Robert Charles Anderson, F.A.S.G., designated the origin of Thomas Bliss as unknown and noted in the Great Migration Directory: "The proposed English origin for this immigrant should be revisited." It is for that reason Thomas Bliss is not linked to a parent.
Thomas Bliss was married 22 Nov 1614 at Holy Cross Church, Daventry, England, to Dorothy Wheatley.
Anno Domi 1614 Thomas Blisse and Dority Wheatlie both of this pishe maried the 22th of November.
Wytnes Thomas Mariott minister. John Allen [Warden]
Marriage Entry from the Parish Register, Holy Cross Church, Daventry, Northamptonshire.
Reprinted in The Bliss Book by Charles Arthur Hoppin, Hartford, Connecticut, MCMXIII, p. 156.
Also, Daventry Parish Registers in "Northamptonshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1532-1812", series 1560-1630, image 18, at Ancestry.com.
Thomas Bliss was a blacksmith, farmer, and surveyor. He settled in New England, first in Braintree, where he received a land grant of 36 acres, and took the Freeman's Oath on May 18, 1642 in Cambridge. Thomas Bliss and his family were among the first settlers in 1643 to establish the town of Rehoboth in Plymouth Colony where he received a home lot of eight acres in the northwest end of town and by the time of his death owned 45 acres.
Thomas wrote his will on October 7, 1647 and his estate was appraised on October 21, 1647.
The Last Will and Testament of Thomas Bliss of Rehoboth
The last Will and Testament of Thomas Blise being sick in body but in perfect memory made the seventh Day of the eighth month; 1647 the said will allso Exhibbited unto the Court holden at new Plymouth the eighth of June 1649, upon the oathes of Steven Payne Edward Smith
Imprimus I give in the name of the father sonn and holy Goste my soule into the hands of god yt gave it and my body to the earth
It I give unto my soon Jonathan my house and home lot Conditionally yt hee shall give unto my sonninlaw Thomas Willmore his lot wh hee now hath and allso the one half of my broken up ground for two yeares and shall healp him to build him an house and let him peacably and quietly live in the house with him untell they shall bee able to set up a house for him
It I give unto Jonathan two of my oxen Called Spark and Swad and my heifer wh is Called traveler and my heifer Calfe at the Iland and all my beding and all my tooles Conditionly yt hee shall use them in my trade or els they shalbee Devided to my fouer Children
It I give unto my eldest Daughter and her husband Thomas Willmore my other two oxen Called quick and benbo an my broad headed heifer and my Cow Called Damson and all my wearing aparrell
It I give to my Daughter Mary and her husband Nathaneill harmon my three two yeare ould steers and ten bushells of wheat
It I give unto Nathaneell the sonn of my sonninlaw Nicolas Ide my browne heifer and my two steere Calves wh are at the Iland
It I give unto Nicolas Ide ten bushells of Rye
It I give unto my sonn Jonathan and my sonninlaw Thomas Willmore the Resedew of my Corn and allso the Rye now sowne on the ground and my Coult and all my tackling and Implements as plowes Cart and Chaines all these to be equally Devided between them allso my pot and ketell; and I Doe make them exequters Joyntly of this my will and Testament; and I Doe Intreat my trusty and wellbeloved frends Richard Wright and Steven Payne to bee overseers of this my Will yt it bee Dewly and Justly performed in Wittness heerof I have set to my hand the Day and yeare first above written; I give unto my fouer Children my hide of leather which is in William ffeilds hand to be equalli Devided between them; and if any of my Children shall seeck to Defraude the others of any pt of theire Right or shall bee any wayes troublesom and it bee Justly proved hee shall forfeite all his part heer menssioned to be equally Devided between the Rest
In the prsence of Thomas Blise
Steven Payne
Edward Smithe
An Inventary of the goods and chattells of the late deseassed Thomas blise takein The 21 of the eight month [October] 1647.
