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Aspects and Leading Interests, and Separate Histories of Its One Hundred Towns. Springfield, 1855.
Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts From its First Settlement to 1868. Boston, 1913. 2 vols. Hunnewell, James F. A Century of Town Life. A History of Charlestown,
Massachusetts, 1775-1887, with Surveys, Records, and Twenty-eight Pages of Plans and Views. Boston, 1888.
Judd, Sylvester. History of Hadley Including the Early History of Hat- field, South Hadley, Amherst, and Granby, Massachusetts. Spring- field, 1905.
Kingman, Bradford. History of North Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, From Its First Settlement to the Present Time, with Family Registers. Boston, 1866.
Lewis, Alonzo, and Newhall, James R. History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, Including Lynnfield, Saugus, Swampscott, and Na- hant, 1629-1864, Lynn, 1890.
Lewis, Isaac N. A History of Walpole, Massachusetts, from Earliest Times with Illustrations. Walpole, 1905.
Lincoln, William. History of Worcester, Massachusetts, From Its Earliest Settlement to September, 1836, with Various Notices Relating to the History of Worcester County. Worcester, 1862.
Lovering, Martin. History of the Town of Holland, Massachusetts. Rut- land, 1915.
Merrill, Joseph. History of Amesbury including the First Seventeen Years of Salisbury, to the Separation in 1654; and Merrimac From Its In- corporation in 1876. Haverhill, 1880.
Nason, Elias. A History of the Town of Dunstable, Massachusetts, From Its Earliest Settlement to the Year of Our Lord 1873. Boston, 1877.
Perley, Sidney. The History of Salem, Massachusetts. Salem, 1926. 2 vols. Pratt, Harvey H. The Early Planters of Scituate, a History of the Town
of Scituate, Massachusetts, from Its Establishment to the End of the Revolutionary War. Scituate, 1929.
Report of the Committee Appointed to Revise the Soldiers' Record. Dan- vers, 1895.
Rich, Shabrah. Truro-Cape Cod or Land Marks and Sea Marks. Boston, 1883.
Sewall, Samuel. The History of Woburn, Middlesex County, Mass., From the Grant of the Territory to Charlestown, in 1640, to the Year 1860. Boston, 1868.
Sheldon, George. A History of Deerfield, Massachusetts. The Times When and the People by Whom it was settled, Wars in the Connecti- cut Valley, with Genealogies.
Smith, Mrs. E. Vale. History of Newburyport; From the Earliest Settle- ment of the Country to the Present Time. Newburyport, 1854.
Smith, Edward C., and Smith, Philip M. A History of the Town of Middlefield, Massachusetts. Middlefield, 1924.
Swift, Charles F. History of Old Yarmouth. Comprising the Present
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BIBLIOGRAPIIY
Towns of Yarmouth and Dennis. From the Settlement to the Divi- sion in 1794 with the History of Both Towns to These Times. Yar- mouth, 1884.
Temple, J. H. History of North Brookfield, Massachusetts. Preceded by an Account of Old Quabang, Indian and English Occupation, 1674- 1676; Brookfield Records, 1686-1783. North Brookfield, 1887.
Tilden, William S. History of the Town of Medfield, Massachusetts, 1650- 1886. With Genealogies of the Families That Held Real Estate or Made Any Considerable Stay in the Town during the First Two Centuries. Boston, 1887.
Tilton, George H. A History of Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Its History for 275 Years, 1643-1918. In which is incorporated the Vital Parts of the Original History of the Town, Published in 1836, and written by Leonard Bliss Jr. Boston, 1918.
Wall, Caleb A. Reminiscences of Worcester From the Earliest Period; Historical and Genealogical, with Notices of Early Settlers and Prominent Citizens, and Descriptions of Old Landmarks and An- cient Dwellings, accompanied by a map and Numerous Illustrations. Worcester, 1877.
Waters, Wilson. History of Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Lowell, 1917.
Winsor, Justin. The Memorial History of Boston, Including Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 1630-1800. Boston, 4 vols. I-III.
B. PERIODICAL ARTICLES
Andrews, C.M. "Materials in British Archives for American Colonial History." The American Historical Review, x.
