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Thomas Bliss

Male Bef 1618 - 1688  (> 70 years)


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  • Name Thomas Bliss  [1
    Birth Bef 23 Jan 1618  [2
    Baptism 23 Jan 1618  St. John the Baptist, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    Alternate birth of Norwich, New London, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Alternate death 15 Apr 1688  Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Death 15 Apr 1688  Norwich, New London, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Person ID I23819  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of FL, Ancestor of TWK
    Last Modified 18 Jun 2022 

    Father Thomas Bliss,   b. Abt 1590   d. Bef 14 Feb 1651, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 61 years) 
    Mother Margaret Snowe   d. Bef 4 Jun 1621 
    Marriage 14 Apr 1616  St. John the Baptist, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Family ID F15481  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth   d. Aft Apr 1688 
    Marriage 30 Oct 1644  Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5
    Children 
    +1. Elizabeth Bliss,   b. 20 Nov 1645, Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Jul 1689, Groton, New London, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 43 years)
    +2. Rebecca Bliss,   b. 18 Mar 1663, Norwich, New London, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Aug 1737, Norwich, New London, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)
    Family ID F14292  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 18 Jun 2022 

  • Notes 
    • Came to New England with his father.

  • Sources 
    1. [S505] A Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family in This Country by E. B. Huntington. Ridgefield, CT: J. M. Huntington, 1884.

    2. [S3270] Anne Selene Bennett, "The First Wife and Older Children of Thomas Bliss of Gloucester, England, and Hartford, Connecticut." The American Genealogist 91:43, Jan 2019.

    3. [S3193] A Genealogical History of the Descendants of the Rev. Nehemiah Smith of New London County, Connecticut by H. Allen Smith. Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1889.

    4. [S3194] Genealogy of the Bliss family in America: From about the year 1550 to 1880 by John Homer Bliss. Boston, 1881.

    5. [S3270] Anne Selene Bennett, "The First Wife and Older Children of Thomas Bliss of Gloucester, England, and Hartford, Connecticut." The American Genealogist 91:43, Jan 2019., month, year, and place only.