Personal Details

Born	December 3rd, 1758
Birthplace	Barnstable, county of Barnstable, MA, USA
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Occupation(s)	Shoemaker
Died	May 28th, 1846, aged about 88 years
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Burial Place	Phinney's Lane
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Parents

Father	[37]	Silas Blish 4
Mother	[37_sa]	Mercy (Tobey) Blish 4

Spouses, Mates & Children

Wife #1 [126_sb] - Rebecca (Linnell) Blish 5 Married by: No Entry Married at: No Entry Children by this spouse: No Records of Children
Wife #2 [126_sa] - Rebecca "Aunt Beck" Blish 5 Married by: No Entry Married at: No Entry Children by this spouse: No Records of Children

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 5	Gen. 4	Gen. 3	Gen. 2	Gen. 1
Elisha Blish	Silas Blish	Reuben Blish	Joseph Blish, (***)	Abraham Blish, (***)
				Anne (Pratt) Blish
			Hannah (Hull) Blish	Tristham Hull
				Agnes "Blanche" (?) Hull
		Elizabeth (?) Bodfish	No Entry	No Entry
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	Mercy (Tobey) Blish	No Entry	No Entry	No Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1758 to 1846

1231-1808: Papal Inquisition from before birth until age 50 1478-1834: Torquemada's Spanish Inquisition from before birth until age 76 1727-1760: Reign of King George II (Hanover) from before birth until age 2 1754-1763: French-Indian war from before birth until age 5 1756-1763: Seven years war from before birth until age 5 1758: Halley's Comet (1st predicted appearance) at age 0 1760-1820: Reign of King George III (Hanover) from age 2 to age 62 1760: Bifocals at age 2 1765: Steam Engine at age 7 1765: HMS Victory launched at age 7 1769: San Francisco bay discovered at age 11 1770: Boston Massacre - 5 people killed when British fire on mob at age 12 1772: Judge Murray decrees that slaves are free on landing in England at age 14 1772-1775: Antarctica circumnavigated by James Cook from age 14 to age 17 1773: Boston Tea Party at age 15 1774: 1st Continental Congress meets at age 16 1775-1782: British war in India from age 17 to age 24 1775-1783: American Revolutionary War against the British from age 17 to age 25 1776: Declaration of Independence at age 18 1778: France joins war against Britan at age 20 1778: Congress forbids import of slaves into America at age 20 1780: Benjamin Franklin discovers lightning is electricity at age 22 1781: Uranus discovered at age 23 1783: 1st working hot air balloon at age 25 1784: Thomas Jefferson's proposal to ban slavery defeated at age 26 1786: The Dollar is adopted at age 28 1786: First attempts at indoor lighting with gas (UK, Germany) at age 28 1787: Delaware enters the union - 1st at age 29 1787: Pennsylvania enters the union - 2nd at age 29 1787: New Jersey enters the union - 3rd at age 29 1787: Constitution is approved by the constitutional congress at age 29 1788: New Hampshire enters the union - 9th at age 30 1788: Constitution goes into effect at age 30 1788: Georgia enters the union - 4th at age 30 1788: Connecticut enters the union - 5th at age 30 1788: Massachusetts enters the union - 6th at age 30 1788: South Carolina enters the union - 8th at age 30 1788: Maryland enters the union - 7th at age 30 1788: Virginia enters the union - 10th at age 30 1788: New York enters the union - 11th at age 30 1789: US Army Established at age 31 1789-1796: George Washington selected 1st President from age 31 to age 38 1789: North Carolina enters the union - 12th at age 31 1790: 1st official US census at age 32 1790: Rhode Island enters the union - 13th at age 32 1790: Coast Guard Established at age 32 1791: Vermont enters the union -14th at age 33 1791: Federal Bill of rights adopted at age 33 1792-1815: Napoleonic war from age 34 to age 57 1792: Denmark 1st to forbid trade in slaves at age 34 1792: Kentucky enters the union - 15th at age 34 1793: Eli Whitney invents Cotton Gin (increases need for slaves) at age 35 1793: Marie Antoinette beheaded at age 35 1794: US Post Office Established at age 36 1794: Slavery abolished in French colonies at age 36 1794: US Navy Established at age 36 1796: France's presses get right of free speech at age 38 1796-1800: John Adams elected 2nd president of US from age 38 to age 42 1796: Vaccination against Smallpox at age 38 1796: Tennesee enters the union - 16th at age 38 1798-1800: Undeclared war with France from age 40 to age 42 1798: US Marine Corps Established at age 40 1798: Mississippi organized as a territory at age 40 1798: Lithography at age 40 1799: Rosetta Stone found at age 41 1800-1809: Thomas Jefferson