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In the next century a dispute arose between the settlers in Hav- erhill and the Irish inhabitants of Londonderry. In December, 1720, the commoners of Haverhill learned that the Irish were set- tling on some of the fourth division lots. In 1722 the Irish inhabi-
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tants of Londonderry made special application to New Hampshire for more land especially in the vicinity of Haverhill. In the same year a committee chosen by the Massachusetts General Court to investigate the matter reported that some Irish people claimed land down to the Merrimac river and Amoskeag Falls. The case was taken to England while Massachusetts remonstrated with the General Court of New Hampshire. But it was to no avail for the Irish still continued to move in and settle. In 1735 force was used. In April of that year two brothers, George and John Carlton, of Bradford, petitioned the proprietors of Haverhill for remunera- tion for the services of themselves and their teams. The Carltons together with the constable had been driving off trespassers on that part of the Haverhill common beyond the Island Pond. In 1741 a decree of the king established a formal boundary line but the dis- turbances continued. Sometimes parties came from Haverhill with the avowed purpose of driving away the new settlers. On one oc- casion a large party led by a certain Harriman demanded that the new settlers either pay for their lands or leave the territory. The day chosen for rendering the decision was Friday, a day of deep religious observance for the Presbyterian Irish, who were as- sembled in the open engaged in worship in preparatory to receiv- ing Communion on the following Sabbath. The sight moved the Haverhill men to change their plans and go back home. Sometimes an individual would be taken and kept a prisoner for a few weeks. A Mr. Christie, while mowing in a meadow, was seized and car- ried away to Haverhill without being allowed to tell his family of his predicament. The next day some of his apparel was found in the meadow, where he had been at work. He was at length res- cued. The struggle continued until 1759 when the proprietors on both sides adjusted their differences. Thus came an end to the long drawn out "Border War."46
Some of these Irish settlers in Haverhill were listed in the poll for 1741. They were spoken of as the inhabitants "North of the State Line." Alexander Kelcy, Peter Christy, William, James and Robert Gilmore, Daniel and Heugh Mackcafee, Joseph Kelly and Joseph Kelly, Jr., belonged to the group.47 According to a list of liouseholders for October 1, 1798, a Joseph Kelly had property valued at three hundred dollars. 48
The Kelly family was relatively strong in Haverhill in this
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period. Members with date of birth indicated were Elisabeth (1729), Elisabeth (1743), Joseph (1749), Mary (1740), and Mehetibel (1749).49 Among those who married were Abigail (1715), Anne (1751), Jane (1737), John (1759), Judith (1747), Rebekah (1757) and Richard (1753). Mary Colee was married twice, in 1700 and in 1718.50 A William Cochrane was married to Ann Gile in 1772.51 In 1765 there were thirty Irish inhabitants in Haverhill out of a population of 1,980, a percentage of .015.
A town in northeastern Massachusetts always known for a cer- tain Irish color was Ipswich where as early as 1633 an Irish lad lived as a servant tending to "three wolf doggs and a bitch," which were owned by John Winthrop, Jr., one of the founders.53 On June 5, 1634 this same Winthrop received a letter from John Clotworthy of Antrim, Ireland, who proposed the transporting of Irish children to Massachusetts for a term of years as in- dentured servants. A Mr. Lake, a Dublin merchant, became inter- ested in the proposal. The proposition was favorably received for Winthrop arrived in Ireland in 1635 and three years later a ship- load of Irish persons left the port of Carrickfergus for New England. Many of these immigrants eventually found their way to Ipswich, though most of them settled in Londonderry.54 In 1654 Philip Welch, only sixteen years old, arrived in Ipswich. He came from northern Ireland in the ship Goodfellow of which George Dell was master. On February 20, 1666 he was married to Hannah Haggett, the couple soon after moving to Lopefield. Later Welch returned to Ipswich where he died sometime after 1685, leaving six children. These were Philip Jr., born at Ipswich December 27, 1668; John, at Topsfield, November 27, 1670; David, August 27, 1672; Samuel, in 1675; Hannah, in 1680 and Moses, at Ipswich November 25, 1685. William Prescott, geolo- gist, affirms that there were probably other children. More than eighty-five descendants of Philip Welch were counted in New England during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This enumeration, however, is incomplete. Further investigation will probably reveal a larger number.55 John Luttle, a resident of Ips- wich, died in Ireland about 1656 or 1657 leaving no will; hence a preliminary disposition of his property was made on September 27, 1659 and a final one on January 29, 1660.50
In 1661 Deputy Governor Symonds of the Argilla farm had
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two Irish servants, William Downing and Philip Welsh, whom he prosecuted before the Court for refusing further service. John Ring, who came to own Ring's Ireland, near the Argilla Road, made the following deposition :
This deponent saith that he with divers others were stolen in Ireland by some of ye English soldiers in ye night out of theyre bedd and brought to Mr. Dill's ship, where the boate lay ready to receive them and in the same way as they went some others they tooke with them against their consents and brought them abroad ye said ship where there were divers others of their countrymen weeping and crying because they were stollen from theyr friends they all declaring the same and amongst the rest were these two men, William Downeing and Philip Welsh and there they were kept until upon a Lord's morning ye master set saile and left some of his water and vessels behind for hast as I understood.
