A New Yorker in Famine Ireland

IRISH immigrants to New York City in the 1830s and 1840s could be forgiven for looking upon Asenath Nicholson with suspicion. She was a Vermont-born Protestant devoted to spreading the Protestant version of the good word, at a time when anti-Catholicism was running high.

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