Nathaniel Irish

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Husband Nathaniel Irish ^{1 2 3}

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           Born:  - Island of Montserrat, West Indies
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           Died: 1748 - Union Furnace, Hunterdon Co, NJ 2
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Wife

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Children

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1 M Capt. Nathaniel Irish ^{1 3 4}

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           Born: 8 May 1737 - Saucon, Bucks (later Northampton) Co, PA 1 2 3
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           Died: 11 Sep 1816 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 4 5
         Buried:  - Trinity Church

         Spouse: Elizabeth Thomas (1735-1789/1790) 2 6
           Marr: 1758 6

         Spouse: Mary Irwin (      -      ) 6

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2 F Ann Irish ^{2 3}

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           Born: Aft 1728
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General Notes: Husband - Nathaniel Irish

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The ancestors of the Irish family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, settled on the Island of Montserrat, one of the lee-ward Islands of the West Indies before Nathaniel Irish emigrated to Pennsylvania. When Nathaniel Irish the elder came to Pennsylvania early in the eighteenth century, he left behind him, on the island of Montserrat, a sister, Elizabeth Lee, who was the mother of three daughters: Sarah, Elizabeth and Ann. He also mentioned in his will a nephew William Irish and a niece Sarah Irish.

Nathaniel Irish, the ancestor of the Irish family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, settled as a young man in Bucks, (later Northampton) County, where he acquired a plantation on Saucon creek at its confluence with the Delaware river. He was commissioned a justice of the peace in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1741. In 1743, he hired an African slave known as Joseph alias Boston, who was brought from Montserrat to Durham Furnace, in what is now Northampton county, Pennsylvania, by his owner, after 1732.

At the mouth of the Saucon Creek, Nathaniel Irish built a grist mill and a saw mill of the "Great Road" from Philadelphia. He was of English parentage.
Under his will his daughter inherited a plantation called "Private Neck," on the west branch of the Delaware River, which was part of his original survey at the mouth of Saucon Creek, and had been reserved when he sold his plantation to George Crookshank. In addition he left his daughter five hundred pounds in money to be loaned at interest until she came of age, also a negro woman, Martilla, and her daughter, Betty. William Allen, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, was Ann's guardian.
William Irish, a nephew, and Sarah Irish, a niece, were also mentioned in the will of Nathaniel Irish.

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 328.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 829.

3 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 76.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 829, 947.

5 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 329.

6 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 77.