Personal Details

Born	April 17th, 1763
Birthplace	Colchester, CT, USA
Baptized	No Entry
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Baptized by...	No Entry
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Occupation(s)	Farmer
Died	May 15th, 1853, aged about 90 years
Died at...	No Entry
Cause of Death	No Entry
Burial Place	Clovesville Cemetery, Middletown, county of Delaware, New York, USA
Disposition	No Entry

Parents

Father	[44]	Sylvanus Blish 4
Mother	[44_sa]	Esther (Way) Blish 4

Spouses, Mates & Children

Wife #1 [144_sa] - Hannah Eliza (Phelps) Blish 5 Married by: No Entry Married at: No Entry Children by this spouse: I [295] Catharine (Blish) Townsend 6 b. May 18th, 1784 c. August II [297]+ John Blish 6 b. August 7th, 1792 c. November III [298]+ James Blish 6 b. July 19th, 1796 c. October IV [299]+ Asa Blish 6 b. May 19th, 1799 c. August V [300] Jane (Blish) Mills or "Milks"? 6 b. January 7th, 1801 c. April VI [296]+ Nicholas Blish 6 b. September 16th, 1808 c. December VII [301]+ Simon Blish 6 b. March 12th, 1812 c. June

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 5	Gen. 4	Gen. 3	Gen. 2	Gen. 1
Silas Blish	Sylvanus 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
	Esther (Way) Blish	No Entry	No Entry	No Entry
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			No Entry	No Entry
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		No Entry	No Entry	No Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1763 to 1853

