John Kelley, of Providence, R. I., died in 1701–’02. His widow, Grace Kelley, refused administration of the estate, and in her stead the Town Council appointed Pardon Tillinghast, Jonathan Sprague and James Browne. (_Records of the Town of Providence._) In 1677, 61 families at Salem, Mass., representing 295 persons, who were in needy circumstances owing to King Philip’s war, were given £44 5s from contributions collected in Ireland. This was a portion of “The Irish Charity.” (Felt’s _Annals of Salem_.) Gen. Thomas Proctor was born in Ireland, 1739, and settled in Philadelphia, Pa. He entered the Patriot army in the Revolution, and rendered distinguished service at the battle of Brandywine and elsewhere. He was an artillery officer. He died in 1806. Patrick Mark is mentioned in Charlestown, Mass., in 1685. He was then 55 years of age. His wife was named Sarah. Their children were Sarah, Peter, Hannah and Mercie. A daughter was killed by the Indians in 1691. (Wyman’s _Genealogies and Estates_.) Pittston, Me., was incorporated in 1779. Among the early settlers of the town were: Stephen Kenny, William Burke, Thomas Moore, Daniel Ring, Martin Hailey, Thomas Hailey, Joseph Hailey and William Hailey. (_Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder._) James Given, a native of Ireland, born in 1777, participated in the Irish rebellion of 1798. Subsequently he came to this country and located at Fishkill, N. Y. A “useful and prominent citizen for 60 years.” (_N. Y. Genealogical and Biographical Record_, Jan. 1893.) James Boies, writing in 1749–’50, from Cork, Ireland, to Samuel Waldo of Boston, Mass., says: “My business here is to carry Passengers & Servants,” meaning, of course, to America. He requests that letters be sent him “to y^e care of m^r Winthrop, merch^t in Cork.” Lieut.-Col. Goffe, an Irishman, was, in 1760, ordered by Gen. Amherst to take a regiment of 800 men, raised in New Hampshire, and cut a road through the wilderness from “No. 4” to Crown Point, or more properly to the Green Mountains. (_History of Springfield, Vt._) Rev. Ezra Stiles, writing at Newport, R. I., Aug. 9, 1774, says: “Last month arrived at New Castle [Del.] the snow _Charlotte_, Capt. Gaffney, from Waterford, with 100 passengers, and the ship _Hope_, Capt. McClenachan, from Newry, with 200.” (_Diary of Ezra Stiles._) Hon. Thomas Dongan, the Irish governor of the province of New York, 1683–’88, was a wise and just man. He founded representative government in New York, and the Charter of Liberties given the colonists at that time has greatly served to perpetuate his fame. In a general return of Col. William Thomson’s regiment of Rangers, Sept. 20, 1775, occur the names Lieutenant Richard Brown, a native of Ireland, and Lieut. David Monaghan. Of the drummers, three were born in Ireland. The command was operating in the South.