St. Botolph's town. Pro-English and Anti-Irish
feeling among the colonists.
Irish names that appear in Boston's colonial his-tory.
Causes of Irish emigration. Religious prejudice.
The authorities extend an invitation to the New-England colonists to settle in Ireland. The undesirableness of Ireland as a home at that time. The "Scotch-Irish." Visits of the Puritans to Ireland. American colonists of Irish descent. Declaration of the citizens of the town on the Catholic question. Extracts from the town records of Sept. 22, 1746. "Pope's night" in Boston. Burning the Pope in effigy. Gen. Washington appears on the scene. He reprimands the soldiers. The Abbe de la Poterie. Irish apostates. Difference in race between the " Scotch-Irish " and the Catholic-Irish. The Charitable Irish Society. " Of the Irish Nation." The Scots' Charitable Society. AJD. 1636. The Brecks of Dorchester. A numerous and distinguished family. An unrecorded deed. " Robert Breck of Galway, in Ireland, merchant." Florence Maccarty in Boston as early as 1686. Thaddeus Maccarty and family. Edward Mortimer, the mathematician and volunteer fireman.
Distinctively Irish names which appear in the register of births, marriages, and deaths, in Boston, from 1630-1700.
Under Cromwell's government many Irish people emigrate to New England. On their arrival they are sold as slaves. The reason why. In 1654 the ship " Goodfellow " arrives at Boston with a large number of Irish immigrants. What Cotton Mather says. The petition of Ann Glyn and Jane Hunter, spinsters, lately arrived from Dublin, Ireland. English criminals systematically sold to the colonists.
Daring pirates kidnap men and sell them to Americans. The brigantine " Bootle," Capt. Robert Boyd commanding, touches Boston in August, 1736. The selectmen order him not to let his passengers " Come on Shoar." II
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