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John Downing declared that Downing and Welsh "with several of our countrymen" were stolen by the shipmaster. George Dell, master of the ship certified that he "sould to Mr. Sam. Symonds two of the Irish youths and brought over by order of the State of England, the name of one of them is Philip Dalton, the other Edward Welch for nine years for six and twenty pounds." The servants said in reference to the contract "what agreement was made between Mr. Symonds and ye said Master was never acted by our consent or knowledge yet notwithstanding we have en- deavored to do him ye but service we could these seven compleat years which is three years more than ye . . . use to sell y" for at Barbados, w" they are stollen in England, and for our service we have no calling nor wages but meat and clothes. Now seven years service being so much as is practiced in old England and thought meet in this place we being both above 21 yeares of age, We hope this honored Court and Jury will seriously consider our conditions." Naomy Hull, another servant of the Deputy Gover- nor, testified to the dramatic way in which Philip announced "they being come into the parlor to prayer" in the evening, "We will work with or for you no longer." What decision was given is but a record. Later in 1678, Philip Welch joined Edmund Dear and William Darford in a Petition to the Salem Court regarding a verbal will of Robert Darton, an Irishman, who had left twenty- five pounds in the hands of John Ring when he left the country, "and ordered it so that if he came not here within the space of three years, then he willed the said summs with the use thereof to
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four of his countrymen namely Edward Dear, William Danford, Philip Walsh and John Ring, and that party of the four that was in most need at the three years end, he was to have ye bigest share." Edward Nealand and Elizabeth Dear also agreed with the sentiment expressed in the petition.57
Earlier in 1661, Daniel Grazier and John Morrill, Irishmen, came to Ipswich. The Selectmen complained against them, stating that they persisted in remaining though "they [ the Selectmen] were not willing to have them as inhabitants."37 Later in the same year Grazier was before the Court for the non-performance of a contract with Richard Dummer. In 1664 he was sued for debt while in 1667 he gave bond for his removal and promised never to come within ten miles of the town, and to submit to examination at Ipswich Court for all his misdemeanors.58 A John Barry was resident in 1678.59 In 1669 he purchased a lot from William Buckley.60 Another Irish resident of Ipswich in 1678 was Thomas Kellin. By 1678 there were at least seven Irishmen in the town out of two hundred and twenty residents, a percentage of .032.61
The eighteenth century brought more Irishmen to Ipswich. On November 24, 1736 protest was made by Edward McCormick, a mariner, formerly of Belfast, Ireland, and now a resident of Ipswich, and James McCrelas of Ipswich, that Joseph Smith of Ipswich, a shipwright, had not delivered to them the ship the Snow. On May 9, 1737 the vessel was not yet ready. A complete description which is extant shows that the ship to have been a large and substantial one.62 The second day of the following month witnessed the marriage of Dr. Hugh Agan of Andover to Elizabeth Giddings of Chebacco.63 An interesting case was the running away of John Fitz-Patrick, an "Irish Boy" of fifteen years, from his master, Richard Rogers. He was described as a "short, thick, well set Fellow, pretty full of talk." A reward of three dollars and the payment of "necessary charges" were promised to the capturer by Rogers. Notice of the runaway ap- peared in the Boston Evening Post for November 2, 1753.64 In the original list of Ipswich men who served in the last French and Indian War were John Berry, servant of Dr. Caleb, James Burch ; John Fitzpatrick, Nathanial Conner, William Connery and William Connolly, a total of six Irishmen out of three hundred
