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Tristham Blish
(***)
Generation:3
Born:April ?, 1694
Died:? ?, 1778, aged about 84 years
Father:Joseph Blish, (***)
Mother:Hannah (Hull) Blish
Occupation(s): Weaver
Marriages:• Anne (Fuller) Blish
At West Barnstable, MA, USA
Children:Benjamin Blish
Anna (Hanna?) Blish
Sylvanus Blish
Thankful Blish
John Blish
Joseph Blish
Patience Blish
David Blish, (***)
Mary (Blish) Skinner
It is a tradition in the family that Trisham Blish was a weaver by trade. He was executor of the will of his father in Barnstable, and must have removed to Colchester, Connecticut, about 1726. His name occurs several times in the land records of Colchester. He was evidently named for Tristam Hull, his maternal grand-father. The records of Colchester and Marlborough are silent as to the deaths of him and his wife.

1739 Sept. 3. A list of the freemen of Colchester has the name of Thurston Blush.
1740 The names of Tristham Blish and Ann his wife, appear on the list of the members of the Westchester Church, which is the west parish of Colchester.

"Trustham Blish made a confession of intemperance and was restored to the full charity and fellowship of the church."

The Hebron, Connecticut records have the following entry: "Edward Neland and Hannah Blush were joyned together in marriage, Oct. 30, 1746." This was probably Anna. Her mother's name was Anne and her grand-mother's, Hannah. She would be 27 years old at the date of this marriage.

1749 July 30. " Trustham Blish and Ann, his wife, and Danl. Chamberlain and Elizabeth, his wife, were dismissed to the Church at New Marlboro." (This was probably the church in the northern part of the town, now in the Town of Marlborough, but then in Colchester.)
1749 Sept. 4. Trustham Blish conveyed 8 acres of land in Colchester to Benjamin Root for �200.
1752 March 3. Trustham Blish mortgaged 681/2 acres in Colchester, "with the mansion", for �1200.

References---Barn. Town and Prob. Rec. Colchester, Conn. Town Rec. and Westchester Church Rec.


Tristham Blish
   Joseph BlishHannah (Hull) Blish   
 Abraham BlishAnne (Pratt) Blish  Tristham HullAgnes (?) Hull 
Joseph BlishAgnes (?) BlishJohn Pratt? (?) PrattJoseph Hull? (?) Hull------

Tristham Blish
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1694 through 1778

1231-1808 Papal Inquisition
1478-1834 Torquemadas Spanish Inquisition
1689-1702 Reign of King William III and Queen Mary II (Stuart)
1700-1721 Great Northern War
  1701   Captain William Kidd hung for piracy
1701-1713 War of Spanish Succession
1702-1714 Reign of Queen Anne (Stuart)
  1707   Mount Fujiyama erupts
  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
  1765   Steam Engine
  1765   HMS Victory launched
  1769   San Francisco bay discovered
  1770   Boston Massacre - 5 people killed when British fire on mob
1772-1775 Antarctica circumnavigated by James Cook
  1772   Judge Murray decrees that slaves are free on landing in England
  1773   Boston Tea Party
  1774   1st Continental Congress meets
1775-1783 American Revolutionary War against the British
1775-1782 British war in India
  1776   Declaration of Independence
  1778   Congress forbids import of slaves into America
  1778   France joins war against Britain