Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

DELAR
JAMES DELAP.
' In 1688, when William and Mary ascended the throne of
England, manufacturing industry had given wealth and prosperity
to Ireland. In the first year of their reign the royal assent was
given to laws passed by both Houses of Parliament, to discourage
the manufactures of Ireland which competed with those of England.
Lord Fitzwilliam says that by this inviduous policy 100,000
operatives were driven out of Ireland. Many of the Protestants
to Germany, some of the Catholics to Spain, and multitudes of
all classes to America. Dobbe, on Irish trade, printed in Dublin .
in 1729, estimated that 3000 males left Ulster yearly for the
colonies.
The tolerant policy of William Penn, induced many to settle
in Pennsylvania. The arrivals at the port of Philadelphia, of Irish
emigrants, for the year ending December 1729, was 5,655. The
satiriol Dean Swift reproached the aristocracy for their suicidal
impolicy "in cultivating cattle and banishing men."
The Irish emigrants who came over at the close of the 1 7tb
and the beginning of the 18th centuries, were a very different
class from those who now throng to our shores. Very few could
claim a purely Celtic ancestry. Those from the north of Ireland
were descendants of Scots who had settled there and were known
as Scotch Irish. Many were descendants of English parents, and
of the Huguenots who found an asylum in Ireland after the
Eevocation of the Edict of Nantz. A large proportion of them
were tradesmen, artisans, and manufacturers. Many settled in
the Southern States. Londonderry, in New Hampshire, -was
settled by the Scotch Irish, and several towns in Maine. Many
settled in various towns in New England, and not a few of the
most noted men in our country trace their descent from these
Irish refugees. Among these are some families of the name of
Allison, Butler, Cathern, Carroll, Clinton, Fulton, Jackson, Knox,
McDonouah, Ramesy, Read, Sullivan, Walsh, Wayne, and many
others distinguished in the annals of our country. Of the fiftv-