The journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. VIII, 1909Various
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The journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. VIII, 1909
Various
American-Irish Historical Society -- Periodicals; Ethnology -- United States -- Periodicals; Irish Americans -- Periodicals
“Patrick Hayes must have been a resident of the city for some years.
He apparently came from the colony of Maryland. We find a record of
his service as a juryman in the Mayor’s Court on many occasions during
the year 1666. He evidently was a tapster and hotel-keeper, for he had
controversy with the excise in 1667. He must have been engaged in
general business as well, for in suits between third parties moneys
were attached in his hands in 1667 and he sued various parties for
goods sold in 1667 and 1668. In two of these cases Thomas Carr was a
joint plaintiff. In the action of William Urgent against John Ashman
for slander, June 2, 1668, he was a witness to prove his knowledge of
the plaintiff as a freeman in the province of Maryland. John Daaly was
a plaintiff in two suits in the Mayor’s Court in 1670. John Quigly
figures as a plaintiff in the Mayor’s Court against Ralph Huddison
August 15, 1671, when he sued successfully to recover £16, 10 sh., for
earthenware sold. He served as a juror in the same month, and was one
of the arbitrators appointed in the suit of Samuel Bach and David
Gomer against the Ketch Betty (attached). Dennis McKarty sued Thomas
Edwards, master of the Ketch ‘Society’ in the Mayor’s Court October
24, 1671, to recover £5 for cutting and chipping logwood, and
recovered judgment. He was himself sued by Samuel Hall November 14,
1671. Thomas Griffin was one of the public cartmen of the city
February 13, 1672.
“During the intervening years, until the Dutch re-occupation in 1673,
when its name was changed to New Orange, the city saw but few Irish
faces and the list of the burghers contains no Irish names. Upon the
re-cession of the city to England in 1674, when English rule became an
assured fact, it is reasonable to suppose that some Irish arrivals
must have been noted. Yet we can only surmise that from the names as
we afterwards find them on the rolls. So, in 1674, Andrew Clare is
recorded as owning land on Pearl Street, between Whitehall and State
streets; in 1677, we note as residing here, William Walsh; in 1680,
Abraham Corbett, a distiller, residing on Broadway near Exchange
Place, and William Cox, flour merchant, residing on Hanover Square; in
1691, Lawrence Reade; in 1695, John Morris and Peter Matthews; in
1698, William Morris; in 1702, Thomas Flynn, surgeon, and Patrick
Crawford; in 1703, John Barr, Thomas Carroll, Richard Flemming,
Bartholomew Hart, Henry Mooney and Peter Moran; in 1708, Anthony
Lynch; in 1710, Thomas Kearney; in 1711, James Maxwell. All these were
freemen. In 1696, the then Governor Fletcher returned to the home
authorities a list of eleven Irish Catholics residing in the city,
none of whom was a burgher nor a landowner. Captain Evans, of the
_Richmond_ frigate, who was here with the Governor, was the son of an
Irish shoemaker.
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