Personal Details

Born	February 11th, 1753
Birthplace	Colchester, CT, USA
Baptized	No Entry
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Occupation(s)	Farmer
Died	March 11th, 1825, aged about 72 years
Died at...	Painesville, OH, USA
Cause of Death	No Entry
Burial Place	No Entry
Disposition	No Entry

Parents

Father	[42]	Benjamin Blish 4
Mother	[42_sa]	Mary (Adams) Blish 4

Spouses, Mates & Children

Wife #1 [137_sa] - Phebe (Skinner) Blish 5 Married by: No Entry Married at: No Entry Children by this spouse: I [275]+ Phebe (Blish) Clapp 6 b. 1775 c. ? II [276] Hannah (Blish) Hopkins 6 b. 1779 c. ? III [277]+ Deacon Justice Benjamin Blish 6 b. June 9th, 1784 c. September IV [278] Millicent (Blish) Nye 6 b. 1787 c. ? V [279] Sophia (Blish) Perkins 6 b. 1789 c. ? VI [280] Clarissa (Blish) Dille 6 b. 1791 c. ? VII [281]+ Judge Zenas Blish 6 b. October 20th, 1793 c. January VIII [282]+ Philena (Blish) Moore 6 b. 1796 c. ? IX [283] Nancy (Blish) Perkins 6 b. 1799 c. ?

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 5	Gen. 4	Gen. 3	Gen. 2	Gen. 1
Benjamin Blish	Benjamin Blish	Tristham Blish, (***)	Joseph Blish, (***)	Abraham Blish, (***)
				Anne (Pratt) Blish
			Hannah (Hull) Blish	Tristham Hull
				Agnes "Blanche" (?) Hull
		Anne (Fuller) Blish	Matthew Fuller	Samuel Fuller, Jr.
				Anne (Fuller) Fuller
			Patience (Young) Fuller	George Young
				Hannah (Pinson) Young
	Mary (Adams) Blish	John Adams	No Entry	No Entry
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		Ruth (Loomis) Adams	No Entry	No Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1753 to 1825

1231-1808: Papal Inquisition from before birth until age 55 1478-1834: Torquemada's Spanish Inquisition from before birth until after line end 1727-1760: Reign of King George II (Hanover) from before birth until age 7 1754-1763: French-Indian war from age 1 to age 10 1755: Lisbon earthquake - 30,000 dead at age 2 1756-1763: Seven years war from age 3 to age 10 1758: Halley's Comet (1st predicted appearance) at age 5 1760-1820: Reign of King George III (Hanover) from age 7 to age 67 1760: Bifocals at age 7 1765: Steam Engine at age 12 1765: HMS Victory launched at age 12 1769: San Francisco bay discovered at age 16 1770: Boston Massacre - 5 people killed when British fire on mob at age 17 1772: Judge Murray decrees that slaves are free on landing in England at age 19 1772-1775: Antarctica circumnavigated by James Cook from age 19 to age 22 1773: Boston Tea Party at age 20 1774: 1st Continental Congress meets at age 21 1775-1783: American Revolutionary War against the British from age 22 to age 30 1775-1782: British war in India from age 22 to age 29 1776: Declaration of Independence at age 23 1778: France joins war against Britan at age 25 1778: Congress forbids import of slaves into America at age 25 1780: Benjamin Franklin discovers lightning is electricity at age 27 1781: Uranus discovered at age 28 1783: 1st working hot air balloon at age 30 1784: Thomas Jefferson's proposal to ban slavery defeated at age 31 1786: First attempts at indoor lighting with gas (UK, Germany) at age 33 1786: The Dollar is adopted at age 33 1787: Constitution is approved by the constitutional congress at age 34 1787: Pennsylvania enters the union - 2nd at age 34 1787: New Jersey enters the union - 3rd at age 34 1787: Delaware enters the union - 1st at age 34 1788: Georgia enters the union - 4th at age 35 1788: Connecticut enters the union - 5th at age 35 1788: Massachusetts enters the union - 6th at age 35 1788: Maryland enters the union - 7th at age 35 1788: South Carolina enters the union - 8th at age 35 1788: New Hampshire enters the union - 9th at age 35 1788: Virginia enters the union - 10th at age 35 1788: New York enters the union - 11th at age 35 1788: Constitution goes into effect at age 35 1789-1796: George Washington selected 1st President from age 36 to age 43 1789: US Army Established at age 36 1789: North Carolina enters the union - 12th at age 36 1790: Coast Guard Established at age 37 1790: Rhode Island enters the union - 13th at age 37 1790: 1st official US census at age 37 1791: Federal Bill of rights adopted at age 38 1791: Vermont enters the union -14th at age 38 1792: Kentucky enters the union - 15th at age 39 1792: Denmark 1st to forbid trade in slaves at age 39 1792-1815: Napoleonic war from age 39 to age 62 1793: Eli Whitney invents Cotton Gin (increases need for slaves) at age 40 1793: Marie Antoinette beheaded at age 40 1794: US Post Office Established at age 41 1794: Slavery abolished in French colonies at age 41 1794: US Navy Established at age 41 1796-1800: John Adams elected 2nd president of US from age 43 to age 47 1796: France's presses get right of free speech at age 43 1796: Vaccination against Smallpox at age 43 1796: Tennesee enters the union - 16th at age 43 1798: Lithography at age 45 1798: US Marine Corps Established at age 45 1798: Mississippi organized as a territory at age 45 1798-1800: Undeclared war with France from age 45 to age 47 1799: Rosetta Stone found at age 46 1800: Russia annexes Georgia at age 47 1800-1809: Thomas Jefferson elected president of US from age 47 to age 56 1800: 1st Battery (Volta) at age 47 1800: US capital moves from Philadelphia to Washington DC at age 47 1802: Babylonian cuniform deciphered at age 49 1803: Ohio enters the union - 17th at age 50 1803: Fulton propels vessel by steampower at age 50 1803: Louisiana Territory Purchased at age 50 1804-1806: Lewis and Clark Expedition from age 51 to age 53 1804: Haiti independent - 1st black country in West. Hemis. at age 51 1805: Thomas Jefferson re-elected president of US at age 52 1805: Morphine isolated at age 52 1807: Robert Fulton makes 1st practical steamboat voyage at age 54 1808: Import of new slaves into US Is banned at age 55 1808: Pompeii excavation begins in earnest at age 55 1809-1816: James Madison elected president of US from age 56 to age 63 1809: Charles Darwin born at age 56 1810: Homeopathy founded at age 57 1810: US pop. reaches 7.2 million at age 57 1812: Louisiana enters the union - 18th at age 59 1812: Missouri organized as a territory at age 59 1812-1814: War of 1812 from age 59 to age 61 1815: Sumbawa volcano (Indonesia) erupts; 50,000 killed at age 62 1815: French outlaw slavery in France at age 62 1815: Battle of Waterloo at age 62 1816: Photographic Negative at age 63 1816: Indiana enters the union - 19th at age 63 1816: Stethoscope at age 63 1817-1825: Erie canal constructed from age 64 to age 72 1817: Pentrich Revolution - England's last revolution at age 64 1817-1824: James Monroe president of US from age 64 to age 71 1817-1823: 1st Cholera pandemic from age 64 to age 70 1817: Alabama organized as a territory at age 64 1817: Mississippi enters the union - 20th at age 64 1818: Savannah 1st steamship to cross the Atlantic at age 65 1818: Illinois enters the union - 21st at age 65 1819: Alabama enters the union - 22nd at age 66 1819: Arkansas organized as a territory at age 66 1819: Oersted discovers electro-magnetism at age 66 1820-1830: Reign of King George IV (Hanover) from age 67 until after line end 1820: Maine enters the union - 23rd at age 67 1821: US pop. reaches 9.2 million at age 68 1821: 1st US women's college at age 68 1821-1829: Greek war of Independence from age 68 until after line end 1821: Missouri enters the union - 24th at age 68 1822: Florida organized as a territory at age 69 1824: Internal Combustion Engine at age 71 1824-1828: John Quincy Adams president of US from age 71 until after line end 1824: Erie canal finished at age 71

