Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815 Book

	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 McGree, 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 (I), 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
App. 1	Text and Language	649
App. 2	Irish Migration and Demography, 1659-1831	656
App. 3	Additional Documents	678
	Sources	687
	Index	765