Cleek, Dunmore, Gum, Hill, Stephenson, Suit Family - Person Sheet
Cleek, Dunmore, Gum, Hill, Stephenson, Suit Family - Person Sheet
NameThomas Bliss 
68400,68401,68402,68403,68404,68405,67840,68406,68407,68408,67860,68409,68410,68411,68412,68413,68414,68415,68416,68417,68418,67707,68419,68420,68421,68422,68423,68424,68425,67728,62068,68426,68427,62070,67742,67888,68428,68429,68430,68431,68432,68433
68400,68401,68402,68403,68404,68405,67840,68406,68407,68408,67860,68409,68410,68411,68412,68413,68414,68415,68416,68417,68418,67707,68419,68420,68421,68422,68423,68424,68425,67728,62068,68426,68427,62070,67742,67888,68428,68429,68430,68431,68432,68433Birthabt 1588, Little Preston, Northamptonshire, England68434,68435,68436,68437,68438,68439,68440,68441,68442,68443,68444,68445,68446
Memoabt 1590? 1582? 1586? 1584 Preston Parva, Northants, England?
Baptismabt 1588, Preston Parva, Near Daventry, Northampton, England68447
Memoor Preston Capes
Residenceca 1620, Preston Parva, Northamptonshire, England68448
Memoaft 1620?
Memo/1640; 36 ac, Grant associated with Capt Richard Wright, whom he made one of the overseers of his estate
Memohome lot of 8 ac in NW end of town. owned 45 ac by time of his death
Land Purchase30 Jun 1644, Rehoboth, Bristol County, MA68461
Memo31 (sic) June? lots were drawn for a division of the woodland
Memoowns land in the town
Memolots drawn for the great plain, beginning on the west side
Memolots were drawn for the new meadow
MemoWill Dated
DeathMay 1649, Rehoboth, Bristol County, MA68474,68475,68476,68477,68458,68478,68479,68480,68481,68482,68483,62070,68427,68484,68485
Memo1636 bef made freeman? bef 6 Jun 1648? 1635? Hartford, CT? Oct 1647?
Burial13 May 1649, Rehoboth, Bristol County, MA68484
MemoWill Inventory. 21 Oct 1647? Before death?
MemoWill Proved; Plymouth Colony Wills V. 1 Pg 67
OccupationBlacksmith, farmer and surveyor; fence viewer 1646; surveyor of highways 164768487,68488,68489,68490,68491,68492
Anst File#AFN:P27F-P068493
FatherThomas John Blysse (1562-1617)
MotherAgnes or Annes (1571-)
Misc. Notes
Pg 913: On the 9th of 4th Mo (Jun) 1645 lots were drawn for the great plain, beginning on the west side, and be that is first on the west side shall be the last on the east: 30. Thomas Bliss65826
Rehoboth, Bristol Co., MA - Early Settlers -Extracted from Our County & Its People A Descriptive & Biographical Record of Bristol County Massachusetts Alanson Borden 1899 Pages 13 - 1964874
As copied from the Proprietors' Records: About the year 1643, a joint agreement was made by the inhabitants of Sea conk alias Rehoboth, ffor the bringing in of their estates; that soe men's lotments might be taken up according to person and estate, as alsoe for the carrieing on of all publick chardges both for present and future; furthermore the means and interest of what is heare expressed is that by which lands, now granted by the Court of Plymouth to the towne, is to be divided according to person and estate, as is expressed in the following list: 31. Thomas Blyss 153£
A town meeting was held in Rehoboth on the 31st of June, 1644, at which lots were drawn for a division of the woodland between the plain and the town. Fifty-eight shares were drawn as follows: 29. Thomas Bliss64874
Rehoboth, MA Early Settlers: the records contain the following list of names with the register of thier lands; who became settlers somewhere in the territory of the towns into which Rehoboth was afterwards divided: Thomas Bliss64874
Rehoboth, Bristol Co., MA - Early Settlers -Extracted from Our County & Its People A Descriptive & Biographical Record of Bristol County Massachusetts Alanson Borden 1899 Pages 13 - 1964874
As copied from the Proprietors' Records: About the year 1643, a joint agreement was made by the inhabitants of Sea conk alias Rehoboth, ffor the bringing in of their estates; that soe men's lotments might be taken up according to person and estate, as alsoe for the carrieing on of all publick chardges both for present and future; furthermore the means and interest of what is heare expressed is that by which lands, now granted by the Court of Plymouth to the towne, is to be divided according to person and estate, as is expressed in the following list: 31. Thomas Blyss 153£
A town meeting was held in Rehoboth on the 31st of June, 1644, at which lots were drawn for a division of the woodland between the plain and the town. Fifty-eight shares were drawn as follows: 29. Thomas Bliss64874
Rehoboth, MA Early Settlers: the records contain the following list of names with the register of thier lands; who became settlers somewhere in the territory of the towns into which Rehoboth was afterwards divided: Thomas Bliss64874
Research
Pg 118 Charles A. Hoppin, “The Bliss Book” (1913) gave records of a Bliss family of Northamptonshire, England ... asserted that Thomas of Rehoboth was son of John’s brother William, although no marriage, children or probate had been discovered for William. Several genealogists of standing accept Thomas of Rehoboth as the son of John (Source: Jacobus & Waterman, “Hale, House & Related Families (1952), 476-7 & “The Mayflower Descendant” 8:85-7 pg 48066771
Thomas Bliss, cousin of Thomas67835 (Whose son is Thomas?)
