For more than a hundred years the descendants of the early settlers of this valley have been spreading out far beyond the borders of New England into the ever-retreating West, to people with thousands of their kit and kin from Ireland, and to develop the fertile fields and reap the harvests of prosperity and of cheerful endurance, daring enterprise and patient perseverance. Their love of liberty, their devotion to religion, their respect for law and order, chastened by sacrifice and suffering, make them ideal citizens to found and develop states and maintain the principles of the institutions established by the fathers of the republic. SOME VOICES FROM Y^E OLDEN TIME. BY THOMAS HAMILTON MURRAY,[3] BOSTON, MASS. Alexander Gilligan was a resident of Marblehead, Mass., in 1674. Many Irish participated in the settlement of Salem, N. Y., in 1765. (_The Salem Book._) Samuel and Robert Elder, brothers, came from Ireland about 1730 and settled in Falmouth, Me. In 1746 a marriage license was issued, Spottsylvania, Va., to Patrick Connelly and Ann French. Dennis Lochlin, of Putney, Vt., was a representative to the General Assembly of that state in 1777. Lucy Todd O’Brien married, in 1698, John Baylor of Gloucester county, Va. (_Virginia Historical Magazine._) The records of Braintree, Mass., note the birth “6th mo. 18. 1669” of Samuel Daly, a son of John and Elizabeth Daly. Timothy Hierlehey was captain of the seventh company of the First Regiment of the Colony of Connecticut, 1758. Rev. James Tate, a Presbyterian minister from Ireland, organized Tate’s Academy, in Wilmington, N. C., about 1760. At a great fire in Boston, Mass., 1787, among those whose premises were burned were Dennis Welch and Andrew Kalley. Capt. Wm. McGinnis, with 89 men of Schenectady, N. Y., was at the battle near Fort George, Sept. 8, 1755, and was killed there. About 1762–65, Rev. Ezra Stiles, of Newport, R. I.,acknowledges having received from Capt. Jno. Nichols a firkin of “Irish butter.” James Warren settled at South Berwick, Me., as early as 1656. He was a native of Scotland; his wife, Margaret, a native of Ireland. On May 14, 1663, Miles More and Michael Rice of New London were accepted as freemen by the General Assembly of Connecticut. Among the men serving under Capt. John Gilman, New Hampshire, in 1710, were Daniel Lary, Thomas Lary and Jeremiah Connor. Major William Waters, son of Capt. Edward and Grace (O’Neil) Waters, patented land in Maryland as early as 1663. He left six sons. We learn in Frothingham’s _Charlestown, Mass._, that in 1640 “there came over great store of provisions both out of England and Ireland.” Edwin Larkin was located at Newport, R. I., as early as 1655. His name appears in the “Roule of y^e Freemen of y^e colonie of everie Towne.”