The pre-revolutionary Irish in Massachusetts, 1620-1775, Part 10

Author: Donovan, George Francis, 1901-
Publication date: 1932
Publisher: [Menasha, Wis.] : [George Banta Pub. Co.]
Number of Pages: 340


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Here lies interred the remains of Hugh Cargill, late of Boston, who died in Concord; January 12, 1799, in the 60th year of his age. Mr. Cargill was born in Ballyhannon, in Ireland; eame to this country in the years 1774, destitute of the com- forts of life; but, by his industry and good economy, he acquired a good estate, to his wife, Rebecca Cargill ; likewise a large and gener- ous donation to the town of Concord, for benevolent purposes.


Further down on the stone are the lines :


How strange, O Lord that reigns on high, That I should come so far to die! And leave my friends where I was bred, To lay my bones with strangers dead! But I have hopes, when I arise To dwell with them in yonder skies.26


Concord had by 1765 an Irish population of seven.


Dedham was early settled by Irishmen. One of these was Mich- ael Bacon, who came to Dedham in 1640 "from Ireland," with his wife and four children. He had four children, all born in Ireland; Michael, an inhabitant originally of Woburn, born in 1640 and deceased in 1688, Daniel, who was also a settler at first in Woburn, born in 1640 and deceased in 1691; John and Sarah. Michael Bacon was the father of two children and Daniel Bacon of eight.27 On May .26, 1640 a town meeting agreed that the "Towne of Dedham shall enterteyne mr Samuel Cooke to- gether wth his estate and also m' Smith & m' Bacon all from Ireland & afford to them such accommodacons of vpland & med- owe as their estates shall Requier. .. . " At a meeting on June 23. 1640 reference was made to "M" Bacon being lately arrived hear


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from Ireland. .. . " On July 6 of the same year the town gave Sam- uel Cooke twelve acres of land in Dedham and one hundred and fifty acres near the Charles River. Cooke appears again on May 9, 1649 when a sale of lands is made by William Parks, who acted in that capacity as an attorney of Samuel Cooke "deceased, of Dublin."28 Andrew Devin was married on September 10, 1652,29 Sarah Othea, on January 28, 1664,30 and John Dehaughty to Mrs. Mary Thomas in 1742,31 on October 2, 1757 Mary O'brine "brought herself under ye Bonds of ye Covenant I was baptised."32 John Maddin was married in 1765 and Rebecca Connelly, on March 3, 1769.33 Dedham was the home of twenty-four Irish per- sons by 1775. c


In a list of persons who came to live in Dorchester but did not "rec'd the approval of the Law" between April 10, 1767 and June 23, 1789 were John Barry, David Burns, Samuel and John Cochare and Edmund Griffin who came in 1770, all Irish names.34 Dracut in 1766 had two Irish persons, Peg Connor and Smith who became partners in marriage in that year. Connor was a "Servant of Mrs. Deborah Coburn" and Smith a "servant of Robert Co- burn."35 In 1759 Mary Deliney was married in Dudley.36 The per- centage of Irish in Dudley was .001, the total population of the town in 1765 being seven hundred and forty-eight.37 There were seven persons of Irish extraction in Dunstable by 1775: Joseph Farley, son of Ebenezer and Hipsebeth, born in 1758, Sarah Far- ley married in 1741, Andrew Fleming in 1738, Elizabeth Sullar- dine in 1789 and John Sullindin in 1680.38 This number repre- sented a percentage of .012 of the total population of Dunstable, which was five hundred and fifty-nine.39 Birth and marriage records reveal a larger number of Irish in Framingham than has been met with thus far in this paragraph. The birth register con- tains the names of Samuel Doritha (1769), Cate (1771), Hannah (1773), Jana (1773) and Patty Dougherty (1771). Marriage files mention Mary Coggin (1732), Henry Cogin (1730), Nelle Dona- hue (1758), Mary Obland (1726) and John Dunn, Jr. and Grace Kelley (1751) the last two married to one another.4º Eleven Irish persons out of a population of 1,30541 in 1765 give Framingham an Irish percentage of .008.


