A Massachusetts soldier of the Revolution was Daniel McCarty. He was born in Ireland, came to this country and enlisted in the Patriot ranks. He served in Greaton’s regiment and is credited in the records to Roxbury, Mass. He is reported as killed in 1777.
Charles O’Gorman was one of the “lieutenants en second” of the Irish-French regiment of Walsh during the American Revolution. His name is preserved in the French military archives and is mentioned in Les Combattants De La Guerre Americaine (Paris, 1903).
About 1735, Richard Copley with his wife, Mary (Singleton) Copley, came to America from County Clare, Ireland. His health being poor, he went to the West Indies to recuperate. John Singleton Copley, the eminent artist, a native of Boston, Mass., was their son.
Matthew Hurley was one of the soldiers serving in the war against Philip, the Indian king, 1675–’76. He was at one period of the company of Captain Wadsworth, who was killed in the battle at Sudbury, Mass., and is mentioned in Bodge’s work on King Philip’s War.
Patrick McLaughlin, a soldier of the Revolution, served in the First Pennsylvania regiment, commanded by Col. John Philip De Haas; was taken prisoner by the British at Three Rivers, June 9, 1776. He is mentioned in the Revolutionary records of Pennsylvania.
Abbe Bartholomew O’Mahony was chaplain of the French warship L’Ivelly during the American Revolution. L’Ivelly was commanded by M. le Chevalier Durumain, and formed part of the fleet of Count De Grasse. (See Les Combattants Francais De La Guerre Americaine.)
In an old cemetery at Rutland, Mass., is a gravestone to the memory of Patrick Gregory, who was born in County Donegal, Ireland, about 1690. When he came to this country is unknown. He died July 5, 1756. On the gravestone just mentioned shamrocks are carved.
A native of County Armagh, Ireland, Thomas Robinson, was born in 1745 and died in Providence, R. I., 1809. He had been a resident of Providence for seventeen years; was described as “an ingenious and useful citizen” and “possessed the most enduring philanthropy.”
An influential man in Maryland, in 1647 and later, was Philip Conner. In the year named he was appointed a commissioner for Kent County. He is referred to as “The last commander of old Kent.” A descendant, James Conner, in 1705 wedded Elinor Flannagan.
Born at sea, of Irish parents, 1745, William Patterson died in 1806. He was a member of the first Constitutional Convention of New Jersey; attorney-general of the state; United States senator; governor of New Jersey; and judge of the Supreme Court of the United States.