Display Patriot - P-116480

Jacob BLISS

SAR Patriot #: P-116480

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State of Service: MA Qualifying Service: Private

DAR #: A208509

Birth: 16 Feb 1731 Rehoboth / Bristol / MA
Death: bef 03 Mar 1807 Rehoboth / Bristol / MA

Qualifying Service Description:

Miitia; Lieutenant John Dryer's Company, Colonel Thomas Carpenter's Regiment; marched from Rehoboth to Bristol, RI on the alarm of December 8, 1776; service of 13 days
Also, in Capitan Simeon Cole's Company, Colonel Thomas Carpenter's Regiment; enlisted Aug. 1,1778; discharged Aug. 5, 1778; service, 5 days, on an alarm at Rhode Island marched to Tiverton, RI

Additional References:

Hatcher, Patricia Law. Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999
MA SOLS & SAILS, Volume 2, pg 184

Spouse: Judeth Smith
Children: Judeth;

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Burial:

Village Cemetery (aka Rehoboth Historic Cemetery #08)_(C-0371426)

Location:

Rehoboth / Bristol / MA / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

2143685

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Grave GPS Coordinates:

n/a

Find A Grave Memorial #:

46162697

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Photo displayed courtesy of William Charles Bliss
Cemetery is documented under the Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System (MACRIS) as REH807

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Photo: 1 of 1

Author: William Charles Bliss

Jacob Bliss (1732-1807) was a deacon in the Church at Rehoboth, Massachusetts and family ties with the city of Rehoboth, Massachusetts going back to 1655 when his great grandfather Jonathan Bliss came to the Rehoboth Plymouth colony in 1655 from England. After King Philip's Indian War in 1676, Jonathan Bliss was named Sergent of the Rehoboth militia and became a prominent and wealthy landowner. Jacob's father, Daniel Bliss, built a family homestead in Rehoboth that remains today and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Jacob served in the First Bristol Regiment, commanded by Colonel Thomas Carpenter III (1776–1780), under Major General Lincoln's command, within the Companies of Lieutenant John Dryer (1776) and Capitan Simeon Cole (1778).

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