We learn in Frothingham’s Charlestown, Mass., that in 1640 “there came over great store of provisions both out of England and Ireland.”
Edwin Larkin was located at Newport, R. I., as early as 1655. His name appears in the “Roule of ye Freemen of ye colonie of everie Towne.”
Several years previous to 1686, “persons from Ireland, picked up at sea and brought hither, have £17 given them.” (Felt’s Annals of Salem, Mass.)
As early as 1636, Edward Brick, or Breck, and his son Robert, “of Galway in Ireland,” are heard from in Dorchester, now a part of Boston, Mass.
In 1659 “John Morrell an Irishman and Lysbell Morrell an Irishwoman were married 31st August by John Endecott,” Governor. (Boston, Mass., Records.)
John Casey, James Brannon, John Bryan and James Moore were among the field officers appointed by the Provincial Congress of North Carolina, in 1776.
Cornelius Conner witnessed a deed (conveyance of real estate), in 1665, by John Clough of Salisbury, Mass. (The Essex Antiquarian, Salem, Mass., Jan., 1902.)
Among the soldiers at Fort William and Mary, N. H., in 1708, were John Foy, Jeremiah Libby, John Neal, Samuel Neal, John Mead and Timothy Blake.
John Donaldson, an Irishman, commanded, during the Revolution, an armed brig of 10 guns and carrying 45 men. He was at one time a resident of Salem, Mass.
Stephen Decatur, Sr., married “a young lady named Pine, the daughter of an Irish gentleman.” Stephen Decatur, the distinguished naval officer, was their son.