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Chapter 17 — What They Carried
Book Chapter
The people who left. The ships, the names, the Ohio communities, Kelly's letter home. The language carried across the Atlantic and dying there too. Emigration as loss, not adventure. The Manx world scattered — and what it carried with it.
Connections
Places
Period
- 1655–1900
Book Part
- Part III: Rank Is but a Guinea Stamp
- Crown Administration
- Emigration and Diaspora
Key Figures
- Key figures: Colonel William Christian, John Sayle, Letitia Tyler née Christian, Patrick Cannell, Thomas Kelly
- Patrick Cannell
- Ewan Christian of Lewaigue
- Illiam Dhone
- A.W. Moore
- Thomas Wilson
- Mark Hildesley
- Ned Maddrell
- Colonel William Christian (Virginia)
- Thomas Kelly
- Margaret Murray (remembered Manx)
- James McCrone
- Brian Stowell
- Douglas Faragher
- Bishop Murray
- William Clucas
- John Sayle (Ohio emigrant)
- Robert Christian of Cedar Grove
- Letitia Tyler, née Christian
- Patrick Henry
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