Membership Roll of the American Irish Historical Society, 555
Moll Pitcher, Surely Irish, 488
Monaghan, Ensign, Honors for, 485
Morgan, Daniel, 213
Mulholland, General St. Clair A., 501
Murphy, George J. S., 513
Murphy, Lt. E. Van D., Paper by, 468
Murray, Hon. L. O., On Official Problems, 493
Necrology, 498
New Jersey, St. Patrick’s Halfpence, 487
New Members, 31
O’Brien, Capt. John, 386
O’Brien, Patrick, 515
O’Connor, R. C., Paper by, 451
O’Dwyer, Rev. Daniel H., 498
Officers 1910, 9, 56
O’Hara Fiske, Courtesy of, 492
O’Leary, Cornelius F., Paper by, 206
Onahan, Hon. William J., Paper by, 409
O’Meara, Maurice, 513
O’Neill, Jas. L., Paper by, 339, 348
Papers, Partial List of Those Read Before Society, 21
Piggott, Michael, Paper by, 301
Quinlan, President-General, Address at Banquet, 71
Rhode Island, Irish in, 365
Roche, Jeffrey, Memorial to, 441
St. Brendan, 236
Saint-Gaudens, Homer, Paper by, 462
Saint-Gaudens, Reminiscences of, 462
St. Louis, Irish in the Early Days of, 206
St. Patrick’s Halfpence in New Jersey, 487
Secretary-General, Report of, 35
Sheehan, John L., Paper by, 183
Sheppard, Rev. J. Havergal, Address at Banquet, 92
Sheppard, Rev. J. Havergal, Paper by, 331
Sherman, Rev. Andrew M., Paper by, 386
Shields, Gen. James, 409
Sixty-Ninth Regiment, The, 161
Springfield, Mass., Irish Pioneers in, 475
Stars, Irish in the Archives of New York Province, 152
Sullivan, Dr. Michael F., 351
Sullivan, Michael X., Paper by, 196
Tierney, Edward M., Address at Banquet, 105
Titles in Early American History, 279
Treasurer-General, Annual Report of, 43
Twelfth Annual Meeting and Banquet, Records, 25
Walhurst, Renaming of, 428
Walsh, Philip C., 510
Waterbury, French Camp at, 482
Wood, John, First Pioneer, 301
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Footnote 1:
Amended so that annual membership fee is now $5.
Footnote 2:
Father O’Leary’s paper appears elsewhere in the Journal.
Footnote 3:
Mr. McCarthy since the meeting requested that his paper be returned to
him, presumably for additions and corrections. Later he notified the
Secretary-General that he preferred his article be not published.
Footnote 4:
Mr. Clarke is Vice President of this Society and author of an article
printed elsewhere in this volume.
Footnote 5:
Miss Mary L. Linehan, The Colonial Irish in New England.
Footnote 6:
J. A. Spencer. Hist. of U. S., Vol. 1, p. 198, 1774–76.
Footnote 7:
James Grahame. Colonial History of the United States, Vol. II, p. 481,
1850.
Footnote 8:
Spencer. The Hist. of the United States, Vol. I, p. 80.
Footnote 9:
Ramsay. The History of South Carolina, 1809.
Footnote 10:
H. Marshall. The History of Kentucky, 1824.
Footnote 11:
The Story of the Irish in Boston, 1889.
Footnote 12:
The Irish Scots and the Scotch Irish, page 44.
Footnote 13:
Irish Colonists in New York. A Lecture Delivered before the New York
Historical Association at Lake George, New York, 1906.
Footnote 14:
Prof. E. D. Sanborn writing of these Puritans (1 _Granite Monthly_,
34), said: “Some portion of the bigotry, intolerance and persecution
of Massachusetts Puritans migrated to New Hampshire with their laws.
The result was a few prosecutions of witches and Quakers, but no
capital convictions. After the lapse of a century some disabilities
and distraint of goods for the support of ‘the standing order’ or
clergy were inflicted on dissenters from the established creed. This
petty intolerance continued until about 1819, when the Toleration Act
became a law of New Hampshire.”
