Thomas Addis Emmet was a lawyer who was heavily involved in
the United Irishmen organization in the 1790s. Born in Cork, he was arrested on
the eve of the 1798 rebellion and eventually settled in New York City, where he
lived out the remainder of his days. He died there in 1827.[1]
His grandson, Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet, amassed a considerable collection of important
documents and the collection was donated to the New York Public Library in
1896.[2]
One of those documents is a list of immigrants naturalized in
New York State between 1802 and 1814. Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet was known for his
pro-Irish independence sympathies and the vast majority of the 115 names on the
list are for men from Ireland. Importantly, the Irish county of birth is
provided for almost every entry.
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The names were transcribed and published in a 1963 edition of
the Bulletin of The New York Public
Library.[3]
This edition of the bulletin was digtized by Internet Archive and is freely
available online. Click here for access.
The Emmet Collection was digitized by the New York Public
Library and is available to view here.
[1] Thomas
Addis Emmet, born 1764, died 1827 in New York City, buried Saint Mark's Church
in the Bowery, New York, New York, memorial number 6813864; digital image, Find
A Grave (http;//www.findagrave.com), accessed 24 September 2016.
[2]
Thomas Addis Emmet collection, Archives and Manuscripts; The New York Public
Library (http://archives.nypl.org),
accessed 24 September 2016.
[3]
Wolfe, Richard J. Early New York Naturalization Records in the Emmet Collection
With a List of Aliens Naturalized in New York 1802-1814, Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Volume 67, Number 4, April
1963, pp. 211-217; accessed Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/earlynewyorknatu00wolf),
24 September 2016.
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