Ancestry of
Phil Scott

82nd Governor of Vermont

Joseph Blush

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Phil Scott — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 216 
  • Father:
  • Tristram Blish 
  • Mother:
  • Anne Fuller   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1 Dec 1729 
  • Birth Location:
  • Colchester, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 May 1788 
  • Death Location:
  • Middlefield, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Mack Cemetery, Middlefield, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Skinner
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Mar 1753 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Colchester, New London, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Blish

  Joseph Blush Jr. (Ahnentafel No:108 )

  • Notes: 

  • Joseph Blush's surname is also seen as Blish and Bliss.

• Sources for Joseph Blush

  • ¹ Bolton and Vernon, CT: Vital Records 1704-1852, Bolton, Vol. 1, p. 54, Birth record for son Joseph Blish.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Colchester, p. 149, Marriage record for Joseph Bliss and Elizabeth Skinner.
  • ³ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 13903, Membership application for Margaret (Eggleston) Areford.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/27/2025).
  • ⁵ Blish, James Knox, Genealogy of the Blish Family in America, 1637-1905, Kewanee, Illinois: n. p. (1905), 65-68.
  • ⁶ MacGunnigle, Bruce Campbell, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 4, 3rd ed., Edward Fuller, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2006), 145.