Person:Mary Irish (16)

From her father’s will - dated 1699; she is the first child mentioned in his will and apparently Mary Irish is under the age of 20 at that time.

• I give and bequeath unto my daughter Mary Irish One Hundred and twenty thousand pounds of sugar or eight hundred pounds current money to be paid her out of the produce of my whole estate when she comes to the age of twenty years. I also give to my said daughter one negro girl named Molly and one pyed cow called Molly both to be delivered to her immediately after my decease. And the said cow and her increase to be pastured on my plantation till the said Daughter arrives at the age of Twenty years.

She was mentioned in her brother William Irish's will (1729).

“To my brother-in-law William Johnson and my sister Mary, his wife, and to my brother-in-law Thomas Lee and my sister Elizabeth, his wife, and to executors of this will, a suit of mourning apiece.

1.   She was not mentioned in her brother Nathaniel Irish's will (1747) but she was in her brother William Irish's will (1729).