The records of Braintree, Mass., note the birth “6th mo. 18. 1669” of Samuel Daly, a son of John and Elizabeth Daly.
Timothy Hierlehey was captain of the seventh company of the First Regiment of the Colony of Connecticut, 1758.
Rev. James Tate, a Presbyterian minister from Ireland, organized Tate’s Academy, in Wilmington, N. C., about 1760.
At a great fire in Boston, Mass., 1787, among those whose premises were burned were Dennis Welch and Andrew Kalley.
Capt. Wm. McGinnis, with 89 men of Schenectady, N. Y., was at the battle near Fort George, Sept. 8, 1755, and was killed there.
About 1762–65, Rev. Ezra Stiles, of Newport, R. I.,acknowledges having received from Capt. Jno. Nichols a firkin of “Irish butter.”
James Warren settled at South Berwick, Me., as early as 1656. He was a native of Scotland; his wife, Margaret, a native of Ireland.
On May 14, 1663, Miles More and Michael Rice of New London were accepted as freemen by the General Assembly of Connecticut.
Among the men serving under Capt. John Gilman, New Hampshire, in 1710, were Daniel Lary, Thomas Lary and Jeremiah Connor.
Major William Waters, son of Capt. Edward and Grace (O’Neil) Waters, patented land in Maryland as early as 1663. He left six sons.