Joseph Blush1,2

#24073, (13 September 1675 - )

Family

Hannah Childs b. c 1674, d. 1732
Children 1.Joseph Blush4 (1704 - )
 2.Abigail Blush4 (1705 - )
 3.Sarah Blush+1 (1707 - )
 4.Mehitable Blush4 (1711 - )
 5.Abraham Blush4 (1712 - )
 6.Hannah Blush4 (1715 - 1723/24)
On the spelling of the name: Otis and Smith in Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families state "This name is uniformly written on the Colony and early Barnstable records Blush. Many of his descendants now spell their name Blish, though the popular, pronunciation of the name continues to he Blush."3 
Joseph Blush was also known as Blish (variant.)1 
Birth*13 September 1675He was born on 13 September 1675 at Barnstable, Plymouth Colony.2 
Marriage*30 July 1702He married Hannah Childs on 30 July 1702 at Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Province.2 

Citations

  1. [S2103] Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook), compiler, Massachusetts Town and Vital Records: Barnstable 1643-1892 (Oxford, Massachusetts: Holbrook Research Institute, 1885), Transcript of Records, 1713-1781, vol. 2. Page 405, original p. 338.
  2. [S2102] Amos Otis, Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, revised by C F Swift (Barnstable, Mass.: F. B. & F. P. Goss, 1888), pp. 90–93.
  3. [S2102] Amos Otis, Barnstable Families, p. 89.
  4. [S2103] Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook), Mass. Town and Vital Records: Barnstable, Town Records, 1713-1781, Vol. 2, Img. 179/193, p. 331 or 338.