Footnote 15:
The late L. A. Morrison, of Derry, N. H., said of them (10 _Granite
Monthly_, page 249), that “They were hard-hearted, long-headed,
level-headed, uncompromising, unconquered and unconquerable
Presbyterians. They were of a stern and rugged type. They clung to the
tenets of the Presbyterian faith with a devotion, constancy and
obstinacy little short of bigotry and in it was mingled little of that
charity for others of a different faith, ‘which suffereth long,’ and
it was said of them in 1790: ‘They have a great deal of substantial
civility, without much courtesy to relieve it, and set it off to the
best advantage.’ The bold idea of rights and privileges, which seem
inseparable from their Presbyterian church, renders them apt to be
ungracious and litigious in their dealings. On the whole the middle
and lower ranks of people, in this quarter of the kingdom, are a
valuable part of the community; but one must estimate their worth as a
miner often does his ore, rather by its weight than its
splendor.”—Letters concerning the Northern Coast of the County Antrim
Island, by William Hamilton, Dublin, 1790, page 117.
Footnote 16:
“From the notices given and extracts taken from records, it will be
seen that Presbyterianism in New England had passed its noonday, and
that its tide had begun to ebb.” History of Presbyterianism in New
England, by Alexander Blaikie, 1882, page 197. With reference to the
condition in Peterborough, it was stated: “The number of members of
the church in 1850 was 175, in 1856 their roll was reduced to 67
members and in 1859 Presbyterianism became extinct in Peterborough.”
_Ib._, page 367.
Footnote 17:
As an instance of this evolution may be mentioned the efforts of a
very estimable lady of our town in 1896 at a church meeting, called
for the purpose, who proposed the substitution of water for wine in
the church service; the question was solemnly and prayerfully
discussed, was not voted down, but the motion was laid on the table,
where it still remains for future determination; the matter was not
decided then; possibly their progressiveness had not sufficiently
advanced. But less important questions have been the foundation of
some modern church doctrines. Who will say that this theory, advanced,
as then alleged, in the interest of temperance, may not find favor in
some new church of, so called, advanced ideas, which will profoundly
urge—as is already urged by individuals—that the wine mentioned in the
Bible was not in fact wine at all, nothing more or less than water?
A strange spectacle indeed, ten persons of only ordinary intelligence
and scholarship—who came together after a few hours’ notice—essaying
to make a corrected interpretation of the Bible and radically changing
one of the most important church dogmas which has received the
consideration and approval of the great theologians of the past;
absurd you may say, but it is in a very similar manner that many of
the churches composing the present religious medley came into
existence. Oh shades of old Presbyterianism, could your ancient
devotees but see the wanderings of their progeny in the groping for
the true path!
Footnote 18:
They were from an ancient race of pure Celtic (Irish) origin, whose
ancestors had emigrated from Ireland to southern Scotland, and, in
1612–20, returned to their ancestors’ former home; remaining in
Ireland over a century before the emigration to America in 1718–36. In
other words, from Ireland to Argyle (Scotland) these Irish went, to
Ireland from Scotland they returned in the seventeenth century and to
America their descendants came over a century later. Strange indeed it
is that the history of the Irish origin of these so called Scots is
suppressed by these modern “Scotch-Irish” writers. (See Vol. 2, pages
333 and 712, and Vol. 7, page 555, of Chambers Encyclopædia.)
These hardy and opinionated Celts, while in Scotland, left their
indelible and unmistakable imprint on the language and character of
the people, in the design of their humble dwellings and churches and
more pretentious round towers. In reference to the Round Towers of
Ireland, Hamilton wrote in 1790: “There have been but two buildings of
this species hitherto discovered out of Ireland; they are both in
Scotland, and the fashion of them has probably been borrowed from this
country (Ireland), where they are still extremely numerous. One of
these usually called a Pictish tower, stands at Abernethy in
Perthshire, and seems to be of very ancient date; the other is at
Brechin in Angusshire, probably much more modern than the former.”
Letters concerning the Northern Coast of the County Antrim, Ireland,
by William Hamilton, Dublin, 1790, page 62.
