1662
Irish settlers from Cork founded the town of Kinsale in Virginia.

1670
Charleston, South Carolina was settled by Irish and English emigrants.  Sullivan's Island in Charleston harbor is named after Captain Florence O' Sullivan who commanded one of the convoys.

1677
East Greenwich, Rhode Island was founded by a group of forty-eight immigrants led by Charles McCarthy of Cork.

1678
About 100 Irish families destined for Virginia and the Carolinas sailed from Barbados .

1680
Hartford and Cecil Counties, Maryland, and part of Newcastle County, Delaware were deeded to a George Talbot and settled by Irish immigrants.

1682
Sir Thomas Dongan (1634- 1715), born in Kildare, was named governor of New York.

1683
Salem County, New Jersey was settled by Irish immigrants from Tipperary.

1690
Andrew Meade, from Kerry, settled in Nansemond County, Virginia. General George Meade, victor of the Battle of Gettysburg was one of  his descendants.

1696
Burlington County, New Jersey was settled by Irish immigrants from Waterford.

1698
A law was enacted in South Carolina to discourage the settlement of Irish..

1704
To discourage the entry of Catholics into Maryland laws were passed  (and again in 1715) that excluded or imposed duties upon the importation of all "Irish servants."

1710
The Blue Ridge region of Virginia was settled by the McDowell, McDuffle, and McGruder families from the north of Ireland.

1718
Londonderry, New Hampshire was settled by a group of families who sailed from Donegal.

1720
In a three year period several thousand Irish immigrants settled in Boston    prompting the Governor to complain about  the "public burden"   and the General Court of Massachusetts to warn immigrants from Ireland to leave the colony within seven months.

1721
Ulster sent more than 3000 of its citizens to America between this date and 1742.

1736
A grant of  land west of the Blue Ridge Mountains to James Patton of   Londonderry led to the settlement of. Augusta County, Virginia.

County Down settlers established themselves on the banks of the Opequan River in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

1737
The Charitable Irish Society was established on St. Patrick's Day in Boston by twenty-six Irish immigrants. This oldest Irish society in the United States was founded "to aid unfortunate fellow countrymen, to cultivate a spirit of unity and harmony among all Irishmen in the Massachusetts colony and their descendants, and to advance their interests socially and morally."

1743
A district in the lower Shenandoah Valley occupied by Irish settlers was known as "the Irish Tract".

1760
John Lynch, from Galway, settled in Virginia. Sons and grandsons attained military and political prominence.

1762
The house of John Marshall at Mount Pleasant, near King's College, [later Columbia] was the site of the first recorded celebration of  St. Patrick's Day in New York City

1768
The Wesley Chapel on John Street in New York City, the first Methodist church in America, was established by Irish Methodists, led by Philip Embury of Ballingane.

1771
A group of Irish Americans, including John and Edward Rutledge later governors of South Carolina founded The Friendly Brothers of St. Patrick in Charleston, South Carolina.

1772
Forced to leave North Ireland by harsh rents and economic conditions, a wave of emigrants aggregating some 30,000 Ulstermen over the next five years, sailed for the new world.

1774
The gateway to the Northwest Territory was opened when a British contingent under an Irishman, Colonel Andrew Lewis, defeated the Shawnee Indians at Point Pleasant on the Ohio River during the Revolutionary War. Lewis joined the patriots in 1776 and was named a brigadier general in the Continental Army.

1775
The settlement of Kentucky was pioneered by Daniel Boone and other Irish compatriots   including McGrady, Harland, and McBride.