Silas Fish (1767 - 1835)

Born 29 Aug 1767 in Stonington, Connecticut

Ancestors

Died 15 Jun 1835 at age 67 in Stonington, Connecticut, United States of America [uncertain]

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Biography

Silas Fish, born 29 Aug 1767 at Stonington, Connecticut, was the sixth child of Catherine (Helme) Fish (1737-1818), the second wife of Nathan Fish Jr. (1727-1822).

Per Fish Family in America page 314:

1888 SILAS7 FISH (Nathan6, Nathan5, Samuel4, John3, Alice2, John1), carpenter, son of (1876) Nathan and Catherine (Helme) Fish, was b. Aug. 29, 1767, and d. June 15, 1835, at Bridgewater, Ithaca, N. Y. Was a member of the Presbyterian and later the Congregational Church. He m. Cynthia Bliss of West Springfield, Mass., Mar. 17, 1795.

Children:

• 2107 Phebe Williston Fish, b. June 25, 1796; m. July 14, 1822, Joseph Ellery Woodworth (1799-)
• 2108 Cynthia Bliss Fish, b. Apr. 22, 1797; d. Nov. 20, 1814.
• 2109 Lucy Seymour Fish, b. Nov. 24, 1798; d. Nov. 1829; m. Nov. 1822, Dr. Ely Glover.
• 2110 Nancy (Ann) Fish, b. Sept. 3, 1800; d. Nov. 10, 1854; m. Dec. 19, 1825, Rev. Geo. Foote (1800 - 1867)
• 2111 Harriet Bliss Fish, b. Dec. 22, 1801; d. June 26, 1850; m. Dec. 6, 1820, Elisha Walworth Chester.
• 2112 Emily Bliss Fish, b. Aug. 20, 1803; d. in Georgia.
• 2113 Silas Seymore Fish, b. Feb. 3, 1805; d. June 17, 1822. Prepared for Yale.
• 2114 Catherine Helme Fish, b. Nov. 11, 1806; d. Aug. 1880; m. Aug. 4, 1827, Dunham Ludlow.
• 2115 Roderick Burt Fish, b. July 10, 1808; d. July 20, 1809.
• 2116 Abby Wood Fish, b. June 26, 1810; m. Orville Mather.

Silas Fish died 15 Jun 1835. An online memorial site represents that his grave is in Starr Burying Ground Cemetery, Groton, New London County, Connecticut, USA ^[1]. No grave marker is depicted.

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #124555160

• Wheeler, Richard Anson. History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, p. 373, no. 41: https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofs00whee_1#page/n395/mode/1up

• The Fish Family in England and America (1948) p. 293, 314, no. 1888: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89067390757;view=1up;seq=377

Profile History

This profile was created through the import of master 11_12.ged on 21 October 2010; later merged with Fish-1928 created by Dana Jones through the import of starkaron5gen.ged on Feb 1, 2014.