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names, or a percentage of .02.65 Vital records furnish a few addi- tional data. Before 1700 a Matthew Conoway, son of Robert and Mary, was born (1687) ; John Barry was married to Mary Chap- man (1676) and Hannah Barry, wife of John Barry died (1676). 66
In the eighteenth century before 1775 numerous instances of Irish persons appear in the records. Partrick and Joanna Ferrell were the parents of Richard born in 1732. The name Ferren was given to the following children of Partrick, Edward (1725), John (1726), Edward (1727), and James (1729). Richard Ferren was born in 1735 to Patrick and Abigail while another Richard Ferren was born to the same couple in 1737. Mary Maccartey, the daugh- ter of Michael and Priscilla, was born in 1733; Michael Mac- cartey, in 1724; Allice and Priscella Maccartney in 1721 and 1727 respectively.67 In the list of persons married are Dr. Hugh Agan (1737), John Barrye (1719), James Burch (1754), Deliverance Burk (1740), John Cunningham (1757), Robert Dougherty (1753), Felix Doyle (1759) and Susanna Farrin (1764). Mary Connaway was married to Richard Flood in 1729. In 1772 took place the marriage of Samuell Kelly.68 James Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Hogan died in 1727 and 1747 respectively.69 In the provincial census of 1765 there were in Ipswich 3,743 persons.70 Of this number one hundred and eight were Irish or a percentage of .028.
Lynn even before 1700 had a fairly large number of Irish inhabitants. A Thadeus Brian had three daughters, Mary Bran, born in 1670, Elizabeth Bran, in 1673, and Mary Brian, in 1675. James Hay, son of Patrick was born in 1690, Mary, daughter of Patrick in 1686.71 In 1653 a Margaret Suleavan was married to Mackum Downing, recorded as a "Scot" but actually coming from an Irish family in Ipswich. Sarah Bran was married to a non-Irish party in 1694. Sarah, the wife of Thadeus Bran, died in 1675.72 After 1700 the records show Lynn's Irish settlement on the increase. In 1731 Samuel Kelley was married. Patrick Connor and Jean Drawford were joined in marriage in 1732. Daniel Con- nory married in 1763.73 John and Rachael Barry were the parents of James, born in 1767, and of Lucy, in 1772.74 Among the Irish persons married, all to non-Irish parties, were William Burk, "a stranger," (1772) Elizabeth Flamen (1775) and Mary
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Flin (1773).75 There were in Lynn in 1765 twenty-one Irish inhabitants out of a population of 2,198, a percentage of .009.74
Manchester, one of the smaller communities in the northeastern section of Massachusetts had a remarkably higher average of Irish residents than most towns of that group. As early as 1727 Sarah Burch, daughter of James and Sarah, "in full communion with the New North in Boston," was baptized. Other Manchester births were those of Mary Donaway (1760), Timothy Donaway (1735), Anna Donnaway (1763), James Kally (1741), James Killey (1760), Samuel Killey (1764) and Molle Murphe (1754). Sarah Kelly was married to Paul Leach in 1751. Four children were born of the union, Samuel (1753), Sarah (1757), Daniel (1761) and Robert (1763). A Margaret Killey was born in 1766.77 The population of Manchester in 1765 was seven hundred and thirty-two with an Irish resident group numbering twenty- two, a percentage of .03.78
The populous town of Marblehead was one of the largest centers of Irish settlement during the colonial period. Even before 1700 the number of Irish settlers was not inconsiderable. A Mary Clattery was the mother of the following children : Hannah, Mary, Richard and Thomas, all baptized in 1684, Margaret, born in 1687 and Joseph, in 1689. John and Grace Kelly were the parents of Elizabeth, born in 1688, Grace, in 1689, Ann, in 1694, Thomas, in 1696, Samuel, in 1698, and Thomas, in 1700. Timothy and Jean Ryan had three children, Elizabeth (1689), Susannah (1691) and Mary (1698).79 Only one Irish person was married before 1700, an Ann Murfy, who became the wife of George Young in 1696.80
