvania troops, including
-the Line; took part in the battle of Long Island, the storming
-of Stony Point, and in other actions of the war; died, 1799.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Patrick Googins, “a young Irish weaver,” came to this country
-about 1722 and settled at Old Orchard, Me. He married Hester
-Rogers. Her father gave Patrick as her marriage portion 200 acres
-there. In years long after, the place became known as “the old
-Googins farm.” The farm remained in the Googins family for four
-generations. (See an article in the <cite>Old Orchard Mirror</cite>, 1902.)</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>One of the founders of the Charitable Irish Society of Boston,
-Mass., 1737, was Joseph St. Lawrence. In the records of the Boston
-selectmen, that year, appears the following: “Mr. Joseph St.
-Lawrence from Ireland, Merchant, having imported upwards of Fifty
-Pounds Sterling, Prays he may be Allow’d to Carry on his Business in
-this Town.” It is presumed the desired permission was granted.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Charles Thomson, who for nearly fifteen years was secretary of the
-Continental Congress, being sometimes referred to as its “Perpetual
-secretary,” was born in Ireland, 1729. He participated in various
-treaty proceedings with the Indians, and was styled by the latter
-“The man of truth.” He married Hannah Harrison whose nephew,
-William Henry Harrison, became president of the United States.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Robert Temple arrived at Boston, Mass., from Ireland, in 1717,
-with a party of Irish Protestants. He settled on Noddle’s Island,
-now East Boston, and had a house there that “contained elegant
-rooms suitable for the reception of persons of the first condition.”
-He commanded a company in operations against the Indians. He
-became a member of the Boston Charitable Irish Society in 1740.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_107'>107</span>George Taylor, a native of Ireland, died in Providence, R. I., in
-1778. He taught school there for over 40 years, was for a number
-of years president of the Town Council and held other positions of
-trust and honor. He was a man of public spirit and witnessed
-events of the earlier part of the Revolution. The Providence
-<cite>Gazette</cite> states that “He was an honor to the country that gave him
-birth.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Col. Israel Angell of the Second Rhode Island regiment in the
-Continental Line, has this entry in his diary under date of March 17,
-1781: “Good weather. A great parade this day with the Irish, it
-being St. Patrick’s. I spent the day on the Point [West Point], and
-tarried with the officers.” This diary has been reproduced in printed
-form by Edward Field, secretary of the Providence, R. I., Record
-Commission.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Alexander Black, an Irishman, was a resident of Providence, R. I.,
-as early as 1762. He was a merchant and was associated in business
-with James Black, and later with Alexander Stewart. Alexander
-Black died in Providence, 1767. In a notice of his death, which
-appears in the Providence <cite>Gazette</cite>, he is declared to have been “A
-fast friend to the liberties of America, and studied to promote the
-public weal.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>James Kavanagh, a native of County Wexford, Ireland, came to
-Boston, Mass., in 1780, during the Revolution, but settled at Damariscotta
-Mills, Me., and engaged in the lumber business. His son,
-Edward, became president of the State Senate of Maine, a member of
-Congress, United States charge d’affaires in Portugal, a commissioner
-to settle the northeastern boundary of Maine, and acting governor
-of Maine.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Edmund Fanning, an Irishman, was a victim of the Cromwellian
-confiscation, and fled at the time of the surrender of Limerick, 1651,
-and settled in Groton, Conn. His uncle, Dominick Fanning of
-Limerick, was one of the 21 persons exempted from pardon by
-Ireton and was beheaded at that time. D. H. Fanning and Walter
-F. Brooks, Worcester, Mass., are descendants of Edmund Fanning,
-the Groton settler.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Morgan Connor, a Pennsylvania soldier of the Revolution, was
-successively lieutenant, captain, major, and lieutenant-colonel commandant.
-He served in Col. Samuel Miles’ Pennsylvania Rifle
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_108'>108</span>Regiment; was wounded in the right wrist at Princeton; was called
-from camp by Congress in March, 1776, and sent South as brigade
-major for General Armstrong; was afterwards lieutenant-colonel of
-Hartley’s regiment.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>John Brown, a native of Ireland, came to this country about 1760.
-He settled in Virginia, in the Warm Spring Valley, and had a tract
-of 400 acres. About 1778 he married Mary Donnelly. He commanded
-a company in the Revolution, and after the war was a justice
-for Bath County, Va., sheriff and treasurer of the county, major
-of the Second Battalion of militia, and a member of the General
-Assembly of Virginia.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Daniel Dulany, a native of Queens County, Ireland, was born in
-1686. He was a cousin of Rev. Patrick Dulany, dean of Down.
-Daniel came to this country when quite young and settled in Maryland.
-He was admitted to the bar in 1710, became attorney-general
-of the province, judge of admiralty, commissary-general, agent and
-receiver-general, and councillor. He was in the public service of
-Maryland for nearly 40 years.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Edward Fox was born in Dublin, Ireland, 1752; came to this
-country, studied law and eventually settled in Philadelphia, Pa. He
-held various positions of prominence there; became secretary of the
-Bank of the United States, secretary of the American Fire Insurance
-Co., recorder of deeds for the county of Philadelphia, and treasurer
-of the University of Pennsylvania. One of his sons married a
-daughter of Gen. Stephen Moylan.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Cortlandt Schuyler of Albany, N. Y., was captain in “a marching
-regiment” of the British Army. He married a handsome Irishwoman
-in Ireland, while stationed there, and brought her to Albany
-about 1763. Upon his death, she returned to Ireland with her children,
-“where it is said their desendants bearing the name Schuyler
-still live.” (Mrs. Grant’s <cite>Memoirs of an American Lady</cite>, quoted by
-Hon. Franklin M. Danaher of Albany.)</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In 1769–’70, Rev. Hezekiah Smith made a tour of South Carolina
-and Georgia in aid of Rhode Island College, now Brown University.
-He says in his diary of the tour: “Thursday, March 1, 1770, went
-to Malachi Murfee’s.” The list of those who subscribed in aid of
-the college, on this Southern trip, includes Edward Dempsey,
-Charles Reilly, Patrick Hinds, James Welsh, Hugh Dillon, John
-Boyd, Matthew Roach and Capt. John Canty.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_109'>109</span>An officer who came with our French allies during the Revolution
-was Isidore de Lynch. He was at one period an aide-de-camp to
-the Chevalier de Chastellux. Referring to the return of the French
-to Boston after the surrender of the British at Yorktown, Count Segur
-speaks of “Isidore de Lynch, an intrepid Irishman, afterwards a
-General.” Lynch became commander of the Irish-French regiment
-of Walsh, and was decorated with the Cross of St. Louis.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The Dutch records of Albany, N. Y., mention Jan Fyne, “van
-Waterfort in Irlandt.” His name likewise appears as Johannes Fine,
-which in English would probably be John Finn. He is believed to
-have been a soldier who was sent to Albany in 1690. He settled
-there and is later mentioned as a cooper. In 1696 he wedded Jopje
-Classe Van Slyck. His second wife, whom he married in 1699, was
-Alida, daughter of Jacob Janse Gardiner of Kinderhook.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Watson H. Harwood, M. D., of Chasm Falls, N. Y., in a paper
-contributed to the <cite>Register</cite> of the New England Historic, Genealogical
-Society, January, 1898, treats of the Clogstons of New Hampshire.
-He states that “The Clogston family is of Irish origin,” and
-that it came to New Hampshire sometime after 1718. Paul Clogston,
-a descendant of the immigrants, died of wounds received at
-Bunker Hill, 1775. The name is sometimes written Clogstone.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Blair McClenachan, an Irishman by birth, settled in Philadelphia,
-Pa., at an early age, and became the “largest importer in the city
-except Robert Morris”; was a patriot of the Revolution; subscribed,
-in 1780, £10,000 in aid of the army; was one of the original members
-of the First City Troop; a member of Congress, 1797–’99; was
-made commissioner of loans by President Jefferson. One of
-McClenachan’s daughters married Gen. Walter Stewart.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>One of the early settlers of Peterborough, N. H., was William
-McNee. He was born in Ireland, 1711, and before coming to this
-country married Mary E. Brownley. In an address delivered at
-Peterborough, some years ago, Hon. James F. Brennan of that town
-said that McNee’s “descendants have now reached the eighth generation,
-but unfortunately the name is entirely lost. The first and
-second generations retained the name, but the third changed it to
-Nay.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Michael Morgan O’Brien, a native of Ireland, became a West India
-merchant in Philadelphia, Pa., and was located there as early as
-1780. He was a member of the First City Troop of Philadelphia,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_110'>110</span>of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, the Hibernia Fire Company, and
-the Hibernian Society. He died in France, 1804. He bequeathed
-his books to the “Rt. Reverend Father in God, John Carroll, R. C.,
-Bishop of Baltimore, as a testimony of the great respect and esteem
-I bear him.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>A prominent man in his day was John Patton. He was born in
-Sligo, Ireland, 1745, settled in Philadelphia, Pa., and became a
-merchant there. A patriot of the Revolution, he was successively
-major and colonel of the Sixteenth Pennsylvania regiment, and rendered
-gallant service during the war. In 1780 he subscribed £1,000
-in aid of the army. After the war he was an iron manufacturer, and
-at the time of his death, 1804, was major-general of Pennsylvania
-state troops.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Christopher Colles, a native of Ireland, was born in 1737. He
-came to this country and lectured on pneumatics, inland navigation,
-water supply for cities and similar topics. In 1775, he became an
-instructor in gunnery and was so employed in the American Continental
-Army until 1777. He memorialized the New York Legislature,
-in 1784, in favor of a canal from the Hudson River to Lake
-Ontario. He constructed and operated a telegraph, in 1812, at
-Fort Clinton.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>One of the victims of the Boston massacre, March 5, 1770, was
-Patrick Carr. On that date, British soldiers in Boston, Mass., fired
-on a gathering of the people, three of the latter being instantly killed
-and five dangerously wounded. Crispus Attucks, the leader of the
-gathering, was among the killed and Carr was mortally wounded.
-A granite monument stands on Boston Common to commemorate the
-victims of the British. High up on the shaft, among the others,
-appears the name of Patrick Carr.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The <cite>Mercury</cite> (Philadelphia) of Aug. 28, 1735, reported: “On
-Monday last, Capt. Blair arrived from Carick Fargus in Ireland
-with 168 Irish passengers and servants and on Monday evening
-before any of them landed one of them fell into the river and was
-drowned.” The next paper announced: “the body was found, the
-next tide carried up seven miles from the mouth of the Schuylkill.”
-(<cite>American Catholic Historical Researches</cite>, Philadelphia, Pa., Martin
-I. J. Griffin, editor.)</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>From the records of the selectmen, Boston, Mass., Aug. 4, 1736:
-“Dennis Sullivant being present Informs, That he with his Wife are
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_111'>111</span>lately come into this Town from South Carolina by land; That he
-has been in Town about Five Weeks; That he first Lodg’d at the
-White Horse Two nights, and a Fortnight at Mrs. Snowdens and
-now lodges in Long lane, That he designs to return to England or
-Ireland, as soon as he can Conveniently Obtain a Passage for himself
-and his said Wife.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Gen. William Thompson of the Revolution was an Irishman by
-birth. He came to this country prior to the War for Independence;
-served during the French and Indian War; became captain of a
-troop of Light Horse; led a regiment, in 1775, to the American
-camp at Cambridge, Mass., and participated in the siege of Boston;
-had many sharpshooters in his command; was made brigadier-general
-in 1776; relieved General Lee in command of the American forces at
-New York; died in 1791.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>A veteran soldier of the Revolution was Patrick Leonard, who was
-born in Ireland, 1740. He came to this country and enlisted in the
-Patriot ranks; served in Proctor’s artillery and in the First Regiment,
-Pennsylvania Line. He saw much service and took part in
-the battles of Bunker Hill, Long Island, White Plains, Trenton, Princeton,
-Brandywine, Germantown and Stony Point; also served, in
-1791–’96, under Harmar, St. Clair and Wayne. He was residing,
-in 1817, at Cincinnati, Ohio.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>A native of County Westmeath, Ireland, John Shee, came to
-America between 1742 and 1745; became prominent in Philadelphia,
-Pa.; a patriot of the Revolution; commanded the Third Pennsylvania
-regiment; member of the Pennsylvania State Board of War;
-subscribed £1,000 in aid of the army; is referred to as “a man of
-excellent manners and good acquirements”; after the war, became a
-general of Pennsylvania state troops; collector of the port of Philadelphia;
-city treasurer of Philadelphia.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>A native of Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland, John Dunlap, was
-born in 1747. He settled in Philadelphia, Pa.; became printer to
-Congress, and to the state of Pennsylvania; published the Philadelphia
-<cite>Packet</cite>; was cornet, lieutenant, and commander of the First City
-Troop; commanded the cavalry in the Whiskey Insurrection campaign.
-During the Revolution he subscribed £4,000 in aid of the
-Patriot army. He was at one time the owner of 98,000 acres in the
-South, in addition to real estate elsewhere.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_112'>112</span>One of the earliest Irishmen in this country of whom we have
-record was Francis Maguire. Hon. Hugh Hastings, state historian
-of New York, writes that Maguire arrived at Jamestown, Va., with
-Capt. Christopher Newport, about 1607, remained in the country
-nearly a year, and returned to England with Newport. Maguire
-“wrote an account of his voyage to Virginia and submitted it to the
-Privy Council of Spain.” In one account he is described as an
-Irishman and a Roman Catholic.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Teague Crehore was a resident of Milton or Dorchester, Mass., as
-early as 1640–’50. He is stated to have been stolen from his
-parents in Ireland when a child. He died in 1695, aged 55 years.
-This would show that he was born about 1640. He had a son
-Timothy, born in 1660, who died in 1739 and is buried in Milton,
-Mass. This Timothy had a son Timothy, grandson of Teague, who
-was born in 1689 and wedded Mary Driscoll of Dorchester, Mass.,
-in 1712. He died in 1755 and is buried in Milton.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Rev. Samuel Dorrance, an Irish Presbyterian clergyman, arrived
-in Voluntown, Conn., 1722, and was installed as pastor of the church
-there. His nationality caused some dissatisfaction, and the disgruntled
-members of the church drew up a petition for his removal.
-They were informed, they said, that “He came out of Ireland” and
-that since his coming “The Irish do flock into town.” (Larned’s
-<cite>History of Windham County, Conn.</cite>, quoted by Rev. James H.
-O’Donnell in his <cite>History of the Diocese of Hartford</cite>.)</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The “poll list for the election of burgesses for the County of
-Prince William,” Virginia, 1731, contains many Irish names, including
-Darby Callahan, Edward Barry, John Mead, Thomas Conway,
-Samuel Conner, Michael Regan, James Curry, Owen Gilmore, John
-Murphey, William Hogan, Thomas Hicks, Michael Scanlon, John
-Madden, Dennis McCarty, Thomas Jordan, Richard Higgins, Thomas
-Welsh, etc. These and other names, constituting the entire list, are
-set forth in Boogher’s <cite>Gleanings of Virginia History</cite>.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>A gallant soldier of the Revolution, who has almost been forgotten,
-was John Haslett. He was born in Ireland, came to this country
-and located in Delaware; was for several terms a member of the
-State Assembly; participated in the battles of Long Island and
-White Plains. On one occasion, he surprised a British picket, took
-36 prisoners, 60 muskets, and two pairs of colors; became colonel
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_113'>113</span>of a Delaware regiment and was killed at the battle of Princeton,
-1777. His son, Joseph, became governor of Delaware.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Among the many Irish names on the roster of the Commander-in-Chief’s
-Guard, during the Revolution, is that of Hugh Hagerty. He
-served in a Pennsylvania regiment of the Line, and was transferred
-at Valley Forge, March 19, 1778, to the Guard just mentioned.
-This organization is sometimes referred to as Washington’s “Life
-Guard,” and was composed of picked men. Hagerty participated in
-the battle of Monmouth and other engagements of the war. (Godfrey’s
-recent work on <cite>The Commander-in-Chief’s Guard</cite>.)</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The Dutch records of New York mention Jan Andriessen, “the
-Irishman.” Jan was at Beverwyck, now Albany, N. Y., as early as
-1645. He is also referred to as “De Iersman van Dublingh.” His
-name in English was probably John Anderson. In 1649 he leased
-a “bouwerie” or farm. It is also known that he bought a farm and
-homestead of Peter Bronck at Coxsackie, N. Y. In one document
-his signature is thus attested: “This is the mark of Jan Andriessen,
-the Irishman, with his own hand set.” He died in 1664.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>William Hogen, also written Hogan, is heard from in Albany,
-N. Y., as early as 1692. The Dutch records state that he was from
-“Yrland in de Kings county.” At a mayor’s court held in Albany,
-May 14, 1700, he was deemed “convenient and fitt to be one of the
-fyre masters for ye Citty.” June 25, 1700, he was on a petit jury to
-try an action between two Dutchmen. He also served on a jury in
-1703. In 1700 and 1704 he was elected an assessor. (Hon.
-Franklin M. Danaher in <cite>Early Irish in Old Albany, N. Y.</cite>)</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>James Butler came from Ireland, and is heard from at Lancaster,
-Mass., 1653. He became the largest landowner in what is now
-Worcester County, Mass. He also owned land in Dunstable, Woburn
-and Billerica, Mass. He died in 1681. His son, Deacon John
-Butler, was the first child of Irish parentage born in Woburn, and
-settled in Pelham, N. H., and lies buried there. (From a letter written
-to the American-Irish Historical Society by Henry A. May of
-Roslindale, Mass., a descendant of James Butler the immigrant.)</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>A resident of Yarmouth, Mass., as early as 1645, was Teague
-Jones, who is stated to have been an Irishman. He was one of the
-men sent from the town, in the year just mentioned, against the Narragansett
-Indians. His period of service at the time was thirteen or
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_114'>114</span>fourteen days. In 1667, the selectmen of “the towne of Yarmouth
-returne the name of Teague Jones for not coming to meeting.” In
-a “rate” made in 1676 to defray the expenses of King Philip’s War,
-Teague was assessed £2 4s, as his share. He had a son, Jeremiah.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>A prominent resident of Albany, N. Y., during the Revolution, was
-Hugh Denniston, “a true Irishman.” For many years he conducted
-the only first-class hotel and tavern there. It was the first
-stone house erected in the place. Denniston was a sturdy patriot
-and his hotel was a meeting place for the liberty-loving citizens of
-Albany. Washington was a guest at the hotel on his visits to
-Albany in 1782 and 1783, and was there presented the freedom of
-the city.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Charles MacCarthy was a founder of the town of East Greenwich,
-R. I., 1677. Like many surnames at that period, his is variously
-spelled in the records. Thus, it appears as Macarta, Macarte, Macarty,
-Mecarty, Mackarte, etc. In the year mentioned, he was one
-of a party of forty-eight settlers to whom a grant of 5,000 acres, to be
-called East Greenwich, was made by the General Assembly of Rhode
-Island. Later, the area of the town was enlarged by the addition of
-35,000 acres on the western border. Charles’ will is dated Feb. 18,
-1682.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The twenty-six original members of the Charitable Irish Society,
-Boston, Mass., which organization was founded in 1737, were: Robert
-Duncan, Andrew Knox, Nathaniel Walsh, Joseph St. Lawrence,
-Daniel McFall, Edward Allen, William Drummond, William Freeland,
-Daniel Gibbs, John Noble, Adam Boyd, William Stewart, Daniel
-Neal, James Mayes, Samuel Moor, Philip Mortimer, James Egart,
-George Glen, Peter Pelham, John Little, Archibald Thomas, Edward
-Alderchurch, James Clark, John Clark, Thomas Bennett and Patrick
-Walker.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Jasper Moylan was a native of the city of Cork, Ireland, and half
-brother of Gen. Stephen Moylan. He was educated in France, studied
-law, came to this country and attained eminence in his profession
-in Philadelphia, Pa. In addition to English, he had a splendid
-knowledge of the French and Spanish languages. He was a member
-of the First City Troop of Philadelphia. He and his brother
-John, and their half brother Stephen, were known in that city as “the
-three polite Irishmen,” owing to their elegant manners. Jasper died
-in 1812.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_115'>115</span>Among Virginia officers in the Revolution were Maj. William Croghan,
-Capt. Ferdinand O’Neal, Capt. Patrick Carnes, Capt. John
-Fitzgerald, Capt. Andrew Nixon, Capt. William Barrett, Capt. John
-Jordan, Capt. Lawrence Butler, Capt. James Curry, Lieut. Joseph
-Conway, Lieut. Luke Cannon, Lieut. Peter Higgins, Lieut. William
-McGuire, Lieut. Lawrence Manning, Lieut. John Rooney, Lieut.
-Matthew Rhea, Ensign William Connor and others bearing Irish
-names. Some of these subsequently attained higher rank than that
-here given.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Sharp Delany, born in County Monaghan, Ireland, established
-himself as a druggist in Philadelphia, Pa., about 1764. He was a
-patriot of the Revolution. In 1777, he was a commissioner “to
-seize the personal effects of traitors,” and in 1778, was an agent to
-look after “forfeited estates.” In 1779, he was colonel of the Second
-Pennsylvania regiment. He subscribed £1,000 in aid of the
-army in 1780; was collector of the port of Philadelphia; a member
-of the Society of the Cincinnati, and occupied other honorable positions
-in life.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>John Hamilton, “an Irish servant-man,” was a Redemptioner or
-indentured servant who, in 1752, was held by Henry Caldwell of
-Chester County, Pa. Hamilton ran away that year and Caldwell
-advertised to recover him. Hamilton was then about twenty-two
-years of age. Caldwell offered a reward to “whoever takes up said
-servant, so that his master may have him again.” Mention of the
-incident is found in Karl Frederick Geiser’s recent work on <cite>Redemptioners
-and Indentured Servants in the Colony and Commonwealth of
-Pennsylvania</cite>.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>George Taylor, one of the Irish signers of the Declaration of Independence,
-was born in the Old Land, in 1716. He came to this
-country when twenty years of age. Having a good education, he
-advanced from the occupation of laborer in an iron foundry to
-the position of clerk; married his employer’s widow, and accumulated
-a generous fortune. He was a member of the Pennsylvania
-Assembly for five consecutive years. In 1770, he was made a judge
-of the Northumberland County Court, Pa., and was elected to Congress
-in 1776.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>One of the first settlers of Waterford, Conn., was Thomas Butler.
-He and John Butler were there about 1681. Rev. James H. O’Donnell,
-now of Norwalk, Conn., says that the “name of Waterford was,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_116'>116</span>no doubt, given to their new home in honor of the old, the beautiful
-city on the banks of the Suir,” in Ireland. He thinks it not unreasonable
-to infer that the founders of the Connecticut Waterford were
-Irish Catholics. Thomas Butler died in 1701, aged 59 years. John
-Butler died in 1733, aged 80 years. Thomas was, therefore, born
-about 1642, and John about 1653.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>William Hibbins came from Ireland to Boston, Mass., on the <em>Mary
-and John</em>, about 1634. He married Mrs. Anne Moore, a widow,
-whose brother, Richard Bellingham, was governor of Massachusetts.
-Mr. Hibbins died in 1654. His wife fell a victim to the witch-hunting
-fanatics of the period and was hanged by order of the Massachusetts
-authorities, in 1656. No jury could be found to convict her
-and she suffered death at the hands of the General Court. She bequeathed
-her property to her two sons, in County Cork, Ireland,
-John and Joseph Moore. (See Cullen’s <cite>Story of the Irish in Boston</cite>.)</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Molly Pitcher, “a young Irishwoman” having “a handsome,
-piercing eye,” was the wife of a cannoneer in the Patriot army during
-the Revolution. At the battle of Monmouth her husband was
-killed at his post, whereupon Molly, who was engaged bringing
-water from a spring, dropped her bucket, seized the rammer of the
-cannon and taking her husband’s place continued to serve the piece
-of artillery. The next morning she was presented by General
-Greene to Washington, who praised her heroism and made her a
-sergeant. She was placed upon the list of half-pay officers for life.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Anthony Gulliver, a native of Ireland, was born in 1619. He died
-at Milton, Mass., 1706. His children were: Lydia, born 1651; Samuel,
-born 1653; Jonathan, born 1659; Stephen, born 1663; John,
-born 1669; Elizabeth, born 1671; Nathaniel, born 1675. There
-were also two other children, Hannah and Mary. The children were
-all born in this country, Cullen’s <cite>Story of the Irish in Boston</cite> states
-that “Anthony Gulliver was the ancestor of a large number of able
-and influential men and women, who have been prominent in the history
-of church and town affairs of Milton for nearly two hundred
-years.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>From the <cite>Calendar of Colonial State Papers</cite>: “April 1st, 1653.
-Order of the Council of State. For a license to Sir John Clotworthy
-to transport to America 500 natural Irishmen.” On Oct. 3, 1655,
-it was ordered that “1000 Irish girls and the like number of boys
-of 14 years or under,” be sent to Jamaica, “the allowance to each
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_117'>117</span>one not to exceed 20 shillings.” May 22, 1656, an order was
-adopted “for the transportation of 1200 men from Knockfergus in
-Ireland and Port Patrick in Scotland to Jamaica.” (Quoted by
-Rev. James H. O’Donnell in his <cite>History of the Diocese of Hartford</cite>,
-Conn.)</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>A Rhode Island soldier, Patrick Tracy, participated with Montgomery
-in the assault on Quebec. He was of the company of Capt.
-Simeon Thayer of Providence, R. I., and was killed in the assault
-just mentioned. Cornelius Hagerty and Corporal James Hayden of
-the company were wounded. In a work on this invasion of Canada,
-reference is made to John M. Taylor, “keen as an Irish greyhound,”
-who was Arnold’s purveyor and commissary in the wilderness. Mention
-is also made of Lieut. William Cross, “a handsome little Irishman,
-always neatly dressed,” who commanded, on the Isle of Orleans,
-a detachment of some twenty men.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Among the land patents granted in New York under the English
-colonial government, was one to David Mooney, 1765. The tract was
-located in Washington County and comprised 2,000 acres. It was
-known as the Mooney patent. The Otsego patent, 100,000 acres,
-was granted to George Croghan and ninety-nine others, in 1769.
-Croghan is also mentioned in connection with other patents. Michael
-Byrne and others were granted the Stony Hill Tract, 18,000
-acres, in 1768. It was located in Schoharie County. The Adaquataugie
-patent, 26,000 acres, in Otsego County, was granted in 1770
-to Sir William Johnson, an Irishman, and others.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The rolls of the Third New York Regiment of the Line, during the
-Revolution, contain a large number of Irish names. They include
-Brady, Brannon, Burke, Burns, Butler, Condon, Connolly, Dempsey,
-Doherty, Dunn, Flynn, Garvey, Geraghty, Gillaspy, Hickey, Hogan,
-Kelly, Lyon, McCarty, McConnelly, McCord, McCormick, McCoy,
-McDermot, McGinnis, McGown, McGuire, Mackey, McLaughlin,
-McNeal, McQuin, Madden, Mahan, Moloy, Moore, Morris, Morrison,
-Mulholand, Murray, O’Connoley, Quigley, Riley, Ryan, Sullivan,
-Sweeny, Tobin, Wall, Welch and others. (Vide <cite>New York in the
-Revolution</cite>, by Comptroller James A. Roberts, Albany, 1898.)</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Among Irish names found in Connecticut at early periods may be
-mentioned Brian Rosseter, Windsor, 1639; Thomas Dunn, New Haven,
-1647; Lawrence Ward, Branford, 1654; Thomas Welch, Milford,
-1654; John Mead, Stamford, 1656; Richard Hughes, New Haven,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_118'>118</span>1659; Edward Fanning, Mystic, 1662; Thomas Ford, Windsor,
-1669; Richard Butler, Stratford, 1669; Hugh Griffin, Stratford,
-1669; William Meade, New London, 1669; Thomas Sha (Shea), Sr.,
-Stonington, 1669; Thomas Tracy, Norwich, 1669; Timothy Ford,
-New Haven, 1669; Jeremiah Blake, New London, 1681; James
-Kelly, New London, 1682; Owen McCarty, New London, 1693.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Gen. Walter Stewart, a Pennsylvania officer of the Revolution,
-was born in Ireland, about 1756. He settled in Philadelphia, Pa.,
-espoused the cause of the Patriots, and in 1776 was commissioned
-captain. He was made an aide-de-camp to General Gates the same
-year. In 1777, Stewart was commissioned colonel of the Pennsylvania
-State Regiment of Foot, took part in the battles of Brandywine
-and Germantown, and retired in 1786 with the rank of brevet
-brigadier-general. In 1794, he was major-general of Pennsylvania
-state troops. General Washington was godfather to his eldest son.
-(Campbell’s <cite>History of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick</cite>, Philadelphia.)</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The Marquis de Chastellux in a tour through Connecticut, 1780,
-stopped at Litchfield. His host there was a Mr. Philips. The
-latter was, the Marquis tells us, “an Irishman transplanted to
-America, where he has already made a fortune; he appears to be
-a man skillful and adroit; he speaks with caution to strangers, and
-fears to compromise himself; for the rest he is of a gayer mood than
-the Americans, even a little of a joker, a kind but little known in
-America.” (From <cite><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Voyages de M. Le Marquis de Chastellux dans
-L’Amerique, Septentrionale les annees 1780, 1781 and 1782</span></cite>; quoted
-by Rev. James H. O’Donnell in his <cite>History of the Diocese of
-Hartford</cite>.)</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>A prominent merchant in Philadelphia, Pa., at one period, was
-James Caldwell. He was a native of Ireland. He was a patriot of
-the Revolution, a member of the First City Troop, Philadelphia, and
-took part with it in the campaign of 1776–’77. Campbell’s <cite>History
-of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick</cite>, Philadelphia, says that he was
-“one of the six volunteers of the Troop who accompanied Colonel
-Reed on December 30, 1776, from Trenton to reconnoitre the advanced
-posts of the enemy, and who captured twelve British soldiers
-during that expedition.” In 1780, Caldwell subscribed £2,000 to
-the bank that was organized to supply the Continental army with
-provisions.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_119'>119</span>Rev. Mr. Lyons, an Irish clergyman of the Church of England,
-who was located in Derby, Conn., was subjected to great abuse there
-because of his nationality. Writing to London, May 8, 1744, he
-says: “As soon as they had advice of my appointment, and from
-what country I came, and, indeed, before I arrived among them,
-they abused me, calling me ‘an Irish Teague and Foreigner,’ with
-many other reflections of an uncivilized and unchristian kind. It
-would be too tedious to record all the abuse and insults I have
-received in Derby.” (<cite>Church Documents of the Protestant Episcopal
-Church</cite>, quoted by Rev. James H. O’Donnell in his <cite>History of the
-Diocese of Hartford</cite>.)</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Patrick Ward, a lieutenant, was one of the defenders of Fort Griswold,
-Conn., during the Revolution. The fort was attacked by the
-British during the raid conducted by Arnold, the traitor, and after a
-gallant resistance was captured by the enemy. The atrocities committed
-upon the surrendered and helpless garrison, by the British,
-constitutes one of the blackest chapters in the history of warfare.
-The event has ever since been known as the “Massacre of Fort
-Griswold.” Ward was one of the victims. On a stone over his
-grave was placed this inscription: “In memory of Mr. Patrick Ward
-who fell a victim to British cruelty in Fort Griswold, Sept. 6th, 1781,
-in the 25th year of his age.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Felt’s <cite>Ecclesiastical History of New England</cite> mentions William Collins
-who, about 1640, accompanied a party of refugees from the West
-Indies to what is now New Haven, Conn. After a time these wayfarers
-dispersed “and some returned to Ireland.” Collins afterwards
-taught school at Hartford, Conn., and subsequently wedded a
-daughter of Anne Hutchinson who with her family had been banished
-from Boston, Mass., by the intolerant Boston church, because of her
-religious views. She took up her residence on the island of Rhode
-Island. Later, the family removed to territory under Dutch jurisdiction,
-where Mrs. Hutchinson, her son and her son-in-law (Collins)
-were killed by the Indians.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>An interesting tradition is told concerning George Berkeley, “the
-Kilkenny scholar,” Anglican dean of Derry, and later bishop of
-Cloyne. The tradition relates to his arrival at Newport, R. I., in
-1729, and is thus narrated: “The captain of the ship in which he
-and his party sailed could not find the island of Bermuda, and having
-given up the search for it, steered northward until they discovered
-land unknown to them and supposed to be inhabited by savages.
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_120'>120</span>On making a signal, however, two men came on board from Block
-Island, in the character of pilots, who on inquiry informed them that
-the harbor of Newport was near.” The tradition may be founded on
-fact, but opinions vary concerning it.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>John Mease, born in County Tyrone, Ireland, became a shipping
-merchant in Philadelphia, Pa., and was a patriot of the Revolution.
-He was with the force that crossed the Delaware with Washington
-on the night of Dec. 25, 1776, and surprised the Hessians at Trenton.
-On another occasion he was of a detail told-off to keep the
-fires along the American front burning while the patriots secretly
-moved in another direction to fall upon the British at Princeton. On
-one occasion during the war Mease subscribed £4,000 in aid of the
-Patriot cause. He was affectionately spoken of in his old age as
-“The last of the cocked hats,” on account of his continuing to wear
-the three-cornered hat of the Revolution.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Count Arthur Dillon, commander of the Irish-French regiment of
-Dillon during the American Revolution, perished by the guillotine in
-Paris, a victim to the Terror. The regiment of Dillon formed part
-of the Irish brigade in the service of France, and was a most historic
-corps. It dated its organization back to the previous century.
-Count Dillon, above mentioned, came with his regiment to America
-with our French allies and rendered valiant service. He took part
-in the capture from the British of St. Eustache, Tobago and St.
-Christopher, participated in the attack on Savannah and in the siege
-and capture of Yorktown. He became a brigadier and marechal-de-camp,
-and, in 1792, was in command of a division in the French
-army.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In 1743 there was born in Dublin, Ireland, a boy who was destined
-to take a prominent part in the American Revolution. He was
-Richard Butler. He came to this country, espoused the Patriot
-cause, and attained distinction as a soldier. His ability was early
-recognized by Congress and, 1776, he was appointed major. In
-1777 he was commissioned colonel of the Fifth Pennsylvania; was
-an officer of Morgan’s Rifle Corps, and took part in the battles of
-Bemis’ Heights and Stillwater; was made colonel of the Ninth
-Pennsylvania; commanded the Americans at the storming of Stony
-Point; participated in the siege and capture of Yorktown. He attained
-the rank of major-general and was second in command of St.
-Clair’s army for operations against the Indians. He was killed in
-battle by an Indian, 1791.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_121'>121</span>“Thomas the Irishman” is mentioned in the Dutch records of
-New York. Thus, Hon. Peter Stuyvesant, Director-General of New
-Netherland, writing to Capt. Martin Cregier, 1663, says: “Your
-letter by Thomas the Irishman has just been received.”&nbsp;...
-On Aug. 5, 1663, Captain Cregier writes in his journal: “Thomas
-the Irishman arrived here at the Redoubt from the Manhatans.”
-On Sept. 1, 1663, Captain Cregier writes: “Thomas the Irishman
-and Claesje Hoorn arrived with their yachts at the Kill from the
-Manhatans,” and on the 17th of the same month the captain writes:
-“Thomas the Irishman arrived today.” The foregoing references
-may be found in <cite>Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the
-State of New York</cite>, edited by Fernow, Vol. XIII, Albany, 1881.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The first president of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, New York
-City, 1784, was Daniel McCormick, a native of Ireland. He came
-to this country prior to the Revolution, and amassed a large fortune,
-was one of the first directors of the Bank of New York, and was associated
-with William Constable and Alexander Macomb, two Irishmen,
-in extensive land enterprises. Barrett’s <cite>Old Merchants of New
-York</cite> states that “Mr. McCormick was a glorious example of the old
-New Yorker,” and “stuck to short breeches and white stockings and
-buckles to the last.” He was a great entertainer, “gave good dinner
-parties, and had choice old wines upon the table.” He is also mentioned
-“as one of the most polished gentlemen of the city.” He
-“was the last occupant of a first-class dwelling on Wall Street, since
-devoted wholly to business.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>From the records of the selectmen, Boston, Mass., May 4, 1723:
-“Whereas great numbers of Persons haue [have] very lately bin
-Transported from Ireland into this Province, many of which by
-Reason of the Present Indian war and the Accedents befalling them,
-Are now Resident in this Town whose Circomstances and Condition
-are not known, Some of which if due care be not taken may become
-a Town Charge or be otherwise prejuditial to the wellfair &amp; Prosperity
-of the Place, for Remady whereof Ordered That Every Person
-now Resident here, that hath within the Space of three years last
-past bin brought from Ireland, or for the future Shal come from
-thence hither, Shal come and enter his name and Occupation with
-the Town Clerk, and if marryed the number and Age of his Children
-and Servants, within the Space of fiue [five] dayes, on pain of
-forfeiting and paying the Sum of twenty Shillings for Each
-offence***.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='pageno' id='Page_122'>122</span>Matthew Lyon, “the Hampden of Congress,” was born in County
-Wicklow, Ireland, 1750. He came to this country in 1765; located
-in Connecticut, and later in Vermont; participated with Ethan Allen
-in the capture of Ticonderoga from the British; became adjutant of
-Col. Seth Warner’s regiment; served under General Montgomery in
-the campaign against Canada, 1775; became paymaster, with the
-rank of captain, in Warner’s regiment; took part in the battles of
-Bennington and Saratoga; became commissary-general of militia,
-with the rank of colonel; was a member of the State Legislature and
-judge of Rutland County, Vt.; member of Congress from Vermont
-from 1797 to 1801; cast the vote that made Thomas Jefferson
-president of the United States; removed to Kentucky and represented
-that state in Congress from 1803 to 1811.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Sarah W. Alexander, who wedded Christopher R. Perry of Rhode
-Island, became the mother of Oliver H. Perry—best known as
-Commodore Perry—who defeated the British in the naval battle on
-Lake Erie. She was a native of Newry, Ireland, and was born in
-1768. Mackenzie, in his <cite>Life of Commodore Perry</cite>, just mentioned,
-says that her friends in Ireland “Had been involved in the Irish
-rebellion. She herself, had felt a lively interest in the cause of liberty,
-and had listened with deep interest to every account she had
-heard of battles and skirmishes in the neighborhood. She took a
-pleasure in recounting&nbsp;... the achievements of her countrymen
-and always insisted that they were the bravest people in the world.
