The journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. VI, 1906 — John Shaqi
The journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. VI, 1906Various
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The journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. VI, 1906
Various
American-Irish Historical Society -- Periodicals; Ethnology -- United States -- Periodicals; Irish Americans -- Periodicals
James and Isaac Savage and their two sisters, came to America from
Ireland. Afterward, about 1763, their father, James Savage, being then
an aged man, came to this country to Newton, Mass., where the two
daughters had settled. There he died and was buried.
His sons, James and Isaac, settled at Woolwich, Me., where James was
early killed by the Indians. Isaac married and had a large family. His
wife’s name is not known. Among their children was a son, who settled at
Wiscasset, Me., another son who settled at Woolwich and another son,
James, who also settled at Wiscasset. James (3) married Mary Hilton, who
was born at Berwick, Me., in 1721, and lived to be 100 years old. James
and Mary had seventeen children. Order of birth is not known.
They were as follows: Isaac, who married Deborah Soule; Abigail,
married, June 13, 1765, Robert Lambert; Lydia, married, February 1,
1776, Daniel Ring; Hannah, born 1745, married Thomas McFadden; James,
married Annah Young; Ebenezer, born 1753, married Sarah Chase; Abraham,
married, in 1783, Patience Young; John, married, in 1783, Susannah
Tinkham or Pinkham; Jacob, born in 1759, married, in 1781, Hannah Gray;
Mary, married, in 1795, John Card; Charles, married, in 1784, Margaret
Corillard, and married, second, about 1785, Margaret Rose Lovejoy;
Catherine, died April 24, 1800, unmarried; Edward, born 1776, married,
June 6, 1790, Sarah Smith; Andrew, born 1769, married Tamson Tibbetts;
Christiana, Daniel, Ann.
EDWARD O’BRIEN’S SCHOOL DICTIONARY.
An interesting historical paragraph recently contributed, states that in
1798 Edward O’Brien printed in New Haven, Conn., his “School Dictionary:
Being a compendium of the latest and most improved dictionaries,” which
exists in two copies—the British Museum copy (perfect) and the Yale
College Library copy (lacking ten pages). This was the first dictionary
by an American author published in this country. It has no date, but is
thought to have been issued towards the end of 1798. Its author, who
taught school in Guilford, Conn., was born there March 10, 1757, and
died there August 20, 1836. Soon after its publication its author and
the Rev. John Elliott (1768–1824, great-great-grandson of John Elliott,
the Indian apostle) prepared the second American dictionary, which was
copyrighted in June, 1799, and published in January, 1800.
A PATRIOT OF THE REVOLUTION.
James Stevenson, a native of Ireland, was born in 1750 and was brought
to this country when a child. During the Revolutionary War he served as
a sergeant in Colonel Evans’ Pennsylvania regiment, was captured by the
enemy and held for a year in the notorious British prison ships.
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