This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...Bernard Gallagher, of maternal descent from Chancellor Nicholas Bacon. Disliking a parental plan for making him, an only son, a priest, he had escaped from Ballyshannon, Ireland, as a cabin boy, and when our Revolution began he had risen to the command of his vessel. Captured by an American cruiser, he adopted ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...Bernard Gallagher, of maternal descent from Chancellor Nicholas Bacon. Disliking a parental plan for making him, an only son, a priest, he had escaped from Ballyshannon, Ireland, as a cabin boy, and when our Revolution began he had risen to the command of his vessel. Captured by an American cruiser, he adopted the cause of his captors. In 1781, Captain Gallagher, living at Dumfries, Prince William County, Virginia, loaded a vessel at Alexandria with corn to provision Yorktown, dropped down the river and was chased by a British cruiser, which signalled that the cargo would be paid for, if surrendered. But, while parleying, the captain and crew scuttled their own ship and while attempting to escape in the yawl, Captain Gallagher was captured, and was held in chains at Halifax two years in the prison ships, until the peace. Thereafter, Washington was sometimes a guest of the Gallaghers at Dumfries, and at the request of Mrs. Gallagher (nee Strother), sat for his portrait. It is this portrait, painted by C. W. Peale, which the gallant Captain's grandson, Revd. Mason Gallagher of Brooklyn, enables me to present in this volume. It was painted when Washington was 55. It is an historic fact that, before the English connection blasted her trade, Ireland had a merchant marine of her own, that Irish vessels traded with American ports even as early as the third decade of the seventeenth century and that for many years prior to the War of the Revolution a continuous and substantial trade was maintained between Ireland and America. While no official statistics are now available which would indicate the extent of this trade, ample evidence in support of this assertion is found in the numerous advertisements of Irish-manufactured goods in the Colonial newspapers...
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Add this copy of The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society; to cart. $72.13, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2019 by Wentworth Press.