1231-1808: Papal Inquisition from before birth until age 45 1478-1834: Torquemada's Spanish Inquisition from before birth until age 71 1754-1763: French-Indian war from before birth until age 0 1756-1763: Seven years war from before birth until age 0 1760-1820: Reign of King George III (Hanover) from before birth until age 57 1765: HMS Victory launched at age 2 1765: Steam Engine at age 2 1769: San Francisco bay discovered at age 6 1770: Boston Massacre - 5 people killed when British fire on mob at age 7 1772: Judge Murray decrees that slaves are free on landing in England at age 9 1772-1775: Antarctica circumnavigated by James Cook from age 9 to age 12 1773: Boston Tea Party at age 10 1774: 1st Continental Congress meets at age 11 1775-1782: British war in India from age 12 to age 19 1775-1783: American Revolutionary War against the British from age 12 to age 20 1776: Declaration of Independence at age 13 1778: Congress forbids import of slaves into America at age 15 1778: France joins war against Britan at age 15 1780: Benjamin Franklin discovers lightning is electricity at age 17 1781: Uranus discovered at age 18 1783: 1st working hot air balloon at age 20 1784: Thomas Jefferson's proposal to ban slavery defeated at age 21 1786: The Dollar is adopted at age 23 1786: First attempts at indoor lighting with gas (UK, Germany) at age 23 1787: Constitution is approved by the constitutional congress at age 24 1787: Pennsylvania enters the union - 2nd at age 24 1787: New Jersey enters the union - 3rd at age 24 1787: Delaware enters the union - 1st at age 24 1788: South Carolina enters the union - 8th at age 25 1788: New York enters the union - 11th at age 25 1788: Virginia enters the union - 10th at age 25 1788: Massachusetts enters the union - 6th at age 25 1788: Connecticut enters the union - 5th at age 25 1788: Maryland enters the union - 7th at age 25 1788: Constitution goes into effect at age 25 1788: New Hampshire enters the union - 9th at age 25 1788: Georgia enters the union - 4th at age 25 1789: US Army Established at age 26 1789-1796: George Washington selected 1st President from age 26 to age 33 1789: North Carolina enters the union - 12th at age 26 1790: Rhode Island enters the union - 13th at age 27 1790: Coast Guard Established at age 27 1790: 1st official US census at age 27 1791: Vermont enters the union -14th at age 28 1791: Federal Bill of rights adopted at age 28 1792: Denmark 1st to forbid trade in slaves at age 29 1792: Kentucky enters the union - 15th at age 29 1792-1815: Napoleonic war from age 29 to age 52 1793: Marie Antoinette beheaded at age 30 1793: Eli Whitney invents Cotton Gin (increases need for slaves) at age 30 1794: US Navy Established at age 31 1794: US Post Office Established at age 31 1794: Slavery abolished in French colonies at age 31 1796: Tennesee enters the union - 16th at age 33 1796: Vaccination against Smallpox at age 33 1796-1800: John Adams elected 2nd president of US from age 33 to age 37 1796: France's presses get right of free speech at age 33 1798: US Marine Corps Established at age 35 1798: Mississippi organized as a territory at age 35 1798-1800: Undeclared war with France from age 35 to age 37 1798: Lithography at age 35 1799: Rosetta Stone found at age 36 1800-1809: Thomas Jefferson elected president of US from age 37 to age 46 1800: US capital moves from Philadelphia to Washington DC at age 37 1800: Russia annexes Georgia at age 37 1800: 1st Battery (Volta) at age 37 1802: Babylonian cuniform deciphered at age 39 1803: Ohio enters the union - 17th at age 40 1803: Fulton propels vessel by steampower at age 40 1803: Louisiana Territory Purchased at age 40 1804: Haiti independent - 1st black country in West. Hemis. at age 41 1804-1806: Lewis and Clark Expedition from age 41 to age 43 1805: Thomas Jefferson re-elected president of US at age 42 1805: Morphine isolated at age 42 1807: Robert Fulton makes 1st practical steamboat voyage at age 44 1808: Import of new slaves into US Is banned at age 45 1808: Pompeii excavation begins in earnest at age 45 1809-1816: James Madison elected president of US from age 46 to age 53 1809: Charles Darwin born at age 46 1810: Homeopathy founded at age 47 1810: US pop. reaches 7.2 million at age 47 1812-1814: War of 1812 from age 49 to age 51 1812: Louisiana enters the union - 18th at age 49 1812: Missouri organized as a territory at age 49 1815: Sumbawa volcano (Indonesia) erupts; 50,000 killed at age 52 1815: Battle of Waterloo at age 52 1815: French outlaw slavery in France at age 52 1816: Stethoscope at age 53 1816: Indiana enters the union - 19th at age 53 1816: Photographic Negative at age 53 1817: Pentrich Revolution - England's last revolution at age 54 1817-1824: James Monroe president of US from age 54 to age 61 1817: Alabama organized as a territory at age 54 1817-1825: Erie canal constructed from age 54 to age 62 1817: Mississippi enters the union - 20th at age 54 1817-1823: 1st Cholera pandemic from age 54 to age 60 1818: Illinois enters the union - 21st at age 55 1818: Savannah 1st steamship to cross the Atlantic at age 55 1819: Oersted discovers electro-magnetism at age 56 1819: Alabama enters the union - 22nd at age 56 1819: Arkansas organized as a territory at age 56 1820-1830: Reign of King George IV (Hanover) from age 57 to age 67 1820: Maine enters the union - 23rd at age 57 1821-1829: Greek war of Independence from age 58 to age 66 1821: US pop. reaches 9.2 million at age 58 1821: 1st US women's college at age 58 1821: Missouri enters the union - 24th at age 58 1822: Florida organized as a territory at age 59 1824: Internal Combustion Engine at age 61 1824: Erie canal finished at age 61 1824-1828: John Quincy Adams president of US from age 61 to age 65 1826: 1st railroad tunnel (England) at age 63 1827: Ohms Law formulated at age 64 1827: Ship's propeller (screw) at age 64 1827: 1st Black newspaper Freedom's Journal at age 64 1828: 1st Webster's Dictionary at age 65 1828: 1st railroad in the US at age 65 1828-1836: Andrew Jackson president of US from age 65 to age 73 1829-1851: 2nd Cholera pandemic from age 66 to age 88 1829: 1st US patent on a typewriter at age 66 1830-1860: Underground railroad leads 100,000+ slaves to freedom in US from age 67 until after line end 1830-1837: Reign of King William IV (Hanover) from age 67 to age 74 1830: Mormons (Latter Day Saints) founded at age 67 1832: Horse-drawn trolleys in New York at age 69 1833: Telegraph at age 70 1833: Slavery abolished in British Empire (home and colonies) at age 70 1834: Modern computer conceived by Charles Babbage at age 71 1835-1842: 2nd Seminole War from age 72 to age 79 1835: Halley's Comet at age 72 1835: Mormon leader Joseph Smith prophesies of 'coming of lord' by 1891 at age 72 1836: Battle of the Alamo at age 73 1836: Texas war for independence from Mexico at age 73 1836: Arkansas enters the union -25th at age 73 1837-1840: Martin Van Buren president of US from age 74 to age 77 1837: Michigan enters the union - 26th at age 74 1837: Depression and Panic in the US - inflation, speculation at age 74 1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from age 74 until after line end 1838-1839: Forced relocation of Cherokee from age 75 to age 76 1839-1842: Opium war between China and the English from age 76 to age 79 1841-1844: John Tyler president of US from age 78 to age 81 1842: Chinese cede Hong Kong to the English at age 79 1844: 1st telegraph line message, Washington to New York at age 81 1845-1849: Irish Potato Famine from age 82 to age 86 1845: Florida enters the union - 27th at age 82 1845-1848: James K Polk president of US from age 82 to age 85 1845: Texas enters the union - 28th at age 82 1846-1848: The Mexican-US War from age 83 to age 85 1846: Iowa enters the union - 29th at age 83 1848: Wisconsin enters the union - 30th at age 85 1848: Oregon organized as a territory at age 85 1848-1856: 1st gold rush in California -- Sutters Mill from age 85 until after line end 1848: NY allows women to own real estate at age 85 1849-1852: Zachary Taylor president of the US from age 86 to age 89 1849: Fizeau measures speed of light at age 86 1850: World pop. est. at 1.1 billion at age 87 1850: California enters the union - 31st at age 87 1850: New Mexico organized as a territory at age 87 1850: Utah (included Nevada) organized as a territory at age 87 1850: US pop reaches 23 million at age 87 1851: Gold rush in Australia at age 88 1852-1859: 3rd Cholera pandemic from age 89 until after line end 1853-1856: Franklin Pierce president of US from age 90 until after line end 1853: Washington (included pt. of Idaho) organized as a territory at age 90

Additional Information

It is not known just when Silas left Connecticut, but a deed from him to his brother Asa, dated 8 September 1791, locates him at Red Hook, Dutchess County, New York. His brother Reuben was also in Red Hook in 1792, as shown by a deed from him to Asa conveying a like interest. Silas later removed to Middletown, Delaware County, New York, and took up wild lands. He remained here the remainder of his life. His farm passed to his son, Simon. He is said to have lived to the age of 92 years, which would locate his death about 1855. Many of his descendants are now (1905, JKB/bb) living in Delaware County, New York, and in that Vicinity. From the third compiler, Ben Blish: The gravestone at Clovesville Cemetery, Middletown, New York, indicates Silas died May 15th, 1853, and that he lived to 90 years, 28 days. This exactly matches the birthdate we have for him, so this is taken to be the accurate date of death, superceding the 1855 JKB estimate. Silas Blish served in the war of 1812. References--- Colchester Town Record, Colchester Deed Record, Biographical History of Delaware County New York.