Footnote 19:
Rev. David Annan made a fiddle with his jackknife and would sit with
his Bible open before him and his inspiring glass standing by, and
play tunes while the children danced. His people were shocked,
however, on one occasion when he told them in one of his sermons that
“he had prayed over one bed of onions and fiddled over another to see
which would fare the best.” The result of the experiment was not
reported.—Judge Nathaniel Holmes’ Address of Oct. 24, 1889, page 23.
Jonathan Smith, a lawyer in Clinton, Mass., in his recently published
“Home of the Smith Family” on page 56, gives a description of a wake
held in Peterborough on the occasion of the death of Elizabeth Smith,
April 18, 1769, as follows: “The near relatives and neighbors
assembled in the evening to watch through the night with the body in
the dimly lighted room. The exercises began with the reading of the
Bible, followed by prayer; then words of consolation and comfort were
spoken to the mourners, and the virtue and character of the deceased
were passed in review. Soon stories of ghosts, witches and demons were
exchanged, tales of death warnings to the deceased and her friends.
Later, stimulants were freely circulated, and before morning there was
eating as well as drinking.” Mr. Parker, in speaking of the custom,
says: “The affair often ended by shouts of laughter and revelry
breaking up the company.”
Footnote 20:
It is not generally known that the Society of St. Tammany (the present
Tammany Hall) was more directly associated than any other organization
or party in securing the fight for titles of plain “Mr. President” for
the President of the United States. While not actually a member of the
St. Tammany Society, William Maclay, who was Senator from Pennsylvania
1789–1791, gave his great influence to St. Tammany by making an
address at one of its first meetings, May 12, 1790. Under this date he
records in his Journal: “This day exhibited a grotesque scene in the
streets of New York. Being the old First of May the Sons of St.
Tammany had a grand parade through the town in Indian dress. I
delivered a talk at one of their meetinghouses and went away to
dinner. There seems to be some sort of a scheme laid of erecting some
sort of order or society under this denomination, but it does not seem
well digested as yet. The expense of the dresses must have been
considerable and the money laid out on clothing might have dressed
some of their ragged beggars. But the weather is now warm.”
Without doubt Maclay was in sympathy with the democratic spirit of
this association and it was Maclay who led the successful fight
against titles and royal forms in the first session of Congress.
Footnote 21:
The Burnham Tavern is still standing in Machias, and is now owned by
the local Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. It is
the repository of relics of the Revolution. The building is
practically the same, in appearance, as when the “O’Brien boys,” and
other Machias patriots gathered there at the opening of the War for
Independence, and discussed ways and means for the defense of their
liberties.
Footnote 22:
From “The Liberty Pole; A Tale of Machias.”
Footnote 23:
For a detailed account of the armament of the “Margaretta,” and of the
engagement between her and the American sloop, see “Life of Captain
Jeremiah O’Brien, Machias, Me.,” by the writer of this sketch.
Footnote 24:
According to at least one authority, the “Unity” was re-named the
“O’Brien.”
Footnote 25:
Words fail me to describe my emotions, when, a few years ago, I
visited the spot where the “Margaretta” was beached by the
victory-elated young men who had wrested her from her foreign
commander and crew, a century and a quarter before.
Footnote 26:
For an account of the capture of the “Hannibal,” see Life of Captain
Jeremiah O’Brien.
Footnote 27:
In July, 1902, the writer of this sketch received a letter from Mr. G.
F. Dunning, of Farmington, Connecticut. From this letter I quote the
following words, which I am certain will be of deep interest to the
readers of the sketch of Captain O’Brien: “I was born in Brunswick,
Maine, in 1817, three years before Captain O’Brien removed from
Newburyport to Brunswick, in 1820. My mother, eldest of his three
daughters, was Mary O’Brien, whom my father, Robert D. Dunning,
married in 1802—just 100 years ago. I am the eighth of eleven children
and I am ‘the last leaf on the tree.’ _I remember my grandfather
distinctly_, as he died in May, 1832, when I was 15 years old.
Footnote 28:
The above is a verbatim transcript of Mr. Wheaton’s letter, as sent me
from the Maine Historical Society a few years since.—A. M. S.
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