![]() ![]() While research for that first book covered a period of fifteen years, its publication was merely an incident in the author's ongoing search for all details connected with the Donnellys and the community in which they lived and died. Its own members called it the Peace Society. Patrick's was implicated in the massacre to the extent that, when circumstances drove him to oppose the Donnellys, he founded a so-called property protective association which evolved into the vigilance committee. Two other sons had died not long before, one in mysterious circumstances still argued about to this day and another in a bar-room brawl. They died at the hands of their fellow church parishioners in their log house on a road known as the Roman Line near the village of Lucan in the County of Middlesex fifteen miles north of London, Ontario. This companion volume to The Donnelly Album, first published in 1977, which told how and why a vigilance committee of neighbors massacred several members of the Donnelly family in the early morning hours of February 4th, 1880, including the parents, James and Judy (or Johannah), their two sons and a niece. ![]()
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