General Notes

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Garrett and bro Miles Left county Cavan on ship Bonaventure  02 Jan 1634 depart ing from London, England captained by James Ricrofte  the  manifest l   lists G arrett age 24 and Miles age 20   They swore an oath of  allegiance to the ship' s captain and sailed for the Virginia Colonies. It is suppected that they debar ked at New Point Comfort in Virginia  near the Potomac River and Maryland. Whil e Miles and Garrett were in the Colonies, a rebellion in Ireland broke out in 1 641, and as a result the English took ten years to regain  control. As a conces sion to the Protestant Irish, Lord Protector Oliver  Cromwell allowed the Irish to purchase land and houses about 1650.  Garrett,  plied his trade as a carpen ter in the Colonies, but apparntly sold any free  land grants he had and bought his passage back to Ireland. Evidently  Garrett had heard of this change in En glish policy.  He purchased a six-room,  Thatched- roof house in the town of Ke lls, County Meath, Ireland.  Garrett  Reyley (Riley) appears on the "Valuation of Kells", a sort of tax roll, or  census, in the years 1655 and 1665