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DESCENDANTS
OF JOHN IRISH
7.
THE DESCENDANTS OF IRISH, JESSE4, JONATHAN3, JOHN2,
JOHN1)
138.
IRISH, Jesse4, (Jonathan3, John2, John1)
b.
9-26-1712 at Tiverton, Rhode Island; d, in Danby, Vermont.
139.
m. 3-21-1733, Mary Albee, b. 4-12-1710 at Mendon, Mass., dau. of James and
Mary
(Thayer) Albee. She d. after 5-29-1792 in Danby, Ver-
mont.
They were Quakers. He was a Freeman in Westerly,
R.
I. in 1736 and in Danby, Vermont in 1778. They moved from
N.
Kingston, Washington County, R. I. to Quaker Hill, Dutch-
ess
County, N. Y. between 1736 and 1740. They were in the
Oswego,
Quaker M. M. in Dutchess County, N. Y. in 1761. In
1765
the Quaker Meeting took action to raise money to buy a
cow
to loan this Jesse Irish. From there they moved to Nine
Partners
(Oblong) and in 1768 to Danby, Rutland County,
Vermont.
Children:
7759.
Susanna, b. 1-10-1734; d. 9-25-1742.
+7760.
David, b. 7-11-1735; d. 11-12-1807. Buried in Shelburne, Vermont.
7761.
m.o.m. 4-7-1759, Ann –; d. in 1808 in Danby, Vermont.
+7762.
William, b. 11-19-1737
7763.
m.o.m. 10-15-1761, Dolly – of Dutchess County, New York
+7764.
Jesse, b. 11-11-1739. He was a Freeman in Danby, Vermont in 1778
7765.
m. 10-18-1764 at Dartmouth, Mass., Ruth Wing, dau. of Matthew and
Elizabeth
(Sisson) Wing of Tiverton, R. I.
7766.
Mary, b. 1-11-1741
7767.
m.o.m. 12-24-1761, Rowland Soule, b. 11-5-1733 at Duxbury, Mass. Son
of
George and Lydia Soule. Res. Duanesburg, New York
Children:
7783.
Thomas, William, George and Jonathan Soule
+7768.
Peter, b. 5-26-1743; d. in 1813.
7769.
m., Mary Corey
In
1793, he and his family moved to Adolphustown, Ontario,
Canada
7770.
John, b. 9-21-1745; d. 7-27-1777. He was shot by Isaac Clark, although
“His
character was without reproach.”. On 5-20-1775, he
bought
a farm from his brother, Jonathan, in “Danby, County
of
Charlotty, Province of N. Y.”
7771.
m. in 1772, Rebecca Doty, b. in 1756 and d. 6-1-1836, dau. of Lucretia
Doty.
After the death of her husband, John Irish, she
m.
(2) 4-2-1780, Stutely Stafford.
Children:
7784.
Lucretia, b. in 1774
7785.
m. 11-16-1793, Jeptha King. Sometime after this, they left their
home
and joined the Mormons at Navoo, Illinois