Individual Record Thomas Bliss (AFN:P27F-P0); 4286 (Did he marry all three?)
m: @1620 Devon Co, England Margaret Lawerance (AFN:MGHJ-0C)
m: 18 Oct 1621 St Nicholas, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England Margaret Hulins (Hulinges) (AFN:52KW-9B);
m: 22 Nov 1614 Daventry, Northampton, England Dorothy Wheatley (AFN:8MJL-22)
Northamptonshire, England: Parish and Probate Records68494 (Them?)
Register of Marriages, 1540-1812; Marriages at Attenborough, 1560-1812 Vol 1. Thomas Bucke & Dorothy Wheteley 5 May 1616
Pg 10668495 (Him? Thomas Bliss Marr: former Mrs. Ide? Nicholas Ide step-son not his son-in-law? Other sources say Nichola Ide Jr mar this Thomas Bliss’s dau Martha)
IDE - Nicholas Ide (or Hyde). He died early in the seventeenth century, leaving a son Nicholas (2). The widow of Nicholas (1) afterward married Thomas Bliss, of Belstone, near Okelhampton, Devonshire, England. The latter belonged to a family of substantial farmers and landowners of Belstone, who by their adherence to Puritan views and opposition to the court and clergy, suffered persecution under Charles I, and were reluctantly compelled to emigrate to the New American colonies. Thomas Bliss emigrated to America in 1636, taking with him his stepson, Nicholas Ide, his wife (formerly Mrs. Ide) and two or three children of his own. He joined an uncle at Braintree, near Boston, MA. IN a year or two he moved to Hartford, CT then back again to Braintree in 1640. Religious dissensions arising in the Plymouth Church, Thomas Bliss left the place and settled at Rehoboth, MA, where he shared in a distribution of land, Jun 1644. Here Thomas Bliss, who was said to have been a blacksmith, lived until his death in 1649. IN his will he mentions, besides two sons and daughters, Nicholas Ide as his son-in-law. This is meant of course to be stepson, as his half-sister could not have become his wife.
Pg 57 Gloucestershire: Bliss, Thomas; English Parish Name: Painswick; Ship: (blank); New England Town: (blank); Ref: Chan. Pro.; James 1; B 38/3468496 (Him?)
Pg 3397 Thomas Bliss (-1651) &n 1/wf ___ ___; Hartford (Bos Trans 25 Jul 1915 note 1523; Hale (1952) 479; Stevens-Miller 345; McCormick-Hamilton 143)66948 (Him?)
Pg 3400 Thomas Bliss & Elizabeth (?Birchard); Latter end of Oct 1644; Norwich, CT/Saybrook (Bliss (1881) 34; Williams (16) 65; Booth (1910) 96; New Haven Gen Mag 1422; Coxe Anc (1915) 36; TAG 10:36; Abell 11; Sv 1:202; Dawes-Gates 2:726; Reg 31:326; Avery Anc (1925) 78; Granberry 174, 317; Stevens-Miller 347; Blake-Glidden 5; McCormick-Hamilton 151; Clark-Baker 79; Warner-Harrington 65; Hale (1952) 479) (Related? Another Son Thomas?)
Bristol County MA Probate File Papers 1686-188064074 (No Thomas Bliss)
Image92of242 Thomas Bliss was probably the son of William Bliss68497 (His Father?)
Image94of242 Thomas Bliss Marr: his first wife Margaret in England (another wife?)
Image94of242 Thomas Bliss estate inventoried 14 Feb 1650 which all went to his wife Margaret (wife?)
Based on The Bliss Book by Charles A. Hoppin, 1913
Thomas Bliss, cousin of Thomas67835 (Whose son is Thomas?)
