Convict Ships

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During The Storm Of Revolution

See more about Lieutenant-General John Maunsell (1724-1795) here

"Twelve years passed, during which the storm of the Revolution was gathering, which burst at Lexington and Concord. As a soldier, Lieutenant-Colonel Maunsell felt himself bound to the service of the king, although his affections were strongly fixed on the home which he had adopted. He sailed for England in May, 1775, in company with the Hon. John Watts, Colonel Roger Morris, Isaac Wilkins, Esq., the Rev. Dr. Chandler, and other royalists, with introductions from Liutenant-Governor Colden warmly commending him to the prime minister and Lord Dartmouth. He had returned from a visit there only two years before. He left Mrs. Maunsell in their home in Greenwich, and returned for her the next year, having received an appointment in Ireland which relieved him from serving against his friends in America, to which he was greatly averse. He was given a post at Kinsale, where they remained till peace enabled them to retrace their way across the Atlantic to their home."

"Life in such a post could not have been an eventful one. He was promoted to a colonelcy on half-pay August 29, 1777. Mrs. Maunsell gives some glimpses of their life and of manners and customs among the gentry of the south of Ireland."

"Her [Mrs. Maunsell's] acquaintance with court and camp had not affected her stern integrity; in reproving one whom she thought extravagant and who had incurred a debt, she writes: "I think were I thus situated I would endeavour by every effort to extricate myself, and rather fare on dry bread, and be attired in the meanest apparel than accessory to lessen the substance of others." Husband and wife were of one mind in this high sense of honesty, for it is handed down that having been relieved of his post, which had required large transactions in supplies for the army, his superior greeted him with the jocose remark, as to a comrade who could not be ignorant of the secrets of official perquisites, "Well, General Maunsell, I suppose you have not neglected your opportunities to feather your nest," but was met with the indignant reply, "Sir, I would as soon defraud you as I would my king.'He left with "clean hands and a pure heart.'" [Source]

To Alexander McMillan (Et Al)

New York Probate Records, 1629-1971  New York Proceedings 1851-1852...:

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To Alexander McMillan (et al)

Heirs Of James McMillan

Powers Way Back History

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William O'Brien's Estate

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O'Brien, Honnori

Ireland

Probate File# 1848

Sister of Estate, Of County Of Limerick

Wayne County, Michigan
Probate File# 1848
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William O'Brien on the 1850 Mortality Census (died 25 April 1850).

Timothy McCoy's Probate

Wayne County, Michigan

Probate File# 10837

McCoy, Timothy

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Timothy McCoy, Died 23 April 1880

McCoy, Bridget (Mother) of Ireland

Woods, Mary (Sister) of Ireland

Lonuer [Larner?], Margaret (Sister) of Ireland

McCoy, John (Brother)

McCoy, Patrick (Brother)

McCoy, Gerald (Brother) Administrator

McCoy, Bridget (Sister)

Buckley, Ellen (Sister)

Gerald J. McCoy as Principal and Patrick Buckley as surety

Irish signatures certified in Tarbert, County Kerry, Ireland

Allan McDonald's Petition #167

Upper Canada Land Petitions (1763-1865)

Microform: c-2213

Petition #167

Township of Charlottenburgh

County of Glengarry

Native of Invernesshire in North Britain

To Canada in 1804

7 1/2 years in the British Fencible Regiment of Infantry

Discharged as a consequence of lameness

Actual service in Ireland in 1798

Has a large family of nine children

21 September 1833

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...vacant land between Lots 28 and 29 in the 5th Concession of the Township of Cornwall (gore of land)

Related To Richard Richmond Shepherd

Beecher family in Ireland, including Catherine, wife to Richard Richmond Shepherd:

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Related to Richmond ancestors (alternate theory):

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"Richard Richmond alias Shepard...."

About Richard Richmond alias Sheppard, of Babington
[The papers of Frederick Brown, formerly vicar of Nailsea, record that] Richard Sheppard, alias Richman, or Richmond, married Aug. 3rd 1571, Elizabeth, daughter of John Panter, of Keynsham Abbey, and relict of Edmund Tynte, of Wraxall (who died 1570), and by him had issue....[Source]

Oldest Known Survivor Of The Seminole War

Depiction Of Dade's Massacre At The Historical Site In Florida

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John W. Roche, the oldest known survivor of the Seminole War in Florida, died in Oswego, N.Y., last April.  He helped bury 106 victims of the Dade massacre... . (19 April 1911)

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[Roche] took part in the capture of Coacoochee, a famous Indian warrior chief in Florida.

Irish Stock

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"It is a great mistake to imagine that one can divide the Irish nation into three distinct races. The more one studies the origin and history of that nation the more apparent does it become how complete has been the fusion of Celtic, Danish, Norse, Norman, and Saxon stocks." [Source]

The Gael Of Alban Or Highlanders

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"The object....is....to show that the Gael of Alban,--or Highlanders of present Scotland, are descended from the Picts, who were identical with the Caledonians--and the only exception to this is, those who derive from the Irish Scots.....".

A Shanachy (Or Historian)

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Helen F. (Falconer) O'Brien, File# 13380

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O'Brien, Helen F.

