Personal Details

Born	June 7th, 1780
Birthplace	White Plains, county of Duchess, NY, USA
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Died	April 9th, 1852, aged about 72 years
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Burial Place	East side of Hudson rvr, South of Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
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Spouses, Mates & Children

Wife #1 [344] - Lucy (Blish) Hedding 6 Married by: No Entry Married at: Gilsum, NH, USA Children by this spouse: No Records of Children

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Personalized History Timeline, 1780 to 1852

1231-1808: Papal Inquisition from before birth until age 28 1478-1834: Torquemada's Spanish Inquisition from before birth until age 54 1760-1820: Reign of King George III (Hanover) from before birth until age 40 1775-1783: American Revolutionary War against the British from before birth until age 3 1775-1782: British war in India from before birth until age 2 1780: Benjamin Franklin discovers lightning is electricity at age 0 1781: Uranus discovered at age 1 1783: 1st working hot air balloon at age 3 1784: Thomas Jefferson's proposal to ban slavery defeated at age 4 1786: The Dollar is adopted at age 6 1786: First attempts at indoor lighting with gas (UK, Germany) at age 6 1787: Delaware enters the union - 1st at age 7 1787: Constitution is approved by the constitutional congress at age 7 1787: Pennsylvania enters the union - 2nd at age 7 1787: New Jersey enters the union - 3rd at age 7 1788: Massachusetts enters the union - 6th at age 8 1788: Maryland enters the union - 7th at age 8 1788: South Carolina enters the union - 8th at age 8 1788: New Hampshire enters the union - 9th at age 8 1788: Virginia enters the union - 10th at age 8 1788: New York enters the union - 11th at age 8 1788: Constitution goes into effect at age 8 1788: Connecticut enters the union - 5th at age 8 1788: Georgia enters the union - 4th at age 8 1789: US Army Established at age 9 1789-1796: George Washington selected 1st President from age 9 to age 16 1789: North Carolina enters the union - 12th at age 9 1790: 1st official US census at age 10 1790: Coast Guard Established at age 10 1790: Rhode Island enters the union - 13th at age 10 1791: Federal Bill of rights adopted at age 11 1791: Vermont enters the union -14th at age 11 1792-1815: Napoleonic war from age 12 to age 35 1792: Kentucky enters the union - 15th at age 12 1792: Denmark 1st to forbid trade in slaves at age 12 1793: Eli Whitney invents Cotton Gin (increases need for slaves) at age 13 1793: Marie Antoinette beheaded at age 13 1794: US Post Office Established at age 14 1794: US Navy Established at age 14 1794: Slavery abolished in French colonies at age 14 1796: France's presses get right of free speech at age 16 1796-1800: John Adams elected 2nd president of US from age 16 to age 20 1796: Vaccination against Smallpox at age 16 1796: Tennesee enters the union - 16th at age 16 1798-1800: Undeclared war with France from age 18 to age 20 1798: Mississippi organized as a territory at age 18 1798: US Marine Corps Established at age 18 1798: Lithography at age 18 1799: Rosetta Stone found at age 19 1800: US capital moves from Philadelphia to Washington DC at age 20 1800: 1st Battery (Volta) at age 20 1800: Russia annexes Georgia at age 20 1800-1809: Thomas Jefferson elected president of US from age 20 to age 29 1802: Babylonian cuniform deciphered at age 22 1803: Fulton propels vessel by steampower at age 23 1803: Ohio enters the union - 17th at age 23 1803: Louisiana Territory Purchased at age 23 1804-1806: Lewis and Clark Expedition from age 24 to age 26 1804: Haiti independent - 1st black country in West. Hemis. at age 24 1805: Morphine isolated at age 25 1805: Thomas Jefferson re-elected president of US at age 25 1807: Robert Fulton makes 1st practical steamboat voyage at age 27 1808: Import of new slaves into US Is banned at age 28 1808: Pompeii excavation begins in earnest at age 28 1809: Charles Darwin born at age 29 1809-1816: James Madison elected president of US from age 29 to age 36 1810: US pop. reaches 7.2 million at age 30 1810: Homeopathy founded at age 30 1812: Missouri organized as a territory at age 32 1812: Louisiana enters the union - 18th at age 32 1812-1814: War of 1812 from age 32 to age 34 1815: Battle of Waterloo at age 35 1815: Sumbawa volcano (Indonesia) erupts; 50,000 killed at age 35 1815: French outlaw slavery in France at age 35 1816: Stethoscope at age 36 1816: Indiana enters the union - 19th at age 36 1816: Photographic Negative at age 36 1817-1823: 1st Cholera pandemic from age 37 to age 43 1817-1824: James Monroe president of US from age 37 to age 44 1817: Pentrich Revolution - England's last revolution at age 37 1817-1825: Erie canal constructed from age 37 to age 45 1817: Alabama organized as a territory at age 37 1817: Mississippi enters the union - 20th at age 37 1818: Illinois enters the union - 21st at age 38 1818: Savannah 1st steamship to cross the Atlantic at age 38 1819: Alabama enters the union - 22nd at age 39 1819: Arkansas organized as a territory at age 39 1819: Oersted discovers electro-magnetism at age 39 1820: Maine enters the union - 23rd at age 40 1820-1830: Reign of King George IV (Hanover) from age 40 to age 50 1821-1829: Greek war of Independence from age 41 to age 49 1821: Missouri enters the union - 24th at age 41 1821: US pop. reaches 9.2 million at age 41 1821: 1st US women's college at age 41 1822: Florida organized as a territory at age 42 1824: Erie canal finished at age 44 1824: Internal Combustion Engine at age 44 1824-1828: John Quincy Adams president of US from age 44 to age 48 1826: 1st railroad tunnel (England) at age 46 1827: 1st Black newspaper Freedom's Journal at age 47 1827: Ship's propeller (screw) at age 47 1827: Ohms Law formulated at age 47 1828: 1st Webster's Dictionary at age 48 1828: 1st railroad in the US at age 48 1828-1836: Andrew Jackson president of US from age 48 to age 56 1829-1851: 2nd Cholera pandemic from age 49 to age 71 1829: 1st US patent on a typewriter at age 49 1830: Mormons (Latter Day Saints) founded at age 50 1830-1837: Reign of King William IV (Hanover) from age 50 to age 57 1830-1860: Underground railroad leads 100,000+ slaves to freedom in US from age 50 until after line end 1832: Horse-drawn trolleys in New York at age 52 1833: Slavery abolished in British Empire (home and colonies) at age 53 1833: Telegraph at age 53 1834: Modern computer conceived by Charles Babbage at age 54 1835-1842: 2nd Seminole War from age 55 to age 62 1835: Halley's Comet at age 55 1835: Mormon leader Joseph Smith prophesies of 'coming of lord' by 1891 at age 55 1836: Arkansas enters the union -25th at age 56 1836: Battle of the Alamo at age 56 1836: Texas war for independence from Mexico at age 56 1837: Depression and Panic in the US - inflation, speculation at age 57 1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from age 57 until after line end 1837-1840: Martin Van Buren president of US from age 57 to age 60 1837: Michigan enters the union - 26th at age 57 1838-1839: Forced relocation of Cherokee from age 58 to age 59 1839-1842: Opium war between China and the English from age 59 to age 62 1841-1844: John Tyler president of US from age 61 to age 64 1842: Chinese cede Hong Kong to the English at age 62 1844: 1st telegraph line message, Washington to New York at age 64 1845-1849: Irish Potato Famine from age 65 to age 69 1845: Texas enters the union - 28th at age 65 1845: Florida enters the union - 27th at age 65 1845-1848: James K Polk president of US from age 65 to age 68 1846-1848: The Mexican-US War from age 66 to age 68 1846: Iowa enters the union - 29th at age 66 1848: Wisconsin enters the union - 30th at age 68 1848-1856: 1st gold rush in California -- Sutters Mill from age 68 until after line end 1848: Oregon organized as a territory at age 68 1848: NY allows women to own real estate at age 68 1849-1852: Zachary Taylor president of the US from age 69 to age 72 1849: Fizeau measures speed of light at age 69 1850: World pop. est. at 1.1 billion at age 70 1850: California enters the union - 31st at age 70 1850: New Mexico organized as a territory at age 70 1850: Utah (included Nevada) organized as a territory at age 70 1850: US pop reaches 23 million at age 70 1851: Gold rush in Australia at age 71 1852-1859: 3rd Cholera pandemic from age 72 until after line end