After 1700 the list of the Marblehead Irish becomes a rather long one. Persons of this category born in the town were Eliza- beth Cahill (1760), Susannah Cahill (1757), Michael Canary (1769), Peter Clattery (1701), Daniel Duggens (1734), Eleanor (1731), John (1726), Fineh (1723), and Hannah Duggens (1719), Esther Egin (1723), Jeremiah Heagerty (1760), David (1745) and Jonathan Hickey (1748), Hannah Keiny (1757), John (1702) and Samuel Kelley (1706), Ann (1729), Hannah (1753), John (1725), John (1741), John (1743), John (1744), Lydia (1732), Michael (1739), Samuel (1733), Sara (1748), Susanna (1737), Sylvester (1732), Thomas (1731) and Thomas (1735),
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Mary McHoney (1741), Anna Mehoney (1736), Elizabeth (1732), James (1737), John (1734), Mary (1730), William Mehoney (1727), Margaret Moony (1728), Mary Nugent (1734), Abigail (1749), Ruth (1744), and Sarah Reddain (1747), Thomas Rihon (1764), Mary Shilleoughty (1730) and Rebecca Shille- oughty (1730).81 From 1765 to 1775 the number continued to in- crease. Those born in this period were Peter Burke (1775), William Kelly (1769), George (1772) and Sarah Lynch (1774), Agnis (1771), Lambart (1773) and William Murphy (1770), James (1767), John (1769) and Samuel Ryan (1771).82 Married persons were also numerous, their names with dates of marriage being, James Brady (1731), Mathew Burk (1737), John Cahill (1732), John Connel (1749), John Flannaghan (1749), Mary Flanegan (1752), Thomas Hay (1755), Eleanor Hickey (1761), Patrick Hickey (1726), Thomas Hogan (1751), Ann Kelley (1750), Mary Kelley (1737), John Kelly (1723), Mary Kelly (1737), Mary Mehoney (1743), Michael Moran (1763), Edward Murphey (1753), Michael Rihon (1763), Peter Brian (1776), William Burke (1772), Daniel Cahill (1768), Daniel Callehan (1768), Edward Cunningham (1769), James Murphy (1774), Elizabeth Quin (1771), Michael Quin (1768), Robert Quin (1771), Daniel Ryan (1770), another Daniel Ryan (1770), and John Sullivan (1772).83 The marriage of William Flaherty and Jane Logan (1764) was the only purely Irish one of the entire pe- riod after 1700.84 Dr. Daniel Cahill, a medical man, married to Mrs. Sarah Jones in 1768, was probably the most outstanding Irish man of the period.85 Death records also furnish data. After 1700 the following Irish persons died in the town : Samuel Cogan (1714),86 and a Mrs. Cunningham,87 wife of Edward, (1770). By 1765 one hundred and twenty-nine Irish residents were in Marblehead out of a population of 4,954,88 a percentage of .026.
In Methuen, a strong Irish element was present especially dur- ing the thirties. The birth records contain the names of John (1735), Susanna (1738) and Joseph Kelley (1740), Elizabeth (1729), Langley (1760), Lucy (1762) and Phinchas Kelly (1764), Sarah (1730), Elizabeth (1731), Samuel (1733), Abigall (1733), Abiell (1735) and Abial Killey (1737), James (1728), Daniel (1726), Mary (1733), Anne (1735), Elizabath (1737) and Isbel Mallone (1741), William Mallone (1731), Mary Mal-
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lone (1762) and Hannah Maloon (1764).89 From 1766 to 1775 the following Irish births are recorded: Abiel (1772), John (1768), Katey (1770) and Molley Kelley (1774), Isaac Kelly (1766), James (1766), Daniel (1769), Elezebeth Mallon (1773).90 Married persons of Irish extraction before 1775 were John Hur- ley (1745), Abigall Kelley (1736), Ruth Kelley (1737), Hannah Kelly (1732), Mary Kelly (1731), Mehatiball Kelly (1738), Wil- liam Mc Carthelme (1736), and Daniel Mc Cleary (1739).91 Out of a population of nine hundred and thirty-three in 1765 forty- three or .046 per cent were Irish.92
The little town of Middleton furnished in the French and Indian wars two Irish soldiers, Dennis Murphy, a member of Colonel Ichabod Plaisted's Regiment and Patrick Carrell, who was in Captain Andrew Fuller's company from Middleton.
