Ancestry of
Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley

Founder of Aetna Insurance

Nathaniel Bliss

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 54 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Bliss 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret Hulins   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 28 Dec 1622 
  • Christening Location:
  • Rodborough, Gloucestershire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 18 Nov 1654 
  • Death Location:
  • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Catherine Chapin
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Nov 1646 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Samuel Bliss

  Margaret Bliss (Ahnentafel No:27 )

  Mary Bliss

  • Notes: 

  • There is some disagreement as to whether or not Nathaniel Bliss was the son of his father's wife Margaret, or a possible unknown earlier wife.

• Sources for Nathaniel Bliss

  • ¹ Massachusetts, Springfield Vital Records, 1638-1887, Birth record for daughter Margaret Bliss.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Springfield, Vol. 1, p. 20, Marriage record for Nathaniell Bliss and Katheryne Chapin.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1959, Vol. 35, p. 23.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1992, Vol. 67, p. 165.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 2019, Vol. 91, p. 45.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. V, M-P, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 51.
  • ⁷ Bliss, Aaron Tyler, Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America, Vol. 1, Midland, Michigan: Published by the Author (1982), 31.
  • ⁸ Bliss, John Homer, Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America, From About the Year 1550-1880, Boston, Massachusetts: Printed by the Author (1881), 31, 36.
  • ⁹ Chapin, Gilbert Warren, The Chapin Book of Genealogical Data with Brief Sketches of the Descendants of Deacon Samuel Chapin, Vol. 1, Hartford, Connecticut: Chapin Family Association (1924), 4.
  • ¹⁰ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 1994, Vol. 27, pp. 16, 20.
  • ¹¹ Frost, Josephine C., Ancestors of Henry Ward Beecher and His Wife Eunice White Bullard, Unknown: Unknown (1927), 20-21, 24-25.
  • ¹² Jacobus, Donald Lines and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1978, reprinted from 1952), 479.
  • ¹³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 175.