Rev David Irish

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• From Descendants of John Irish - The Immigrant, page 105: "Elder David Irish became a Baptist and joined the First Baptist Church of Dover, which was a part of Pawling, New York. They went to Stillwater, N.Y. in 1782 and he preached his first sermon on December 21st– the day he was 30 years old. He was ordained in 1789; preached three years in eastern N.Y. and then in 1794 they moved directly to Scipio Center, Cayuga County, N.Y. He was the first person in Scipio Center to dispense medicine, although he was not a regular physician. In 1800, they removed to Aurelius (now Fleming), and was the Pastor there until he died. Being a missionary, he established a number of other Baptist Churches in New York State. They spent active lives devoted to love, to duty and to usefulness."
• From Storke, Elliot G. History of Cayuga County, New York. Syracuse, N.Y.: D. Mason & Co., 1879, page 140: "Elder David Irish is said to have preached the first sermon to white men in the County of Cayuga, in 1794."
• From Storke, Elliot G. History of Cayuga County, New York. Syracuse, N.Y.: D. Mason & Co., 1879, page 376: "Benjamin Irish was a son of Elder David Irish, who settled first in Scipio and subsequently, in 1800, in Fleming, at which time he became pastor of the Baptist Church at Fleming, which was organized by him four years previously."
• From Storke, Elliot G. History of Cayuga County, New York. Syracuse, N.Y.: D. Mason & Co., 1879, page 380: "Fleming Baptist Church was organized as the First Baptist Church in Aurelius, with twenty-two members, June 4th, 1796, by Elder David Irish, the pioneer preacher of Cayuga County, who commenced his labors in this town the previous year. It is the second church organized in Cayuga County. Elder Irish, who was then in charge of the church in Scipio, preached to this Society at stated periods until 1800, in which year he resigned his charge in Scipio and became the pastor of this church, and remained such till his death, September 13th, 1815."
• From Storke, Elliot G. History of Cayuga County, New York. Syracuse, N.Y.: D. Mason & Co., 1879, page 419: "Elder Irish was born in Paulington, Dutchess county, December 21st, 1757. At the age of seventeen he came converted, was baptized, and united with the Church...he was ordained in 1789, and after laboring for three years in Eastern New York, removed with his family to Scipio in 1794...Elder Irish came immediately from Stillwater, and settled at Scipio Center, on the west half of lot 23. His house stood opposite the present Baptish church in that village, on whose site he was the first settler, but was joined in the spring of 1795 by Major Josiah Buck, who took up the east half of that lot."
• From Storke, Elliot G. History of Cayuga County, New York. Syracuse, N.Y.: D. Mason & Co., 1879, page 440: "The Baptist Church of Venice was organized June 9th, 1795, with fourteen members, eight males and six females, by Elder David Irish, who was one of the fourteen, and who commenced holding meetings a year earlier."
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