At a meeting in 1744 of the proprietors of the common and undivided lands belonging to the town of Kittery, Me., among those drawing tracts of land were: John Gowen, Nicholas Gowen, Andrew Haley, John More, Joseph Mitchell, James Troy, Andrew Neal, and Samuel Ford. (Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder.)
Thomas Butler settled in Kittery, Me., before 1695. He is grandiloquently described by a modern writer as “of the ancient English house of Ormonde.” Perhaps it would have been nearer the point to say that Butler was an Irishman “of the house of Ormonde.” He had a son, Thomas, born at Berwick, Me., 1698.
From the Town Records of Boston, Mass., Nov. 8, 1737: “Hugh Ramsey, John Weire, and William Moore, Executed a Bond of the Penalty of one Thousand Pounds to Indemnify the Town from Charge on acco. of Three Hundred and Eighty One Passengers Imported by Capt. Daniel Gibbs in the Ship Sagamore from Ireland.* * *”
“Daniel ye Son of Darby and Elizabeth Mallonee” was baptized, in Barbadoes, 1679. The same year mention is made of Teag Conner, of the parish of St. Michael, Barbadoes. “Mary ye Wife of Morgan Murphy” of the parish of St. James, Barbadoes, was buried in 1679, as was also “Cornelius ye Son of Dearman Driskell.” (Hotten’s Lists.)
John Kehoo and Edward Dalton, two young Irishmen, came to Salem, Mass., in 1776. “They were both remarkably handsome, and promising men, and by their circumspect conduct and industrious habits, soon gained the respect and confidence of the community.” Kehoo was lost at sea while aboard the privateer Centipede, in 1781.
In Felt’s Annals of Salem, Mass., it is stated under date of April 20, 1681, “a ketch, Capt. Edward Henfield, picked up a boat with Capt. Andrew and six of his crew, 150 leagues from Cape Cod. These persons, so rescued, belonged to a Dublin ship bound to Virginia. She sank on the 18th, with sixteen men and three women, who perished.”
Daniel Gookin “of Cargoline, near Cork, Ireland,” commenced a plantation in Virginia in 1621–’22. He is said to have been born in England and to have “settled in Ireland.” He came to Virginia with fifty men of his own and thirty passengers, and located at a place called Mary’s Mount, near Newport News. (Virginia Historical Magazine.)
At a town meeting in Boston, March 12, 1771, “A letter from that celebrated Patriot, Dr Lucas of Ireland, owning the Receipt of one transmitted him by a Committee of this Town together with the Pamphlet relative to the horrid Massacre in Boston, March, 5, 1770—was read and attended to with the highest satisfaction.” (Boston Town Records.)
From the Town Records of Boston, Mass., Sept. 19, 1744: “At the Desire of His Excellency the Governour The Select men Sent up to the Almshouse Sixteen Girls & Three Boys & a Woman arrived here yesterday from Cape Breton who were taken About Six Weeks since by a French Privateer [they] being bound from Ireland to Philadelphia * * *”
From the Connecticut Gazette, Jan. 5, 1764: “Just imported from Dublin, in the brig Darby, a parcel of Irish servants, both men and women, to be sold cheap, by Israel Boardman, at Stamford.” The people thus advertised were doubtless of the “Redemptioner” class, to be disposed of for a term of years, to pay for the expense of bringing them over.