Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Thomas Bliss
Abt 1590 - Bef 1651 (~ 61 years)-
Name Thomas Bliss [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] Birth Abt 1590 [6] Gender Male Alternate death 1649 [2] Death Bef 14 Feb 1651 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut [6, 7, 8] Person ID I3503 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of FL, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TWK Last Modified 18 Jun 2022
Family 1 Margaret Snowe d. Bef 4 Jun 1621 Marriage 14 Apr 1616 St. John the Baptist, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England [6] Children + 1. Thomas Bliss, b. Bef 23 Jan 1618 d. 15 Apr 1688, Norwich, New London, Connecticut (Age > 70 years) Family ID F15481 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 23 Jun 2022
Family 2 Margaret Hulins, b. Abt 1600, of Rodborough, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England d. 28 Aug 1684, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts (Age ~ 84 years) Marriage 18 Oct 1621 St. Nicholas, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England [6, 9] Children + 1. Nathaniel Bliss, b. Bef 28 Dec 1622 d. 18 Nov 1654, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts (Age > 31 years) + 2. Samuel Bliss, b. 1624, England d. 23 Mar 1720, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts (Age 96 years) + 3. Mary Bliss, b. Abt 1628, Gloucestershire, England d. 29 Jan 1712, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts (Age ~ 84 years) + 4. Sarah Bliss, b. Abt 1638 d. 27 Sep 1705, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts (Age ~ 67 years) Family ID F2056 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 23 Jun 2022
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Notes - First appears in Hartford around 1639. Not to be confused with the Thomas Bliss of Braintree and Rehoboth. His name is on the Founders Monument in downtown Hartford.
From Michel L. Call and Gary Boyd Roberts, "Mormon Pioneer Genealogy Library Acquired by NEHGS," 1985:
"According to [Mormon Pioneer Genealogy Library] projections, the largest family in America today is the posterity of Robert White (b. ca. 1560) & Bridget Allgar, with a Mormon posterity of 430,000 and an American posterity of 29 million. The next five families are Edward Griswold and Margaret, Joseph Loomis and Mary White (daughter of Robert and Bridget above), Gerard Spencer and Alice Whitbread, Thomas Ford and Elizabeth Charde, and Thomas Bliss and Margaret Hulins, each with a Mormon posterity of 270,000 and an American posterity of 18 million."
- First appears in Hartford around 1639. Not to be confused with the Thomas Bliss of Braintree and Rehoboth. His name is on the Founders Monument in downtown Hartford.
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Sources - [S682] Gerald James Parsons, "The Early Parsons Families of the Connecticut River Valley." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 148:215, July 1994.
- [S899] The Mary Bliss Parsons Trial, website developed by Historic Northampton and the Center for Computer Based Instructional Technology (now the UMass IT Center for Educational Software Development [CESD]) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
- [S3538] Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England, revised edition, by John Demos. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
- [S5285] George E. McCracken, "Robert Wilson of Farmington, Conn." The American Genealogist 52:76, 1976.
- [S4956] John Insley Coddington, "The Family of Frances (Tough) (Chester) (Smith) Stebbing, Wife of Edward Stebbing, of Hartford, Connecticut." The American Genealogist 30:193, Oct 1954.
- [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.
- [S387] Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Historical Society, 1952.
- [S505] A Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family in This Country by E. B. Huntington. Ridgefield, CT: J. M. Huntington, 1884., place only.
- [S2346] Myrtle Stevens Hyde, "The Marriage of Thomas Bliss and Margaret Hulins." The American Genealogist 60:202, 1984.
- [S682] Gerald James Parsons, "The Early Parsons Families of the Connecticut River Valley." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 148:215, July 1994.