Since its organization the society has been favored with the following
original papers:—
Thomas Hamilton Murray, editor _Daily Sun_, Lawrence, Mass.:—“The
Irish Bacons who Settled at Dedham, Mass., in 1640,” one of whose
descendants, John Bacon, was killed April 19, 1775, in the fight at
West Cambridge (battle of Lexington).
Hon. John C. Linehan, State Insurance Commissioner, Concord, N. H.,
on “The Seizure of the Powder at Fort William and Mary,” by Maj.
John Sullivan and his associates, some of which powder was later
dealt out to the patriots at Bunker Hill.
Edward J. Brandon, City Clerk, Cambridge, Mass., a paper on the
“Battle of Lexington, Concord, and Cambridge,” during which he read
a list of Irish names borne by Minute-Men or militia in the battle
of the nineteenth of April, 1775.
Joseph Smith, Secretary of the Police Commission, Lowell, Mass., on
“The Irishman, Ethnologically Considered.”
Dennis Harvey Sheahan, Providence, R. I., ex-Clerk of the Rhode
Island House of Representatives:—“The Need of an Organization such
as the A. I. H. S., and its Scope.”
Thomas Hamilton Murray:—“Matthew Watson, an Irish Settler of
Barrington, R. I., 1722.”