Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

92 GENEALOGfCAL NOTES OF BAENSTAELE FAMILIES.
25, 1739; Mercy, born Oct. 24, 1740; Benjamin,
bap'd July 18, 1742; Ebenezer, born April 1, 1744,
and Timothy, Feb. 16, 1745-6.
II. Abigail, born 29th Nov. 1705, married Seth Crocker.
III. Sarah, born 1st Oct. 1707, married Seth Hamblin, Oct,
9, 1735.
IV. Mehitable, 14th June, 1711, married Ben. Jenkins,
Oct. 29, 1730.
V. Abraham, born 29th Sept. 1712 ; died Feb. 8, 1723-4.
VI. Hannah, 14th June, 1715.
Al)raham Blush, son of Joseph, married Nov. 12, 1736,
Temperance Fuller. He was fifty-live and she was only
twenty at their marriage. Joseph Blush, Jr., had a son
Abraham born in 1712, who died in 1724, and as there was
no other Abraham in Barnstable, it is to be presumed that the
match was made notwithstanding the disparity in the ages
of the bride and bridegroom.
Children born in Barnstable.
I. Abraham, 20th Oct. 1737.
II. Elijah, 5th March, 1738-9, married Sarah Stewart,
Jan'y 25, 1761.
III. Rebecca, 14th Nov. 1740.
IV. Benjamin, 9th May, 1743.
V. Elisha, 23d April, 1745 ; died 17th Nov. 1645.
VI. Elisha, 1st March, 1746-7.
VII. Martha, 14th July, 1749.
VIH. Temperance, 21st Nov. 1751.
IX. Timothy, 3d Aug. 1756, probably died young.
Reuben Blush, son of Joseph, is not named, if my abstract
is reliable, in his father's will, and though he married
twice and had a family, the births of his children are
not on the Barnstable records. By his first wife Elizabeth,
he had six children baptized Dec. 20, 1730, namely : John',
Silas, Reuben, Elizabeth, Hannah and Thankful.
He married for his second wife, Mary Thomas, Oct,
25, 1735. In his will dated July 3d, 1738, proved on the
20th Oct. following, he names his wife Mary, and sons John,
Reuben and Silas. His widow, who is styled Mrs., married
March 5, 1745, Lieut. John Annable.