Ancestry of
Ralph Waldo Emerson

American Poet

Thomas Bliss

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Ralph Waldo Emerson — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 20 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Bliss 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Leonard   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Feb 1668 
  • Birth Location:
  • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 9 Nov 1733 
  • Death Location:
  • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Springfield Cemetery, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Cadwell
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 12 Aug 1699 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Hannah Bliss

  Daniel Bliss (Ahnentafel No:10 )

  Edward Bliss

• Sources for Thomas Bliss

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 10/27/2014).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Springfield, Vol. 2, p. 1667, Birth record for Thomas Bliss.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Springfield, Vol. 1, p. 495, Death record for Thomas Bliss.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Springfield, Vol. 1, p. 52, Birth record for daughter Hannah Bliss.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Springfield, Vol. 1, p. 99, Birth record for son Edward Bliss.
  • ⁶ Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Co., Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co. (2001), 146.
  • ⁷ Bliss, John Homer, Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America, From About the Year 1550-1880, Boston, Massachusetts: Printed by the Author (1881), 37, 41.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 173.