Baldwin, F. S. "What Ireland has done for America." New England Magasine, XXIV, pp. 68-85.
Butler, James D. "British Convicts shipped to American Colonies." The American Historical Reviewe, II, pp. 12-33.
Clinch, Bryan J. "Irish Names and Their Changes." American Catholic . Quarterly Review, xxXI, pp. 81-91.
Halliday, C. "St. Patrick's Folk in America." Catholic World, cx, pp. 787-795.
James, Alfred P. "The First English-Speaking Trans-Appalachian Fron- tier," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, XVII, pp. 55-71.
Larkin, P. O. "Irish Names in Colonial Military History," American Catholic Quarterly Review, XXXIII, pp. 471-485.
The Massachusetts Magasine, III, VII.
Mc Avoy, Mary C. "Catholic Origins in Massachusetts," The Catholic World, CXXXII, pp. 174-182.
O'Dyer, G. F. "Irish in Ipswich, 1630-1700," The Catholic World, cxv, pp. 805-814.
C. ENCYCLOPAEDIAS
Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. James G. Wilson and John Fiske, editors, I, VI. New York, 1887-1922.
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Derby, George. A Conspectus of American Biography Being an Analytical Summary of American History and Biography, Containing also the Complete Indexes of the National Cyclopaedia of American Biog- raphy. New York, 1906.
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Build- ers, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the men and women Who Are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time. New York, 1898.
D. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AIDS
Baker, Mary E. "Bibliography of Lists of New England Soldiers." New England Historic and Genealogical Register, LXIV, pp. 64-66; LXIV, pp. 327-336; Lv, pp. 11-19.
"Broadsides, Ballads, Etc., Printed in Massachusetts, 1639-1800." Massa- chusetts Historical Society Collections, LXXV.
Colburn, Jeremiah. "Bibliography of the Local History of Massachusetts." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, XXI-XXV.
Flagg, Charles A. A Guide to Massachusetts Local History. Being a biblio- graphic index to the literature of the towns, cities and counties of the state, including books, pamphlets, articles in periodicals and col- lected works in preparation, historical manuscripts, newspaper clip- pings, etc. Salem, 1907.
E. GENEALOGIES
Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland. London, 1912.
O'Hart, John. Irish Pedigrees; or, the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation. New York, 1888, 2 vols.
F. GENERAL HISTORIES
Emmet, Thomas A. Irish Emigration During the Seventeenth and Eight- eenth Centuries. New York, 1899.
Haltigan, James. The Irish in the American Revolution and Their Early Influence in the Colonies. Washington, D.C., 1908. Chapters V, XVIII, XIX, XX.
Hanna, C. A. "Scotch-Irish." Book Review, Nation. LXXIV, p. 295. Maguire, John F. The Irish in America. New York, 1868.
McGee, Thomas D'Arcy. A History of the Irish settlers in North America, from the Earliest Period to the Census of 1850. Boston, 1852.
Morison, Samuel E. Builders of the Bay Colony. Boston, 1930.
O'Brien, Michael J. A Hidden Phase of American History; Ireland's Part in America's Struggle for Liberty. New York, 1920.
Palfrey, John G. History of New England During the Stuart Dynasty. Boston, 1892, 3 vols.
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Palfrey, John G. History of New England from Revolution of the Seven- teenth Century to the Revolution. Boston, 1890, 2 vols.
Purcell, Richard J. The American Nation. Boston, 1929.
Warden, D. Chronologie Historique de Massachusetts. 1884. Extracted from ten volumes with same title.
G. MISCELLANEOUS
Hill, Hamilton A. History of the Old South Church (Third Church), Bos- ton, 1669-1884. Boston, 1890.
Kidder, Frederic. History of the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770; Con- sisting of the Narrative of the Town, the Trial of the Soldiers, and a Historical Introduction, Containing Unpublished Documents of John Adams and Explanatory Notes. Albany, 1870.
Re-dedication of the Old State House, Boston, July 11, 1882. Boston, 1883.
INDEX
Abigail, 36, 40. Abington, 83, 84, 92. Acton, 99, 114. Agan, Hugh, 70. America, 36, 40. Amcsbury, 62, 63, 83. Amory, Thomas, 22. Jonathan, 22, John, 22. Andover, 63, 83. Ann, 1, 36. Ann & Margaret, 38.