-These narratives fired the mind of Oliver and created a desire in him
-to pursue the profession of arms.” Oliver received much of his
-early education from “Old Master” Kelly, an Irish school teacher at
-Tower Hill, R. I.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>From the records of the selectmen, Boston, Mass., Aug. 16, 1736:
-“mr. James Wimble Informs That Capt. Benedict Arnold who just
-arrived from Cork with Passengers, came to his House yesterday,
-being Lord’s day in the afternoon, bringing with him the following
-Persons, Viz<sup>t</sup>. Mr. Benj<sup>a</sup>. Ellard, Gent, and his Wife and Three Children,
-and a Maid Servant, Joseph Atkins, John Clark, John Seley,
-Thomas Morgan, James Ellard, John Ellard, Benjamin Gillam,
-Elizabeth Ellard and William Neal. Accordingly the Master Capt.
-Arnold was sent for Who appear’d and gave Information, That he
-came from Ireland about Twelve Weeks ago, and that he is Bound
-to Philadelphia with his Passengers, Who in all, are one Hundred
-and Twenty, Hopes to Sail in a few days, as soon as he can Recruit
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_123'>123</span>with Water and Provisions, and Promises That the Passengers
-which came ashore Yesterdy shall repair aboard again to day, The
-Ships name is the Prudent Hannah.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Gen. William Irvine of the Revolution was born near Enniskellen,
-County Fermanagh, Ireland, 1741. He came to America in 1764,
-and settled at Carlisle, Pa. He espoused the patriot cause, raised
-and commanded the Sixth Pennsylvania regiment; commanded a
-brigade at the battle of Monmouth, and when Lee’s troops were
-retreating, they so impeded the advance of this gallant Irishman’s
-brigade that he threatened to charge through them before he could
-make his way to take an advanced position. Irvine was made a
-brigadier-general in May, 1779, and was assigned to the command
-of the Second brigade of the Pennsylvania Line; later he became a
-member of the State Council of Censors; member of the Continental
-Congress; senior major-general of Pennsylvania State troops; a
-presidential elector; in charge of United States military stores at
-Philadelphia. He was a member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick,
-Philadelphia. (<i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Vide</span></i> Campbell’s <cite>History of the Friendly Sons of
-St. Patrick</cite>.)</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>William Constable was born in Dublin, Ireland, 1752; a patriot
-of the Revolution; joined the Continental army as an aide to Lafayette;
-prominent as a merchant in Philadelphia, Pa.; married Ann
-White, a schoolmate of the wife of General Washington; removed
-to New York City in 1784; also very prominent there; associated
-in business with Robert Morris and Governeur Morris, the firm
-being known as Constable &amp; Co.; engaged in huge land speculations,
-purchasing large tracts in New York, Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia,
-and Georgia; bought in 1787, with Alexander Macomb,
-a tract of 640,000 acres in New York, Constable’s share being
-192,000 acres; in 1791, he and Alexander Macomb and Daniel McCormick
-purchased a tract, in New York, of some 4,000,000 acres, or
-about a tenth part of the whole state. This purchase comprised the
-“whole of the present counties of Lewis, Jefferson, St. Lawrence
-and Franklin, with parts of Oswego and Herkimer.” On one occasion,
-about 1797, Constable lent $1,000 to the fugitive Duke of
-Orleans in this country, which loan was afterwards repaid by Louis
-Philippe. Constable was a member of the Friendly Sons of St.
-Patrick, Philadelphia, and of the Hibernian Society of that city.
-He was president of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, New York
-City, in 1789–’90 and in 1795.</p>
-
-<div class='chapter'>
- <span class='pageno' id='Page_124'>124</span>
- <h2 class='c004'>MEMOIR OF MATHEW CAREY.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c006'>
- <div><span class='small'>BY HENRY CAREY BAIRD.<a id='r14' /><a href='#f14' class='c007'><sup>[14]</sup></a></span></div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c005'>Mathew Carey, the Philadelphia publisher, was born in the city of
-Dublin, Ireland, on the 28th of January, 1760. His father, Christopher
-Carey, at one time in the British navy, was subsequently an
-extensive contractor for the army, through which means he achieved
-an independence.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The son early evinced a passion for the acquisition of knowledge,
-and in addition to some familiarity with Latin, soon became proficient
-in French, without the assistance of a master. To do this,
-however, he studied as much as fifteen or sixteen hours a day,
-hardly allowing himself time for his meals. The peculiar orthography
-of his Christian name as rendered by himself, “Mathew,”
-and not “Matthew,” was the result of a philological discussion with
-one of his brothers, when quite a young man, and his then arriving
-at a belief that from its derivation this was the correct mode of spelling
-it.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>When about fifteen years of age it became necessary for Mathew
-to choose a trade. He was decidedly in favor of that of printer and
-bookseller, which were then generally united. His father had a
-strong aversion to the trade, and refused to look out a master for
-him, which he did for himself, and he was accordingly apprenticed
-to a printer and bookseller of the name of McDonnel. A lameness
-which took place owing to the carelessness of his nurse when he was
-about a year old, and which continued throughout life, was a constant
-drawback to him, and interfered greatly with him in his career.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>His first essay as a writer was when he was about seventeen years
-old, and was on the subject of dueling, which he condemned with
-great severity—the occasion being the attempt of a bookseller in
-Dublin to bring about a duel between an apprentice of his own and
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_125'>125</span>one of McDonnel’s. As will be seen, however, after he came to the
-United States, Mr. Carey was himself a principal, and was wounded
-in a duel.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>His next attempt at authorship was one which involved most
-serious consequences to himself, and drove him into exile. Having
-directed his attention to the oppressions under which the Irish Catholics
-stood, and having read every book and pamphlet on the subject
-which he could procure, and with his mind filled with their sufferings,
-and his indignation aroused, he, in 1779, wrote a pamphlet entitled
-<cite>The Urgent Necessity of an Immediate Repeal of the whole Penal
-Code against the Roman Catholics, Candidly Considered; to which is
-added an inquiry into the prejudices against them; being an appeal to
-the Roman Catholics of Ireland, exciting them to a just sense of their
-civil and religious rights as citizens of a free nation</cite>.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>When nearly ready it was advertised for publication in a few days,
-with the title page and its mottoes, and the attention of the public
-was called to it by an address, couched in very strong language, and
-wherein reference was made to the fact that “America by a desperate
-effort has nearly emancipated herself from slavery.” It excited
-considerable alarm. Parliament was then in session, and the advertisement
-was brought before both houses. The publication was denounced
-by an association of Roman Catholics, which, as Mr. Carey
-has asserted, “partook of the general depression and servile spirit,
-which a long course of oppression uniformly produces.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>This association offered a reward for the apprehension of the
-author, and engaged lawyers to carry on the prosecution in case of
-discovery. The authorship having become known to Mr. Carey’s
-father, was to him a cause of great alarm, and efforts were made to
-appease the wrath of the committee, and induce them to abandon
-the prosecution by an offer to destroy the entire edition. This was
-of no avail, and after being concealed for some days, Mr. Carey got
-on board of a Holyhead packet and proceeded to Paris.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>He carried with him a letter of introduction to a Catholic priest,
-by whom he was introduced to Dr. Franklin, then the American
-Minister to the French Court, and who had a small printing office at
-Passy for the purpose of printing his dispatches from America. In
-this office Mr. Carey was employed while this work lasted. Afterwards
-he found a position with the celebrated publisher, Didot, who
-was then printing some English books. While at Passy he made
-the acquaintance of the Marquis de Lafayette—whose friendship
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_126'>126</span>at a subsequent period became one of the most controlling influences
-of his future career.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In about twelve months he returned to Dublin, and the remainder
-of his apprenticeship having been purchased from McDonnel, he
-engaged for a time as the conductor of a paper called the <cite>Freeman’s
-Journal</cite>. Finally, on the 13th of October, 1783, his father furnished
-him with the means to establish a new paper called the <cite>Volunteers’
-Journal</cite>. For this work, he says, he was “miserably qualified,”
-although he had “a superabundance of zeal and ardor, and a tolerable
-knack and facility of scribbling.” He adds: “The paper, as
-might have been expected, partook largely of the character of its
-proprietor and editor. Its career was enthusiastic and violent. It
-suited the temper of the times, exercised a decided influence on public
-opinion; and, in very short time, had a greater circulation than
-any other paper in Dublin, except the <cite>Evening Post</cite>, which had the
-great merit of calling into existence that glorious band of brothers,
-the Volunteers of Ireland, whose zeal and determined resolution to
-assert and defend the rights of country, struck terror into the British
-cabinet, and forced the ministry to knock off chains that had bound
-down the nation for centuries.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>“<cite>The Volunteers’ Journal</cite>, fanning the flame of patriotism which
-pervaded the land,” says Mr. Carey, “excited the indignation of the
-government, which formed a determination to put it down, if possible.
-A prosecution had for a considerable time been contemplated—and,
-at length, the storm which had so long threatened, burst, in
-consequence of a publication which appeared on the 5th of April,
-1784, in which the Parliament in general, and more particularly the
-Premier, were severely attacked.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Accordingly, on the 7th of the same month, a motion was made in
-the Irish House of Commons, for an address to the Lord Lieutenant,
-requesting the apprehension of Mathew Carey. He was arrested on
-the 11th, and on the 19th was taken before the House of Commons,
-when certain interrogatories were put to him, which he positively
-refused to answer, on the ground that he was arrested by the civil
-power, and being under prosecution for the supposed libel of the
-Premier, he was not amenable to another tribunal. He preferred
-charges against the Sergeant-at-Arms in whose custody he was. An
-exciting debate arose; the Sergeant-at-Arms was justified by a large
-majority, and Mr. Carey was committed to Newgate jail, Dublin,
-where he remained until the 14th of May, when Parliament having
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_127'>127</span>adjourned, he was liberated by the Lord Mayor. “During my stay
-there,” says Mr. Carey, “I had lived joyously—companies of gentlemen
-occasionally dining with me on the choicest luxuries the markets
-afforded.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Although thus freed from the clutches of Parliament, the criminal
-prosecution for libel of the Premier still stood suspended over his
-head. In the then inflamed state of the public mind it would have
-been impossible to procure a grand jury to find a true bill against
-him; but the attorney-general filed a bill <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ex-officio</span></i> which dispensed
-with the interposition of the grand jury. Mr. Carey’s means were,
-in a great measure, exhausted; and, dreading the consequences of
-the prosecution and a heavy fine and imprisonment, his friends
-thought it best for him to leave his native country; and, “accordingly,
-on the 7th of September, 1784,” he says, “when I had not
-reached my 25th year, my pen drove me a second time into exile.”
-He embarked on board the <em>America</em>, Captain Keiler, and landed in
-Philadelphia on the 1st of November. He was induced to select
-Philadelphia as his new home for the reason that he had seen notices
-of his examination before the Irish House of Commons in two Philadelphia
-papers. There his case was therefore known, and would
-probably make him friends.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>He had sold out his paper to his brother for £500, to be remitted
-as soon as practicable, and he landed in Philadelphia with about a
-dozen guineas in his pocket, without a relation or a friend, or even
-an acquaintance, except those of the <em>America</em>. A most unlooked
-for circumstance soon occurred which gave a new direction to his
-views and changed the course of his future life. A fellow passenger
-of his had brought letters of recommendation to General Washington,
-and having gone to Mount Vernon to deliver them, he there
-met the Marquis de Lafayette.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The conversation turning upon the affairs of Ireland, the Marquis
-said he had seen in the Philadelphia papers an account of Mr.
-Carey’s troubles with the Parliament, and inquired what had become
-of the poor persecuted Dublin printer, when he was informed that
-he was then in Philadelphia. On the arrival of the Marquis in that
-city, he wrote to Mr. Carey requesting him to call upon him. Mr.
-Carey then told him that upon receipt of funds from home he proposed
-to establish a newspaper in Philadelphia. Of this the Marquis
-approved, and promised to recommend him to his friend,
-Robert Morris, and others. The next morning Mr. Carey was
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_128'>128</span>greatly surprised at receiving a letter from the Marquis containing
-$400. “This was the more extraordinary and liberal,” says Mr.
-Carey, “as not a word had passed between us on the subject of giving
-or receiving, borrowing or lending money.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Nor was there a word in the letter about the inclosure. Mr. Carey
-went to the lodgings of the Marquis, but found that he had left the
-city. He wrote to him at New York expressing his gratitude in the
-strongest of terms, and received a kind and friendly answer. “I have
-more than once assumed, and I now repeat,” says Mr. Carey, “that
-I doubt whether in the whole life of this (I had almost said) unparalleled
-man, there is to be found anything which, all the circumstances
-of the case considered, more highly elevates his character.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Although this sum was in every sense of the word a gift, Mr. Carey
-always considered it as a loan, payable to the Marquis’ countrymen,
-according to the exalted sentiment of Dr. Franklin, who, when
-he gave a bill for ten pounds to an Irish clergymen in distress in
-Paris, told him to “pay the sum to any Americans he might find in
-distress, and thus <em>let good offices go round</em>.” Mr. Carey paid the
-debt in full to Frenchmen in want, and subsequently in addition discharged
-it to the Marquis; the latter only accepting it upon the
-urgent solicitation of the former.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>On receiving this money, Mr. Carey at once issued proposals for
-the publication of the <cite>Pennsylvania Evening Herald</cite>, and the first
-number was accordingly published January 25, 1785. He received
-but £50 from the sale of the <cite>Volunteers’ Journal</cite>, in Dublin, his
-brother having been ruined partly by the persecutions of the government,
-and partly by the establishment of an opposition paper of the
-same name under government patronage. The success of the <cite>Evening
-Herald</cite> was not very great, and the means of the publisher being
-small, on the 25th of March he took two partners, and enlarged the
-paper. It, however, made but poor progress until Mr. Carey, in
-August following, commenced the publication of the Debates in the
-House of Assembly, a great novelty and innovation which gave the
-<cite>Herald</cite> an advantage over all its contemporaries.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Party feeling in Pennsylvania ran very high at the time, and in the
-course of a political controversy, he became involved in a quarrel
-with Col. Eleazer Oswald, who had been an officer of artillery during
-the Revolutionary War; and this difficulty resulted in a duel which
-took place in January, 1786, in New Jersey, opposite to Philadelphia,
-in which Mr. Carey was wounded in the thigh, from the effects of
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_129'>129</span>which he did not entirely recover for many months. He, subsequently
-to the duel, greatly disgusted his second and others, by performing,
-as he says, “a gratuitous act of justice, which was probably
-one of the best acts of my life”—that of publishing a card retracting
-the charges he had made against Colonel Oswald.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In October, 1786, in partnership with five others, he commenced
-the publication of the <cite>Columbian Magazine</cite>, to the first number of
-which he contributed four pieces, one of which, “A Philosophical
-Dream,” was an anticipation of the state of the country in 1850, in
-which, strange as these predictions must have seemed at the time,
-are now quite remarkable in their realization. In December, 1786,
-owing to the difficulty of realizing profits from so many partners and
-other causes, he withdrew. In January, 1787, he issued the first
-number of the <cite>American Museum</cite>, a magazine intended to preserve
-the fugitive essays that appeared in the newspapers. This publication,
-sets of which, in 12 volumes, 8vo, now exist in a number of
-public and private libraries, is one of great value, and presents a
-graphic and truthful record of the times. It was issued for six years,
-and brought to a close in December, 1792, after a hard struggle for
-life.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>About this time he married Miss Bridget Flahavan, the daughter of
-a highly respectable citizen of Philadelphia who had been ruined by the
-Revolution. Mr. Carey’s wife was an industrious, prudent, economical
-woman, with, as he says, a large fund of good sense, but, equally
-with himself, without means. The match was, as he acknowledges,
-imprudent; but he and his wife determined to indulge in no unnecessary
-expense, and they carried out this resolution faithfully, even
-when he was doing a business of $40,000 to $50,000 per annum, and
-with the happiest results.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>When he relinquished the <cite>American Museum</cite>, he commenced bookselling
-and printing on a small scale. His store, or rather shop,
-was of very moderate dimensions; but, small as it was, he had not
-full-bound books enough to fill the shelves—a considerable portion
-of them being filled with spelling books. He procured a credit at
-bank, which enabled him to extend his business; and by care, indefatigable
-industry, the most rigid punctuality and frugality, he gradually
-advanced in the world. For twenty-five years, winter and
-summer, he was always present at the opening of his store.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In 1793 he was a member of the Committee of Health, appointed
-for the relief of the sick by yellow fever, and of the orphans made
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_130'>130</span>such by it. The duties of this position were faithfully and calmly
-fulfilled, “and his whole life,” says Prof. R. E. Thompson, “corresponded
-to the promise of that year.” He subsequently wrote a full
-account of this epidemic, of which four editions were published.
-Stephen Girard, who was one of the members of this committee, as
-Mr. Carey says, “to the inexpressible delight” of the members, volunteered
-his services, and became superintendent of the yellow fever
-hospital on Bush Hill.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In 1792, or ’93, feeling for the sufferings and wretchedness of the
-numerous Irish immigrants who arrived in Philadelphia, he called a
-meeting, at the Coffee House, of a number of the most influential
-and prominent Irishmen, and submitted to the meeting a constitution,
-which he had prepared, and which was adopted, and thus was
-formed “The Hibernian Society for the Relief of Emigrants from
-Ireland.” This society exists at the present day in a highly flourishing
-condition. In 1796 he zealously engaged with a few other citizens
-in the formation of a Sunday-school Society, of which Bishop
-White became president.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Between 1796 and ’98 he became involved in a very acrimonious
-controversy with William Cobbett, which was not of his seeking, but
-which he conducted with unflinching courage and ability. In addition
-to a considerable correspondence between them, the war became
-one of pamphlets and newspapers—Cobbett using his <cite>Porcupine
-Gazette</cite>. Mr. Carey issued a pamphlet entitled <cite>A Plum Pudding for
-Peter Porcupine</cite>, in which he says he “handled him with great severity.”
-He next published <cite>The Porcupiniad, a Hudibrastic Poem</cite>, in which he
-turned some of Cobbett’s own paragraphs into Hudibrastic verse, and
-“it is wonderful,” he says, “how smoothly they ran, in many instances,
-with the alteration of a single word or two.” Cobbett made
-no reply, and never after had Mr. Carey’s name in his paper but
-once or twice incidentally. This ended the controversy, and subsequently
-they became very good friends.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>His publishing business was pushed with wonderful energy, and
-for those days on a grand scale. He has stated that for many years
-he was involved in such financial difficulties and embarrassments that
-he was “oppressed and brought to the verge of bankruptcy,” which
-“nothing but the most untiring efforts and indefatigable industry and
-energy could have enabled me to wade through.” These difficulties
-were brought about, he says, by his own folly in over-trading. A few
-figures in regard to his publications will give an idea how these difficulties
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_131'>131</span>arose. For instance, he printed 2,500 copies of <cite>Guthrie’s Geography</cite>,
-4to, with a folio atlas of 40 or 50 maps, price, $12; 3,000 <cite>Goldsmith’s
-Animated Nature</cite>, 4 volumes, 8vo, illustrated with a large
-number of plates, price $10. In 1801 he published 3,000 copies of
-a 4to edition of the Bible, with additional references, for which he
-paid an editor $1,000. This book was prepared by the collation of
-eighteen different editions of the Bible, in which the most extraordinary
-number of discrepancies were detected. Soon after the publication
-of this edition, the success of which was very great, he embarked
-in the preparation of a standing edition of the 4to Bible. Stereotyping
-had not been invented, and for this volume he purchased the
-entire type which was kept permanently standing. About this time
-he purchased, for $7,000, a school Bible, and also a large house in
-Market Street, in which he lived for many years. In 1802 he was
-elected by the Senate of Pennsylvania a director in the Bank of
-Pennsylvania, which added greatly to his financial resources.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In 1801, induced by the advantages to literature which had resulted
-from the fairs of Frankfort and Leipsic, he formed the project of
-establishing a literary fair in this country, to meet alternately at New
-York and Philadelphia. He accordingly issued a circular dated
-December, 1801, inviting all publishers and booksellers to meet in
-New York on the 1st of June, 1802, for the purpose of buying, selling
-and exchanging their publications. He wrote out a constitution,
-which was adopted, and a society formed with Hugh Gaine, the oldest
-bookseller in the United States, as president. The plan worked well
-for a year or two, but it was found that country booksellers published
-inferior editions of popular works, with which, by means of exchanges,
-they flooded the country. It was therefore abandoned.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In 1806, being then a member of the Select Council of the City of
-Philadelphia, he united with Stephen Girard and others to relieve real
-estate of a portion of its taxes, by transferring it to personal property,
-when he published a pamphlet on examination of the existing
-system of taxation in that city, but with no results. In 1810, when
-the question of the renewal of the charter of the Bank of the United
-States, which was to expire on the following March, came up, he took
-an active and earnest part in its favor, neglecting his business for
-three months, and publishing a series of essays on the subject. Nearly
-all the Democrats of the city were opposed to this, and he made
-himself hosts of enemies by his course.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The publication of <cite>The Olive Branch</cite>, which was made at a critical
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_132'>132</span>period in the history of the country, proved to be one of the most
-successful books up to that time ever issued from the American press,
-and he regarded its preparation as one of the most important events
-in his life. The War of 1812–’15, between the United States and
-Great Britain, had developed such an acrimonious state of feeling
-between parties in the country, as to appear to forebode civil war.
-In September, 1814, Mr. Carey, in a “moment of ardent zeal and
-enthusiasm, was seized with a desire to make an effort by a candid
-publication of the numerous errors and follies on both sides to allay
-the public effervescence, and calm the embittered feelings of the
-parties.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Hence, he began the preparation of <cite>The Olive Branch</cite>, September
-18, and the book was through the press November 6th, and was published
-on the 8th. It was a volume of 252 pages, 12mo. The edition
-of 500 copies was sold within a few weeks, and it was revised
-and enlarged from time to time, and in three and a half years ten
-editions were sold, amounting to 10,000 copies. “A greater sale
-probably,” as he has said, “than any book ever had in this country,
-except some religious ones,” up to that time. He gave permission to
-several parties to print the book, without payment of copyright, and
-editions were printed at Boston, Mass., Middlebury, Vt., and Winchester,
-Va.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In 1818 he set laboriously and seriously to work to prepare a vindication
-of Ireland. Accordingly, in the following year, he published
-<cite>Vindiciæ Hibernicæ; or, Ireland Vindicated</cite>, of which a second edition
-was published in 1823. This is a large 8vo volume involving
-great research.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Early in 1819, struck with the prevailing condition of the United
-States, he commenced writing on political economy, investigating the
-causes, and pointing out the necessity for protecting our industries
-against foreign competition. Few men ever enlisted in any public
-cause with more enthusiasm, few ever worked with more energy and
-industry in such a cause. He was one of the founders of the Philadelphia
-Society for the Promotion of National Industry; he attended
-conventions in various parts of the country, and he made more
-extensive contributions to the literature of the subject than any other
-man had then done on this continent.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Some idea may be formed of the extent of this work when it is
-stated that between 1819 and 1833 his books and pamphlets on this
-question reached an aggregate of 2,322 pages. To no other man,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_133'>133</span>not in public life, was the first protective tariff of 1824, as well as
-that more protective one of 1828, due. These were results which
-would have exerted a permanent influence on the country but for
-the nullification movement of South Carolina and Georgia.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>This latter movement produced Clay’s Compromise Tariff Act of
-1833, which was only abandoned in 1842 in the midst of a bankruptcy
-so widespread and universal that it involved not merely individuals
-and banks and other corporations, but state governments,
-and even the government of the United States itself. Mr. Carey
-was much discouraged by the illiberal conduct of manufacturers and
-others who had much at stake in the cause, and he ever after believed
-that to this illiberality and supineness was due the triumph of nullification,
-for it did triumph in the enactment of the Compromise Tariff,
-Act of 1833.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>However, amid these discouragements, he derived some consolation
-from a recognition of his services by a portion of his fellow
-countrymen. In 1821 he was presented by citizens of Wilmington,
-Del., with a handsome piece of silver plate bearing the following
-inscription: “A tribute of gratitude to Mathew Carey, Esq., in
-approbation of his writings on political economy; presented by
-some friends of National Industry, in Wilmington, Del., and its
-vicinity, April, 1821.” In 1834 he was presented with a service of
-plate by citizens of Philadelphia and others, “as a testimonial of
-their respect for his public conduct and their esteem for his private
-virtues”; who deemed his “whole career in life an encouraging
-example, by the imitation of which, without the aid of official station
-or political power, every private citizen may become a public benefactor.”
-Sometime previously he received two silver pitchers from
-other citizens of Philadelphia.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In 1824 he was instrumental in reviving and carrying through the
-project for the construction of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal,
-which had lain dormant from 1805. This undertaking involved
-weeks of labor, and of personal solicitations for subscriptions.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>In 1825 he retired permanently from business on a well-earned
-competency, and the remaining years of his life were devoted to
-public and philanthropic work, with an energy that never tired.
-Among his correspondents were Washington, Franklin, Lafayette,
-Hamilton, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Henry Clay, and hosts
-of others in public and private life, during a period covering more
-than half a century. His writings, a tolerably complete set of which
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_134'>134</span>is in possession of The Library Company of Philadelphia, make
-nine large 8vo volumes.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>He died in the city of Philadelphia on the 16th of September,
-1839, in the eightieth year of his age, universally respected, and his
-death was mourned as a public loss. His remains were followed to
-the grave by thousands of his fellow citizens. A venerable and distinguished
-journalist, who had known him long and well, announced
-his death in the following terms: “The friend of mankind is no
-more. Long and sincerely will he be lamented, not in high places
-only, amid the pomp and circumstance of grief, but in the solitary
-corner of the poor and the friendless. Upon his grave honest tears
-will be shed. The orphan and the widow will wander there, and, in
-the heart’s deepest accents, implore the blessings of Heaven upon his
-departed soul.”</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>He was buried in St. Mary’s churchyard, Fourth Street, above
-Spruce, Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Carey had nine children, three
-of whom died young. The remaining six were:</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Maria, who died unmarried.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Henry Charles, who married, but died without issue.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Eliza Catharine, who married Thomas James Baird, a graduate of
-West Point, who was lieutenant of artillery in the War of 1812.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Susan M., who died unmarried.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Frances A., who married Isaac Lea.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Edward L., who died unmarried.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Mathew Carey’s will mentions his sister, Margaret Burke, and his
-deceased brother, John Carey. In Father Finotti’s work on Catholic
-American Bibliography is given a list, somewhat incomplete, of
-Mathew Carey’s works.</p>
-
-<div class='chapter'>
- <span class='pageno' id='Page_135'>135</span>
- <h2 class='c004'>REVIEW OF THE YEAR.<br /> <span class='large'><span class='sc'>Leading Events in the Career of the Society, for 1905, or of Special Interest to the Members.</span></span></h2>
-</div>
-
- <dl class='dl_3 c006'>
- <dt>Jan. 2.</dt>
- <dd>Among the mayors inaugurated in Massachusetts cities today were the following:
- Hon. Augustine J. Daly, Cambridge; Hon. James B. Casey, Lowell; Hon. Cornelius
- B. Lynch, Lawrence; Hon. John T. Coughlin, Fall River; Hon. M. F. Dwyer,
- Medford; Hon. Lawrence P. Reade, Woburn; and Hon. T. M. Connor,
- Northampton.
- </dd>
- <dt>Jan. 2.</dt>
- <dd> The following mayors, among others, were inaugurated in Rhode Island cities
- today: Hon. Patrick J. Boyle, Newport; Hon. James H. Higgins, Pawtucket; and
- Hon. Thomas H. McNally, Central Falls.
- </dd>
- <dt>Jan. 12.</dt>
- <dd>A meeting of the Council of the Society is held at the Hotel Manhattan, 42d
- Street and Madison Avenue, New York City.
- </dd>
- <dt>Jan. 12.</dt>
- <dd>Thomas D. O’Brien, St. Paul, Minn., is today appointed insurance commissioner of
- Minnesota by Governor Johnson.
- </dd>
- <dt>Jan. 16.</dt>
- <dd>Hon. Thomas H. Carter, a member of the Society, is today again elected United
- States senator from Montana.
- </dd>
- <dt>Jan. 24.</dt>
- <dd>The annual meeting and dinner of the Society takes place at the Hotel Manhattan,
- New York City.
- </dd>
- <dt>Jan. 24.</dt>
- <dd>Died today in Dorchester (Boston), Mass., Mary, the widow of Thomas O’Neil, a
- veteran of the Mexican and Civil wars. In view of the death of his widow, a few
- words regarding O’Neil will be of interest. He served bravely in the
- Mexican War, during which he distinguished himself by saving Franklin Pierce,
- afterwards president of the United States. Pierce was badly wounded,
- when O’Neil rescued him and taking him on <span class='pageno' id='Page_136'>136</span>his own horse, dashed away with him
- to a place of safety. In the home of Mrs. McFarlane, her daughter, where Mrs. O’Neil
- spent the latter part of her life, are two interesting testimonials of the bravery of
- O’Neil during the war. One is a Bible, the gift of President Pierce, with this
- inscription: “For the children of Sergeant Thomas O’Neil, who was in my military family
- during the war with Mexico, and by his courage and fidelity earning my confidence and
- affectionate regard. Franklin Pierce. Washington, D. C., May 22, 1853.” The other is a
- beautiful silk Mexican flag, finely worked and colored, which O’Neil captured. It was
- made in a convent. It now hangs over his portrait in the parlor. O’Neil promptly
- responded to Lincoln’s call for volunteers when the Civil War broke out. He received the
- distinction of being offered in one day two commissions, one from Governor Andrew of
- Massachusetts, as captain, and one from New York. He accepted the latter and as captain
- recruited and went to the front with a regiment which afterwards became part of Meagher’s
- Irish brigade. For his distinguished services on the field of battle he was promoted to
- the rank of major. He resigned in 1862, with the intention of returning to Boston to
- raise another company for the war, but a few days afterwards fell from his horse and died
- of his injuries.
- </dd>
- <dt>Jan. 28.</dt>
- <dd>Dr. Patrick J. McGrath, a member of a prominent family in Dublin, Ireland, died today at
- Bellevue Hospital, New York. He sailed on one of the Peary expeditions to the Polar
- regions, as medical adviser; enlisted in a volunteer regiment during the war with Spain,
- and also served throughout the Philippine campaign. Shortly before his death he had
- received from Washington, D. C., an appointment as surgeon in the canal zone in Panama.
- </dd>
- <dt>Jan. 28.</dt>
- <dd>The <cite>Irish-American</cite>, New York City, of this date, has the following:
- “President Roosevelt in sending some details of his Irish pedigree to the American-Irish
- Historical Society&nbsp;... has made known some information not generally current, though
- often desired. To his credit be it said, that he always was proud of his <span class='pageno' id='Page_137'>137</span>Irish
- blood, and from the very outset of his public career, years ago, vaunted it as one of his
- most cherished possessions. He has been following this up by the nomination to public
- office of candidates with decidedly Hibernian patronymics. W. D. Murphy of this city, it
- is said, is to be the new Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and a diplomat named
- O’Brien, from the Northwest, is to be sent as Minister to Denmark. ‘Think of old Brian,
- war’s mighty lion,’ who smote the Danes at Clontarf and drove them into the sea, looking
- down from his celestial mansion above and seeing one of his descendants made ambassador
- to his old enemies from the greatest nation of the world, a nation to the prosperity and
- prestige of which his countrymen have contributed so much! Mr. Roosevelt in his
- genealogical list included the O’Briens. He must have had some idea of the poetical and
- historical retributions of the case when he thought of one of the great Munster families
- for the Republic’s representative to Denmark.”
- </dd>
- <dt>Jan. 30.</dt>
- <dd>Hon. Anthony M. Keiley, formerly chief justice of the International Court of Appeals at
- Cairo, Egypt, died on or about this date in France. He was a native of New Jersey and was
- about 69 years old. He was educated at the Randolph-Macon College in Virginia. After
- graduation he founded the <cite>Norfolk Virginian</cite> and was also editor of the
- Petersburg <cite>Index and News</cite>. He first became prominent in the politics of
- Virginia in the campaign of 1881, when he was chairman of the Democratic state committee.
- He was also mayor of Richmond for one term and then became city attorney. It was while
- holding this office, in 1885, that he attracted the attention of President Cleveland, who
- appointed him minister to Italy to succeed William Waldorf Astor. The Italian government
- objected, however, to the appointment and it was cancelled. The president then appointed
- Mr. Keiley minister to Austria, but the government of that country also declared him
- <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">persona non grata</span></i> on the ground that he held ultramontane views, which were
- offensive to a friendly government. This objection was not well received either in
- official circles here or among <span class='pageno' id='Page_138'>138</span>a large and influential class in Austria. The
- Austrian government then raised other objections. Secretary of State Bayard addressed a
- note to the Austrian government in which he spoke plainly on the unreasonableness of race
- and religious distinctions. He said that the appointment would be allowed to stand even
- though it resulted in a rupture of diplomatic relations between Austria and the United
- States. Mr. Keiley, however, saved the administration from further embarrassment by
- resigning. Afterward, President Cleveland appointed him to the International Court at
- Cairo, of which he became chief justice. His wife died in 1902, and he was so greatly
- distressed over her loss that he resigned from the court and sought relief in travel. Mr.
- Keiley served twelve years as president of the Irish Catholic Benevolent Union.
- </dd>
- <dt>Feb. 3.</dt>
- <dd> John C. Foley, a veteran of the Civil War, died today in Charleston, S. C., while on a
- business tour. His residence for some years past had been in New Orleans, La. He belonged
- to an old and widely respected Irish family favorably known in Kilkenny and Tipperary,
- members of which emigrated to this country in the early fifties and settled in South
- Brooklyn, N. Y., where some of them still reside. On the breaking out of the Civil War
- the deceased joined the Eighty-eighth Regiment, New York Volunteers, of Meagher’s
- Brigade, in which he was commissioned as first lieutenant in the company of which the
- late Maj. P. K. Horgan was then captain. He served with his command through all the
- engagements in which it participated, down to Burnside’s disastrous assault on the
- fortified lines of the Confederates at Fredericksburg, in which the Irish brigade, in the
- assault on Marye’s Heights, was so cut up that after the fight the New York regiments
- originally comprised in it could only muster, all told, between two and three hundred
- unwounded men. General Meagher applied to the war department to have the brigade
- temporarily relieved in order that its decimated ranks might be again recruited; but the
- reply of the secretary of that time,—who had never regarded the Irish organizations with
- favor,—was <span class='pageno' id='Page_139'>139</span>an order relieving Meagher of his command, consolidating the
- regiments into four companies, under a lieutenant-colonel, and mustering out the other
- surviving officers as supernumeraries.
- </dd>
- <dt>Feb. 6.</dt>
- <dd>Michael Hicks, a member of the Society, died today at his residence in New York City.
- </dd>
- <dt>Feb. 7.</dt>
- <dd>James A. Walsh died today in Lewiston, Me. He was a member of the Society.
- </dd>
- <dt>Feb. 9.</dt>
- <dd>Hon. Carlton McCarthy, mayor of Richmond, Va., writes today, expressing his appreciation
- of “The great value and importance of the work” in which the Society is engaged.
- </dd>
- <dt>Feb. 11.</dt>
- <dd>Rear Admiral John McGowan, U.S.N. (retired), is today admitted as a Life member of the
- Society. His father was born in Philadelphia, Pa., but his grandfather was born in
- Ireland.
- </dd>
- <dt>Feb. 11.</dt>
- <dd>Brig.-Gen. Michael Cooney, U.S.A. (retired), is admitted to membership in the Society.
- </dd>
- <dt>Feb. 11.</dt>
- <dd>Brig.-Gen. Peter Leary, Jr., U.S.A. (retired), writes expressing his appreciation of the
- work in which the Society is engaged.
- </dd>
- <dt>Feb. 16.</dt>
- <dd>It is announced from Dublin, Ireland, that President Roosevelt has sent to Lady Gregory a
- contribution toward the purchase of Irish pictures for the Gallery of Modern Art which it
- is proposed to establish in Dublin. Lady Gregory has been appealing to Americans to
- assist in buying pictures lately exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy, and President
- Roosevelt, who sent the contribution “with great pleasure,” has written to her as
- follows: “I cordially sympathize with you in your efforts to keep such a collection of
- pictures in Dublin. It would be an important step toward giving Dublin the position it by
- right should have.”
- </dd>
- <dt>Feb. 19.</dt>
- <dd>Gen. John M. Brennan, a well-known lawyer of Providence, R. I., died. He served on the
- staff of Governor Davis of Rhode Island as judge advocate general.
- </dd>
- <dt>Feb. 21.</dt>
- <dd>Eugene M. O’Neill of Pittsburg, Pa., is admitted to the Society as a Life member.
- </dd>
- <dt>Feb. 22.</dt>
- <dd>John T. Gibbons of New Orleans, La., is admitted to the Society as a Life member.
-<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_140'>140</span></div>
- </dd>
- <dt>Feb. 27.</dt>
- <dd>William O’Herin of Parsons, Kansas, was today admitted to Life membership in the Society.
- He is superintendent of machinery and equipment of the Missouri, Kansas &amp; Texas Railway.
- </dd>
- <dt>Feb. 27.</dt>
- <dd>Gen. Richard A. Donnelly, quartermaster-general of the New Jersey National Guard, died
- today at Trenton. He was born at Richmond, Staten Island. He served two terms as mayor of
- Trenton.
- </dd>
- <dt>March.</dt>
- <dd>John Hayes, of Manchester, N. H., a member of the Society, died this month.
- </dd>
- <dt>March 3.</dt>
- <dd>Hon. W. Bourke Cockran, New York City, is admitted a Life member of the Society.
- </dd>
- <dt>March 6.</dt>
- <dd>Among the nominations sent by President Roosevelt to the Senate today were the following:
- envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary, Thomas J. O’Brien of Michigan, to
- Denmark; Edward C. O’Brien of New York, to Paraguay and Uruguay. For consuls general:
- Robert J. Wynne of Pennsylvania, at London, Eng.; T. St. John Gaffney of New York, at
- Dresden.