Before 1700 Newbury had a large Irish colony. The members of the Delane family (with dates of birth) were Daniel (1694), Margrett (1697), Charles (1698) and Paul (1699). The Keely family were represented by the following names: Sarah (1640), John (1642), Richard. (1665), John (1668), Sara (1670), Re- becca (1675), Mary (1678), Jonathan (1681), Joseph (1683), Hannah (1686), Abigaell (1691), John (1697), Richard (1697) and Sarah (1699). Two Kellys, whose first names are unknown were born in 1666 and 1668. Another family group, the Misil- loway, had three members, Daniell, born in 1690, John, in 1693 and David in 1688.94 Only one marriage in which one party was Irish took place before 1700, that of Eloner Hayes to Matthews Yong in 1696.95 One of the supposed earliest Irishmen in New- bury was Nicholas Rawlins, who was born in 1646 and took the oath of allegiance in 1678. His descendants claim that he came originally from Ireland, though there is no historical evidence of the truth of the statement.96 In 1686 a Samuel Kelly enrolled as a soldier in the fight against the Indians.97 In 1691 John Kelley Sr., John Kelley Jr., and Richard Kelley were members of the "Newbury Watch."98
In the eighteenth century up to 1775 some seventy-nine per- sons of Irish extraction were born in Newbury. Their names and dates of birth are John Barrey (1718), Mary Cassada (1745), Ruth (1748), and Ann Cassada (1750), Elisabeth (1753), Sarah (1759) and Cate Cassaday (1763), Judith Cassidy (1757), Wil-
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liam Conner (1755), Benjamin (1700), Eve (1701), James (1703), James (1704), Jane (1708), Joseh (1702), Mary (1704), Tabitha (1706), Mary (1733) and Thomas Dunn (1733), John Farley (1762), James Haize (1760), Mary (1760) and Nicholas Hayes (1763), Mary (1743) and William Hogin (1744), Hannah Keley (1714), Elisabeth Kelle (1732), Abiel (1706), Anne (1714), Esther (1707), Hannah (1711), Jane (1711), Jonathan (1709), Judeth (1714), Martha (1722), Mary (1707), Mary (1708), Mary (1709) Mehitable (1716), Richard (1704), Ruth (1716), Samuel (1718), Sarah (1709), Sarah Kelley (1716), and Stephan (1706), Abigail (1712), Benjamin (1711), Daniel (1716), Elizabeth (1714), Elisabeth (1750), Hannah (1726), Hannah (1728), Hannah (1757), John (1724), Joseph (1716), Joshua (1741), Judeth (1734), Lydia (1755), Moses (1721), another Moses (1721), Moses (1738), Prudence (1726), Rebecca (1704), Rebecca (1705), Ruth (1704), Sarah (1700), Sarah (1718), Stephen (1740) and William Kelly (1744), John Malvin (1750), son of Patrick and Mary, John Sulliway (1757), David (1762) and Jane Sillaway (1730), Mary O silliway (1755), Joanna O siloway (1753), Edmund (1772), Eliphalet (1174), Gideon (1767) and William Conner (1770).99 The marriage register furnishes many new names comprising those of Richard Burk (1728), Mary Connaway (1729), Catherine Connelly (1744), Moses Conner (1721), William Connor (1755), Jane Fitzgerald, "an Irish woman" (1736), Elisabeth Hayes (1730), James Hayes (1757), Elisabeth Hogin (1748), Alice Landrigan (1756), William McCarthy (1729), Walter Maddin (1763), Thomas Obrain (1755), Dennis Skip, "Irish," (1728) Captain Patrick (1743 and 1749), and Mary Conner.100 David Keiley died in 1707 and Roger Ryan in 1758.101
Some interesting data connected with the above names may be noted. In a town rate made in December 1711 Richard Kelley was assessed 48 34.102 Richard again appears in 1725 in the puchase of a negro slave. The document reads "I the subscriber of Newbury Do one & acknowledg that I have sold to Mr. Richard Kelly a nagrow man called Reuben: for which I have Receved an Hun- dred Pound in Billes of Credit to my full satisfaction as witness my hand & sale this fourth Day of november on thousand seven hundred & Twenty five."103 William McCarthy, married June 25,
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1729, was described as a mariner of Kingsale, Ireland.104 Timothy McDaniel, married August 11, 1732, was a sea captain, formerly of County Wicklaw, Ireland, "now of Boston."105 Roger Ryan "an Irishman who was hired in the parish" died of a fever August 9, 1758. He was under thirty years of age.106 Charles Cassada (Cassidy) "was a pedlar and coming home thro Bradford fell down with his box of goods on his back and died in an instant. He fell with his face on some stones and his box waying 36 lbs. was found on his head."107 His death occurred June 7, 1764 in his sixty-seventh year. In 1765 the population of Newbury was 2,960.108 The Irish numbered one hundred and sixty-three or a percentage of .055.