Arlington, 169. Ashfield, 116. Ashmuty, 26. Attleboro, 84.
Bacon, William, 78. Barbadoes, 11, 79. Barnstable, 84, 92, 135.
Bedford, 63, 118.
Bcers, Danicl, 130. Robert, 130. Bellingham, 99, 114.
Betsey, 34, 39.
Betsey and John, 40.
Beverly, 63, 64, 83, 134.
Billerica, 64, 83, 133.
Blossom, 16. Bodge, C. M., 127. Bonner's Map, 42. "Border War," 66, 67. Boscowan, 35. Boston Marriages, 24, 25, 43-51.
Boston Massacre, 42, 43. Boston Tea Party, 63.
Bradford, 64, 83.
Braintrce, 84, 85, 134.
Bridgewater, 85, 92, 135. Brig, 35. Brittania, 29. Brookfield, 99, 100, 114. Brooklinc, 100, 114. Butler, Moses, 27, 28. Thomas, 27.
Cambridge, 100, 114. 133. Cape, Ann, 1, 29.
Carr, Patrick, 42, 43. Catholics, 16, 20, 55, 130. Cavenaugh, Maurice, 38, 39. Charlestown, 100, 105, 134. Charming Molly, 33, 34.
Charming Nancy, 33. Chelmsford, 100, 114.
Chelsea, 100, 114. Chester, 100.
Chesterfield, 100.
Chettinford, 134.
Chilmark, 85, 92.
Cochran, 23.
Cogan, 6; John, 3-5, 8-11.
Coggan, 3-5.
Coggin, 5, 100.
Colrain, 100. Concord, 100, 101, 133.
Conn, John, 102-104.
Connecticut, 107, 135, 136.
Cookc, 101, 102.
Crohoar, Tcag, 6, 11.
Cromwell, 8.
Danvers, 64, 120.
Dartmouth, 85, 92, 135.
Dedham, 100, 134.
Deerfield, 116, 117, 121.
Defiance, 40.
Delop, Jamcs, 84.
Desire, 32, 37.
Diligence, 32.
Dispatch, 36.
Doglass, 32.
Dolphen, 32.
Dolphin, 32, 35, 37, 79.
Dongan, Thomas, 14, 88.
Donnell, 16.
Dorchester, 132, 133.
Dove, 32. Dover, 133.
Dracut, 141.
Dudley, 102, 134, 141.
Dunstable, 102, 141.
Duxbury, 85, 92, 135.
Eagle Wing, 66.
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INDEX
East Bridgewater, 85. Eastham, 84, 86, 135. Edgartown, 86, 92. Education, 11, 12, 15, 20-23, 42, 53, 54, 73, 82, 86, 88, 89, 113, 120, 138, 139. Elliott, Samuel, 26. Ellis, Richard, 116, 117. England, 35, 54, 69, 78, 79, 86, 87. Essex, 79. Essex, county, 64, 65.
Fanny and Jeamy, 39. Ffitz Gerald, 82.
Field, Darby, 7. Fitzgerald, Richard, 91.
Fortune, 1. Framingham, 102. Freemason, 33. Freetown, 86. Friendship, 11.
Glasgow, 38, 39. Gloria, 36. Gloucester, 65, 66, 83, 142. Goodfellow, 9, 68, 78. Goody Glover, 16. Granvil, 39. Granville, 117, 121.
Grayhound, 33. Groton, 102-104, 114, 142. Gulliver, Anthony, 3. Lemuel, 5.
Hadley, 35. Hall, William, 26. Halliday, 5. Haltigan, 5, 20, 152. Hampden county, 117. Hampton, 134. Hampton, 39. Hancock, Anthony, 20. John, 20. Hannah, 33-35. Hannah and Elisabeth, 13. Hanover, 87. Haverhill, 66-67, 83. Hawk, 40. Heath, 118. Henry, Thomas, 85. Hibbins, William, 5. Hiberney, William, 2.
Higgins, 1. Hingham, 87. Holland, 121. Holliston, 104, 142. Homes, William, 85,, 88, 89. Hopkinton, 105. Hope, 35. Hull, 133.