- </dd>
- <dt>March 6.</dt>
- <dd>Hon. John H. Reagan, postmaster general of the Confederacy, died today at Palestine,
- Texas. He was the last surviving member of the Confederate cabinet.
- </dd>
- <dt>March 9.</dt>
- <dd>A meeting of the Council of the Society is held today at the office of the City Trust
- Co., 36 Wall Street, New York City.
- </dd>
- <dt>March 10.</dt>
- <dd>Most Rev. John J. Keane, D. D., of Dubuque, Ia., becomes a member of the Society.
- </dd>
- <dt>March 17.</dt>
- <dd>Gen. Nelson A. Miles reviews the First Regiment, Irish Volunteers, at the Grand Central
- Palace, New York City, tonight.
- </dd>
- <dt>March 17.</dt>
- <dd>Hon. Franklin M. Danaher of Albany, N. Y., a member of the Society, read an historical
- paper before the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, in that city, tonight. His topic was: “An
- Historical Sketch of some Celebrations of St. Patrick’s Day in Albany, N. Y., in the
- Early Part of the Nineteenth Century.”
- </dd>
- <dt>March 17.</dt>
- <dd>A monument was dedicated at Houston, Texas, today to the memory of Dick Dowling, the
- Confederate hero of Sabine Pass, who with a small company of men of Irish blood defeated,
- during the Civil War, a large Federal military and naval force.
-<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_141'>141</span></div>
- </dd>
- <dt>March 17.</dt>
- <dd>President Roosevelt attends the dinner of the New York Friendly Sons of St. Patrick
- tonight.
- </dd>
- <dt>March 17.</dt>
- <dd>The Charitable Irish Society, Boston, Mass., observes its 168th anniversary.
- </dd>
- <dt>March 18.</dt>
- <dd>Francis C. Travers of New York City, a member of the Society, died today.
- </dd>
- <dt>April 4.</dt>
- <dd>Hon. E. F. Dunne is elected mayor of Chicago, Ill.
- </dd>
- <dt>April 9.</dt>
- <dd>Michael Murphy, a pioneer oil man of central Wyoming, died at Casper, Wyo. He was one of
- the best known men in Wyoming. For twenty-five years he represented the oil interest in
- Fremont County, and recently sold the famous spouting oil wells at Dallas to a syndicate
- for $400,000. Frank Murphy, who recently died, leaving more than $2,000,000, was a
- brother of Michael Murphy, and left to him a large portion of his estate, making the
- latter a very wealthy man.
- </dd>
- <dt>April 9.</dt>
- <dd>Daniel O’C. O’Donoghue of Portland, Me., was found dead in bed this morning, having
- passed away during the night, of paralysis of the heart. He was a native of County Kerry,
- Ireland; was commissioned civil assistant on the ordinance survey of Ireland at an early
- age. He arrived in New York before the Civil War; volunteered for that conflict and
- served two years with the Army of the Potomac on engineer duty. In 1865 he was appointed
- chief clerk in the United States engineer’s office at Portland, Me., charged with the
- construction of sea coast defenses and harbor and river improvements, holding that
- responsible position for twenty-seven years. Colonel O’Donoghue was division
- adjutant-general on the staff of Governor Chamberlain of Maine, and later inspector of
- the division. He was captain of the famous Montgomery Guards of Portland, Me., bringing
- the company up to a high standard of efficiency.
- </dd>
- <dt>April 13.</dt>
- <dd>Thomas S. Lonergan of New York City, a member of the Society, lectures in Newark, N. J.,
- on “Irishmen in the American Revolution.”
- </dd>
- <dt>April 19.</dt>
- <dd>A patriotic pilgrimage, under the auspices of the Society, took place today to Lexington,
- Mass., the occasion being the anniversary of the battle of Lexington, 1775.
-<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_142'>142</span></div>
- </dd>
- <dt>May 18.</dt>
- <dd>Secretary T. H. Murray of the Society, received a letter today from the New York State
- Library, saying that “We are making as complete a collection as possible of books and
- pamphlets on the Irish in America,” and asking for copies of works issued by the Society.
- </dd>
- <dt>May 27.</dt>
- <dd>The remains of Capt. John Drum, Tenth United States Infantry, who was killed in action
- before Santiago de Cuba, July 1, 1898, were reinterred today in the National Cemetery at
- Arlington, Va. Interment had previously taken place at Brookline, Mass. Services were
- conducted at Arlington by his son, Rev. Walter M. Drum, S. J. Captain Drum was a member
- of our Society. He was a native of Ireland, a veteran of the Civil War, and saw much
- service in campaigns against the Indians; was at one period military instructor at St.
- Francis Xavier’s College, New York City.
- </dd>
- <dt>May 28.</dt>
- <dd>A memorial to Molly Pitcher, the heroine of the battle of Monmouth in the Revolution, was
- dedicated today at Carlisle, Pa. The memorial consists of a cannon placed over her grave.
- The cannon weighs 1,400 pounds, and resembles in design the field piece which Molly
- helped to fire after her husband had fallen in battle. Molly Pitcher was “a young
- Irishwoman.”
- </dd>
- <dt>May 29.</dt>
- <dd>A dinner was given at Delmonico’s, New York City, tonight, to Thomas Addis Emmet, M. D.,
- LL. D., by his medical friends, in honor of his seventy-seventh birthday. Over one
- hundred physicians attended. Dr. E. C. Dudley, Chicago, Ill., presided. Dr. Emmet is a
- Life member of our Society.
- </dd>
- <dt>May 30.</dt>
- <dd>Michael Brennan, a member of the Society, died today at his home, 2 West 75th Street, New
- York City.
- </dd>
- <dt>June 2.</dt>
- <dd>Rev. John Harty, Pawtucket, R. I., a member of the Society, died today.
- </dd>
- <dt>June 8.</dt>
- <dd>Hon. Henry F. Naphen, Boston, Mass., a member of the Society, was found dead in bed
- today. He had been in poor health for some time.
- </dd>
- <dt>July 4.</dt>
- <dd>A bronze equestrian statue in honor of Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher was unveiled today in
- Helena, Mont.
- </dd>
- <dt>July 10.</dt>
- <dd>A paragraph in the New York <cite>Irish American</cite> of this date, states that Lieut.
- Martin L. Crimmins, U. S. A., <span class='pageno' id='Page_143'>143</span>has just been graduated from the Infantry and
- Cavalry School at Fort Leavenworth, successfully passing his examination for a captaincy.
- Captain Crimmins is a son of Hon. John D. Crimmins, president-general of the Society, and
- is himself a member of the organization. He was a member of the “Rough Riders” in the
- Spanish-American War, and later was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Sixty-ninth
- New York Volunteers, and still later a second lieutenant in the regular service. He
- served four years in the Philippines, and a year at Fort Lawton, Seattle, where he was
- selected from his regiment as a student officer to attend the school at Fort Leavenworth.
- </dd>
- <dt>July 31.</dt>
- <dd>A letter is today received from James Connolly of Coronado, Cal., in which he presents
- nineteen candidates for membership in the Society.
- </dd>
- <dt>&nbsp;</dt>
- <dd>August. Hon. John C. Linehan, Concord, N. H., treasurer-general of the Society, resigns
- his position as such owing to ill health. He was one of the founders of the Society, and
- has been treasurer-general of the latter ever since its organization. His resignation is
- received with much regret.
- </dd>
- <dt>Aug. 14.</dt>
- <dd>Hon. James C. Monaghan of the Department of Commerce and Labor, Washington, D. C., a
- member of the Society, lectured at the Catholic Summer School, Cliff Haven, N. Y., today,
- on “The Game of Empire.”
- </dd>
- <dt>Aug. 28.</dt>
- <dd>William G. Stanard, corresponding secretary and librarian of the Virginia Historical
- Society, writes concerning Colonel Fitzgerald, a friend and staff officer of General
- Washington.
- </dd>
- <dt>Sept. 2.</dt>
- <dd>Michael P. O’Connor, Binghamton, N. Y., qualifies as a Life Member of the Society.
- </dd>
- <dt>Sept. 7.</dt>
- <dd>The Elizabeth (N. J.) <cite>Times</cite>, of this date, has an editorial headed, “Cox
- again President.” It refers to Capt. William T. Cox, a member of our Society, who has
- again been reëlected chairman of the Fire Commissioners of that city. The editorial
- mentioned pays a high tribute to Captain Cox.
- </dd>
- <dt>Sept. 8.</dt>
- <dd>Hon. C. B. Tillinghast, state librarian of Massachusetts, writes requesting a copy of
- <cite>Early Irish in Old Albany, <span class='pageno' id='Page_144'>144</span>N. Y., With Special Mention of Jan Andriessen
- “<span lang="nl" xml:lang="nl">De Iersman Van Dublingh</span>.”</cite> The foregoing pamphlet was issued by the Society,
- 1903, and comprises a paper by Hon. Franklin M. Danaher of Albany. Mr. Tillinghast
- desires the pamphlet for the Massachusetts State Library.
- </dd>
- <dt>Sept. 10.</dt>
- <dd>In the New York <cite>Herald</cite> today, Mrs. Clara H. Manning has a contribution
- setting forth many interesting facts concerning the family and ancestry of Gen. Richard
- Montgomery. Mrs. Manning credits the information to “L. W., London, England.”
- </dd>
- <dt>Sept. 12.</dt>
- <dd>Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States, writes as follows to the
- management of the Irish Industrial Exhibition in New York City: “Gentlemen: I greatly
- regret that it is not in my power to be present at the Irish Industrial Exposition, to be
- held at Madison Square Garden. Not only should I be much interested in the display of
- industries of Ireland in the matter of textiles, laces and other branches of industrial
- art, but I should be particularly pleased with the educational feature, which I
- understand is to symbolize and interpret the ‘Irish revival.’ Unfortunately, it is simply
- out of my power to make another engagement of any kind whatsoever now, and all I can do
- is to send you my hearty good wishes for the success of so worthy a movement. It is
- peculiarly appropriate that in our country, where so large a portion of the blood of our
- mixed people is drawn from Irish stock, there should be this movement on broad lines, and
- carried out in such a wholesome and comprehensive manner, for the purpose of illustrating
- the industrial talents and artistic and literary genius of the Irish race. With all good
- wishes for the success of the exposition, believe me, sincerely yours, Theodore
- Roosevelt.”
- </dd>
- <dt>Sept. 14.</dt>
- <dd>Hon. Patrick A. Collins, mayor of Boston, Mass., died today at Hot Springs, Va. He was a
- member of the Society.
- </dd>
- <dt>Sept. 19.</dt>
- <dd>Death this evening of Hon. John C. Linehan, state insurance commissioner of New
- Hampshire, a founder of the Society. He passed away at his home in Penacook (Concord), N.
- H.
-<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_145'>145</span></div>
- </dd>
- <dt>Sept. 22.</dt>
- <dd>Hon. Charles T. O’Ferrall, ex-governor of Virginia, died at Richmond, Va., today. He
- served in the Confederate army during the Civil War, attained the rank of colonel, and
- was wounded three times while in the service. He was a member of the 49th, 50th, 51st and
- 52d Congresses.
- </dd>
- <dt>Sept. 22.</dt>
- <dd>Funeral at Penacook, N. H., today, of Hon. John C. Linehan. A requiem high Mass was
- celebrated at the Church of the Immaculate Conception. The eulogy was delivered by Bishop
- Delany of Manchester.
- </dd>
- <dt>Sept. 26.</dt>
- <dd>Death today of Edward F. Galligan, M. D., Taunton, Mass., a member of the Society.
- </dd>
- <dt>Sept. 27.</dt>
- <dd>In accordance with an army order issued at Washington, D. C., about this date, Capt.
- Michael M. McNamee, Fifteenth Cavalry, is detailed as a member of the examining board at
- Fort Ethan Allen, Vt.
- </dd>
- <dt>Sept. 27.</dt>
- <dd>Mrs. Aaron Morley Wilcox writes from Washington, D. C., for information regarding the
- Society.
- </dd>
- <dt>Sept. 29.</dt>
- <dd>Col. James Moran, Providence, R. I., writes making practical suggestions for a
- celebration next year of the anniversary of the battle of Rhode Island.
- </dd>
- <dt>Oct. 1.</dt>
- <dd>A monument is dedicated today, in Holy Cross Cemetery, Malden, Mass., to the late Rev.
- Thomas H. Shahan of that city, who was a member of the Society. The monument was erected
- by the parishioners of the deceased clergyman.
- </dd>
- <dt>Oct. 7.</dt>
- <dd>Among the nominations made today at the Massachusetts Democratic State Convention in
- Boston were the following: For state treasurer, Daniel J. Doherty, Westfield; for state
- auditor, Patrick J. Ashe, North Adams; for attorney-general, John P. Leahy, Boston.
- </dd>
- <dt>Oct. 7.</dt>
- <dd>Notices were issued today for a meeting of the executive council of the Society to be
- held on the 19th inst., at the Hotel Manhattan, New York City. The latter date is the
- anniversary of the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. The council is to be entertained
- at dinner by Mr. Crimmins, president-general of the Society.
- </dd>
- <dt>Nov. 3.</dt>
- <dd>Anniversary of the birth of Gen. William Irvine, a soldier of the Revolution. He was a
- native of Fermanagh, Ireland.
-<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_146'>146</span></div>
- </dd>
- <dt>Nov. 23.</dt>
- <dd>Anniversary of the birth of Edward Rutledge, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
- He was of Irish parentage.
- </dd>
- <dt>Nov. 29.</dt>
- <dd>Anniversary of the birth of Charles Thomson, the “perpetual secretary” of Congress; a
- native of Ireland.
- </dd>
- <dt>Dec. 2.</dt>
- <dd>Died on this date, in 1783, Thomas Burke. He was a native of Ireland, and was chosen
- governor of North Carolina in 1781.
- </dd>
- </dl>
-
-<div class='chapter'>
- <span class='pageno' id='Page_147'>147</span>
- <h2 class='c004'>NECROLOGY.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c005'>The following members of the Society died during the year 1905,
-much and deservedly regretted:</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='sc'>Brennan, Michael</span>, New York City; owner of the Hotel San Remo, Central
-Park West, New York, and other property. He was born in Sligo,
-Ireland, 1832; died at his home, 2 West 75th Street, New York, May
-30. He was a member of the New York Friendly Sons of St. Patrick
-and of the Catholic Club. He became a member of the American-Irish
-Historical Society soon after the organization of the latter, and
-the first meeting and dinner held by the Society in New York took place
-at his hotel, the San Remo, just mentioned.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='sc'>Collins, Hon. Patrick A.</span>, mayor of Boston, Mass. He was born in
-Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland, March 12, 1844, died at Hot Springs,
-Va., Sept. 14, 1905. His mother brought him to this country when he
-was but four years of age. They settled in Chelsea, Mass. In the
-course of time, Patrick entered the law school of Harvard University
-and was graduated therefrom in 1871. He had gone into political
-affairs while he was a student and had been elected a member of the
-Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1868. He served two terms
-there and one in the State Senate. When he was admitted to the bar,
-in 1871, Mr. Collins made public announcement of his determination
-not to hold public office again in ten years. He kept to the resolution,
-but he stayed in politics. He became chairman of the Boston Democratic
-Committee in 1873 and held the responsibilities of the place for
-two years. He served as judge advocate-general on the staff of Governor
-Gaston of Massachusetts. While in the Legislature, Collins was identified
-with the passage of such liberal and reformatory legislation as freedom
-of worship for Catholics in penal, correctional and charitable
-institutions, the abolition of a distinct oath for Catholics, the ten-hour
-law, and legislation looking towards equal rights for foreign-born citizens.
-He was married in 1873 to Mary E. Cary. They had three children,
-Paul, Agnes and Marie. After serving two terms as congressman from
-the fourth Massachusetts district, he declined a third term, but was
-forced in his party’s interest to reconsider his decision. During his
-three terms in Congress he served on the Committee on the Judiciary,
-and sometimes in addition on the Committees on Pacific Railroads,
-French Spoliation Claims and other important bodies. He was delegateat-large
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_148'>148</span>to the National Democratic Conventions of 1876, 1880, 1884
-and 1892. He was permanent chairman of the 1888 convention and
-made an address which attracted admiring attention from the whole
-country, as did his speech seconding the nomination of Grover Cleveland
-four years later. It was generally understood that Mr. Cleveland
-offered Mr. Collins a cabinet office, but Mr. Collins declined to take
-such office. Mr. Cleveland gave him instead one of the highest-paid
-government posts, that of consul-general at London, where the salary
-is $5,000 a year, and the fees in Mr. Collins’ time amounted to about
-$25,000 a year or more. Mr. Collins resigned from the chairmanship
-of the Democratic State Committee and went to London. When he
-was consul-general Mr. Cleveland again asked him to come into the
-cabinet as secretary of war. Mr. Collins refused. He was quoted as
-saying that he refused because he “didn’t care for second-hand clothes.”
-He never denied the remark. At the opening ceremonies of the Hotel
-Cecil, Mr. Collins’ remarks regarding the good will of Mr. Cleveland
-toward the British people were jeered by some of his hearers. He
-turned on them and said: “There is no antagonism between the
-United States and any well-meaning state on earth. If the rest of the
-world understood the United States as well as the United States understands
-the rest of the world there would never be any danger to peace
-between my country and other nations.” There were no more jeers.
-In 1897 Mr. Collins returned to the practice of law in Boston. He was
-nominated for mayor in 1899, but was beaten by differences in his own
-party. He was elected the next term, was re-elected, and held the
-office at the time of his death.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='sc'>Galligan, Edward F.</span> (M. D.), Taunton, Mass. He was a native of that
-city and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Galligan. He studied
-medicine and was graduated from the medical department of Harvard
-University. In 1884, he was appointed city physician of Taunton and
-filled the position for several years. He was a trustee of the Morton
-Hospital, a member of the Taunton Physicians’ Club, of the North
-Bristol Medical Society and of the American Medical Association. He
-died Sept. 26, 1905.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='sc'>Harty, Rev. John</span>, a Roman Catholic clergyman; rector of the Church of
-the Sacred Heart, Pawtucket, R. I. He was a native of Ireland, and
-was ordained to the priesthood in Dublin, 1874. He died, June 2. He
-was at one period connected with St. Patrick’s Church, Providence,
-R. I., and was later rector of the church in East Providence.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='sc'>Hayes, John</span>, Manchester, N. H. He was a native of Ireland, and was of
-a splendid type as a man and a citizen. He died at Manchester in
-March. One of his sons, the late Hon. John J. Hayes, of Boston,
-Mass., was also a member of the Society.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='pageno' id='Page_149'>149</span><span class='sc'>Hicks, Michael</span>, New York City; inventor of the “Hurricane lamp,”
-which was used on railway trains, and especially in the Pullman palace
-cars, until it was supplanted by the Pintsch light. He was born in
-County Meath, Ireland, 1832; died at his residence, 147 West 121st
-Street, New York, March 6.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='sc'>Linehan, Hon. John C.</span>, Penacook (Concord), N. H. He was state insurance
-commissioner of New Hampshire; a founder of the American-Irish
-Historical Society and treasurer-general of the same from its organization
-in January, 1897, to August, 1905, when he resigned owing to ill
-health. Commissioner Linehan was born in Macroom, County Cork,
-Ireland, Feb. 9, 1840, and came to this country in 1849. He was a
-son of John and Margaret (Foley) Linehan. He enlisted in August,
-1861, in the band of the Third New Hampshire Volunteers and in after
-years was prominently identified with the Grand Army of the Republic,
-holding various offices therein. He served as a councilman and alderman
-of Concord, was chosen a member of the executive council of the
-state of New Hampshire to serve during the term of Gov. Charles H.
-Sawyer in 1887 and 1888. He was appointed trustee for the state
-industrial school by Gov. Samuel W. Hale in 1884, and except for a
-brief interval of a few months served continually since. He was secretary
-of the board for several years, and since 1897 was its president.
-He was also one of the committee to select the location for the Concord
-soldiers’ monument, as well as to select its design and inscription. He
-was appointed insurance commissioner of New Hampshire for three
-years by Gov. David H. Goodell, on Sept. 28, 1890. He was
-reappointed in 1893 by Gov. John B. Smith, in 1896 by Gov. Charles
-A. Busiel, and in 1899 by Gov. Frank W. Rollins. His record as
-insurance commissioner is well known. He was fearless and conscientious
-in the performance of his duties and received the commendations
-of his superiors, the governors and councils, as well as of the people
-of the state. His management of the insurance department was highly
-commended, and throughout the country he bore the reputation of being
-an honest, fearless, conscientious and capable public servant. A
-pamphlet published by the United States government in 1894, in which
-was printed the argument of Hon. John L. Thomas, assistant attorney-general,
-for the post office department, in the case of the United States
-v. the National Investment Company, contained 19 pages of extracts
-from Commissioner Linehan’s reports for the years 1891–’92–’93. He
-was one of the charter members of William I. Brown Post, G. A. R.,
-and its first commander, filling the position over two years. He was
-chosen to represent the Department of New Hampshire, G. A. R., at
-the National Encampment in Albany in 1878, and a member of the
-national Council of Administration in 1880–81. He was elected department
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_150'>150</span>commander of New Hampshire in 1883 and 1884, and was
-appointed a member of the National Pension Committee, serving until
-1887, when he was unanimously chosen junior vice-commander-in-chief,
-G. A. R. He was president of the New Hampshire Veteran Association
-in 1885 and 1886, and from its institution, with the exception
-of several years, its musical director. When his candidacy for the
-office of commander-in-chief at the annual G. A. R. encampment in
-Cincinnati in 1898 was before his comrades throughout the country, it
-received the heartiest indorsement, and when he withdrew there was
-much regret. He was elected one of the board of directors of the
-Gettysburg Battlefield Monument Association, and placed on the Executive
-Committee in 1884. He was a trustee of the Loan &amp; Trust Savings
-Bank of Concord, a member of the New Hampshire Historical
-Society, Knights of Columbus, and of the Charitable Irish Society of
-Boston. He was a steady contributor to weeklies and periodicals. He
-contributed a chapter, <cite>The Irish in New Hampshire</cite>, to McClintock’s
-History of New Hampshire, also a chapter to the History of the First
-New Hampshire Regiment, on <cite>The Irish of New Hampshire in the
-Civil War</cite>, and a chapter to the History of the Seventeenth New
-Hampshire Regiment, on <cite>Music and Songs of the War</cite>. He has
-written many sketches on the early Irish settlers in the thirteen colonies,
-which have been published in papers and magazines. Several
-papers from his pen have appeared in the publications of the American-Irish
-Historical Society. He received a degree from Dartmouth College
-in 1887. He was also in demand as a speaker and lecturer, and had
-spoken more or less during every political campaign since 1884. He
-was married to Mary E. Pendergast by the Rev. John O’Donnell, in
-Nashua, N. H., Jan. 2, 1864. Of the children born to them, four survive—Margaret,
-now Sister Mary Joseph, of the Order of Mercy; John
-Joseph, Timothy Patrick and Henry Francis. Commissioner Linehan
-died Sept. 19, 1905.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='sc'>Naphen, Hon. Henry F.</span>, Boston, Mass. He was a native of Ireland, and
-was born in 1852. He came to this country and was educated in Boston
-and Lowell, Mass. He graduated from Harvard University with
-the degree of LL. B., and also took a special course at that institution
-as resident LL. B., later continuing law studies at Boston University.
-He was elected a member of the Boston School Committee for three
-years, and at the end of that period declined a renomination. In 1885
-and 1886 he represented the Fifth Suffolk District in the State Senate.
-In 1898 he was elected to Congress in the Tenth Massachusetts District.
-Throughout his first term he made memorable speeches on the Porto
-Rican question, the trusts, the Philippine question, improvement of Boston
-harbor, and many other important measures. Renominated by his
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_151'>151</span>party in 1900, Congressman Naphen was reëlected by a majority of more
-than 7,200 votes, a remarkable victory. He was a member of the Ancient
-and Honorable Artillery Company, Boston Athletic Association,
-City Point Catholic Association, Charitable Irish Society, Catholic Union,
-Knights of St. Rose, Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters, the
-Knights of Columbus, and other societies; was a director and clerk of
-the board of directors of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, and a vice-president
-of the Working Boys’ Home. He was a bail commissioner for the
-County of Suffolk, and was also an honorary member of Dahlgren Post
-2, G. A. R., and Benj. Stone Post 68, G. A. R. He died in Boston
-in June.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='sc'>Travers, Francis C.</span>, New York City. He was born in that city, and was
-the founder of the house of Travers Brothers Company, manufacturers
-of, and dealers in, twine and cordage; was president of the company;
-was also a director of the Columbia National Life Insurance Co., a trustee
-of the Franklin Savings Bank, vice-president of the Merchants’ Trust
-Co., and was a member of the New York Friendly Sons of St. Patrick,
-the Catholic Club, and other prominent organizations. He was an intimate
-personal friend of President Theodore Roosevelt, and was very
-highly esteemed by the latter. Mr. Travers died at his home in New
-York, March 18.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='sc'>Walsh, James A.</span>, Lewiston, Me. He was resident agent for the Lewiston
-Bleachery and Dye Works, where he had been located for some
-twelve years. He died in Lewiston Feb. 7. aged 53 years.</p>
-
-<div class='chapter'>
- <span class='pageno' id='Page_152'>152</span>
- <h2 class='c004'><span class='large'>MEMBERSHIP ROLL</span><br /> <span class='small'>OF THE</span><br /> AMERICAN-IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c006'>
- <div><span class='small'>[For officers of the Society see pages <a href='#Page_5'>5</a>, <a href='#Page_6'>6</a> and <a href='#Page_7'>7</a>.]</span></div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c022'><b>Adams, Hon. Samuel</b>, president and treasurer of the Adams Dry Goods Co.,
-339–355 Sixth Avenue, New York City; director, Garfield National
-Bank, New York; member of the New York Chamber of Commerce;
-an ex-senator of Colorado.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Adams, T. Albeus</b>, president of the Gansevoort Bank, Fourteenth Street and
-Ninth Avenue, New York City; also president of Adams &amp; Co.; president
-of the Adams Bros. Co.; president of the Manhattan Refrigerating
-Co.; director, Mercantile National Bank.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Ahern, John</b>, 5 Highland Street, Concord, N. H.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Allen, Rt. Rev. Edward P.</b> (D. D.), Mobile, Ala., bishop of the Roman
-Catholic diocese of Mobile.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Aspell, John</b> (M. D.), 139 West 77th Street, New York City; member of
-the Academy of Medicine; of the County Medical Association, and of
-the Celtic Medical Society; recently president of the latter; visiting
-surgeon to St. Vincent’s Hospital.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Bannin, Michael E.</b>, of Converse, Stanton &amp; Co., drygoods commission
-merchants, 83 and 85 Worth Street, New York City; member of the
-Merchants Association, New York; director, the Emigrant Industrial
-Savings Bank; director, the Catholic Summer School (Cliff Haven);
-member of the Merchants and Catholic clubs, New York, of the Montauk
-Club, Brooklyn, and of the Brooklyn Arts and Science Institute;
-director, the Columbian National Life Insurance Co.; director, American
-Investment Securities Co.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Bannon, Henry G.</b>, 107 East 55th Street, New York City; president of the
-Irish National Club; secretary, Celtic-American Publishing Co.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Barrett, Michael F.</b>, of Barrett Bros., wholesale and retail dealers in teas,
-coffees, etc., 308 Spring Street and 574 Hudson Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Barry, Hon. Patrick T.</b>, 87–97 South Jefferson Street, Chicago, Ill. (Life
-member of the Society); advertising manager, Chicago Newspaper
-Union; director, First National Bank of Englewood, Ill.; director,
-The <cite>Chicago Citizen</cite> Company; has been a member of the State Legislature
-of Illinois; prominently identified with educational interests.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='pageno' id='Page_153'>153</span><b>Barry, Rev. Michael</b>, Oswego, N. Y.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Baxter, Rev. James J.</b> (D. D.), 9 Whitmore Street, Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Bodfish, Rev. Joshua P. L.</b>, Canton, Mass.; formerly chancellor of the
-Roman Catholic archdiocese of Boston; a director of the Bunker Hill
-Monument Association.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Bourlet, John W.</b>, of the Rumford Printing Co., Concord, N. H.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Boyle, Hon. Patrick J.</b>, now serving his eleventh term as mayor of Newport,
-R. I.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Brady, Rev. Cyrus Townsend</b> (LL. D.), 455 East 17th Street, Flatbush,
-Brooklyn, N. Y.; member of the Society of Colonial Wars, of the Sons
-of the Revolution, of the Military Order of Foreign Wars, and of other
-patriotic organizations; chaplain of the First Pennsylvania Volunteer
-Infantry, war with Spain; formerly Protestant Episcopal archdeacon of
-Pennsylvania; author of <cite>For Love of Country</cite>, <cite>For the Freedom of the
-Sea</cite>, <cite>Stephen Decatur</cite>, <cite>Commodore Paul Jones</cite>, <cite>Border Fights and
-Fighters</cite>, and other works.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Brady, Owen J.</b>, with The H. B. Claflin Co., 224 Church Street, New
-York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Brandon, Edward J.</b>, city clerk, Cambridge, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Brann, Rev. Henry A.</b> (D. D.), 141 East 43d Street, New York City (Life
-member of the Society).</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Bree, Hon. James P.</b>, lawyer, 902 Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn.; state
-auditor of Connecticut; recently a senator.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Brennan, Hon. James F.</b>, lawyer, Peterborough, N. H.; a trustee of the
-New Hampshire State Library.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Brennan, James F.</b>, contractor, 2 Garden Street, New Haven, Conn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Brennan, P. J.</b>, 788 West End Avenue, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Brierly, Frank</b>, 268 West 131st Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Broderick, William J.</b>, 52 Morton Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Brosnahan, Rev. Timothy</b>, rector of St. Mary’s Church, Waltham, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Buckley, Andrew</b>, Parsons, Labette County, Kansas.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Burke, Robert E.</b>, recently city solicitor, Newburyport. Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Burr, William P.</b>, lawyer, 35 Nassau Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Butler, T. Vincent</b>, with R. G. Dun &amp; Co., New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Buttimer, Thomas H.</b>, lawyer, Hingham and Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Byrne, C. E.</b>, of the C. E. Byrne Piano Co., East 41st Street, New York
-City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Byrne, Maj. John</b>, 45 Wall Street, New York City; director, Detroit City
-Gas Co.; president, Shawmut Coal and Coke Co.; chairman Board of
-Directors, Pittsburg, Shawmut &amp; Northern R. R. Co.; president, Kersey
-Mining Co.; president, Kersey R. R. Co.; chairman Board of
-Directors, Shawmut Mining Co.; trustee, Emigrant Industrial Savings
-Bank of New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Byrne, Joseph M.</b>, insurance, 800 Broad Street, Newark, N. J.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='pageno' id='Page_154'>154</span><b>Byrne, Rt. Rev. William</b> (D. D., V. G.), rector of St. Cecilia’s Church, St.
-Cecilia Street, Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Cahill, John H.</b>, 15 Dey Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Cahill, M. J.</b>, dry goods merchant, Essex Street, Lawrence, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Cahill, Thomas M.</b> (M. D.), 40 Pearl Street, New Haven, Conn.; son of
-the late Col. Thomas W. Cahill who commanded the Ninth Connecticut
-Volunteer Infantry (an Irish regiment), in the Civil War.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Calnin, James</b>, 101–107 Lakeview Avenue, Lowell, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Cannon, Thomas H.</b>, of the law firm Cannon &amp; Poage, Stock Exchange
-Building, Chicago, Ill.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Carbray, Hon. Felix</b>, Benburb Place, Quebec, Canada; member of the Royal
-Irish Academy; Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, Ireland;
-member of the Quebec Harbor Commission and of the Quebec Board
-of Trade; consul for Portugal at Quebec, and dean of the Consular
-Corps; trustee of St. Patrick’s Church, and of St. Bridget’s Asylum;
-has represented his district in the parliament of the Province of Quebec.
-He was one of the pioneers in the lumber trade between the St. Lawrence
-and South America; has engaged in the general commission and
-shipping business, and has been a member of the successive firms:
-Carbray &amp; Routh; Carbray, Routh &amp; Co.; and Carbray, Son &amp; Co.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Carmody, T. F.</b>, lawyer, Waterbury, Conn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Carney, Michael</b>, of M. Carney &amp; Co., Lawrence, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Carroll, Edward</b>, Leavenworth National Bank, Leavenworth, Kansas.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Carroll, Edward R.</b>, 333 East 51st Street, New York City; clerk’s office,
-Court of General Sessions of the Peace, City and County of New York.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Carroll, John L.</b>, 18 State Street, Newark, N. J.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Carter, Patrick</b>, real estate, mortgages and insurance, 32 Westminster
-Street, Providence, R. I.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Carter, Hon. Thomas H.</b>, Helena, Mont.; a United States senator.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Casey, Michael</b>, of Casey &amp; Bacon, wholesale grocers, Pittsfield, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Cassidy, John J.</b>, 907 Adams Street, Wilmington, Del.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Cassidy, Patrick</b> (M. D.), Norwich, Conn.; was surgeon-general on the
-staff of Gov. Luzon B. Morris of Connecticut, ranking as brigadier-general.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Chittick, Rev. J. J.</b>, Hyde Park, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Clancy, Laurence</b>, dry goods merchant, West Bridge Street, Oswego, N. Y.;
-trustee, Oswego County Savings Bank; director, electric street railway;
-member, Normal school board; has repeatedly declined a nomination
-for mayor of Oswego.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Clare, William F.</b>, lawyer, 149 Broadway, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Clark, Rev. James F.</b>, New Bedford, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Clarke, James</b>, of James Clarke &amp; Co., booksellers and publishers, 3, 5 and
-7 West 22d Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Clarke, Joseph I. C.</b>, Sunday editor, New York <cite>Herald</cite>, Herald Square, New
-York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='pageno' id='Page_155'>155</span><b>Clary, Charles H.</b>, Hallowell, Me.; a descendant of John Clary, “of Newcastle,
-province of New Hampshire,” who married Jane Mahoney, of
-Georgetown, Me., 1750. Four children were born to them before 1760.
-Mr. Clary of Hallowell, Me., here mentioned, was one of the founders
-of the Clary Reunion Family which meets annually.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Cockran, Hon. W. Bourke</b>, 31 Nassau Street, New York City; a member of
-Congress. (Life member of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Coffey, John J.</b>, Neponset (Boston), Mass.; served during the Civil War in
-the Twenty-eighth Massachusetts Infantry (the Faugh-a-Ballagh regiment),
-which formed part of Meagher’s Irish Brigade, First Division,
-Second Corps; participated in the valorous charges of the brigade
-against the Confederates at Marye’s Heights; was wounded at Gettysburg
-and still carries the bullet in his body. His brother Michael J.,
-was color sergeant of the Irish flag of the regiment and carried it until
-he fell mortally wounded at the second battle of Bull Run.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Coffey, Rev. Michael J.</b>, East Cambridge, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Coghlan, Rev. Gerald P.</b>, 2141 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Cohalan, Daniel F.</b>, lawyer, 271 Broadway, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Coleman, James S.</b>, 38 East 69th Street, New York City; of Coleman,
-Breuchaud &amp; Coleman.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Coleman, John</b>, capitalist, Louisville, Ky.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Collins, James M.</b>, 6 Sexton Avenue, Concord, N. H.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Collins, Hon. John S.</b>, Gilsum, N. H.; manufacturer of woolens; an ex-state
-senator of New Hampshire.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Collins, William D.</b> (M. D.), Haverhill, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Conaty, Bernard</b>, 30 Cypress Street, Providence, R. I.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Conaty, Rev. B. S.</b>, 340 Cambridge Street, Worcester, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Conaty, Rt. Rev. Thomas J.</b> (D. D.), Los Angeles, Cal., bishop of the
-Roman Catholic diocese of Monterey and Los Angeles.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Condon, Edward O’Meagher</b>, U. S. Court House and Postoffice, Nashville,
-Tenn.; connected with the office of the U. S. Supervising Architect,
-Washington, D. C., as an inspector of public buildings; served in the
-Union army during the Civil War.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Coney, Patrick H.</b>, lawyer, 316 Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kan. He entered
-the Union army in 1863, at the age of 15 years, enlisting in the One
-Hundred and Eleventh New York Infantry. He was detailed as dispatch
-bearer on General McDougall’s staff, promoted as an orderly dispatch
-bearer on Gen. Nelson A. Miles’ staff, served in this capacity on
-to Appomattox and Lee’s surrender, and was transferred June 5, 1865,
-to Company H, Fourth New York Heavy Artillery. He served until
-October 5, 1865, when he was honorably discharged at Hart’s Island,
-N. Y. He was wounded at the battle of Peach Orchard in front of
-Petersburg, Va., on June 16, 1864, and rejoined his command from
-the hospital after sixty days’ convalescence. In addition to his law
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_156'>156</span>practice, he is general manager of the American Investment and Development
-Co., which is engaged in the promotion and development
-of 11,000 acres of mineral, gas and oil lands in Benton County, Mo.
-Gen. Nelson A. Miles is president of the company.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Conlon, William L.</b>, Portsmouth, N. H.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Connery, William P.</b>, Wheeler and Pleasant Streets, Lynn, Mass.; recently
-candidate for mayor of Lynn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Connolly, Capt. James</b>, Coronado, Cal. He was born in County Cavan, Ireland,
-1842; came to this country when he was but ten years of age, and
-spent much of his youth at East Dennis, Cape Cod, Mass. His early
-love for the sea was gratified later in life when he became captain of
-some of the finest deep-water ships sailing from Baltimore, Boston and
-elsewhere. His first command was the bark <em>May Queen</em>, a regular
-Baltimore and Rio packet, 1872. He then had command of the ship
-<em>Pilgrim</em> of Boston, and made several voyages to the East Indies. In
-1884 he was given command of the <em>Charger</em>, a larger and finer ship than
-the <em>Pilgrim</em>, and sailed to ports in Japan. He next had command of the
-<em>South American</em>, “the Commodore’s ship,” of the Hastings fleet (Boston),
-and took her to Australia and other parts. He made several record
-voyages during his career, and some of these records still stand,
-having never been equalled. On one occasion he was wrecked off the
-coast of Africa; he and his wife upon being rescued were hospitably entertained
-by the Boers of the adjacent country. Returning to East
-Dennis, Mass., his wife’s health became poor and so he removed with
-her to Coronado, Cal., hoping that the change of climate would benefit
-her, but she died in 1901. She had accompanied her husband on several
-of his voyages, and had with him visited many parts of the world.