Fort D.A. Russell is in Wyoming Territory

Died: 6 February 1887

Probate File #13380 was located on the Index Card

A search of Michigan Wills/Probate at  HeritageQuest using File# 13380, produced the following (see file documents online:

Name: Helen F O'Brien
Probate Date: 26 Feb 1887
Probate Place: Wayne, Michigan, USA
Case Number: 13380Source Citation: Probate Estate Packets, 1797-1901; Author: Michigan. Probate Court (Wayne County); Probate Place: Wayne, Michigan. Source Information: Ancestry.com. Michigan, Wills and Probate Records, 1784-1980 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Michigan County, District and Probate Courts.

Included was the following data:

Petition of Lyster M. O'Brien (husband), of the U.S. Army, at present stationed at Fort D.A. Russell

Helen F. O'Brien had no will

"  died at Fort D. A. Russell on February 6, 1887

She had personal property in Wayne County, Michigan (10,000 dollars)

Heirs: Husband; *Charlotte Ida O'Brien, age 8 4/12; Falconer O'Brien, age 4 10/12; Herbert Lyster O'Brien, age 1 month (all reside at the fort aforesaid)

FindAGrave Memorial for Helen (Falconer) O'Brien.

Lyster M O'Brien

United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890

Name Lyster M O'Brien

Event Place Fort Bridger, Uintah, Wyoming, United States

Lyster M. O'Brien mentioned in the record of *Charlotte O'Brien Nicholas

Name Lyster M. O'Brien

Wife Helen Falconer

Other information in the record of Charlotte O'Brien Nicholas, from Ohio Deaths

Name Charlotte O'Brien Nicholas

Event Type Death

Event Date 04 Mar 1920

Event Place Columbus, Franklin, Ohio

Marital Status Married

Birth Date 01 Oct 1878

Birthplace Columbus, Ohio

Burial Date 06 Mar 1920

Cemetery Green Lawn

Father's Name Lyster M. O'Brien

Father's Birthplace Monroe, Mich.

Mother's Name Helen Falconer

Mother's Birthplace Hamilton, Ohio

Spouse's Name E. Mithoff Nicholas

Ohio Deaths

Name Lyster M O'Brien

Event Type Death

Event Date 12 Apr 1912

Event Place Columbus, Franklin, Ohio

Marital Status Widowed

Occupation Retired Col. U.S.A.

Birth Date 07 Dec 1836

Birthplace Monroe, Michigan

Birth Year (Estimated) 1837

Burial Date 15 Apr 1912

Burial Place Washington, D.C.

Father's Name John O'Brien

Father's Birthplace Ireland

Mother's Name Charlotte Tull

Mother's Birthplace England

More about Lyster Miller O'Brien in "The Class of Fifty-eight, University of Michigan"....

Kings, Nobles And Freemen

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Various Flags

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Shelley, The Tory

From The Preston and Virginia papers:

John Maunsell, A Soldier Of Wolfe's

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From The magazine of American history...:


John Maunsell, a soldier of Wolfe's, who reached the rank of lieutenant-general, was a son of Richard Maunsell, of Limerick, M.P. from 1741 to 1761, and Jane, daughter of Richard Waller, Esq., of Castle Waller, county Tipperary, Ireland.

The subject of this sketch received his commission as ensign in 1741 at the age of seventeen. Another John Mansell, or Maunsell, as it is differently spelled, was commissioned in the third dragoon guards in 1753, and rose through all the grades in the same regiment, being senior captain in 1764, and became lieutenant-general in 1800; but their services were in widely different fields.

Philip Embury Memorial

See Philip Embury's portrait here.

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The Queen Of The Fairy Isle

Some of the details of Margaret Blennerhasset's interesting life are chronicled here (and are quoted below).

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"The lady, as it seems to me, was handsome and bright, laughing and talking with my mother. That lady soon became historical — her life a romance, and her name a theme of poetry, and a subject of eloquence. It was Madame Blennerhasset."

 "The public history of Blennerhasset and Burr is well known, but that of Margaret Blennerhasset is more interesting than either. It is seventy years since Wirt, in the trial of Burr, uttered his beautiful and poetic description of Madam Blennerhasset and the island she admired."

Restored Home Of Margaret Blennerhassett On Blennerhassett Island

"The 'Queen of the Fairy Isle' was destined to a fate more severe than if her lot had been cast in the rudest log cabin."

Governor Dobbs In New Hanover

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Dobbs, Arthur, Brunswick, in New Hanover County...

"Governor and Captain General of the Province of North Carolina." August 31, 1763. April 24, 1765. Sons: Conway Richard Dobbs, Edward Brice Dobbs. Wife: Justina. Brother: Reverend Doctor Richard Dobbs. Witnesses: James Hasell, Lewis DeRosset, John Sampson. Proven before Wm. Tryon.

"...instead of immoderate funeral expenses I desire that one hundred pounds Sterling money may be paid and distributed proportionately among the housekeepers of the Parrishes of Ballynure and Kilroot in the County of Antrim and Kingdom of Ireland... ."