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and Children’ (3-11-1849).
    The Irish Immigrant: ‘Brig Saint John Anniversary’ (13-12-1999); ‘Ninety-Nine Irish Lives Lost in Brig St. John Shipwreck’ (September 1999).
    The Pilot : George E. Ryan, ‘Wreck of Brig St. John’ (October, 1979).
    [ 2 ] Brig St. John of Galway was Cohasset’s Worst Shipwreck, Cohasset Historical Society. John Bhaba Jaick Ó Congaola collection.
    Diary of Elizabeth Lothrop (11-10-1849, 25-12-1849).
    [ 3 ] The Galway Vindicator: ‘Awful Shipwreck at Minot’s Ledge – Loss of St. John of Galway. About One Hundred Drowned – Men, Women and Children’ (3-11-1849).
    [ 4 ] Brig St. John of Galway was Cohasset’s Worst Shipwreck, Cohasset Historical Society. John Bhaba Jaick Ó Congaola collection.
    Comber, H., The Book of Thomas J. Comber and Eliza Comerford (n.d.). John Bhaba Jaick Ó Congaola collection.
    Miscellaneous articles and letters from the John Bhaba Jaick Ó Congaola collection: Article by Robert N. Fraser, the Curator of the Cohasset Maritime Museum (1-1-1979).
    Notes copied from Newcomb Bates (Jr), the Town Clerk of (Cohasset) (7-10-1849).
    The Boston Daily Herald : ‘Brig St. John of Galway, Ireland, Lost October 7, 1849, at Cohasset’; ‘List of Survivors and Drowned’; ‘The Burial of the Victims of the St. John – Melancholy Sight’ (12-10-1849).
    David Wadsworth, The Curator of the Cohasset Historical Society, ‘Information relating to the “ St. John ” wreck’, (8-3-1984). John Bhaba Jaick Ó Congaola collection.
    The Pilot : George E. Ryan. ‘Wreck of Brig St. John ’ (October 1979).
    Ã“ Congaola, John Bhaba Jaick, ‘The Wreck of the Brig St. John .’
    [ 5 ] Boston Sunday Herald : ‘Cohasset Ceremony Recalls Shipwreck’ (10-10-1999).
    Fraser, Robert, Cohasset Vignettes (1981).
    The Boston Daily Herald : ‘Brig St. John of Galway, Ireland, Lost October 7, 1849, at Cohasset’; ‘List of Survivors and Drowned’; Joe McLaughlin, ‘Tell it to Joe – Monument to shipwrecked Irish’ (8-7-1976).
    The Boston Irish Echo : Paddy Mulkerrins, ‘More on the Ill-Fated Brig, St. John – Remembers the St. John ’ (14-4-1984); Bill Loughran, ‘More on the Ill-fated Brig, St. John ’ (14-4-1984); Paddy Mulkerrins, ‘Survivors Found’ (letter to editor); Bill Loughran, ‘The Ill-fated Brig St. John ’ (14-1-1984).
    The Patriot Ledger : Edward Rowe Snow, ‘Brig Wreck Killed 143 Off Cohasset’ (6-10-1959); Laura Doherty, ‘Celtic Cross: Cohasset’s Memorial to a Shipwreck’; ‘Ceremonies to Honor Irish Shipwreck Victims’ (6-10-1999).
    Article by Robert N. Fraser, the Curator of the Cohasset Maritime Museum, 1-1-1979.
    [ 6 ] The Irish World and American Industrial Liberator and Gaelic American : Frank Durkan, ‘Death of a Famine Ship’ (6-10-1984).
    Article by Robert N. Fraser, the Curator of the Cohasset Maritime Museum, 1-1-1979.
    The Patriot Ledger : Edward Rowe Snow, ‘Brig Wreck Killed 143 Off Cohasset’ (6-10-1959); Laura Doherty, ‘Celtic Cross: Cohasset’s Memorial to a Shipwreck’; ‘Ceremonies to Honor Irish Shipwreck Victims’ (6-10-1999).
    The Pilot : George E. Ryan, ‘Wreck of Brig St. John ’ (October 1979).
    [ 7 ] The Boston Irish Echo : Paddy Mulkerrins, ‘More on the Ill-fated Brig, St. John – Remembers the St. John ’ (14-4-1984); Bill Loughran, ‘More on the Ill-fated Brig, St. John ’ (14-4-1984); Paddy Mulkerrins, ‘Survivors found’ (letter to editor); Bill Loughran, ‘The Ill-fated Brig St. John ’ (14-1-1984).
    Ã“ Congaola, John Bhaba Jaick, ‘The Wreck of the Brig St. John ’.

X – Commemoration and Remembrance
    Henry David Thoreau’s observations as he walked the Cohasset shoreline on 9 October 1849 are an important part of the St. John story. One