We again find mention of the Friendly Brothers in the New York _Gazette_ of March 25, 1771, it being there stated that “at the usual celebration of the repeal of the Stamp Act on 18 March, the assemblage on 18 March 1771, drank the usual toast ‘Prosperity to Ireland and the worthy Sons and Daughters of St. Patrick.’ Messages of civil Compliments were exchanged by those Gentlemen and the Friendly Brothers of St. Patrick, who dined at the Queen’s-Head Tavern; as also with a Number of other Gentlemen who dined at Protestant Hall, at Mr. Samuel Waldron’s, on Long Island.” In Rivington’s New York _Gazette_, March 10, 1774, we find a notice to the effect that “The Friendly Brothers are desired to meet at Hull’s Tavern, on Thursday the 17th instant. Dinner to be on table precisely at three o’clock.—F. T. M.” The same paper under date of March 17, 1774, says “This morning the Gentlemen who compose the most benevolent society of the Friendly Brothers of St. Patrick will give a very elegant breakfast, at Hull’s to the principal Ladies and Gentlemen of this city, in commemoration of the tutelar Saint of Ireland, it being their Patron Day,” and the same issue of the _Gazette_ announces that “The Concert which was to have been performed at the Assembly Room, as usual this Evening, is deferred until next Monday Evening, on Account of a public Breakfast, given by the Gentlemen, who compose the Society of The Friendly Brothers.” On March 16, 1775, Rivington’s New York _Gazette_ announced that “To-morrow being the anniversary of St. Patrick, Tutelar Saint of Ireland, will be observed with the usual respect and attention, by his generous sons and their descendants.” The British evacuated New York Nov. 25, 1783. Thenceforth, the St. Patrick’s Day celebrations there took place under the inspiring presence of a different order of things.