-Captain Connolly has written much and entertainingly. He has at
-present in manuscript form a novel of ocean life entitled <cite>The Magic of
-the Sea</cite>.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Connolly, Rev. Arthur T.</b>, Center and Creighton Streets, Roxbury (Boston),
-Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Connor, Michael</b>, 509 Beech Street, Manchester, N. H.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Conway, James L.</b>, 113 Worth Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Conway, Matt</b>, of Conway &amp; Kessler, real estate, loans, exchange and insurance,
-405 Laughlin Building, Los Angeles, Cal.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Cooke, Rev. Michael J.</b>, Fall River, Mass (Life member of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Cooney, Brig.-Gen. Michael</b>, U. S. A. (retired), 500 T Street, N. W.,
-Washington, D. C.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Corcoran, John H.</b>, dry goods merchant, 587 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge,
-Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Coughlin, John</b>, 177 Water Street, Augusta, Me.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Cox, Michael F.</b> (M. D., M. R. I. A.), 26 Merrion Square, Dublin, Ireland.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Cox, Michael H.</b>, 54 Commerce Street, Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='pageno' id='Page_157'>157</span><b>Cox, William T.</b>, 12 South Second Street, Elizabeth, N. J., owner of Cox’s
-Towing Line; for some years chairman of the fire commissioners of
-Elizabeth; ex-chief of the Elizabeth Volunteer Fire Department.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Coyle, Rev. James</b>, Taunton, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Coyle, Rev. John D.</b>, 79 Davenport Avenue, New Haven, Conn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Crane, John</b>, 8 &amp; 10 Bridge Street, New York City; of the firm Crane &amp;
-MacMahon, manufacturers of wheels, carriage woodstock, and hardwood
-lumber. Among offices held by him may be mentioned: director of
-the Ganesvoort Bank, New York; trustee of Emigrant Industrial Savings
-Bank; president of the Irish Emigrant Society; president of
-Ascension Conference, Society of St. Vincent de Paul; member of the
-Superior Council, Society of St. Vincent de Paul; chairman of the
-Finance Committee for Special Work, of the same society; vice-president
-of the Virginia and North Carolina Wheel Co., Richmond, Va.;
-vice-president of the St. Marys Spoke and Wheel Co., of St. Marys,
-Ohio; trustee of the Soldiers and Sailors Home, Bath, N. Y.; president
-of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee. He is also a member
-of the New York Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion,
-of the New York Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, and of other organizations.
-He was a commissioned officer during the Civil War in the Sixth
-and Seventeenth Wisconsin Regiments of Infantry, saw four years of
-very active service, and was regimental and brigade adjutant for a considerable
-period.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Creagh, Rev. John T.</b> (J. U. L., S. T. L., J. C D.), Catholic University,
-Washington, D. C.; associate professor of canon law.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Creamer, Walter H.</b>, 4 Prescott Place, Lynn, Mass. His great-grandfather,
-Edward Creamer, was born in Kinsale, Ireland, 1756, was graduated
-from Trinity College, Dublin, and in 1784 settled in Salem, Mass. He
-was a physician there. This Edward had a son George who married
-Hannah Gardner whose mother was Mary Sullivan, a sister of Gen. John
-Sullivan of the Revolution and of Gov. James Sullivan of Massachusetts.
-Walter H. Creamer, here mentioned, is a grandson of the said George
-and Hannah (Gardner) Creamer.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Crimmins, Hon. John D.</b>, 40 East 68th Street, New York City; a Life
-member of the Society; president-general of the organization in 1901,
-1902 and 1905; a member of the New York Municipal Art Commission.
-Mr. Crimmins served as a park commissioner of New York City from
-1883 to 1888, during which time he was treasurer and president of the
-board. He was a member of the Board of Visitors to West Point in
-1894, and presidential elector (Democratic), in 1892 and 1904. He
-was appointed by Governor Roosevelt and served as a member of the
-Greater New York Charter Revision Commission. In 1894, he was a
-member of the New York State Constitutional Convention. Mr. Crimmins
-is a member of the New York Chamber of Commerce, and is officially
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_158'>158</span>connected with many railway, realty and banking corporations.
-He is president of the Essex and Hudson Land Improvement Co.;
-president of the Port Richmond and Bergen Point Ferry Co.; president
-of the Bergen Point and Staten Island Ferry Co.; honorary vice-president
-of the Trust Company of America, New York; vice-president of
-the Title Insurance Co. of New York; vice-president of the New York
-Mortgage and Security Co.; director of the Fifth Avenue Bank of New
-York, and also a director in the following companies: New York City
-Railway Co., Metropolitan Securities Co., the Century Realty Co., and
-the Chelsea Realty Co. He is prominently identified with the charities
-of the Roman Catholic Church as well as with non-sectarian charities.
-He is chairman of the executive committee of the trustees of St. Patrick’s
-Cathedral; member of the board of managers of the Roman Catholic
-Orphan Asylum; member of the board of managers of St. Vincent’s
-Hospital; member of the board of trustees of St. John’s Guild, and also
-of the Provident Loan Society of New York. Mr. Crimmins is also a
-director of the City and Suburban Homes Co. of New York, which has
-for its object to provide model homes at reasonable cost for working
-people. He is a member of the following clubs: Catholic, Metropolitan,
-Lawyers, Democratic, Manhattan, and of the Wee Burn Golf Club,
-of which he was formerly president. He is likewise a member of the
-board of managers of the Sevilla Home for Children, a non-sectarian
-charity, and is also one of the managers of the Society for the Reformation
-of Juvenile Delinquents.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Crimmins, Capt. Martin L.</b>, U. S. A.; care of War Department, Washington,
-D. C.; a son of Hon. John D. Crimmins of New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Cronin, Capt. William</b>, Rutland, Vt.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Croston, J. F.</b> (M. D.), Emerson Street, Haverhill, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Cummings, Matthew J.</b>, Overseer of the poor, 616 Eddy Street, Providence,
-R. I.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Cummins, Rev. John F.</b>, Roslindale (Boston), Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Cunningham, James</b>, 277 Congress Street, Portland, Me.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Curran, James</b>, of the James Curran Manufacturing Co., 512–514 West 36th
-Street, New York City; a veteran of the Civil War.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Curry, Capt. P. S.</b>, contractor and builder, Lynn, Mass.; a veteran of the
-Civil War.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Curry, Edmond J.</b>, 69–71 East 89th Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Curtin, Jeremiah</b>, Bristol, Vt.; author of <cite>Hero Tales of Ireland</cite>, <cite>Myths
-and Folk-Lore of Ireland</cite>, <cite>Myths and Folk-Tales of the Russians</cite>,
-<cite>Western Slavs and Magyars</cite>; translator of works of Henryk Sienkiewicz;
-Mr. Curtin was acting U. S. Consul-General in Russia, 1865–’66;
-actively connected with the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution,
-1883–’91. He is one of the greatest of living philologists and
-linguists.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='pageno' id='Page_159'>159</span><b>Daly, Hon. Joseph F.</b> (LL. D.), Wall Street, New York City; Chief Justice
-of the Court of Common Pleas, New York, 1890–’96; Justice of the
-New York Supreme Court, 1896–’98; member of the Board of Managers,
-Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum; member of the Advisory Board,
-St. Vincent’s Hospital; served in 1900 on the commission to revise the
-laws of Porto Rico.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Danaher, Hon. Franklin M.</b>, Albany, N. Y.; member of the State Board of
-Law Examiners; many years Judge of the City Court of Albany.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Danvers, Robert E.</b>, 349–351 West 58th Street (the St. Albans), New York
-City; dealer in iron and steel.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Dasey, Charles V.</b>, Board of Trade Building, Broad Street, Boston, Mass.;
-steamship and insurance agent; general Eastern agent, Anchor Line
-S. S. Co., and of the Italian Royal Mail S. S. Co.; general agent, Insular
-Navigation Co.; general agency for ocean travel.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Davis, Dr. F. L.</b>, Biddeford, Me.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Davis, Hon. Robert T.</b> (M. D.), Fall River, Mass. He was born in County
-Down, Ireland. 1823; was a member of the Massachusetts State Constitutional
-Convention, 1853; a state senator, 1858–’61, and member
-of the National Republican Convention that nominated Abraham
-Lincoln for president in 1860. In 1873, Dr. Davis was elected mayor
-of Fall River. In 1882, he was elected to Congress, and was reëlected
-in 1884 and 1886. He has been prominently identified with the manufacturing
-interests of Fall River, has been president of the Wampanoag
-and Stafford mills, and has also been officially connected with the Merchants’,
-Robeson and other mills.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Day, Joseph P.</b>, real estate, 932 Eighth Avenue, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Deeves, Richard</b>, of Richard Deeves &amp; Son, builders, 305–309 Broadway,
-New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Delahanty, Dr. W. J.</b>, Trumbull Square, Worcester, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Delehanty, Hon. F. B.</b>, Judges’ Chambers, Court House, City Hall Park,
-New York; a Judge of the City Court.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Dempsey, George C.</b>, Lowell, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Dempsey, William P.</b>, treasurer and manager, the Dempsey Bleachery and
-Dye Works, Pawtucket, R. I.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Devlin, James H.</b>, 35 Parsons Street, Brighton (Boston), Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Devlin, James H., Jr.</b>, lawyer, Barristers Hall, Pemberton Square, Boston,
-Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Dewire, Thomas A.</b>, 405 Washington Street, Somerville, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Dixon, Richard</b>, insurance, 52–54 William Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Donahue, Dan A.</b>, 178 Essex Street, Salem, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Donahue, R. J.</b>, cashier of the National Bank of Ogdensburg, N. Y.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Donoghue, D. F.</b> (M. D.), 240 Maple Street, Holyoke, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='pageno' id='Page_160'>160</span><b>Donovan, Daniel</b>, 21 High Rock Street, Lynn, Mass.; an authority on heraldry,
-armorial bearings, etc., particularly as the same relate to Ireland.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Donovan, Henry F.</b>, editor and proprietor <cite>The Chicago Eagle</cite>, Teutonic
-Building, Chicago, Ill.; late colonel and inspector-general, Illinois
-National Guard.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Donovan, John W.</b>, of Larkin, Donovan &amp; Co., real estate, mortgages, and
-insurance, 1228 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Donovan, Col. William H.</b>, Lawrence, Mass.; commander of the Ninth
-Regiment M. V. M.; served with the regiment in Cuba during the
-recent war with Spain.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Donnelly, Thomas F.</b>, lawyer, 257 Broadway, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Doogue, William</b>, superintendent of Public Grounds, Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Dooley, Michael F.</b>, treasurer of the Union Trust Co., Providence, R. I.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Doran, Patrick L.</b>, Salt Lake City, Utah.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Dowd, James J.</b>, insurance. High Street, Holyoke, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Dowling, Hon. M. J.</b>, Olivia, Minn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Dowling, Rev. Austin</b>, rector of the Cathedral, Providence, R. I.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Downing, Bernard</b>, secretary to the president of the Borough of Manhattan,
-New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Downing, D. P.</b>, with National Biscuit Company, Cambridge, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Doyle, Alfred L.</b>, of John F. Doyle &amp; Sons, real estate agents, brokers and
-appraisers, 45 William Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Doyle, James</b>, 50 Front Street, New York City; present oldest member of
-the flour trade in New York; member of the New York Produce Exchange
-from the beginning; member of the board of managers of the
-Exchange, 1897–1901. He and his son, Nathaniel, are associated in
-trade as James Doyle &amp; Company.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Doyle, John F.</b>, of John F. Doyle &amp; Sons, 45 William Street, New York
-City. (Life member of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Doyle, John F., Jr.</b>, of John F. Doyle &amp; Sons, 45 William Street, New
-York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Doyle, Nathaniel</b>, of James Doyle &amp; Co., flour, etc., 50 Front Street, New
-York City; member of the board of managers, New York Produce Exchange;
-secretary of the exchange; member of the New York Club, 5th
-Avenue and 35th Street.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Drummond, M. J.</b>, of M. J. Drummond &amp; Co., 182 Broadway, New York
-City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Duffy, P. P.</b>, Parsons, Labette County, Kansas.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Duggan, John T.</b> (M. D.), Worcester, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Dunn, Hon. Robert C.</b>, publisher of <cite>The Union</cite>, Princeton, Minn.; candidate
-in 1904 for governor of Minnesota.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Dunne, F. L.</b>, 328 Washington Street, Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Dwyer, J. R.</b>, 732 Alpine St., Los Angeles, Cal.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Dyer, Dr. William H.</b>, Dover, N. H.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='pageno' id='Page_161'>161</span><b>Editor of “The Rosary Magazine,”</b> Somerset, O. (Life member of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Egan, James T.</b>, of the law firm, Gorman, Egan &amp; Gorman, Banigan Building, Providence, R. I.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Egan, Maurice Francis</b> (LL. D., J. U. D.), Professor of English Language
-and Literature, Catholic University of America, Washington,
-D. C.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Egan, Rev. M. H.</b>, rector, Church of the Sacred Heart, Lebanon, N. H.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Egan, Hon. Patrick</b>, 271 Broadway, New York City; recently United States
-Minister to Chili.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Ellard, George W.</b>, 180 Lisbon Street, Lewiston, Me.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Emmet, Dr. J. Duncan</b>, 103 Madison Avenue, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Emmet, Robert</b>, The Priory, Warwick, England.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Emmet, Thomas Addis</b> (M. D., LL. D.), 89 Madison Avenue, New York
-City (Life member of the Society); grand nephew of the Irish patriot,
-Robert Emmet.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Eustace, Hon. Alexander C.</b>, of the law firm A. C. &amp; J. P. Eustace, 334
-East Water Street, Elmira, N. Y.; during the past sixteen years identified,
-as attorney or counsel, with many of the most important litigations
-before the courts in southern and western New York; was for three
-years, prior to 1893, president of the New York State Civil Service
-Commission.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Fallon, Hon. Joseph D.</b> (LL. D.), 789 Broadway, South Boston, Mass.;
-justice of the South Boston Municipal Court; vice-president, Union
-Institution for Savings.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Fallon, Hon. Joseph P.</b>, 1900 Lexington Avenue, New York City; justice
-of the Ninth District Municipal Court.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Farley, Charles J.</b>, Department of Docks, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Farley, Most Rev. John M.</b>, (D. D.), 452 Madison Ave., New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Farrell, James P.</b>, superintendent of the Brooklyn Disciplinary Training
-School, 18th Avenue, between 56th and 58th Streets, Brooklyn, N. Y.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Farrell, John F.</b>, Brander-Walsh Co., 89 Worth Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Farrell, John T.</b> (M. D.), 16 Messer Street, Providence, R. I.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Farrelly, Stephen</b>, American News Co., New York City. (Life member of
-the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Fay, Martin</b>, 55 Bainbridge Street, Roxbury (Boston), Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Feeley, William J.</b>, treasurer of the W. J. Feeley Co., silversmiths and
-manufacturing jewelers, 185 Eddy Street, Providence, R. I.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Ferguson, Hugh</b>, of Hugh Ferguson &amp; Co., George Street, Charleston, S. C.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Finen, Rev. J. E.</b>, Tilton, N. H.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Finerty, Hon. John F.</b>, 69 Dearborn Street, Chicago, Ill.; editor of the
-<cite>Chicago Citizen</cite>; ex-member of Congress.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Finn, Rev. Thomas J.</b>, Box 242, Port Chester, N. Y.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='pageno' id='Page_162'>162</span><b>Fitzgerald, Rev. D. W.</b>, 9 Pleasant Street, Penacook, N. H.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Fitzgerald, Hon. James</b>, New York City; a justice of the New York
-Supreme Court.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Fitzpatrick, Edward</b>, on the staff of the Louisville (Ky.) <cite>Times</cite>; a resident
-of New Albany, Ind.; member of the committee to select books
-for the New Albany Public Library; was, from 1878 to 1885, Indiana
-correspondent of the Louisville <cite>Courier-Journal</cite>, reporting the
-Legislature two terms, 1883–’85, for that paper, and at the same time
-was assistant to the chief clerk in the House of Representatives; was
-appointed a clerk in the U. S. Q. M. Depot at Jeffersonville, Ind., in
-1885, but resigned to re-enter the employ of the <cite>Courier-Journal</cite>, as
-political reporter in Louisville; was four years on the Louisville <cite>Post</cite>;
-returned to the <cite>Courier-Journal</cite>; was transferred to the <cite>Times</cite> (the
-afternoon edition of the <cite>Courier-Journal</cite>), and has been on that paper
-for many years past. He is a keen and forceful writer, and is one of
-the ablest men in American journalism.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Fitzpatrick, John B.</b>, real estate, etc., 23 Court Street, Boston, Mass.; has
-been deputy sheriff of Suffolk County, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Fitzpatrick, Thomas B.</b>, senior member of the firm Brown, Durrell &amp; Co.,
-importers and manufacturers, 104 Kingston Street, Boston, Mass.;
-Rand McNally Building, Chicago, Ill., and 11–19 West 19th Street,
-New York City; president of the Union Institution for Savings, Boston,
-and a director in the United States Trust Co. of that city.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Fitzpatrick, Rev. William H.</b>, 2221 Dorchester Avenue, Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Flannagan, Andrew J.</b> (D. D. S ), Main Street, Springfield, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Flannery, Capt. John</b>, Savannah. Ga.; of John Flannery &amp; Co., cotton factors
-and commission merchants; was a non-commissioned officer of the Irish
-Jasper Greens in garrison at Fort Pulaski, 1861; was later lieutenant and
-captain, C. S. A., serving under Gen. Joe Johnston and General Hood;
-became a partner, in 1865, in the cotton firm, L. J. Guilmartin &amp; Co.,
-having a line of steamers from Charleston, S. C., to Palatka, Fla.;
-bought out the business in 1877; founded the house of John Flannery
-&amp; Co.; became director and president of the Southern Bank of the
-State of Georgia; is ex-president of the Southern Cotton Exchange;
-captain, 1872–’98, of the Jasper Greens.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Fogarty, James A.</b>, 264 Blatchley Avenue, New Haven, Conn., recently
-a police commissioner of New Haven.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Fogarty, Jeremiah W.</b>, Registry of Deeds, Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Ford, Hon. Peter J.</b>, Ford Building, Wilmington, Del.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Fox, John J.</b>, 1908–1910 Bathgate Avenue, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Foy, Julius L.</b>, lawyer, Rialto Building, St. Louis, Mo.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Franklin, A. H.</b>, 56 West 33d Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Gaffney, Hon. T. St. John</b>, lawyer; member of the French Legion of Honor;
-41 Riverside Drive, New York City; U. S. Consul General, Dresden.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='pageno' id='Page_163'>163</span><b>Gallagher, Patrick</b>, contractor and builder, 11 East 59th Street, New York
-City. (Life member of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Gargan, Hon. Thomas J.</b>, of the law firm, Gargan, Keating &amp; Brackett,
-Pemberton Building, Boston, Mass.; Life member of the Society, and
-president-general of the same in 1899 and 1900; member of the
-Boston Transit Commission; director of the United States Trust
-Co.; director, the Columbian National Life Insurance Co.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Garrigan, Rt. Rev. Philip J.</b> (D. D.), bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese
-of Sioux City, Iowa.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Garrity, P. H.</b>, 221 Bank Street, Waterbury, Conn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Garvan, Francis P.</b>, assistant district attorney, 23 Fifth Avenue, New York
-City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Garvan, Hon. Patrick</b>, 236 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, Conn.; paper
-and paper stock. (Life member of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Garvey, Patrick J.</b>, lawyer, Holyoke, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Gavin, Michael</b>, of M. Gavin &amp; Co., wholesale grocers and cotton factors,
-232–234 Front Street, Memphis, Tenn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Gavin, Dr. P. F.</b>, 331 Broadway, South Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Geary, William M.</b>, headquarters, Knights of Columbus, New Haven, Conn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Geoghegan, Charles A.</b>, 537–539, West Broadway, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Geoghegan, Joseph</b>, Salt Lake City, Utah (Life member of the Society);
-vice-president of the board of education, Salt Lake City; director of the
-Utah National Bank; director of the Utah Loan and Building Association;
-director of the Butler Liberal Manufacturing Co., all three concerns
-of Salt Lake City; also, director in many other corporations. He is
-general agent in Utah for Swift &amp; Co. of Chicago; Borden’s Condensed
-Milk Co. of New York; the American Can Co. of New York,
-and the Pennsylvania Salt Mfg. Co. of Philadelphia. He is broker for
-the following: the Western Sugar Refining Co. of San Francisco, Cal.;
-the Utah Sugar Co. of Lehi, Utah; the Amalgamated Sugar Co. of
-Ogden, Utah; the Idaho Sugar Co. of Idaho Falls, Idaho, and the
-Fremont County Sugar Co. of Sugar City, Idaho.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Geoghegan, Joseph G.</b>, 20 East 73d Street, New York City. (Life member
-of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Geoghegan, Walter F.</b>, 537–539 West Broadway, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Gibbons, John T.</b>, merchant, corner of Poydras and South Peters Streets,
-New Orleans, La.; brother of Cardinal Gibbons.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Gillespie, George J.</b>, of the law firm Gillespie &amp; O’Connor, 56 Pine Street,
-New York City; trustee, Catholic Summer School (Cliff Haven); president
-of Champlain Club there; member of the board of managers of
-the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum; vice-president of the Particular
-Council, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, New York City; recently tax
-commissioner of the city of New York. (Life member of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='pageno' id='Page_164'>164</span><b>Gilman, John E.</b>, 43 Hawkins Street, Boston, Mass.; has been adjutant-general
-on the staff of the national commander-in-chief, Grand Army of
-the Republic. In August, 1862, Mr. Gilman enlisted in Co. E, Twelfth
-Massachusetts Infantry (Webster Regiment), and participated in the
-campaigns under Generals Pope, McClellan, Burnside, Hooker and
-Meade up to the battle of Gettysburg, Pa., where, on July 2, 1863, his
-right arm was shot off near the shoulder. Securing his discharge from
-the army on Sept. 28, 1863, he returned to Boston. In 1864, he entered
-the service of the state and served in various departments until
-1883, when he was made settlement clerk of the directors of Public Institutions
-of Boston. He was appointed soldiers’ relief commissioner,
-April 2, 1901. He has been a comrade of Posts 14, 7 and 26, G. A. R.,
-since 1868, being commander of the latter post in 1888. He was department
-inspector of the Massachusetts G. A. R. in 1895; junior vice-commander
-in 1896; senior vice-commander in 1897; delegate at large
-in 1898; and department commander in 1899.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Goff, Hon. John W.</b>, recorder, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Goodwin, John</b>, of the John Goodwin Co., dressmakers’ supplies, 70–72 West
-23d Street, New York City. (Life member of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Gorman, Dennis J.</b>, assessors’ office, City Hall, Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Gorman, John F.</b>, lawyer, Stephen Girard Building, Philadelphia, Pa.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Gorman, William</b>, lawyer, Stephen Girard Building, Philadelphia, Pa.; member
-of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Academy
-of Fine Arts, the American Academy of Social and Political Science,
-the Alumni Association of the University of Pennsylvania, and other
-organizations. He is officially connected with the Commonwealth Title
-Insurance and Trust Co. of Philadelphia. (Life member of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Gray, Dr. Joseph F.</b>, 10 North Hammels Avenue, Rockaway Beach, L. I.,
-N. Y.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Griffin, John F.</b>, insurance, Skowhegan, Me.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Griffin, Martin I. J.</b>, 2009 North 12th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.; editor
-and publisher <cite>American Catholic Historical Researches</cite>.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Griffin, Rev. P. J.</b>, Holyoke, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Griffin, Rt. Rev. Mgr. Thomas</b> (D. D.), St. John’s presbytery, 44 Temple
-Street, Worcester, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Guiney, John</b>, Biddeford, Me.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Hagan, James H.</b>, treasurer of the Park Brewing Co., 1100 Elmwood Avenue,
-Providence, R. I.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Haggerty, J. Henry</b>, of the Haggerty Refining Co., oils, 50 South Street,
-New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Haigney, John</b>, 439 58th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Halley, Charles V.</b>, 1014 East 175th Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Hannan, Hon. John</b>, mayor of Ogdensburg, N. Y.; president of the Ogdensburg
-Coal and Towing Co.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='pageno' id='Page_165'>165</span><b>Hanrahan, John D.</b> (M. D.), Rutland, Vt., a native of County Limerick,
-Ireland; was graduated in medicine from the University of the City of
-New York, 1867; in June, 1861, he was, on examination (not having
-graduated), appointed surgeon in the United States Navy, and served
-through the entire Civil War. The vessels on which he served did
-duty mostly on the rivers of Virginia and North Carolina, where he
-served with the army as well as the navy, thereby having the benefit and
-experience of both branches of the service, especially in the surgical
-line. In August, 1863, the vessel on which he was serving was captured
-at the mouth of the Rappahannock River and all on board made
-prisoners. They were taken overland to Richmond where they were
-confined in Libby Prison. At that time the Confederates were very
-short of surgeons and medical supplies, and be was asked if he would go
-over to Belle Island and attend the Union prisoners. After consulting
-his fellow-prisoners he consented, and for six weeks he attended the
-sick and wounded Union prisoners faithfully, under very great disadvantages,
-as the appliances were very limited. After that he was paroled.
-While a prisoner of war he was treated with the greatest courtesy and
-consideration by the medical staff and officers of the Confederacy.
-After the close of the war he was settled in New York city, but for
-nearly 40 years has been a resident of Rutland, Vt. He was town and
-city physician of Rutland for many years. He was appointed surgeon
-of the Third Vermont Regiment, 1871, by Governor Stewart; was the
-first president of the Rutland County Medical and Surgical Society; has
-been a director and consulting surgeon of the Rutland, Vt., Hospital;
-consulting surgeon to the Fanny Allen Hospital, Winooski, Vt.; a
-member of the Vermont Sanitary Association, and a member of the
-Vermont Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis; president of Rutland
-Village two years and trustee eight years; county commissioner
-one year; president, United States pension examining board four years
-under President Cleveland, and president of same board four years
-under President Harrison. He was postmaster of Rutland during the
-second term of President Cleveland. He has since its organization been
-an active member of the G. A. R.; surgeon of Roberts Post, the largest
-in Vermont; has served three terms as medical director of the Department;
-served on the staffs of three commanders-in-chief—Veasy, Palmer
-and Weissert; a member of Commander-in-Chief Stewart’s staff. Dr.
-Hanrahan is the author of several medical papers, has performed many
-surgical operations, and has served through several epidemics of smallpox
-and diphtheria. He was a delegate to the Democratic National
-Conventions of 1884, 1888, and chairman of the Vermont delegation
-to the National Convention of 1892. Also a delegate to the Democratic
-National Convention in St. Louis, 1904, and to the Ancient Order of
-Hibernians Convention in St. Louis, July 19, 1904.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='pageno' id='Page_166'>166</span><b>Hanlon, Marcus</b>, P. O. Box 1920, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Harbison, Hon. Alexander</b>, Hartford, Conn, recently mayor of Hartford.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Harrington, Rev. J. C.</b>, rector of St. Joseph’s Church, Lynn, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Harrington, Rev. John M.</b>, Orono, Me.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Harrington, William F.</b>, Manchester, N. H.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Harris, Charles N.</b>, Tryon Row, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Harrison, A. J.</b>, 514 East 23d Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Harson, M. Joseph</b>, Catholic Club, 120 Central Park South, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Hart, Frank M.</b>, 335 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Hayes, John F.</b> (M. D.), 15 South Elm Street, Waterbury, Conn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Hayes, Nicholas J.</b>, fire commissioner, 157–159 East 67th Street, New York
-City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Hayes, Col. Patrick E.</b>, Pawtucket, R. I.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Hayes, Timothy J.</b>, 688 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Healy, John F.</b>, general superintendent of the Davis Coal and Coke Co.,
-Thomas, Tucker County, W. Va.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Healy, Col. John G.</b>, insurance, 117 Sherman Avenue, New Haven, Conn.;
-a captain in the Ninth Connecticut Infantry, April, 1862, to October,
-1864. Upon the consolidation of the regiment, in the latter year, into
-the Ninth Battalion he, being the senior captain, was given command
-of the latter. On December 1, 1864, he was promoted lieutenant-colonel
-and as such commanded the battalion until the same was mustered
-out. Since the war he has been vice-president of the Nineteenth
-Army Corps Association. When Luzon B. Morris was governor of
-Connecticut, Colonel Healy served on his staff as assistant adjutant-general.
-Colonel Healy is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal
-Legion, of the Army and Navy Club of Connecticut, and of the Second
-Company of the Governor’s Foot Guard, New Haven.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Healy, Richard</b>, Main Street, Worcester, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Hennessy, Dr. Daniel</b>, Bangor, Me.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Hennessy, Michael E.</b>, on the staff of the <cite>Boston Daily Globe</cite>; a newspaper
-man of wide experience and exceptional ability. One of the most
-highly-valued men on the <cite>Globe</cite>, he is regularly assigned to “cover”
-events of national importance and annually travels thousands of miles
-in the service of his paper.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Henry, Charles T.</b>, 120 Liberty Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Hickey, James G.</b>, manager of the United States Hotel, Boston, Mass.
-(Life member of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Hickey, Michael J.</b>, manufacturer, Haverhill, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Hickey, Rev. William A.</b>, Clinton, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Higgins, James J.</b>, 85 Court Street, Elizabeth, N. J.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Hoban, Rt. Rev. M. J.</b> (D. D.), Scranton, Pa., bishop of the Roman Catholic
-diocese of Scranton.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='pageno' id='Page_167'>167</span><b>Hogan, Charles M.</b>, with Siegel Cooper Co., Sixth Avenue, 18th and 19th
-Streets, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Hogan, John W.</b>, lawyer, 4 Weybosset Street, Providence, R. I.; recently a
-candidate for Congress.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Holland, John P.</b>, 95 Nelson Place, Newark, N. J.; inventor of the submarine
-torpedo boat.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Horigan, Cornelius</b>, 229 and 231 Main Street, Biddeford, Me.; is treasurer
-of the Andrews &amp; Horigan Co.; has been a member of the state Legislature
-of Maine.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Howes, Osborne</b>, secretary and treasurer of the Board of Fire Underwriters,
-45 Kilby Street, Boston, Mass. He is a descendant of David O’Killa
-(O’Kelly), who settled on Cape Cod as early as 1657, and who is mentioned
-in the old Yarmouth, Mass., records as “the Irishman.” The
-records show that at the close of King Philip’s War, O’Killa was assessed
-his proportionate part toward defraying the expenses of that struggle.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Hughes, Rev. Christopher</b>, Fall River, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Hurley, John E.</b>, 63 Washington Street, Providence, R. I.; vice-president
-and superintendent of the Remington Printing Co.; president, in 1904,
-of the Rhode Island Master Printers’ Association.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Jameson, W. R.</b>, 1786 Bathgate Avenue, borough of the Bronx, New York
-City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Jenkinson, Richard C.</b>, 678 High Street, Newark, N. J.; of R. C. Jenkinson
-&amp; Co., manufacturers of metal goods; candidate for mayor of Newark
-in 1901; was president of the Newark Board of Trade in 1898–’99 and
-1900; has been a director in the Newark Gas Co.; was president of
-the New Jersey Commission to the Pan-American Exposition, and one
-of the vice-presidents of the Exposition, representing the state of New
-Jersey by appointment of Governor Voorhees.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Jennings, Michael J.</b>, 753 Third Avenue, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Johnson, James G.</b>, of James G. Johnson &amp; Co., 649, 651, 653 and 655
-Broadway. New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Jordan, Michael J.</b>, lawyer, 42 Court Street, Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Joyce, Bernard J.</b>, salesman, 7 Water Street, Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Joyce, John Jay</b>, 47 Macdougal Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Kane, Dr. John H.</b>, Lexington, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Keane, Most Rev. John J.</b> (D. D.), Dubuque, Ia.; archbishop of the
-Roman Catholic archdiocese of Dubuque.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Kearney, James</b>, lawyer, 220 Broadway, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Keating, Patrick M.</b>, of the law firm Gargan, Keating &amp; Brackett, Pemberton
-Building, Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Keenan, John J.</b>, Public Library, Copley Square, Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Kehoe, John F.</b>, 26 Broadway, New York City; officially connected with
-many corporations. (Life member of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Kelly, Eugene</b>, Temple Court Building, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='pageno' id='Page_168'>168</span><b>Kelly, John Forrest</b> (Ph. D.), Pittsfield, Mass.; born near Carrick-on-Suir,
-Ireland. He was educated in Stevens Institute of Technology,
-Hoboken, N. J., received the degree of B. L. in 1878, and that of
-Ph. D. in 1881. His first occupation was as assistant to Thomas A.
-Edison, in Menlo Park laboratory, his work then principally relating to
-the chemistry of rare earths. Late in 1879 Mr. Kelly became electrical
-engineer of the New York branch of the Western Electric Company.
-This was the time when the telephone was being generally introduced,
-and when dynamos were being first applied to telegraphic purposes. In
-the construction and installment of instruments for telegraphy and telephones
-and of such measuring instruments as were then known, Mr.
-Kelly received a thorough training. In 1882 he became laboratory
-assistant to Edward Weston, then chief electrician of the United States
-Electric Lighting Company, and, with the exception of a year which he
-spent in connection with the Remingtons, Mr. Kelly continued his association
-with Mr. Weston until July, 1886. Some of the most important
-work, such as the research which ended in the discovery of high resistance
-alloys of very low or even negative temperature co-efficients, were
-substantially carried out by Mr. Kelly under general directions from Mr.
-Weston, whom Mr. Kelly succeeded as chief electrician of the United
-States Electric Lighting Company, which, in 1889, passed to the Westinghouse
-interests; but Mr. Kelly retained his position as chief electrician
-until January, 1892, when he resigned to join William Stanley in
-experimental work. The work done by Mr. Kelly, in this connection,
-gave a great impetus to the alternating current business. Mr. Kelly’s
-inventive work is partially represented by eighty patents. The art of
-building transformers and generators of alternating currents was revolutionized,
-and Mr. Kelly and his colleagues were the first to put polyphase
-motors into actual commercial service. That success naturally led to
-long-distance transmission work, and the first long-distance transmission
-plants in California (indeed the first in the world) were undertaken
-on Mr. Kelly’s recommendation and advice. He was the first to make
-an hysteretically stable steel, a matter of vastly more importance than
-the comparatively spectacular transmission work. Mr. Kelly at present
-occupies the position of president of the John F. Kelly Engineering
-Company, president of the Cokel Company and president of the Telelectric
-Company, as well as president of the Conchas River Power Company
-and director of the Southwestern Exploration Company. The
-Cokel Company is organized to exploit the invention of Mr. E. W.
-Cooke, by means of which foodstuffs may be perfectly dehydrated, losing
-on the average ninety per cent. in weight. Foods dehydrated by this
-process, although free from all chemical preservatives, are entirely stable,
-and yet preserve their pristine freshness through extremes of temperature,
-and when served are indistinguishable from fresh foods of the ordinary
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_169'>169</span>type. The Telelectric Company is organized for the manufacture
-of electric piano players, which are either entirely automatic or entirely
-controllable at will. Mr. Kelly was married to Miss Helen Fischer, in
-New York City, in 1892, and they have two children—Eoghan and
-Domnall. Mr. Kelly is a thorough and unswerving Irish Nationalist,
-and his splendid generosity to the cause is well known.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Kelly, Michael F.</b> (M. D.), Fall River, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Kelly, T. P.</b>, 544 West 22d Street, New York City; of T. P. Kelly &amp;
-Co., manufacturers of black leads, foundry facings, supplies, etc.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Kelly, William J.</b>, 9 Dove Street, Newburyport, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Kelly, William J.</b>, insurance, Kittery, Me., and Portsmouth, N. H.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Kenedy, P. J.</b>, 3 and 5 Barclay Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Kennedy, Charles F.</b>, Brewer, Me.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Kennedy, Daniel</b>, 197 Berkeley Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.; of the Kennedy
-Valve Manufacturing Co., Coxsackie, N. Y.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Kennedy, Roderick J.</b>, 924 Sixth Avenue, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Kenney, James W.</b>, Park Brewery, Terrace Street, Roxbury (Boston),
-Mass.; vice-president and director, Federal Trust Co., Boston.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Kenney, Thomas</b>, 143 Summer Street, Worcester, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Kenney, Thomas F.</b> (M. D.), Vienna, Austria.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Kent, Daniel V.</b>, Kansas City, Mo.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Kerby, John E.</b>, architect, 452 Fifth Avenue, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Kiernan, Patrick</b>, 265 West 43d Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Killoren, Hon. Andrew</b>, Dover, N. H.; recently a senator of New Hampshire.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Kilmartin, Thomas J.</b>, (M. D.), Waterbury, Conn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Kilroy, Patrick</b>, lawyer, Main Street, Springfield, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Kilroy, Philip</b> (M. D.), Springfield, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Kinney, Thomas I.</b>, Whitney Avenue, New Haven, Conn.; recently candidate
-for mayor of New Haven.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Kinsela, John F.</b>, 509 Gorham Street, Lowell, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Kivel, Hon. John</b>, Dover, N. H.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Knights of St. Patrick</b>, San Francisco, Cal. (Life membership.) Care of
-John Mulhern, 124 Market Street, San Francisco.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Lally, Frank</b>, 161 Saratoga Street, East Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Lamb, Matthew B.</b>, 516 Main Street, Worcester, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Lamson, Col. Daniel S.</b>, Weston, Mass.; Lieutenant-Colonel commanding
-Sixteenth Regiment (Mass.), 1861; A. A. G., Norfolk, 1862; served
-on staff of General Hooker; is a member of the Society of Colonial
-Wars, Sons of the American Revolution, and Military Order of the
-Loyal Legion; one of his ancestors landed at Ipswich, Mass., in 1632,
-and received a grant of 350 acres; another ancestor, Samuel, of Reading,
-Mass., participated in King Philip’s War and had a son in the expedition
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_170'>170</span>of 1711. Another member of the family, Samuel of Weston,
-commanded a company at Concord, Mass., April 19, 1775, and was
-major and colonel of the Third Middlesex Regiment for many years,
-dying in 1795.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Lappin, J. J.</b>, 7 Grant Street, Portland, Me.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Lavelle, John</b>, Inquiry Division, Post Office, Cleveland, O.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Lawler, Thomas B.</b>, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York City; with Ginn &amp; Company,
-publishers; member of the American Oriental Society and of the
-Archæological Society of America.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Lawless, Hon. Joseph T.</b>, lawyer, Norfolk, Va.; recently secretary of
-state, Virginia.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Leahy, Matthew W.</b>, 257 Franklin Street, New Haven, Conn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Lee, Hon. Thomas Z.</b>, of the law firm Barney &amp; Lee, Industrial Trust Building,
-Providence, R. I.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Lembeck, Gustav W.</b>, of Lembeck &amp; Betz, Eagle Brewing Co., 173 Ninth
-Street, Jersey City, N. J.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Lenehan, John J.</b>, of the law firm Lenehan &amp; Dowley, 165 Broadway, New
-York City. (Life member of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Lenihan, Rev. B. C.</b>, Fort Dodge, Iowa.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Lenihan, Rt. Rev. M. C.</b>, bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Great
-Falls, Mont.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Lennox, George W.</b>, manufacturer, Haverhill, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Leonard, Peter F.</b>, 343 Harvard Street, Cambridge, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Linehan, John J.</b>, Linehan Corset Co., Worcester, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Linehan, Rev. T. P.</b>, Biddeford, Me.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Lonergan, Thomas S.</b>, journalist, 665 Broadway, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Loughlin, Peter J.</b>, Court House, Chambers Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Lovell, David B.</b> (M. D.), 32 Pearl Street, Worcester, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Luddy, Timothy F.</b>, Waterbury, Conn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Lyman, William</b>, 51 East 122d Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Lynch, Bernard E.</b>, lawyer, 42 Church Street, New Haven, Conn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Lynch, Eugene</b>, 24 India Street, Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Lynch, J. H.</b>, Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, N. Y.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Lynch, John E.</b>, school principal, Worcester, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Lynch, Thomas J.</b>, lawyer, Augusta, Me.; was city clerk of Augusta, 1884
-and 1885; postmaster of Augusta from 1894 to 1898; and trustee of
-the Public Library; is now one of the water commissioners; a director
-of the Granite National Bank; trustee of the Kennebec Savings Bank;
-trustee of the Augusta Trust Company; president of the Augusta Loan
-&amp; Building Association; director of the Augusta, Winthrop &amp; Gardiner
-Railway; director of the Augusta Real Estate Association; and trustee
-of many estates.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Lynn, John</b>, 48 Bond Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='pageno' id='Page_171'>171</span><b>Lynn, Hon. Wauhope</b>, 257 Broadway, New York City; recently a judge of
-one of the New York courts.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>MacDonnell, John T. F.</b>, paper manufacturer, Holyoke, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Magenis, James P.</b>, of the law firm McConnell, Magenis &amp; McConnell,
-Tremont Building, Tremont Street, Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Magrane, P. B.</b>, dry goods merchant, Lynn, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Magrath, Patrick F.</b>, 244 Front Street, Binghamton, N. Y.; with the
-George A. Kent Company, Binghamton, wholesale cigar manufacturers.
