The journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. II, 1899

Part 25

Chapter 251,697 wordsPublic domain

Smith, Joseph, of Lowell, Mass, Letter from Jeremiah Curtin to, 97; Pro-Boer Resolutions by, 118, 119; Paper on “The Whistlers” by, 167; Other Mention, 5, 10, 12, 13, 18, 20, 25, 26, 28, 30, 31, 34, 37, 42, 46, 47, 50, 94, 106, 111, 116, 117, 202, 203, 204, 231.

Smith’s History of Cork, quoted, 193.

Snake Creek “Gap,” General Sweeny Takes Possession of, 198.

Society of the Cincinnati, 14, 43, 235.

Society of Colonial Wars, 16, 20.

Some Irish Settlers in Virginia, 161, 203.

Some Pre-Revolutionary Irishmen, 32, 71, 202.

Sons of the American Revolution, 16, 20, 230.

Sons of the Revolution, 20, 43, 230.

South African Republics, 119.

South Carolina, Military Academy of, 178.

Southern Associated Press, The, 238.

Southwest Expedition, The, 197.

Spain, Irish Emigration to, 62.

Spain, The American War with, 43, 52, 85, 95.

Springfield (Mass.), _Republican_, 14, 15.

Stark, Gen. John, 82.

Starvation, Multitudes of Irish Die of, 60.

State Library of New Hampshire, 17.

Steele, Thomas, An Irish Settler of New Hampshire, 147.

Stiness, Hon. John H., of Rhode Island, 23, 26.

Stonewall Jackson’s Corps, 165.

St. Brendan, Reputed Discoverer of America, 90.

St. Clair, General, 169, 170.

St. Francis Xavier’s College, 237.

_St. Louis Republic_, The, 225.

St. Gaudens, Augustus, 10, 13, 232.

St. Patrick’s Mission to Ireland, 186.

St. Paul’s Church in Narragansett, 180.

St. Petersburg (Russia), Governor Curtin in, 99.

St. Philip’s Churchyard, Charleston, S. C., 177.

Sullivan, Gov. James, 16, 186.

Sullivan. Capt. John, of the Thirteenth New Hampshire Regiment, 80.

Sullivan, Gen. John, 16, 18, 27, 36, 37, 71, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 84, 186, 202, 203.

Sullivan, Hon. John H., Boston, Mass., 33, 238.

_Sunday Democrat_, The, New York, 233.

Sweeny, Gen. William T., 193, 197, 201.

Sweeny, William Montgomery, of Astoria, L. I., N. Y., 193.

Swords Family in Ireland, The, 24.

Swords, Francis Dawson, of the Revolution, 10.

Swords, Joseph F., 10, 13, 14, 24.

Symposium in Boston _Sunday Globe_, 26.

“Taking up with the Irishy,” 67.

Tara, The Last Princes of, 228.

Taylor, Capt. Joseph (U. S. N.), 177.

Tennessee, Army of the, 197, 198, 199, 210.

Tennessee River, Headwaters of, 166.

Tenth Rhode Island Volunteers, 191.

Tenth United States Infantry, 21, 29, 30, 44, 237.

Texan Cause, The, 130.

Texan Declaration of Independence, Irish Signers of, 125.

Texan Ministers to the United States, 133.

Texan Navy, Irish Officers in, 132, 133.

Texan Republic, First Congress of, 131.

Texan Republic, The, 124, 131.

_Texas Advocate_, The, 136.

Texas Conventions, Delegates to, 128.

Texas Historical Society, 127, 136, 137.

_Texas Register, The Telegraph and_, 136.

_Texas Republican_, The, 136.

_Texas Scrap Book_, The, 128, 137.

_Texas Sentinel_, The, 136.

_Texas_, The Battleship, 16, 17, 219, 223.

Texas, United States Minister to, 133.

Thayer, Hon. Eli, of Worcester, Mass., 26, 33, 238.

The “Doomed Seventeen,” 133.

“The Good Father Muldoon,” 127.

“The Great Cryptogram,” 17.

The Irishman Ethnologically Considered, 19.

“The Irish Ninth,” Massachusetts Regiment, 33, 44, 85, 95, 103, 237, 238.

The _Irish Standard_, Minneapolis, Minn., 233.

The “Ten Purchasers of Nantucket,” 200.

“The Saxon and the Celt,” 23.

The West Coast Irishman, 62.