Individual Record Thomas Bliss (AFN:P27F-P0); 4286 (Did he marry all three?)
m: @1620 Devon Co, England Margaret Lawerance (AFN:MGHJ-0C)
m: 18 Oct 1621 St Nicholas, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England Margaret Hulins (Hulinges) (AFN:52KW-9B);
m: 22 Nov 1614 Daventry, Northampton, England Dorothy Wheatley (AFN:8MJL-22)
Northamptonshire, England: Parish and Probate Records68494 (Them?)
Register of Marriages, 1540-1812; Marriages at Attenborough, 1560-1812 Vol 1. Thomas Bucke & Dorothy Wheteley 5 May 1616
Pg 10668495 (Him? Thomas Bliss Marr: former Mrs. Ide? Nicholas Ide step-son not his son-in-law? Other sources say Nichola Ide Jr mar this Thomas Bliss’s dau Martha)
IDE - Nicholas Ide (or Hyde). He died early in the seventeenth century, leaving a son Nicholas (2). The widow of Nicholas (1) afterward married Thomas Bliss, of Belstone, near Okelhampton, Devonshire, England. The latter belonged to a family of substantial farmers and landowners of Belstone, who by their adherence to Puritan views and opposition to the court and clergy, suffered persecution under Charles I, and were reluctantly compelled to emigrate to the New American colonies. Thomas Bliss emigrated to America in 1636, taking with him his stepson, Nicholas Ide, his wife (formerly Mrs. Ide) and two or three children of his own. He joined an uncle at Braintree, near Boston, MA. IN a year or two he moved to Hartford, CT then back again to Braintree in 1640. Religious dissensions arising in the Plymouth Church, Thomas Bliss left the place and settled at Rehoboth, MA, where he shared in a distribution of land, Jun 1644. Here Thomas Bliss, who was said to have been a blacksmith, lived until his death in 1649. IN his will he mentions, besides two sons and daughters, Nicholas Ide as his son-in-law. This is meant of course to be stepson, as his half-sister could not have become his wife.
Pg 57 Gloucestershire: Bliss, Thomas; English Parish Name: Painswick; Ship: (blank); New England Town: (blank); Ref: Chan. Pro.; James 1; B 38/3468496 (Him?)
Pg 3397 Thomas Bliss (-1651) &n 1/wf ___ ___; Hartford (Bos Trans 25 Jul 1915 note 1523; Hale (1952) 479; Stevens-Miller 345; McCormick-Hamilton 143)66948 (Him?)
Pg 3400 Thomas Bliss & Elizabeth (?Birchard); Latter end of Oct 1644; Norwich, CT/Saybrook (Bliss (1881) 34; Williams (16) 65; Booth (1910) 96; New Haven Gen Mag 1422; Coxe Anc (1915) 36; TAG 10:36; Abell 11; Sv 1:202; Dawes-Gates 2:726; Reg 31:326; Avery Anc (1925) 78; Granberry 174, 317; Stevens-Miller 347; Blake-Glidden 5; McCormick-Hamilton 151; Clark-Baker 79; Warner-Harrington 65; Hale (1952) 479) (Related? Another Son Thomas?)
Bristol County MA Probate File Papers 1686-188064074 (No Thomas Bliss)
Image92of242 Thomas Bliss was probably the son of William Bliss68497 (His Father?)
Image94of242 Thomas Bliss Marr: his first wife Margaret in England (another wife?)
Image94of242 Thomas Bliss estate inventoried 14 Feb 1650 which all went to his wife Margaret (wife?)
Based on The Bliss Book by Charles A. Hoppin, 1913
Spouses
1Dorothy Wheatlie 68400,68401,68404,68405,67840,67849,68498,68499,68500,68501,68502,68411,67874,68467,68503,68504,68505,68416,68506,68421,68507,68422,68423,68508,68509,68425,67728,68426,68427,67742,68428,68429,68430,68432,68510,68511
68400,68401,68404,68405,67840,67849,68498,68499,68500,68501,68502,68411,67874,68467,68503,68504,68505,68416,68506,68421,68507,68422,68423,68508,68509,68425,67728,68426,68427,67742,68428,68429,68430,68432,68510,68511Memo1596?
MemoMaiden
Anst File#AFN:8MJL-2268525
FatherFrank Wheatly (1561-)
MotherMary Fienes (1566->1604)
Research
Bristol County MA Probate File Papers 1686-188064074 (No Dorothy Bliss)
Image92of242 Dorothy Wheatlie d/o John Wheatlie, who was themaster warden of the Company of Mercers, Woollendrapers, Taylors, Innkeepers and Fullers as well as bailiff68497 (Her father John not Frank?)
Image92of242 Dorothy Wheatlie d/o John Wheatlie, who was themaster warden of the Company of Mercers, Woollendrapers, Taylors, Innkeepers and Fullers as well as bailiff68497 (Her father John not Frank?)