One of the settlers of Groton was John Conn, who was said to have been born in the northern part of Ulster County, Ireland, in


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1684. On May 22, 1747 he appears in the records of Littleton, Massachusetts, when Salmon Whitney of that town, a yeoman, gave him a mortgage on one hundred and fifty acres of land in the westerly part of the town, the said acres being all of Whitney's lands in Littleton and the mortgage covering, besides, Whitney's dwelling house and other buildings. The mortgage was made to secure a loan from John Conn to Whitney of five hundred pounds, maturing on May 22, 1748. On March 5, 1750 Conn purchased from Samuel Scripture, Jr. and Alexander McHark, both of Groton, various parcels of land in Groton comprising respectively, fifty, thirty, six, eight and nine acres, in all, one hundred and three acres. After this date he apparently was a resident of Groton for he no longer appears in the Littleton records. His wife, Rosanna, he probably married in Ireland. His children were all probably born in Ireland, were said to have been "above the ordinary height with broad shoulders and powerful frames, knit together with strong elastic muscles." Mrs. Conn survived her husband many years and was living ( non compos mentis) as late as May 11, 1767. John Conn died on May 16, 1759 at the age of seventy- five in Groton where he was buried. The inscription on his grave- stone reads : "Here lies the body of Mr. John Conn who departed this Life March 16, 1759 in the 76th year of his Age." His will dated November 29, 1758 contains the following provisions. His wife, Rosanna to receive the "youse and Improvement or Income of all my housing and Lane in Groton during her nattural life that I shall not otherwise dispose of" and "all my personall Estate of Every Kind .... " to his son-in-law, Jacob Gragg is given the "youse and Improvement of all my Husbandry tools" as long as his (John's) wife lived. His daughter, Margaret Gragg, given "one-half of all his lands in Groton after the decease of me and my wife." The two sons, John and George Conn are recipients of "all my Lands and Buildings in Groton that I have not dispose to my daughter Gragg. .. . " His granddaughter, Elizabeth Conn, is to receive "13. 6s. 8d. in seven years after his decease." To his son, Thomas, is given one half of all his lands, "in South Caroline in Wanyon upon pede River so called." The other half of "my lands situated as aforsd in Caroliner" is bestowed upon his grand- son, John Conn of Harvard and John Gragg of Groton. Rosanna Conn, his wife, was the sole executrix, the witnesses being Nathan


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Hubbard, Benjamen Stone and William Lawrence. The will was proved on April 30, 1759.


On May 7, 1767 the selectman of Groton in a petition to the judge of probate for Middlesex County stated that Rosanna Conn "had lost her reason and on account of age and infirmity was un- able to care for herself or her estate." They asked for the ap- pointment of her son-in-law, Jacob Gragg, of Groton, as the guardian over Rosanna. The Court made the appointment. But John Conn, son of John and Rosanna, had come over from Ireland and taken into his own hand his mother's estate of which he re- fused to give any account. At the request of Jacob Gragg made on June 1, 1767, John Conn was cited by the Court on June 10, 1767 to appear for examination at which examination John men- tioned his brother, George, accounted for some his mother's prop- erty and said that his mother had given him a note for £250 to bring his wife and family from Ireland. The records do not reveal the result of the court's examination.42 The population of Groton in 1765 was 1,42343 inclusive of twelve Irish persons, all members of the Conn family, a percentage of .008.


Holliston counted a small group of Irish inhabitants comprising Davied Madden, who was born in 1763, his parents being Michael and Mary Madden, Nancy Gillmore, born in 1771, who later was married to Patrick Gillmore, and Sarah Divine and Thomas Mur- phy, who were joined in marriage in 1770.44 There were three Irish persons in Holliston in 1765 out of a population of seven hundred and five,45 representing the very low percentage of .004.


