Personal Details

Born	January 4th, 1648
Birthplace	Barnstable, county of Barnstable, MA, USA
Baptized	April 9th, 1648
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Occupation(s)	No Entry
Died	June 14th, 1730, aged about 82 years
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Burial Place	West Barnstable, county of Barnstable, MA, USA
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Parents

Father	[1]	Abraham Blish, (***) 1
Mother	[1_sa]	Anne (Pratt) Blish 1

Spouses, Mates & Children

Wife #1 [3_sa] - Hannah (Hull) Blish 2 Married by: No Entry Married at: Barnstable, MA, USA Children by this spouse: I [5]+ Joseph Blish 3 b. September 13th, 1675 c. December II [6] John Blish 3 b. February 17th, 1676 c. May III [7] Annah Blish 3 b. February, 1678 c. May IV [8]+ Abraham Blish 3 b. February 27th, 1680 c. May V [9]+ Reuben Blish 3 b. August 14th, 1683 c. November VI [10] Sarah Blish 3 b. August, 1685 c. November VII [11] Sarah Blish 3 b. September, 1686 c. December VIII [12] Thankful (Blish) Bodfish 3 b. September, 1689 c. December IX [13] John Blish 3 b. January 1st, 1691 c. April X [14]+ Tristham Blish, (***) 3 b. April, 1694 c. July XI [15] Mary (Blish) Jones 3 b. April, 1696 c. July XII [16] Benjamin Blish 3 b. April, 1699 c. July

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 2	Gen. 1	Gen. 0	Gen. -1	Gen. -2
Joseph Blish, (***)	Abraham Blish, (***)	Joseph Blish, (***)	? Blish	No Entry
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	Anne (Pratt) Blish	John Pratt	? Pratt	No Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1648 to 1730

1231-1808: Papal Inquisition from before birth until after line end 1478-1834: Torquemada's Spanish Inquisition from before birth until after line end 1618-1648: 30 years war from before birth until age 0 1625-1649: Reign of King Charles I (Stuart) from before birth until age 1 1642-1649: English Civil War from before birth until age 1 1649-1660: Oliver Cromwell rules (Stuart) from age 1 to age 12 1650: World pop. est. at 500 million at age 2 1650: Chattel slavery officially recognized at age 2 1652-1654: Anglo-Dutch war from age 4 to age 6 1652: Air Pump invented at age 4 1654: Theory of Probability - Pascal and Fermat at age 6 1655: Oliver Cromwell allows Jews back in England at age 7 1657: First Stockings at age 9 1657: Pendulum Clock invented by Galileo at age 9 1660: Light composition discovered by Isaac Newton at age 12 1660-1685: Reign of King Charles II (Stuart) from age 12 to age 37 1660: British Navigation Acts restrict commerce at age 12 1661: Manometer at age 13 1664-1665: Great Plague in London kills 68,596 from age 16 to age 17 1664: English take New York from the Dutch, no shots fired at age 16 1665: Differential Calculus (Isaac Newton) at age 17 1666: 1st Armenian Bible printed at age 18 1666: Great fire of London - 9/2 to 9/9. 14,000+ buildings burned at age 18 1668: Isaac Newton makes first reflecting telescope at age 20 1675-1676: King Phillip's War from age 27 to age 28 1678: Polarization of light discovered (Huygens) at age 30 1679: Habeas Corpus passed in England - trial before imprisonment at age 31 1680: Dodo becomes extinct at age 32 1681: Pennsylvania founded at age 33 1682: Appearance of Halley's Comet at age 34 1683: Newton explains tides via theory of gravitation at age 35 1684: Street lighting introduced in London at age 36 1687: Newton publishes his Laws of Motion at age 39 1688: Plate glass cast for 1st time at age 40 1689-1702: Reign of King William III and Queen Mary II (Stuart) from age 41 to age 54 1692: The Puritans murder 20 alleged witches in Salem, MA at age 44 1700-1721: Great Northern War from age 52 to age 73 1701: Captain William Kidd hung for piracy at age 53 1701-1713: War of Spanish Succession from age 53 to age 65 1702-1714: Reign of Queen Anne (Stuart) from age 54 to age 66 1707: Mount Fujiyama erupts at age 59 1712: Slave revolts in New York at age 64 1712: Last execution for witchcraft in England at age 64 1714: Witch trials abolished in Prussia at age 66 1714-1727: Reign of King George I (Hanover) from age 66 to age 79 1714: Farenheit invents mercury thermometer at age 66 1716: Christian teaching forbidden in China at age 68 1718: New Orleans founded at age 70 1718: Spain seizes Sicily (from Savoy) at age 70 1718: Peter the Great has son and heir murdered at age 70 1721: Rifles brought to America by the Swiss at age 73 1722: Samoa and Easter island discovered by Dutch at age 74 1727-1760: Reign of King George II (Hanover) from age 79 until after line end 1727: Quakers demand abolition of slavery at age 79 1729: Opium smoking prohibited in China at age 81

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