Priscilla Irish

From http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr02/rr02_423.html#P9713

3329. Priscilla Southworth. Born ca 1642 in Duxbury, MA. [or 1657]. She was the daughter of Elizabeth Collier & Constant Southworth

On 1 Mar 1689 Priscilla first married Rev. Samuel Talbot in Bristol, RI.16

In May 1708 Priscilla second married John Irish, son of John Irish (ca 1611-bef 5 Mar 1677/8) & Elizabeth [Irish] (-after 23 Mar 1673/4), in Little Compton, RI.256 John Irish and Prescilla Church were married by Benjamin Church, Justice. Born say 1647. John died on 21 Feb 1717 in Little Compton, RI.299

Will: Will of John Irish. Page 387. John Irish of Little Compton aged nere 72 years.

• My son David Irish and my wife to be executors.
• To wife this part of the great lot I now dwell upon and one half the housing that is to say from the great highway to the sea for her life.
• To son David, Jonathan and John Irish all my rights to 16-17th great lots.
• To son Jedidiah Irish all my lands in Middle borough and meadow at Sampson's brook at Plymouth.
• To wife lands in Duxbury that were formerly Mey Father's. which I have been so wronged and abused about. Pray take my meaning.
• To four daughters 20 pds each, Elizabeth, Sarah, Content and Mary.
• To daughter Johanna 6 shillings.
• The 17th great lot my son Jonsthan to have 30 acres and my son John to have the rest.
• To Dau in law Hannah Talbee 10 sheep.
• To son Jonathan the west end at water side and east to brook where spring is.
• To son John Irish the rest of the lot to the highway. and rest of his lot on the east of the highway. till it meets Davids ten acres

If it please God to take me away when the cross is upon the ground, it shall be at My wifes Disposal for the good of the family.

Witnesses

• Thomas Church John Irish Thomas Gray
• Will made Nov 9, 1715
• William Pabodie. Proved March 20 1717.

Inventory of the estate of John Irish.

• Inventory of the estate of John Wilcocks page 419.
• John Wilcocks of Little Compton. Feb 26, 1717/18.
• Total. 750 pds 15 shillings.
• Housing and land 600 pds.
• 28 sheep.300
• 16. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: immigrants to New England 1620-1633, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1995, Three volumes.

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notes

From Errors and Omissions in Published Massachusetts Vital Records: Corrections and Additions

Little Compton  Although it is now in Newport Co., RI, Little Compton was until 1747 in Bristol Co., MA James N. Arnold, Editor, Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850, Volume 4, Little Compton, Part VI (Providence, RI: Narragansett Historical Publishing Co., 1893).

"P. 36 (Marriages): "IRISH ... John and Priscilla Church; m. by Benjamin Church, Justice, May —, 1708."

She was Priscilla (Southworth) Talbot, born 1645 and widow of Samuel Talbot of Bristol. See Robert S. Wakefield, "The Children and Purported Children of Richard and Elizabeth (Warren) Church" (The American Genealogist, 60 (1984):129-139) at pp. 138-139.

Death date seen of June 7, 1761 is for Priscilla, daughter of Edward Southworth & Mary Pabodie

From http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr05/rr05_072.html

9874. Priscilla Southworth. Born ca 1693 in Duxbury, MA.32 Priscilla died on 7 Jun 1761.32 Priscilla died unmarried. In Priscilla’s will, made 5 June, 1761, probated 3 Aug., 1761, she calls herself a "spinster."32

• 32. Samuel G. Webber, A Genealogy of the Southworths (Southards) Descendants of Constant Southworth with a sketch of the family in England

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Children of Richard Church (ca 1608 - 1668) & Elizabeth Warren:

• 14. Priscilla Church; b. 1645; m. Samuel Talbee; 1st husband; m. John Irish May 1708; 2nd husband.

This record is in ERROR. And Priscilla was not the child of Richard Church, of Hingham & Elizabeth Church

notes

From Errors and Omissions in Published Massachusetts Vital Records: Corrections and Additions

Little Compton Although it is now in Newport Co., RI, Little Compton was until 1747 in Bristol Co., MA James N. Arnold, Editor, Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850, Volume 4, Little Compton, Part VI (Providence, RI: Narragansett Historical Publishing Co., 1893).

"P. 36 (Marriages): "IRISH ... John and Priscilla Church; m. by Benjamin Church, Justice, May —, 1708."

She was Priscilla (Southworth) Talbot, born 1645 and widow of Samuel Talbot of Bristol. See Robert S. Wakefield, "The Children and Purported Children of Richard and Elizabeth (Warren) Church" (The American Genealogist, 60 (1984):129-139) at pp. 138-139.

Extracts from "Descendants of Richard Church of Plymouth, Massachusetts" by John Adams Church, 1913:

CHURCH: Priscilla, b. 1645. Little Compton records, as published, have Priscilla Church m. John Irish May 1708, an entry which has caused great confusion. M. L. T. Alden says in the Boston Transcript that this is an error introduced by Otis Wilbour, who copied the originals, and that this copy was used for Arnold's Vital Statistics of R.I. According to Mr. Alden Priscilla m. 1st, Samuel Talbee, Talbec, later Talbot, and had a daughter Hannah, who d. 1717 and is buried in Little Compton cemetery. The Life of Col. Benjamin Church says: "The morning before his death he went about two miles on horseback to visit his only sister, Mrs. Irish, to sympathize with her on the death of her only child." The child was this Hannah Talbot. Priscilla m. 2d John Irish, sometimes entered as Jr. and probably properly so. This explanation makes more probable Priscilla's marriage at the age of 63. An odd result of the confusion has been the assumption that Priscilla was divorced but there is no record of this.

However, "Alden Genealogy" page 181 of The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 54 (1900) suggests that the "sister" was Benjamin Church's wife's sister, Priscilla (Southworth) Talbot Irish.

John Irish House in the Historic New England Collection has John Irish's second wife as Priscilla Church.

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ricrhode&...

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Priscilla (1645-) [NO - if you go to the citation that is included in his profile comments, it says that that info from Little River is a mistake and that John Irish's wife was Priscilla (Southworth) Talbot instead of Priscilla Church. (note that the 1913 book listing says Deborah also might have married John Irish).. but neither did.]