A considerable number of Irish were to be found in Hopkinton before the Revolution. Birth records afford the following Irish names: John Devine (1746) ; Elisabeth (1728), Jayn (1720), John (1717), Mary (1722) and William Donaghy (1724) ; Alex- ander (1755), Ann (1740), David (1747), Hannah (1763), Henry (1747), James (1749), John (1759), Samuel (1760), Wil- liam (1751), Richard (1768) and Sarah Kelley (1766), Richard Kelly (1744) ; Abigail (1727) and Patience Malone (1729).4G Of six hundred births registered between 1727 and 1757 twenty bear Irish names, a percentage of .033.47 On the marriage register are found the names of Elizabeth Dorrothy (1765), Jane Kelly (1748), Martha Kelly (1769), James Devine (1771), John Divine (1769), Chloe Ryan (1771), and Kate Shay (1766). John Drum


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and Grace Kelley were joined in marriage in 1751 and Patrick Shay and Margrett Dempsey in 1744, Patrick marrying again in 1765.48 Hopkinton had in 1765 a total population of 1,027,49 in- cluding fifty-one inhabitants of Irish extraction, a percentage of .049.


The small town of Lancaster had one Irishman, Micah Brian, who was married September 5, 1770.50 Lexington by 1775 was the home of six Irish persons, namely, James Kelly, born in 1733, the son of James and Elizabeth Kelly, Betty Noonan, born in 1772 and Peter Murphy and Sarah Crolley, who were joined in matri- mony in 1738.51 In Lincoln there was the Malone family. The parents were Cornelius and Elizabeth, their children and dates of birth being Joseph, Timothy and William Malone (1764 bap- tisms); Joseph (1757) and William Maloney (1755) ; Mich (1763) and Timothy Malony (1760). Note the three different spellings.52 Of the six hundred and forty-nine53 inhabitants of Lincoln in 1765 nine were Irish, a percentage of .013. This number would be considerably larger if the fifty unknown birth registra- tions and four marriage records before 1800 were revealed.54 In 1700 Timothy Farly was married in Lunenburg.55 Malden also accounts for only one Irishman, Philip Connel, who entered the matrimonial state in 1688.56 The birth records of Medfield reveal a John and Elizabeth Conole (Connole, Connolly) who were the parents of Grace (1755), Richard (1759), James (1749), Rebakah (1747), John (1745), Mary (1751) and William (1745). William and Mary Connolly had two children born before 1775, John (1774) and Peggy (1772).57 The Irish element numbered eleven individuals out of six hundred and twenty-eight58 in 1765, a per- centage of .017.


Medford was also represented by a fairly large group of Irish. Eloner Macordy "one Maccordy Irish" was baptized in 1729; Mary McCarthy was born in 1747 and Margaret Mc Carthy, in 1749, both daughters of Daniel and Mary Mc Carthy.59 A Foster of Charlestown "Irish" married an unknown Medfield party in 1733, while Abigail and Timothy Donnahew were married in 1746, and Captain David Donahew married a non-Irish party in 1745. In 1718 Margarett Hayes was married while in 1753 Joshua Flin died.60 There were eleven Irish persons in Medford in 1765 out of a total population of seven hundred and ninety,61 a percentage


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of .013. This percentage would be higher, no doubt, if the thirty- two unidentified persons including the following: "young man, a child, a stranger, illegitimate infant," in the vital statistics of the town were known.62 Timothy Madden, who was married in 1768, was the only Irishman in Medway before 1775.63 Mendon is a third town to have an Irish population of eleven to thirteen persons. In the birth records are found the names of Mehiteble Killey (1765), Levi (1765), Mary (1739) and - - Maddin ( Madden) (1759). Among the marriages are Elizabeth (1708), Thomas (1717), Mary (1744) and Abigail Burch (1751) ; David Conden (1771), Benjamin Killey (1767), Martha Mc Namara (1769)64 and Mary O'Brian (1769),65 In 1739 Sarah Burk died.66 The thir- teen Irish residents in Mendon in 1765 out of a population of 1,838 represented a percentage of .007.67


In Milford there was one Irish family before the Revolution, the Maddens, Michael, father and Mary, his wife. They came to Milford in 1772 and before 1775 had three children, David (1763), Leve (1764) and Amos (before 1775).68 Milton was the scene in 1688 of a marriage between Ruth Rial and Timothy Crehore.69 There were four Irish persons in New Braintree before 1775, John Jr., and Jonathan Cunningham, who were married in 1770 and 1771 respectively, and James Burk, who was born in 1773, the son of James Burk and Anna Anderson (non-Irish ) .70 Only a small number of Irish are in evidence in Newton where in the marriage of James Ryan to Anna Ward (1763) and again in his marriage to Margaret Chamberlain (1771) and John Fleming (1771)?1 only two Irish persons were residents in 1765 out of a population of 1,308,72 a percentage of .001.


