Note 15 — THE IRISH SETTLERS OF SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE.

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.