HISTORICAL PAPERS AND ADDRESSES.
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The following is a list of historical papers and addresses, prepared by members of the Society, or by friends of the organization. Many of these contributions have been published in the books and pamphlets issued by the Society, a few have appeared in other publications, while some remain in the Society’s archives to be published in the future:
1.
The Bacons from Ireland Who Settled at Dedham, Mass., About 1640, one of whose Descendants was Killed April 19, 1775, in the Fight at West Cambridge, Battle of Lexington. (By Thomas Hamilton Murray, Boston, Mass., 1897.)
2.
The Seizure of Powder, Arms, and Stores at Fort William and Mary by Major John Sullivan and His Associates, December, 1774. (By Hon. John C. Linehan, Concord, N. H., 1897.)
3.
The Battle of Lexington, Concord, and Cambridge, with a List of Irish Names Borne by Minute Men or Militia Participating in that Conflict. (By Edward J. Brandon, Cambridge, Mass., 1897.)
4.
The Irishman Ethnologically Considered. (By Joseph Smith, Lowell, Mass., 1897.)
5.
Irish Settlers in Louisville, Ky., and Vicinity. (By Edward Fitzpatrick, Louisville, Ky., 1897.)
6.
Five Irish Colonial Rhode Islanders. (By Thomas Hamilton Murray, Providence, R. I., 1897.)
7.
The Irish Element Among the Founders of Lowell, Mass. (By Joseph Smith, Lowell, Mass., 1897.)
8.
The Ancestors of Gen. John Sullivan. (By Bernard Corr, Boston, Mass., 1898.)
9.
The Family Name Swords in Ireland and America. (By Joseph F. Swords, Hartford, Conn., 1898.)
10.
Early Irish Schoolmasters in New Hampshire. (By Hon. John C. Linehan, Concord, N. H., 1898.)
11.
Early Irish Schoolmasters in Rhode Island. (By Thomas Hamilton Murray, Boston, Mass., 1898.)
12.
Early Irish Settlers in Kentucky. (By Edward Fitzpatrick, Louisville, Ky., 1898.)
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Some Ways in Which American History is Falsified. (By Joseph Smith, Lowell, Mass., 1898.) 135
14.
The Lost State of Clark, with Mention of Thomas Connolly, a Fifer in the Regiment of Col. George Rogers Clark. (By Edward Fitzpatrick, Louisville, Ky., 1898.)
15.
The Irish Chapter in the History of Brown University. (By Thomas Hamilton Murray, Boston, Mass., 1899.)
16.
The Irish Pioneers and Founders of Peterborough, New Hampshire. (By Hon. James F. Brennan, Peterborough, N. H., 1899.)
17.
The Work of the American-Irish Historical Society. (By Hon. Thomas J. Gargan, Boston, Mass., 1899.)
18.
Some Irish Settlers in Virginia. (By Hon. Joseph T. Lawless, Richmond, Va., 1899.)
19.
Irish Immigration During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. (By Thomas Addis Emmet, M. D., New York city, 1899.)
20.
Some Pre-Revolutionary Irishmen. (By Hon. John C. Linehan, Concord, N. H., 1899.)
21.
David Hamilton, an Irish Soldier of the American Revolution. (By Daniel M. O’Driscoll, Charleston, S. C., 1899.)
22.
An Early Irishman of Waterbury, Connecticut. (By Martin Scully, Waterbury, Conn., 1899.)
23.
The “Scotch-Irish” and “Anglo-Saxon” Fallacies. (By James Jeffrey Roche, Boston, Mass., 1899.)
24.
Sketch of an Early Irish Settlement in Rhode Island. (By Thomas Hamilton Murray, Boston, Mass., 1899.)
25.
The “Anglo-Saxon” Shibboleth Condemned. (By Hon. William McAdoo, New York city, 1899.)
26.
Naval Heroes of the Revolutionary War, Including the O’Briens of Machias, Me. (By Hon. Thomas J. Gargan, Boston, Mass., 1899.)
27.
Some Irish Settlers in Kentucky. (By Edward Fitzpatrick, Louisville, Ky., 1899.)
28.