In 1727 Richard Burk with three children came to North Brook- field probably from Stow or Northampton. Two of Richard's sons, Richard and Jonathan, were carpenters. Jonathan served in the War of 1722-1724 or "Father Rolle's War." Richard's brother, Jonathan, a carpenter with seven children, settled in North Brook- field about 1732. Both Richard and Jonathan were men of "con- siderable estate."73


To Oxford in 1734 came John, William and Alexander Nichols, brothers, from Ireland according to tradition. John, who was seventeen years old, worked his way across to Roxbury, before coming to Oxford.74 Another Irishman was James Freeman, who


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came from Ireland to Lexington in 1740 moving in the same year to Hopkinton, administrating the estate of Oliver Watson of Le- cister in 1747, and appearing in Brimfield as a trader in 1751. In May 1754 in his capacity as a trader he brought suits in the Wor- cester court against people in Western and Brookfield. Freeman purchased land in Oxford on March 11, 1766 and moved there in the same year. The last record of him before 1775 is in the church files which state: "1771, Aug. 28. Baptized John, son of Aaron Parker, and Abigail, his wife, at his house. Col. Learned and wife, Mrs. James Freeland (Freeman) and others present."75 Ebenezer Lamson, son of Timothy of Concord, and a descendant of an emigrant ancestor from Ireland, was born on April 13, 1741 and settled in Oxford sometime before 1775.76 By 1774 Oxford had at least five inhabitants of Irish extraction.


Perhaps the first Irish settler in Roxbury was Ann Borrowdale or Barrydel, the daughter of John, of Cork, Ireland. She came with George Dennison as his wife to Massachusetts in 1645, two years after the death of the first Mrs. Dennison. The couple later went to Southerton (now Stonington), Connecticut. In Dennison's will of 1693 Mrs. Dennison was generously remembered receiving the mansion house, lands and "household stuff."77 Over thirty years later (1678) Samuel Macharty,78 the son of Thaddeus, was born and in 1681 Mareene, the infant child of Dorman "an Irish- man of Muddy River," died.79 Then there was John Marcy, the son of the high sheriff of Limerick, Ireland, who was born in 1662 and came to Massachusetts in 1685 joining Elliot's church in Roxbury on March 7 of that year. In 1686 with others he took possession of the Quatosett (now Woodstock), Connecticut, granted by Massachusetts (1663) to Roxbury. Marcy married Sarah Hadlock, the daughter of James and Sarah ( Draper) Had- lock of Roxbury. They both lived and died in Woodstock, Marcy passing away on December 23, 1724 at the age of sixty-two. Eleven children resulted from the union. John was of the ancient family of Marcy or DeMarcy, which came to Normandy with Rollo in 912 and to England in 1068 with William the Conqueror, and thence to Ireland.80 Birth records reveal the names of Kather- ine Cockran (1738), Walter Logan (1766), Mary Doyle (1767), Joseph Ryan, (1768) and William Maccarty (1773),81 while in the marriage files are John Crowley (1756), Katherine Fitz Jerald


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(1757), Thomas Nolan (1762), James Ryan (1771) and Mary Cunningham (1772), all married to non-Irish parties. Elizabeth Eagen and Edward Butler were joined in wedlock in 1743.82 Flor- ence Marcarti died in 1712, Dr. James Noland, who "came sick from Annapolis Royal," in 1713 and Mary Callehand "a pauper," in 1734.83 The population of Roxbury in 1765 was 1,48784 which included twenty-seven residents of Irish extraction, a percentage of .018.


