Personal Details

Born	November 1st, 1786
Birthplace	Gilsum, NH, USA
Baptized	No Entry
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Occupation(s)	No Entry
Died	November 15th, 1872, aged about 86 years
Died at...	Lawrenceville, NY, USA
Cause of Death	No Entry
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Parents

Father	[165]	Deacon David Blish 5
Mother	[165_sa]	Lucy (Wilcox) Blish 5

Spouses, Mates & Children

Wife #1 [346_sa] - Mary "Polly" (Whitney) Blish 6 Married by: No Entry Married at: No Entry Children by this spouse: I [621]+ Daniel Blish 7 b. June 17th, 1812 c. September II [622]+ David Blish 7 b. November 30th, 1814 c. February III [623]+ Mary Jane Blish 7 b. January 27th, 1817 c. April IV [624] John Blish 7 b. November 28th, 1819 c. February V [625] Lucy Blish 7 b. February 1st, 1821 c. May VI [626]+ Emily (Blish) Carpenter 7 b. April 30th, 1823 c. July VII [627] William Clark Blish 7 b. November 30th, 1825 c. February

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 6	Gen. 5	Gen. 4	Gen. 3	Gen. 2
David Blish	Deacon David Blish	David Blish, (***)	Tristham Blish, (***)	Joseph Blish, (***)
				Hannah (Hull) Blish
			Anne (Fuller) Blish	Matthew Fuller
				Patience (Young) Fuller
		Zeruiah (Skinner) Blish	Deacon Nathaniel Skinner	? Skinner
				? (?) Skinner
			Mary (Gillett) Skinner	? Gillett
				? (?) Gillett
	Lucy (Wilcox) Blish	Obadiah Wilcox	No Entry	No Entry
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		Sarah (Talcott) Wilcox	No Entry	No Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1786 to 1872

