United Empire Loyalist. Served with 84th Regiment (Royal Highland Emigrants) during American Revolution.∼Son of Rev. Daniel Bliss, he was enlisted in the 84th Regiment Royal Highland Emigrants in 1775. At the end of the war, his Regiment was disbanded in 1783 and he received grants of land in New Brunswick.
Part of his grant was Bliss Island where he homesteaded and eventually moved to St. Andrews as a merchant.
The above information supplied by Gerry Goss
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In a footnote from p. 21 of "Selected Letters of Mary Moody Emerson" by Mary Moody Emerson, compiled by Nancy Craig Simmons -
Mary Moody Emerson's Uncle Samuel Bliss (1750-1803) was a loyalist who emigrated to Canada at the time of the American Revolution and married Mary Harwood in 1779; their only child, Mary Harwood Bliss (1783-1868), married Deacon Samuel Hewes of Boston.
The above information supplied by fellow findagrave.com Herbein
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Part of his grant was Bliss Island where he homesteaded and eventually moved to St. Andrews as a merchant.
The above information supplied by Gerry Goss
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In a footnote from p. 21 of "Selected Letters of Mary Moody Emerson" by Mary Moody Emerson, compiled by Nancy Craig Simmons -
Mary Moody Emerson's Uncle Samuel Bliss (1750-1803) was a loyalist who emigrated to Canada at the time of the American Revolution and married Mary Harwood in 1779; their only child, Mary Harwood Bliss (1783-1868), married Deacon Samuel Hewes of Boston.
The above information supplied by fellow findagrave.com Herbein
_____________________________
United Empire Loyalist. Served with 84th Regiment (Royal Highland Emigrants) during American Revolution.∼Son of Rev. Daniel Bliss, he was enlisted in the 84th Regiment Royal Highland Emigrants in 1775. At the end of the war, his Regiment was disbanded in 1783 and he received grants of land in New Brunswick.
Part of his grant was Bliss Island where he homesteaded and eventually moved to St. Andrews as a merchant.
The above information supplied by Gerry Goss
____________________________
In a footnote from p. 21 of "Selected Letters of Mary Moody Emerson" by Mary Moody Emerson, compiled by Nancy Craig Simmons -
Mary Moody Emerson's Uncle Samuel Bliss (1750-1803) was a loyalist who emigrated to Canada at the time of the American Revolution and married Mary Harwood in 1779; their only child, Mary Harwood Bliss (1783-1868), married Deacon Samuel Hewes of Boston.
The above information supplied by fellow findagrave.com Herbein
_____________________________
Part of his grant was Bliss Island where he homesteaded and eventually moved to St. Andrews as a merchant.
The above information supplied by Gerry Goss
____________________________
In a footnote from p. 21 of "Selected Letters of Mary Moody Emerson" by Mary Moody Emerson, compiled by Nancy Craig Simmons -
Mary Moody Emerson's Uncle Samuel Bliss (1750-1803) was a loyalist who emigrated to Canada at the time of the American Revolution and married Mary Harwood in 1779; their only child, Mary Harwood Bliss (1783-1868), married Deacon Samuel Hewes of Boston.
The above information supplied by fellow findagrave.com Herbein
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