Item £ s d
Impri his wearing aparell 3 0 0
It one fether bede 2 bolsters one blanked and one
coverlid and 2 sheets 4 0 0
It one Iron pot one brasse kittle 0 10 0
It 3 payls one tube 0 6 0
It in bookes 0 5 0
It 3 axsses one throw one hatchet one adds one wimble 0 12 0
It 2 sithes one how 0 6 0
It one ould muskate one pistoll one pistollbarell and
one barell of a peece and 2 ould swords 1 10 0
It 3 pitchforks one mukeforke . 0 5 0
It Iron and Steelle 0 9 0
It 2 beetleRings one wedge one mortising axe 0 6 0
It one warming pan one pot crooke one paire of pot
hooks one frying pan 0 10 0
It one payer of stillyards 0 3 0
It one horse harnesse one Sadle tree 0 7 0
It 2 meale troughs tow old hoggsheads 0 6 0
It one ould bagg 0 10
It in oattes pilcorn and peasen 0 12 0
It all the tooles belonging unto the Smiths trade 22 0 0
It one hyde of soallether 1 4 0
It 2 sives 0 1
It 2 oxen 12 0 0
It one Cow 5 5 0
It 2 oxen 22 0 0
It one Cow 5 0 0
It one heaifer 4 15 0
It 3 young Steers 8 0 0
It one Cow 5 5 0
It one court 7 0 0
It 3 calves 4 0 0
It 2 swyne 2 10 0
It haye 8 0 0
It wheat 6 15 0
It Rye 1 0 0
It in chaynes 0 12 0
It 2 plows and plow Irons 1 0 0
It one cartrope 0 4 0
It 2 yookes 0 5 0
It one cart 1 0 0
It Indian corn 1 6 0
It hempe 0 1 0
It one ould Sawe and other ould lumber 0 10 0
Som
117 16 4
Aprised by Steven payne and Richard Bowin
at a generall court holden at neu plimouth the 7th of March 1647 Johnathan Blise and Thomas willmore testified Upon oath before the said court yt this is a true Inventory of the goods and chattels of thomas Blise above written.
Source:
"Plymouth Colony Wills" (Thomas Bliss' Will & Inventory). The Mayflower Descendant, volume 8, pages 85-87. Boston: Published by the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1906.
Thomas Bliss "is buried in the graveyard at Seekonk, Massachusetts, now Rumford, East Providence, Rhode Island." (Crane, Ellery Bicknell. Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, (1907) Volume 1, page 364 ). This is a clear reference to the Newman Cemetery. See also, Cutter, William Richard. New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, (1914) Volume 4, page 1824.
Thomas Bliss was married 22 Nov 1614 at Holy Cross Church, Daventry, England, to Dorothy Wheatley.
Anno Domi 1614 Thomas Blisse and Dority Wheatlie both of this pishe maried the 22th of November.
Wytnes Thomas Mariott minister. John Allen [Warden]
Marriage Entry from the Parish Register, Holy Cross Church, Daventry, Northamptonshire.
Reprinted in The Bliss Book by Charles Arthur Hoppin, Hartford, Connecticut, MCMXIII, p. 156.
Also, Daventry Parish Registers in "Northamptonshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1532-1812", series 1560-1630, image 18, at Ancestry.com.
Thomas Bliss was a blacksmith, farmer, and surveyor. He settled in New England, first in Braintree, where he received a land grant of 36 acres, and took the Freeman's Oath on May 18, 1642 in Cambridge. Thomas Bliss and his family were among the first settlers in 1643 to establish the town of Rehoboth in Plymouth Colony where he received a home lot of eight acres in the northwest end of town and by the time of his death owned 45 acres.
Thomas wrote his will on October 7, 1647 and his estate was appraised on October 21, 1647.
