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
Col. Israel Angell of the Second Rhode Island regiment in the
Continental Line, has this entry in his diary under date of March 17,
1781: “Good weather. A great parade this day with the Irish, it being
St. Patrick’s. I spent the day on the Point [West Point], and tarried
with the officers.” This diary has been reproduced in printed form by
Edward Field, secretary of the Providence, R. I., Record Commission.
Alexander Black, an Irishman, was a resident of Providence, R. I., as
early as 1762. He was a merchant and was associated in business with
James Black, and later with Alexander Stewart. Alexander Black died in
Providence, 1767. In a notice of his death, which appears in the
Providence _Gazette_, he is declared to have been “A fast friend to the
liberties of America, and studied to promote the public weal.”
James Kavanagh, a native of County Wexford, Ireland, came to Boston,
Mass., in 1780, during the Revolution, but settled at Damariscotta
Mills, Me., and engaged in the lumber business. His son, Edward, became
president of the State Senate of Maine, a member of Congress, United
States charge d’affaires in Portugal, a commissioner to settle the
northeastern boundary of Maine, and acting governor of Maine.
Edmund Fanning, an Irishman, was a victim of the Cromwellian
confiscation, and fled at the time of the surrender of Limerick, 1651,
and settled in Groton, Conn. His uncle, Dominick Fanning of Limerick,
was one of the 21 persons exempted from pardon by Ireton and was
beheaded at that time. D. H. Fanning and Walter F. Brooks, Worcester,
Mass., are descendants of Edmund Fanning, the Groton settler.
Morgan Connor, a Pennsylvania soldier of the Revolution, was
successively lieutenant, captain, major, and lieutenant-colonel
commandant. He served in Col. Samuel Miles’ Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment;
was wounded in the right wrist at Princeton; was called from camp by
Congress in March, 1776, and sent South as brigade major for General
Armstrong; was afterwards lieutenant-colonel of Hartley’s regiment.
John Brown, a native of Ireland, came to this country about 1760. He
settled in Virginia, in the Warm Spring Valley, and had a tract of 400
acres. About 1778 he married Mary Donnelly. He commanded a company in
the Revolution, and after the war was a justice for Bath County, Va.,
sheriff and treasurer of the county, major of the Second Battalion of
militia, and a member of the General Assembly of Virginia.
Daniel Dulany, a native of Queens County, Ireland, was born in 1686. He
was a cousin of Rev. Patrick Dulany, dean of Down. Daniel came to this
country when quite young and settled in Maryland. He was admitted to the
bar in 1710, became attorney-general of the province, judge of
admiralty, commissary-general, agent and receiver-general, and
councillor. He was in the public service of Maryland for nearly 40
years.
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