Individual Details
Thomas Bliss
(Bet 1550 and 1560 - Abt 1635)
Thomas Bliss was a prosperous landowner of the parish of Belstone near Okehampton in Devonshire, England, about 195 mile from London. Though a Puritan, he and his family were happy and prosperous on their farm for years This ended with a wave of persecution of the Puritans by civil and religious authorities. Thomas was maltreated and imprisoned, finally reduced to poverty by Archbishop Laud. His health was ruined by by the persecution and he died about 1635, about when his sons fled to America.
Events
| Birth | Bet 1550 and 1560 | England, United Kingdom |  | ||
| Death | Abt 1635 | England, United Kingdom |  | | |
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Families
| Child | Jonathan Bliss (1575 - 1635) |
| Child | Thomas Bliss (1580 - 1640) |
| Child | Elizabeth "Betty" Bliss ( - ) |
| Child | George Bliss (1591 - 1667) |
| Child | Mary "Polly" Bliss ( - ) |
Notes
Death
maybe in 1635, the year his sons came to America.Endnotes
1. Bliss, John Homer, Genealogy of the Bliss family in America from about the year 1550 to 1880 (Middletown, Conn: H. P. Bliss, n.d.), ; digital images, Allen County Public Library, Family Search (https://books.familysearch.org/primo_library : accessed 15 August 2013.
2. Johnson, Carol Clark, 1914- ., Fullers, Sissons, and Scotts, our yeoman ancestors : 46 New England and New York families. (Mobile, Ala.: American International, 1976?. 650 pgs.), p. 12.