James married Anne Martin; died Jan. 14, 1888. Margaret married Thomas Kell; died Dec. 30, 1881. Johanna married Patrick Fitzgerald; died Dec. 28, 1899. Mary married James Miller; died Dec. 26, 1883. Bernard married Catherine O’Toole; died April 11, 1853. Helen married C. M. Weber; died April 11, 1895. John M. married V. E. B. Reed; died Feb. 17, 1892. Daniel married Mary C. Fisher; died Oct. 22, 1882. HISTORICAL NOTES OF INTEREST. BY THOMAS HAMILTON MURRAY. James Bourk, “captain of the brig _Neptune_,” is mentioned at Newport, R. I., 1773. William Welch, “from Ireland,” settled in Charlestown, R. I. He was born in 1700 and died in 1786. Richard Field, “a native of Dublin, Ireland,” was long a resident of Newport, R. I., and died in 1769. Thomas McCartee of Hartford, Conn., is mentioned in the “Lexington Alarm” list of that place, 1775. An Irishman, John Fitton, settled in Providence, R. I., about 1750. He was a merchant. He died in 1810. Daniel Byrn was lieutenant in a regiment (1759) raised by act of the General Assembly of Rhode Island. The records of Nantucket, Mass., contain the following entry: “Betty y^e dau. of Denis Manning was born July y^e 10, 1679.” James Dailey is mentioned in the Revolutionary records as of the corps of Sappers and Miners; was at the siege of Yorktown. The Chevalier Theobald Dillon was “colonel en second” of the Irish-French regiment of Dillon during the American Revolution. Stephen Brady was of Col. Obadiah Johnson’s Connecticut regiment, 1778. The regiment participated in the battle of Rhode Island. Constant Maguire “of County Fermanagh,” Ireland, settled in Rhode Island prior to 1750, and became prominent in Warwick and East Greenwich. In 1751–’52, Terence Donnelly was engaged by the town of Newport, R. I., as a schoolmaster. He later conducted a school of his own in that place. The ship _Sally_ arrived at Boston, Mass., in 1763, having been fifty-nine days on the voyage from Ireland. She was quarantined at Boston for smallpox. A privateer captain in the Revolution was William Malone. He is believed to have been of Newport, R. I. He commanded at one period _The Harbinger_. John Conley of Stratford, Conn., served in the second troop of Sheldon’s Continental Light Dragoons during the Revolution and is mentioned as a trumpeter. John Flynn of Woodstock, Conn., is mentioned in the Woodstock “Alarm List,” 1775. He is also mentioned as a trumpeter in Major Backus’ Light Horse, 1776. Owen Neill of New London, Conn., sustained losses aggregating £91, 14s 6d by the ravages of the British at the time of the latter’s attack on New London, 1781. Bridget Clifford came from Ireland, 1635, in the _Primrose_ bound for Virginia. She was accompanied by two of her brothers. She died at Suffield, Conn., in 1695.