-He has been connected with this house for the past twenty-seven
-years, for twenty of which he has been its Eastern representative. (Life
-member of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Maguire, P. J.</b>, 204 Madison Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Maher, Stephen J.</b> (M. D.), 212 Orange Street, New Haven, Conn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Mahony, William H.</b>, dry goods, 844 Eighth Avenue, New York City.
-(Life member of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Malloy, Gen. A. G.</b>, El Paso, Texas; a veteran of the Mexican and Civil
-wars; during the latter conflict he was successively major, colonel and
-brigadier-general; has been collector of the port of Galveston.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Maloney, Cornelius</b>, publisher of the <cite>Daily Democrat</cite>, Waterbury, Conn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Maloney, Dr. Thomas E.</b>, North Main Street, Fall River, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Marshall, Rev. George F.</b>, rector of St. Paul’s Church, Milford, N. H.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Martin, James</b>, managing editor, <cite>New York Tribune</cite>, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Martin, Hon. John B.</b>, penal institutions commissioner, 762 Fourth Street,
-South Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McAdoo, Hon. William</b>, police commissioner of the city of New York; ex-member
-of Congress; ex-assistant secretary of the navy; member of
-the law firm McAdoo &amp; Crosby, 25 Broad Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McAleenan, Arthur</b>, 131 West 69th Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McAleer, Dr. George</b>, Worcester, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McAlevy, John F.</b>, salesman, 26–50 North Main Street, Pawtucket, R. I.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McAuliffe, John F.</b>, engraver, with the Livermore &amp; Knight Co., Westminster
-Street, Providence, R. I.; born in New York City, Nov. 4,
-1856; educated in that city; learned the art of bank note engraving.
-His father’s father was a parishioner and intimate friend, in Ireland,
-of Rev. Theobald Mathew.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McBride, D. H.</b>, to Barclay Street, New York City. Dealer in ecclesiastical
-works in Italian marble, stained glass windows, church furnishings,
-etc.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McCaffrey, Hugh</b>, manufacturer, Fifth and Berks Streets, Philadelphia, Pa.
-(Life member of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McCall, John A.</b>, president of the New York Life Insurance Co., New York
-City. (Life member of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McCanna, Francis I.</b>, lawyer, Industrial Trust Building, Providence, R. I.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='pageno' id='Page_172'>172</span><b>McCarrick, James W.</b>, general southern agent, Clyde Steamship Co., Norfolk,
-Va. Mr. McCarrick is a veteran of the Civil War. He was
-transferred, 1861, from Twelfth Virginia regiment to North Carolina
-gunboat <em>Winslow</em>, and appointed master’s mate. Transferred to Confederate
-navy with that steamer, and ordered to Confederate steamer
-<em>Seabird</em>, at Norfolk navy yard. Attached to <em>Seabird</em> until latter was
-sunk. Taken prisoner, Elizabeth City, N. C. Paroled February, 1862.
-Exchanged for officer of similar rank captured from United States ship
-<em>Congress</em>. Promoted to master and ordered to navy yard, Selma, Ala.
-Served later on Confederate steamships <em>Tuscaloosa</em>, <em>Baltic</em> and <em>Tennessee</em>
-at Mobile, and in Mobile Bay, and on steamer <em>Macon</em>, at Savannah,
-and on Savannah River. Detailed to command water battery at Shell
-Bluff, below Augusta, after surrender of Savannah. Paroled from
-steamship <em>Macon</em> at Augusta, Ga., after Johnson’s surrender.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McCarthy, Charles, Jr.</b>, Portland, Me.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McCarthy, George W.</b>, of Dennett &amp; McCarthy, dry goods, Portsmouth,
-N. H.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McCarthy, M. R. F.</b>, 82 Court Street, Binghamton, N. Y.; a commissioner
-of the department of Public Instruction.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McCarthy, Patrick J.</b>, lawyer, Industrial Trust Building, Providence, R. I.;
-has been a member of the General Assembly of Rhode Island.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McCaughan, Rev. John P.</b>, Holyoke, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McCaughey, Bernard</b>, of Bernard McCaughey &amp; Co., house furnishers, Pawtucket,
-R. I.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McClean, Rev. Peter H.</b>, Milford, Conn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McConway, William</b>, of the McConway &amp; Torley Co., Pittsburg, Pa.
-(Life member of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McCormick, Edward R.</b>, 15 West 38th Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McCoy, Rev. John J.</b>, rector of the Church of the Holy Name, Chicopee,
-Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McCready, Rt. Rev. Mgr. Charles</b>, 329 West 42d Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McCreery, Robert</b>, room 427, Produce Exchange, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McCullough, John</b>, 55 Maxfield Street, New Bedford, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McDonald, Mitchell C.</b>, care Navy Department, Washington, D. C.; paymaster,
-U. S. N.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McDonnell, Peter</b>, 2 Battery Place, New York City; general railroad,
-steamship and banking business; agent, New York, Ontario &amp; Western
-Railway.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McDonnell, Robert E.</b>, lawyer, 206 Broadway, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McDonough, Hon. John J.</b>, Fall River, Mass.; justice of the second district
-court of Bristol County, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McEldowney, W. A.</b>, 225 Sixth Street, Ashland, N. J.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McElroy, Rev. Charles J.</b>, rector of St. Mary’s church, Derby, Conn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='pageno' id='Page_173'>173</span><b>McEvoy, John W.</b>, 137 Central Street, Lowell, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McGann, James E.</b>, real estate, 902 Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McGauran, Michael S.</b> (M. D.), Lawrence, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McGillicuddy, Hon. D. J.</b>, of the law firm McGillicuddy &amp; Morey, Lewiston,
-Me.; ex-mayor of Lewiston.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McGolrick, Rev. E. J.</b>, 84 Herbert Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McGolrick, Rt. Rev. James</b> (D. D.), bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese
-of Duluth, Minn. (Life member of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McGovern, James</b>, 6 Wall Street, New York City. (Life member of the
-Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McGovern, Joseph P.</b>, of J. P. McGovern &amp; Bro., fur brokers, 193 Greene
-Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McGowan, Rear Admiral John</b>, U. S. N. (retired), 1739 N Street, N. W.,
-Washington, D. C. (Life member of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McGowan, P. F.</b>, manufacturer, 224 East 12th Street, New York City;
-member of the board of education. (Life member of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McGuire, Edward J.</b>, lawyer, 52 Wall Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McGurrin, F. E.</b>, of F. E. McGurrin &amp; Co., investment bankers, Security
-Trust Building, Salt Lake City, Utah; president of the Salt Lake
-Security &amp; Trust Co.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McIntyre, John F.</b>, of the law firm Cantor, Adams &amp; McIntyre, 25 Broad
-Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McKelleget, George F.</b>, of the law firm R. J. &amp; G. F. McKelleget, Pemberton
-Building, Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McKelleget, Richard J.</b>, of the law firm R. J. &amp; G. F. McKelleget, Pemberton
-Building, Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McLaughlin, Henry V.</b> (M. D.), 40 Kent Street, Brookline, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McLaughlin, John</b>, builder, 348 East 81st Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McLaughlin, Marcus J.</b>, 250 West 25th Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McLaughlin, Thomas</b>, Hallowell, Me.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McLaughlin, Thomas F.</b>, 19 East 87th Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McMahon, James</b>, 51 Chambers Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McMahon, Rev. John W.</b> (D. D.), rector of St. Mary’s church, Charlestown
-(Boston), Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McManus, Col. John</b>, 87 Dorrance Street, Providence, R. I.; was appointed
-colonel of the Rhode Island Guards regiment by Governor Van Zandt,
-in 1887; was one of the commissioners to revise the militia laws of the
-state; aide-de-camp, with the rank of colonel, on the staff of Governor
-Davis of Rhode Island; has been prominently identified with all movements
-for the betterment of Ireland—his native land; is of the firm
-John McManus &amp; Co., prominent clothing merchants of Providence.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McManus, Michael</b>, of McManus &amp; Co., Fall River, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McManus, Rev. Michael T.</b>, rector of St. Mary’s Church of the Assumption,
-Brookline, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='pageno' id='Page_174'>174</span><b>McNamee, Hon. John H. H.</b>, 51 Frost Street, Cambridge, Mass.; recently
-mayor of Cambridge.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McOwen, Anthony</b>, 515 Wales Avenue, Borough of the Bronx, New York
-City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McPartland, John E.</b>, Park Street, New Haven, Conn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McQuade, E. A.</b>, 75–77 Market Street, Lowell, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McQuaid, Rev. William P.</b>, rector of St. James Church, Harrison Avenue,
-Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McSweeney, Edward F.</b>, <cite>Evening Traveler</cite>, Summer Street, Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>McWalters, John P.</b>, 141 Broadway, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Meade, Richard W.</b>, 817 Eighth Avenue, New York City; son of the first
-president-general of the society.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Mellen, Hon. W. M. E.</b> (M. D.), Chicopee, Mass.; ex-mayor of Chicopee.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Milholland, John E.</b>, Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia, Pa.; president
-of the Batcheller Pneumatic Tube Co., of Philadelphia; president of
-the Pneumatic Dispatch Manufacturing Co., of Pennsylvania; director
-in the Pearsall Pneumatic Tube and Power Co., of New York, and a
-director in the Pneumatic Transit Co., of New Jersey. Under him the
-successful pneumatic tube of the large diameter have been constructed,
-and it is largely due to his energy and effort that the U. S. post-office
-department now considers a part of its general delivery system the
-pneumatic tube service. He is a member of the Transportation Club
-of New York, the New York Press Club, the Republican Club, the
-Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History,
-and a number of other organizations.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Molony, Henry A.</b>, of Molony &amp; Carter, 16 New Street, Charleston, S. C.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Monaghan, Hon. James Charles</b>, chief of the Bureau of Statistics of the
-U. S. Department of Commerce and Labor, Washington, D. C.; formerly
-U. S. consul at Mannheim and at Chemnitz; recently professor
-of Commerce, University of Wisconsin.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Monaghan, Rt. Rev. John J.</b> (D. D.), bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese
-of Wilmington, Del.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Montfort, Richard</b>, Louisville, Ky.; chief engineer of the Louisville &amp; Nashville
-R. R.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Montgomery, Gen. Phelps</b>, 39 Church Street, New Haven, Conn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Moore, O’Brien</b>, president and general manager of The Citizen Printing and
-Publishing Co., Tucson, Ariz. On the breaking out of the war with
-Spain, he entered the service as lieutenant-colonel of the Second West
-Virginia Infantry. After a year’s service, and peace being declared
-with Spain, he became lieutenant-colonel of U. S. Volunteers for the
-operations in the Philippines, where he served for eighteen months,
-until his regiment was mustered out. He then settled in Tucson, and
-is now head of a valuable newspaper plant, which issues a daily and a
-weekly. (Life member of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='pageno' id='Page_175'>175</span><b>Moran, Col. James</b>, Providence, R. I.; a veteran of the Civil War. He
-was appointed second lieutenant in the Third Regiment, Rhode Island
-Volunteers, by Special Orders 53, A. G. O., R. I., Aug. 27, 1861;
-was commissioned second lieutenant, Fifth Rhode Island Heavy Artillery,
-Nov. 5, 1861; mustered in, Dec. 16, 1861; in command of Company
-A, from Aug. 8, 1862, until Sept. 20, 1862; assumed command
-of Company D, Sept. 26, 1862; was commissioned captain and mustered
-in as such Feb. 14, 1863; on General Court Martial, July, 1863;
-in command of Fort Amory, at Newberne, N. C., from Sept. 1, 1863,
-until Oct. 15, 1863; assumed command of Post, at Hatteras Inlet,
-N. C., April 21, 1864; in command of Forts Foster and Parke, at
-Roanoke Island, from May 2, 1864, until January, 1865; mustered out
-Jan. 17, 1865. In May, 1873, he was commissioned colonel of the
-Rhode Island Guards Regiment, and in June, 1887, became colonel of
-the Second Regiment, Brigade of Rhode Island Militia.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Moran, Dr. James</b>, 345 West 58th Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Morgan, John</b>, 44 West 46th Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Morkan, Michael J.</b>, P. O. Box 543, Hartford, Conn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Moriarty, John</b>, 135 Broadway, Waterbury, Conn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Morrissy, Thomas</b>, 48–50 West 14th Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Moseley, Edward A.</b>, Washington, D. C., president-general of the Society
-in 1897 and 1898. He succeeded to the position, in the former year,
-on the death of Admiral Meade, who was the first president-general of
-the organization. Mr. Moseley is secretary of the U. S. Interstate
-Commerce Commission. He is ninth in descent from Lieut. Thaddeus
-Clark, who came from Ireland, and died in Portland, Me., May 16,
-1690. Clark was lieutenant of a company of men engaged in the
-defence of Falmouth, now Portland, during the Indian War. He fell
-into ambuscade with his company while making a reconnoitre, and was
-killed with twelve of his men. Mr. Moseley is also a descendant of
-Deputy-Governor Cleeves (or Cleaves), a founder of Portland, formerly
-Falmouth, and is sixth in descent from Lieut. John Brown of Belfast,
-Me., who came with his father from Londonderry, Ire., and was one of
-the settlers of Londonderry, N. H.; Brown was chairman of the First
-Board of Selectmen of Belfast, Me., chosen Nov. 11, 1773, ’74 and
-’75; he removed from Londonderry, N. H. While residing there he
-had been a commissioned officer in the Provincial Army, and had served
-in the French War. Mr. Moseley is also of patriotic Revolutionary
-stock, and is a member of the Society of Cincinnati.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Moynahan, Bartholomew</b>, lawyer, 120 Broadway, New York City; official
-stenographer to the New York Supreme Court.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Mullen, John F.</b>, 26 Trask Street, Providence, R. I.; foreman, Wildprett
-&amp; Saacke, gold ring manufacturers; musical director, St. Joseph’s
-Church, Providence, 1886–1888; solo baritone, St. Michael’s Church,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_176'>176</span>since 1893; musical director, Rhode Island Irish Language Society,
-1896–1897; assistant director, Gesang Verein Einklang, since 1897.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Murphy, D. P., Jr.</b>, 31 Barclay Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Murphy, Edward J.</b>, of the Edward J. Murphy Co., real estate brokers,
-Springfield, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Murphy, Frank J.</b>, 109 Mason Street, Salem, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Murphy, Fred C.</b>, of the Edward J. Murphy Co., Springfield, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Murphy, James</b>, 42 Westminster Street, Providence, R. I.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Murphy, James R.</b>, lawyer, 27 School Street, Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Murphy, Hon. John R.</b>, lawyer, Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Murray, John F.</b>, captain of police, Cambridge, Mass.; residence, 9 Avon
-Street.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Murray, Hon. Lawrence O.</b>, assistant secretary, U. S. Department of Commerce
-and Labor, Washington, D. C. He is a lawyer by profession.
-He first went to Washington as secretary to William Edmund Curtis,
-assistant secretary of the treasury. Subsequently, he held other positions
-in the treasury, including that of chief of division, and, from Sept.
-1, 1898, to June 27, 1899, that of deputy comptroller of the currency.
-He left the government employment to become the trust officer of the
-American Trust Company, continuing in that place for three years.
-He then went to Chicago as secretary of the Central Trust Company of
-Illinois and served there for two years before becoming assistant secretary
-of commerce and labor.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Murray, Michael J.</b>, lawyer, 27 School Street, Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Murray, Patrick</b>, insurance, 318 West 52d Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Murray, Thomas Hamilton</b>, 36 Newbury Street, Boston, Mass.; secretary-general
-of the Society; a newspaper man of twenty years’ experience,
-during which he has been editorially connected with journals in Boston
-and Lawrence, Mass., Providence, R. I., and Bridgeport and Meriden,
-Conn.; has devoted much attention to historical research, particularly
-in relation to the Irish element in American history, and has delivered
-addresses on the subject before the New England Historic, Genealogical
-Society; the Rhode Island Historical Society; the Phi Kappa
-Sigma of Brown University; the Boston Charitable Irish Society
-(founded 1737), and other organizations; is the author of a number
-of papers, pamphlets and books.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Neagle, Rev. Richard</b>, Malden, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Beirne, Gen. James R.</b>, 290 Broadway, New York City. In military life
-he has held every commissioned rank up to brevet brigadier-general of
-volunteers; has also been provost marshal, District of Columbia; deputy
-U. S. marshal, District of Columbia; register of wills, District of Columbia;
-editor <cite>Sunday Gazette</cite>, Washington, D. C.; special agent U. S.
-Indian affairs; special agent U. S. treasury department; assistant U. S.
-commissioner of immigration at New York City; commissioner of charities,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_177'>177</span>New York City; commander U. S. Medal of Honor Legion. In
-business life has been president of Yonkers Electric Light Co.; secretary
-of Flemington Coal and Coke Co. of West Virginia, and treasurer
-of Manhattan Distilling Co. In social life, president of the United
-Irish societies of New York City and vicinity, and member of various
-clubs and other organizations.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Brien, Hon. C. D.</b>, lawyer, Globe Building, St. Paul, Minn.; prosecuting
-attorney of Ramsey County, Minn., from 1874 to 1878; assistant U. S.
-district attorney from 1870 to 1873; mayor of St. Paul from 1883 to
-1885.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Brien, Dennis F.</b>, of the law firm Sheahan &amp; O’Brien, Banigan Building,
-Providence, R. I.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Brien, Rev. James J.</b>, 185 Summer Street, Somerville, Mass.; a son of
-the late Mayor Hugh O’Brien of Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Brien, John D.</b>, Bank of Minnesota Building, St. Paul, Minn.; of the law
-firm Stevens, O’Brien, Cole &amp; Albrecht.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Brien, Hon. Morgan J.</b> (LL. D.), 729 Park Avenue, New York City;
-a justice of the New York Supreme Court; trustee of the New York
-Public Library.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Brien, Patrick</b>, of Driscoll &amp; O’Brien, contractors, 399 South Broadway,
-Lawrence, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Byrne, M. A.</b>, 370 West 118th Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Callaghan, Rev. Denis</b> (D. D.), rector of St. Augustine’s Church, South
-Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Connell, Rt. Rev. Mgr. Denis Joseph</b> (S. T. D.), rector of the Catholic
-University, Washington, D. C.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Connell, John</b>, 302 West End Avenue, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Connell, John F.</b>, 306 Broadway, Providence, R. I.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Connell, Joseph F.</b>, lawyer, 53 State Street, Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Connell, P. A.</b>, vice-president of the Wm. Filene’s Sons Co., dry goods,
-453–463 Washington Street, Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Connor, Edward</b>, 302 Broadway, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Connor, Hon. J. J.</b>, 414–416 Carroll Street. Elmira, N. Y. (Life member
-of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Connor, J. L.</b>, Ogdensburg, N. Y.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Connor, M. P.</b>, Binghamton, N. Y. (Life member of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Doherty, Rev. James</b>, Haverhill, Mass. (Life member of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Doherty, Hon. Matt.</b>, Louisville, Ky.; a judge of the Circuit-Court.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Donovan, Jeremiah (Rossa)</b>, Cork County Council, Cork, Ireland; late of
-New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Donnell, Rev. James H.</b>, Norwalk, Conn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Donnell, Hon. John B.</b>, lawyer, Northampton, Mass.; ex-mayor of Northampton.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='pageno' id='Page_178'>178</span><b>O’Dwyer, Hon. E. F.</b>, 37 West 76th Street, New York City; chief justice
-of the City Court of New York.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Farrell, P. A.</b>, Waldorf-Astoria, New York City. (Life member of the
-Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Flaherty, James</b>, advertising, 22 North William Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Flynn, Rev. D. P.</b>, 138 Waverly Place, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Gorman, Hon. J. A.</b>, 318 West 108th Street, New York City; a justice of
-the New York Supreme Court.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Gorman, Thomas A.</b>, the O’Gorman Co., dry goods, Providence, R. I.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Hagan, Thomas</b> (Ph. D.), 151 Mutual Street, Toronto, Canada.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Herin, William</b>, Parsons, Labette County, Kan.; superintendent of
-machinery and equipment, Missouri, Kansas &amp; Texas Railway. (Life
-member of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Keefe, Edmund</b>, superintendent of buildings, New Bedford, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Keefe, John A.</b>, 25 Exchange Street, Lynn, Mass.; a native of Rockport,
-Mass.; was graduated from Harvard College, class of 1880; member
-of the Phi Beta Kappa; taught school in Housatonic, Mass.; was
-elected submaster of the Lynn, Mass., High School in 1881 and headmaster
-of the same in 1885; became a member of the teaching staff of
-the English High School, Boston, Mass.; studied law; was admitted
-to the bar of Essex County, Mass., and has since practiced law in Lynn.
-In 1897 he was the Democratic candidate for attorney-general of Massachusetts.
-Member of the Lynn Board of Associated Charities; member
-of the New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools;
-of the Essex Institute, and of the Executive Board of the Civic League of
-Lynn. Among Mr. O’Keefe’s classmates at Harvard were: Hon. Theodore
-Roosevelt, president of the United States; Hon. William S. Andrews,
-justice of the New York Supreme Court; Robert Bacon, partner
-of J. P. Morgan; Harold N. Fowler, professor of Latin; Hon. Josiah
-Quincy, mayor of Boston, Mass.; Albert Bushnell Hart, historian and
-professor, and many other people of note.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Leary, Jeremiah</b>, 275 Fifty-eighth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Leary, P. J.</b>, 161 West 13th Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Loughlin, Patrick</b>, lawyer, 23 Court Street, Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Malley, Thomas F.</b>, lawyer, 21 Dane Street, Somerville, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Meara, Maurice</b>, of the Maurice O’Meara Co., paper manufacturers, 448
-Pearl Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Neil, Frank S.</b>, lawyer, O’Neil Building, Binghamton, N. Y.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Neil, Hon. Joseph H.</b>, president of the Federal Trust Co., Boston, Mass.;
-formerly a member of Congress; was later U. S. Treasurer at Boston.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Neil, Rev. John P.</b>, Peterborough, N. H.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Neill, Rev. Daniel H.</b>, 935 Main Street, Worcester, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Neill, Rev. D. P.</b>, Westchester, N. Y.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Neill, Eugene M.</b>, Pittsburg, Pa. (Life member of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='pageno' id='Page_179'>179</span><b>O’Neill, Francis Q.</b>, Charleston, S. C., of the firm Bernard O’Neill &amp; Sons
-(house founded in 1845); president of the Hibernia Trust and Savings
-Bank, Charleston; president of the Standard Truck Package Co.;
-president of the Riverside Paper Box Factory; director, First National
-Bank; director, Equitable Fire Insurance Co.; an alderman of Charleston,
-and mayor <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">pro tem.</span></i> of the city; president of the Charleston
-Country Club; member of the Board of Trustees of the College of
-Charleston.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Neill, James L.</b>, 220 Franklin Street, Elizabeth, N. J.; connected with
-the Elizabeth post office for the past sixteen years; has been president
-of the Young Men’s Father Mathew T. A. Society, and treasurer of St.
-Patrick’s Alliance, Elizabeth. He was one of the prime movers in the
-projection and completion of a monument to the late Mayor Mack of
-Elizabeth.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Rourke, Hon. Jeremiah</b>, of J. O’Rourke &amp; Sons, architects, 756 Broad
-Street, Newark, N. J.; U. S. Supervising Architect under President
-Cleveland. (Life member of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Rourke, John F.</b>, consulting and contracting engineer, 26 Nassau Street,
-New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Sullivan, Humphrey</b>, treasurer of the O’Sullivan Rubber Co., Lowell,
-Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Sullivan, James</b>, president of the O’Sullivan Rubber Co., Lowell, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Sullivan, John</b>, with the H. B. Claflin Co., Church Street, New York
-City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>O’Sullivan, Sylvester J.</b>, 66 Liberty Street, New York City, manager of
-the New York office of the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co., of
-Baltimore. Md.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Owens, Joseph E.</b>, of the law firm Ketcham &amp; Owens, 189 Montague Street,
-Brooklyn, N. Y.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Patterson, Rev. George J.</b>, rector of St. Vincent’s Church, South Boston,
-Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Phelan, Hon. James D.</b>, Phelan Building, San Francisco, Cal.; recently
-mayor of San Francisco.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Phelan, James J.</b>, 16 Exchange Place, New York City; president of the
-Traders’ and Travelers’ Accident Co.; treasurer of the King’s County
-Refrigerating Co., Astoria Cordage Co., and the Pontiac Building Co.;
-director in the Stuyvesant Insurance Co. When Ferdinand de Lesseps
-contracted to build the Panama Canal, Mr. Phelan became treasurer
-and manager of the American Contracting and Dredging Co., in which
-he was associated with the late Eugene Kelly, H. B. Slaven and others.
-This company contracted for and built fifteen miles of the canal. In
-1891 Mr. Phelan was appointed treasurer of the Department of Docks
-of the city of New York, which office he held for five years.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='pageno' id='Page_180'>180</span><b>Phelan, John J.</b>, lawyer, 7 Wall Street, New York City; graduate of Manhattan
-College and of the Columbia Law School; member of the Xavier
-Alumni Sodality, the N. Y. Catholic Club, and the Manhattan Alumni
-Society.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Phelan, Rev. J.</b>, Marcus, Ia.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Philbin, Eugene A.</b>, of the law firm Philbin, Beekman &amp; Menken, 111
-Broadway, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Piggott, Michael</b>, 1634 Vermont Street, Quincy, Ill.; a veteran of the Civil
-War. He was made second lieutenant of Company F, Western Sharpshooters,
-in 1861, while at Camp Benton, St. Louis, Mo.; was promoted
-first lieutenant, and while at Fort Donaldson, in the spring of
-1862, was made captain; lost a leg at Resaca, Ga. in May, 1864; was
-subsequently connected with the U. S. Revenue Service; messenger in
-the National House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.; was made
-postmaster of Quincy, Ill., during President Grant’s first term, and held
-the position for over sixteen years; was appointed Special Indian Agent
-by President Harrison, and in that, as in every position held, displayed
-eminent ability.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Plunkett, Thomas</b>, 257 Sixth Street, East Liverpool, O.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Power, Rev. James W.</b>, 47 East 129th Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Powers, Patrick H.</b>, president of the Emerson Piano Co., 120 Boylston
-Street, Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Prendergast, W. A.</b>, 20 Nassau Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Quinlan, Francis J.</b> (M. D.), 33 West 38th Street, New York City; was for
-a number of years surgeon in the U. S. Indian Service; recently president
-of the New York Celtic Medical Society.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Quinlan, Col. James</b>, 120 Liberty Street, New York City; a veteran of the
-Civil War; served in the Eighty-eighth New York Regiment (of Meagher’s
-Irish Brigade); member of the U. S. Medal of Honor Legion.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Quinn, John</b>, lawyer, 120 Broadway, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Quinn, W. Johnson</b>, manager of the Hotel Empire, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Regan, John H.</b>, lawyer, 422 35th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Regan, W. P.</b>, architect, Lawrence, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Reilly, Robert J.</b>, Cedar Street. Bangor, Me.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Richardson, Stephen J.</b>, 1785 Madison Avenue, New York City; circulation
-manager New York <cite>World</cite>.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Rooney, John Jerome</b>, of Rooney &amp; Spence, customs and insurance brokers,
-forwarding agents, 66, 68 and 70 Beaver Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Roosevelt, Hon. Theodore</b>, president of the United States, White House
-Washington, D. C.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Rorke, James</b>, 40 Barclay Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Ryan, Charles V.</b>, Springfield, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Ryan, Christopher S.</b>, Lexington, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='pageno' id='Page_181'>181</span><b>Ryan, James T.</b>, 68 William Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Ryan, John J.</b>, 171 East 94th Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Ryan, Michael</b>, 377 Broadway. New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Ryan, Michael J.</b>, Waterbury, Conn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Ryan, Nicholas W.</b>, 1444 Boston Road, Borough of the Bronx, New York
-City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Ryan, Most Rev. Patrick J.</b> (D. D.), Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pa.;
-the Cathedral, Philadelphia.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Ryan, Richard</b>, Rutland, Vt.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Ryan, Timothy M.</b> (M. D.), Torrington, Conn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Ryan, Hon. William</b>, of Wm. Ryan &amp; Co., grocers, Port Chester, N. Y.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Sanders, Col. C. C.</b>, Gainesville, Ga.; president of the State Banking Co.
-of Gainesville; alternate commissioner to World’s Fair, Chicago, Ill.,
-1893; vice-president for Georgia, American Bankers’ Association.
-Colonel Sanders is of Irish and English ancestry. On the maternal
-side he is descended from Thomas and Theodosia M. Smyth, who emigrated
-from Ireland in 1793, landing in Charleston, S. C. They settled
-in Jones County, Ga. Thomas died Nov. 28, 1799. On the
-paternal side Colonel Sanders is a descendant of Rev. Moses Sanders,
-who emigrated from England, with two brothers, John and David, and
-arrived in Petersburg, Va., 1765. They embraced the Patriotic cause
-in the Revolution and were active in operations against the British.
-Colonel Sanders, the subject of this sketch, graduated from the Georgia
-Military Institute, in June, 1861; entered the Confederate service; was
-made lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty-fourth Regiment of Infantry,
-Georgia Volunteers, August, 1861; served under General Lee in the
-Peninsular campaign, in the seven days’ battles around Richmond, Va.,
-and was among the bravest of the brave; commanded his regiment at
-Malvern Hill and at Marye’s Heights, Fredericksburg, where the
-Twenty-fourth was a part of the Confederate forces that received the
-valorous charges of Meagher’s Irish Brigade. He also commanded the
-regiment at the battles of Chancellorsville and Antietam, at which latter
-conflict he was placed in command of Wofford’s Brigade. While in
-this position he met a bayonet charge from the Federals by a counter
-bayonet charge, and in the desperate fighting that ensued, fifty-eight
-per cent. of Sanders’ heroic force was swept away. Colonel Sanders
-also led the Twenty-fourth at Cedar Creek, Chickamauga, Knoxville,
-the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, and Sailor’s Creek. On
-April 6, 1865, Ewell’s Corps, to which Colonel Sanders’ regiment was
-then attached, was captured, and Colonel Sanders was sent as a prisoner
-of war to Washington, D. C. Writing of Meagher’s Irish Brigade,
-Colonel Sanders says: “I was in command of the Twenty-fourth
-Georgia Regiment, with other troops, at the foot of Marye’s Heights,
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_182'>182</span>receiving the five heroic and gallant charges of the Irish Brigade, whose
-prodigies of valor have filled the country with admiration. I saw the
-devoted Irish charge up to our breastworks, to be mowed down by a
-line of Confederate fire that no soldiers could withstand. I saw the
-Irish battalions cut down like grain before the reaper, yet the survivors
-would magnificently close up their ranks only to have huge gaps again
-cut through them. When forced back they rallied and came bravely
-on again, only to be riddled with bullets and torn by artillery. Their
-fifth charge was made with greatly decimated ranks that slowly recoiled
-like the waves of a tempestuous sea. When twilight descended upon
-the scene, a spectacle was presented unequaled in warfare. At least
-three fourths of my command was composed of men of Irish descent
-and knew that the gallant dead in our front were our kindred of the
-land beyond the sea. When, one by one, the stars came out that
-night, many tears were shed by Southern Confederate eyes for the
-heroic Federal Irish dead.” During the war Colonel Sanders was
-offered the rank of brigadier-general but declined the same.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Sasseen, Robert A.</b>, 50 Pine Street, New York City; insurance investments.
-(Life member of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Scott, Joseph</b>, lawyer, Bradbury Building, Los Angeles, Cal.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Shahan, Very Rev. Thomas J.</b> (S. T. D., J. U. L.), professor of church
-history, Catholic University, Washington, D. C.; S. T. D., Propaganda,
-Rome, 1882; J. U. L., Roman Seminary, 1889.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Shanahan, Very Rev. Edmund T.</b> (Ph. D., S. T. D., J. C. L.), professor
-of dogmatic theology, Catholic University, Washington, D. C.; A. B.,
-Boston College, 1888; S. T. D., Propaganda, Rome, 1893; J. C. L.,
-Roman Seminary, Rome, 1895; Ph. D., Roman Academy, 1895.
-Instructor in philosophy and dogmatic theology, American College,
-Rome, 1894–’95; lecturer in philosophy, University of Pennsylvania,
-1898–’99; associate professor of philosophy, The Catholic University
-of America, 1895–1901.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Shanley, John F.</b>, 17 Washington Street, Newark, N. J.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Shanley, Thomas J.</b>, 344 West 87th Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Shea, Daniel W.</b> (Ph. D.), professor of physics, Catholic University, Washington,
-D. C.; A. B., Harvard University, 1886; A. M., Harvard
-University, 1888; Ph. D., Berlin, 1892. Assistant in Physics, Harvard
-University, 1889 and 1892; assistant professor of physics in the
-University of Illinois, 1892–’93; professor of physics in the University
-of Illinois, 1893–’95.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Shea, John B.</b>, 19 Maiden Lane, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Sheedy, Bryan DeF.</b> (M. D.), 10 West 46th Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Sheran, Hugh F.</b>, 46 Woodbine Street, Roxbury (Boston), Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Sheridan, Rev. John A.</b>, 97 South Street, Jamaica Plain (Boston), Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='pageno' id='Page_183'>183</span><b>Sherman, P. Tecumseh</b>, of the law firm Taft &amp; Sherman, 15 William
-Street, New York City; member of the Union League Club and of the
-Military Order of the Loyal Legion; son of the late Gen. William T.
