The journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. VII, 1907Various
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The journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. VII, 1907
Various
American-Irish Historical Society -- Periodicals; Ethnology -- United States -- Periodicals; Irish Americans -- Periodicals
The whole company was captured by a band of Indians and Spaniards, and
immediately haled before the governor, who “visited them with the
terrors of the Inquisition.” John Gray, John and Thomas Browne, John
Mooney, James Collier and John Rider were sentenced to receive 200
lashes on horseback and to serve eight years in the galleys; others of
the company received various terms of servitude, while others were
condemned to serve as servants or slaves in the monasteries. Three were
condemned to be burned to ashes, and the inhuman sentence was carried
out in the market place of the City of Mexico on the day preceding Good
Friday in the year 1575.
The three unfortunates were George Riuely (Reilly), Peter Momfrie and
“Cornelius.” Philips was unacquainted with the full name of the latter,
but in order to distinguish him from another of the party who bore the
same Christian name, he refers to him as “Cornelius the Irishman.” In
relating the circumstances of his subsequent escape, Philips stated that
several of the adventurers, after the expiration of their terms of
servitude, remained in Mexico, married native women, and some prospered
in the new country.
The same volume of Hakluyt (page 286) contains the story of “The Fourth
Voyage, made to Virginia in 1587, wherein was transported the Second
Colony,” written by the commander, Captain John White. The narrative
runs in part:
“On the first day of July (1587) we weighed anchor at Musketo’s Bay,
upon the fourth side of St. John’s Island, where were left behind two
Irishmen of our company, Darbie Glaven and Dennis Carrell, thence
bearing along the coast of St. John’s till evening.” The vessels
anchored in the bay for the purpose of securing a supply of salt, which
Simon Fernando, who was with Raleigh on the first expedition, had
informed White could be procured on the island. The two hardy Irishmen,
Glaven and Carrell, were selected to go ashore and procure the necessary
supply. They proceeded inland, but, during their absence, Fernando, for
some reason that does not appear, persuaded the commander to weigh
anchor, and before the two unfortunates had returned to the shore, the
vessels were far on their way. It would be interesting if we could
follow the fortunes of the two Irish castaways among the Indians of the
Danish West Indies, but history contains no further account of them.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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