Several years previous to 1686, “persons from Ireland, picked up at sea and brought hither, have £17 given them.” (Felt’s _Annals of Salem, Mass_.) As early as 1636, Edward Brick, or Breck, and his son Robert, “of Galway in Ireland,” are heard from in Dorchester, now a part of Boston, Mass. In 1659 “John Morrell an Irishman and Lysbell Morrell an Irishwoman were married 31st August by John Endecott,” Governor. (_Boston, Mass., Records_.) John Casey, James Brannon, John Bryan and James Moore were among the field officers appointed by the Provincial Congress of North Carolina, in 1776. Cornelius Conner witnessed a deed (conveyance of real estate), in 1665, by John Clough of Salisbury, Mass. (_The Essex Antiquarian_, Salem, Mass., Jan., 1902.) Among the soldiers at Fort William and Mary, N. H., in 1708, were John Foy, Jeremiah Libby, John Neal, Samuel Neal, John Mead and Timothy Blake. John Donaldson, an Irishman, commanded, during the Revolution, an armed brig of 10 guns and carrying 45 men. He was at one time a resident of Salem, Mass. Stephen Decatur, Sr., married “a young lady named Pine, the daughter of an Irish gentleman.” Stephen Decatur, the distinguished naval officer, was their son. Samuel Neale, Quaker, was born in Dublin, Ireland, 1729. He came to this country, and in 1772 preached at Newport, R. I. He died in Cork, Ireland, 1792. John Moore, “formerly of Dublin,” is mentioned in Charlestown, Mass., about 1680. He was a shipwright. (Wyman’s _Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown_.) The Massachusetts records show that in 1661 “John Reylean an Irishman & Margaret Brene an Irishwoman were married 15th March by John Endecott Governor.” From the files of York County, Me., we learn that Thomas Crowley, and his wife Joanna, had a daughter Arpira Sayward who had a son Samuel, born about 1668. Roger Kelley was representative from the Isles of Shoals at the first General Court of Massachusetts under the new charter, 1692. (Farmer’s _Genealogical Register_.) Joseph McDowell and his wife, Margaret O’Neal, came from Ireland to Winchester, Va., about 1743. Two of their sons became distinguished in the Revolution. Hon. Charles Jackson, Governor of Rhode Island, 1845–’46, was a descendant of Stephen Jackson, a native of Kilkenny, Ireland, who came to this country about 1724. Col. James Moore, who commanded the First Regiment of North Carolina Continentals in the Revolution, was of the Irish Moores who had settled in that part of the country. In Felt’s _Annals of Salem, Mass._, is found mention, 1789, of “John Brenon from Dublin,” who “performs on the slackwire, balances and gives specimens of legerdemain.” Charles MacCarthy was one of the founders of the town of East Greenwich, R. I., 1677. He had previously resided in St. Kitts. He had a brother who went from Ireland to Spain.