Among the members of Capt. Fullwood’s Company of volunteers, South Carolina, 1775, were William Martin, William McCoy, John Laferty, Patrick Fagan, Robert Reilly and Cornelius Donavan.
It is stated that in 1720 the Irish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, were excused from rents “in consideration of their being a frontier people forming a kind of cordon of defence if needful.”
Allan Mullins, surgeon, son of Dr. Alexander Mullins of Galway, Ireland, was married to Abigail, daughter of John Butler, of New London, Conn., April 8, 1725. (New London Marriage Records.)
In Pearson’s Genealogies, relating to the “Ancient County of Albany, N. Y.,” is mentioned Pieter Macarty of Half Moon who, in 1736, married Greefje Rhee. His second wife (1742) was Anna Abt.
Nicholas Rowe is mentioned at Portsmouth, N. H., in 1640, and Matthew Rowe at New Haven, Conn., in 1650. The latter had three sons,—John, Joseph and Stephen. (Farmer’s Genealogical Register.)
Arthur Dobbs, governor of North Carolina, took the oath at Newbern in 1754. “He was an Irishman and had been a member of the parliament of that country.” (Moore’s History of North Carolina.)
Daniel Neil was captain-lieutenant of Frelinghuysen’s Eastern Company of Artillery (New Jersey state troops), and subsequently commanded the same. He was killed at the battle of Princeton, 1777.
In 1674 there were nine Catholic religious confraternities in St. Augustine, Florida, one of them being under the patronage of St. Patrick. (John Gilmary Shea in The Catholic Church in Colonial Days.)
The Fellowship Club was organized at Newport, R. I., in Dec., 1752. The first meeting was held at the Black Horse Inn. John Murphy was admitted to membership in 1803, and William Callahan in 1817.
In Wyman’s Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, Mass., is mentioned Edward Larkin, a wheel-maker. He was admitted an inhabitant in 1638. His wife was Joanna. A son was named John Larkin.