Irish immigrants in the land of Canaan : letters and memoirs from colonial and revolutionary America, 1675-1815 / written & edited by Kerby A. Miller ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Kerby A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irish Americans--History--Sources.

Irish Americans.

Irish Americans--Biography.

History.

Immigrants.

United States.

Immigrants--United States--History--Sources.

Immigrants--United States--Biography.

United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Biography.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Biography.

United States--History--1783-1865--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Sources.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 788 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

The histories of the United States and of Ireland are inextricably intertwined. Just as the Great Migration had a formative influence on the young American republic, so too have the experiences of the Irish in America resonated back across the Atlantic, profoundly affecting ethnic and political identities in Ireland and Britain. Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan re-creates, in their own words, the experiences of scores of the first Irish-Americans, revealing why immigrants left Ireland, how they adapted to their new homeland, what challenges they faced, and how they ultimately persevered in a difficult, often hostile environment. From hard-bitten frontier women to homesick merchant's wives, revolutionary soldiers to radical idealists, statesmen and politicians, loyalists and conservatives, the upwardly mobile and the spectacularly wealthy, criminals, indentured servants, debtors, farmers -- the volume distills a vast trove of letters, diaries, and memoirs, offering up a definitive first-hand portrait of the Irish diaspora. A truly monumental work, compiled and edited by four of the world's foremost experts on Irish immigration to America, Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan draws on a collective century of research and experience to provide an unprecedented historical panorama of early American history.

Contents:

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

68 John Caldwell, Jr., 1802 631

1 Text and Language 649

2 Irish Migration and Demography, 1659-1831 656.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 687-764) and index.

ISBN:

0195045130

0195154894

OCLC:

50477195