♂ John Irish

1611 - 1677

John Irish
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John Irish
John Irish
1641 - 1717

John Irish the elder immigrated from Clisdon, Somerset, England as an indentured servant to Timothy Hatherly for five years in Plymouth.  He would later become a planter in Duxbury, and volunteer in the Pequot War.

 

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1611

birth


Somerset, England ⇓
He grew up in Clisdon, Somerset, England. This is an estimate based on the idea that he was at least eighteen years old the year he was indentured to Timothy Hatherly.
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1611 Gustavus Adolphus succeeds his father Charles IX as King of Sweden.

1629


Age: 18y
Irish Family - New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial - Volume 3

occupation


Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA ⇓
He was indentured as an apprentice to Timothy Hatherly, to go to Plymouth. There he would "abide with Hatherly for five years, having meat, drink and lodging, and five pounds a year, and at the end of that time twelve bushels of wheat and twenty-five acres of land.” After getting this land, John Irish became a planter in Duxbury.
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1629 Thirty Years' War: Christian IV of Denmark and Wallenstein sign the Treaty of Lübeck, ending Denmark's involvement in the Thirty Years' War.

1637


Age: 26y

military


A volunteer in the Pequot War, which was between the Pequot tribe and the English colonists of the Saybrook, Massachusetts Bay, and Plymouth colonies. The Pequot tribe also faced the Native American English allies, the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes. The war resulted in the near loss of the Pequot tribe, with only a handful of survivors.
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1637 Elizabeth Poole becomes the first woman to have founded a town (Taunton, Massachusetts) in the Americas.

1745


Age: 134y
1745 • Jacobite rising: The Scottish Jacobite army reaches as far south as Derby in England causing panic in London; two days later it begins retreat.

1677


Mar 5
Age: 66y
1677 • End of the use of male impotence as a factor in French divorce proceedings.

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