[17]. This was Gilbert Stuart, who afterwards became the famous painter. The name in MacSparran’s time appears to have also been spelled Stewart.
[18]. “America Dissected.”
[19]. “America Dissected.”
[20]. A monument to MacSparran stands in North Kingstown, R. I. A hill in that section of the state also bears his name.
[21]. On the staff of the Boston Daily Globe.
[22]. Treasurer-General of the Society, and State Insurance Commissioner of New Hampshire.
[23]. Ramsay’s History was written by the son of an Irish Protestant. An edition was published in 1805 by Mathew Carey, a native-born Irish Catholic. A list of subscribers to the work was printed with it and here also is another instance of the presence of the Gael. The name of Thomas Addis Emmet appropriately heads the list, and the names following are Irish enough to please the most blue-blooded Milesian: James Buckley, Matthew Carroll, Philip Whelpley, Katherine Mulligan, James Doyle, J. W. McFadden, Charles O’Neal, John D. Toy, Henry C. Neal, Daniel Fagan, Andrew Fleming, William Hickey, John McLeod, Bernard O’Neal, John H. Riley, William Carroll, Patrick Gill, John McDermott, John McBride, M. Sullivan, Francis D. Riordan, Peter Kerr, John Carney, John Carey, John Cowan, Anthony C. Curley, Hamson Kelly, James McElhinney, Hugh McGuire, John McDonald, A. D. Murphy, Harvey Bryan, C. P. Butler, Lydia Bryan, Bartholomew Carroll, Richard Cunningham, Catherine Fitzsimmons, Christopher Fitzsimmons, Daniel Flood, Richard Fair, Andrew Flynn, Peter Murphy, Richard McCormack, Samuel Nolan, Cornelius Driscoll, Dennis O’Driscoll, Henry O’Hara, Thomas H. Egan, Peter McGuire, John Murphy, Joseph Kelly, Patrick Noble, John B. O’Neal, Timothy Dargan, Patrick H. Carns, Patrick Gatlin, Robert Malone, J. S. Bryan, and Daniel Murphy.
[24]. Recently deceased. Mr. Walsh was a founder of our society and was vice-president for Georgia. He had been a United States senator from that state, and was editor and publisher of the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, one of the leading dailies of the South. The article here given is a condensation of an address delivered by him a few years ago at Nashville, on “Irish-American Day” at the Tennessee Exposition.
[25]. Shattuck’s History of Concord, p. 215. But little is known of Cargill’s life. When Shattuck wrote (1852) he said, “What little is known of his life is better stated in his epitaph than from any information I possess.”
[26]. McGee’s Early Irish Settlers, p. 34 n. (6th Edit.)