Some dead ends for me but perhaps useful to other researchers.

NOTE 1. From "History of Worcester, Massachusetts, from its Earliest Settlement To September, 1836 with Various Notices Relating to the History of Worcester County" by William Lincoln:

At page 144:

"Between the dismission of Mr. Gardner and the settlement of his successor, the Rev. Samuel Jennison, son of Hon. William Jennison of Worcester, who died in that part of Sudbury now Wayland, October 14, 1729, aged 29, Mr. Fitzgerald, and Mr. Richardson, were employed to preach occasionally. The sum of 2 pounds 3 shillings was paid to them for the services of the Sabbath."

At pages 163-4:

"PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

A church was gathered of the Scotch emigrants, soon after their arrival in this town in 1719. They were accompanied, it is said, by the Rev. Edward Fitzgerald, from Londonderry, in Ireland, who preached to the society during some months. They assembled for religious worship in the old garrison house, near the intersection of the Boston and Lancaster roads. As the meeting house they attempted to rear was destroyed, it is probable they continued to occupy this humble edifice.

Little care was taken to preserve the memorials of this unoffending but persecuted people, whose history discloses only the injustice and intolerance of our ancestors. Few facts can now be ascertained of their struggle with prejudices and hostility, which finally drove them away to seek asylum in other states.

The number of Presbyterian communicants is said to have been nearly equal to those of the Congregational church. Mr. Fitzgerald, being unable to procure proper maintenance, removed, before the settlement of Mr. Burr. The members of the first parish had proposed an union, and the Presbyterian clergyman had once been invited to occupy the pulpit vacated by the dismission of Mr. Gardner, for a single Sabbath, when no candidate could be procured. The request was not repeated, and no encouragement was held out to him to remain."

NOTE 2. From "The Colonial Clergy and the Colonial Churches of New England" by Frederick Lewis Weiss, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1977 (originally published Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1936):

Page 85:

"EDWARD FITZGERALD, minister of Presby. Scotch-Irish Church. in Worcester, ca 1718-1725; Presby."

Page 280:

"WORCESTER, Mass. 1718

First Presbyterian Church.

1725-1725. Edward Fitzgerald

1725-1736. William Johnston"

NOTE 3. Excerpt from Vol. II, "Irish Settlers In America" A Consolidation of Articles from The Journal of the American Irish Historical Society written by Michael J. O'Brien :

"Edward Fitzgerald taught school at Boscawen, N. H., as early as 1734, and is described in the annals of the town as "a man of good education" and "one of the most active and influential men in the settlement" He is listed among "The First Settlers at Boscawen." <The teaching of school by "our" Edward Fitzgerald is highly unlikely. The man in all cases found to date made his mark instead of signing his name.>

NOTE 4.

From the GENEALOGY COLUMN OF THE BOSTON TRANSCRIPT:

A. March 16, 1921:

"5. FITZGERALD. Ancestry wanted of Edward FitzGerald, who was born in Ireland, and came to this country prior to 1734, married Mehitable Uran, sister of John Uran of Boscawen, N. H. He lived in Boscawen many years, and is supposed to belong to famous Irish family of FitzGerald."

B. June 16, 1930:

"FITZGERALD. Edward Fitzgerald, born in Ireland, 1718, went from Newbury, Mass., to Boscawen, N. H. in company with John Corser, and was one of the first settlers there. He married, 1740, Mehitable Urann, daughter of Richard Urann of Haverhill and Penacook, New Hampshire.

The History of Boscawen states that he was an officer in the Military Company there in 1743.

The Corser Genealogy states that the Fitzgeralds of Boscawen were of the same family as the Duke of Leinster. All family traditions are to the effect that this is a royal line. Is this Edward Fitzgerald a brother of James, Duke of Leinster? He named his first son James. Can any reader of the Transcript give the parentage of Edward, and his place of birth in Ireland? Where could one write to obtain Irish records? Any suggestion as to the solution of this problem gratefully received."

