. A sketch of the life of General James Irish of Gorham, Me. : 1776-1863 . nlawful business. Massachusetts had, atthat time, a joint interest with Maine in theselands. By concert of action of the land agentsof the two States the hay was burned upon theground where it was cut. This blow was as severeas it was unexpected, and had the effect to diminishlargely illicit lumbering. In 1825 General Irish removed his family fromthe farm he had owned in a remote section of thetown to the village of Gorham, where bettereducational opportunities awaited his large familyof children. This year was made mem
. A sketch of the life of General James Irish of Gorham, Me. : 1776-1863 . nlawful business. Massachusetts had, atthat time, a joint interest with Maine in theselands. By concert of action of the land agentsof the two States the hay was burned upon theground where it was cut. This blow was as severeas it was unexpected, and had the effect to diminishlargely illicit lumbering. In 1825 General Irish removed his family fromthe farm he had owned in a remote section of thetown to the village of Gorham, where bettereducational opportunities awaited his large familyof children. This year was made memorable,also, by the death of his aged mother, to whom hewas bound by the most tender affection. She wasthe Mary Gorham Phinney of pioneer memory,the first-born of Gorhams fair daughters. Whatheroic spirits and the memory of what heroicdeeds are summoned from the shadowy past bythe magic of her name ! She was a direct descend-ant of the old Puritan, John Phinney, — the firstJohn, who early joined the historic PlymouthColony, from which emanated the best civilization 38. MARY GORHAM 1IIIXNEV First white child born in Gorham, .Maine1736-1825 the world has known. She was the great-grand-daughter of John Phinney, the second John,one of the little band of soldiers who, in 1675,fought the Indians in King Philips war, oneof the most sanguinary and relentless warsknown to Indian warfare in New England. Shewas the granddaughter of the third of this John Phinney, who was an honoredchurch official. She was the daughter of Phinney, the first settler of the fine oldtown of Gorham, where his large experienceand sterling virtues were constant benedictionsto his neighbors and townsmen in the earlyyears of hardship, privation, and peril. Hergreat-grandmother, the wife of the second JohnPhinney, was a descendant of Thomas Rogers,who came to America in the Mayflower. Herbrother, Edmund Phinney, was a colonel in thewar of the Revolution, and his regiment wasthe first to ente
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