Note 27 — CAPTAIN JOHN O’BRIEN OF MACHIAS, MAINE—REVOLUTIONARY HERO—A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.

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.