Personal Details

Born	1732
Birthplace	Colchester, CT, USA
Baptized	No Entry
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Baptized by...	No Entry
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Occupation(s)	No Entry
Died	No Entry
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Cause of Death	No Entry
Burial Place	Marlboro
Disposition	No Entry

Parents

Father	[14]	Tristham Blish, (***) 3
Mother	[14_sa]	Anne (Fuller) Blish 3

Spouses, Mates & Children

Wife #1 [49_sa] - Zeruiah (Skinner) Blish 4 Married by: No Entry Married at: No Entry Children by this spouse: I [165]+ Deacon David Blish 5 b. September 16th, 1753 c. December II [166] Anna Blish 5 b. September 3rd, 1755 c. December III [167] Zeruiah Blish 5 b. June 13th, 1758 c. September IV [168] Rebecca (Blish) Chamberlain 5 b. May 13th, 1760 c. August V [169]+ Deacon Thomas Blish, (***) 5 b. September 13th, 1762 c. December VI [170] Chauncy Blish 5 b. September 1st, 1764 c. December VII [171] Sarah Blish 5 b. April 10th, 1766 c. July VIII [172]+ Aaron Blish 5 b. October 21st, 1768 c. January IX [173]+ Roger Blish 5 b. May 23rd, 1770 c. August

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 4	Gen. 3	Gen. 2	Gen. 1	Gen. 0
David Blish, (***)	Tristham Blish, (***)	Joseph Blish, (***)	Abraham Blish, (***)	Joseph Blish, (***)
				Agnes (?) Blish
			Anne (Pratt) Blish	John Pratt
				? (?) Pratt
		Hannah (Hull) Blish	Tristham Hull	Rev. Joseph Hull
				? (?) Hull
			Agnes "Blanche" (?) Hull	No Entry
				No Entry
	Anne (Fuller) Blish	Matthew Fuller	Samuel Fuller, Jr.	Samuel Fuller
				Jane (Lothropp) Fuller
			Anne (Fuller) Fuller	Dr. Matthew Fuller
				Hanna (?) Fuller
		Patience (Young) Fuller	George Young	? Young
				? (?) Young
			Hannah (Pinson) Young	? Pinson
				? (?) Pinson

