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Mary Ann Agar was born in Knockulard, Carlow County, Ireland on July 29, 1940. She was 5 years old when the Irish potato famine began in 1845 which lasted until 1852, devastating her homeland. Her father James Agar was a prosperous nail maker, so perhaps the famine didn't really affect them, there are no family stories about the Agars suffering from the famine. At the end of the famine her father James Agar emigrated to America in 1852, when she was twelve.
Two years later, in the Fall of 1854, James sent money to Mary's mother for the family to emigrate to America. It is believed they traveled from Liverpool, England to America on the ship 'Antarctic'. I have found no history on this ship, other than it is listed as an emigrant ship. For Mary Ann and her family it was one of the many 'coffin ships', with 87 passengers dying of "ship fever". Mary's mother Eliza and her younger brother James, just 5 years old, fell victim to this dreaded death. This description of the disease is found in the book entitled, "The Ocean Plague -- A diary of a coffin ship voyage" by Robert Whyte, who sailed from Liverpool in 1847.
"The first [symptom] is usually a reeling in the head, followed by a swelling pain, as if the head were going to burst. Next came excruciating pains in the bones, and then a swelling of the limbs, commencing with the feet, in some cases ascending the body and again descending before it reached the head, stopping at the throat. The period of each stage varied in different patients, some of whom were covered with yellow, watery pimples, and other with red and purple spots, that turned to putrid sores."
Long before a shot was fired at Lexington, Ethan Allen was banding together with his neighbors to fight the tyranny of New York's Governor, they called themselves the Green Mountain Boys.
On May 9th 1775, on their way north to Fort Ticonderoga, the Green Mountain Boys captured the settlement of Skenesbourgh where Joel and Deborah Prindle and their children were tenant farmers.
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