The Last Will and Testament of Thomas Bliss of Rehoboth
The last Will and Testament of Thomas Blise being sick in body but in perfect memory made the seventh Day of the eighth month; 1647 the said will allso Exhibbited unto the Court holden at new Plymouth the eighth of June 1649, upon the oathes of Steven Payne Edward Smith
Imprimus I give in the name of the father sonn and holy Goste my soule into the hands of god yt gave it and my body to the earth
It I give unto my soon Jonathan my house and home lot Conditionally yt hee shall give unto my sonninlaw Thomas Willmore his lot wh hee now hath and allso the one half of my broken up ground for two yeares and shall healp him to build him an house and let him peacably and quietly live in the house with him untell they shall bee able to set up a house for him
It I give unto Jonathan two of my oxen Called Spark and Swad and my heifer wh is Called traveler and my heifer Calfe at the Iland and all my beding and all my tooles Conditionly yt hee shall use them in my trade or els they shalbee Devided to my fouer Children
It I give unto my eldest Daughter and her husband Thomas Willmore my other two oxen Called quick and benbo an my broad headed heifer and my Cow Called Damson and all my wearing aparrell
It I give to my Daughter Mary and her husband Nathaneill harmon my three two yeare ould steers and ten bushells of wheat
It I give unto Nathaneell the sonn of my sonninlaw Nicolas Ide my browne heifer and my two steere Calves wh are at the Iland
It I give unto Nicolas Ide ten bushells of Rye
It I give unto my sonn Jonathan and my sonninlaw Thomas Willmore the Resedew of my Corn and allso the Rye now sowne on the ground and my Coult and all my tackling and Implements as plowes Cart and Chaines all these to be equally Devided between them allso my pot and ketell; and I Doe make them exequters Joyntly of this my will and Testament; and I Doe Intreat my trusty and wellbeloved frends Richard Wright and Steven Payne to bee overseers of this my Will yt it bee Dewly and Justly performed in Wittness heerof I have set to my hand the Day and yeare first above written; I give unto my fouer Children my hide of leather which is in William ffeilds hand to be equalli Devided between them; and if any of my Children shall seeck to Defraude the others of any pt of theire Right or shall bee any wayes troublesom and it bee Justly proved hee shall forfeite all his part heer menssioned to be equally Devided between the Rest
In the prsence of Thomas Blise
Steven Payne
Edward Smithe
An Inventary of the goods and chattells of the late deseassed Thomas blise takein The 21 of the eight month [October] 1647.
Item £ s d
Impri his wearing aparell 3 0 0
It one fether bede 2 bolsters one blanked and one
coverlid and 2 sheets 4 0 0
It one Iron pot one brasse kittle 0 10 0
It 3 payls one tube 0 6 0
It in bookes 0 5 0
It 3 axsses one throw one hatchet one adds one wimble 0 12 0
It 2 sithes one how 0 6 0
It one ould muskate one pistoll one pistollbarell and
one barell of a peece and 2 ould swords 1 10 0
It 3 pitchforks one mukeforke . 0 5 0
It Iron and Steelle 0 9 0
It 2 beetleRings one wedge one mortising axe 0 6 0
It one warming pan one pot crooke one paire of pot
hooks one frying pan 0 10 0
It one payer of stillyards 0 3 0
It one horse harnesse one Sadle tree 0 7 0
It 2 meale troughs tow old hoggsheads 0 6 0
It one ould bagg 0 10
It in oattes pilcorn and peasen 0 12 0
It all the tooles belonging unto the Smiths trade 22 0 0
It one hyde of soallether 1 4 0
It 2 sives 0 1
It 2 oxen 12 0 0
It one Cow 5 5 0
It 2 oxen 22 0 0
It one Cow 5 0 0
It one heaifer 4 15 0
It 3 young Steers 8 0 0
It one Cow 5 5 0
It one court 7 0 0
It 3 calves 4 0 0
It 2 swyne 2 10 0
It haye 8 0 0
It wheat 6 15 0
It Rye 1 0 0
It in chaynes 0 12 0
It 2 plows and plow Irons 1 0 0
It one cartrope 0 4 0
It 2 yookes 0 5 0
It one cart 1 0 0
It Indian corn 1 6 0
It hempe 0 1 0
It one ould Sawe and other ould lumber 0 10 0
Som
117 16 4
Aprised by Steven payne and Richard Bowin
at a generall court holden at neu plimouth the 7th of March 1647 Johnathan Blise and Thomas willmore testified Upon oath before the said court yt this is a true Inventory of the goods and chattels of thomas Blise above written.
Source:
"Plymouth Colony Wills" (Thomas Bliss' Will & Inventory). The Mayflower Descendant, volume 8, pages 85-87. Boston: Published by the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1906.
Thomas Bliss "is buried in the graveyard at Seekonk, Massachusetts, now Rumford, East Providence, Rhode Island." (Crane, Ellery Bicknell. Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, (1907) Volume 1, page 364 ). This is a clear reference to the Newman Cemetery. See also, Cutter, William Richard. New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, (1914) Volume 4, page 1824.
