Arizona republican., 1922-03-20
STORY Of
IRISH SETTLERS
IN THIS NATION

William J. Burns. secretary of the
Knights of Columbus. delivered the
following address at a meeting of
the organization held last Tuesday:
American historians have told the
story of the early colonial develop
ment of the original 13 colonies. They
gave to the early English settlers
the credit that was their due. They
told of the Dutch in Pennsylvania
and New York, of the French Hugue-
not in the Carolinas and of the
| Swedes in New Jersey and Maryland,
but for some unknown reason were
they silent, as to the great and heroic
part played by the Gael, in such early
settlement and development, with
the exception of Fisk. who inadvert
emily referred TO the subject and
stated that there was an immigration
of Irishmen in the Eighteenth GEN.
tury to America. approNimating a
half million Irishmen. though in the
next sentence he robbed Ireland of
much of the credit for our early de-
velopnent by stating they were
Scotch-Irish
1t is not my purpose to minimize
or detract from the glory of the So
called Scotch- -Irish, or rather the
Irish from northern Ireland, since
there was enough, to share by all
! Irishmen from the north and south in
| the glorious achievements OF Irish
men in the early colonies, and their
final participation in and happy con-
! clusion of the War of the Revolution.
To convince Americans of today
| that there were Irish in any great
numbers in Washington's army IL is
first necessary to show that there
was Irish immigration to America
| before the revolution.
Virginia was the first colony to
| receive the Gael and we find from
| Neills History of the English Colo
! nization of America" in referring to
a book presented "at a court held for
| Virginia on Dec. 19, 1921" by an Eng
lish Puritan minister named John
Brinsley. which the author explained
was adapted for all functions and
| places, and more particularly TO
| every ruder place, and more especial
| ly to that poor Irish nation with our
| loving countrymen in Virginia. IN
| the same work Neill quotes sermon
delivered in London in the year 1922
by Rev. Patrick Sopland of Barbados
Island, afterward the first president
of the College of Virginia, in which
he referred to 80 persons who had
been transported out of England and
ireland for the plantations OF VIZ
giania" The Virginia records show
| that an Irish colony was brought
from Cork in the Flying Harte in the
wear 1921, and located at what Is now
Newport News. The same records
| disclose that Daniel Gookin of county
Cork transported to Virginia great
multitudes of people and cattle from
England and Ireland.
In Hotten's original list of persons
of quality. emigrants and exiles with
dates of arrival in the colony OF Viz
ginia we fund the following names:
Murfie. McBrian. Riley Cassedy,
Carroll Connor, Higgins, Burke,
Barron. McConry, Plunkett, Conway
McCarty, DAILY. O'Mullen, Coggan,
Connolly and Flynn, and hundreds OF
other names equally as Keltic who
landed in Virginia before 1886.
Miscellaneous Records of Virgil
MIA" Vol. III. disclose in the roster OF
body Of Augusta county militia,
l15 Irish family names and OF the
regiment commanded by Col. George
Washington in 1854 there we're Of
| ficers named German, Barrett, Con-
way, McCarty, Doran, McRoy. Nc
Annuity. Hogan and Murphy. The
only Virginia company of this time
| where the nationality was given OF
% men. IA were recorded as born in
! ireland. seven in England three in
Virginia. two each in Scotland and
PENNSYLVANIA and one in Maryland.
! The captain was Andrew Lewis porn
| in Donegal. Ireland. The muster
rolls of the 18th century for virginia
as well. as the parish registers, the
court and marriage records and land
a
| common as those of Dublin or Cork
Among old families mentioned by
Bishop William Meade Of Virginia
are. the McCartys. Lynches, Meades,
| Prestons. Lewises, Sullivans, McCor-
miclxs. McEIroys. O'Neills. McGuires,
| McDonnells and Farrelss, all OF irish
| descent. Dennis Mccarthy. son OF
Daniel. who arrived in Virginia In
1890. married Sarah Ball in 1924, who
was a first cousing of Mary Ball the
mother of George Washington ana
son of this union marched by the side
| of Washington serving in the French
and Indian wars.
MANY Irish came with Penn In the
first colony of 1882. as Penn had
spent many years in county Cork IN
| charge of his fathers estates, on
subsequent voyage he brought James
Logan, son of Patrick, who held
nroninent place in the colony for
panv wears. The religious liberation
| Of penn encouraged the Irish emil
grant. Presbyterian and Catholic. as
| the result Pennsylvania became the
mecca for Irishmen and for the next
| century they came through the port
| Of Philadelphia and up the Delaware
river in one continuous stream ana
| settled for the greater part In Bucks.
| Chester and Lancaster counties ana
| the Cumberland valley. later settling
| in York county where they first came
| in contact with the Germans who had
| inst preceded them to this country.
| There the trouble began between the
! first Irish and Germans in America.
! The racial rivalries resulting from
| the contact of the two races, necessl-
| tated an enforced division OF the ter
| ritory, confining the Germans 10
| York and the Irish to the Cumber-
! land According to The New Eng
! land Weekly Journal. Philadelphia,
| Of March 80. 1880, the number Of
| Irish who entered that port for the
wear 1929 was $500 and only 55S
| from all other European ports for
the same year and so, throughout the
| Eighteenth century the Irish contin-
ued TO flow into Pennsylvania. From
March 1885. to March 1877, 80 pas
senger- carrying vessels were entered
at the PHILADELPHIA custom house as
| arriving from or returning to Ireland.
| The New York and Philadelphia
newspapers for the years 1771 to 1913
/ listed the arrival of 162 ships from
| Ireland and it is estimated that they
carried into those ports from Ireland
/ 10000 people in the three years, and
| further as estimaed from the number
| of ships entering those two ports for
! the seven years ending 1774. that
| 100000 Irishmen came into America
| during that period. DIR. Robert Baird
/ in his History of Religion in Amer
| innn ..a,.e tErnrnn 100 To 1-E0 about