Immigration, 1-3, 6-27, 29-44, 54, 55, 63-92, 99-122, 138. Ipswich, 68-71, 83, 134. Ireland, 1-3, 5-9, 11-20, 22-42, 54, 55, 64, 66, 68, 70, 76, 78, 79, 84, 86, 88, 91, 101-122, 130-136, 138, 139. Irish Charitable Society, 26. "Irish Meeting-House," 42. Irish, number of, 139; See Tables.
Jabm and Jas, 35. James, 54. Jane, 33. Jannet, 35.
Katherine, 131-136. Kelly, Duncan, 86. John, 76. Kingston, 87, 88, 92.
Kingston, 33. Kittery, 133, 134. Kittey, 35.
Lancaster, 105. Lawrence, 34, 35. Leicester, 6. Lexington, 105. Lincoln, 105, 114. Lodge, 81. Lunenburg, 105. Lyford, John, 1, 3; Sarah, 1. Lynn, 71, 72, 83.
Maccarty, Eliza, 21; Florence, 11, 15-17, 79. Thaddeus, 15, 27, 115, 138. William, 75, 76. MacGregor, James, 22.
Malden, 105, 134. Manchester, 72, 83, 133. Marblehead, 72, 73, 83, 133.
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Marey, John, 15. Margaret, 36. Marshfield, 135.
Martha's Vineyard, SS, 89.
Mary and John, 5.
Maryland, 14, 33, 34, 39. Mayflower, 1.
MeGee, 17. MeIntire, Neil, 26. Mckinstry, Captain John, 22, 26.
MeLean, Hugh, 29.
Medfield, 105, 114, 134.
Medford, 105, 106, 114.
Medway, 106.
Mendon, 106, 114.
Method of determining Irish iden- tity, 54, 55, 122, 127.
Methuen, 73, 74, 83.
Middleboro, 135.
Middlefield, 118.
Middleton, 74.
Milford, 106. Military, 23, 27-29, 42, 43, 53, 54, 66, 67, 74, 108, 110, 111, 117, 120, 121, 127-136, 138, 139. Milton, 23, 106, 133.
Molley, 34.
Morrison, 10, 11.
Muddy River, 134.
Mullagin, 11. Murphy, William, 11.
Nancy, 32, 34. Nantasket, 1.
Nantucket, 89, 92.
Negro, female, 111, 112; male, 31, 81.
Newbury, 74-76, 79, 83, 134.
Newburyport, 76, 77, 83.
Newfoundland, 32-39, 54.
Newton, 106, 114, 115. New Braintree, 106. New Hampshire, 113.
New Ireland, 17-20.
New York, 14, 29, 33, 120, 121.
New Salem, 118, 121. North Brookfield, 106.
North Carolina, 32-34.
Northampton, 106, 118, 119. Norton, 89, 92.
Nottingham, 113.
Nova Scotia, 32-40, 84. Novia Scotia Packet, 37-39.
Numerical growth of Irish, 8, 10, 33-42, 44-54, 78-81, 83, 92, 114, 115, 121, 122, 138, 139.
Orth, 54. Osborn, Samuel, 86. Oxford, 106, 107.
Palfrey, 81, 130.
Palmer, 119, 121. Patience, 30, 31. Peggy, 32.
Peggy and Hannah, 35.
Pelham, 119-121.
Pembroke, 89, 92. Pennsylvania, 33, 34, 40, 77.
Philson, 54. c
Plymouth, 1-3, 90, 131-136.
Plympton, 90, 92.
Polley, 33, 34.
Polly, 40. Poppett, 38.
Portsmouth, 133.
Poverty, 8, 21, 26, 64, 82, 117, 130- 136. Providence, 33. Provincetown, 90.
Rainbow, 35. Rehoboth, 90, 130, 135.
Reiley, Henry, 77. Religion, 1-4, 12, 16, 18-20, 22, 26, 27, 42, 53, 77, 79, 88, 89, 138, 139. Riley, 11; John, 120.
Rochester, 90, 92.
Rose, 16.
Rowley, 77, 83, 133.
Roxbury, 15, 107, 108, 114, 133.
Rutland, 108, 114.
