Death of Abraham Blish - 300 Years - Barnstable, MA - Commercial Commemorations on Waymarking.com

This stone with its dedicatory plaque are place in front of the Trayser Museum, also now known as the Coast Guard Heritage Museum, and next to the Old Jail, both buildings that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The First Unitarian Church of Barnstable is across the street which is the historic Old King's Highway, also know as Main St. and Route 6A.

Abraham Blish was born in 1618 in England and immigrated to the Plymouth Colony sometime before 1637 when the first verifiable record of his presence can be found in a deed of sale in Duxbury. A few years later he relocated to Banstable on Cape Cod where he was one of the first settlers and prominent leaders of the community until his death at about age 65 on September 7, 1683. His name appears in a list of persons able to bear arms in the Colony of New Plymouth in 1643. Source: Genealogy of the Blish family in America, 1637-1905 compiled by James Knox Blish, and Blish.org by Charles Benjamin Blish.

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ABRAHAM BLISH
ORIGINAL SETTLER WITH THE BARNSTABLE COLONY IN 1640
SELECTED GRAND JUROR, HAYWARD, CONSTABLE, AND HIGHWAY
SURVEYOR. SERVED WITH MILITIA OF THE COLONY OF NEW
PLYMOUTH IN 1658. HE BUILT AND OPERATED ONE OF THE
FIRST GRIST MILLS IN AMERICA IN THE TIDEWATER AREA
NEAR THE BARNSTABLE COMMON FIELDS. THIS STONE IS FROM
THE ORIGINAL FOUNDATION WALL. HE DIED AT BARNSTABLE
SEPTERMBER 7, 1683. BLISH POINT, NAMED IN HIS HONOR,
EXTENDS FROM THE EAST TO THE MOUTH OF THE MARASPIN CREEK
WHERE IT ENTERS BARNSTABLE HARBOR.

GIFT TO THE CITIZENS OF BARNSTABLE FROM THE DESCENDENTS
OF ABRAHAM BLISH TO COMMEMORATE THE THREE HUNDREDTH
ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH

Anniversary Year: 1983 Year of Event, Organization or Occurance: 1683 Address: 3353 Main St Barnstable, MA United States Website: Not listed

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