Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

BLUSH.
ABRAHAM BLUSH.
This name is uniformly written on tlie 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.
He was an early settler at Duxbury. Nov. 1, 1637, he
bought of Richard Moore, for twenty-one pounds sterling,
(payable in money or beaver, ) a dwelling-house and twenty
acres of land at Eagle's Nest in Duxbury. On the 26th of
Nov. 1638, he sold the easterly half of the land to John
Willis for £8, lOs. sterling.
He was of Barnstable in 1641, and was probably one of
the first settlers ; was propounded to be admitted a freeman
June 1, 1641; again in 1651, and 1652. The date of his
admission is not given ; his name is on the list of freemen
in 1670. He was a grand-juror in 1642, 1658, and 1663 ;
surveyor of highways 1645, 1650 and 1652; constable,
1656, 1660 and 1667. He is styled a planter, and was a
large landholder, owning at West Barnstable eight acres of
land on the east side of Bridge Creek or Cuve, and seventeen
acres of meadow adjoining. Fourteen acres of upland,
eight on the south, and six on the north side of the road and
bounded easterly by the Annable land, and three acres of
meadow adjoining. His great lot containing forty acres was
on the east of Scorton Hill, and bounded southerly by the
highway. This he sold Feb. 10, 1668, to John Crocker,
Sen'r, for £5, 10s.
In 1662, he owned another sti'ip of land on the east of
the Annable Farm, containing eight acres, extending from
the marsh across the highway to Annable's pond.
The above lands were his W^est Barnstable farm, on
which it appears that he resided in 1643, being one of the