Fraternally,
JOHN D. CRIMMINS,
_President-General_.
TO THOMAS HAMILTON MURRAY,
_Secretary-General_.
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Footnote 1:
Hon. George F. Hoar.
Footnote 2:
State Record Commissioner of Rhode Island.
Footnote 3:
Mrs. Charles Warren Lippitt.
Footnote 4:
Secretary-General of the Society.
Footnote 5:
See Updike’s History of the Narragansett Church.
Footnote 6:
History of Bristol.
Footnote 7:
This name appears in the writings of the subject of this paper both as
“MacSparran” and “McSparran.” In his work “America Dissected,” he
repeatedly spells it “MacSparran,” while on other occasions he
frequently uses the abbreviated form “McSparran.”
Footnote 8:
In Mac Sparran’s time great latitude was exercised, even by educated
people, in the matter of orthography, including proper names.
Footnote 9:
It will be noticed that Dr. Mac Sparran never uses the cant term
“Scotch-Irish.” His education, good sense and patriotic spirit raised
him above such a subterfuge.
Footnote 10:
Dean Berkeley, the famous “Kilkenny scholar,” located near Newport, R.
I., in 1729, and on various occasions visited MacSparran. Berkeley was
subsequently made Anglican bishop of Cloyne, in Ireland.
Footnote 11:
Recently deceased. Librarian of the Rhode Island Historical Society.
Footnote 12:
A small remnant of the Narragansett nation still exists, chiefly at or
near Westerly, R. I. Few, if any, of these survivors, are of pure
Indian blood.
Footnote 13:
The claim has been made that the slaves were kindly treated in Rhode
Island. No doubt they were in many cases, but so, in some instances,
were those in the South. Still, at the best it was slavery, and the
very nature of this traffic in human beings must have been equivalent
to injustice, oppression and cruelty.
Footnote 14:
This Dr. Giles Goddard was the father of William Goddard who, in 1762,
established the Providence (R. I.) _Gazette_, the first paper ever
printed at Providence.
Footnote 15:
Captain Wilkinson was an Irishman who resided at Newport, but was an
intimate friend of Dr. MacSparran, Col. Updike and other prominent
Narragansett people.
Footnote 16:
In Narragansett, R. I.
Footnote 17:
This was Gilbert Stuart, who afterwards became the famous painter. The
name in MacSparran’s time appears to have also been spelled Stewart.
Footnote 18:
“America Dissected.”
Footnote 19:
“America Dissected.”
Footnote 20:
A monument to MacSparran stands in North Kingstown, R. I. A hill in
that section of the state also bears his name.
Footnote 21:
On the staff of the _Boston Daily Globe_.
Footnote 22:
Treasurer-General of the Society, and State Insurance Commissioner of
New Hampshire.
Footnote 23:
Ramsay’s History was written by the son of an Irish Protestant. An
edition was published in 1805 by Mathew Carey, a native-born Irish
Catholic. A list of subscribers to the work was printed with it and
here also is another instance of the presence of the Gael. The name of
Thomas Addis Emmet appropriately heads the list, and the names
following are Irish enough to please the most blue-blooded Milesian:
James Buckley, Matthew Carroll, Philip Whelpley, Katherine Mulligan,
James Doyle, J. W. McFadden, Charles O’Neal, John D. Toy, Henry C.
Neal, Daniel Fagan, Andrew Fleming, William Hickey, John McLeod,
Bernard O’Neal, John H. Riley, William Carroll, Patrick Gill, John
McDermott, John McBride, M. Sullivan, Francis D. Riordan, Peter Kerr,
John Carney, John Carey, John Cowan, Anthony C. Curley, Hamson Kelly,
James McElhinney, Hugh McGuire, John McDonald, A. D. Murphy, Harvey
Bryan, C. P. Butler, Lydia Bryan, Bartholomew Carroll, Richard
Cunningham, Catherine Fitzsimmons, Christopher Fitzsimmons, Daniel
Flood, Richard Fair, Andrew Flynn, Peter Murphy, Richard McCormack,
Samuel Nolan, Cornelius Driscoll, Dennis O’Driscoll, Henry O’Hara,
Thomas H. Egan, Peter McGuire, John Murphy, Joseph Kelly, Patrick
Noble, John B. O’Neal, Timothy Dargan, Patrick H. Carns, Patrick
Gatlin, Robert Malone, J. S. Bryan, and Daniel Murphy.
Footnote 24:
Recently deceased. Mr. Walsh was a founder of our society and was
vice-president for Georgia. He had been a United States senator from
that state, and was editor and publisher of the _Augusta_ (Ga.)
_Chronicle_, one of the leading dailies of the South. The article here
given is a condensation of an address delivered by him a few years ago
at Nashville, on “Irish-American Day” at the Tennessee Exposition.
Footnote 25:
Shattuck’s History of Concord, p. 215. But little is known of
Cargill’s life. When Shattuck wrote (1852) he said, “What little is
known of his life is better stated in his epitaph than from any
information I possess.”
Footnote 26: