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THOMAS 2 BLISS, JR., HARTFORD FOUNDER (THOMAS 1) was born abt. 1618 in England, and died 15 Apr 1688 in Norwich, CT. He married ELIZABETH BIRCHARD Oct 1644 in Saybrook, CT, daughter of THOMAS BIRCHARD and MARY ROBINSON.
Dec 18, 2023 · Genealogy for Thomas Bliss, Jr. (1618 - 1688) family tree on Geni, with over 250 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
When Thomas Bliss III was christened on 23 January 1617, in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, his father, Thomas Bliss Jr., was 33 and his mother, Margaret Snowe, was 30. He married Elizabeth Birchard on 30 October 1644, in Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
- Birth
- Hartford
- Marriage
- Saybrook
- Norwich
- Will
- Children of Thomas & Elizabeth
Thomas Bliss was baptized 23 Jan 1617/8 at St. John the Baptist, Gloucester, where his parents Thomas Blisse and Margaret Snowewere married.
A Founder of Hartford, the name of Thomas Bliss Jr. is inscribed on the East face of the Founder's Monument. 1. Thomas Blisse Senr and Jnr were granted lots "at The Townes Courtesie wth liberty to fetch wood & keepe swine or cowes By proportion on the common" His original grant having been 4 acres. 2. The February 1639 Registration of Hartford Land...
Thomas Bliss married Elizabeth _______ the latter end of October, 1644, at Saybrook, Connecticut. The bride may have been Elizabeth [?Birchard] , b. [say 1622], d. at Norwich, 28 Feb. 1699/1700.
Saybrook was a colony on its own until 1644, about the time that Thomas Bliss married there and had most of his children. He had a house lot of thirty acres in what is now Lyme. He sold this 23 July 1662 to John Comstock.He was on the 1650 Division of Land list and present at a town meeting 7 Jan 1655.
He removed with Rev. James Fitch to Norwich in 1659/60,where Thomas was one of the original thirty five purchasers of the land that became Norwich, Connecticut. Thomas Bliss had a land allotment of five and a quarter acres with a lane on the south leading to the river. Freeman: Thomas Bilsse and several other men from Norwich were made freeman of C...
Thomas Bliss' will is dated April 13th, 1688, two days before his death and in it provision was made for his wife Elizabeth and six daughters, and his only living son, Samuel, who was at that time thirty-one years of age. His estate was estimated at £182, 17s. 7d. He had land, besides his home lot, " over the river — on the Little Plain — at the Gr...
Elizabeth, b. November 20, 1645, at Saybrook, Connecticut, m. June 7, 1663, Edward Smithof New London, Conn. This couple, with their son John, ae. 15, died of an epidemic disease in 1689 -- John on...Mary, b. at Saybrook, Conn., Feb. 7, 1649, m..about 1672-3,David son of Dea. Hugh and Ann Caulkins, of New London, Conn., (a Welchman who came to this country about 1640, stopped at Marshfield for...Thomas, b. at Saybrook, Conn., March 3, 1652. d. Jan. 29, 1682, probably unmarried.- Male
- January 23, 1618
- Elizabeth (Birchard) Bliss
- April 15, 1688
Mar 5, 2024 · Thomas Bliss was a founder of Hartford, [1] he is called "Sr" in town records. Barbour who based his work on the Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America [2] mingles the lives of Thomas Bliss of Hartford and Thomas Bliss of Rehoboth and treats Thomas Bliss, Jr. as his son.
- Male
- February 14, 1651
When Thomas Bliss Jr. was born on 20 March 1583, in Belstone, Devon, England, his father, Thomas Bliss, was 20 and his mother, Ann Almay, was 20. He married Margaret Snowe on 14 April 1616, in Gloucester St John the Baptist, Gloucestershire, England.
When Ann Bliss was born about 1617, in Belstone, Devon, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Bliss Jr., was 35 and her mother, Margaret Snowe, was 32. She married Robert Chapman on 29 April 1642, in Saybrook, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.
