The journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. V, 1905Various
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The journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. V, 1905
Various
American-Irish Historical Society -- Periodicals; Ethnology -- United States -- Periodicals; Irish Americans -- Periodicals
During the Revolution, Capt. William Burke of the armed schooner
_Warren_ was captured by the British frigate _Liverpool_ and carried
into Halifax, from whence he was sent to New York and confined on board
a prison ship. He was later exchanged for Capt. Richard Jones, “a
British officer of equal rank.” Captain Burke is mentioned as of
Marblehead, Mass.
Susannah Lightfoot, a native of Ireland, was born in 1720. She was a
Quaker, and with Ruth Courtney came from Ireland to America on a visit
to Friends here. On her return to the Old Land, she landed at Cork. In
1760, she paid a second visit to these shores, and four years later
removed with her husband from Ireland and permanently settled here.
Among those serving under Esek Hopkins, during the Revolution, was
Patrick Kaine. He is mentioned as a marine and served aboard the
_Cabot_. In an engagement with the British ship _Glasgow_, April 6,
1776, he was killed. Anthony Dwyer, Richard Sweeney, John Connor, Thomas
Dowd and Andrew Magee also served aboard the _Cabot_ under Hopkins.
Jeremiah Driskel, William Henussey and John Leary all served in the
Commander-in-Chief’s Guard (Washington’s) during the Revolution. Driskel
had previously served in a Maryland regiment; Henussey, in a
Pennsylvania command, and Leary, in a regiment commanded by John Stark.
(See Godfrey’s work on _The Commander-in-Chief’s Guard_.)
In 1776, John O’Kelley was a member of a military company in the town of
Warren, R. I. The company was commanded by Capt. Ezra Ormsbee. Also in
the company were Daniel Kelley and Joseph Kelley. The General Assembly
of Rhode Island, in 1782, gave “Mrs. Elizabeth O’Kelley, widow of John
O’Kelley,” of Warren, permission to sell certain real estate.
Thomas Jones, “from Strabane, Ireland,” came to Rhode Island prior to
1699; later he removed to Long Island, N. Y. He married Freelove
Townsend, whose father gave them land at Massapequa, where they settled.
They are mentioned in Bunker’s _Long Island Genealogies_. Mr. and Mrs.
Jones had a son David, born in 1699. Thomas, the immigrant, died in
1713.
Andrew Meade, a Kerry Irishman, and a Catholic, emigrated to New York,
married Mary Latham, a Quakeress of Flushing, went to Nansemond County,
Va., and died there in 1745. His son was Col. Richard Kidder Meade, an
aide-de-camp of General Washington. (Quoted by Martin I. J. Griffin of
Philadelphia, Pa., in _American Catholic Historical Researches_.)
Thomas, John and Walter Dongan, kinsmen of Governor Dongan of New York,
are believed to have been residing in New York in 1715. In 1723 a
private act was passed by the Assembly of the province “to enable Thomas
Dongan and Walter Dongan, two surviving kinsmen of Thomas, late Earl of
Limerick,” to sell part of their estate. A similar act was passed in
1726.
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