Robert Charles Anderson, F.A.S.G., designated the origin of Thomas Bliss as unknown and noted in the Great Migration Directory: "The proposed English origin for this immigrant should be revisited." It is for that reason Thomas Bliss is not linked to a parent.
Thomas Bliss was married 22 Nov 1614 at Holy Cross Church, Daventry, England, to Dorothy Wheatley.
Anno Domi 1614 Thomas Blisse and Dority Wheatlie both of this pishe maried the 22th of November.
Wytnes Thomas Mariott minister. John Allen [Warden]
Marriage Entry from the Parish Register, Holy Cross Church, Daventry, Northamptonshire.
Reprinted in The Bliss Book by Charles Arthur Hoppin, Hartford, Connecticut, MCMXIII, p. 156.
Also, Daventry Parish Registers in "Northamptonshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1532-1812", series 1560-1630, image 18, at Ancestry.com.
Thomas Bliss was a blacksmith, farmer, and surveyor. He settled in New England, first in Braintree, where he received a land grant of 36 acres, and took the Freeman's Oath on May 18, 1642 in Cambridge. Thomas Bliss and his family were among the first settlers in 1643 to establish the town of Rehoboth in Plymouth Colony where he received a home lot of eight acres in the northwest end of town and by the time of his death owned 45 acres.
Thomas wrote his will on October 7, 1647 and his estate was appraised on October 21, 1647.
The Last Will and Testament of Thomas Bliss of Rehoboth
The last Will and Testament of Thomas Blise being sick in body but in perfect memory made the seventh Day of the eighth month; 1647 the said will allso Exhibbited unto the Court holden at new Plymouth the eighth of June 1649, upon the oathes of Steven Payne Edward Smith
Imprimus I give in the name of the father sonn and holy Goste my soule into the hands of god yt gave it and my body to the earth
It I give unto my soon Jonathan my house and home lot Conditionally yt hee shall give unto my sonninlaw Thomas Willmore his lot wh hee now hath and allso the one half of my broken up ground for two yeares and shall healp him to build him an house and let him peacably and quietly live in the house with him untell they shall bee able to set up a house for him
It I give unto Jonathan two of my oxen Called Spark and Swad and my heifer wh is Called traveler and my heifer Calfe at the Iland and all my beding and all my tooles Conditionly yt hee shall use them in my trade or els they shalbee Devided to my fouer Children
It I give unto my eldest Daughter and her husband Thomas Willmore my other two oxen Called quick and benbo an my broad headed heifer and my Cow Called Damson and all my wearing aparrell
It I give to my Daughter Mary and her husband Nathaneill harmon my three two yeare ould steers and ten bushells of wheat
It I give unto Nathaneell the sonn of my sonninlaw Nicolas Ide my browne heifer and my two steere Calves wh are at the Iland
It I give unto Nicolas Ide ten bushells of Rye
It I give unto my sonn Jonathan and my sonninlaw Thomas Willmore the Resedew of my Corn and allso the Rye now sowne on the ground and my Coult and all my tackling and Implements as plowes Cart and Chaines all these to be equally Devided between them allso my pot and ketell; and I Doe make them exequters Joyntly of this my will and Testament; and I Doe Intreat my trusty and wellbeloved frends Richard Wright and Steven Payne to bee overseers of this my Will yt it bee Dewly and Justly performed in Wittness heerof I have set to my hand the Day and yeare first above written; I give unto my fouer Children my hide of leather which is in William ffeilds hand to be equalli Devided between them; and if any of my Children shall seeck to Defraude the others of any pt of theire Right or shall bee any wayes troublesom and it bee Justly proved hee shall forfeite all his part heer menssioned to be equally Devided between the Rest
In the prsence of Thomas Blise
Steven Payne
Edward Smithe
An Inventary of the goods and chattells of the late deseassed Thomas blise takein The 21 of the eight month [October] 1647.
