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If you are not located in the United States, you'll -have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using -this ebook. - - - -Title: The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society (Vol. V) - -Author: Various - -Editor: Thomas Hamilton Murray - -Release Date: December 28, 2019 [EBook #61037] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN-IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY *** - - - - -Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was -produced from images made available by the HathiTrust -Digital Library.) - - - - - - -[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] - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - 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 - 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.” - - 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.” - - 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.)” - - 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.)” - - 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.” - - 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.” - - 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.” - - 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.” - - 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.” - - 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.” - - 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.” - - 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.” - - 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.” - - 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.” - - From the Newburgh (N. Y.) 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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.” - - 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.” - - 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.” - - - - - 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. - - - - - 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. - ------ - -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. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES - - - 1. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling. - 2. 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