Hubbards, Schoonovers, Weathers and Smiths of Indiana:Information about THOMAS O' DOOLEY
THOMAS O' DOOLEY (b. 1670, d. 20 Aug 1774)
Notes for THOMAS O' DOOLEY:
ID: I151
Name: THOMAS O' DOOLEY
Sex: M
Birth: 1670 in ULSTER COUNTY, NORTHWEST IRELAND
Note:
Note: LIVED IN ULSTER IRELAND AND HAD AT LEAST TWO SONS THAT CAME TOAMERICA IN THE 1726.
THE SCOT-IRISH BEGAN IMIGRATING TO AMERICA IN THE 1720'S.
MOSTLY THEY WERE POOR FARMERS THAT HAD LOST THEIR LAND OVER AHALF CENTURY BEFORE DURING THE CROMELIAN WAR OF 1640.
THOMAS O'DOOLEY STAYED BEHIND MOST LIKELY DUE TO THE TERRIBLETRAVEL CONDITIONS ON THE SHIPS. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT HE WASSETTLED IN HIS WAYS, OR MAYBE HE WAS SICK.
DURING THESE TRIPS FROM NORTHERN IRELAND TO AMERICA THE DEATHRATE WAS QUITE HIGH. 15 %
THE SHIPBOARD CONDITIONS WERE WRETCHED. IN 1720 THE BRITISHGOVERNMENT ATTEMPTED TO REFORM THE CONDITIONS OF THESE SHIPS TOALLOW EACH PASSENGER A 6 FOOT X 18 INCH SPACE. THIS DID NOTMAKE ALLOWANCES FOR THE CHILDREN OF THAT PASSENGER. SUCHATTEMPTS TO REDUCE " TIGHT PACKING" DID LITTLE TO IMPROVESHIPBOARD LIFE. CRAMMED BETWEEN DECKS IN STIFLING AIR,PASSENGERS SUFFERED FROM SMALL POX, FEVERS, ROTTEN FOOD, IMPUREWATER, COLD AND LICE. CHILDREN BETWEEN THE AGES OF ONE ANDSEVEN RARELY SURVIVED. IT WAS COMMON FOR PARENTS TO WATCH THEIRCHILDREN SUFFER MISERABLE, DIE AND BE THROWN INTO THE OCEAN.
"MEN WHO EMIGRATE ARE FROM A NATURE OF THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES, THEMOST ACTIVE, HARDY, DARING,BOLD AND RESOLUTE SPIRITS ANDPROBABLY THE MOST MISCHIEVOUS ALSO" REPORTED AN ENGLISHMAN
IN THE 1730'S ALONE OVER 80,000 IMMIGRANTS ARRIVED INTO AMERICA.THESE IMMIGRANTS WERE FROM ULSTER COUNTY IRELAND, (THE SCOT-IRISH COMMUNITY), GERMANY AND SLAVES FROM AFRICA. BY THE ENDOF 1760 THEY COMPOSED OF ONE-FIFTH OF THE POPULATION. OF COURSETHE LARGEST GROUP OF IMMIGRANTS CAME FROM AFRICA.
THE SECOND LARGEST GROUP BEING THE SCOT-IRISH. SEVERAL THOUSANDFROM NORTHERN IRELAND ARRIVED EACH YEAR AFTER THE PEACE OFUTRECHT IN 1713 REOPENED THE ATLANTIC SEA LANES.
MOSTLY POOR FARMERS THESE SCOT-IRISH STREAMED INTO THE SAMEBACKGROUND COUNTRY AREAS WHERE THE GERMANS WERE SETTLING, THOUGHMORE OF THEM FOLLOWED THE MOUNTAIN VALLEYS SOUTH INTO THEVIRGININAS, CAROLINAS AND GEORGIA.
MINGLING WITH THE GERMANS THESE ULSTER COUNTY FAMILIES WASHEDOVER THE RIDGES OF THE APPALACHIA MOUNTAINS UNTIL THEIR APPETITEFOR LAND BROUGHT THEM FACE TO FACE WITH THE ANCIENT OCCUPIERS OFTHE LAND. INDIANS. NO MAJOR INDIAN WARS OCCURRED BETWEEN 1715AND 1754, BUT THE FRONTIER BRISTLED WITH TENSION AS THE NEWSETTLERS PUSHED WESTWARD.
THESE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY IMMIGRANTS HAD COME FROM MANY RUNGS ONTHE SOCIAL LADDER. FARMERS, SKILLED CRAFTSMEN AND SHOPKEEPERS.THEY FORMED THE BACKBONE OF THE SOCIETY. BY ARRIVING INTOAMERICA THEY ROSE UP A NOTCH OR TWO IN SOCIETY.
THIS WAS THE BEGINING OF THE POPULATION BOOM.
ONCE HENRY AND THOMAS (JR) ARRIVED IN AMERICA THEY HURRIED TOAREAS WHERE PROMOTERS PROMISED THEM CHEAP AND FERTILE LAND.
More About THOMAS O' DOOLEY:
Date born 2: 1670, Ulster, Northwest, Ireland.733
More About THOMAS O' DOOLEY and REBEKAH:
Marriage: 1692, Ireland.733
Children of THOMAS O' DOOLEY and REBEKAH are:
- +Henry Dooley, b. 1710, Ulster, Ireland734, d. 08 May 1772, Botetourt, Virginia, USA734.
- Thomas Dooley, b. 1711, Ulster, Ireland735, d. 1830, Rocking Bridge, Virginia, USA735.