Irish

James Boice (Boies) (1702-1798) was an Irishman who came to Milton, Massachusetts and began a paper works at Mattapan.   Teele, The History of Milton, Mass., 397.

Walter Powers (1639-1708) was an Irish indentured servant who removed to Concord, Massachusetts by 1654 to become a farmer and a millowner. He purchased land at Nashoba from Thomas Waban in 1694 and received more Indian property from his father-in-law Deacon Ralph Shepard. John M. Hudson, History of Concord, 390. Carrier, How Neshobe Came up into the Mountains (Newport, VT: 1914), 9. William Powers (www.powershistory.com/powers/walter.shtml.

William Mattison was the husband of Charlotte Peters of Chappaquiddick, Massachusetts.  The couple had five children: Samuel, Elizabeth, William, Love, and Micheal.  Mattison disappeared for a number of years around 1800 and was presumed dead, although he may have been at sea.  Pierce and Segel, Wampanoag Families of Martha's Vineyard, 513-515.

Born in Ireland, John S. Sweeney was a farmer in Grafton, Massachusetts.  Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841-1915 (Grafton), Ancestry.

Peter George Cooper, the son of John Cooper, was a member of the Mohegan community of Montville, Connecticut.  In 1829 he married Phebe Waukeet.  Cooper was a mariner who sailed out of New London on several occasions.  His height on crew lists was noted as 5'8.

Born in County Cork, Ireland, Sir Robert Southwell was a graduate of Queen’s College, Oxford (1655) and member of Lincoln’s Inn who rose to become an English diplomat, Member of Parliament, and President of the Royal Society (1690-1695).  ODNB.  History of Parliament Online.

Philip Mortimer was born in Ireland and settled in Middletown, Connecticut where he became a wealthy rope maker, taking advantage of the city’s budding shipbuilding industry.  He was commissioned captain of Connecticut’s Sixth Regiment (1759).  In 1756, Mortimer was among the Middletown selectmen who petitioned the Connecticut General Assembly for recovery of the money paid to support the elderly Wangunk sachem, Cushoy.  Denis R. Caron, A Century in Captivity: The Life and Trials of Prince Mortimer, a Slave (Durham, N.H.: University of New Hampshire Press, 2006).

Joshua Cooper was the son of Samuel and Betty Cooper of Mohegan, Connecticut.  His name appears on several Mohegan petitions from 1789 to 1802.  IP 1.1.160; 1.2.328, 331; 2.1.45, 47, 48, 50, 68, 69.

Betty Cooper was the daughter of Joshua Cooper and Tabitha Occom Johnson of the Mohegan Tribe in Montville, Connecticut.  She married Daniel Bohema and had six children, four of which were Sarah E., Charles D., Jerome B., and Lucy Bohema.  At the time of her death, the Bohemas were living in Massachusetts.  Brown and Rose, Black Roots, 34