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
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Thomas Healey is mentioned as of Cambridge, Mass., in 1635, and
William Healey in 1645. John Joyce was an early resident of Lynn,
Mass., and removed to Sandwich, Mass., about 1637. David Kelly was
of Boston as early as 1664, and belonged to the artillery company
there. Stephen Hart was of Cambridge, Mass., in 1632; Edmund Hart of
Weymouth, Mass., 1634; John Hart of Salem, Mass., 1638; Thomas Hart
of Ipswich, Mass., 1648. (Farmer’s _Genealogical Register_.)
In a Virginia regiment, of which George Washington was colonel, long
before the Revolution, appear the following surnames: Barrett,
Bryan, Burns, Burke, Carroll, Coleman, Conner, Connerly, Conway,
Coyle, Daily, Deveeny, Devoy, Donahough, Ford, Gorman, Hennesy,
Kennedy, Lowry, McBride, McCoy, McGrath, McGuire, McKan, McLaughlin,
Martin, Moran, Murphy, Powers, etc. The regiment participated in the
struggles against the French and Indians. (_Virginia Historical
Magazine._)
Dennis Rochford, of County Wexford, Ireland, and his wife Mary, came
to Pennsylvania with William Penn in 1682, on the ship _Welcome_.
All or nearly all the passengers were Quakers. Two daughters of
Dennis and Mary died on the voyage. The passengers were described as
“people of consequence” and as “people of property.” Dennis was a
member of the Assembly in 1683. (Scharf-Wescott _History of
Philadelphia, Pa._, quoted in Vol. VI, Transactions of the Kansas
State Historical Society.)
In the “Great Swamp fight” in Southern Rhode Island, during King
Philip’s war, 1675–’76, were the following soldiers from
Connecticut, among others: James Murphy, Daniel Tracy, Edward
Larkin, James Welch and John Roach. The town of Norwalk, Conn.,
subsequently gave Roach, as a gratuity, a tract of land “consisting
of twelve acres more or less, layed out upon the west side of the
West Rock, so called.” In the Norwalk records Roach is spoken of as
a soldier in the “Direful Swamp Fight.”
Eaton’s Annals of Warren, Me., mention two Irish schoolmasters
there. They were John O’Brien and John Sullivan. O’Brien was “a
native of Craig, near Cork,” and taught in Warren for many years,
beginning at about the close of the Revolution. He was “an elegant
penman and a good accountant.” He married a daughter of Col.
Starrett. Sullivan was a native of Dublin, Ireland, and began
teaching in Warren about 1792. He was of “never failing good humor.”
He died in Boston, Mass.
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