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Thomas Blisse

Male Abt 1590 - Bef 1651  (~ 61 years)


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  • Name Thomas Blisse 
    Birth Abt 1580-1590  South West England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    Death Bef Feb 1650/51  Hartford, Connecticut Colony Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Person ID I2126  Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
    Last Modified 23 Jul 2020 

    Family 1 Margaret Snowe   bur. 4 Jun 1621, St Nicholas Church, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 14 Apr 1616  Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4] 
    Children 
     1. Ann Blisse,   c. Abt 1617, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Nov 1685, Saybrook, New London Co, Connecticut Colony Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 68 years)
     2. Thomas Blisse,   c. 23 Jan 1617/18, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Apr 1688, Norwich, New London Co, Connecticut Colony Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 70 years)
     3. Sarah Blisse,   c. 23 Apr 1620, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F809  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 27 May 2020 

    Family 2 Margaret Hulings,   b. Abt 1590-1600, South West England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Apr 1684, Springfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 84 years) 
    Marriage 18 Oct 1621  Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    • Married at St. Nicholas Church, Gloucester
    Children 
     1. Nathaniel Bliss,   b. Est 1622, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationbur. 18 Nov 1654, Springfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 32 years)
     2. Mary Blisse,   b. Est 1626, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Jan 1711/12, Northampton, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 86 years)
     3. Lawrence Blisse,   b. Est 1628, South West England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1676, Springfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 48 years)
     4. Hannah Blisse,   b. Est 1633, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Jan 1660/61, Springfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 28 years)
     5. John Blisse,   b. Abt 1635, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Sep 1702, Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 67 years)
     6. Sarah Bliss,   b. Est 1639, Hartford, Connecticut Colony Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Sep 1705, Roxbury, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 66 years)
     7. Hester Bliss,   b. Est 1640, Hartford, Connecticut Colony Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Jun 1683, Springfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 43 years)
     8. Elizabeth Bliss,   b. Est 1640, Hartford, Connecticut Colony Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1683, Springfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 42 years)
     9. Samuel Bliss,   b. Abt 1642, Hartford, Connecticut Colony Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Mar 1719/20, Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 78 years)
    Family ID F811  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 31 May 2020 

  • Notes 
    • There is substantial evidence that Thomas Bliss Sr was born in Gloucestershire, South West England and was married twice: firstly to Margaret Snowe and secondly to Margaret Hulings (Hulins, Hulinge). There are entries for these names in the records of the St Nicholas Church of Gloucestershire a church that was not affiliated with the Church of England. Due to religious persecution Thomas (hereafter Thomas Bliss Sr) and his younger brother George and their families embarked about 1635 at Plymouth England for the New World. Upon their arrival at Boston Thomas Sr resided temporarily at Braintree MBC (Massachusetts Bay Colony) whence he removed to Hartford Plantation[*] before 1639. George settled first in the MBC town of Lynn in 1637, then Sandwich in 1638, and finally Newport. Both Thomas Blisse Sr and Thomas Blisse Jr had house-lots and divisions of land in Hartford as early as 1640. The senior died in Hartford leaving nine children and his widow Margaret. Apparently a woman of resolute independent character, she removed with the younger part of her family to Springfield. - History of Norwich. The Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford lists Thomas Bliss (Sr) as a founder of Hartford settling there before February 1640. Other lists of Hartford founders also list Thomas Jr along with his father. [*]The first English settlers arrived in 1635. Pastor Thomas Hooker and Governor John Haynes led 100 settlers with 130 head of cattle in a trek from Newtown (now Cambridge, Massachusetts) in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and started their settlement just north of a Dutch fort (set up as early as 1623; abandoned 1654). The settlement was originally called Newtown, but was changed to Hartford in 1637 to honor the English town of Hertford. - Wikipedia
      From: NEXUS, Vol viii, No 6, New England Historic Genealogical Society, pub Dec 1991: Thomas Blisse Sr d. apparently so suddenly, Hartford, Conn., late 1650 or early 1651, that he had no chance to leave a written will, merely telling Margaret and dau Mary that he left all his estate to her and nothing to his ch. (testimony of dau. Mary (BLISS) PARSONS, Hartford. (Probate Rec., Vol. 11:28, 14 Feb. 1650/1; nuncupative will of Thomas Bliss Hartford - Court Records, 20 Feb. 1650/1).
      Thomas Bliss and Margaret Hulings have a Mormon posterity of approximately 270,000 and an American posterity of approximately 18 million placing them in the top seven largest families in America. (Mormon Pioneer Genealogy Library Acquired by NEHGS; Michel L. Call and Gary Boyd Roberts; Published Date: June 1985) [6]

  • Sources 
    1. [S475] Godfrey Memorial Library, AGBI, Vol 15, p142; birth year given 1585 but that is of low confidence (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S694] Charles William Manwaring, Conn Probates, (Google Books. This work covers the wills, inventories, distributions of estates, and court records of the men and women who settled in that fecund district of Connecticut embracing Hartford, Wethersfield, and Windsor. Volumes I and II originally published in 1904. Volume III originally published in 1906. ), Several unreliable sources say Thomas died in 1640. The first substantial related date is the date of his will , 14 Feb 1650/1 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S692] Gloucestershire Anglican Parish Registers, Gloucester bapts marriages burials, (Ancestry.com. Gloucestershire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1813 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Gloucestershire Anglican Parish Registers. Gloucestershire Archives, Gloucestershire, England. ), Ref P154/9 IN 1/1. St John the Baptist, Gloucester (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S691] Church Records England, England select marriages, (Ancestry.com. England, Select Marriages, 1538), St Nicholas Church, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, Englan (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S692] Gloucestershire Anglican Parish Registers, Gloucester bapts marriages burials, (Ancestry.com. Gloucestershire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1813 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Gloucestershire Anglican Parish Registers. Gloucestershire Archives, Gloucestershire, England. ), Ref P154/15 IN 1/1. St Nicholas, Gloucester. (Reliability: 3).

    6. [S704] John Homer Bliss, Oliver Bliss, and Syslvester Bliss, Bliss genealogy, (Boston Mass, Printed by the Author, 1881), pp 29-31 (Reliability: 3).


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