Irish Pioneers of Texas. (By Hon. John C. Linehan, Concord, N. H., 1899)
29.
Russia, the Friend of the Republic. (By Joseph Smith, Lowell, Mass., 1899.)
30.
Brigadier-General Thomas W. Sweeny, U. S. A., 1820–1892. (By William M. Sweeny, Astoria, L. I., N. Y., 1899.)
31.
The Irish Element in the Second Massachusetts Volunteers in the Recent War—with Spain. (By Rev. John J. McCoy, Chicopee, Mass., 1899.)
32.
The Battle of Rhode Island, 1778. (By Thomas Hamilton Murray, Boston, Mass., 1899.)
33.
The Irish in Rochambeau’s Army During the American Revolution. (By Joseph Smith, Lowell, Mass., 1899.)
34.
The Colonial Irish. (By Thomas F. O’Malley, Somerville, Mass., 1899.) 136
35.
The Irish Washingtons at Home and Abroad, together with Some Mention of the Ancestry of the American Pater Patriæ. (By Thomas Hamilton Murray, Boston, Mass., and George Washington, Dublin, Ireland, 1899.)
36.
The Irish in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Tennessee. (By Hon. Patrick Walsh, Augusta, Ga., 1900.)
37.
The United States Torpedo Boat O’Brien. (Compiled from the daily papers, 1900.)
38.
Men of Irish Blood Who Have Attained Distinction in American Journalism. (By Michael E. Hennessy, Boston, Mass., 1900.)
39.
Patriots of the American Revolution. (By Hon. Thomas J. Gargan, Boston, Mass., 1900.)
40.
Rev. James Caldwell, a Patriot of the American Revolution. (By James L. O’Neill, Elizabeth, N. J., 1900.)
41.
Characteristics of the Irish Race. (By G. Stanley Hall, Worcester, Mass., 1900.)
42.
The Field, Scope, and Opportunity of the American-Irish Historical Society. (By Dennis Harvey Sheahan, Providence, R. I., 1900.)
43.
The Battle of Bunker Hill. (By Thomas F. O’Malley, Somerville, Mass., 1900.)
44.
Matthew Watson, an Irish Settler of Barrington, R. I., 1722. (By Thomas Hamilton Murray, Boston, Mass., 1900.)
45.
The Irish Settlers of Pelham, Mass. (By Miss Mary Lessey Linehan, Hartford, Conn., 1900.)
46.
Hugh Cargill, a Friend of Liberty. (By Thomas F. O’Malley, Somerville, Mass., 1900.)
47.
Irish Pioneers and Builders of Kentucky. (By Hon. John C. Linehan, Concord, N. H., 1900.)
48.
Rev. James MacSparran, Irishman, Scholar, Preacher, and Philosopher, 1680–1757; a Rhode Island Pioneer. (By Thomas Hamilton Murray, Boston, Mass., 1900.)
49.
The Society’s Field in California. (By James Connolly, Coronado, Cal., 1900.)
50.
The Historical Place of Irishmen in California. (Address issued by the Knights of St. Patrick, San Francisco, Cal., calling attention to the work of the American-Irish Historical Society, 1900.)
51.
My Colleagues of Irish Extraction in New York Journalism. (By Thomas J. Cummins, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1900.)
52.
The Irish at the Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775. (By Thomas Hamilton Murray, Boston, Mass., 1900.)
53.
Early New Hampshire Irish; Some Pre-Revolutionary Dennises, Corneliuses, Patricks, and Michaels. (By Hon. John C. Linehan, Concord, N. H., 1900.) 137
54.
Men of Irish Blood in the Battle of Bunker Hill. (By Hon. John C. Linehan, Concord, N. H., 1900.)
55.
Thomas Fawcett, Irish Quaker, American Pioneer. (Forwarded to the Society by Thomas Plunkett, East Liverpool, O., 1900. Taken from the East Liverpool Tribune.)
56.
Irish Settlers, Previous to 1742, in Portsmouth, N. H. (By Thomas Hamilton Murray, Boston, Mass., 1901.)
57.
Rhode Island Officers of Irish Blood Who Served in the Civil War. (By Col. James Moran, Providence, R. I., 1900.)