C. November 21, 1935:

"(1131) FITZGERALD, CLARK, BAILEY. I am trying to trace the ancestry of Daniel Fitzgerald of Gilmanton, N. H., born 1765, died April 30, 1822; married Nancy Clark of Gilmanton. I cannot find records of his parents but understand that his grandfather was Lord Edward Fitzgerald of Ireland.

Family tradition has it that Lord Edward had three sons and a daughter who crossed the Atlantic about the time of the American Revolution, and all three sons fought in the Revolution. One was killed, one died, and the third survived. One of these was Daniel's father. The daughter was the first woman to spin tow and flax in America.

I have seen the names of a Michael Fitzgerald of Nottingham, N. H. who fought in the revolution and of a John Fitzgerald of Portsmouth, also a Joseph Fitzgerald of Portsmouth, who fought in the Revolution. I cannot gather any information about them. One of these may have been the father of Daniel. Can anyone give me the families of these Fitzgeralds?

From Daniel (born 1765), I have the following Fitzgerald line:

Son: Daniel Fitzgerald, born 1791, Gilmanton. N. H. married Lucy Nurse. Daniel died 1869 in Wisconsin.

Son: Timothy Fitzgerald (born when?) Warren, N. H., married Sarah Abigail Bailey. Died January 6, 1884, in Missouri.

Son: Charles Albert Fitzgerald, born May 15, 1859, Warren, N. H.., married Eva Alice Hamblett, August 29, 1883.

E. J. F. N. "

D. December 5, 1935:

"1131. FITZGERALD, CLARK, URAN, E. J. F. N., Nov. 21, 1935. I am interested also in the Fitzgeralds, particularly those of Portsmouth and vicinity, and have some information about them which I hope to develop so as to get my own line back from Ezekial Fitzgerald (born about 1780) to the original settler of this name.

If your family tradition is at all correct, I think you will not find the rest of your line in Portsmouth. There were Fitzgeralds there as early as 1725, when Morrice Fitzgerald is listed as on the muster roll of Colonel Westbrook's Company. From that time on to the Revolution, there appear in church records items relating to various Fitzgeralds which I have not yet had opportunity to arrange definitely, but which seem to indicate by similarity of names, at least a single fairly small family group. There are no distinctly Irish names among them, and it has always been the tradition in my family that these Fitzgeralds were English not Irish.

I have some items of a different line of Fitzgeralds which may be of some assistance. Edward Fitzgerald, born in Ireland, came to Newbury, Mass., and was one of the original group to go from that town to settle in Boscawen, N. H., in 1733. (Boscawen is about fifteen miles from Gilmanton.) He married Mehitable Uran, and they had a large family, the oldest born in 1742, and the youngest in 1766, according to the record in the town history of Boscawen. Of the three sons, James died at Ticonderoga; Edward married Abbyneezer Corser and had fifteen children; John married Polly Corser and had six children.

There is no Daniel in the family and the sons are too young to have been, either of them, the father of one born in 1765; but I wonder if the record may have omitted a son of Edward, Sr., born at that time, between John 1761, and Martha, 1766, the last two recorded children. The nearness of Boscawen to Gilmanton, the fact Edward, Sr., was born in Ireland, and the death of the son James at Ticonderoga, would seem to point to this as a possible help in your problem.

The Newbury Vital Statistics give no clue to the supposed brothers who came from Ireland, but do contain this item, which may or may not have a connection: 'Married. December 28, 1736, Jane Fitzgerald. "an Irish Woman," and Joseph Scott of England." This may well be the sister who came from Ireland; the marriage date is only three years after Edward went to Boscawen.

I hope that you may be able to use this information, and also that in replies to your query I may find the answers to my questions about the Portsmouth Fitzgeralds, on whom I have been working for some time, but without an opportunity to verify my tentatively assigned relationships through reference to probate records and deeds. A. L. C. M."