Rutland was the home of three Irishmen before the Revolution- ary war; James Cunningham, who came to Rutland in 1736 (?) from Ireland, Patrick Gregory (born in Ireland) who died in the town on July 5, 1756 in his sixty-third year, and Richard Murphy, who was married there on September 25, 1774.85 These three con- stituted a percentage of .002 in a total population of 1,090.86 In Shirley a militia list of 1754 enumerates the names of four Irish- men, Connery, Dyer, Griffin and Fitzhenry, out of a total com- plement of fifty men.87 In the birth records of Shirley are found Dunn (1746), who later became the wife of Edward Dunn, and was probably of Irish origin, Joannah (1753), the daughter of William and Alas Hays, Elenor (1747) "in Iirland" and Fancies (1748) "in Iriland," both the daughters of Lorance and Elisabeth Mitchel, and William Madden (1771).88 Shirley had four hundred and thirty89 inhabitants in 1765 including thir- teen of Irish stock, a percentage of .03. Shrewsbury also had a fairly large number of Irish inhabitants. In 1708 Elizabeth, the daughter of Olive and Margaret Burns of "Ordstrow, County Tyron, Ireland," was born. James Mahoney was married in 1766, William Kelley in 1772 and Richard Murphy in 1774.90 By 1765 there were seventeen Irish inhabitants out of a total population of 1,401,81 a percentage of .012. There was only one prominent Irish settler in Southbridge before 1775, a William Mc Kinstry, a farmer, who was born in Carrickfergus, Ireland in 1722, came to Boston about 1740 or 1741, went to Medfield where he remained for seven years and finally to Southbridge (Sturbridge) in 1748 where he married Mary Morse in 1751. The couple had thirteen children, three of them being Amos, John and Nathan.92


Only one Irish family, the Cuninghams, was residing in Spencer in the Pre-Revolutionary period. The members of the Cuningham group born before 1775 were Ann (1765), David (1748), Eliza-


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beth (1766), James (1773), John (1745), John (1746), Jonathan (1748), Nathanial (1752), Reuben (1769), Robert (1740), Sarah (1773), Simeon (1767) and William (1754). Under the Spelling, Cunningham, appears Jonas born in 1771. John Cunningham was married in 1770.93 Robert Cunningham, who was born in 1740,94 was probably the party who came to Spencer from Londonderry, Coleraine County, Ireland.º5 In a population of six hundred and sixty-four96 in 1765 Spencer had eleven Irish inhabitants or a per- centage of .016. In Stoneham appears a slight increase in the num- ber of Irish townspeople. Stoneham births of persons of Irish origin before 1775 comprise Daniel (1737), Sarah (1738) and Isaac Conaway (1741) ; John Conery (1743) ; Peter (1747), Han- ‹ nah (1750) and Lydia Connery (1753) ; John (1738), Rebeckah (1743) and Thomas Connelly (1745).97 There were in all four- teen Irish settlers in Stoneham in 1765 out of a total population of three hundred and forty,98 a percentage of .041. In Stow there were only nine residents of Irish extraction in 1765, the total popu- lation being seven hundred and ninety-four,99 a percentage of .011. The Irish, male and female, were Andrew Dun, born in 1721, James Bunn, in 1724 and Margaret Dunn, in 1726, their parents being Andrew and Elizabeth Dunn; Peter McMorphee and Pat- rick Road, both of whom were married in 1761 ; and Thomas, the husband of Marcy Burk, who died in 1753.100 There were fourteen Irish persons in Sturbridge at this time comprising Ruth Brian, born in 1739, the daughter of John and Ruth, Diadami Nugent, born in 1766, the daughter of Ruth Blunt, John Ryan, born in 1772, the son of John and Sarah ; Keziah Ruck, who married Peter Morse in 1754, there being three children born to the couple, and Philip Mahhon and Ruth Rian (widow) who were joined in wed- lock in 1764.101 In 1765 Irish residents in Sturbridge numbered nine out of a total population of eight hundred and ninety-six,102 a percentage of .011.


A large and prominent Irish group came to Sudbury even be- fore 1700. Among the fifty-six original "Grantees and settlers." were two Irishmen, Thomas Flynn and Hugh Griffin, both of whom settled in Sudbury in 1639.103 Another early settler was John Moore, whose origin is uncertain, Ireland, Scotland and Eng- land being given as the probable places of birth. John purchased in 1642 from Edmund Rice a house and some land in that part of