Item £ s d
Impri his wearing aparell 3 0 0
It one fether bede 2 bolsters one blanked and one
coverlid and 2 sheets 4 0 0
It one Iron pot one brasse kittle 0 10 0
It 3 payls one tube 0 6 0
It in bookes 0 5 0
It 3 axsses one throw one hatchet one adds one wimble 0 12 0
It 2 sithes one how 0 6 0
It one ould muskate one pistoll one pistollbarell and
one barell of a peece and 2 ould swords 1 10 0
It 3 pitchforks one mukeforke . 0 5 0
It Iron and Steelle 0 9 0
It 2 beetleRings one wedge one mortising axe 0 6 0
It one warming pan one pot crooke one paire of pot
hooks one frying pan 0 10 0
It one payer of stillyards 0 3 0
It one horse harnesse one Sadle tree 0 7 0
It 2 meale troughs tow old hoggsheads 0 6 0
It one ould bagg 0 10
It in oattes pilcorn and peasen 0 12 0
It all the tooles belonging unto the Smiths trade 22 0 0
It one hyde of soallether 1 4 0
It 2 sives 0 1
It 2 oxen 12 0 0
It one Cow 5 5 0
It 2 oxen 22 0 0
It one Cow 5 0 0
It one heaifer 4 15 0
It 3 young Steers 8 0 0
It one Cow 5 5 0
It one court 7 0 0
It 3 calves 4 0 0
It 2 swyne 2 10 0
It haye 8 0 0
It wheat 6 15 0
It Rye 1 0 0
It in chaynes 0 12 0
It 2 plows and plow Irons 1 0 0
It one cartrope 0 4 0
It 2 yookes 0 5 0
It one cart 1 0 0
It Indian corn 1 6 0
It hempe 0 1 0
It one ould Sawe and other ould lumber 0 10 0
Som
117 16 4
Aprised by Steven payne and Richard Bowin
at a generall court holden at neu plimouth the 7th of March 1647 Johnathan Blise and Thomas willmore testified Upon oath before the said court yt this is a true Inventory of the goods and chattels of thomas Blise above written.
Source:
"Plymouth Colony Wills" (Thomas Bliss' Will & Inventory). The Mayflower Descendant, volume 8, pages 85-87. Boston: Published by the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1906.
Thomas Bliss "is buried in the graveyard at Seekonk, Massachusetts, now Rumford, East Providence, Rhode Island." (Crane, Ellery Bicknell. Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, (1907) Volume 1, page 364 ). This is a clear reference to the Newman Cemetery. See also, Cutter, William Richard. New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, (1914) Volume 4, page 1824.
Thomas Bliss was married 22 Nov 1614 at Holy Cross Church, Daventry, England, to Dorothy Wheatley.
Anno Domi 1614 Thomas Blisse and Dority Wheatlie both of this pishe maried the 22th of November.
Wytnes Thomas Mariott minister. John Allen [Warden]
Marriage Entry from the Parish Register, Holy Cross Church, Daventry, Northamptonshire.
Reprinted in The Bliss Book by Charles Arthur Hoppin, Hartford, Connecticut, MCMXIII, p. 156.
Also, Daventry Parish Registers in "Northamptonshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1532-1812", series 1560-1630, image 18, at Ancestry.com.
Thomas Bliss was a blacksmith, farmer, and surveyor. He settled in New England, first in Braintree, where he received a land grant of 36 acres, and took the Freeman's Oath on May 18, 1642 in Cambridge. Thomas Bliss and his family were among the first settlers in 1643 to establish the town of Rehoboth in Plymouth Colony where he received a home lot of eight acres in the northwest end of town and by the time of his death owned 45 acres.
Thomas wrote his will on October 7, 1647 and his estate was appraised on October 21, 1647.
