Footnote 27:
Mass. Revolutionary Soldiers and Sailors, vol. 3, p. 93.
Footnote 28:
Suffolk Deeds, Libro 167, folio 133.
Footnote 29:
Direct Tax, 22d Report Boston Rec. Com., p. 256.
Footnote 30:
Selectmen’s Minutes, 25th Report Boston Rec. Com., p. 300.
Footnote 31:
Braley’s History of Boston Fire Dept., p. 95.
Footnote 32:
Selectmen’s Minutes, 27th Report Rec. Com., p. 123.
Footnote 33:
Middlesex Deeds (So. Dist.), Lib. 125, folio 415.
Footnote 34:
Concord Births, Marriages and Deaths, p. 362. This is said to have
been his third marriage.
Footnote 35:
Ibid., p. 323.
Footnote 36:
Concord Births, Marriages, and Deaths, p. 362. This is said to have
been his third marriage.
Footnote 37:
Middlesex Deeds, folio 140, p. 277.
Footnote 38:
Cargill’s Epitaph has been published in Shattuck’s Concord, p. 215;
Barber’s Historical Collection of Mass. (Edit. of 1839), p. 215; and
in McGee’s Early Irish Settlers in North America, p. 35 n.
Footnote 39:
In the East Liverpool _Tribune_ the article was entitled: Fawcett
Memorial Tablet. Erected in Riverview Cemetery by the fourth
generation in 1900, in memory of the founders of “Fawcettstown,” now
East Liverpool.
Footnote 40:
East Liverpool.
Footnote 41:
The exact year as shown in the inscription was 1798.
Footnote 42:
East Liverpool.
Footnote 43:
The river takes its name from the town of Warren, the latter having
been named in honor of Sir Peter Warren, an Irishman.
Footnote 44:
Then, and for many years after claimed as a part of Massachusetts.
Footnote 45:
Bicknell’s Historical Sketches of Barrington.
Footnote 46:
The Society of United Irishmen was largely composed of Presbyterians.
Several Irish Presbyterian ministers were executed as “rebels” to
English law.
Footnote 47:
Encyclopædia Britannica.
Footnote 48:
There is a tradition that it was he who first introduced potatoes to
Rhode Island, bringing them from Ireland.
Footnote 49:
From a letter written to the author, by a descendant of Matthew, some
years ago.
Footnote 50:
After Matthew Watson’s death, the clay pits remained idle for years,
and a young forest gradually grew up.
Footnote 51:
Watson sold his brick in Newport and New York, as well as in other
places. Bicknell says that “the brick mansions of some of the old
Manhattan families were probably made of Barrington clay.”
Footnote 52:
Providence _Gazette_.
Footnote 53:
One account says he died in 1803, aged 107 years.
Footnote 54:
His second wife, Sarah, died in 1798.
Footnote 55:
In 1781 he is described as a “gentleman soldier.”
Footnote 56:
Recently clerk of the Rhode Island House of Representatives.
Footnote 57:
For an interesting note concerning the _O’Brien_, see Chronology of
the Society, in this volume, date of June 30, 1898.
Footnote 58:
Cooper refers to it as the “Lexington of the Seas.”
Footnote 59:
The Irish Race in America.
Footnote 60:
This membership roll is brought down to March, 1901.
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