David Irish (1757 - 1815)

Born 21 Dec 1757 in Pawling, Dutchess, New York

Ancestors

Husband of Mercy (Sweet) Irish — married about 1776 in Pawling, Dutchess County, NY [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 13 Sep 1815 at age 57 in Aurelius, Cayuga, New York, USA

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Biography

David Irish was born to Benjamin Irish and Elizabeth West in Pawling, Dutchess County, NY on 21 Dec 1757. He married Mercy Sweet there, and their older children, they had at least 15 together, were also born there. Shortly before 1800, several allied families moved to the Finger Lakes area of NY state, settling on the west side of Cayuga Lake in Scipio and Aurelius in Cayuga County. David's younger children were born here. David was a Baptist minister, and was the founder of many Baptist churches in central and western NY. He died at 58 years, in 1815 and is buried in Galpin Hill Cemetery in Aurelius. Some of his children, particularly the older ones remained in central NY, but a number had migrated to MI and WI by 1840's

David and Mercy Sweet Irish had children: (according to Descendants of John Irish, e-version), in approximately this order. (The Willis Luther Irish Genealogy has several serious errors and omissions. It took years of searching for "evidence" that my gg gf Joseph Eastman Irish, "Eastman" in family records, was his son.)

Mary, m. William Daniels; Esther, m. Michael Pearsall; Eleanor, b.@1780, nothing more known; Hannah, m. David Jones; Eunice/Phebe, m. Daniel Carver; Lydia, m. James Gaston; Thankful, m. David Sherman Sears; Lorraine, m. Elijah Wheeler; David, m. Eunice Powell; Sarah, m. Thomas Prall; Benjamin, m. Sally Tyler; Dorcas, m. Joshua Calkins; Joseph Eastman, m. Abigail Miner; Mercy, m. James Brown; Lois, m. Reuben Jones; Amanda, never married;

Sources

"The Descendants of John Irish, the Immigrant, 1629-1963 and Allied Families", by Willis Luther Irish and Stella Bertha Putnam Irish, 1964, The Dingley Press, Freeport, Maine, accessed at Ancestry.com.

(David 6, Benjamin 5, Jedediah 4, Jedediah 3, John 2, John 1)

• findagrave.com

• Descendants of John Irish - e-version:

http://www.lthome.com/genealogy/