58.
Irish Pioneers of California,—(1) Martin Murphy, Sr. (By Miss Margaret A. Fitzgerald, San Francisco, Cal., 1901.)
59.
Early Irish in the Connecticut Colony. (By Rev. James H. O’Donnell, Norwalk, Conn., 1901.)
60.
Early Irish in the Plymouth Colony. (By Thomas Hamilton Murray, Boston, Mass., 1901.)
61.
Hon. Thomas Dongan, Governor of New York, 1683–1688. (By Rev. Alexander P. Doyle, C. S. P., New York city, 1901.)
62.
General Jackson and the Battle of New Orleans. (By Capt. Laurence O’Brien, New Haven, Conn., 1901.)
63.
Charles MacCarthy, a Rhode Island Pioneer, 1677. (By Thomas Hamilton Murray, Boston, Mass., 1901.)
64.
Thomas Casey of Ireland and Rhode Island, 1636–1719. (By Thomas Hamilton Murray, Boston, Mass., 1901.)
65.
The Irish Race in America. (By Hon. William McAdoo, New York city, 1901.)
66.
The Romance of Sarah Alexander, a Native of Ireland—Mother of Commodore O. H. Perry. (By Thomas Hamilton Murray, Boston, Mass., 1901.)
67.
Ireland in New York. (By James McMahon, New York city, 1901.)
68.
New England Prejudice in 1752–1855; Was it Racial or Religious? (By Hon. John C. Linehan, Concord, N. H., 1902.)
69.
The Ancestry of Gen. John Sullivan—General Sullivan and the Battle of Rhode Island. (By Asa Bird Gardiner, New York city, 1902.)
70.
Gen. Henry Knox and the Society of the Cincinnati. (By Edward A. Moseley, Washington, D. C., 1902.)
71.
Richard Dexter, a Forgotten Irish Pioneer of Boston, 1641. (By Thomas Hamilton Murray, Boston, Mass., 1902.)
72.
The Term “Scotch-Irish” an Absurdity. (By Hon. Wauhope Lynn, New York city, 1902.)
73.
Dennis Maccarty of Warren, R. I., 1757, a Soldier in the Crown Point Expedition. (By Miss Virginia Baker, Warren, R. I., 1902.)
74.
St. Patrick’s Day: Its Celebration in New York and Other American Places, 1737–1845. (A bound volume of 502 pages, by Hon. John D. Crimmins, New York City, 1902.) 138
75.
Commodore John Barry and the Projected Monument, at Washington, D. C., to his Memory. (By Joseph I. C. Clarke, New York city, 1903.)
76.
A Glance at the Vanguard—Irish Pioneers in Colonial Massachusetts. (By Thomas Hamilton Murray, Boston, Mass., 1902.)
77.
The Voyage of the Seaflower—from Ireland to Boston—1741. (By Thomas Hamilton Murray, Boston, Mass., 1902.)
78.
Gen. John Sullivan and the Battle of Rhode Island. (By Thomas Hamilton Murray, Boston, Mass., 1902.)
79.
Irish Immigration to the United States Since 1790. (By Edward O’Meagher Condon, New Orleans, La., 1903.)
80.
Early Irish in old Albany, N. Y., with Special Mention of Jan Andriessen “De Iersman van Dublingh.” (By Hon. Franklin M. Danaher, Albany, N. Y., 1903.)
81.
The First Irish in Illinois. (By Hon. P. T. Barry, Chicago, Ill., 1903.)
82.
The Irish Pioneers of the Connecticut Valley. (By Edward A. Hall, Springfield, Mass., 1904.)
83.
The O’Briens of Machias, Me., Patriots of the American Revolution. (By Rev. Andrew M. Sherman, Morristown, N. J., 1904.)
84.
Early Irish Settlers in Virginia. (By Hon. John C. Linehan, Concord, N. H., 1904.)
85.
A Sketch of the Clan O’Brien. (By Thomas Hamilton Murray, Boston, Mass., 1904.)
86.
The Irish Vanguard of Rhode Island. (By Thomas Hamilton Murray, Boston, Mass., 1904.)
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