-Sherman.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Shuman, A.</b>, merchant clothier, 440 Washington Street, Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Slattery, John J.</b>, president Todd-Donigan Iron Co., Louisville, Ky.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Sligo Social Club</b>, Roxbury (Boston), Mass. (M. J. Mulroy, secretary, 24
-Faxon Street, Roxbury.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Sloane, Charles W.</b>, lawyer, 54 William Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Smith, Hon. Andrew C.</b> (M. D.), Dekum Building, Portland, Oregon;
-president of the State Board of Health; president of the Hibernia Savings
-Bank; member of the state senate from 1900 to 1904; has served
-on the staff of St. Vincent’s Hospital for fourteen years; has been
-president of the State and City Medical societies; represented Oregon
-for two years in the House of Delegates of the American Medical
-Association.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Smith, James</b>, 26 Broadway, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Smith, Rev. James J.</b>, 88 Central Street, Norwich, Conn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Smith, Joseph</b>, secretary of the Police Commission, Lowell, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Smith, Dr. Thomas B.</b>, Wyman’s Exchange, Lowell, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Smith, Thomas F.</b>, clerk of the city court, 32 Chambers Street, New York
-City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Smyth, Rev. Hugh P.</b>, rector of St. Joseph’s Church, Roxbury (Boston),
-Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Smyth, Philip A.</b>, 11 Pine Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Smyth, Rev. Thomas</b>, Springfield, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Smyth, Rev. Thomas M.</b>, East Liverpool, O.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Somers, P. E.</b>, manufacturer, 17 Hermon Street, Worcester, Mass. (Life
-member of the Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Spillane, J. B.</b>, managing editor <cite>Music Trade Review</cite>, Metropolitan Life
-Building, 1 Madison Avenue, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Stang, Rt. Rev. William</b> (D. D.), Fall River, Mass., bishop of the Roman
-Catholic diocese of Fall River.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Steele, Hon. John H.</b>, Phenix Building, Minneapolis, Minn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Storen, William J.</b>, 232 Calhoun Street, Charleston, S. C.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Sullivan, James E.</b> (M. D.), Providence, R. I.; was graduated from Bellevue
-Hospital Medical College, New York, 1879; also studied medicine
-in Dublin, London and Paris; was city physician of Fall River,
-Mass., for seven years; married, in 1885, Alice, daughter of the late
-Joseph Banigan of Providence; retired from practice in 1891; is a
-member of the Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Providence Medical
-societies; vice-president of the University Club, Providence; a director
-of the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co.; president and treasurer of
-the Sullivan Investment Co., Providence.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='pageno' id='Page_184'>184</span><b>Sullivan, James Mark</b>, lawyer, Exchange Building, New Haven, Conn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Sullivan, John B.</b>, contractor, New Bedford, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Sullivan, John J.</b>, 61–63 Quincy Market, Boston, Mass.; of Doe, Sullivan
-&amp; Co.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Sullivan, John J.</b>, lawyer, 203 Broadway, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Sullivan, Dr. M. B.</b>, Dover, N. H.; formerly a state senator.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Sullivan, M. F.</b> (M. D.), Oak Street, Lawrence, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Sullivan, Michael X.</b> (Ph. D.), instructor, Brown University, Providence,
-R. I.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Sullivan, Patrick F.</b>, of Sullivan Bros., 68 Pemberton Square, Boston,
-Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Sullivan, Hon. Richard</b>, lawyer, Tremont Street, Boston, Mass.; an ex-senator
-of Massachusetts.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Sullivan, Roger G.</b>, cigar manufacturer, 803 Elm Street, Manchester, N. H.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Sullivan, Dr. T. P.</b>, 318 South Main Street, Fall River, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Sullivan, Timothy P.</b>, Concord, N. H.; furnished granite from his New
-Hampshire quarries for the new National Library Building, Washington,
-D. C.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Sullivan, William B.</b>, lawyer, Tremont Building, Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Supple, Rev. James N.</b>, rector of St. Francis de Sales Church, Charlestown
-(Boston), Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Sweeney, Rev. Timothy P.</b>, St. Patrick’s Church, Fall River, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Sweeny, William Montgomery</b>, 120 Franklin Street, Astoria, L. I., N. Y.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Swords, Joseph F.</b>, superintendent U. S. Reservation, Sulphur, Indian Territory.
-He is a descendant of Cornet George Swords, one of the A. D.
-1649 officers in the service of Kings Charles I and Charles II in Ireland.
-Joseph F. Swords is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution.
-He is of the fourth American generation from Francis Dawson Swords,
-graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, 1750, who was exiled from Ireland,
-1760, and who served in the Patriot Army throughout the War of the
-Revolution.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Tack, Theodore E.</b>, 52 Broadway, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Taggart, Hon. Thomas</b>, Grand Hotel, Indianapolis, Ind.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Teeling, Rt. Rev. Arthur J.</b>, rector of St. Mary’s Church, Lynn, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Thompson, Frank</b>, 1867 Seventh Avenue, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Thompson, Frank V.</b>, 116 Princeton Street, East Boston, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Thompson, James</b>, of James Thompson &amp; Bro., Louisville, Ky.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Thompson, Robert Ellis</b> (Ph. D.), president, Central High School, Philadelphia,
-Pa.; recently a professor in the University of Pennsylvania.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Tierney, Dennis H.</b>, real estate and insurance, 167 Bank Street, Waterbury,
-Conn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Tierney, Edward M.</b>, Hotel Marlborough, Broadway, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Tierney, Myles</b>, 317 Riverside Drive, New York City. (Life member of the
-Society.)</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='pageno' id='Page_185'>185</span><b>Toale, Patrick P.</b>, Toale P. O., Aiken County, S. C.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Toomey, A. J.</b>, F11 Produce Exchange, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Travers, Ambrose F.</b>, vice-president of the Travers Brothers Co., cordage,
-etc., 41 Worth Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Travers, Vincent P.</b>, treasurer of the Travers Brothers Co., 41 Worth
-Street, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Vincent, John</b>, lawyer, 45 Cedar Street, New York City; was first assistant
-district attorney under the late Hon. John McKeon for two years, and
-on his death was appointed by the court as his successor <i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">ad interim</span></i>.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Vredenburg, Watson, Jr.</b>, civil engineer, 32 Broadway, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Waldron, E. M.</b>, of E. M. Waldron &amp; Co., building contractors, 84 South
-Sixth Street, Newark, N. J.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Walker, William O’Brien</b>, 90 Wall Street, New York City, a descendant of
-the Revolutionary O’Briens of Machias, Me.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Wallace, Rev. T. H.</b>, Lewiston, Me.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Waller, Hon. Thomas M.</b>, ex-governor of Connecticut, New London, Conn.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Walsh, Frank</b>, secretary and credit manager, Wilkinson, Gaddis &amp; Co.,
-wholesale grocers, 866–868 Broad Street, Newark, N. J.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Walsh, P. J.</b>, 503 Fifth Avenue, New York City.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Walsh, Philip C.</b>, 260 Washington Street, Newark, N. J.; of Walsh’s Sons
-&amp; Co., dealers in irons and metals.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Walsh, Philip C., Jr.</b>, 260 Washington Street, Newark, N. J.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Walsh, Wm. P.</b>, 247 Water Street, Augusta, Me.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Ward, Edward</b>, of Ward Bros., contractors, Kennebunk, Me.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Ward, John T.</b>, Kennebunk, Me.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Ward, Michael J.</b>, Brookline, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Wilhere, Hon. M. F.</b>, 31st and Master Streets, Philadelphia, Pa.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Wilson, Hon. Thomas</b> (LL. D.), general counsel for the Chicago, St. Paul,
-Minneapolis &amp; Omaha Railway Co., St. Paul, Minn.; was chief justice
-of the Supreme Court of Minnesota, 1864–’69; member of the Minnesota
-House of Representatives, 1880; member of the Minnesota Senate,
-1883; member of Congress, 1887–’89.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Woods, John J.</b>, 54 Federal Street, Newburyport, Mass.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Wright, Henry</b>, 584 East 148th Street, New York City; secretary, Building
-Trades Employers’ Association of the Bronx.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><b>Zabriskie, George A.</b>, 123 Produce Exchange, New York City.</p>
-
-<div class='chapter'>
- <span class='pageno' id='Page_186'>186</span>
- <h2 class='c004'>NECROLOGY.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class='nf-center-c0'>
-<div class='nf-center c006'>
- <div><span class='small'>(Continued from page <a href='#Page_151'>151</a>).</span></div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c022'><span class='sc'>Byrne, Maj. John</span>, New York City. He was a native of Maryland and was
-born in 1845. Died in Mamaroneck, N. Y., Oct. 31, 1905. He
-was living in West Virginia with his father, a railroad contractor, when
-the war broke out. Although too young to enlist, he joined the Union
-army as a scout and served all through the contest. He settled in Cincinnati
-at the close of hostilities, and became a civil engineer. For
-over twenty years Major Byrne was identical with the railroad operations
-of the late C. P. Huntington. He was president of the Pittsburg,
-Shawmut and Northern Railroad Company, and of the Shawmut Mining
-Company. He was also a director of the Detroit City Gas Company
-and a trustee of the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank of New York and
-was also connected with other corporations (see page <a href='#Page_142'>142</a>). An ardent
-lover of the land of his fathers, Major Byrne took a very active part in
-the Land League movement. He was elected vice-president of the
-League at the great National Convention held at Philadelphia, and
-served out his term. With the late Eugene Kelly, he was one of the
-organizers of the Irish Parliamentary Fund in this city, and made a
-personal contribution to it of $15,000. He also paid the salary of an
-Irish member of parliament for several years himself.</p>
-
-<p class='c021'><span class='sc'>Curran, James</span>, president of the James Curran Manufacturing Company of
-New York City; a veteran of the Civil War. He died at his residence,
-230 West 99th Street, New York City, Oct. 27, 1905, aged 64 years.</p>
-
-<div class='chapter'>
- <span class='pageno' id='Page_187'>187</span>
- <h2 class='c004'>PRESIDENTS-GENERAL OF THE SOCIETY.</h2>
-</div>
-
- <dl class='dl_4 c006'>
- <dt>1897.</dt>
- <dd>Rear-Admiral George W. Meade, U. S. N. (retired), Philadelphia, Pa. Died May 4, 1897.
- </dd>
- <dt>1897.</dt>
- <dd>Hon. Edward A. Moseley, secretary of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D.
- C.; was elected president-general on death of Admiral Meade.
- </dd>
- <dt>1898.</dt>
- <dd>Hon. Edward A. Moseley, Washington, D. C.
- </dd>
- <dt>1899.</dt>
- <dd>Hon. Thomas J. Gargan, Boston, Mass.; a prominent lawyer of that city; ex-member of the
- Police Commission; member of the Boston Transit Commission.
- </dd>
- <dt>1900.</dt>
- <dd>Hon. Thomas J. Gargan, Boston, Mass.
- </dd>
- <dt>1901.</dt>
- <dd>Hon. John D. Crimmins, New York City; prominent capitalist; official in banks, trust
- companies and other corporations.
- </dd>
- <dt>1902.</dt>
- <dd>Hon. John D. Crimmins, New York City.
- </dd>
- <dt>1903.</dt>
- <dd>Hon. William McAdoo, New York City; assistant secretary of the U. S. Navy under President
- Cleveland; prominent lawyer; ex-member of Congress; police commissioner of the city of
- New York.
- </dd>
- <dt>1904.</dt>
- <dd>Hon. William McAdoo, New York City.
- </dd>
- <dt>1905.</dt>
- <dd>Hon. John D. Crimmins, New York City.
- </dd>
- </dl>
-
-<div class='chapter'>
- <span class='pageno' id='Page_188'>188</span>
- <h2 class='c004'>GENERAL INFORMATION REGARDING THE AMERICAN-IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c005'>The Society was organized on January 20, 1897, in Boston, Mass.,
-and now has members in twenty-seven states, the District of Columbia,
-two territories and five foreign countries.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The first president-general was the late Rear-Admiral R. W.
-Meade, U. S. N. (retired).</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>Briefly stated, the object of the organization is to make better
-known the Irish chapter in American history.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>There are two classes of members in the organization,—Life and
-Annual. The life membership fee is $50, (paid once). The fee for
-annual members is $5, paid yearly. In the case of new annual members,
-the initiation fee, $5, also pays the membership dues for the
-first year.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The board of government comprises a president-general, a vice-president-general,
-a secretary-general, a treasurer-general, a librarian
-and archivist, and an executive council. There are also state vice-presidents.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The Society has already issued several bound volumes and a
-number of other publications. These have been distributed to the
-members and to public libraries; also to historical organizations and
-to universities. Each member of the Society is entitled, free of
-charge, to a copy of every publication issued from the time of his
-admittance. These publications are of great interest and value, and
-are more than an equivalent for the membership fee.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The Society draws no lines of creed or politics. Being an American
-organization in spirit and principle, it welcomes to its ranks
-Americans of whatever race descent, and of whatever creed, who
-take an interest in the objects for which the Society is organized.
-Membership application blanks will be furnished on request.</p>
-
-<p class='c014'>The membership includes many people of prominence, and has
-been addressed by many distinguished men. It occupies a position
-in the front rank of American historical organizations.</p>
-
-<div class='chapter'>
- <span class='pageno' id='Page_189'>189</span>
- <h2 class='c004'>GOOD WORDS FOR VOL. IV OF THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c005'>Volume IV of the Society’s Journal, covering the year 1904, was
-greeted with sentiments of high commendation as the preceding
-volumes had been. The following extracts are reproduced from a
-mass of acknowledgments, received by Secretary T. H. Murray,
-relative to the fourth volume:</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Town Library, Peterborough, N. H.: “We have received the
-Journal of the American-Irish Society, for which please accept our thanks.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From Mr. James Connolly, Coronado, Cal.: “I am in receipt of Vol. IV
-of the Journal of our Society. Please accept my congratulations on its
-excellence.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Boston Athenæum: “The library committee gratefully acknowledge
-the gift of Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Volume
-IV. Chas. K. Bolton, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From Thomas Addis Emmet, M. D., LL. D., New York City: “I have
-received the fourth volume of the Journal of the American-Irish Historical
-Society, and am well pleased with it.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Library of the University of Colorado: “I beg to acknowledge
-with thanks the receipt of your Journal, Volume IV, 1904. Gift to this
-library. Alfred E. Whitaker Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Carnegie Library, Pittsburg, Pa.: “On behalf of the board of
-trustees I take pleasure in acknowledging your gift to the Carnegie Library
-of Pittsburg. Anderson H. Hopkins, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Public Library, Haverhill, Mass.: “The trustees acknowledge
-with thanks the gift of the Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society,
-Volume IV, 1904. John G. Moulton, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From Mr. Hugh McCaffrey, Philadelphia, Pa.: “I appreciate the fourth
-volume of the Journal of the Society, received lately, and which reflects great
-credit on you and the good work you have at heart.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From Mr. John Lavelle, Cleveland, O.: “The fourth volume of the
-Journal of our Society has just come to hand. It is an extremely creditable
-work, and is of permanent value. Congratulations!”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'><span class='pageno' id='Page_190'>190</span>From the Public Library, San Francisco, Cal.: “The trustees acknowledge
-with thanks the receipt of one copy of the ‘Journal of the American-Irish
-Historical Society,’ by Thomas Hamilton Murray.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From Mr. Edward J. Brandon, City Clerk, Cambridge, Mass.: “Permit
-me to tender my congratulations on Volume IV of the Journal. It seems to
-me that this is the best volume yet issued by the Society.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Library of the University of Oregon: “Please receive hearty
-thanks for Volume IV of the Journal of the American-Irish Historical
-Society. Yours very respectfully, Camilla Leach, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the University of Nebraska Library, Lincoln, Neb.: “The library
-board acknowledges with thanks the gift of the Journal of the American-Irish
-Historical Society, Volume IV. J. I. Wyer, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From Capt. Edward O’Meagher Condon, Nashville, Tenn.: “Many
-thanks for Volume IV of the Journal of the Society. It is splendidly gotten
-up and is creditable to you and the organization in every way.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Public Library: “We beg to acknowledge
-the receipt of the Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Volume
-IV. With thanks for your courtesy, Frank P. Hill, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the New York State Library, Accession Department: “The library
-has received your Journal, Volume IV, 1904. The gift is gratefully
-acknowledged and will be duly credited. Melvil Dewey, Director.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Nashua (N. H.) Public Library: “The library has received
-the Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV, for which
-the trustees return a grateful acknowledgment. Harriet Crombie, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Troy (N. Y.) Public Library: “Gentlemen: The Troy Public
-Library takes pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of Volume IV of the
-Journal of the Society. Yours very gratefully, Margaret Deming, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Otis Library, Norwich, Conn.: “The Otis Library acknowledges
-with thanks the receipt of Journal, Volume IV, a gift to the library
-from the American-Irish Historical Society. Jonathan Trumbull, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From Tufts College, Mass.: “The trustees of Tufts College have received
-from the American-Irish Historical Society the following gift to the library:
-The Journal, Volume IV, for which they return thanks. H. S. Mellen,
-Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Public Library, Portland, Me.: “The library has received
-your gift, Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV,
-which is hereby gratefully acknowledged for the trustees. Alice C. Furbish,
-Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'><span class='pageno' id='Page_191'>191</span>From the Holyoke (Mass.) Public Library: “Dear Sir, Please accept the
-thanks of this Library for one copy of the ‘Journal of the American-Irish
-Historical Society,’ received today. Very truly yours, F. G. Willcox,
-Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Public Library, Denver, Col.: “The Public Library of the
-City of Denver acknowledges with thanks the receipt of Volume IV, Journal
-of the American-Irish Historical Society. Respectfully, C. R. Dudley,
-Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the University of Pennsylvania: “The library committee of the
-University of Pennsylvania gratefully acknowledges the receipt of the gift
-noted on the margin: (Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society,
-Volume, IV, 1904.)”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Library of Leland Stanford Junior University, California: “The
-library acknowledges with thanks the receipt of your gift of the Journal of
-American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV. Respectfully Yours, Melvin
-G. Dodge, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the University of Texas: “In behalf of the board of regents I
-hereby acknowledge with thanks the receipt of the following gift from you
-to the library: Journal, Volume IV. P. L. Windsor, Librarian. Austin,
-Texas, April 4, 1905.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Md.: “The trustees
-acknowledge with thanks the gift of Journal of the American-Irish Historical
-Society, Volume IV, from the American-Irish Historical Society. Bernard
-C. Steiner, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Library of the University of Chicago: “On behalf of the trustees
-I hereby acknowledge with thanks the receipt of Journal of the American-Irish
-Historical Society, Volume IV, as a gift to the library. Zella
-Allen Dixson, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Library of the University of Cincinnati: “This library begs
-to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of your gift of Volume IV of the
-Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society. Respectfully, Harriet
-Evans Hodge, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Public Library, Hartford, Conn.: “The officers of the Hartford
-Public Library acknowledge with thanks the receipt of the Journal of
-American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV, a gift from the Society.
-C. M. Hewins, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, Vt.: “The trustees gratefully
-acknowledge the receipt of the American-Irish Historical Society
-Journal, with an analytical index, a gift from Thomas Hamilton Murray.
-Sarah C. Hagar, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'><span class='pageno' id='Page_192'>192</span>From Clark University Library, Worcester, Mass.: “Please accept the
-thanks of the University for your gift of Journal of the American-Irish Historical
-Society, Volume IV, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged.
-Louis N. Wilson. Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.: “I have the pleasure
-of acknowledging the receipt of the following gift to this library: The Journal
-of the American-Irish Society, Volume IV. Very respectfully, A. N.
-Brown, Professor, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Public Library of Providence, R. I.: “The trustees of the
-Providence Public Library have received from the American-Irish Historical
-Society, the Journal, Volume IV, for which they return their thanks.
-William E. Foster, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Public Library, Brookline, Mass.: “The trustees acknowledge,
-with thanks, the gift of Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society,
-Volume IV, from the Society. Leonard K. Storrs, Chairman of the Board.
-Louisa M. Hooper, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Library Association of Portland, Oregon: “The directors
-acknowledge the receipt of Volume IV of the Journal of the American-Irish
-Historical Society, by T. H. Murray, for which they return sincere thanks.
-Mary Frances Isom, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Cornell University Library, Ithaca, N. Y.: “Dear Sir: I beg
-to acknowledge with best thanks the receipt of your gift to the library.
-Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV. Yours very
-truly, T. W. Harris, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From Mr. Joseph Geoghegan, Salt Lake City, Utah: “I beg to acknowledge
-receipt of the fourth volume of the Journal of the American-Irish Historical
-Society, and congratulate you on having maintained the high
-standard of the former volumes.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Public Library, Peoria, Ill.: “The directors of the Peoria
-Public Library acknowledge with thanks the receipt of your gift to the
-Library, Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV.
-Respectfully, E. S. Willcox, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From Mr. William Giblin, New York City: “I beg to acknowledge
-receipt of the fourth volume of the Journal of the American-Irish Historical
-Society. Pray accept my congratulations on the success of the work and
-my hearty thanks to you for sending it.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Library of Princeton University: “I am directed to convey to
-you the thanks of the trustees of Princeton University for your gift, which
-has been received and placed in the library. I have the honor to be yours
-very truly, E. C. Richardson, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'><span class='pageno' id='Page_193'>193</span>From Mr. James L. O’Neill, Elizabeth, N. J.: “Volume IV of the Journal
-of our Society has just come to hand. It is a splendid book and every
-member of the organization will undoubtedly be proud of it. The historical
-papers are of especial interest and value.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the University of Minnesota: “The University of Minnesota has
-received the Journal, Volume IV, a gift to the library from the American-Irish
-Historical Society, for which a grateful acknowledgment is hereby
-returned. William W. Folwell, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the People’s Library, Newport, R. I.: “The People’s Library of
-Newport, Rhode Island, has received a copy of the Journal of the American-Irish
-Historical Society, Volume IV, for which is returned a grateful
-acknowledgment. Jane E. Gardner, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From Mr. Patrick F. Magrath, Binghamton, N. Y.: “I congratulate you
-on the excellence of the fourth volume of the Journal, just received. The
-book is fully equal in point of merit and workmanship to Vols. I, II and
-III. The entire series is a credit to our Society.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.: “The Essex Institute has the
-honor to acknowledge, with cordial thanks, the receipt of Journal of the
-American-Irish Historical Society, by Thomas H. Murray, Volume IV, as
-a gift to the library. Alice G. Waters, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Columbia University Library in the City of New York: “The
-trustees acknowledge with thanks the receipt of Journal, Volume IV, from
-the American-Irish Historical Society, which has been placed to the credit
-of that institution. James H. Canfield. [Librarian.]”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Elizabeth (N. J.) Public Library and Reading Room: “The
-board of trustees acknowledge with thanks your recent contribution of one
-copy of the Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV,
-to the library. Respectfully, M. L. Prevost, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Free Public Library of Newark, N. J.: “The trustees have
-received from you as a gift to the library Volume IV of the Journal of the
-American-Irish Historical Society, for which they return a grateful acknowledgment.
-Placed in the library. J. C. Dana, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the University of Vermont: “The faculty of the university acknowledge
-with thanks the gift of the Journal of the American-Irish Historical
-Society, Volume IV, 1904, from the American-Irish Historical Society.
-M. H. Buckham, President. Edith E. Clarke, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Public Library, Fitchburg, Mass.: “The trustees take pleasure
-in thanking you for your valued gift noted below, which will be carefully
-preserved and made useful to the public. G. E. Nutting, Librarian. (The
-Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV.)”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'><span class='pageno' id='Page_194'>194</span>From the Library of the University of Georgia: “I beg to acknowledge,
-with thanks, your gift to this library of Journal of the American-Irish Historical
-Society, Volume IV, 1904. I would like very much to have a complete
-set of your journals on our shelves. D. Burnet, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Duluth (Minn.) Public Library: “The directors gratefully
-acknowledge the receipt of Volume IV of the Journal of the American-Irish
-Historical Society, a gift to the library. Would it be possible for us
-to secure the three other volumes? Lydia M. Poirier, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Wilmington Institute Free Library, Wilmington, Del.: “The
-Board of Managers acknowledge with thanks the receipt of your gift to this
-library of the publication noted below. Very respectfully, C. L. Bailey,
-Librarian. (Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, 1904.)”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the City Library, Springfield, Mass.: “The City Library gratefully
-acknowledges the receipt of the article—noted below—which you have
-kindly given to it. Yours very truly, Hiller C. Wellman, Librarian.
-(Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV, 1904.)”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Oswego (N. Y.) City Library: “The trustees of the Oswego
-City Library desire to thank Mr. T. H. Murray, secretary, for the Journal
-of the American-Irish Historical Society, which has been received and
-placed in the library. Yours respectfully, Robert S. Kelsey, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the General Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: “I take
-pleasure in acknowledging, with thanks, the receipt of Journal of the American-Irish
-Historical Society, Vol. IV, 1904, which you have been so kind
-as to present to this library. Very truly yours, R. C. Davis, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the St. Paul (Minn.) Public Library: “The board of directors of
-the St. Paul Public Library have received your gift, consisting of Journal of
-the American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV, for which I am instructed
-to return their grateful acknowledgment. Helen J. McCaine, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Public Library, Detroit, Mich.: “The library has received
-from you the American-Irish Historical Society Journal, Volume IV, a gift
-to the library, for which, on behalf of the board of commissioners, I beg to
-return grateful acknowledgment and thanks. Henry M. Utley, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From Johns Hopkins University: “The Johns Hopkins University has
-received from the American-Irish Historical Society a copy of the ‘Journal
-of the American-Irish Historical Society,’ by Thomas Hamilton Murray,
-Volume IV, and gratefully acknowledges this contribution to its library.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Cooper Union, New York City: “The trustees have received
-one copy of the Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, a gift to
-the institution from the American-Irish Historical Society, for which they
-return their grateful acknowledgement. L. C. L. Jordan, Assistant Secretary.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'><span class='pageno' id='Page_195'>195</span>From the Public Library, Minneapolis, Minn.: “The library board of the
-City of Minneapolis has received your gift, consisting of Journal, Volume
-IV, of the American-Irish Historical Society, for which I am instructed to
-return a grateful acknowledgment. Very respectfully, G. A. Countryman,
-Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Redwood Library, Newport, R. I.: “The directors of the
-Redwood Library take pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of Journal of
-the American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV, presented by you to
-the library, for which they return their sincere thanks. Richard Bliss,
-Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Library of Dartmouth College: “Dear Sir: I have the honor
-to acknowledge the receipt of Journal of the American-Irish Historical
-Society, Volume IV, 1904, and am instructed to tender to you the thanks
-of the trustees of this college for the same. Very respectfully, M. D. Bisbee,
-Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From Harvard University: “The President and Fellows have received
-the Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, Volume IV, a gift to
-the library of the university from the Society, for which they return a grateful
-acknowledgment. William C. Lane, Librarian. Cambridge, Mass.,
-Feb. 21, 1905.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Newburgh (N. Y.) Board of Education: “The board of education
-of the City of Newburgh acknowledge with thanks the receipt of the
-following gift from you to the Newburgh Free Library: The Journal of the
-American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. IV, 1904. Thomas M. Hawthorne,
-Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Steele Memorial Library, Elmira, N. Y.: “We are in receipt
-of the Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV. We
-will be pleased to have this volume in our library, and allow me to thank
-you for the courtesy of the gift. Yours very truly, (Mrs.) Kate Deane
-Andrew, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Newton (Mass.) Free Library: “The trustees of the Newton
-Free Library have received a copy of the Journal of the American-Irish Historical
-Society, Volume IV, a gift to the library from Mr. T. H. Murray,
-Secretary, for which they return a grateful acknowledgment. Elizabeth P.
-Thurston, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Boston Public Library: “Sir: I am directed to return to you
-the thanks of the City of Boston for your courteous gift, noted below, which
-has been received, accepted and placed in the Public Library. Very respectfully,
-Horace G. Wadlin, Librarian. (Journal of the American-Irish Historical
-Society, Vol. IV.)”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Utica (N. Y.) Public Library: “The trustees acknowledge
-with thanks the gift of the American-Irish Historical Society Journal, Volume
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_196'>196</span>IV, from Mr. Thomas H. Murray. The same has been officially
-entered in the records of the library. Nicholas E. Devereux, President.
-C. M. Underhill, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Manchester (N. H.) City Library: “The trustees have received
-Volume IV of the Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, a gift to
-the library from the Society, for which they return a grateful acknowledgment.
-Eugene E. Reed, Mayor, and ex-officio President of the Board.
-F. Mabel Winchell, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass: “The
-American Antiquarian Society has received your donation of the Journal of
-the American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV, for which I have the
-honor, on behalf of the council, to return a grateful acknowledgment.
-Edmund M. Barton, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Rutland (Vt.) Free Library Association: “It is my pleasant
-privilege to extend to you the thanks of the Rutland Free Library Association
-for the gift to the library of the Journal of the American-Irish Historical
-Society. Your kindness is truly appreciated. Very sincerely, Alice N.
-Coolidge (Mrs. O. H.), Secretary.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Buffalo (N. Y.) Public Library: “The board of directors of
-the Buffalo Public Library thank you for your gift of a copy of the publication
-named below, which will be carefully preserved and made useful to the
-public. H. L. Elmendorf, Superintendent. (Journal of the American-Irish
-Historical Society, Volume IV.)”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Free Public Library, New Bedford, Mass.: “I am directed by
-the trustees to return you their thanks for your donation of the Journal of
-the American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV, 1904, which has been
-placed in our library, and will be duly acknowledged in our next annual
-report. William L. Sayer, Secretary.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Los Angeles (Cal.) Public Library: “The Los Angeles Public
-Library presents its acknowledgments and thanks to the American-Irish
-Historical Society for the gift of the Journal of the American-Irish Historical
-Society, by Thomas Hamilton Murray, Volume IV. By order of the
-board of directors. Mary L. Jones, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Free Library of Philadelphia, Pa.: “The board of trustees
-have received from you as a gift to the library one bound volume: Journal
-of the American-Irish Historical Society, for which they return their grateful
-acknowledgments. F. G. Rosengarten, president of board of trustees.
-Placed in the library. John Thomson, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, R. I.: “Sir:
-I have the honor to return to you the thanks of the Historical Society for
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_197'>197</span>your courteous gift, noted below, which has been received and placed in
-the library. Very respectfully, Clarence S. Brigham, Librarian. (Journal
-of the American-Irish Historical Society for 1904.)”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From Brown University: “The Corporation of Brown University, in
-Providence, Rhode Island, have received Journal of the American-Irish
-Historical Society, Vol. IV, 1904, a gift to the University library from the
-Society, for which the corporation return a grateful acknowledgment on the
-part of the University. H. L. Koopman, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From Mr. Patrick P. Toale, Toale, Aiken County, S. C.: “I beg to
-acknowledge the receipt of the fourth volume of the Journal of the American-Irish
-Historical Society, and thank you very much for the same. I wish you
-and yours well and hope to see yearly a widening of the society and your
-efforts in a field that is so rich in historical treasures.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Library of the U. S. Military Academy, West Point: “Sir:
-I have the honor to acknowledge, with many thanks, the receipt of the
-following-named publication presented to this Library: Journal of the
-American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV, 1904. Very respectfully,
-your obedient servant, Edward S. Holden, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Library of the University of California, Berkeley, California:
-“Permit me to express the thanks of the University for your gift of the
-Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV, 1904. We
-should be most grateful if you could complete our set by giving us Volume
-I. Very respectfully yours, Joseph C. Rowell, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Library of Congress: “Washington, D. C., 28 February, 1905.
-I beg to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of the gift to this library of
-‘Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, by Thomas Hamilton
-Murray, Volume IV.’ Very respectfully, Herbert Putnam, Librarian of
-Congress. By E. L. Burchard, Chief of Order Division.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Public Library, Taunton, Mass.: “The trustees have received
-the Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV, a gift to
-the library from Thomas Hamilton Murray, Secretary, for which they
-return a grateful acknowledgment. John H. Eldridge, President of the
-Board. Placed in the library, Joshua E. Crane, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Free Public Library, Worcester, Mass. “The directors have
-received from you, as a gift to the library, the Journal of the American-Irish
-Historical Society, by Thomas H. Murray, Volume IV, for which they
-return their grateful acknowledgments. Alfred S. Perkins, President of the
-Board. Placed in the library, Samuel S. Green, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Free Public Library, Lynn, Mass.: “The trustees have received
-the Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, by Thomas Hamilton
-Murray, Secretary-General, a gift to the library from the Society, for which
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_198'>198</span>they return a grateful acknowledgment. John N. Berry, President of the
-Board. Placed in the library, Harriet L. Matthews, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston: “The Society has
-received a copy of the Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society,
-Volume IV, Boston, 1904, a gift to the library from the American-Irish
-Historical Society, which is hereby gratefully acknowledged. C. F. Adams,
-President. Placed in the library, Samuel A. Green, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Lithgow Library, Augusta, Me.: “The Lithgow Library and
-Reading Room has received the Journal of the American-Irish Historical
-Society, 1904, a gift to the library from Thomas Hamilton Murray, for
-which it returns grateful acknowledgment. Leslie C. Cornish, President.
-Placed in the library April, 1905. Julia M. Clapp, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Riggs Memorial Library, Georgetown University: “On behalf
-of the university I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your courteous gift,—Journal
-of the American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV,—for which I
-am directed to return cordial thanks. Yours with much esteem, Henry J.
-Shandelle, S. J., Librarian. Washington, D. C., Feb. 21, 1905.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Public Library, Quincy, Mass.: “The Thomas Crane Public
-Library of the City of Quincy has received from the American-Irish Historical
-Society, as a gift to the library, the book mentioned in the following
-schedule for which the board of trustees return their sincere thanks. H. A.
-Keith, secretary. (The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society.)”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From Hon. P. T. Barry, Chicago, Ill.: “I thank you very much for the
-fourth volume of the Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, which
-came duly to hand. I thank you, too, for having printed therein the little
-paper read by me before the Illinois State Historical Society, as I deem it
-quite an honor to have it printed in the volume with the able papers therein.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From Bowdoin College: “The president and trustees of Bowdoin College
-have received the Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Volume
-IV, a gift to the library from the Society by Mr. T. H. Murray, secretary,
-for which they return a grateful acknowledgment. Wm. DeW. Hyde, president.
-Placed in the library April 3, 1905. George S. Little, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Peabody Institute, Peabody, Mass.: “The government have
-received the Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV,
-a gift to the library from Thomas Hamilton Murray, Esq., for which they
-return a grateful acknowledgment. Thomas Carroll, Chairman of Lyceum
-and Library Committee, Placed in the library. Lyman P. Osborn, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Public Library, Bangor, Me.: “The managers have received
-the publication named on the other side (Volume IV, Journal of the American-Irish
-Historical Society), a gift to the library from the American-Irish
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_199'>199</span>Historical Society, for which they return a grateful acknowledgment. F. O.
-Beal, President of the Board. Placed in the library, Mary H. Curran,
-Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the College of the City of New York: “I have the honor to
-acknowledge the receipt of the following book: Journal of the Irish-American
-Historical Society, Vol. IV, which you were kind enough to
-present to the library of the College of the City of New York. Please accept
-our sincere thanks. Yours respectfully, Henry Evelyn Bliss, Deputy
-Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the New York Historical Society: “The New York Historical
-Society has received The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society,
-by Thomas Hamilton Murray, Secretary-General, Volume IV, 8vo, Boston,
-1904, a gift from the American-Irish Historical Society, for which I
-am instructed to return a grateful acknowledgment. Robert H. Kelby,
-Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Free Public Library, Jersey City, N. J.: “I am directed to
-convey to you the thanks of the trustees of the Free Public Library for your
-gift of Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. IV. The
-same will be duly placed to your credit upon our records, carefully preserved
-and made useful to the public. I have the honor to be E. E. Burdick,
-Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the New Hampshire State Library, Concord: “Dear Sir: In behalf
-of the trustees I beg to acknowledge the receipt of the following volume
-sent this library through your kindness: Journal of the American-Irish Historical
-Society, Volume IV, 1904. It will be their pleasure to give the
-book a fitting place upon the shelves. Yours very truly, Arthur H. Chase,
-State Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From Mr. John J. Slattery, Louisville, Ky.: “I have received Volume IV
-of the Journal of the Society, which you kindly sent me, and delayed
-acknowledging its receipt until I had read it. Need I say what pleasure it
-afforded me? The series are all good, but this is one of the best. Because
-these publications furnish proof of facts stated—from the records—they are
-invaluable to many, to whom such knowledge is otherwise inaccessible.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Public Library of Toledo, Ohio: “I beg to acknowledge with
-thanks the receipt of Volume IV of the Journal of the American-Irish Historical
-Society. I would very much like to secure Volumes I, II and III,
-in order to have a complete file. Please advise me if this is possible.
-I hope, also, that our library may receive subsequent volumes. Thanking
-you for your kindness, I am yours very truly, Willis F. Sewall, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the University of Maine: “By authority and on behalf of the trustees
-of the University of Maine I desire to acknowledge with thanks the
-<span class='pageno' id='Page_200'>200</span>receipt of the Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV,
-which has been added to this library through your courtesy. If available
-for distribution, we should be glad to receive the earlier volumes of the
-Journal and others of your Society’s publications. Yours truly, Ralph K.
-Jones, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Reynolds Library, Rochester, N. Y.: “The trustees of the
-Reynolds Library acknowledge with thanks the receipt of your gift (Journal
-of the American-Irish Historical Society, Volume IV, 1904). We should
-be very glad if you could find it possible to place the name of our library on
-your regular mailing list, and also present us your first three volumes if you
-have copies to spare. I think a set would be appreciated here. Very
-respectfully, Alfred S. Collins, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Public Library of Milwaukee, Wis.: “We are greatly indebted
-to you for Volume IV of the Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society
-received this morning. It would be advantageous to our Irish-American
-citizens who are patrons of this library to have the complete set and to be
-able to consult the volumes as they come out. If you can send us the first
-three volumes and place us on your mailing list, we shall be under renewed
-obligations to you. Very truly yours, George W. Peckham, Librarian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From Mr. Dennis H. Tierney, Waterbury, Conn.: “I wish to congratulate
-you in the production of Volume IV, Journal of the American-Irish Historical
-Society for 1904. And in reading your paper entitled “Some Voices
-From Ye Olden Time,” I saw in it great research and pains taken on your
-part which I, as state president of the Society, feel prompted to commend,
-and on the part of the members of the state of Connecticut, I thank
-you for your very efficient work which I regard as a milestone, as it were, to
-guide the present and future historian.”</p>
-
-<p class='c012'>From the Librarian of Trinity College, Washington, D. C.: “It is a
-pleasure to thank you for the copy of The Journal of the American-Irish
-Historical Society, Volume IV, which you courteously sent to our library.
