This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VWC.2ACI/980.13.1 Message Board Post: There is a Roger McGarry. He is mentioned several times-he replaced Thomas Reynolds as tresurer of the United Irishmen in March, 1798; "On the afternoon of the 24 May General Wilford, at Kildare, ordered his troops to Naas to reinforce General Dundas. Captain Winter at Monesterevan was in consequence aslo ordered to headquarters. On passing through Kildare he was persuaded, by Dominic William O'Reilly of Kildangan, not to burn the baggage of Wilford's troops which was lodged in the guardhouse. Following the retreat of government troop, 2000 rebels according to one estimate, headed by Roger McGarry entered the town. The abandoned baggage was now seized providing the rebels with better weaponry. The town was plundered, loyalists forced to flee, while those who remained ...were attacked....McGarry, who assumed control in Kildare town was probably a captain and had been a baronial committee member. James Malloy's evidence suggests he was a baronial treasurer in March...Monestere! van's ecavuation made an attack imminent. The town was now protected by 85 yeomen...The United Irish army attacked on the morning of May 25....The force apparently numbered around 1500 men in two groups, one led by Roger McGarry from Kildare. The action in the town was for some time 'very serious' but the patience of the infantry finally broke the rebels and the cavalry completed a rout. The defeated rebels fell back to Kildare." "On the morning of May 29 it appears a surrender was agreed...On the same morning General Sir James Duff arrived in Kildare with 500 troops. He planned to surround Kildare and 'make a dreadful example of the rebels'. He was probably unaware of the impending surrender. As Duff's troops approached Kildare the rebels retreated, assembling on Gibbet Rath (a fort) on the Curragh, apparently abandoned by Roger McGarry. ...Duff subsequently disarmed the group and ordered them to kneel and beg pardon. This being complied with, Duff ordered his troops to 'charge and spare no rebel' . This resulted in the death of 325 people. Whew!