Many descendants of English settlers in Ireland became thoroughly Irish, some dropped their English surnames and assumed Irish ones, wedded Irish wives, were rated as “Papists,” and dressed “after ye Irishe fashion.”
[18]. The author is indebted for the facts in this sketch mainly to Peterson’s History of Rhode Island.
[19]. Including the Records of the General Assembly and Arnold’s Vital Record of Rhode Island. Other works consulted include Bodge’s Soldiers in King Philip’s War.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
- Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
- Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed.
- Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter.