Personal Details

Born	December 2nd, 1641
Birthplace	Barnstable, county of Barnstable, MA, USA
Baptized	December 5th, 1641
Baptized at...	No Entry
Baptized by...	Reverend Lothrop
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Occupation(s)	No Entry
Died	No Entry
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Cause of Death	No Entry
Burial Place	No Entry
Disposition	No Entry

Parents

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

Spouses, Mates & Children

Husband #1 [2_sa] - Robert Orchyard 2 Married by: No Entry Married at: No Entry Children by this spouse: I [2_c3] Mary (Orchyard or "Orchard"?) Pim 3 b. 1668 c. ? II [2_c2] Mehetabel (Orchyard or "Orchard"?) Pumery 3 b. 1673 c. ? III [2_c5] ? "sister" Orchyard 3 b. 1675 c. ? IV [2_c4] Joseph Orchyard 3 b. August, 1679 c. November V [2_c1] Vertue Orchyard 3 b. September, 1680 c. December

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 2	Gen. 1	Gen. 0	Gen. -1	Gen. -2
Sarah (Blish) Orchyard	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, 1641 to 1741

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 7 1625-1649: Reign of King Charles I (Stuart) from before birth until age 8 1630-1642: English aggressively settle Massachusetts from before birth until age 1 1642-1649: English Civil War from age 1 to age 8 1642: Pascal invents Calculator at age 1 1643: Barometer invented at age 2 1645: Rainbow, 1st American slave ship, sails for Africa at age 4 1649-1660: Oliver Cromwell rules (Stuart) from age 8 to age 19 1650: Chattel slavery officially recognized at age 9 1650: World pop. est. at 500 million at age 9 1652: Air Pump invented at age 11 1652-1654: Anglo-Dutch war from age 11 to age 13 1654: Theory of Probability - Pascal and Fermat at age 13 1655: Oliver Cromwell allows Jews back in England at age 14 1657: Pendulum Clock invented by Galileo at age 16 1657: First Stockings at age 16 1660-1685: Reign of King Charles II (Stuart) from age 19 to age 44 1660: British Navigation Acts restrict commerce at age 19 1660: Light composition discovered by Isaac Newton at age 19 1661: Manometer at age 20 1664: English take New York from the Dutch, no shots fired at age 23 1664-1665: Great Plague in London kills 68,596 from age 23 to age 24 1665: Differential Calculus (Isaac Newton) at age 24 1666: 1st Armenian Bible printed at age 25 1666: Great fire of London - 9/2 to 9/9. 14,000+ buildings burned at age 25 1668: Isaac Newton makes first reflecting telescope at age 27 1675-1676: King Phillip's War from age 34 to age 35 1678: Polarization of light discovered (Huygens) at age 37 1679: Habeas Corpus passed in England - trial before imprisonment at age 38 1680: Dodo becomes extinct at age 39 1681: Pennsylvania founded at age 40 1682: Appearance of Halley's Comet at age 41 1683: Newton explains tides via theory of gravitation at age 42 1684: Street lighting introduced in London at age 43 1687: Newton publishes his Laws of Motion at age 46 1688: Plate glass cast for 1st time at age 47 1689-1702: Reign of King William III and Queen Mary II (Stuart) from age 48 to age 61 1692: The Puritans murder 20 alleged witches in Salem, MA at age 51 1700-1721: Great Northern War from age 59 to age 80 1701: Captain William Kidd hung for piracy at age 60 1701-1713: War of Spanish Succession from age 60 to age 72 1702-1714: Reign of Queen Anne (Stuart) from age 61 to age 73 1707: Mount Fujiyama erupts at age 66 1712: Slave revolts in New York at age 71 1712: Last execution for witchcraft in England at age 71 1714: Farenheit invents mercury thermometer at age 73 1714-1727: Reign of King George I (Hanover) from age 73 to age 86 1714: Witch trials abolished in Prussia at age 73 1716: Christian teaching forbidden in China at age 75 1718: New Orleans founded at age 77 1718: Spain seizes Sicily (from Savoy) at age 77 1718: Peter the Great has son and heir murdered at age 77 1721: Rifles brought to America by the Swiss at age 80 1722: Samoa and Easter island discovered by Dutch at age 81 1727-1760: Reign of King George II (Hanover) from age 86 until after line end 1727: Quakers demand abolition of slavery at age 86 1729: Opium smoking prohibited in China at age 88 1733-1735: War of Polish Succession from age 92 to age 94 1736: English statutes against witchcraft repealed at age 95 1740-1748: Austrian war of the succession from age 99 until after line end 1741: Slave revolt in New York, 2nd uprising at age 100

Additional Information

I hope that this will illuminate my work in extending Sarah Orchyard's line as shown by the names of the children and all branches off of this Blish family member. Five children, as shown above, are mentioned in Abraham's will. We know that Sarah was born about 1641. We also know she had five children, from the will. Working with four years as the absolute minimum period in which one could have five children, and knowing that she was alive to be mentioned in a will that was signed in 1683, we know she lived, at least, from 1641 to 1683, and that she married a man named Orchard during this period. All five children are recorded as being born within this time period; Also, Sarah's age would have been about 27 to 39, a somewhat late but not unbelievable age range for bearing children at this point in history. There are no particular records of anyone named "Orchyard", but there are records of considerable interest that are designated "Orchard", and that is a very likely difference in spelling. Thusly: In BOSTON BIRTHS, BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS, 1630-1699, for the year 1668, on page 108, the following entry appears: Mary of Robert & Sarah Orchard born Mar. 26. This would have made her about 27 years old at the time of this birth, a reasonable number. It is based upon this information that I arrived at the name of her husband, Robert. Please be aware that this is far from certain, but I deem it very likely. Likewise, the name of a child was assigned as Mary and the sex as female, using this record as a basis for that assumption. If the former is correct, then most likely so is the latter. Otherwise, I apologize! In addition to the mention of Mary, Mehetabel is mentioned as being baptized, then later married. Hence the assignment of another child as female and named: In BOSTON BIRTHS, BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS, 1630-1699. for the year 1673. on page 130 appears: Mehetabel of Sarah Orchard 17 day 6 mo. ...and then: In BOSTON BIRTHS, BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS, 1630-1699, for the year 1680, on page 150 appears: Joseph Orchard Aug. ...and then: In BOSTON BIRTHS, BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS, 1630-1699, for the year 1675, on page 136 appears: sister Orchard 26 day 7 mo. You will note in this case there is no given name, but the reference to "sister Orchard" determines the sex. ...and then: In BOSTON BIRTHS, BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS, 1630-1699, for the year 1680, on page 156 appears: Vertue Orchard Sept. These are all the mentions of Orchard for birth or (presumably) baptism, and another confirming notion is that there are indeed five of them, as mentioned in the will of Abraham's in 1683. Vertue and Joseph are both mentioned for 1680, probably for Baptism (I have not had the books in hand, so I have been unable to verify as yet, though I hope to at some point.) This would make sense, and I think that the order of Baptism is probably also the order of birth - hence I've used these dates to create guesses at birth dates as they are uncertain at this point, and because they order the two offspring. Although it is possible that they were born the same year, this seems not highly likely to me. Mary's marriage is documented in the same book, for 1690, on page 192. Mehetabel's marriage is documented in the same book, for 1694, on page 218. Boston is about 50 miles from Barnstable, so this is also reasonable for the times. It would also tend to support that there is little mention of Sarah other than in the will - 50 miles was far enough to make contact between persons infrequent at best unless they travelled in the course of making a living.. Charles Benjamin Blish 3rd Compiler, April 1st, 2000