An article in New Hampshire Magazine describes the Irish-born “hermit of Goat Island,” James Murdock. Murdock fled Ireland for political reasons, arriving in Boston and taking jobs on schooners up the North Atlantic coast, during which he identified Goat Island in New Hampshire as a potential squatting site. He lived there from 1903 to 1925. The author notes that Murdock’s daughter could not assert ownership. Little today remains of Murdock’s presence there.