Personalized History Timeline, 1732 to 1832

1231-1808: Papal Inquisition from before birth until age 76 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birth until age 28 1733-1735: War of Polish Succession from age 1 to age 3 1736: English statutes against witchcraft repealed at age 4 1740-1748: Austrian war of the succession from age 8 to age 16 1741: Slave revolt in New York, 2nd uprising at age 9 1742: Celsius invents Centigrade thermometer at age 10 1743: 1st settlement in S. Dakota at age 11 1745: Electrical Capacitor (Leyden Jar) at age 13 1749: Sign Language for deaf-mutes at age 17 1752: Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod at age 20 1752: Britain and its colonies adopt Gregorian calender at age 20 1754-1763: French-Indian war from age 22 to age 31 1755: Lisbon earthquake - 30,000 dead at age 23 1756-1763: Seven years war from age 24 to age 31 1758: Halley's Comet (1st predicted appearance) at age 26 1760-1820: Reign of King George III (Hanover) from age 28 to age 88 1760: Bifocals at age 28 1765: HMS Victory launched at age 33 1765: Steam Engine at age 33 1769: San Francisco bay discovered at age 37 1770: Boston Massacre - 5 people killed when British fire on mob at age 38 1772-1775: Antarctica circumnavigated by James Cook from age 40 to age 43 1772: Judge Murray decrees that slaves are free on landing in England at age 40 1773: Boston Tea Party at age 41 1774: 1st Continental Congress meets at age 42 1775-1783: American Revolutionary War against the British from age 43 to age 51 1775-1782: British war in India from age 43 to age 50 1776: Declaration of Independence at age 44 1778: Congress forbids import of slaves into America at age 46 1778: France joins war against Britan at age 46 1780: Benjamin Franklin discovers lightning is electricity at age 48 1781: Uranus discovered at age 49 1783: 1st working hot air balloon at age 51 1784: Thomas Jefferson's proposal to ban slavery defeated at age 52 1786: The Dollar is adopted at age 54 1786: First attempts at indoor lighting with gas (UK, Germany) at age 54 1787: Delaware enters the union - 1st at age 55 1787: Pennsylvania enters the union - 2nd at age 55 1787: New Jersey enters the union - 3rd at age 55 1787: Constitution is approved by the constitutional congress at age 55 1788: Constitution goes into effect at age 56 1788: New York enters the union - 11th at age 56 1788: Virginia enters the union - 10th at age 56 1788: New Hampshire enters the union - 9th at age 56 1788: Georgia enters the union - 4th at age 56 1788: Connecticut enters the union - 5th at age 56 1788: Massachusetts enters the union - 6th at age 56 1788: Maryland enters the union - 7th at age 56 1788: South Carolina enters the union - 8th at age 56 1789: US Army Established at age 57 1789: North Carolina enters the union - 12th at age 57 1789-1796: George Washington selected 1st President from age 57 to age 64 1790: 1st official US census at age 58 1790: Coast Guard Established at age 58 1790: Rhode Island enters the union - 13th at age 58 1791: Federal Bill of rights adopted at age 59 1791: Vermont enters the union -14th at age 59 1792: Denmark 1st to forbid trade in slaves at age 60 1792-1815: Napoleonic war from age 60 to age 83 1792: Kentucky enters the union - 15th at age 60 1793: Marie Antoinette beheaded at age 61 1793: Eli Whitney invents Cotton Gin (increases need for slaves) at age 61 1794: Slavery abolished in French colonies at age 62 1794: US Navy Established at age 62 1794: US Post Office Established at age 62 1796: Tennesee enters the union - 16th at age 64 1796-1800: John Adams elected 2nd president of US from age 64 to age 68 1796: France's presses get right of free speech at age 64 1796: Vaccination against Smallpox at age 64 1798-1800: Undeclared war with France from age 66 to age 68 1798: Mississippi organized as a territory at age 66 1798: Lithography at age 66 1798: US Marine Corps Established at age 66 1799: Rosetta Stone found at age 67 1800: 1st Battery (Volta) at age 68 1800-1809: Thomas Jefferson elected president of US from age 68 to age 77 1800: US capital moves from Philadelphia to Washington DC at age 68 1800: Russia annexes Georgia at age 68 1802: Babylonian cuniform deciphered at age 70 1803: Fulton propels vessel by steampower at age 71 1803: Ohio enters the union - 17th at age 71 1803: Louisiana Territory Purchased at age 71 1804-1806: Lewis and Clark Expedition from age 72 to age 74 1804: Haiti independent - 1st black country in West. Hemis. at age 72 1805: Thomas Jefferson re-elected president of US at age 73 1805: Morphine isolated at age 73 1807: Robert Fulton makes 1st practical steamboat voyage at age 75 1808: Import of new slaves into US Is banned at age 76 1808: Pompeii excavation begins in earnest at age 76 1809-1816: James Madison elected president of US from age 77 to age 84 1809: Charles Darwin born at age 77 1810: US pop. reaches 7.2 million at age 78 1810: Homeopathy founded at age 78 1812-1814: War of 1812 from age 80 to age 82 1812: Missouri organized as a territory at age 80 1812: Louisiana enters the union - 18th at age 80 1815: Battle of Waterloo at age 83 1815: French outlaw slavery in France at age 83 1815: Sumbawa volcano (Indonesia) erupts; 50,000 killed at age 83 1816: Photographic Negative at age 84 1816: Indiana enters the union - 19th at age 84 1816: Stethoscope at age 84 1817: Alabama organized as a territory at age 85 1817: Pentrich Revolution - England's last revolution at age 85 1817: Mississippi enters the union - 20th at age 85 1817-1823: 1st Cholera pandemic from age 85 to age 91 1817-1825: Erie canal constructed from age 85 to age 93 1817-1824: James Monroe president of US from age 85 to age 92 1818: Illinois enters the union - 21st at age 86 1818: Savannah 1st steamship to cross the Atlantic at age 86 1819: Arkansas organized as a territory at age 87 1819: Alabama enters the union - 22nd at age 87 1819: Oersted discovers electro-magnetism at age 87 1820-1830: Reign of King George IV (Hanover) from age 88 to age 98 1820: Maine enters the union - 23rd at age 88 1821: 1st US women's college at age 89 1821: US pop. reaches 9.2 million at age 89 1821-1829: Greek war of Independence from age 89 to age 97 1821: Missouri enters the union - 24th at age 89 1822: Florida organized as a territory at age 90 1824: Erie canal finished at age 92 1824-1828: John Quincy Adams president of US from age 92 to age 96 1824: Internal Combustion Engine at age 92 1826: 1st railroad tunnel (England) at age 94 1827: Ship's propeller (screw) at age 95 1827: 1st Black newspaper Freedom's Journal at age 95 1827: Ohms Law formulated at age 95 1828-1836: Andrew Jackson president of US from age 96 until after line end 1828: 1st Webster's Dictionary at age 96 1828: 1st railroad in the US at age 96 1829: 1st US patent on a typewriter at age 97 1829-1851: 2nd Cholera pandemic from age 97 until after line end 1830: Mormons (Latter Day Saints) founded at age 98 1830-1860: Underground railroad leads 100,000+ slaves to freedom in US from age 98 until after line end 1830-1837: Reign of King William IV (Hanover) from age 98 until after line end 1832: Horse-drawn trolleys in New York at age 100

