National origins provision of immigration law

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Identifikator:: 1796380105

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-196168

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: National origins provision of immigration law

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: III, 171 S

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Statement of Samuel A. Mathewson, University Club, New York City

Collection:: Economics Books

116 NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW In the case of the two services, the Navy and the Army, the sim- plicity of warfare in those days enabled a man to be a seaman or sailor one day and a soldier the next day. } These facts are well recognized, and I should like to read from the introduction, or, rather, the preface, of Volume 1 of Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, which is a “ compila- tion of the records of the Massachusetts soldiers and sailors who served in the Army and Navy during the Revolutionary War, as shown in the archives in the office of the secretary,” and is stated : “ * * In crediting service to any given individual, no attempt has been made to force identification where a person of similar name has been found upon the rolls as serving at a distant and separate interval of time, in a differ- ent command, and without any place of residence stated * * * many of the rolls furnish no proof whatever as to residence of the men borne upon them * * * The principle was adopted of bringing together scattered records of service and crediting them to one individual where identification was proven by place of residence, by continuous service, or by service in the same command at not too widely separated intervals, when it might be fairly pre- sumed that the proofs of continuous service had failed of preservation and were only lacking from the State's collection. All records that failed to meet these tests are simply printed as they are found, and must stand as wunidenti- fed, * * = Now, here is another statement from the Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War: As the same name may appear under various forms, each carrying some por- tion of a record of service, it is necessary in order to obtain the complete record, as far as preserved, of any given individual, to examine all the forms under which a name is stated to appear in the record index * By way of illustration I will cite a few of these various ways of spelling the same name: Casady, Casaday, Casedy, Casety, Casity, Cassaday, Cassadey. Cassady, Cassiday, and so forth. Donahue, Donahew, Donehue, Donnahu, Donnohew, Donogho, Donohew, Dunahew, Dunehu, Dunnahew, 10 ways of spelling Dona- hue; numberless ways of spelling Farrel, numberless ways of spell- ing Ryan, and countless ways of spelling Sullivan; countless ways of spelling Murphey, Mahoney, Malone, and Maloney. So it is name after name. I examined about 20 out of 28 names which Mr. O’Brien listed and which he referred to in this way. He gave in one column the sur- name, in another column a number of times that he said that name appeared on the Revolutionary muster rolls, and then in another column the number of times it occurred in the census of 1790 in order to show the disparity between the two. I only took 20 out of those 28 names for comparison, because after that 8 of the 28 names there are so many different ways of spelling them that it was practically impossible to judge just how far to go or when to stop. But I took 20 of them, and out of those 20 names I listed what were in all prac- tical certainty 127 duplications. Out of those 425 total number of persons that he claims those represented I found 147 duplications. Now, as a matter of fact, in my opinion it is not at all improbable that instead of 147 there would be 247 duplications, because I was very caretul to take only those particular names which were palpably duplications. As a matter of fact, the burden of proof ought to be upon the person who maintains that two similar names in the Revolutionary

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