The journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. IV, 1904Various
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The journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. IV, 1904
Various
American-Irish Historical Society -- Periodicals; Ethnology -- United States -- Periodicals; Irish Americans -- Periodicals
Thomas Butler settled in Kittery, Me., before 1695. He is
grandiloquently described by a modern writer as “of the ancient
English house of Ormonde.” Perhaps it would have been nearer the
point to say that Butler was an Irishman “of the house of Ormonde.”
He had a son, Thomas, born at Berwick, Me., 1698.
From the Town Records of Boston, Mass., Nov. 8, 1737: “Hugh Ramsey,
John Weire, and William Moore, Executed a Bond of the Penalty of one
Thousand Pounds to Indemnify the Town from Charge on acc^o. of Three
Hundred and Eighty One Passengers Imported by Capt. Daniel Gibbs in
the Ship Sagamore from Ireland.* * *”
“Daniel y^e Son of Darby and Elizabeth Mallonee” was baptized, in
Barbadoes, 1679. The same year mention is made of Teag Conner, of
the parish of St. Michael, Barbadoes. “Mary y^e Wife of Morgan
Murphy” of the parish of St. James, Barbadoes, was buried in 1679,
as was also “Cornelius y^e Son of Dearman Driskell.” (Hotten’s
_Lists_.)
John Kehoo and Edward Dalton, two young Irishmen, came to Salem,
Mass., in 1776. “They were both remarkably handsome, and promising
men, and by their circumspect conduct and industrious habits, soon
gained the respect and confidence of the community.” Kehoo was lost
at sea while aboard the privateer _Centipede_, in 1781.
In Felt’s _Annals of Salem, Mass._, it is stated under date of April
20, 1681, “a ketch, Capt. Edward Henfield, picked up a boat with
Capt. Andrew and six of his crew, 150 leagues from Cape Cod. These
persons, so rescued, belonged to a Dublin ship bound to Virginia.
She sank on the 18th, with sixteen men and three women, who
perished.”
Daniel Gookin “of Cargoline, near Cork, Ireland,” commenced a
plantation in Virginia in 1621–’22. He is said to have been born in
England and to have “settled in Ireland.” He came to Virginia with
fifty men of his own and thirty passengers, and located at a place
called Mary’s Mount, near Newport News. (_Virginia Historical
Magazine._)
At a town meeting in Boston, March 12, 1771, “A letter from that
celebrated Patriot, D^r Lucas of Ireland, owning the Receipt of one
transmitted him by a Committee of this Town together with the
Pamphlet relative to the horrid Massacre in Boston, March, 5,
1770—was read and attended to with the highest satisfaction.”
(_Boston Town Records._)
From the Town Records of Boston, Mass., Sept. 19, 1744: “At the
Desire of His Excellency the Governour The Select men Sent up to
the Almshouse Sixteen Girls & Three Boys & a Woman arrived here
yesterday from Cape Breton who were taken About Six Weeks since by
a French Privateer [they] being bound from Ireland to
Philadelphia * * *”
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