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1798 |
Alien Act is adopted in Philadelphia. |
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1820 |
By 1820, some 4,000 Irish-Catholics live in Boston. |
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1823 |
Anti-Irish attack occurs on today’s North Street (then Ann Street). |
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1824 |
Irish immigrants begin to settle in the North End. |
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1828 |
Series of anti-Irish attacks occur. |
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1830 |
Of Boston’s 61,392 residents, an estimated 7,000 are of Irish birth or descent. |
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10/01/1831 |
Missing Friends Column first appears in the Boston Pilot. |
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1832 |
Anti-Irish disturbance breaks out on Merrimac Street. |
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1833 |
Charlestown mob sack and burn the houses of Irish immigrants. |
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01/31/1835 |
Mayor Theodore Lyman Jr. warns of the threat posed by continued Irish immigration. |
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