William Healy/Haley - Irish?
Hello,
I am just starting to focus on my Healy/Haley line MA-Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and have not found much discussion about the origins of William Healy b. ca 1613 who lived in Cambridge, MAand died there 1683.Has the English-Irish discussion been settled at all?Below are some quotes from the "Pioneer English in New England" which do seem to support the Irish theory.Found on ancestry.com.
Sylvia
Pioneer Irish in New England
CHAPTER XVI
page 255
"Healy is another very common name in Massachusetts records. A Thomas Healey was at Cambridge as early as 1635 and Robert Healy was mentioned in a deed dated December 28, 1643, as owner of lands at Watertown.Registry of Deeds, Suffolk County, Mass., Lib. 1.14 William Healy was recorded several times at the Suffolk County Registry of Deeds. On March 24, 1649, John Roberts conveyed a house and lot to William Healy;Ibid.15 in October, 1650, William Healy was the grantor in a deed to Thomas Dudley, covering a plot of ground and barn;Ibid16 Robert Starkweather sold a house and lot to William Healy on March 31, 1652;Ibid17 and William Healy conveyed land to John Weld by deed dated June 16, 1659,Ibid., Lib. 3.18 the property in all four deeds being described as in Roxbury. This William Healy was a resident of Cambridge in 1664, in whose town records he was written down Willyam Heally, ye Iersman, and on August 17th of that year he signed a petition to the General Court with other residents of the town. He was the prison keeper at Cambridge from 1672 to 1682, when he was removed from office. He married five times, and in 1680 his wife, Sarah (Brown) Healy, to whom he was married at Charlestown on . ."
(Note the contemporaneous town records refer to William as "ye Iersman" [Irishman].This seems pretty compelling to me.Has anyone researched this further?).
Pioneer Irish in New England
CHAPTER XIII
page 218
"Daniel McGinnis located at Woburn, Mass., where he purchased a plot of ground from his countryman, Michael Bacon, by deed dated June 29, 1674, recorded in Middlesex County. In the vital records of the year 1675 he was called the first Irishman to settle in Woburn,Records of the Essex County Court, Vol. 2, p. 112.60 and he was also mentioned as an Irishman in a deed dated June 8, 1675, from John Tidd to Daniel McGinnis.Ibid., Vol. 3.61 From the fact that he was called an Irishman it might be inferred that that designation was given to him because his countrymen were then so rare in Woburn. However that may be, local seventeenth century records show that in addition to Daniel McGinnis men named Timothy Burke, James and William Butler, John Creagan, Robert Doyle, Thomas Geary, William Healy, Thomas Kenny and John Molony resided at Woburn, and several of these men served in a troop of cavalry raised in that town for King Philips War by Captain Thomas Prentice. In November, 1675, Captain Daniel Henchman recruited a company of twenty men for the war, and there were at least five Irishmen on the roll, Timothy Burke, William Healy and Dennis Sihie, or Sheehy. Also, Daniel Malony of Boston and John Molony, or, as he was also recorded, John Malloone of Woo-born- Towne. All were listed as on garrison duty at Dun-stable down to August, 1676, and the last mentioned ."
Pioneer Irish in New England
CHAPTER XVI
page 256
"Exclusive of the numerous persons of the name mentioned in records of the early part of the eighteenth century, we find Nicholas Healy of Pemaquid, Maine, who took the oath of fidelity in 1674, and Paul Healy who in 1675 settled at New Hampton, N.H.Provincial Papers of New Hampshire.19 The family evidently removed to Rehoboth, Mass., since in the parish registers at that place there were recorded Paul, Henry, Samuel, Thomas, William and Phebe, children of Paul Healy, all baptised on the same day, January 2, 1703,Rehoboth, Mass., Vital Records.20 and the death of Paull Healey appears in the vital records as of March 12, 1718. Nathaniel Healy of Newton or Cambridge served in King Philips War 1675-6,Bodges King Philips War, p. 171.21 and on July 14, 1681, he married Rebecca Hagar and brought up a large family at Watertown, Mass.Watertown, Mass., Vital Records.22 George Healy was one of twelve Tythingmen at Boston, appointed by the General Court in October, 1677;History and Antiquities of the City of Boston, by Samuel G. Drake, Vol. 2. . . "
Source Information:
O'Brien, Michael J., LL.D. Pioneer Irish in New England. New York, NY: P. J. Kennedy & Sons, 1937.
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