elected president of US from age 42 to age 51 1800: 1st Battery (Volta) at age 42 1800: US capital moves from Philadelphia to Washington DC at age 42 1800: Russia annexes Georgia at age 42 1802: Babylonian cuniform deciphered at age 44 1803: Louisiana Territory Purchased at age 45 1803: Fulton propels vessel by steampower at age 45 1803: Ohio enters the union - 17th at age 45 1804: Haiti independent - 1st black country in West. Hemis. at age 46 1804-1806: Lewis and Clark Expedition from age 46 to age 48 1805: Thomas Jefferson re-elected president of US at age 47 1805: Morphine isolated at age 47 1807: Robert Fulton makes 1st practical steamboat voyage at age 49 1808: Import of new slaves into US Is banned at age 50 1808: Pompeii excavation begins in earnest at age 50 1809: Charles Darwin born at age 51 1809-1816: James Madison elected president of US from age 51 to age 58 1810: Homeopathy founded at age 52 1810: US pop. reaches 7.2 million at age 52 1812: Louisiana enters the union - 18th at age 54 1812: Missouri organized as a territory at age 54 1812-1814: War of 1812 from age 54 to age 56 1815: Sumbawa volcano (Indonesia) erupts; 50,000 killed at age 57 1815: French outlaw slavery in France at age 57 1815: Battle of Waterloo at age 57 1816: Indiana enters the union - 19th at age 58 1816: Stethoscope at age 58 1816: Photographic Negative at age 58 1817-1825: Erie canal constructed from age 59 to age 67 1817: Mississippi enters the union - 20th at age 59 1817: Alabama organized as a territory at age 59 1817-1824: James Monroe president of US from age 59 to age 66 1817: Pentrich Revolution - England's last revolution at age 59 1817-1823: 1st Cholera pandemic from age 59 to age 65 1818: Savannah 1st steamship to cross the Atlantic at age 60 1818: Illinois enters the union - 21st at age 60 1819: Oersted discovers electro-magnetism at age 61 1819: Alabama enters the union - 22nd at age 61 1819: Arkansas organized as a territory at age 61 1820: Maine enters the union - 23rd at age 62 1820-1830: Reign of King George IV (Hanover) from age 62 to age 72 1821: Missouri enters the union - 24th at age 63 1821: US pop. reaches 9.2 million at age 63 1821: 1st US women's college at age 63 1821-1829: Greek war of Independence from age 63 to age 71 1822: Florida organized as a territory at age 64 1824-1828: John Quincy Adams president of US from age 66 to age 70 1824: Internal Combustion Engine at age 66 1824: Erie canal finished at age 66 1826: 1st railroad tunnel (England) at age 68 1827: Ship's propeller (screw) at age 69 1827: Ohms Law formulated at age 69 1827: 1st Black newspaper Freedom's Journal at age 69 1828: 1st Webster's Dictionary at age 70 1828: 1st railroad in the US at age 70 1828-1836: Andrew Jackson president of US from age 70 to age 78 1829-1851: 2nd Cholera pandemic from age 71 until after line end 1829: 1st US patent on a typewriter at age 71 1830-1860: Underground railroad leads 100,000+ slaves to freedom in US from age 72 until after line end 1830-1837: Reign of King William IV (Hanover) from age 72 to age 79 1830: Mormons (Latter Day Saints) founded at age 72 1832: Horse-drawn trolleys in New York at age 74 1833: Slavery abolished in British Empire (home and colonies) at age 75 1833: Telegraph at age 75 1834: Modern computer conceived by Charles Babbage at age 76 1835: Mormon leader Joseph Smith prophesies of 'coming of lord' by 1891 at age 77 1835: Halley's Comet at age 77 1835-1842: 2nd Seminole War from age 77 to age 84 1836: Arkansas enters the union -25th at age 78 1836: Battle of the Alamo at age 78 1836: Texas war for independence from Mexico at age 78 1837-1840: Martin Van Buren president of US from age 79 to age 82 1837: Michigan enters the union - 26th at age 79 1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from age 79 until after line end 1837: Depression and Panic in the US - inflation, speculation at age 79 1838-1839: Forced relocation of Cherokee from age 80 to age 81 1839-1842: Opium war between China and the English from age 81 to age 84 1841-1844: John Tyler president of US from age 83 to age 86 1842: Chinese cede Hong Kong to the English at age 84 1844: 1st telegraph line message, Washington to New York at age 86 1845-1849: Irish Potato Famine from age 87 until after line end 1845-1848: James K Polk president of US from age 87 until after line end 1845: Texas enters the union - 28th at age 87 1845: Florida enters the union - 27th at age 87 1846-1848: The Mexican-US War from age 88 until after line end 1846: Iowa enters the union - 29th at age 88

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