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Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815
816
by Kerby A. Miller (Editor), Arnold Schrier (Editor), Bruce D. Boling (Editor), David N. Doyle (Editor)
Kerby A. Miller
Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815
816
by Kerby A. Miller (Editor), Arnold Schrier (Editor), Bruce D. Boling (Editor), David N. Doyle (Editor)
Kerby A. Miller
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Overview
Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan is a monumental and pathbreaking study of early Irish Protestant and Catholic migration to America. Through exhaustive research and sensitive analyses of the letters, memoirs, and other writings, the authors describe the variety and vitality of early Irish immigrant experiences, ranging from those of frontier farmers and seaport workers to revolutionaries and loyalists. Largely through the migrants own words, it brings to life the networks, work, and experiences of these immigrants who shaped the formative stages of American society and its Irish communities. The authors explore why Irishmen and women left home and how they adapted to colonial and revolutionary America, in the process creating modern Irish and Irish-American identities on the two sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan was the winner of the James S. Donnelly, Sr., Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences, American Council on Irish Studies.
Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan was the winner of the James S. Donnelly, Sr., Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences, American Council on Irish Studies.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780195045130 |
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Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Publication date: | 03/27/2003 |
Pages: | 816 |
Product dimensions: | 10.00(w) x 7.10(h) x 1.70(d) |
About the Author
Kerby A. Miller is Middlebush Professor of History at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Arnold Schrier is the Walter C. Langsam Professor Emeritus of History, University of Cincinnati. Bruce D. Boling is Senior Cataloger, University of New Mexico General Library. David Noel Doyle is Statutory Lecturer in History, University College-Dublin.
Table of Contents
Introduction | 3 | |
I | The Causes of Irish Emigration | |
1 | James Wansbrough, 1700-1728 | 13 |
2 | Alexander Crawford, 1736 | 24 |
3 | David Lindsey, 1758 | 28 |
4 | Henry Johnston, 1773-1800 | 30 |
5 | Walter Corish Devereux, 1798 | 39 |
6 | Margaret Wright, 1808 | 45 |
II | The Processes of Irish Emigration | |
7 | Anonymous Poet, Mid- to Late 1700s | 53 |
8 | Rev. James MacSparran, 1752 | 55 |
9 | Robert Parke, 1725 | 72 |
10 | John Rea, 1765 | 82 |
11 | James Orr, 1811 | 86 |
12 | John Smilie, 1762 | 90 |
13 | John O'Raw, 1809 | 94 |
14 | Thomas Hinds, 1795 | 103 |
15 | George Crockett, Jr., 1797-1807 | 107 |
III | Farmers and Planters | |
16 | John Blake, 1675-1676 | 121 |
17 | Samuel McCobb, 1729-1772 | 128 |
18 | Robert Witherspoon, 1734-1780 | 135 |
19 | James Magraw, 1733 | 143 |
20 | Mary Elizabeth McDowell Greenlee, 1737-1754 | 147 |
21 | James McCullough, 1748-1758 | 156 |
22 | Elizabeth Guthrie Brownlee Guthrie, 1755-1829 | 179 |
23 | Daniel Kent, 1786-1794 | 184 |
24 | John and Jane Chambers, 1796 | 196 |
25 | Joseph and Hannah Wright, 1801-1817 | 200 |
26 | Edward and Mary Toner, 1818 | 224 |
27 | James and Hannah Crockett, 1822 | 235 |
IV | Craftsmen, Laborers, and Servants | |
28 | Benjamin Chandlee, 1705 | 243 |
29 | John Kennedy, 1753 | 250 |
30 | Philip McRory, Ruth McGee, Edward Curry, Rosanna Stewart, Patrick M'Cullen, Ann Dougherty, Thomas Ralph, and Michael Wade, ca. 1735-1774 | 253 |
31 | John Grimes, John Fagan, John Johnson, 1765 | 268 |
32 | Francis Burdett Personel, 1773 | 275 |
33 | James Patton (1), 1783-1789 | 280 |
34 | Thomas McMahon, William Sotherin, and John Justice, 1789-1793 | 287 |
35 | James Doyle, 1789 | 292 |
36 | Stephen Fotterall, 1791 | 296 |
37 | Charles O'Hagan and Mary Dunn, 1796 | 300 |
38 | Samuel Brown, 1793-1815 | 303 |
V | Merchants, Shopkeepers, and Peddlers | |
39 | Francis Campble, 1737-1742 | 317 |
40 | Robert Pillson, 1764 | 323 |
41 | John O'Kelly, 1773 | 328 |
42 | Thomas Shipboy, Jr., 1774 | 331 |
43 | James Patton (2), 1789-1839 | 336 |
44 | Margaret Carey Murphy Burke, 1798 | 349 |
45 | Mary Cumming, 1814-1815 | 362 |
VI | Clergymen and Schoolmasters | |
46 | Rev. John Craig, 1734-1769/70 | 381 |
47 | Rev. Samuel Blair, 1744 | 400 |
48 | Bernard M'Kenna, 1811 | 415 |
VII | Irish Immigrants in Politics and War | |
49 | Rev. James McGregor and John McMurphy, 1720-1730 | 435 |
50 | Dr. Charles Carroll, 1748 | 452 |
51 | Silvester Ferrell, Charles Lewis Reily, Peter Warren Johnson, and George Croghan, 1745-1764 | 461 |
52 | Samuel Bryan, 1752 | 476 |
53 | Rev. Thomas Barton, 1758 | 487 |
54 | Thomas Burke, ca. 1766-1767 | 499 |
55 | Rev. Francis Alison, 1768 | 510 |
56 | John Morton, 1769 | 521 |
57 | John McDonnell, 1771 | 530 |
58 | James Caldwell, 1774 | 536 |
59 | Matthew Patten, 1774-1776 | 547 |
60 | John Phillips, 1783 | 559 |
61 | Job Johnson, 1784 | 567 |
62 | David Redick and AEdanus Burke, 1787-1788 | 572 |
63 | Daniel McCurtin, 1798 | 585 |
64 | Robert McArthur, 1802 | 596 |
65 | John Nevin, 1804 | 603 |
66 | Thomas Addis Emmet, 1806-1807 | 608 |
67 | William Heazelton, Jr., 1814 | 619 |
Epilogue | ||
68 | John Caldwell, Jr., 1802 | 631 |
Appendices | ||
1 | Text and Language | 649 |
2 | Irish Migration and Demography, 1659-1831 | 656 |
3 | Additional Documents | 678 |
Sources | 687 | |
Index | 765 |
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