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Sudbury which afterwards became Wayland. On July 9, 1645 he took the oath of fidelity. John died on January 6, 1674. His wife Elizabeth, the daughter of Philemon Whale, survived him, pass- ing away on December 14, 1690. Moore's will, made on August 25, 1668, and probated on April 7, 1675, left an estate valued at £804 7s. There were eight children, John, William and Mary, whose dates of birth are unknown, Lydia (June 24, 1643), Jacob (April 28, 1645), Joseph (October 21, 1647), Benjamin (Decem- ber 13, (1648) ? and Elizabeth (January 10, 1649). By 1722 the number of descendants amounted to fifty-four and in 1800 the number was two hundred and five.104 Other settlers before 1700 were Richard and Mary Burk, the parents of Joseph, born in 1676, Mary, in (1680) and Jonas, in 1783. On August 10, 1660 Garrett Micker an "Irishman, drowned."105


After 1700 the Irish element appreciably increased. In the birth records of Sudbury are found the names of Azuba (1711), Dinah (170?), John (1704) ; Kazia (1711), Marcy (1719) and Thomas Burk (1727) ; Thomas Coggin (1734) ; Elizabeth (1725), Jacob (1739), James (1745) and Samuel Cogin (1737) ; Anne Crowley (1742) ; John Silloway (1750) ; Amos Silloway (1752) and Eliza- beth Salaway (1754).106 The marriage register names Elizabeth Burk (1749), who had three children, Abigail Burk (1709), Henry Coggin (1756), Heny Cogin (1730), William Dunn (1758) and Cornelius Malonia (1756).107 By 1765 the Irish population of Sudbury, including on a conservative estimate one hundred of John Moore's descendants, amounted to one hundred and forty- six or .082 which as considerable enough, the total population of the town being 1,773.108


In March 1718 Sutton reveals her first Irishman, a John Haye, who was on a committee appointed to consider the erection of a meeting-house.109 Matthew Lackey, the second Irish settler, born on October 21, 1742, the second son of Matthew Lackey, who came to Massachusetts in 1735 from northern Ireland, came to Sutton about 1772 and lived there all his life, dying in 1809. Matthew Jr. married and had ten children.110 Among the men from Sutton who served for various periods of time in the French and Indian War from 1755 to 1761 were Alexander Calhone, David Cunningham, and James Murphy, all privates.111 Tewks- bury's vital records show a larger number of Irish inhabitants


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than was found in Sutton. Sarah Cockran (1737), Josiah (1739), Mary (1758) and Silence Coggin (1749), Lydia Cogin (1762), James (1759) and Daniel Ryan (1764) are on the birth records. Mary Flemming was married in 1743 and Silence Coggin died in 1750.112 A Dr. Daniel Ryan of Tewksbury was married to Anna MCoy on November 8, 1757. Two children came from this union, James (October 21, 1759) and Daniel, (September 30, 1764).113 There were in Tewksbury in 1765 twenty inhabitants of Irish extraction out of a total population of seven hundred and eighty-one,114 a percentage of .025.


The Dunns, Macnemaras and Maddens were fairly well repre- sented in Uxbridge before 1775. John and Jane Dunn were the c parents of Agneas (1749), David (1745), Elisabeth (1746), James (1751), Samuel (1753) and Thomas (1748). Timothy and Martha Macnemara had one child, Hannah, born in 1743, while Timothy and Silence Macnemara were the parents of Hopstil (1762), Martha (1746) and Hugh (1759). Mical Madden, the son of Timothy and Elizabeth, was born in 1740. A Margret Dun was married to Daniel McFarling in 1747. Molley and Timothy Maden, the children of Timothy and Albigail, were born in 1769 and 1772, respectively. Other Irish persons were Phebe McBride, born in 1758, Abigail Burke, married in 1744 and Wing Kelley, whose wife, Diame, was born in 1774.115 The Irish num- bered by 1765 twenty-two persons, a percentage of .018 out of a population of 1,213.116 Walpole had a slightly lower number of Irish inhabitants, some sixteen in all out of a population of 1765 of seven hundred and eighty-five.117 a rather low percentage of .02. Among the Irish inhabitants of Uxbridge were John and Elizabeth Connoly, the parents of Mary, born in 1751, Abigail and Hezkiah Haze, who were married in 1759 and 1748,118 re- spectively, and two Irish soldiers in the service during 1756, Timothy Calahan and Edward Murfee.119




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