Cornelius Merry, an Irishman, of Northampton, Mass., had a grant of land in 1663. He married Rachel Ballard. Their children were John, who “died soon;” John (2d), born in 1665; Sarah, born 1668; Rachel, 1670; Cornelius, Leah, and perhaps others. Cornelius, the father, participated in the “Falls fight” against the Indians. After the war he removed to Long Island, N. Y. (Savage’s _Genealogical Dictionary_.) John Lamb, who was captain of a brig called the _Irish Gimlet_ is found at New London, Conn., in 1774; Lawrence Sullivan “of Connecticut” was taken prisoner by the British at the battle of Bunker Hill, and was released February 24, 1776; Captain Richard McCarthy of New London, was wrecked in a storm off Plum Island, May 27, 1779, when he and five sailors perished. (_Rev. James H. O’Donnell, Norwalk, Conn._) Capt. Philip Mortimer, who came from Ireland, was one of the selectmen of Middletown, Conn., in 1749. He was a rope maker, was very wealthy, and donated Mortimer cemetery to the town. Being childless, he sent to Ireland for his niece to come out and become his adopted daughter. The son of Capt. John Reid, Mortimer’s partner, was despatched to Boston with a coach and four and escorted her to Middletown. Glancing through Deane’s “History of Scituate, Mass.,” the other day, we found mention of Richard Fitzgerald, “a veteran Latin schoolmaster.” He wedded Margaret Snowdon, of Scituate, in 1729. Doubtless he was one of the many Irish teachers who abounded in the American colonies at that and subsequent periods. The Society has already published the names, and something concerning the career, of about forty such. Charles Clinton was a native of County Longford, Ireland, and was born in 1690. He and his friends, numbering about 200, chartered a vessel and sailed from Dublin in 1729 for Philadelphia, Pa. After a passage lasting 139 days the captain, inadvertently or by design, landed them on Cape Cod, Mass. Ninety-six of the ship’s company had died on the voyage. One of Clinton’s sons, George, became governor of New York. An Irish colony, consisting of sixteen families, was settled about 1740, under the patronage of Sir William Johnson, himself an Irishman, on a tract a few miles southwest of Fort Hamilton, N. Y., in the town of Glen. The settlers erected dwellings, cleared land and planted orchards. Indian hostilities, however, prevented the success of the settlement, and the pioneers returned to Ireland. (J. R. Simms’ _Frontiersmen of New York_.)