Additional Information

Tolland Co., Conn., was the birthplace of Benjamin Blish, Feb. 22, 1753. In 1774 he married Phebe Skinner, sister of Capt. Abraham Skinner of Painesville. He served as a private in the Revolutionary War, one month and nineteen days, in Capt. Micah Hamlen's Co., Col. Thomas Marshall's regt. from June 13, 1776 to Aug. 1, 1776; also twenty-five days from Aug. 1 to Aug. 26 at Castle Island; also thirty-one days in Capt. Sylvanus Martin's Co., Col. William's regt., from Sept 29 to Oct. 30, 1777, in Rhode Island; and again at an alarm at the same place for six days under Capt. Israel Hicks, Col. Thomas Carpenter's regt., from Aug 1 to Aug 6, 1780. About 1780 he moved his family to Middlefield, Hampshire Co., Mass., where they resided till they left for Ohio in Feb. 1804, with his brother-in-law, Capt. Skinner. They traveled on the snow to Buffalo, and on the ice of the Lake the latter part of the way. He bought land and made some preparations for removing his family, returning in the fall to Massachusetts. On the 20th day of June, 1805, he started with his family for Ohio. Leaving his oldest daughter, the wife of Orris Clapp, his family consisted of himself and wife, six daughters and two sons, aged 21 and 12 years. At first their journey was prosperous, but in passing through New York state, the father was taken sick with the ague, the roads grew very bad; after leaving Buffalo they found great difficulty in obtaining food for man or beast. They traveled by short stages on the beach of the Lake, sometimes felling a basswood tree, and browsing the horses upon the leaves. They reached Erie July 16, the horses badly worn and unfit for further use. Here they made an agreement with a man named Ross to bring the family and stuff to Fairport in his boat, in exchange for one wagon. The two boys pushed on with the horses and two dogs, enduring many hardships, before they reached the home of Capt. Skinner on Grand river, shortly before noon on July 20. They had had no weapon of degense larger than a pocket knife. The family were on the way forty-one days, in jeopardy from winds and waves, sometimes a part of them carried ashore by one of the boatmen in his arms, then walking for miles through woods or on the sand, not knowing the fate of the others, till through the guidance of a kind Providence they all reached Painesville safely, July 30. They went into one room of a log house with Esq. Merry until they own house was completed in Dec. 1805, on land yet known as the Blish farm, in Mentor. There lived for twenty years Benjamin Blish, rejoicing, even amidst the privations incident to a new settlement, that he had placed his children in a more desirable location than the Green mountains of Massachusetts, where his entire life had been one of severe labor and close economy, with no better outlook for them. He died March 11, 1825, aged 72 years. His wife died Oct. 5, 1844, at 91. They are both buried at Blish cemetery in West Painesville.

Citations

A Record of the Revolutionary Soldiers buried in Lake County, Ohio, New Connecticut Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, Painesville, Ohio, 1902