Newburyport, a more recent town than Newbury, had fewer Irish settlers than the latter before 1775. In 1764 Molly Maddin was born to Walter and Susanna Maddin. In 1765 was born James, the son of James and Catherine Caverner.199 In the same year John Murfy (of Great Britain) was married to Meketabel Wells.110 In 1767 Sally Caverner (Cavenaugh) was born. In the seventies there was an increase of births, those of James Caver- ner (1774), Mary Conner (1772), Mary Dunn (1774) and Ann Hagerty (1775), being recorded.111 From 1766 to 1775 the follow- ing Irish persons were married: Elizabeth Cassaday (1772), Mary Cassody (1766), James Connor (1772), Susanna Hays (1766), Susanna Mulligan, widow, (1770), Joanna O'Sullivan (1771) and Patrick Tracey (1773).112 Three Irish persons are recorded as dying in the early seventies, the widow Connolly in 1771, one Murphy (suddenly) in 1771 and William Tewmey (of England) in 1773.113
John Kelly, one of the original settlers of Newburyport, came from Ireland to Newbury, England, and from there to Massa- chusetts, according to tradition, which is strongly upheld by his descendants. He built a house on the north side of the "old Town" hill.114 Another early Irish immigrant was William Moulton or Roger Waldron, an "Irishman" who came to the town about 1690. He was born in 1645 and died in 1711.115 Toward the close of 1743 Captain Donahew of Newburyport in a small privateer captured a French ship loaded with "3,000 quintels of fish and also a sloop containing stock."116 One of the most prominent Irish settlers was John Murray who was born in Antrim, Ireland, on
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May 22, 1742. He came to North America in 1763 after graduat- ing from Edinburgh. He held Presbyterian pastorates at Phila- delphia and Boothbay, Maine, before coming to Newburyport in 1781. More will be said about him in the next period.117 In 1763 a Margaret Cunningham was baptized in the Old South Church.118 Out of Newburyport's total population of 2,882 in 1765 only nine or .003 were of Irish origin.119
The town of Rowley had a few Irish immigrants. There is a record of the marriage in 1645 of Sarah Reiley. In 1656 Henry Reiley, the village blacksmith, was married to Mary Elithorp, and in 1700, after the death of his first wife, to the widow Elizabeth Bennett. His death occurred on May 24, 1710 in his eighty- . second year. He was not "in full communion" with the Congrega- tional Church. There is no record of any children. His will, dated June 19, 1710, gave "5 each to the brothers Nathaniel and John Elithorp, 2 to Hannah Boynton, and 6 to Mary Plats."120 Sarah Kelle married on April 15, 1659.121 In the next century the num- ber of Irish residents increased considerably. Mossis Connor was married in 1721. Children of Samuel and Mary Kelly numbered three, Elizabeth born in 1726, John, in 1725 and Samuel, in 1724.122 Death records in the First Church show many Irish names including Goody Reile (1700), Henry Reiley (1710), Samuel Kelly (1724), John Kelley (1725), Abigail Kelley (1726), and Mary Kelley (1771).123 In 1714 Elizabeth and Benjamin Donnell were members of the First Church124 There were only sixteen Irish residents in Rowley in 1765 out of a population of 1,477, a percentage of .01.125
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