The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-30
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 St. Patrick 's-Parish
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 Big Main Street Playhouse

1 ed as slaves for a certain term Of years l ande then acquired freedom.
 i In the single colony founded by
 Catholics, whose proprietor was Lord
 Baltimore, named as Baron of an
 Irish baronys there were Irish in 1 plenty. This Catholic colony was the
 first in America. in an age of religious intolerance, to permit freedom of wor- 1 ship to all who believed in Gods
 |through Christ. The generosity of the I Catholics of Maryland was i'll repaid l by the henefciaries of that liberal I policy who subsequently, forbade the k public exercise of the very religion i professed by the founders of Mary land
 days were Protestants. They were proud of their nativity and made no
 effort to conceal the fact that they
 were Irish. Great Irishmen loom up 1 in the colonial history James Lo-. igan, the Irish Quaker from Armagh,
 was secretary, chief justice and gov-z ernor of Pennsylvania early in the ] eighteenth century Fskril1fmus, an Indian chief. named his son, Logan. lin honor of the fairest. noblest white iman the Indian knew, James Logan. I Sir Thomas Dongan, an Irish Catho- t1ic from Kildare, was governor of New York from 1883 to 168S, and established trial by jury freedom from arbitrary
 
 a peoples assembly and also estab-. tlished complete religious. freedom for all Christians.
 T The Irish poured into certain col Iorlies in large numbers Catholics were mot wanted in any colonies except lPennsyIvania- In the 18th century priests were forbidden to enter Vir- lginia, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts and the Catholics wor tship was forbidden by law in all tho, r41zSx I Island and Maryland No Catholic could hold office in any colony up to 1.-the very hour of the Revolu tion- But IIrishmen came into PennsyIvania- In I land entered the port of Philadelphia By the time the French and Indian .lWar had come on there were numerous I Irish throughout the colonies William Johnson of County Down. won the battle Of Lake George and was made a baronet. and granted sz5 000- He kept the great Six Nations of Indians on the American side and at the con- lcIusion Of the war received 100000 tacres along the Mohawk river for his Iservices-. JohHstown, N. Y, is named for him. The muster rolls of the twar show many Irish names. In iCapt. James C1inton,s company from 1Ulster County, N F., the county nam led for the Irish province, s4 out of 1O4 men were natives of Ireland. In lCapt. Wright's company from eueen's sCounty, 4 out of 112 men were na- Itives of Ireland
 When the Revolution was foner ting Ithe great proportioni of Irish among the American settlers was largely re-. E sponsib1e for the intense feeling against Great Brita4n's measures Irishmen were at the fore in resisting Il British aggression. John Sullivan,
 who saw the Revolution coming. seized Il the stores at Fort William and Mary
 in New Hampshire in December, 1774.
 He was a noted major-general in the
 war and was governor Of New Hamp-
 shire His brother, James Sullivan, twas governor of Massachusetts. They 7 were sons of Owen Sullivan. an Irish Ischoolmaster from Limerick.
 l. The very first capture on inland waters was at Lake ChampIain a day or two after TIconderoga was taken. : Matthew Lyon, a native of Wicklow, who had lived in Connecticut at L.itch-
 field, had secured his freedom afser . three years, married Ethal Allen g
 niece and emigrst ted to Vermont with Allen, was the man whose daring and invention caused the capture of the British vessels on Lake chanplain in
 May, 1775. Lyon was afterward an : officer in the Revolution, treasurer Of lVermont, first man to make paper Iouts of basswood, representative in ], Congress from Vermont, Kentucky and Arkansas and the person whose vote . made Jefferson president on the 18th | Ibal1ot in the contested election be- tween Jefferson and Burr.
 The first battle of salt water was at : Machias, Maine, when Jeremiah ' o'Brien sfld his brothers, sons of Maurice o.Brien of Cork. captured the British cruiser, Margaretta in June.
 1I75- O'Brien and a brother, John, , became captains in navy of Massa- chusetts and served throughout the , war
 The first captain in the Continental Navy, the man who received the first commission from Congress in the Revolu t1on, brought the first prize
 into Philadelphia, commander the } navy at the close of the Revolution, 5 and was first officer and command CT t of the navy under our present Con- stitution, was Captain John Barry a 5 native of Wexford. to whom a na-
 tional monument will be unveiled at Washington in May.
 The first muster-n1aster general of 8 the Revolutionary army was Stephen Moy1an, of Cork, brother of the Cath olic Bishop of that city Moylan com ; manded the cavalry later in the war I The Minute Men whom Paul Revere r called out to meet the British at Bex- ;. ington were enrolled to be ready at a
 minutes notice. Their muster rolls I are still preserved And 266 of the l names of the Minute Men of Lexington are Irish names Ten of them were } named Welsh, eight Of them were : Kel1ys. seven of them were Kenneys 3 and there ar Carols, and men named z Collins, Burke. Shea. Hackett, Mo Nful- I len, Carey and many other Irish names.
 Il The rolls Of the men of Bunker l Hill to whom Warren said. Stand
 the grounds your own, my bray es {, }. in the poem SO often quoted. are still g preserved Not less than 25s of the 5 names are Irish names. Eighteen l were named Welch. sixteen were I 1 named Collins and there were men