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Title: The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: American-Irish Historical Society
Subjects: American-Irish Historical Society Irish Americans Ethnology
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : The Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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s previous to that time this name, existingand well-recognized, appears in the record and laying out of thetract, as well as the construction (in 1761) of the first countyroad along the river front from Fort Shirley to Woolwich. Although the settlement seems never to have been entirelydeserted, there are no records extant from which the names ofthe settlers who first established themselves at Cork may now beobtained. Nor can any trace be found of their descendants, andthe farms along the Kennebec and Eastern riversare now occupied,for the most part, by the descendants of German immigrantswho came there in 1757 and called the place Dresden, which THE LOST TOWN OF CORK, MAINE. 183 name it still bears. Beyond the tradition among the older folkthat the spot was called Ireland, no one can be found in theneighborhood who has any knowledge of its early history, andin the prosaic lives led by these simple country folk, the thrillingand romantic episode of its first occupation by white men, of
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>■• ~ * Map of the Kenneuec District OB Location or Cork. another race, seems to have no interest whatever. ThoM who remained after the immigrants whom Temple removed Pennsylvania and Londonderry are ihown to have scattered toward Georgetown and neighboring settlements a\u\ in all probability some of those bearing Irish names, who are found on 184 AMERICAN IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY. the early records of those places, were among those who came withTemple in the immigration of 1718. Some of the names recordedin the town books and church registers indicate an Irish origin,while, in many other cases, such prenomens as Malachi, Brian,Patrick and the like, attached to surnames which may be ofEnglish or Norman origin, suggest an Irish nativity or descent.In some cases I observe that the Town Clerks were not alwaysuniform in their orthography, since the same name, when re-peated elsewhere, betrays a desire to get at the result by thephonetic method, as being the briefest road. Some of t

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