Series 6 - James Joseph McDonnell letters

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P/P155/69/6

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James Joseph McDonnell letters

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  • 1823-1832 (Creation)

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The Public Record Office of Ireland provided Kerby A. Miller with copies of transcripts of the James Joseph McDonnell Letters that had been deposited there. The deposited transcripts are now part of the National Archives of Ireland [reference number MS 999/49].

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Typed transcripts of the James Joseph McDonnell letters. Per handwritten note on one of the letters: 'Left Ireland after 1798 and settled in USA. Most letters to his sister, Henrietta French, French Lawn, Co. Roscommon. In 1843, he was appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, Hudson Co. New Jersey. He and his family were close friends of Bishop Hughes of N.Y.'

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