-I have examined the whole volume with a glow of pride and interest and
-feel sure the same sentiments will be awakened in our young people as they
-read. It is a valuable addition to our library. Should the Society publish
-monographs, bibliographies, or any thing relating to the Irish element in
-America, we shall be glad to be informed.”</p>
-
-<div class='chapter'>
- <span class='pageno' id='Page_201'>201</span>
- <h2 class='c004'>GENERAL INDEX.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<ul class='index c006'>
- <li class='c009'>Annual Meeting and Dinner, <a href='#Page_8'>8</a>.</li>
- <li class='c006'>Executive Council of the Society, <a href='#Page_5'>5</a>, <a href='#Page_6'>6</a>.</li>
- <li class='c006'>General Information Regarding the Society, <a href='#Page_188'>188</a>.</li>
- <li class='c006'>Historical Papers, <a href='#Page_16'>16</a>.</li>
- <li class='c006'>Introductory Note, <a href='#Page_3'>3</a>.</li>
- <li class='c006'>Letters from Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, <a href='#Page_12'>12</a>, <a href='#Page_128'>128</a>, <a href='#Page_133'>133</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Lexington, Mass., Patriotic Pilgrimage to, <a href='#Page_13'>13</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>List of Presidents-General of the Society, <a href='#Page_187'>187</a>.</li>
- <li class='c006'>Membership Roll, <a href='#Page_152'>152</a>.</li>
- <li class='c006'>Necrology, <a href='#Page_147'>147</a>, <a href='#Page_186'>186</a>.</li>
- <li class='c006'>Officers of the Society, <a href='#Page_5'>5</a>, <a href='#Page_6'>6</a>, <a href='#Page_7'>7</a>.</li>
- <li class='c006'>Patriotic Pilgrimage to Lexington, Mass., <a href='#Page_13'>13</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Proceedings of the Society, <a href='#Page_8'>8</a>.</li>
- <li class='c006'>Review of the Year, <a href='#Page_135'>135</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Roosevelt, Hon. Theodore, Letters from, <a href='#Page_12'>12</a>, <a href='#Page_128'>128</a>, <a href='#Page_133'>133</a>.</li>
- <li class='c006'>State Vice-Presidents of the Society, <a href='#Page_6'>6</a>, <a href='#Page_7'>7</a>.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<div class='chapter'>
- <span class='pageno' id='Page_202'>202</span>
- <h2 class='c004'>ANALYTICAL INDEX.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<ul class='index c006'>
- <li class='c009'>“A better American, a more capable, a more useful, or more fearless citizen than John Sullivan, New Hampshire never had,” 68.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“About a tenth part of the whole state,” 123.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“A brave and fine-looking Irishman,” 93.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“A bright, quick-witted Irishman,” 35, <a href='#Page_40'>40</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>A British gunboat is destroyed at Elizabeth, N. J., <a href='#Page_25'>25</a>, <a href='#Page_26'>26</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“A British officer of equal rank,” 103.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Accident at a military review near Trenton, N. J., <a href='#Page_98'>98</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Acting Governor of Maine, Edward Kavanagh, <a href='#Page_107'>107</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Adams, John, the second president of the United States, <a href='#Page_66'>66</a>, <a href='#Page_68'>68</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“A descendant of James Butler, the immigrant,” 113.</li>
- <li class='c009'>A detail told off to keep the fires along the American front burning, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“A fast friend to the liberties of America, and studied to promote the public weal,” 107.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“A Forgotten Heroine,” 16.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“A friend and staff officer of General Washington,” 143.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“A gallant young Irish patriot” killed at Princeton, <a href='#Page_27'>27</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“A granite monument stands on Boston Common,” 110.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“A great parade this day with the Irish, it being St. Patrick’s,” 107.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“A handsome, good-natured looking Irishman,” 94.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“A handsome little Irishman, always neatly dressed,” 117.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“A Kerry Irishman,” 104.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Albany, N. Y., British garrison at, <a href='#Page_94'>94</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Alexander, Sarah W., a native of Newry, Ireland, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Allen, Ethan, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“A man of excellent manners and good acquirements,” 111.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“America by a desperate effort has nearly emancipated herself from slavery,” 125.</li>
- <li class='c009'><cite>American Catholic Historical Researches</cite>, Griffin’s, <a href='#Page_104'>104</a>, <a href='#Page_110'>110</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>American camp at Cambridge, Mass., <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>American forces at New York, The, <a href='#Page_56'>56</a>, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>American minister to the French Court, <a href='#Page_125'>125</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><cite>American Museum, The</cite>, published by Mathew Carey, <a href='#Page_129'>129</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Amherst College, <a href='#Page_44'>44</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Amory, Thomas, emigrates from Limerick, Ireland, <a href='#Page_94'>94</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Amory, Thomas Coffin, <a href='#Page_63'>63</a>, <a href='#Page_76'>76</a>, <a href='#Page_94'>94</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>A most historic corps, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>A native of Newry, Ireland, Commodore O. H. Perry’s mother, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company (Boston), <a href='#Page_151'>151</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Andrew, Governor, of Massachusetts, <a href='#Page_136'>136</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Andriessen, Jan, “the Irishman,” 113.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“And some returned to Ireland,” 119.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Angell, Col. Israel, of the Second Rhode Island regiment in the Continental Line, <a href='#Page_107'>107</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Anglican dean of Derry, George Berkeley, <a href='#Page_119'>119</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“An ingenious and useful citizen,” 97.</li>
- <li class='c009'>An Irish clergyman locates at Derby, Conn., <a href='#Page_119'>119</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“An Irish gentleman much respected,” Henry Paget, <a href='#Page_91'>91</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>An Irishman, Robert Beers, slain by the Indians, <a href='#Page_93'>93</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“An Irishman transplanted to America, where he has already made a fortune,” Marquis de Chastellux mentions, <a href='#Page_118'>118</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>An Irish pioneer of Boston, Mass., <a href='#Page_28'>28</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“An Irish servant-man,” John Hamilton, <a href='#Page_115'>115</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“An Irish Teague and foreigner,” 119.</li>
- <li class='c009'>An Irish trader at Fort Pitt, <a href='#Page_98'>98</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><cite>Annals of Multifernan</cite>, <a href='#Page_29'>29</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><cite>Annals of Witchcraft in New England</cite>, <a href='#Page_17'>17</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“A noble gentleman,” 94,</li>
- <li class='c009'>“An officer of the Irish army,” 70.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Annual Meeting and Dinner of the Society, <a href='#Page_8'>8</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Antietam, Battle of, <a href='#Page_181'>181</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_203'>203</span>A party of refugees from the West Indies, <a href='#Page_119'>119</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Apprehension of Mathew Carey requested, <a href='#Page_126'>126</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“A Quakeress of Flushing,” 104.</li>
- <li class='c009'>A Rhode Islander becomes an Irish baron, <a href='#Page_103'>103</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Armagh, Ireland, <a href='#Page_96'>96</a>, <a href='#Page_97'>97</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Artillery companies organized in New Jersey, <a href='#Page_23'>23</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“A schoolmate of the wife of General Washington,” 123.</li>
- <li class='c009'>A sortie of marines at midnight, <a href='#Page_66'>66</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Assault on Quebec, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Assembly of Virginia, <a href='#Page_102'>102</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“A thriving Irish settlement,” 83.</li>
- <li class='c009'>A tract of 2,000 acres granted to David Mooney, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>A tract of 18,000 acres is granted Michael Byrne and others, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>A tract in New York of some 4,000,000 acres, <a href='#Page_123'>123</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>A tradition concerning George Berkeley, <a href='#Page_119'>119</a>, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Attack on Savannah, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“At that period there were many Irish in Salem,” Mass., <a href='#Page_91'>91</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>At “the ring of the town,” 93.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Attucks, Crispus, <a href='#Page_110'>110</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Austin’s <cite>Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island</cite>, <a href='#Page_92'>92</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><cite><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Ave Maria</span></cite>, The, <a href='#Page_16'>16</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“A victim to British cruelty,” 119.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“A victim to the Terror,” 120.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“A wealthy Irishman of Charleston, S. C.,” 96.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“A young Irish weaver,” 106.</li>
- <li class='c006'>Baird, Henry Carey, Paper by, <a href='#Page_124'>124</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Baltimore, Lord, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Bandon, Ireland, <a href='#Page_101'>101</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Bank of Pennsylvania, <a href='#Page_131'>131</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Bank of the United States, <a href='#Page_108'>108</a>, <a href='#Page_131'>131</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Baron Bernard O’Neill, <a href='#Page_103'>103</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Baron Kinsale, <a href='#Page_103'>103</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Barrett’s <cite>Old Merchants of New York</cite>, <a href='#Page_121'>121</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Battle at Sudbury, Mass., <a href='#Page_97'>97</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Battle of Antietam, <a href='#Page_181'>181</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Battle of Bemis’ Heights, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Battle of Bennington, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Battle of Black Rock, <a href='#Page_61'>61</a>, <a href='#Page_62'>62</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Battle of Brandywine, <a href='#Page_67'>67</a>, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>, <a href='#Page_118'>118</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Battle of Bull Run, Second, <a href='#Page_144'>144</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Battle of Bunker Hill, <a href='#Page_31'>31</a>, <a href='#Page_48'>48</a>, <a href='#Page_66'>66</a>, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Battle of Cedar Creek, <a href='#Page_181'>181</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Battle of Chancellorsville, <a href='#Page_181'>181</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Battle of Chickamauga, <a href='#Page_181'>181</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Battle of Clontarf, <a href='#Page_137'>137</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Battle of Fredericksburg, <a href='#Page_39'>39</a>, <a href='#Page_138'>138</a>, <a href='#Page_181'>181</a>, <a href='#Page_182'>182</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Battle of Germantown, <a href='#Page_67'>67</a>, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>, <a href='#Page_118'>118</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Battle of Gettysburg, <a href='#Page_144'>144</a>, <a href='#Page_155'>155</a>, <a href='#Page_164'>164</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Battle of Lexington, Concord and Cambridge, <a href='#Page_13'>13</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Battle of Long Island, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Battle of Malvern Hill, <a href='#Page_181'>181</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Battle of Monmouth, <a href='#Page_27'>27</a>, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>, <a href='#Page_116'>116</a>, <a href='#Page_123'>123</a>, <a href='#Page_142'>142</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Battle of Peach Orchard, <a href='#Page_155'>155</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Battle of Princeton, <a href='#Page_27'>27</a>, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Battle of Rhode Island, <a href='#Page_42'>42</a>, <a href='#Page_89'>89</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Battle of Saratoga, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Battle of Spottsylvania Court House, <a href='#Page_181'>181</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Battle of Stillwater, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Battle of Trenton, <a href='#Page_27'>27</a>, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Battle of White Plains, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Battle on Lake Erie, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Became captain of a troop of Light Horse,” 111.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Beers, Robert, an Irishman slain by the Indians, <a href='#Page_93'>93</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Bellingham, Richard, governor of Massachusetts, <a href='#Page_116'>116</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Bemis’ Heights, Battle of, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Bennington, Battle of, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Berkeley, George, “the Kilkenny scholar,” 119, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Birthplace of the children of Master John Sullivan, <a href='#Page_63'>63</a>, <a href='#Page_64'>64</a>, <a href='#Page_65'>65</a>, <a href='#Page_74'>74</a>, <a href='#Page_75'>75</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Black, Alexander, an early Irish resident of Providence, R. I., <a href='#Page_107'>107</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Black, James, of Providence, R. I., <a href='#Page_107'>107</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Black Rock, Battle of, <a href='#Page_61'>61</a>, <a href='#Page_62'>62</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Blaine, Col. Ephraim, <a href='#Page_101'>101</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Blaine, James, “came from Ireland with his family prior to 1745,” 101.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Blaine, James G., of Maine, <a href='#Page_101'>101</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Blair, James and Robert, natives of Ireland, members of the Commander-in-Chief’s Guard in the Revolution, <a href='#Page_92'>92</a>, <a href='#Page_93'>93</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><em>Bonhomme Richard</em>, The, <a href='#Page_94'>94</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Born at sea of Irish parents,” 98.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Boston Common, A granite monument on, <a href='#Page_110'>110</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Boston Massacre, The, <a href='#Page_110'>110</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Boston, Mass., An Irish pioneer of, <a href='#Page_28'>28</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Boston, Mass., Charitable Irish Society of, <a href='#Page_93'>93</a>, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>, <a href='#Page_114'>114</a>, <a href='#Page_141'>141</a>, <a href='#Page_150'>150</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Boston, Mass., Goody Glover executed in, <a href='#Page_21'>21</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Boston records, Extracts from the, <a href='#Page_110'>110</a>, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>, <a href='#Page_121'>121</a>, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Boston, Siege of, <a href='#Page_41'>41</a>, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Boston University, <a href='#Page_150'>150</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Bourk, James, “captain of the brig <em>Neptune</em>,” 89.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Bradford’s Coffee House, New York, <a href='#Page_57'>57</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Bradt’s Rangers in the Revolution, <a href='#Page_90'>90</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_204'>204</span>Brandywine, Battle of, <a href='#Page_67'>67</a>, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>, <a href='#Page_118'>118</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><cite>Brave Little Holland and What She Taught Us</cite>, Griffis’, <a href='#Page_102'>102</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Bridget Dexter signs a petition of Charlestown and Malden women, <a href='#Page_30'>30</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>British are defeated in battle on Lake Erie, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>British attack on New London, Conn., <a href='#Page_90'>90</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>British at Yorktown, Surrender of the, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>British evacuate New York, <a href='#Page_56'>56</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>British garrison at Albany, N. Y., <a href='#Page_94'>94</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>British ship <em>Glasgow</em>, Engagement with the, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Browne, Margery, <a href='#Page_69'>69</a>, <a href='#Page_72'>72</a>, <a href='#Page_75'>75</a>, <a href='#Page_78'>78</a>, <a href='#Page_79'>79</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Brown University, <a href='#Page_93'>93</a>, <a href='#Page_108'>108</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Brunswick, Me., Thomas Crowell an Irish schoolmaster in, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Bryan, Alexander, “from Armagh in Ireland,” 96.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Buchanan, James, father of President Buchanan, <a href='#Page_92'>92</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Buchanan, President, <a href='#Page_92'>92</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Bull Run, Second battle of, <a href='#Page_144'>144</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Bunker Hill, Battle of, <a href='#Page_31'>31</a>, <a href='#Page_48'>48</a>, <a href='#Page_66'>66</a>, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Bunker Hill Monument Association, <a href='#Page_153'>153</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Bunker Hill to Yorktown, <a href='#Page_47'>47</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Bunker’s <cite>Long Island Genealogies</cite>, <a href='#Page_104'>104</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Burke, Patrick, “Orderly to the General,” 95.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Burke, Richard, an early settler of Sudbury, Mass., <a href='#Page_92'>92</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Burke, Capt. William, of the armed schooner <em>Warren</em>, <a href='#Page_103'>103</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Butler, Deacon John, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Butler, James, came from Ireland, and is heard from in Lancaster, Mass., 1635, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Butler, John and Thomas, early settlers of Waterford, Conn., <a href='#Page_115'>115</a>, <a href='#Page_116'>116</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Butler, Richard, a patriot of the Revolution, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Byrn, Daniel, lieutenant in a Rhode Island regiment, <a href='#Page_89'>89</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Byrne, Michael, and others are granted a tract of 18,000 acres, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“By whom he was introduced to Dr. Franklin,” 125.</li>
- <li class='c006'>Caldwell, Andrew, a patriot of the Revolution, <a href='#Page_100'>100</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Caldwell, James, a patriot of the Revolution, <a href='#Page_118'>118</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Calef, Robert, expresses Sympathy for Goody Glover, <a href='#Page_17'>17</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><cite>Calendar of Colonial State Papers</cite>, <a href='#Page_116'>116</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Calhoun, James, grandfather of John C. Calhoun, <a href='#Page_100'>100</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Calhoun, John C., <a href='#Page_100'>100</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Calhoun settlement,” The, <a href='#Page_100'>100</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“California, a land of health where almost endless summer reigned,” 84.</li>
- <li class='c009'>California, An Irish pioneer of, <a href='#Page_82'>82</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Cambridge, Mass., Hon. Augustine J. Daly, mayor of, <a href='#Page_13'>13</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Cambridge, Mass., The American camp at, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Campaign against Canada, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Captain Commandant O’Neill, <a href='#Page_102'>102</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Captain of the Isles,” Roger Kelly, <a href='#Page_33'>33</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Captain of the Quaker Blues,” 92.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Capture of Ticonderoga, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Capture of Yorktown, <a href='#Page_92'>92</a>, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Cape’s Tavern, New York, <a href='#Page_57'>57</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Captured twelve British soldiers,” 118.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Carey, Henry Charles, <a href='#Page_134'>134</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Carey, Mathew, Memoir of, <a href='#Page_124'>124</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Carleton, Sir Guy, <a href='#Page_56'>56</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Carroll, Bishop John, <a href='#Page_110'>110</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland, <a href='#Page_168'>168</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Carroll, Charles, of Carrollton, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Carrolls, The, of Maryland, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Casey, Thomas, an early settler at Newport, R. I., <a href='#Page_94'>94</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Castle Jordan, in Meath, <a href='#Page_29'>29</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Catholics, Baptists and Quakers,” 18.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Caused the book to be burned in Harvard College yard,” 17.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Cavan, Ireland, <a href='#Page_156'>156</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Cavenaugh, Patrick, saves General Lincoln from being captured by the British, <a href='#Page_96'>96</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Cedar Creek, Battle of, <a href='#Page_181'>181</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Cedars, The affair at the, <a href='#Page_91'>91</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Celtic Medical Society (New York City), <a href='#Page_152'>152</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Chancellorsville, Battle of, <a href='#Page_181'>181</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Charitable Irish Society, Boston, Mass., <a href='#Page_93'>93</a>, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>, <a href='#Page_114'>114</a>, <a href='#Page_141'>141</a>, <a href='#Page_150'>150</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Chastellux, Marquis de, <a href='#Page_118'>118</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Chautauqua County, N. Y., <a href='#Page_59'>59</a>, <a href='#Page_60'>60</a>, <a href='#Page_61'>61</a>, <a href='#Page_62'>62</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Cherokee Indian frontier, <a href='#Page_100'>100</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Chesapeake and Delaware canal, <a href='#Page_133'>133</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Chevalier Armand O’Connor, <a href='#Page_91'>91</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Chevalier de Chastellux, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Cincinnati, Society of the, <a href='#Page_115'>115</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Clare, Ireland, <a href='#Page_97'>97</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Clark, Gen. George Rogers, <a href='#Page_93'>93</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Clary Reunion Family, <a href='#Page_155'>155</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Clay, Henry, <a href='#Page_133'>133</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Clay’s Compromise Tariff Act, <a href='#Page_133'>133</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Cleveland, President, <a href='#Page_137'>137</a>, <a href='#Page_138'>138</a>, <a href='#Page_148'>148</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Clogston family of New Hampshire, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Clontarf, Battle of, <a href='#Page_137'>137</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Clotworthy, Sir John, License issued to, <a href='#Page_116'>116</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Cloyne, Ireland, <a href='#Page_29'>29</a>, <a href='#Page_31'>31</a>, <a href='#Page_119'>119</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Coeymans patent, The, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Col. Hercules Mooney’s regiment,” 38, <a href='#Page_42'>42</a>, <a href='#Page_46'>46</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Colles, Christopher, <a href='#Page_110'>110</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_205'>205</span>Collins, Hon. Patrick A., <a href='#Page_147'>147</a>, <a href='#Page_148'>148</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Collins, William, arrives at New Haven with a party of refugees from the West Indies, <a href='#Page_119'>119</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Colonial Wars, Society of, <a href='#Page_153'>153</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Color sergeant of the Irish flag of the regiment,” 155.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Commander-in-Chief’s Guard, The, <a href='#Page_92'>92</a>, <a href='#Page_100'>100</a>, <a href='#Page_104'>104</a>, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Commodore Perry’s mother a native of Newry, Ireland, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Conference at Dobb’s Ferry, <a href='#Page_56'>56</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Confined on board a British prison ship, <a href='#Page_103'>103</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Conley, John, a Connecticut soldier of the Revolution, <a href='#Page_90'>90</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Connaught, Ireland, <a href='#Page_28'>28</a>, <a href='#Page_29'>29</a>, <a href='#Page_35'>35</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, Ninth, <a href='#Page_154'>154</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Conner, Philip, of Maryland, <a href='#Page_97'>97</a>, <a href='#Page_98'>98</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Connolly, Michael, captain and paymaster, during the Revolution, of a New York regiment, <a href='#Page_98'>98</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Constable &amp; Co., <a href='#Page_123'>123</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Constable, William, <a href='#Page_121'>121</a>, <a href='#Page_123'>123</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Constitutional Convention of New Jersey, First, <a href='#Page_98'>98</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Contained elegant rooms suitable for the reception of persons of the first condition,” 106.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Continental Army, The American, <a href='#Page_44'>44</a>, <a href='#Page_45'>45</a>, <a href='#Page_47'>47</a>, <a href='#Page_67'>67</a>, <a href='#Page_110'>110</a>, <a href='#Page_118'>118</a>, <a href='#Page_123'>123</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Continental Congress, <a href='#Page_67'>67</a>, <a href='#Page_68'>68</a>, <a href='#Page_102'>102</a>, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>, <a href='#Page_123'>123</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Continental Dragoons, Col. George Baylor’s, <a href='#Page_100'>100</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Convenient and Fitt to be one of the fyre masters for ye Citty,” 113.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Copley, John Singleton, the eminent artist, <a href='#Page_97'>97</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Copley, Mary (Singleton), <a href='#Page_97'>97</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Copley, Richard, <a href='#Page_97'>97</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Cork, Ireland, <a href='#Page_29'>29</a>, <a href='#Page_31'>31</a>, <a href='#Page_49'>49</a>, <a href='#Page_75'>75</a>, <a href='#Page_76'>76</a>, <a href='#Page_78'>78</a>, <a href='#Page_95'>95</a>, <a href='#Page_103'>103</a>, <a href='#Page_114'>114</a>, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a>, <a href='#Page_138'>138</a>, <a href='#Page_149'>149</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Cornwallis, Surrender of, <a href='#Page_145'>145</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Corps of Sappers and Miners, <a href='#Page_89'>89</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Cotton Mather, who “countenanced the executioners by his presence, and in various ways urged the terrible work of blood in Salem,” 18.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Could not find the island of Bermuda,” 119.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Council of the Society, <a href='#Page_5'>5</a>, <a href='#Page_6'>6</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Count Arthur Dillon, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Courtney, Ruth, <a href='#Page_103'>103</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Craig, Sarah (mentioned in President Roosevelt’s letter), <a href='#Page_12'>12</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Crane’s regiment of artillery in the Revolution, <a href='#Page_94'>94</a>, <a href='#Page_95'>95</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Crehore, Teague, stated to have been stolen from his parents in Ireland when a child, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Crimmins, Hon. John D., Paper by, <a href='#Page_53'>53</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Crispus Attucks, <a href='#Page_110'>110</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Croghan, George, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Cromwellian and Williamite regimes, <a href='#Page_29'>29</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Cronin, Ensign Patrick, <a href='#Page_98'>98</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Crossed the Delaware with Washington,” 120.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Cross of St. Louis, The, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Cross, Lieut. William, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Crowell, Thomas, an Irish schoolmaster in Brunswick, Me., <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Crowley, Lieut. Florence, Tribute to by Gen. Henry Knox, <a href='#Page_93'>93</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Crown Point, <a href='#Page_35'>35</a>, <a href='#Page_47'>47</a>, <a href='#Page_102'>102</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Cullen’s <cite>Story of the Irish in Boston</cite>, <a href='#Page_92'>92</a>, <a href='#Page_116'>116</a>.</li>
- <li class='c006'>Daly, Hon. Augustine J., mayor of Cambridge, Mass., <a href='#Page_13'>13</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dame Nourse of Salem, <a href='#Page_19'>19</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Danaher’s <cite>Early Irish in Old Albany, N. Y.</cite>, <a href='#Page_90'>90</a>, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>, <a href='#Page_143'>143</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Danes at Clontarf, The, <a href='#Page_137'>137</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dartmouth College, <a href='#Page_42'>42</a>, <a href='#Page_139'>139</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Decatur, Stephen, marries a woman of Irish lineage, <a href='#Page_94'>94</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Declaration of Independence, <a href='#Page_23'>23</a>, <a href='#Page_27'>27</a>, <a href='#Page_45'>45</a>, <a href='#Page_98'>98</a>, <a href='#Page_115'>115</a>, <a href='#Page_146'>146</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>DeCourcy, Jordan, <a href='#Page_28'>28</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>DeCourcy, Thomas, a native of Newport, R. I., <a href='#Page_103'>103</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Dedham Plain,” Rendezvoused on, <a href='#Page_91'>91</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Definition of Witches, Leonard Scot’s, <a href='#Page_16'>16</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“De Iersman van Dublingh,” 113.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Delany, Sharp, a patriot of the Revolution, <a href='#Page_115'>115</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Delaware, John Haslett locates in, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Denniston, Hugh, “a true Irishman,” of Albany, N. Y., <a href='#Page_114'>114</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Destruction of a British gunboat by the patriots, <a href='#Page_25'>25</a>, <a href='#Page_26'>26</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dexter, Bridget, <a href='#Page_28'>28</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dexter Family in Ireland, The, <a href='#Page_28'>28</a>, <a href='#Page_29'>29</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dexter, George, <a href='#Page_28'>28</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dexter, John, “born in 1639 and probably in Ireland,” 28.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dexter-Mac Jordans, The, <a href='#Page_28'>28</a>, <a href='#Page_29'>29</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dexter, Richard, one of Boston’s Irish pioneers, <a href='#Page_28'>28</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dexter, Stephen, “of the Parish of Templemurry, County Limerick,” 29.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dexter, Thomas, “of Cloyne, Cork,” 29, <a href='#Page_31'>31</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dexter, William, “likewise of Templemurry,” 29.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Died of wounds received at Bunker Hill,” 109.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dijon, Harold, Paper by, <a href='#Page_16'>16</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dillon, Count Arthur, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dillon, Regiment of, <a href='#Page_89'>89</a>, <a href='#Page_101'>101</a>, <a href='#Page_102'>102</a>, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><cite>Discoverie of Witchcraft</cite>, <a href='#Page_16'>16</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dobb’s Ferry, Conference at, <a href='#Page_56'>56</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><cite>Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New York</cite>, <a href='#Page_121'>121</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_206'>206</span>Donegal, Ireland, <a href='#Page_92'>92</a>, <a href='#Page_97'>97</a>, <a href='#Page_100'>100</a>, <a href='#Page_102'>102</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dongan, Gov. Thomas, of New York, <a href='#Page_53'>53</a>, <a href='#Page_94'>94</a>, <a href='#Page_104'>104</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dongan, Thomas, John and Walter, <a href='#Page_104'>104</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Donnaldson, John, “son of Hugh Donnaldson of Dungannon, Ireland,” 105.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Donnelly, Terence, town schoolmaster of Newport, R. I., <a href='#Page_89'>89</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Donovan, Capt. John, of the Rhode Island merchantman <em>Abby</em>, <a href='#Page_91'>91</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Donovan, Maj. Matthew, of the Ninth Virginia regiment in the Revolution, <a href='#Page_91'>91</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dorrance, Rev. Samuel, an Irish clergyman, pastor of a church in Voluntown, Conn., <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dover, N. H., Extracts from the records of, <a href='#Page_71'>71</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dowling, Dick, the Confederate hero of Sabine Pass, <a href='#Page_140'>140</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Down, Ireland, <a href='#Page_159'>159</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Doyle was voted 1,860 pounds of tobacco,” 102.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Doyle, Thomas, a Virginia trooper, <a href='#Page_102'>102</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Drake, Gen. Madison, Paper by, <a href='#Page_23'>23</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Drogheda, Ireland, <a href='#Page_94'>94</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dromore, Ireland, <a href='#Page_76'>76</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dublin, Ireland, <a href='#Page_89'>89</a>, <a href='#Page_98'>98</a>, <a href='#Page_99'>99</a>, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>, <a href='#Page_108'>108</a>, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>, <a href='#Page_123'>123</a>, <a href='#Page_124'>124</a>, <a href='#Page_126'>126</a>, <a href='#Page_127'>127</a>, <a href='#Page_136'>136</a>, <a href='#Page_139'>139</a>, <a href='#Page_148'>148</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Duke of Orleans, <a href='#Page_123'>123</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dungannon, Ireland, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dunkerron, Ireland, <a href='#Page_76'>76</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dunlap, John, a patriot of the Revolution, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dunmanway, Ireland, <a href='#Page_49'>49</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Dutchess County, N. Y., <a href='#Page_59'>59</a>.</li>
- <li class='c006'>Earl of Limerick, <a href='#Page_104'>104</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Earl of Ulster, John De Courcy, <a href='#Page_28'>28</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Early Irish schoolmasters in New Hampshire, <a href='#Page_34'>34</a>, <a href='#Page_35'>35</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>East Greenwich, R. I., Charles McCarthy, a founder of, <a href='#Page_114'>114</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><cite>Ecclesiastical History of New England</cite>, Felt’s, <a href='#Page_119'>119</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Elizabeth, N. J., <cite>Evening Times</cite>, <a href='#Page_23'>23</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Engagement with the British ship <em>Glasgow</em>, <a href='#Page_104'>104</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Enlisted under Sullivan’s call,” 47.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Enniscorthy, Ireland, <a href='#Page_88'>88</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Enniskellen, Ireland, <a href='#Page_123'>123</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Execution of Robert Emmet, <a href='#Page_48'>48</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Executions of reputed witches and wizards in New England, <a href='#Page_21'>21</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Expedition against Savannah, <a href='#Page_102'>102</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Expedition against the Six Nations, <a href='#Page_67'>67</a>.</li>
- <li class='c006'>Fanning, Dominick, of Limerick, exempted from pardon by Ireton, is beheaded, <a href='#Page_107'>107</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Fanning, Edmund, a victim of the Cromwellian confiscation, settles in Groton, Conn., <a href='#Page_107'>107</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Felt’s <cite>Ecclesiastical History of New England</cite>, <a href='#Page_119'>119</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Fermanagh, Ireland, <a href='#Page_89'>89</a>, <a href='#Page_123'>123</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>First child of Irish parentage born in Woburn, Mass., <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>First City Troop, of Philadelphia, <a href='#Page_98'>98</a>, <a href='#Page_100'>100</a>, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>, <a href='#Page_114'>114</a>, <a href='#Page_118'>118</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Fitzgerald, Lord Edward, <a href='#Page_48'>48</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Fitzgerald, Miss Marcella A., <a href='#Page_82'>82</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Fitzgeralds, O’Neills and O’Briens,” The, <a href='#Page_12'>12</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Fitzgerald, Thomas, a midshipman during the Revolution, <a href='#Page_90'>90</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Fitzsimons, Christopher, of Charleston, S. C., <a href='#Page_96'>96</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Flynn, John, a Connecticut soldier of the Revolution, <a href='#Page_90'>90</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Fort Griswold, The massacre of, <a href='#Page_119'>119</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Fort Herkimer in the Mohawk valley, N. Y.,” 100.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Fort William and Mary, Seizure of the powder at, <a href='#Page_66'>66</a>, <a href='#Page_67'>67</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>France, The Irish brigade in the service of, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Franklin, Dr., <a href='#Page_125'>125</a>, <a href='#Page_128'>128</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Fredericksburg, Battle of, <a href='#Page_39'>39</a>, <a href='#Page_138'>138</a>, <a href='#Page_181'>181</a>, <a href='#Page_182'>182</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>French and Indian War, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Friendly Brothers of St. Patrick, <a href='#Page_55'>55</a>, <a href='#Page_56'>56</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, New York, <a href='#Page_57'>57</a>, <a href='#Page_58'>58</a>, <a href='#Page_121'>121</a>, <a href='#Page_147'>147</a>, <a href='#Page_151'>151</a>, <a href='#Page_157'>157</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, of Philadelphia, <a href='#Page_110'>110</a>, <a href='#Page_123'>123</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“From Bandon in Ireland,” 101.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“From Strabane, Ireland,” 104.</li>
- <li class='c009'>From “Yrland in de Kings county,” 113.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Fullerton, George, “a native of Ireland,” 98.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Fyne, Jan, “van Waterfort in Irlandt,” 109.</li>
- <li class='c006'>Gaine, Hugh, <a href='#Page_131'>131</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Galway, Ireland, <a href='#Page_32'>32</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Gates, General, <a href='#Page_118'>118</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Gave good dinner parties, and had choice old wines upon the table,” 121.</li>
- <li class='c009'><cite>Genealogical Dictionary</cite>, Savage’s, <a href='#Page_30'>30</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>General Assembly of Rhode Island, <a href='#Page_89'>89</a>, <a href='#Page_104'>104</a>, <a href='#Page_114'>114</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“General Knox, commanding the American artillery,” 24.</li>
- <li class='c009'><cite>Generals of the Continental Line in the Revolutionary War</cite>, <a href='#Page_103'>103</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Germantown, Battle of, <a href='#Page_67'>67</a>, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>, <a href='#Page_118'>118</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Gettysburg, Battle of, <a href='#Page_144'>144</a>, <a href='#Page_155'>155</a>, <a href='#Page_164'>164</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Girard, Stephen, <a href='#Page_130'>130</a>, <a href='#Page_131'>131</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Glover, Goody, <a href='#Page_16'>16</a>, <a href='#Page_17'>17</a>, <a href='#Page_18'>18</a>, <a href='#Page_19'>19</a>, <a href='#Page_20'>20</a>, <a href='#Page_21'>21</a>, <a href='#Page_22'>22</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Goodwin Children, Goody Glover is charged with afflicting the, <a href='#Page_17'>17</a>, <a href='#Page_18'>18</a>, <a href='#Page_19'>19</a>, <a href='#Page_20'>20</a>, <a href='#Page_21'>21</a>, <a href='#Page_22'>22</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><cite>Goody Glover, an Irish Victim of the Witch Craze, Boston, Mass., 1688</cite>, <a href='#Page_16'>16</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Greaton’s regiment, <a href='#Page_97'>97</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_207'>207</span>Greene, General, <a href='#Page_67'>67</a>, <a href='#Page_96'>96</a>, <a href='#Page_116'>116</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Greene, Rudolphus, an Irish school teacher in New Hampshire, <a href='#Page_101'>101</a>.</li>
- <li class='c006'>Haggerty, Hugh, of the Commander-in-Chief’s Guard, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Hamilton, John, “an Irish servant-man,” 115.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Hand, Gen. Edward, <a href='#Page_93'>93</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Harrison, Hannah, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Harrison, President William Henry, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Hartford, Conn., William Collins teaches school at, <a href='#Page_119'>119</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Haslett, John, a soldier of the Revolution, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Having been banished out of Ireland was reported as strongly affected to popery,” 101.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Henry, Patrick, <a href='#Page_49'>49</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Her one cat was there, fearsome to see,” 21.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Hessians are surprised at Trenton, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“He was an honor to the country that gave him birth,” 107.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“He was in the public service of Maryland for nearly 40 years,” 108.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Hibernia Fire Company of Philadelphia, <a href='#Page_110'>110</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Hibernian Society of Philadelphia, The, <a href='#Page_98'>98</a>, <a href='#Page_110'>110</a>, <a href='#Page_123'>123</a>, <a href='#Page_130'>130</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“His daughter, Anne, married one of the Hamptons,” 96.</li>
- <li class='c009'><cite>History of King Philip’s War</cite>, Bodge’s, <a href='#Page_102'>102</a>, <a href='#Page_103'>103</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Hogan, William, an early settler of Albany, N. Y., <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Hotten’s <cite>Original Lists</cite>, <a href='#Page_104'>104</a>, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>House of Commons, Irish, <a href='#Page_126'>126</a>, <a href='#Page_127'>127</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Hutchinson, Anne, banished from Boston, <a href='#Page_119'>119</a>.</li>