The Last Will and Testament of Thomas Bliss of Rehoboth
The last Will and Testament of Thomas Blise being sick in body but in perfect memory made the seventh Day of the eighth month; 1647 the said will allso Exhibbited unto the Court holden at new Plymouth the eighth of June 1649, upon the oathes of Steven Payne Edward Smith
Imprimus I give in the name of the father sonn and holy Goste my soule into the hands of god yt gave it and my body to the earth
It I give unto my soon Jonathan my house and home lot Conditionally yt hee shall give unto my sonninlaw Thomas Willmore his lot wh hee now hath and allso the one half of my broken up ground for two yeares and shall healp him to build him an house and let him peacably and quietly live in the house with him untell they shall bee able to set up a house for him
It I give unto Jonathan two of my oxen Called Spark and Swad and my heifer wh is Called traveler and my heifer Calfe at the Iland and all my beding and all my tooles Conditionly yt hee shall use them in my trade or els they shalbee Devided to my fouer Children
It I give unto my eldest Daughter and her husband Thomas Willmore my other two oxen Called quick and benbo an my broad headed heifer and my Cow Called Damson and all my wearing aparrell
It I give to my Daughter Mary and her husband Nathaneill harmon my three two yeare ould steers and ten bushells of wheat
It I give unto Nathaneell the sonn of my sonninlaw Nicolas Ide my browne heifer and my two steere Calves wh are at the Iland
It I give unto Nicolas Ide ten bushells of Rye
It I give unto my sonn Jonathan and my sonninlaw Thomas Willmore the Resedew of my Corn and allso the Rye now sowne on the ground and my Coult and all my tackling and Implements as plowes Cart and Chaines all these to be equally Devided between them allso my pot and ketell; and I Doe make them exequters Joyntly of this my will and Testament; and I Doe Intreat my trusty and wellbeloved frends Richard Wright and Steven Payne to bee overseers of this my Will yt it bee Dewly and Justly performed in Wittness heerof I have set to my hand the Day and yeare first above written; I give unto my fouer Children my hide of leather which is in William ffeilds hand to be equalli Devided between them; and if any of my Children shall seeck to Defraude the others of any pt of theire Right or shall bee any wayes troublesom and it bee Justly proved hee shall forfeite all his part heer menssioned to be equally Devided between the Rest
In the prsence of Thomas Blise
Steven Payne
Edward Smithe
An Inventary of the goods and chattells of the late deseassed Thomas blise takein The 21 of the eight month [October] 1647.
Item £ s d
Impri his wearing aparell 3 0 0
It one fether bede 2 bolsters one blanked and one
coverlid and 2 sheets 4 0 0
It one Iron pot one brasse kittle 0 10 0
It 3 payls one tube 0 6 0
It in bookes 0 5 0
It 3 axsses one throw one hatchet one adds one wimble 0 12 0
It 2 sithes one how 0 6 0
It one ould muskate one pistoll one pistollbarell and
one barell of a peece and 2 ould swords 1 10 0
It 3 pitchforks one mukeforke . 0 5 0
It Iron and Steelle 0 9 0
It 2 beetleRings one wedge one mortising axe 0 6 0
It one warming pan one pot crooke one paire of pot
hooks one frying pan 0 10 0
It one payer of stillyards 0 3 0
It one horse harnesse one Sadle tree 0 7 0
It 2 meale troughs tow old hoggsheads 0 6 0
It one ould bagg 0 10
It in oattes pilcorn and peasen 0 12 0
It all the tooles belonging unto the Smiths trade 22 0 0
It one hyde of soallether 1 4 0
It 2 sives 0 1
It 2 oxen 12 0 0
It one Cow 5 5 0
It 2 oxen 22 0 0
It one Cow 5 0 0
It one heaifer 4 15 0
It 3 young Steers 8 0 0
It one Cow 5 5 0
It one court 7 0 0
It 3 calves 4 0 0
It 2 swyne 2 10 0
It haye 8 0 0
It wheat 6 15 0
It Rye 1 0 0
It in chaynes 0 12 0
It 2 plows and plow Irons 1 0 0
It one cartrope 0 4 0
It 2 yookes 0 5 0
It one cart 1 0 0
It Indian corn 1 6 0
It hempe 0 1 0
It one ould Sawe and other ould lumber 0 10 0
Som
117 16 4
Aprised by Steven payne and Richard Bowin
at a generall court holden at neu plimouth the 7th of March 1647 Johnathan Blise and Thomas willmore testified Upon oath before the said court yt this is a true Inventory of the goods and chattels of thomas Blise above written.
Source:
"Plymouth Colony Wills" (Thomas Bliss' Will & Inventory). The Mayflower Descendant, volume 8, pages 85-87. Boston: Published by the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1906.
Thomas Bliss "is buried in the graveyard at Seekonk, Massachusetts, now Rumford, East Providence, Rhode Island." (Crane, Ellery Bicknell. Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, (1907) Volume 1, page 364 ). This is a clear reference to the Newman Cemetery. See also, Cutter, William Richard. New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, (1914) Volume 4, page 1824.
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