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Abraham Blish
Generation:4
Born:September 29th, 1712 O.S. (Julian calendar)
BirthplaceBarnstable, Massachusetts, USA
Died:January 11th, 1760, at about age 48
Burial:Westb Barnstable, Barnstable county, Massachusetts, USA
Father:Joseph Blish
Mother:Hannah (Child) Blish
Occupation(s): ---
Marriages:None known
Children:None known

Abraham Blish
   Joseph BlishHannah (Child) Blish   
 Joseph BlishHannah (Hull) Blish  ------ 
Abraham BlishAnne (Pratt) BlishTristham HullAgnes (?) Hull------------

Abraham Blish

1712 through 1760

1231-1808 Papal Inquisition
1478-1834 Torquemadas Spanish Inquisition
1700-1721 Great Northern War
1701-1713 War of Spanish Succession
1702-1714 Reign of Queen Anne (Stuart)
  1712   Slave revolts in New York
  1712   Last execution for witchcraft in England
  1714   Farenheit invents mercury thermometer
1714-1727 Reign of King George I (Hanover)
  1714   Witch trials abolished in Prussia
  1716   Christian teaching forbidden in China
  1718   Peter the Great has son and heir murdered
  1718   Spain seizes Sicily (from Savoy)
  1718   New Orleans founded
  1721   Rifles brought to America by the Swiss
  1722   Samoa and Easter island discovered by Dutch
  1727   Quakers demand abolition of slavery
1727-1760 Reign of King George II (Hanover)
  1729   Opium smoking prohibited in China
1733-1735 War of Polish Succession
  1736   English statutes against witchcraft repealed
1740-1748 Austrian war of the succession
  1741   Slave revolt in New York, 2nd uprising
  1742   Celsius invents Centigrade thermometer
  1743   1st settlement in S. Dakota
  1745   Electrical Capacitor (Leyden Jar)
  1749   Sign Language for deaf-mutes
  1752   Britain and its colonies adopt Gregorian calender
  1752   Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod
1754-1763 French-Indian war
  1755   Lisbon earthquake - 30,000 dead
1756-1763 Seven years war
  1758   Halleys Comet (1st predicted appearance)
1760-1820 Reign of King George III (Hanover)
  1760   Bifocals