Additional Information

Elijah Hedding was of English parentage. Though neither of his parents were professors of religion, his mother was seriously inclined and took great pains to instruct him in truth and Christian duty. Notwithstanding his home training, he became somewhat uncontrollable, through some evil associations. This condition, happily, did not last long. In 1791 his parents removed to Starksborough, Vermont, an almost unsettled country, and here the boy began to develop, both physically and mentally, and showed an adventurous spirit bordering on recklessness. He was active, both in body and mind, and investigated various forms of religious and irreligious beliefs. He never evaded the issue, being open and frank in all that he said or did, until he finally got back to the teachings of his good mother, and became interested in the Methodist church, which he soon joined, and was for a time an exhorter, then a local preacher and about 1800, received a regular license. IN 1801 he was appointed to the Plattburg circuit. It was while here that he became acquainted with the family of David Blish. He was located at many different places, after the manner of the Methodist parsons. In 1824, he was chosen as a Bishop of the Methodist church, which office he held with honor to himself and the church for twenty eight years. He was a remarkable man and universally esteemed wherever he was known. No children were born to him, but the name Hedding has been handed down through several generations of the Blish family, indicating the honor and esteem in which he was held by the family. Bishop Hedding died April 9th, 1852, and his wife did not long survive him. The remains of both repose in the beautiful cemetary, on the east side of the Hudson River, a short distance below Poughkeepsie, New York. References: JKB Blish Genealogy 1637-1905 Hayward's Hist. Gilsum, New Hampshire Annals of the American Pulpit Life and Times of Bishop Hedding, by Dr. Clark