The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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Birth: 1730 Rehoboth / Bristol / MA Death: 17 Apr 1816 Taunton / Bristol / MA
Qualifying Service Description:
Captain of a company which marched on the alarm of 19 April 1775; service of 8 days
Colonel Timothy Walker's (Bristol Company) regiment; list of officers; commissioned 24 May 1775; returns for supplies, etc., for his company, dated Koxbury, 8 June 8- 25 July 1775; muster roll dated 1 August 1775; engaged 28 April 1775; service of 3 months and 11 days; also, company returndated 6 October 1775
Additional References:
Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America, pg 197
National Archives - Rev War Pension Files, File #S34048
Secretary of the Commonwealth, MA Soldiers, and Sailors of the Rev War, MA. Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co, 1901, Vol 2, pg 189
NOTE: Find-a-Grave shows memorial IDs 82808742 and 135176402 for Samuel Bliss
Both died 17 Apr 1816. 82808742 has a headstone photo with an age of 58
Given that Samuel Jr. died in New York in1840, the assumption made is that 82808742 is Captain Samuel Bliss and that the age of death on the headstone is incorrect
Used 135176402 as the other has a date of death of 27 Apr 1816 and additionally with only 58 years of age he would have been born after Hannah, their daughter was born
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