Bliss Family

Generation 1

Nathaniel Bliss was baptised 28 December 1622 at Rodborough, Gloucestershire, England and died 18 September, 8 November or 18 November 1654 at Springfield (now in Hampden Co.), MA.  He married Catherine Chapin 20 November 1646 at Springfield (now in Hampden Co.), MA.  She was born 6 April 1630 at Paignton, Devonshire, England and died 4 February 1712/3 at Springfield, Hampshire (now Hampden) Co., MA.  For information on her ancestry see the Everingham Database, Freeman Family Lines and the Chapin Family History.  For information on the ancestries of both Nathaniel Bliss and Catherine Chapin see the Doyle Genealogical Database.  They had the following children:
  1. Samuel Bliss
  2. Margaret Bliss
  3. Mary Bliss
  4. Nathaniel Bliss

Generation 2

Samuel Bliss was born 7 November 1647 at Springfield, Hampshire (now Hampden) Co., MA and died 19 June 1749 at Springfield, Hampshire (now Hampden) Co., MA.  He married Sarah Stebbins 2 January 1671.  She was born 18 August 1654 at Springfield, Hampshire (now Hampden) Co., MA and died 6 November 1721 at Springfield, Hampshire (now Hampden) Co., MA.  For further information see the Stebbins Family.  They had at least one child:
  1. Margaret Bliss
Mary Bliss was born 23 September 1651 and died 1722.  She married 27 February 1670 to Nathaniel Holcomb at Springfield, Hampshire (now Hampden) Co., MA.  He was born 4 November 1648 at Windsor (now in Hartford Co.), CT and died 5 March 1740/1 at Simsbury, Hartford Co., CT.  For information on his parents see the Holcomb Family.  They had the following children:
  1. Nathaniel Holcomb II
  2. Mary Holcomb
  3. Jonathan Holcomb
  4. John Holcomb
  5. Martha Holcomb
  6. Hannah Hester or Esther Holcomb
  7. Elizabeth Holcomb
  8. Katherine Holcomb
  9. Margaret Holcomb
  10. Sarah Holcomb
  11. Benjamin Holcomb

Generation 3

Margaret Bliss was born 23 November 1683 at Springfield, Hampshire (now Hampden) Co., MA.  She married Benjamin Cooley 31 January 1700/1.  He was born 8 October 1681 at Springfield, Hampshire (now Hampden) Co., MA and died 1745 at Brainfield, MA.  For information on his ancestry see the Cooley Family.  They had the following children:
  1. Keziah Cooley
  2. Benjamin Cooley
  3. Azariah Cooley
  4. Abigail Cooley

Sources

Thomas Holcomb and other Simsbury, Connecticut Families by Deanna Holcomb Bowman, 1993

New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence Almon Torrey, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD 1985

Pedigree chart prepared by Don G. Olmstead

Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England by John Farmer, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD 1994
 

Wolcott Genealogy by Robert C. Griffen and Mitchell R. Alegre, The Society of Descendants of Henry Wolcott, 1986

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14 November 1997