Thomas McCartee of Hartford, Conn., is mentioned in the “Lexington Alarm” list of that place, 1775.
An Irishman, John Fitton, settled in Providence, R. I., about 1750. He was a merchant. He died in 1810.
Daniel Byrn was lieutenant in a regiment (1759) raised by act of the General Assembly of Rhode Island.
The records of Nantucket, Mass., contain the following entry: “Betty ye dau. of Denis Manning was born July ye 10, 1679.”
James Dailey is mentioned in the Revolutionary records as of the corps of Sappers and Miners; was at the siege of Yorktown.
The Chevalier Theobald Dillon was “colonel en second” of the Irish-French regiment of Dillon during the American Revolution.
Stephen Brady was of Col. Obadiah Johnson’s Connecticut regiment, 1778. The regiment participated in the battle of Rhode Island.
Constant Maguire “of County Fermanagh,” Ireland, settled in Rhode Island prior to 1750, and became prominent in Warwick and East Greenwich.
In 1751–’52, Terence Donnelly was engaged by the town of Newport, R. I., as a schoolmaster. He later conducted a school of his own in that place.
The ship Sally arrived at Boston, Mass., in 1763, having been fifty-nine days on the voyage from Ireland. She was quarantined at Boston for smallpox.