Thompson, Robert Ellis, of Philadelphia, Pa., 9, 13, 232.

Thornton, Capt. James, 82.

Thornton, Matthew, 22.

Three Thousand Heads of Irish Families Imprisoned, Charged with Treason, 59.

Thousands of Irish Emigrate to Continental Europe, 61.

Tierney, Myles, of New York City, 33, 232.

Timon, Rev. Father, 136.

Tobin, Capt. John M., of Boston, Mass., 31, 237.

Todd, Andrew, an Irish Settler of New Hampshire, 147.

“To Hell or Connaught,” 110.

_Torbay_, The British Prison-ship, 177.

Tower Hill, R. I., 181, 188.

Transvaal Republic, 37.

Travers, Francis C., of New York City, 10, 45, 48.

Trinity Church, Newport, R. I., 115, 181.

Trinity College, Dublin, 162, 181.

“Turk’s Head,” in Providence, R. I., 153.

Twenty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment, 235.

Twenty-fourth Georgia Regiment, 231.

Twenty-second United States Infantry, 87, 88.

Tyrone (Ireland), 146, 147.

Ulster, The Irish Province of, 66, 67, 74, 100, 140, 168, 169.

United Irishmen, The, 66, 109, 138, 162.

United States Army, 31, 82, 87, 88, 121, 162, 195, 196, 197, 200, 237.

United States, Constitution of the, 15.

United States Navy, 7, 16, 17, 21, 25, 28, 35, 37, 51, 100, 177, 178, 208, 217, 219, 222, 223.

United States Navy Department Acknowledges Resolutions of Sorrow Adopted by the Society on the Loss of the U. S. S. _Maine_, 25.

United States, The Irish in the, 94.

United States Treasury Department, 227.

United States War Department, 35, 210, 223, 229.

University of Notre Dame, 14, 43, 225.

University of Pennsylvania, 14, 43, 232.

University of Vermont, 27, 33, 43, 237, 238.

University of Virginia, 43, 163.

University of Washington, 36.

Updikes of Rhode Island, The, 182.

Van Buren, Ex-President Martin, 195.

Van Shaak, Peter, 74.

Valley Forge, 113.

Velasco, Battle of, 127.

Vermont, Dr. John D. Hanrahan of Rutland, 10, 29, 217.

Vermont, Dr. William F. Cummings of Rutland, 33, 238.

Vermont, University of, 27, 33, 43, 237, 238.

Vernon, Captain (1653), 64, 65.

Vernon, Samuel B., of Brown University, 186.

Vera Cruz, bombardment of, 195.

“Virginia and Virginians,” 163.

Virginia Bar Association, 164.

Virginia, Five Governors of, 163.

Virginia House of Burgesses, 165.

Virginia House of Delegates, 164.

Virginia, Irish Settlers in, 63, 161, 203.

Virginia _Law Register_, 164.

Virginia, Secretary of State Lawless of, 23, 160, 220.

Virginia Supreme Court, 164.

Virginia, The Eighth Regiment of, 69.

Virginia, The Lewis Family of, 161, 162.

Virginia, University of, 43, 163.

Volunteer Movement, The Irish, 65.

Walker, Miss Annetta O’Brien, of Portland, Me., 35.

Walker, Gen. Francis A., 14.

Walsh, Henry Collins, A Descendant of General Moylan of the Revolution, 30.

Waller, Ex-Governor of Connecticut, 24, 233.

Walsh, Hon. Patrick, of Augusta, Ga., 10, 14, 33, 238.

Waltham, Mass., Public Library, 209.

War of 1812, A Romance of the, 36.

War of 1812, The, 36, 95, 178.

War with Mexico, 95.

Ward, Capt. T. W., Commanded an Artillery Company at the Capture of San Antonio, Texas, 126.

Warner, Writings of, quoted, 59.

Warren, Admiral Sir Peter, 74, 183.

Warren, Anne, 73, 74.

Warren, Michael, 74.

Washington and Kent Counties, R. I., 182.

Washington and Lee University, 14.

Washington’s Army Before Boston, 68.

Washington, A “Sojourner” Named, 70.

Washington, Gen. George, 68, 69, 78, 118, 200, 235.

Washington, George, of Dublin, Ireland, 32, 69.

Washington Light Infantry of Charleston, S. C., 178.

Washington Memorial Day, 104.

Washingtons, The Irish, 32, 69.

