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Kerr Family Chronicles - Christopher E. Brennen (3684 words) |
 | Mary Kerr died at the age of 60 and was buried in the Clonfeacle Parish graveyard on Jun.13, 1895. |
 | Anthony Kerr was a farmer in the townland of Mullycarnan, parish of Clonfeacle. |
 | This James Andrew Kerr was married in the Church at Derrygortreavy on Jun.22, 1894, to Annie Ford, 26, a spinster from Mullycarnan, the daughter of deceased farmer Robert Ford. |
| Empresario Green DeWitt & Major James Kerr (5214 words) |
 | James Kerr arrived with his wife, three children and fl servants, among whom were Shade, Jack and Annis, at the mouth of the Brazos River in Feb 1825. |
 | Kerr was severely suspicious and critical of land speculators as exampled in a letter to Chambers in Jul 1835 in which he suggested that several critics of the the Mexican government were motivated by it. |
 | As late as Jan 1836, Major Kerr made it clear in a letter of that date that independence to him meant the independence of Texas as a state of the Republic of Mexico under the Constitution of 1824 and that the fight was in its defense and against its subversion by the Centralista dictatorship. |