Ryan, Daniel, 111.
Salem, 77-81, 83, 133.
Salisbury, 81, 83. Salley, 34, 35. Sally, 39. San Domingo, 34.
Sandwich, 90.
Seituate, 90-92, 135.
Seotland, 32, 39, 40, 77, 109.
Sebella, 35. Servants, 2, 8, 11, 16, 35, 36, 38, 39, 42, 53, 64, 65, 68-70, 84, 138.
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Sharlot, Henry, 13, 14. Sheehan, Bryan, 81. Shirley, 108, 114. Shrewsbury, 108, 114. Smith, Jeremiah, 23.
Snow, 70. Southbridge, 108. South Carolina, 22, 34.
Speedwell, 39. Spencer, 109, 114.
Springfield, 120.
Squid, 37, 39.
Sterling Castle, 35.
Stoneham, 109, 114.
Stow, 106, 109, 114.
Streeter, 80. Sturbridge, 108, 109, 114.
Success, 37. Sudbury, 109, 110, 114, 115, 133. Susanna, 34. Sutton, 22, 110.
Swallow, 31, 33, 36, 38, 39, 64.
Swamsey, 135.
Swift, Jonathan, 3.
Tables, statistical, 40-42, 50-54, 83, 92, 114, 115, 121, 122, 129, 133- 136.
Taunton, 91, 92, 135.
Tewksbury, 110, 111, 114.
Three Friends, 34. Tisbury, 91, 92.
Topsfield, 81, 83.
Two Brothers, 32. Two Sisters, 32.
Tyringham, 120. Uxbridge, 111, 114.
Valentine, Elizabeth, 86. John, 86; Samuel, 86. Thomas, 86. Verd d'Grace, 29. Virginia, 1.
Walpole, 111, 114. Walter, Nehemiah, 12. Thomas, 12. Waltham, 111, 114.
Warren, 112, 114.
Watertown, 112, 133.
Wayland, 145.
Wealth, 3-7, 9, 11, 12, 15-17, 20, 21, 23, 29, 42, 43, 53, 54, 68, 75-79, 82, 86-88, 91, 92, 101-104, 107, 113, 120.
Welch, Philip, 68, 69, 82.
Wenham, 82, 83, 134.
West Bridgewater, 91.
Westford, 113, 114.
Weymouth, 91, 133.
William, 36. William and Susan, 11.
Williamstown, 120.
Willmott, 37.
Woburn, 101, 114.
Woodward, Ralph, 87.
Worcester, 22, 115.
Yarmouth, 92, 130, 135.
Yarmouth, 32. York, 133.
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VITA AUCTORIS
BIRTH AND PARENTAGE
The author was born on December 1, 1901, in Rockland, Massa- chusetts, the son of John J. and Catherine A. (Smith) Donovan.
EDUCATION
He was educated in the public elementary schools, the Goddard Junior High School and the Brockton Senior High School, Brock- ton, Massachusetts, graduating from the last named school in June, 1921. In June, 1925, he received the A.B. from Boston College and in June, 1927, the A.M. from the same institution. In 1925-1926 the author took courses in Americanization at Boston University and in the University Extension of the State of Massachusetts. After one year (1925-1926) and three summers (1925, 1926, 1928) of graduate work in history at Harvard University he was awarded an A.M. in February, 1929. Since that time he has taken modern language courses in the Kansas City (Missouri) Junior College Evening School (1928-1929), and in the summer session (1929) of the Kansas City ( Missouri) Teachers' College, and has been a teaching fellow in history in St. Louis University.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
The author taught (1925-1927) in the Theodore Lyman Eve- ning School in Boston, in 1926 in the Brockton Evening Schools and in the winter of 1926 in the Senior High School, Quincy, Massachusetts. The next two years, 1927-1929, he was an instruc- tor at Rockhurst College, Kansas City, Missouri. In 1929-31 he was a teaching fellow at St. Louis University, teaching in the three senior corporate colleges, Fontbonne, Maryville and Webster. In the summer of 1930 he was a member of the faculty of the Summer Session of Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska.
PUBLICATIONS
The author has contributed during 1929-1931 to the Historical Bulletin and Mid-America.
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