Waterbury, Conn., An Early Irishman of, 158.

Waterbury (Conn.), _Daily Democrat_, 158, 221, 222.

Waterford (Ireland), 183, 184, 237.

Waterman, Susan, of Providence, R. I., 181.

Watson, Matthew, An Irish Settler (1722), of Barrington, R. I., 26, 189, 202.

Wayne, General Anthony, 139.

Wells, Susanna Dorrance, of Rhode Island, 156.

Welsh, Dr. Thomas, Mentioned at the Time of the Lexington Alarm, 107.

Western Massachusetts, Irish Settlers in, 15, 66.

West, George J., of Providence, R. I., 191.

West India Islands, 61.

Westmeath (Ireland), 74, 184.

West Point, 171.

White, Patrick, a New Hampshire Settler, 148.

White Rose, Jacobite Order of the, 230.

Whistler Family, The, 167, 203.

Whitman, Miss Polly, of Providence, R. I., 153.

Wicklow, Irish County of, 141.

Wilderness, Battle of the, 44, 237, 238.

William of Orange, 65.

William III, 108.

William Penn in Ireland, 63.

Williams, Alfred, of Providence, R. I., 89.

Williams, Prof. Alonzo, of Brown University, 26, 44, 204.

Williams, Roger, of Rhode Island, 89.

Wilkinson, Ezra, a Student at Brown University, 186.

Wilson’s Creek, Battle of, 197.

Witherspoon, John, the Signer, 70.

Woburn, Mass., First Child of Irish Parents Born in, 19.

Wolfe Tavern, The, Newburyport, Mass., 21.

Wolfe Tone, The Chivalrous, 90, 190.

Worcester, Mass., Public Library, 221.

Yarmouth, Mass., Records, 13.

Yuma Indian War, 196.

EDITOR’S NOTE: To the membership roll herein contained should be added the names: James McGovern, New York City, John E. Maguire, Haverhill, Mass., and John Goggin, Nashua, N. H. In answer to inquiries, I desire to state that the edition of Vol. I of the JOURNAL has been exhausted. A second edition of the same may be issued later when the funds of the Society warrant. It will be noticed that each volume is complete and independent in itself. New members who have not Vol. I, will find in the Chronological Record in the present volume a comprehensive outline of the work thus far done by the Society.

Footnote 1:

It was so thought at the time of this meeting, but the launching has been unavoidably delayed.

Footnote 2:

Thomas D’Arcy McGee in his “History of the Irish Settlers in North America” says that “in 1636, the _Eagle Wing_, with one hundred and forty passengers, sailed from Carrickfergus to found an Irish colony on the Merrimac, but had to put back owing to stress of weather, and the project was for many years abandoned.”

Footnote 3:

See “The Irish Washingtons at Home and Abroad; together with Some Mention of the Ancestry of the American Pater Patriæ. By George Washington of Dublin, Ireland, and Thomas Hamilton Murray, Boston, Mass.” Boston: The Carrollton Press, 1898.

Footnote 4:

Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Navy under President Cleveland.

Footnote 5:

Of the staff of the Louisville _Daily Times_.

Footnote 6:

This article comprises an address delivered by Mr. Brennan on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Peterborough. Mr. Brennan is our Society’s state vice-president for New Hampshire.

Footnote 7:

Judge Nathaniel Holmes, Cambridge, Mass.

Footnote 8:

Hon. John R. Miller.

Footnote 9:

Gen. Daniel M. White.

Footnote 10:

Prof. Nathaniel H. Morison, Provost of Peabody Institute, Baltimore, Md.

Footnote 11:

Rev. John H. Morison, D. D.

Footnote 12:

Col. Charles Scott.

Footnote 13:

Staff of the _Waterbury Daily Democrat_.

Footnote 14:

Secretary of State, Virginia.

Footnote 15:

A Lieut. David Hamilton is mentioned in the Revolutionary records of Massachusetts; also at the national capital in the official records of that period.

Footnote 16:

Brown University is located in Providence, R. I.

Footnote 17:

This membership roll is brought down to February, 1900.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

1. The Table of Contents was created by the transcriber. 2. P. 256, changed “Sanders, Col. C. C., of Gainesville, Ga.” to “Sanders, Col. C. C., of Gainesville, Ga., 231.”. 3. Silently corrected typographical errors and also variations in spelling. 4. Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed. 5. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. 6. Enclosed bold font in =equals=.