- <li class='c006'>“I made application in a letter written in seven languages,” 75.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“In De Burgo’s time,” 29.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Indians, Treaty proceedings with the, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Inherited the military spirit of his ancestors and transmitted it to his posterity,” 38.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“In 1661 he bought of the Indians the last twenty acres they owned on Milford Neck,” 96.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Ireland, “And some returned to,” 119.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Ireland, Commodore Perry’s mother a native of, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Ireland, First funds for Rhode Island College were obtained in, <a href='#Page_93'>93</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Ireland, John Ring of the kingdom of, <a href='#Page_100'>100</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Ireland, Ten ships from, arrive at Boston in 1736 and 1738, bringing nearly 1,000 passengers, <a href='#Page_93'>93</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Ireland, The ship <em>Sally</em> arrives at Boston from, <a href='#Page_90'>90</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish Academy, Royal, <a href='#Page_154'>154</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish ancestors of President Roosevelt, <a href='#Page_12'>12</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish ancestry, People of, <a href='#Page_102'>102</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish brigade in the service of France, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish brigade, Meagher’s, <a href='#Page_136'>136</a>, <a href='#Page_138'>138</a>, <a href='#Page_139'>139</a>, <a href='#Page_144'>144</a>, <a href='#Page_181'>181</a>, <a href='#Page_182'>182</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish Catholic Benevolent Union, <a href='#Page_138'>138</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish Catholics stood, Oppressions under which the, <a href='#Page_125'>125</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish Dexters, The, <a href='#Page_28'>28</a>, <a href='#Page_29'>29</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish “do flock into town,” 112.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish-French regiment of Dillon, <a href='#Page_89'>89</a>, <a href='#Page_101'>101</a>, <a href='#Page_102'>102</a>, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish-French regiment of Walsh, <a href='#Page_91'>91</a>, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish Grove. Settlement known as, <a href='#Page_83'>83</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish House of Commons, <a href='#Page_126'>126</a>, <a href='#Page_127'>127</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish immigrants, Five ships arrive in Boston harbor, 1718, with, <a href='#Page_92'>92</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish in Boston, Cullen’s work on the, <a href='#Page_92'>92</a>, <a href='#Page_116'>116</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish Independence, Movement for, <a href='#Page_48'>48</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish in Salem, Mass., Early, <a href='#Page_91'>91</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish in the Third New York regiment of the Line, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish kingdom of Connaught, <a href='#Page_29'>29</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irishmen in this country, One of the earliest, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish names found in Connecticut at early periods, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>, <a href='#Page_118'>118</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish nation, St. Patrick patron of the, <a href='#Page_57'>57</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish Pioneer of California, An, <a href='#Page_82'>82</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish pioneers, Richard Dexter, one of Boston’s, <a href='#Page_28'>28</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish principality of Meath, <a href='#Page_29'>29</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish Roman Catholic, Gov. Thomas Dongan, an, <a href='#Page_53'>53</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish schoolmasters in New Hampshire, <a href='#Page_34'>34</a>, <a href='#Page_35'>35</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish sent to Jamaica, <a href='#Page_116'>116</a>, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish settlement, A thriving, <a href='#Page_83'>83</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish soldiers in King Philip’s War, <a href='#Page_97'>97</a>, <a href='#Page_102'>102</a>, <a href='#Page_103'>103</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish trader at Fort Pitt, An, <a href='#Page_98'>98</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish transported to America, <a href='#Page_116'>116</a>, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Irish who were conveyed to Virginia, Barbadoes and other parts,” 104.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irish victim of the witch craze, An, <a href='#Page_16'>16</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Irvine, Gen. William, of the Revolution, <a href='#Page_123'>123</a>, <a href='#Page_145'>145</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Isidore de Lynch, “an intrepid Irishman,” 109.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“It is scituate on mistik syde nere the south springe,” 30.</li>
- <li class='c006'>Jamestown, N. Y., James Prendergast founder of, <a href='#Page_61'>61</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_208'>208</span>Jamestown, N. Y., The James Prendergast Free Library at, <a href='#Page_61'>61</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Jamestown, Va., Francis Maguire arrives at, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Jan Andriessen, “the Irishman,” 113.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Jefferson, Thomas, <a href='#Page_68'>68</a>, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Johnson, Sir William, <a href='#Page_39'>39</a>, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Jones, John Paul, <a href='#Page_94'>94</a>, <a href='#Page_95'>95</a>, <a href='#Page_96'>96</a>, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Jones, Teague, a resident of Yarmouth, Mass., as early as 1645, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>, <a href='#Page_114'>114</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Jones, Thomas, “from Strabane, Ireland,” 104.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Jordan Teutonicus, <a href='#Page_28'>28</a>.</li>
- <li class='c006'>Kaine, Patrick, an American marine who served under Esek Hopkins, <a href='#Page_104'>104</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Kaley, Hon. Timothy, <a href='#Page_49'>49</a>, <a href='#Page_50'>50</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Kavanagh, Edward, acting governor of Maine, <a href='#Page_107'>107</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Kavanagh, James, came to Boston during the Revolution, <a href='#Page_107'>107</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Keen as an Irish greyhound,” 117.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Keiley, Hon. Anthony M., <a href='#Page_137'>137</a>, <a href='#Page_138'>138</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Kelly and Burke and Shea,” 34, <a href='#Page_50'>50</a>, <a href='#Page_51'>51</a>, <a href='#Page_52'>52</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Kellyburg, Kellyvale, and Kelly Grant, <a href='#Page_44'>44</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Kelly, Capt. Warren Michael, “great-great-grandson of Darby Kelly,” 39.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Kelly, Col. Moses, <a href='#Page_45'>45</a></li>
- <li class='c009'>Kelly, Darby, an early New Hampshire settler, <a href='#Page_35'>35</a>, <a href='#Page_36'>36</a>, <a href='#Page_37'>37</a>, <a href='#Page_38'>38</a>, <a href='#Page_39'>39</a>, <a href='#Page_40'>40</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Kelly Hill, New Hampton, N. H., <a href='#Page_37'>37</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Kelly, Huntoon and Bowdoin,” 37.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Kelly, James, one of the grantees of Holderness, N. H., <a href='#Page_43'>43</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Kelly, John, of New York, is granted nearly 100,000 acres in Vermont, <a href='#Page_44'>44</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Kelly, John, “one of the selectmen of Salem,” N. H., in 1775, <a href='#Page_44'>44</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Kelly, John, “who came to Newbury, Mass., in 1635,” 32, <a href='#Page_41'>41</a>, <a href='#Page_42'>42</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Kelly, Joshua, one of the proprietors of Conway, N. H., <a href='#Page_46'>46</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Kelly, Maj.-Gen. Benjamin F., “great-grandson of Darby Kelly,” 38.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Kelly, Maj. Nathaniel, “grandson of Darby Kelly,” 38.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Kelly, “Old Master,” 122.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Kelly, Richard, “a grantee and one of the first settlers of Contoocook, now Boscawen,” N. H., <a href='#Page_41'>41</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Kelly, Roger, of the Isles of Shoals, <a href='#Page_32'>32</a>, <a href='#Page_33'>33</a>, <a href='#Page_34'>34</a>, <a href='#Page_42'>42</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Kelly, Samuel, “planned and built the first meeting-house in town,” 37.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Kelly’s Falls, <a href='#Page_45'>45</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Kelly, William, of “the alarm list of the town of Warner,” N. H., in 1777, <a href='#Page_42'>42</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Kerry, Ireland, <a href='#Page_76'>76</a>, <a href='#Page_104'>104</a>, <a href='#Page_141'>141</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Kildare, Ireland, <a href='#Page_101'>101</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Kilkenny, Ireland, <a href='#Page_59'>59</a>, <a href='#Page_98'>98</a>, <a href='#Page_119'>119</a>, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>, <a href='#Page_136'>136</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Kilkenny scholar,” The, <a href='#Page_119'>119</a>, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Killoween, Ireland, <a href='#Page_76'>76</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>King Philip’s War, <a href='#Page_97'>97</a>, <a href='#Page_102'>102</a>, <a href='#Page_103'>103</a>, <a href='#Page_114'>114</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Kinsale, Ireland, <a href='#Page_157'>157</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Kinsmen of Governor Dongan, <a href='#Page_104'>104</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Knox marches his men in from Harlem as far as “Bowery Lane,” 56.</li>
- <li class='c006'>Lady Penelope O’Connor, <a href='#Page_29'>29</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Lafayette, Marquis de, <a href='#Page_123'>123</a>, <a href='#Page_125'>125</a>, <a href='#Page_127'>127</a>, <a href='#Page_128'>128</a>, <a href='#Page_133'>133</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Lake Chautauqua, N. Y., <a href='#Page_59'>59</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Lake Erie, British are defeated on, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Larchmont,” Reception to the Society by George W. Taylor at, <a href='#Page_14'>14</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><em>Le Jason</em> of the fleet of Count De Ternay, <a href='#Page_91'>91</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Leonard, Patrick, a soldier of the Revolution, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><cite><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Les Combattants Francais De La Guerre Americaine</span></cite>, <a href='#Page_92'>92</a>, <a href='#Page_97'>97</a>, <a href='#Page_101'>101</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Lexington, Concord and Cambridge, Battle of, <a href='#Page_13'>13</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Lexington, Mass., Official letter from Chairman George W. Taylor of the Selectmen of, <a href='#Page_15'>15</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Limerick, Ireland, <a href='#Page_29'>29</a>, <a href='#Page_31'>31</a>, <a href='#Page_70'>70</a>, <a href='#Page_75'>75</a>, <a href='#Page_77'>77</a>, <a href='#Page_107'>107</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><cite>Life of Commodore Perry</cite>, Mackenzie’s, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Lightfoot, Susannah, a native of Ireland, <a href='#Page_103'>103</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Long Island, Battle of, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><cite>Long Island Genealogies</cite>, Bunker’s, <a href='#Page_104'>104</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Lord Edward Fitzgerald, <a href='#Page_48'>48</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Lords of Athleathan, <a href='#Page_29'>29</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Lyon, Matthew, “the Hampden of Congress,” 122.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Lyons, Rev. Mr., an Irish clergyman, locates at Derby, Conn., <a href='#Page_119'>119</a>.</li>
- <li class='c006'>McCartee, Thomas, of Hartford, Conn., <a href='#Page_89'>89</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>McCarthy, Charles, a founder of East Greenwich, R. I., <a href='#Page_114'>114</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>McCarthy, Capt. Charles, <a href='#Page_76'>76</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>McCarthy, Capt. Owen, <a href='#Page_76'>76</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>McCarthy, Col. Florence, <a href='#Page_76'>76</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>McCarthy, Dermod, of Killoween, <a href='#Page_76'>76</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>McCarthy, Joan, <a href='#Page_76'>76</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>McCarthy, Reagh, <a href='#Page_76'>76</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>McCarthy, Thomas, of the Commander-in-Chief’s Guard, <a href='#Page_100'>100</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>McCarty, David, a member of the Committee of Safety, Albany, N. Y., <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Macarty de Marteigue, <a href='#Page_95'>95</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>McCormick, Daniel, of New York city, <a href='#Page_121'>121</a>, <a href='#Page_123'>123</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>McFinnen, The title of, <a href='#Page_76'>76</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>McGinnis, John, a New York soldier of the Revolution, <a href='#Page_90'>90</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mac Jordan-Dexters, The, <a href='#Page_28'>28</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>McKean, Hon. Thomas, <a href='#Page_98'>98</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_209'>209</span>McLaughlin, Patrick, a soldier of the Revolution, taken prisoner by the British, <a href='#Page_97'>97</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>McMullen, Patrick, a marine during the Revolution, serving under John Paul Jones, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>McNee, William, an early settler of Peterborough, N. H., <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>McSweeney, Capt. Edmund, <a href='#Page_76'>76</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>McSweeney, Col. Owen, <a href='#Page_76'>76</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Macomb, Alexander, <a href='#Page_121'>121</a>, <a href='#Page_123'>123</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Maguire, Constant, “of County Fermanagh,” Ireland, <a href='#Page_89'>89</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Maguire, Francis, arrives at Jamestown, Va., with Capt. Christopher Newport, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mahoney, Honora, of Dromore, <a href='#Page_76'>76</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Maine, Edward Kavanagh, acting governor of, <a href='#Page_107'>107</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mallins, Mary, “from Bandon in Ireland,” 101.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Malvern Hill, Battle of, <a href='#Page_181'>181</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Marquis de Chastellux, <a href='#Page_118'>118</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Marquis de Lafayette, <a href='#Page_125'>125</a>, <a href='#Page_127'>127</a>, <a href='#Page_128'>128</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Marye’s Heights, <a href='#Page_144'>144</a>, <a href='#Page_155'>155</a>, <a href='#Page_181'>181</a>, <a href='#Page_182'>182</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Maryland, The Carrolls of, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mason and Dixon’s line, <a href='#Page_38'>38</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Massachusetts cities, Mayors inaugurated in 1905 in, <a href='#Page_135'>135</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Massachusetts General Court, <a href='#Page_33'>33</a>, <a href='#Page_68'>68</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Massachusetts Historical Society, <a href='#Page_17'>17</a>, <a href='#Page_68'>68</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Massacre at Fort William Henry, <a href='#Page_36'>36</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Massacre of Fort Griswold, The, <a href='#Page_119'>119</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><cite>Master John Sullivan of Somersworth and Berwick, And His Family</cite>, <a href='#Page_63'>63</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Masters Knox and Crocker, natives of Ireland,” 96.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mather, Cotton, <a href='#Page_16'>16</a>, <a href='#Page_17'>17</a>, <a href='#Page_18'>18</a>, <a href='#Page_19'>19</a>, <a href='#Page_20'>20</a>, <a href='#Page_21'>21</a>, <a href='#Page_22'>22</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mather, Increase, <a href='#Page_17'>17</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Matthias Alexis de Roche Fermoy, <a href='#Page_103'>103</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><em>Mayflower</em>, The, <a href='#Page_102'>102</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mayo, Ireland, <a href='#Page_28'>28</a>, <a href='#Page_29'>29</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mayor Daly of Cambridge, Mass., <a href='#Page_13'>13</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Meade, Andrew, “a Kerry Irishman,” 104.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Meade, Col. Richard Kidder, <a href='#Page_104'>104</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Meagher’s Irish brigade, <a href='#Page_136'>136</a>, <a href='#Page_138'>138</a>, <a href='#Page_139'>139</a>, <a href='#Page_144'>144</a>, <a href='#Page_181'>181</a>, <a href='#Page_182'>182</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mease, John, a patriot of the Revolution, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mease, Matthew, a patriot of the Revolution, <a href='#Page_94'>94</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Meath, Ireland, <a href='#Page_29'>29</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Membership roll of the Society, <a href='#Page_152'>152</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><cite>Memoirs of an American Lady</cite>, <a href='#Page_94'>94</a>, <a href='#Page_108'>108</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mexican War, <a href='#Page_135'>135</a>, <a href='#Page_136'>136</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Merchants’ Coffee House, New York, <a href='#Page_58'>58</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mohawk valley, N. Y., <a href='#Page_100'>100</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Molly Pitcher, “a young Irishwoman,” at the Battle of Monmouth, <a href='#Page_116'>116</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Monmouth, Battle of, <a href='#Page_27'>27</a>, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>, <a href='#Page_116'>116</a>, <a href='#Page_123'>123</a>, <a href='#Page_142'>142</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mooney, David, Land patent granted to, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mooney, Hercules, <a href='#Page_35'>35</a>, <a href='#Page_38'>38</a>, <a href='#Page_42'>42</a>, <a href='#Page_46'>46</a>, <a href='#Page_72'>72</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Morgan’s Rifle Corps, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><cite>More Wonders of the Invisible World</cite>, Calef’s, <a href='#Page_17'>17</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Morris, Robert, <a href='#Page_127'>127</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Montgomery, General, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>, <a href='#Page_144'>144</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Mount Vernon, <a href='#Page_127'>127</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Moylan, Jasper, <a href='#Page_114'>114</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Moylan, John, <a href='#Page_114'>114</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Moylan, Stephen, <a href='#Page_108'>108</a>, <a href='#Page_114'>114</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Munster, Ireland, <a href='#Page_29'>29</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Murphy, Brian, a soldier in King Philip’s War, <a href='#Page_103'>103</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Murphy, Martin, Sr., an Irish pioneer of California, <a href='#Page_82'>82</a>.</li>
- <li class='c006'>Nantucket, Mass., Extract from the records of, <a href='#Page_89'>89</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Narragansett campaign (1675), <a href='#Page_91'>91</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Narragansett Indians, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Necrology, <a href='#Page_147'>147</a>, <a href='#Page_186'>186</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Neal, Jeremiah, a soldier in the Narragansett campaign, <a href='#Page_91'>91</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Neale, Samuel, of Dublin, <a href='#Page_101'>101</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Neill, Capt. Daniel, an artillery officer of the Revolution, <a href='#Page_23'>23</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Neill, Owen, sustains losses by the British attack on New London, Conn., <a href='#Page_90'>90</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>New Hampshire, Darby Kelly, an early settler in, <a href='#Page_35'>35</a>, <a href='#Page_36'>36</a>, <a href='#Page_37'>37</a>, <a href='#Page_38'>38</a>, <a href='#Page_39'>39</a>, <a href='#Page_40'>40</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>New Hampshire, Early Irish schoolmasters in, <a href='#Page_34'>34</a>, <a href='#Page_35'>35</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>New Hampshire Historical Society, <a href='#Page_70'>70</a>, <a href='#Page_81'>81</a>, <a href='#Page_150'>150</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>New Hampshire, Patriotism of, in the Revolution, <a href='#Page_41'>41</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>New Hampshire, Tenth regiment of, in the Civil War, <a href='#Page_38'>38</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>New Hampshire, The Clogston family of, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>New Hampshire Veteran Association, <a href='#Page_150'>150</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>New London, Conn., British attack on, <a href='#Page_90'>90</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>New Jersey, First Constitutional Convention of, <a href='#Page_98'>98</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>New Jersey <cite>Journal and Political Intelligencer</cite>, <a href='#Page_24'>24</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>New Jersey, Provincial Congress of, <a href='#Page_23'>23</a>, <a href='#Page_24'>24</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Newport, Captain Christopher, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Newport, R. I., George Berkeley’s arrival at, <a href='#Page_119'>119</a>, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Newport, R. I., Mason’s <cite>Reminiscences of</cite>, <a href='#Page_100'>100</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Newport, R. I., Terence Donnelly, a schoolmaster of, <a href='#Page_89'>89</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>New York <cite>Gazette</cite>, <a href='#Page_54'>54</a>, <a href='#Page_55'>55</a>, <a href='#Page_56'>56</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_210'>210</span>New York <cite>Genealogical and Biographical Record</cite>, <a href='#Page_28'>28</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><cite>New York in the Revolution</cite>, <a href='#Page_98'>98</a>, <a href='#Page_99'>99</a>, <a href='#Page_100'>100</a>, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>New York regiment of levies, Colonel Malcom’s, <a href='#Page_98'>98</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>New York State Assembly, <a href='#Page_61'>61</a>, <a href='#Page_62'>62</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>New York State Library, <a href='#Page_142'>142</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>New York, The British evacuate, <a href='#Page_56'>56</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Ninth Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, <a href='#Page_154'>154</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“No family in the state has the equal of this illustrious record,” 68.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Nourse, Rebecca, <a href='#Page_19'>19</a>, <a href='#Page_22'>22</a>.</li>
- <li class='c006'>O’Brien, John M., a Rhode Island soldier of the Revolution, <a href='#Page_100'>100</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>O’Brien, Michael Morgan, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>O’Connor, Armand, of the Irish-French regiment of Walsh, <a href='#Page_91'>91</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>O’Connor, Lady Penelope, <a href='#Page_29'>29</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>O’Donnell, Rev. James H., <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>, <a href='#Page_115'>115</a>, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>, <a href='#Page_118'>118</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>O’Dougherty, Bryant, in Salem, Mass., in 1683, <a href='#Page_91'>91</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>O’Driscoll, Jacques, an officer in the Irish-French regiment of Walsh, <a href='#Page_93'>93</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Officers of the Society, <a href='#Page_5'>5</a>, <a href='#Page_6'>6</a>, <a href='#Page_7'>7</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>O’Gorman, Charles, an officer of the Irish-French regiment of Walsh, <a href='#Page_97'>97</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>O’Killia, David, “the Irishman,” of old Yarmouth, Mass., <a href='#Page_96'>96</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Old Elm, The (in Cambridge, Mass.), <a href='#Page_13'>13</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Old Master” Kelly, an Irish school teacher in Rhode Island, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><cite>Old Merchants of New York</cite>, Barrett’s, <a href='#Page_121'>121</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Old North Church, Boston, <a href='#Page_16'>16</a>, <a href='#Page_18'>18</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><cite>Old Orchard Mirror</cite>, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Old Orchard, Me., Patrick Googins, a young Irish weaver, settles at, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Olney, Col. Jeremiah, of Rhode Island, <a href='#Page_92'>92</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>O’Mahony, Abbe Bartholomew, chaplain of the French warship <em>L’Ivelly</em> during the American Revolution, <a href='#Page_97'>97</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>O’Neill, Bernard, of the Irish-French regiment of Dillon, <a href='#Page_102'>102</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>O’Neil, Thomas, saves the life of Franklin Pierce, <a href='#Page_135'>135</a>, <a href='#Page_136'>136</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“One of a party of forty-eight settlers,” 114.</li>
- <li class='c009'>One of the earliest Burkes to settle in America, <a href='#Page_92'>92</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“One of the earliest Irishmen in this country of whom we have record,” 112.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“On scouting duty in Penacook,” N. H., <a href='#Page_42'>42</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Orderly to the General,” Patrick Burke, <a href='#Page_95'>95</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Oregon trail, The, <a href='#Page_85'>85</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Original members of the Charitable Irish Society, <a href='#Page_114'>114</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Orleans, Duke of, <a href='#Page_123'>123</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Ormsby, John, an Irish trader at Fort Pitt, <a href='#Page_98'>98</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>O’Sullivan, Daniel, lord of Dunkerron, <a href='#Page_76'>76</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>O’Sullivan, Madam, <a href='#Page_77'>77</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>O’Sullivan, Major Philip, <a href='#Page_70'>70</a>, <a href='#Page_77'>77</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Otsego patent, <a href='#Page_100'>100</a>,000 acres, is granted to George Croghan and others, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.</li>
- <li class='c006'>Paget, Henry, “an Irish gentleman much respected,” 91.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Patton, John, a native of Ireland, colonel of the Sixteenth Pennsylvania regiment in the Revolution, <a href='#Page_110'>110</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Peisley, Mary, a native of Kildare, <a href='#Page_101'>101</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Pennsylvania, Bank of, <a href='#Page_131'>131</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Pennsylvania Line, Eighth regiment of the, <a href='#Page_96'>96</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Pennsylvania Line, Second brigade of the, <a href='#Page_123'>123</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Pennsylvania, Senate of, <a href='#Page_131'>131</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Pennsylvania, University of, <a href='#Page_108'>108</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Perry, Christopher R., of Rhode Island, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Philip, the Indian king, <a href='#Page_97'>97</a>, <a href='#Page_102'>102</a>, <a href='#Page_103'>103</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Pierce, Franklin, is saved by Thomas O’Neil, <a href='#Page_135'>135</a>, <a href='#Page_136'>136</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Pitcher, Molly, at the battle of Monmouth, <a href='#Page_116'>116</a>, <a href='#Page_142'>142</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Platte Purchase, The, <a href='#Page_83'>83</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Prendergast, Col. Henry A., <a href='#Page_62'>62</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Prendergast, Col. William, <a href='#Page_61'>61</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Prendergast, James, founder of Jamestown, N. Y., <a href='#Page_61'>61</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Prendergast, Martin, associate judge of Niagara County, N. Y., <a href='#Page_61'>61</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Prendergast, Matthew, participated in the battle of Black Rock, <a href='#Page_62'>62</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Prendergast, Miss Helen, Paper by, <a href='#Page_59'>59</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Prendergast, Thomas and Mary, <a href='#Page_59'>59</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Prendergast, Thomas, John and Stephen, early settlers of Barnstead, N. H., <a href='#Page_42'>42</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>President Buchanan, <a href='#Page_92'>92</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>President Cleveland, <a href='#Page_137'>137</a>, <a href='#Page_138'>138</a>, <a href='#Page_148'>148</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>President Jefferson, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>President Roosevelt, <a href='#Page_136'>136</a>, <a href='#Page_137'>137</a>, <a href='#Page_139'>139</a>, <a href='#Page_140'>140</a>, <a href='#Page_141'>141</a>, <a href='#Page_144'>144</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>President William Henry Harrison, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Princeton, Battle of, <a href='#Page_27'>27</a>, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Proctor’s regiment of artillery, <a href='#Page_27'>27</a>, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Prophesied that “Goody Glover would be hung,” 18.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Providence, R. I., George Taylor prominent in, <a href='#Page_107'>107</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Provincial Congress of New Jersey, <a href='#Page_23'>23</a>, <a href='#Page_24'>24</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Provincial Congress of Massachusetts, <a href='#Page_31'>31</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_211'>211</span>Putnam, Gen. Israel, <a href='#Page_31'>31</a>.</li>
- <li class='c006'>Quaker Blues, The, <a href='#Page_92'>92</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Quakers come from Ireland, <a href='#Page_101'>101</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Quakers persecuted in Boston, <a href='#Page_101'>101</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Quirk, Thomas, “a brave and fine looking Irishman,” 93.</li>
- <li class='c006'><cite>Rambles Around Portsmouth</cite>, Brewster’s, <a href='#Page_44'>44</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Rancho de Las Animas, <a href='#Page_86'>86</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Rancho San Francisco de las Llagas, <a href='#Page_86'>86</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Reade, Michael, of Dover, N. H., <a href='#Page_74'>74</a>, <a href='#Page_75'>75</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Reception to the Society at Cambridge city hall, <a href='#Page_13'>13</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Reception to the Society at the Lexington town hall, <a href='#Page_13'>13</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><cite>Redemptioners and Indentured Servants in the Colony and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania</cite>, <a href='#Page_115'>115</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Regiment of Dillon, <a href='#Page_89'>89</a>, <a href='#Page_101'>101</a>, <a href='#Page_102'>102</a>, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Regiment of Walsh, <a href='#Page_91'>91</a>, <a href='#Page_93'>93</a>, <a href='#Page_94'>94</a>, <a href='#Page_97'>97</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><cite>Reminiscences of New Hampton</cite>, N. H., <a href='#Page_35'>35</a>, <a href='#Page_36'>36</a>, <a href='#Page_37'>37</a>, <a href='#Page_40'>40</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><cite>Reminiscences of Newport, R. I.</cite>, Mason’s, <a href='#Page_100'>100</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Review of the Year, <a href='#Page_135'>135</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Rhode Island, Battle of, <a href='#Page_42'>42</a>, <a href='#Page_89'>89</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Rhode Island campaign, The, <a href='#Page_67'>67</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Rhode Island College, <a href='#Page_93'>93</a>, <a href='#Page_108'>108</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Rhode Island Continental Line, Edward Fitzgerald, a soldier of the, <a href='#Page_99'>99</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Rhode Island, General Assembly of, <a href='#Page_89'>89</a>, <a href='#Page_104'>104</a>, <a href='#Page_114'>114</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Rhode Island, George Berkeley’s arrival in, <a href='#Page_119'>119</a>, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Rhode Island, “Old Master” Kelly, an Irish school teacher in, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><cite>Richard Dexter, One of Boston’s Irish Pioneers</cite>, <a href='#Page_28'>28</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Ring, John, “of the Kingdom of Ireland,” 100.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Roger Kelly, the ancient magistrate and taverner,” 32.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Rogers, Hester, Patrick Googins marries, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Roosevelt, President, <a href='#Page_136'>136</a>, <a href='#Page_137'>137</a>, <a href='#Page_139'>139</a>, <a href='#Page_140'>140</a>, <a href='#Page_141'>141</a>, <a href='#Page_144'>144</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Rough Riders,” The, <a href='#Page_143'>143</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Rutledge, Edward, <a href='#Page_146'>146</a>.</li>
- <li class='c006'>“Sadly perplexed and befooled Cotton Mather,” 18.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Salem, “The terrible work of blood in,” 18.</li>
- <li class='c009'>San Juan Bautista, Mission of, <a href='#Page_86'>86</a>, <a href='#Page_87'>87</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>San Ysidro ranch, <a href='#Page_86'>86</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Sappers and Miners, Corps of, <a href='#Page_89'>89</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Saratoga, Battle of, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Savage’s <cite>Genealogical Dictionary</cite>, <a href='#Page_30'>30</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Savannah, Attack on, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Scales, John, of Dover, N. H., Paper by, <a href='#Page_63'>63</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Schuyler, Cortlandt, marries a handsome Irish woman, <a href='#Page_108'>108</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Scored to death and did not give up his religion, which same I will hold to,” 17.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Seized the truncheon of the king’s officer,” 33.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Selectmen of “the towne of Yarmouth returne the name of Teague Jones for not coming to meeting,” 114.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“She and her husband were sold to the Barbadoes in the time of Cromwell,” 17.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“She died a lunatic, frightened to death,” 18.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Sheldon’s Continental Light Dragoons, <a href='#Page_90'>90</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“She took up her residence on the island of Rhode Island,” 119.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Shute, Governor, <a href='#Page_30'>30</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Siege of Boston, <a href='#Page_41'>41</a>, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Siege of Limerick, The, <a href='#Page_70'>70</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Siege of Yorktown, <a href='#Page_89'>89</a>, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Six Nations, Expedition against the, <a href='#Page_67'>67</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Sligo, Ireland, <a href='#Page_147'>147</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“So shall wee be bound to pray as we desire dayly to doe for yr prsptie &amp; peace temporall &amp; Eternall,” 30.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Spain, War with, <a href='#Page_136'>136</a>, <a href='#Page_143'>143</a>, <a href='#Page_160'>160</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Stamp Act Congress, <a href='#Page_100'>100</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Stark, General, <a href='#Page_45'>45</a>, <a href='#Page_46'>46</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>State Council of Censors, <a href='#Page_123'>123</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>State Vice-Presidents of the Society, <a href='#Page_6'>6</a>, <a href='#Page_7'>7</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>St. Clair, General, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>St. Mary’s churchyard, Philadelphia, <a href='#Page_134'>134</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>St. Patrick’s Day, Some Early Celebrations of, <a href='#Page_53'>53</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Stiles’ <cite>History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Conn.</cite>, <a href='#Page_90'>90</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Stillwater, Battle of, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Storming of Stony Point, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Stony Hill tract, <a href='#Page_18'>18</a>,000 acres, is granted to Michael Byrne and others, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Strabane, Ireland, <a href='#Page_104'>104</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Stuart, Christopher, “an Irishman and soldier of the Revolution,” 106.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Stuyvesant, Peter, <a href='#Page_121'>121</a>, <a href='#Page_123'>123</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Sullivan, Benjamin, a son of Master John Sullivan, <a href='#Page_65'>65</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Sullivan, Capt. Ebenezer, a soldier of the Revolution, <a href='#Page_69'>69</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Sullivan, Daniel, a patriot of the Revolution, <a href='#Page_65'>65</a>, <a href='#Page_66'>66</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Sullivan, Hon. George, attorney-general of New Hampshire, <a href='#Page_68'>68</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Sullivan, Gov. James, of Massachusetts, <a href='#Page_63'>63</a>, <a href='#Page_68'>68</a>, <a href='#Page_69'>69</a>, <a href='#Page_93'>93</a>, <a href='#Page_157'>157</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Sullivan, Gen. John, <a href='#Page_34'>34</a>, <a href='#Page_41'>41</a>, <a href='#Page_45'>45</a>, <a href='#Page_46'>46</a>, <a href='#Page_47'>47</a>, <a href='#Page_49'>49</a>, <a href='#Page_66'>66</a>, <a href='#Page_67'>67</a>, <a href='#Page_68'>68</a>, <a href='#Page_75'>75</a>, <a href='#Page_93'>93</a>, <a href='#Page_157'>157</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'><span class='pageno' id='Page_212'>212</span>Sullivan, Master John, Statement concerning himself, <a href='#Page_75'>75</a>, <a href='#Page_76'>76</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Sullivan, Mary, fifth child of Master John and Margery (Browne) Sullivan, <a href='#Page_69'>69</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Subscribed, in 1780, £10,000 in aid of the Patriot army,” 109.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Surprised a British picket, took 36 prisoners, <a href='#Page_60'>60</a> muskets, and two pairs of colors,” 112.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Surrender of Yorktown, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Sutter, J. A., “that grand old pioneer,” 85.</li>
- <li class='c006'>“Taught school there for over twenty years,” 105.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Taylor, George, an Irish signer of the Declaration of Independence, <a href='#Page_115'>115</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Taylor, George W., chairman of the Lexington board of Selectmen, <a href='#Page_13'>13</a>, <a href='#Page_14'>14</a>, <a href='#Page_15'>15</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Taylor, John M., “keen as an Irish greyhound,” 117.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Templemurry, Ireland, <a href='#Page_29'>29</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Temple, Robert, arrives at Boston in 1717 with a party of Irish Protestants, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Tenth New Hampshire regiment in the Civil War, <a href='#Page_39'>39</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“That glorious band of brothers,” 126.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Thayer, Capt. Simeon, of Providence, R. I., <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“The affair at the Cedars,” 91.</li>
- <li class='c009'><cite>The First Commencement of Rhode Island College</cite>, <a href='#Page_93'>93</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“The gentlemen of Ireland,” 54.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“The Irish do flock into town,” 112.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“The golden milestone of life,” 83.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“The last Commander of old Kent,” 98.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“The last of the cocked hats,” 120.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“The magistrates, long annoyed by the presence of an obstinate Papist in Boston, ordered Goody Glover to be taken into custody,” 19.</li>
- <li class='c009'>The magistrates visit Goody Glover in prison, <a href='#Page_20'>20</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“The man of truth,” 106.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“The patriots secretly moved in another direction to fall upon the British at Princeton,” 120.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“The petition of Many Inhabitants of Malden and Charlestown on Mestickside,” 30.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“The Proof Against Her Was Wholly Deficient,” 17.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“The Sullivan family is one of the most notable families in the history of New England,” 65.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“The western province of Ireland,” 35.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“There was a great concourse of people to see if the Papist would relent,” 20, <a href='#Page_21'>21</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“There were many Irish in the command,” 98.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“They chained the Papist till she could not move,” 19.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“They put other chains on Glover,” 19.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“The three polite Irishmen,” 114.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“They were men of energy and substance,” 32.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“They were thrifty, prosperous and leading citizens in the towns in which they settled,” 34.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Thomas the Irishman,” 121.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Thursday, March 1, 1770, went to Malachi Murfee’s,” 108.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Ticonderoga, <a href='#Page_44'>44</a>, <a href='#Page_46'>46</a>, <a href='#Page_99'>99</a>, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Tipperary, Ireland, <a href='#Page_138'>138</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“To seize the personal effects of traitors,” 115.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“To transport to America 500 natural Irishmen,” 116.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Tracy, Patrick, a Rhode Island soldier who was killed in the assault on Quebec, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Traveling in wagons and on horseback,” 60.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Trenton, Battle of, <a href='#Page_27'>27</a>, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Trinity College, Dublin, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Tuchin, Symon, master of the <cite>Due Return</cite>, <a href='#Page_101'>101</a>.</li>
- <li class='c006'>Ulster, Ireland, <a href='#Page_28'>28</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>United States, Supreme Court of the, <a href='#Page_98'>98</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>University of Pennsylvania, <a href='#Page_108'>108</a>.</li>
- <li class='c006'>Valley Forge, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Virginia, Francis Maguire arrives in, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Virginia, General Assembly of, <a href='#Page_108'>108</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Virginia Historical Society, <a href='#Page_143'>143</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Virginia Light Dragoons, First regiment of, <a href='#Page_96'>96</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Virginia officers in the Revolution, <a href='#Page_115'>115</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Virginia, “Poll list for the election of burgesses for the County of Prince William,” 112.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Virginia records, Symon Tuchin mentioned in the, <a href='#Page_101'>101</a>.</li>
- <li class='c006'>Walsh, Regiment of, <a href='#Page_91'>91</a>, <a href='#Page_93'>93</a>, <a href='#Page_94'>94</a>, <a href='#Page_97'>97</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Washington, General, <a href='#Page_13'>13</a>, <a href='#Page_56'>56</a>, <a href='#Page_67'>67</a>, <a href='#Page_102'>102</a>, <a href='#Page_104'>104</a>, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>, <a href='#Page_116'>116</a>, <a href='#Page_118'>118</a>, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>, <a href='#Page_123'>123</a>, <a href='#Page_127'>127</a>, <a href='#Page_133'>133</a>, <a href='#Page_143'>143</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Waterford, Ireland, <a href='#Page_48'>48</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Went in defense of the nation against Orange,” 76.</li>
- <li class='c009'>Wreath placed on the monument in Lexington by the Society, <a href='#Page_13'>13</a>, <a href='#Page_14'>14</a>, <a href='#Page_15'>15</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Wrote an account of his voyage to Virginia and submitted it to the Privy Council of Spain,” 112.</li>
- <li class='c006'>Yorktown, Surrender of, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>.</li>
- <li class='c009'>“Your letter by Thomas the Irishman has just been received,” 121.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<hr class='c023' />
-<div class='footnote' id='f1'>
-<p class='c014'><a href='#r1'>1</a>. Died Sept. 19, 1905.</p>
-</div>
-<div class='footnote' id='f2'>
-<p class='c014'><a href='#r2'>2</a>. Died March 18, 1905.</p>
-</div>
-<div class='footnote' id='f3'>
-<p class='c014'><a href='#r3'>3</a>. Of Baltimore, Md. This paper is reproduced, by permission, from the <cite><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Ave Maria</span></cite>, of
-Notre Dame, Ind., in which publication it recently appeared under the title “A Forgotten
-Heroine.”</p>
-</div>
-<div class='footnote' id='f4'>
-<p class='c014'><a href='#r4'>4</a>. That there be no interruption to this narrative, let it be said that the facts relating to
-Mrs. Glover have been gleaned from Cotton Mather, Upham, Drake, Moore, Owens, Calef,
-Cartrie, and papers of the Massachusetts Historical Society.</p>
-</div>
-<div class='footnote' id='f5'>
-<p class='c014'><a href='#r5'>5</a>. Of Elizabeth, N. J. This paper was originally contributed to the Elizabeth <cite>Evening
-Times</cite>, Jan. 27, 1905.</p>
-</div>
-<div class='footnote' id='f6'>
-<p class='c014'><a href='#r6'>6</a>. Colonel Proctor was a native of Ireland.</p>
-</div>
-<div class='footnote' id='f7'>
-<p class='c014'><a href='#r7'>7</a>. General Knox was born in Boston of Irish parentage.</p>
-</div>
-<div class='footnote' id='f8'>
-<p class='c014'><a href='#r8'>8</a>. Of New York. President-General of the Society. This paper is from Mr. Crimmins’
-recent work, <cite>Early Celebrations of St. Patrick’s Day</cite>.</p>
-</div>
-<div class='footnote' id='f9'>
-<p class='c014'><a href='#r9'>9</a>. Of Mayville, Chautauqua County, N. Y. A descendant of William Prendergast, the
-pioneer.</p>
-</div>
-<div class='footnote' id='f10'>
-<p class='c014'><a href='#r10'>10</a>. This paper was prepared by Mr. Scales for the New Hampshire Historical Society, and
-was read by him before that body. It is here republished by permission.</p>
-</div>
-<div class='footnote' id='f11'>
-<p class='c014'><a href='#r11'>11</a>. At A meeting of the Select men in Dover the 20<sup>th</sup> of May 1723 ordered that 2 Schoolmasters
-be Procured for the Towne of Dover for the year Ensuing, and that ther Sallery Exceed
-not £30 Payment a Peece and to attend the Directtions of the Select men for the Servis
-of the Towne in Equi’ll Proportion.</p>
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-<div class='lg-container-l'>
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- <div class='line'>Thomas Tebets, Towne Clark</div>
- </div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class='c014'>At the Same time Mr. Sullefund Exseps to Sarve the Towne above<sup>sd</sup> as Scoole master
-three months Sertin and begins his Servis y<sup>e</sup> 21<sup>th</sup> Day of May 1723, and also y<sup>e</sup> S<sup>d</sup> Sullefund
-Promised the Selectmen if he left them Soonner he would give them a month notis to Provide
-themselves with a nother, and the Select men was also to give him a month notis if
-they Disliked him.</p>
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- <div class='line'>Thomas Tebbets, Towne Clark.</div>
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- <div class='line'>Dover Town Records, A. D. 1723.</div>
- </div>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-</div>
-<div class='footnote' id='f12'>
-<p class='c014'><a href='#r12'>12</a>. This name has also been rendered Darby.—<span class='sc'>Editor.</span></p>
-
-<p class='c014'><span class='sc'>Note.</span> As Master John Sullivan here states that he was the son of Major Philip O’Sullivan,
-his own name was, therefore, originally O’Sullivan. At what period, and under what
-circumstances he dropped the “O,” is not now known.—<span class='sc'>Ed.</span></p>
-</div>
-<div class='footnote' id='f13'>
-<p class='c014'><a href='#r13'>13</a>. This sketch was written by Miss Fitzgerald, for the American-Irish Historical Society,
-at the request of the Knights of St. Patrick of San Francisco. The latter organization
-is, collectively, a life member of the Society. Miss Fitzgerald is a granddaughter of Mr.
-Murphy, the pioneer here mentioned, and resides in Gilroy, California, in the beautiful
-Santa Clara valley.</p>
-</div>
-<div class='footnote' id='f14'>
-<p class='c014'><a href='#r14'>14</a>. Grandson of Mathew Carey. This memoir is mainly compiled from a paper contributed
-by Mr. Baird to <cite>The American Bookseller</cite>, New York City.</p>
-</div>
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