Additional Information

David and Zeruiah Blish were communicants in the church at Marlborough in 1754 and all of their children were baptized there. They are frequently mentioned in the church records and were members all of their lives. The following entries in the Eastbury church records show the atmosphere of the times. 1776 Oct. 29. "We heard of the death of Solomon Andrews who died in the army at Ticonderoga, 8th of October, 1776." 1777 Jany. 14. We heard of the death of Ebenezer Brooks, a captive in New York." 1777 Jany. 18. "We heard of the death of Jonathan Strickland a captive in New York." The following entry in the Glastonbury, Connecticut Town Records, illustrates an old custom of "livery of seizin." "Execution was issued on judgement of David Blish vs. Ichabod Waddams, now of Pittsfield, County of Berkshire, Province of Mass. on the first Tuesday in November, 1776, for £41-11-11. Execution dated 20th February Anno Domini 1767 and in the 7th year of his Majesties reign. Geo. Wyllys, Clerk 1767 Mar. 21th. "By virtue of said writ I seized a piece of land which was appraised at £31-4s. I thereupon delivered the seizin and possession of said piece of land to said David Blish by turf and twig in full satisfaction of said sum of £31-4s. Test: John Findley, Constable." The old English law forms were well observed in those days. A deed from John Waddams, of New Lebanon, County of Berkshire, Provine of Mass., Bay, Admr. of the Estate of Cleb Waddams, late of Glastonbury, deceased, in consideration of £56-2s-7d conveys lands in Glastonbury, Conn. The deed is dated "29 day of March, in the 9th year of the reign of our sovereign Lord, George the third, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Anno Domini 1769 In two deeds from David Blish to Nathan Dickerson, dated 1 May 1778 and 14 Nov. 1780, the words, "The reign of our sovereign Lord, King George, &c." are erased by drawing a pen through them. King George was persona non grata at that time. In all of the deeds up to this time pounds, shillings and pence (£-s-d) were used in expressing the consideration, but in a deed from Abraham Skinner to David Blish, dated 14 Mar. 1801, the consideration is stated in dollars. "A list of Capt David Miller's Co., Lt Col. Obediah Hosford's regt that marchd in Sept 1776 to East Chester to join Genl Washington's Army: * David Blish, Sergt. He was also a Sergeant in Capt. Rudd's Co. in Co. Chapman's Regt. in the Revolutionary War. This regiment under Brig. Genl. Taylor, engaged in the attempt to dislodge the British at New Port in Aug. 1778, and was also present at the battle of Rhode Island. David Blush (Blish) enlisted 2 Aug. and was discharged 24 Sept. 1778. The only Town office he is recorded as holding is that of highway surveyor, in 1794. David Blish d. according to the inscription on his tombstone, in the Marlboro Cemetary, 26 Oct. 1817, tho' the Church record has it 1816. His wife Zeruiah d. 27 January 1813, according to her inscription in the cemetary, but an old Bible record says "1 Feb. 1814, in the 85th year of her age," and the church record has the same date and says "age 84." Administration was granted on his estate to his son Roger, 10 Feby, 1818, which would indicate that the tombstone record is correct. His estate was small at the time of his death, most of it having been previously distributed, Roger holding the homestead in Marlboro. References---Colch. Conn Town Rec.m Colch Prob. Rec., Taintor's Colch. Rec., Colch. Deed Rec., Marlboro Tn. and Ch. Rec., Glastonbury Tn. Rec., Conn, in the Revolution, and Hebron, Conn. Tn. Rec.