1231-1808: Papal Inquisition from before birth until age 22 1478-1834: Torquemada's Spanish Inquisition from before birth until age 48 1760-1820: Reign of King George III (Hanover) from before birth until age 34 1786: First attempts at indoor lighting with gas (UK, Germany) at age 0 1786: The Dollar is adopted at age 0 1787: New Jersey enters the union - 3rd at age 1 1787: Delaware enters the union - 1st at age 1 1787: Constitution is approved by the constitutional congress at age 1 1787: Pennsylvania enters the union - 2nd at age 1 1788: New York enters the union - 11th at age 2 1788: Virginia enters the union - 10th at age 2 1788: New Hampshire enters the union - 9th at age 2 1788: South Carolina enters the union - 8th at age 2 1788: Maryland enters the union - 7th at age 2 1788: Massachusetts enters the union - 6th at age 2 1788: Georgia enters the union - 4th at age 2 1788: Constitution goes into effect at age 2 1788: Connecticut enters the union - 5th at age 2 1789: US Army Established at age 3 1789: North Carolina enters the union - 12th at age 3 1789-1796: George Washington selected 1st President from age 3 to age 10 1790: Rhode Island enters the union - 13th at age 4 1790: 1st official US census at age 4 1790: Coast Guard Established at age 4 1791: Federal Bill of rights adopted at age 5 1791: Vermont enters the union -14th at age 5 1792: Denmark 1st to forbid trade in slaves at age 6 1792-1815: Napoleonic war from age 6 to age 29 1792: Kentucky enters the union - 15th at age 6 1793: Marie Antoinette beheaded at age 7 1793: Eli Whitney invents Cotton Gin (increases need for slaves) at age 7 1794: US Navy Established at age 8 1794: US Post Office Established at age 8 1794: Slavery abolished in French colonies at age 8 1796: Vaccination against Smallpox at age 10 1796: France's presses get right of free speech at age 10 1796-1800: John Adams elected 2nd president of US from age 10 to age 14 1796: Tennesee enters the union - 16th at age 10 1798-1800: Undeclared war with France from age 12 to age 14 1798: US Marine Corps Established at age 12 1798: Mississippi organized as a territory at age 12 1798: Lithography at age 12 1799: Rosetta Stone found at age 13 1800: 1st Battery (Volta) at age 14 1800-1809: Thomas Jefferson elected president of US from age 14 to age 23 1800: US capital moves from Philadelphia to Washington DC at age 14 1800: Russia annexes Georgia at age 14 1802: Babylonian cuniform deciphered at age 16 1803: Ohio enters the union - 17th at age 17 1803: Louisiana Territory Purchased at age 17 1803: Fulton propels vessel by steampower at age 17 1804: Haiti independent - 1st black country in West. Hemis. at age 18 1804-1806: Lewis and Clark Expedition from age 18 to age 20 1805: Thomas Jefferson re-elected president of US at age 19 1805: Morphine isolated at age 19 1807: Robert Fulton makes 1st practical steamboat voyage at age 21 1808: Import of new slaves into US Is banned at age 22 1808: Pompeii excavation begins in earnest at age 22 1809: Charles Darwin born at age 23 1809-1816: James Madison elected president of US from age 23 to age 30 1810: Homeopathy founded at age 24 1810: US pop. reaches 7.2 million at age 24 1812-1814: War of 1812 from age 26 to age 28 1812: Missouri organized as a territory at age 26 1812: Louisiana enters the union - 18th at age 26 1815: Sumbawa volcano (Indonesia) erupts; 50,000 killed at age 29 1815: Battle of Waterloo at age 29 1815: French outlaw slavery in France at age 29 1816: Indiana enters the union - 19th at age 30 1816: Photographic Negative at age 30 1816: Stethoscope at age 30 1817: Pentrich Revolution - England's last revolution at age 31 1817-1823: 1st Cholera pandemic from age 31 to age 37 1817-1825: Erie canal constructed from age 31 to age 39 1817: Mississippi enters the union - 20th at age 31 1817-1824: James Monroe president of US from age 31 to age 38 1817: Alabama organized as a territory at age 31 1818: Savannah 1st steamship to cross the Atlantic at age 32 1818: Illinois enters the union - 21st at age 32 1819: Alabama enters the union - 22nd at age 33 1819: Oersted discovers electro-magnetism at age 33 1819: Arkansas organized as a territory at age 33 1820: Maine enters the union - 23rd at age 34 1820-1830: Reign of King George IV (Hanover) from age 34 to age 44 1821: US pop. reaches 9.2 million at age 35 1821: 1st US women's college at age 35 1821: Missouri enters the union - 24th at age 35 1821-1829: Greek war of Independence from age 35 to age 43 1822: Florida organized as a territory at age 36 1824: Erie canal finished at age 38 1824-1828: John Quincy Adams president of US from age 38 to age 42 1824: Internal Combustion Engine at age 38 1826: 1st railroad tunnel (England) at age 40 1827: 1st Black newspaper Freedom's Journal at age 41 1827: Ohms Law formulated at age 41 1827: Ship's propeller (screw) at age 41 1828-1836: Andrew Jackson president of US from age 42 to age 50 1828: 1st railroad in the US at age 42 1828: 1st Webster's Dictionary at age 42 1829: 1st US patent on a typewriter at age 43 1829-1851: 2nd Cholera pandemic from age 43 to age 65 1830-1860: Underground railroad leads 100,000+ slaves to freedom in US from age 44 to age 74 1830-1837: Reign of King William IV (Hanover) from age 44 to age 51 1830: Mormons (Latter Day Saints) founded at age 44 1832: Horse-drawn trolleys in New York at age 46 1833: Slavery abolished in British Empire (home and colonies) at age 47 1833: Telegraph at age 47 1834: Modern computer conceived by Charles Babbage at age 48 1835-1842: 2nd Seminole War from age 49 to age 56 1835: Mormon leader Joseph Smith prophesies of 'coming of lord' by 1891 at age 49 1835: Halley's Comet at age 49 1836: Texas war for independence from Mexico at age 50 1836: Arkansas enters the union -25th at age 50 1836: Battle of the Alamo at age 50 1837-1840: Martin Van Buren president of US from age 51 to age 54 1837: Michigan enters the union - 26th at age 51 1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from age 51 until after line end 1837: Depression and Panic in the US - inflation, speculation at age 51 1838-1839: Forced relocation of Cherokee from age 52 to age 53 1839-1842: Opium war between China and the English from age 53 to age 56 1841-1844: John Tyler president of US from age 55 to age 58 1842: Chinese cede Hong Kong to the English at age 56 1844: 1st telegraph line message, Washington to New York at age 58 1845-1848: James K Polk president of US from age 59 to age 62 1845: Florida enters the union - 27th at age 59 1845-1849: Irish Potato Famine from age 59 to age 63 1845: Texas enters the union - 28th at age 59 1846: Iowa enters the union - 29th at age 60 1846-1848: The Mexican-US War from age 60 to age 62 1848: Wisconsin enters the union - 30th at age 62 1848-1856: 1st gold rush in California -- Sutters Mill from age 62 to age 70 1848: NY allows women to own real estate at age 62 1848: Oregon organized as a territory at age 62 1849-1852: Zachary Taylor president of the US from age 63 to age 66 1849: Fizeau measures speed of light at age 63 1850: California enters the union - 31st at age 64 1850: New Mexico organized as a territory at age 64 1850: Utah (included Nevada) organized as a territory at age 64 1850: World pop. est. at 1.1 billion at age 64 1850: US pop reaches 23 million at age 64 1851: Gold rush in Australia at age 65 1852-1859: 3rd Cholera pandemic from age 66 to age 73 1853-1856: Franklin Pierce president of US from age 67 to age 70 1853: Washington (included pt. of Idaho) organized as a territory at age 67 1854: Nebraska organized as a territory at age 68 1854-1856: Crimean War from age 68 to age 70 1854: Kansas organized as a territory at age 68 1857-1866: Transatlantic cable laid from age 71 to age 80 1857-1860: James Buchanan president of US from age 71 to age 74 1857: Dred Scott decision: Blacks could not be US citizens at age 71 1858: India bill transfers government of India to England at age 72 1858: Minnesota enters the union - 32nd at age 72 1859: Oregon enters the union - 33rd at age 73 1859: Oil Well at age 73 1859: Darwin pub. Origin Of Species at age 73 1860: South Carolina Secedes from the Union at age 74 1860: Rifled barrel invented at age 74 1861: North Dakota organized as a territory at age 75 1861: Colorado organized as a territory at age 75 1861: The Apache Declare War on the US at age 75 1861: Transcontinental Telegraph completed at age 75 1861: South Dakota organized as a territory at age 75 1861: Gold rush in New Zealand at age 75 1861: Nevada organized as a territory at age 75 1861-1865: Confederate States of America Exist from age 75 to age 79 1861: Kansas enters the union - 34th at age 75 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln president of US from age 75 to age 79 1861-1865: Civil War from age 75 to age 79 1862: US Homestead act at age 76 1863: Emancipation Proclamation frees southern slaves at age 77 1863: West Virginia enters the union - 35th at age 77 1863: Idaho organized as a territory at age 77 1863: Arizona organized as a territory at age 77 1863-1879: 4th Cholera pandemic from age 77 until after line end 1863: Battle of Gettysburg at age 77 1864: Nevada enters the union - 36th at age 78 1864: Louisiana organized as a territory at age 78 1865: President Lincoln assassinated at age 79 1865: Ku Klux Klan founded at age 79 1865: Lister invents Disinfection at age 79 1866: Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts) at age 80 1866-1868: Andrew Johnson president of US from age 80 to age 82 1867: Nebraska enters the union - 37th at age 81 1867: Dynamite at age 81 1867: Alaska purchased from Russia at age 81 1867: Diamonds discovered in South Africa at age 81 1867: Confederation of Canada at age 81 1868-1878: War between Cuba and Spain from age 82 until after line end 1869: Cutty Sark built at age 83 1869-1876: Ulysses S Grant president of US from age 83 until after line end 1869: Trans-continental railroad completed at age 83 1869: Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold at age 83 1869: Suez canal opened at age 83 1870: 1st black US senator (Hiram Revels) at age 84 1870: US black men can vote at age 84 1870-1871: Franco-Prussian war from age 84 to age 85 1871: Great Fire destroys Chicago at age 85

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